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The Legend of Crying Girl Creek

by Robena Grant

Adventurous American nurse Samantha Winters is on a study abroad program in Australia. But after one perfect night with a handsome stranger, she finds herself with child. Intrigued with an elderly patient's tales of a local creek where pregnant women drown themselves, Sam agrees to help end the curse.

Historian James Campbell keeps a vigilant watch on his family's haunted land, hoping to prevent more deaths. A loner in his personal life, he's stunned to discover his grandmot... more

Asteroids: Bridge to Nowhere

by Mike McCoy

An asteroid storm is coming that will destroy Earth.

A mysterious group within the government led by Colonel Cruikshank knew the storm was coming. They took extreme measures to keep the storm secret while building underground cities to protect the few and the fortunate. Cruikshank’s goal is that after the storm, his survivors will emerge from the protected cities as a more perfect humanity. He will create his utopian society named Arcadia, no matter what it takes.

R... more

Edger Lives

by David Beem

Our dork of destiny rides again! Edger is falling for Mary, his bodyguard, kick-ass spy, and cover wife. But she's so hopelessly out of his league, it's clear someone's going to get hurt. Less clear? That someone may be the Prime Minister of Australia! When Mary confesses her desire to kill the world leader whose assassination Edger's supposed to prevent, Edger's superpowers pick the worst time to stop working. Without a fully functional psychic superhero, their team ... more

Under Ordshaw

by Phil Williams

Welcome to Ordshaw. Don’t look down. Pax is one rent cheque away from the unforgiving streets of Ordshaw. After her stash is stolen, her hunt for the thief unearths a book of nightmares and a string of killers, and she stands to lose much more than her home. There’s something lurking under her city. Knowing it’s there could get you killed.

Seven Stones: The Complete Series

by Dave Higgins

Collects every part of the swords-and-sorcery serial, Seven Stones.

Plagued by nightmares of shifting stone and ancient evil, Absolution Kobb, Reverend Militant of the Order of the Maker, journeys to the northern edge of civilisation. Encountering violence from both villagers and the inhuman tribes that dwell beyond the palisades, and exhausted from both his age and his visions, he is saved by two very different people: Anessa, a young villager seeking to escape a life of shopk... more

Journey & Discovery: Omnibus Edition

by Marion Hill

The Kammbia Series: The Omnibus Edition It all started with a question. In Kammbia, a land halfway between magic and our wildest dreams, belief in the ancient ways grew cold. Its people grew apart. Diondray Azur wanted to know why. A son of the most prominent family in Charlesville, Diondray learns that everything he ever knew about his roots—his world—was a lie. Determined to find the truth, he discovered an ancient book. In that book, the prophet Oscar Ortega promised that one of his descend... more

Bucky and the Lukefahr Ladies: Walking the Labyrinth

by Shirley Gilmore

When a mystery writer and his ten-year-old daughter move to the small town of Turn Back, Missouri, strange things begin to happen. Simon Carter moved from New York City to sleepy Turn Back, a town in the rugged hills of southeast Missouri on the road to nowhere, to find some peace and solitude. He thought it would be the perfect place to protect his daughter, Bucky, and her secret and to shield her from the world. Little did he realize that when Bucky befriended the elderly women of the Lukefahr... more

The Paper Ghost; Volume One, The Sky Bleeds Red

by S.O.Skinner

In a city trapped under a red sky, Lenore Laymon desperately works herself to the bone to free the citizens from the oppressive rule of the House of Romilly. As the fifteen year anniversary of the day more

Murder: Book Four of The Shadow-Keepers Series

by Jas T. Ward

Welcome Back to the World of The Grid. Where heroic bad-asses fight for a chance to live again. Fighting for us, in the shadows. Assassin. Half Demon. Half Human. Badass. And soon. Dead... Marcus DeMonte was born in Hell, both literally and figuratively. He worked hard to climb the ranks, including surviving the pits of hell fires; as an unwanted newborn. Groomed to become one of Lucifer's highest ranked assassins, he's gone through the decades with one purpose - do as told. No co... more

Waking the Dead

by Kerry Blaisdell

Hyacinth always assumed dying would simplify her life. But when her new boss, Archangel Michael, sends her on her first official mission—to retrieve a powerful rock from a collector in Germany—things go downhill fast. For one thing, the Dead keep popping up, expecting her to guide them to the Afterlife. For another, her part-demon nephew Geordi's powers are starting to leak out, at age seven. What if Michael finds out about him? Worse, what if Satan does?

Then there'... more

Divining Young Blood

by Jillian Cypress

Hannah was a young woman struggling to keep afloat in her unfortunate human life until a walk home from work took a dark and tragic turn. She was suddenly thrust into an ancient and highly structured society and is now learning how to be a vampire, what it means to be human, and the true definition of family.

The Last Man Alive

by Victor Kontos

It is the year 2068. Humanity spends most of their time working, interacting in social media, and experiencing enhanced sexual ecstasy within an Alternate Reality under the watchful eye of the Department of Mental Health. Every thought and action is scrutinized. This is the new normal.

One young man, Erwin Gomes, has grown jaded with the state of the world. When he meets Juliette Petain, he begins to realize that he is not the only one questions the society for which they live and remem... more

Fish Seeking Bicycle

by Kate Cooch

“Time is not a river. Time is a pendulum.” - Arna Bontemps. 100 years in the future women run what is left of a post-apocalyptic world. Men are required to behave with deference or face being medicated and sent to work camps. After discovering her mother’s lifeless body, university student Hazel Patel decides to leave the safety of Center City and seek out the father she has never met. In the process, she winds up in the feared wilderness struggling to survive with a group of work camp escap... more

Ants In My Blood

by Kevin Berg

Love and parasites, painfully hungry work, people in the water, vindication at a price, itchy needles, lingering debts, ignored warnings, and the true cost of an epidemic. Experience the worst kind of parental guidance, watch the devil bleed, and wait for the eternal messengers to take you apart before carrying the last pieces of you away. Straddling the boundaries between horror, suspense, dark humor, and the bizarre - Ants In My Blood is a diverse collection featuring eighteen compelling ta... more

Pandora Syndrome

by April Wahlin

After being shot outside a club on her twenty-first birthday, Pandora Todd, aka Dora, finds herself in the bed of a handsome stranger with a pair of snake-like fangs. Now, instead of a hangover, Dora wakes with an intense hunger for blood and the strange ability to control all things dead, a distinctly un-vampire trait. Unfortunately, just when Dora grows accustomed to the vampire aspects of her eternal life, she finds herself targeted by a rival necromancer. Soon, Dora becomes wrapped up in a p... more

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