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The Blood of Outcasts

by D. A. Smith

A clan destroyed. A pact with a beast. A warrior will spill her own cursed blood for vengeance ...

Masako escaped the Lord Council with only her life intact, her clan shattered, and master dead in wake of disaster she wrought. It is her cursed blood that opens a gate it shouldn't, a demi-god answers.

By the power in her blood, and a promise made with it, she’s given a second chance. With it, she must unite the outer clans, move past old rivalri... more

The Swords of Blood and Gold

by JCR Paulino

FIVE CHESTS SIT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN… Deep-sea treasure hunter is the splashy job description on his LinkedIn page. Pretentious or not, Jon Sherman and his Deep Blue Marine Exploration crew are the best in the business. But a nasty disagreement with his boss suddenly leaves Jon without a job. When his ex-teammates salvage five chests from the bottom of the ocean, a supernatural killer wielding a mysterious weapon murders the entire crew, and Jon becomes the prime suspect. Overnight, de... more

Mask of the Vampire: Chronicles of Damage, Inc.

by Stormy McDonald

When you're a bounty hunter in a world of magic, monsters, and miracles, your work — and the danger — never end.

Despite having banished the Phantoms of Ruthaer, bounty hunter Hector de los Santos does not consider the job complete — not until he sees the Orbuculum safely locked away in Ozera's aerarium. With transportation arranged by Lord Roger Vaughn, Earl Wolverton, Hector hoped for a well-earned respite from trouble.

He should have k... more

Phantoms of Ruthaer: Chronicles of Damage, Inc.

by Stormy McDonald

With their immortal souls threatened, a small town's only hope lies in trusting bounty hunterss with a reputation almost as dark as the evil stalking the night.

In the countries east of the White River, some call Damage, Inc. heroes. Others call the bounty hunters criminals. The truth lies somewhere in between. Hector de los Santos, the team's leader, has only two rules about bounties: finish every job, no matter what it takes, and no charity cases.

Aislin... more

Hands Like Secrets

by Mariah Norris

Saeli has always been different: she is autistic, in a world that doesn’t have a word for people like her. She attends the exclusive institute of Aschamon, learning to harness her inner qi and preparing to join the battle between her people and their enemies, the Crimson Cowls. But despite her years of work, her teachers still refuse to elevate her to Silver Mantle status and dedicate her to their god’s service. When notorious Crimson Cowl Rafel Kailar breaks into her school, it is either ... more

They Are Only Men

by Zachary R. Cormier

Senior (Samuel) and his son Beau are sheriffs in a rural New Mexico county out in the middle of the sprawling desert lands. They Are Only Men first follows Senior as he sets out to see if there is anything to a report about a hitchhiker being snatched off into the dark out on the highway by something unseen. Senior's story is of his epic struggle to try to capture, transport, and cage the evil being he discovers out in that desert. A man driven beyond fears and limits by obligation. They Are... more

The Good News: Journey of the Unbound

by Michael Stephenson

The paper had been written, the word declared, yet still, some did not know of its power. On January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect as law across America. Words that forever changed the nation and freed all men, women, and children from bondage. Unfortunately, not everyone honors such a declaration. Some seek to bury these life-altering words at all costs, keeping under heel anyone foolish enough to claim such power, threatening to undo them by sword or bullet. But t... more

The Flaws of Gravity

by Stephanie Caye

Faeries lie.

That’s what the Consilium told Jude when they recruited her into a supernatural cold war against the Court. It’s what her friend Aubrie said too, convincing her to search for illicit magic under their noses.

But he’s half-Faerie like her. And since honesty’s never exactly been Jude’s strong suit either, she probably should have listened. Might have saved her the pain of his betrayal, not to mention a trip to the ICU.

When a... more

The Hallowed - Part I

by Annaliese Plowright

'...a delicious creepiness and undercurrent of tension, lightened by Plowright's delightfully colorful characters.' Goodreads Reviewer 'Wickedly hint of sexual tension' Goodreads Reviewer From the author of the popular fantasy romance series The One Saga and YA novel Bleeding Hearts... The Hallowed The small North Carolina town of Strangeways is in the grip of a vicious serial killer. Cherry Stokes is convinced she knows who's behind the murders, sinister newcomer, Nicolas Newton. W... more

The Chambermaid

by Marcus Aurelio

How does a young man learn to deal with being victim to a silver bullet from another pretty jaded lass? This is the journey of his descent to rock bottom as he is relegated to the mental asylum where he further endures, relating to his experience of learning to live with himself in his new surroundings. He meets many curious characters in this journey and finds himself a victim again to the shiny silver bullets that land on him-shot from another jaded lass. Those silver bullets are always threat... more

Avenger

by Blair C. Howard

Five years after physicist Mark Holder discovered the Slipstream Drive in 2058, humanity reached for the stars and began to colonize the galaxy. For centuries, humans continued to populate system after system without encountering intelligent alien life.

Some twelve hundred years later, after many generations of relative peace, in the year 3278, human space is invaded by a powerful and mysterious enemy. To these invaders the very concept of free will is heresy. Their crusade—to era... more

The Hatchling

by Vyria Durav

Sarric dreamed of dragons all his life; such flights of fancy captured his imagination at a young age and sustained him through the cruelty of the hunters that ruled the isolated mountain town of Rivermist. One day, a real dragon appears before him, dazzling him with her beauty and an answer to the unease that's afflicted him for as long as he remembers. He's eager to take what she offers--but the greedy hunters, driven by tales of treasure hoards, will do everything in their power to destroy he... more

Proxy

by Gary Gibson

When the ex-wife of Ray Thomas' sworn enemy hires him to find her daughter, the investigator learns there's more to the illegal implant technology known as Proxy than mind-swapping - and what he finds could affect the course of civilisation.

Echogenesis

by Gary Gibson

An alien world teeming with deadly life. And fifteen strangers with no memory of how they came to be there. From the moment Sam Newman and fourteen others awaken inside metal coffins next to the burning wreckage of a spacecraft, they face a constant struggle to stay alive on a seemingly uninhabited planet light-years from home. Worse, the last any of them remember, they were back home on Earth - at a time when interstellar travel was little more than a distant pipe dream. Survival means... more

The Gathering

by R. Virgil Walsh

‘Lazarus’ Kail begins his day trekking through hostile lands. He has 600+ years of sorrow, anger, and despair fueling his desire to return to his haven, tucked away from evil reach of the immortal emperor, Gideon I.

The journey was not easy coming back into the Hartisian Empire. Despite his best efforts, he finds himself again on the run, and an unwilling participant in the prophetic vision of the Old Man.

The Prophecy tells of Seven souls born into the world that will... more

Vampiro: Volume I: the Night Crawler Protocol

by Don W. Hill M.D.

When the most recent outbreak of human vampirism occurred in the narrow oasis of New Mexico's lower Rio Grande Valley, the terrifying oral tradition that had been passed on for more than four centuries had yet again been sadly reconfirmed. Every two decades or so, one or more bloodthirsty ghouls would appear that would prey upon the unsuspecting and completely vulnerable members of New Mexico's small but harmonious and tightly knit community that had long been an admixture of First American,... more

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