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Before she died, Cole Nightshade’s grandmother taught him how to keep his demons from coming out of their hiding places and wreaking havoc. But none of Nana’s lessons have prepared him for Saint Edwards Mental Asylum, where he’s landed after a foster-care placement gone wrong. Saint Edwards has a history of abuse and death that makes itself known to Cole in alarming ways. Walls containing the spirits of prior inmates scream in agony. Young women who once ran from monsters, or from their own pain... more

The Warrior With Broken Wings

by Thorsten Brandl

Sometimes the most dangerous thing in the universe is a man with nothing left to lose...

Thomas Knight is a professional photographer struggling to cope with the tragic death of his wife. Drawn into the heart of an ancient prophecy involving a legendary sword and a mysterious vintage camera, he suddenly finds himself transported to a medieval world beyond his imagination.

The last of the Verðldian kingdoms is about to be destroyed by an unspeakable evil, and i... more

The Little Fairleaf

by Jeremy Forsyth

The Fairleafs are a humble family on the rise, and its senior members showcase their ambition by formulating a daring plan to get the attention of Alepion's royalty. Trone and Eldrian Fairleaf are two young brothers who play at war but who are suddenly thrust into their parents' game of high stakes and fatal mistakes; theirs is the task of befriending the two Daughters of Alepion. But while the brothers pursue the young sisters, other plots have hatched in the night, and the Old Way are cr... more

Rise of the Ravenisha

by P. Grace Lawson

Rise of the Ravenisha: A Fantasy Fiction Novel On Freeing Yourself From Bondage And Coming Into Your Own Power A wonderfully woven, speculative fiction novel about werepanthers, warrior women, and revenge. Warrior women. Ancient power struggles. Corrupt experiments. Queen Idia sold her friends and fellow warriors into slavery for nefarious reasons, an ancient tribe of African warrior women known collectively as the Ravenisha. Hundreds of years later, the Old-Generation Ravenisha ant... more

Gateworlds Earth - Athanator - Book 1

by Gillbert Troll

A few years back, an ancient portal (Multiverse Gate Earth) was found in the jungles of Guatemala. The Gate once found was opened, and every sentient creature on Earth was randomly soul-joined with another creature within the multiverse. Once the Gate was opened, chaos ensued. Riots started, smaller and larger wars were fought. Now, after twenty years, order has been restored, and life has returned to a new normal. John Zelm Athanator, the protagonist of the book and the veteran of the wars... more

Friends for Robots

by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

In this upbeat, positive collection of SFF short stories from Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, author of So You Want to Be A Robot, you'll find hope, humor, friendship—and of course, robots. Have you heard the one about… ...a neural network who wants humans to drink more water? ...a person stranded on Mars with only an obsolete robotic toy? ...a cyborg caught in a time loop with a frightened ship? ...a self-aware mech who doesn't want to be a weapon anymore? ...an AI sent into the deepest part of the... more

Hamlet in Baltimore

by Pavel Cerny

HAMLET IN BALTIMORE is a horror about the 5 year old Edgar Poe and his two actor parents being murdered by a vampire. It is a wholly made up fantasy. In reality Poe's alcoholic father left the family when Poe was 1 1/2 years old, and his mother died of consumption when he was 2. Instead, this is a fiction about what formed E.A. Poe's life and work. The book is Part One of the planned A Heart Laid Bare series. Part Two-THE BLUE BOTTLE, about the author's strange relationship with his 13 year old ... more

Friends For Robots

by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor

A science fiction and fantasy short story collection from Merc Fenn Wolfmoor (author of THE WOLF AMONG THE WILD HUNT and SO YOU WANT TO BE A ROBOT).

A GAME OF GODS

by Sean Michael Paquet

Imagine a world where aliens are real, Vikings roam on another world, and Earth is on the brink of doom. For nearly six hundred years, the ancestors of Jon Raynecksson have lived in such a world. Upon assumption of his Title as Warden of the Lands, Jon is thrust into an adventure of epic proportions. The quiet life he had known as a boy is torn from him as he becomes a playing piece in a game of cosmic proportions, a Game of Gods.

The Eternal Machine

by Carol Ryles

A woman with the strength to rebel.  A shapeshifter who wears the souls of the dead.  Together, they face a lethal enemy. In a 19th Century Australian city owned by industrialists, Em sells her magic to make ends meet. The extraction procedure is brutal and potentially deadly. Desperate for change, she joins an underground resistance movement to weaponize her magic and stop the abuse of workers. Meanwhile, a mysterious voice wakes Ruk from a decades long slumber and compels him to become huma... more

Freedom Rings

by Daniel Paul

A dystopian, dying Earth has fallen to autocratic dictators ruling with iron fists from power zones where genetic minorities are ushered into detention centers and extermination camps by the millions. The powerful gay CEO of the planet’s top tech conglomerate offers hope for the damned in the form of interstellar escape to a pristine new world. There, his young protégé is charged with transforming himself from reluctant leader to steward of a perfect new society built from scratch in an other-... more

Rebel Slave

by Richard Davis

Charles Raptor is a White Shield, a professional soldier paid by a corrupt regime to fight its forever wars. But after years of watching good men die for nothing and evil triumph, he wishes only to retire to a life of peace with a new wife in the country of his birth.

But war isn’t finished with Charles Raptor. Falsely convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, torn from his family, sold into slavery to a tribe of man-hating dwarves, he is condemned to a life of servitude and hu... more

The Singing Shore I: Sea and Song

by E.P. Clark

All magical gifts are wild. The seer’s gift is the wildest of all. Dasha, Tsarinovna of all of Zem’, was expected to have great magical gifts. Why else would the gods have arranged her conception? But instead of anything useful, Dasha’s gifts first manifested themselves as visions of terror and destruction. Then, just when it seemed she might be gaining some control over them, they abandoned her entirely. That’s unfortunate, because Dasha could really use some guidance right now. She’s vo... more

Babouc's Vision

by Glenn Searfoss

The year is 2041 - and the gods are angry. While Carissa scours the city garbage for food and pretty things to show her grandfather, Tom and April strive to prove themselves genetically suitable to conceive a child. Luis fights to protect his unborn son from the gangs. Nora sits alone in her dark apartment, old, tired, and waiting to die. And Izzy, how did he end up on the street? In the backroom of his appliance repair shop, Harl Babouc putters at his workbench unaware the Gods have chosen him ... more

Balloon: Altitude

by Christopher Keith

How do you survive a nuclear attack? Fly on a helium balloon to the stratosphere.

The space tourism project has taken many years of meticulous planning, the assembly of a highly trained crew, and a small fortune to embark on its groundbreaking journey into the uncharted stratosphere.

As the fragile peace below shatters and nuclear war erupts, the crew of five onboard Fable Sky, the world’s largest zero-pressure helium balloon, finds themselves thru... more

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