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Nothing to Get Nostalgic about

by Eddie Brophy

Charlie Harris is haunted. Haunted by addiction, haunted by depression, but more than anything he is a man haunted by his childhood. For years, Charlie had successfully used his relationship with his past and with fear to his advantage. He became a successful and award-winning author by confronting the tangible terrors of a divisive world of economic strife and political polarization. Unfortunately, the one fear he was never able to confront was the one that now hid under the crib of his infant ... more

Perseverance: How It All Began by Ardel Emery

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Epic love laced with epic pain… Loving him was my secret. Mine alone. I never let anyone come remotely close to accessing that part of my heart. Not even myself, except on rare occasions. Trystan was simultaneously the source of my greatest love and the source of my greatest heartache. He never knew how I felt about him. I’d never told him how deeply and profoundly in love with him I was…and still am. He had always considered me a friend so that was the position in his life that I desperately... more

Time Machine Emergency

by Dan Arthur Busby

A genius twenty-two-year-old student makes an astounding discovery while working for a college professor. Derek and Professor Kibble are the right combination to invent an unlikely but very timely time machine. Forced to hurry their experimentation because of a nuclear threat, they add a woman, Lex, to the team and take a leap into the unknown. Which fate would be worse-nuclear destruction or a jump into time travel? Soliciting the help of Alexander the Great, they formulate a plan to rewrite hi... more

Lost in Time: Trapped in a Prehistoric World

by Dan Arthur Busby

By 2040, the US corrections system had found an unbeatable way to save money. Simply send them out of the present world. ..send them to a very ancient past world. Time travel technology had blossomed, but was exclusively used by the government. Men like Jimmy Dantly had been highly educated in the field, and worked for the government, doing research and maintenance. For Jimmy, everything was turning up roses, until a freak accident at work turned his world upside down. A coworker was k... more

The Whisper of Dragons

by Michelle Picard

Kavi, the protagonist, is the heir to a dragon guardian, unbeknownst to her clan, a 21st century nomadic magic using group whose magic allows them bend reality by manipulating the Story of everything, the material that binds all matter.

Gemma Calvertson and the Forest of Despair

by Ryan Hoyt

A heroine's first adventure. A kingdom's last hope.

Gemma spends her days studying a war her father fought in before her birth, but she realizes that not everything is what it seems. When she sets off to interview an aging hero, she learns about an emerging threat to the kingdom prophesied by the forbidden factions of magic and religion.

Since she can't go to the officials without incriminating her new friend Richard, they mus... more

Vampire Hunters

by Trudie Collins

By day they lead ordinary lives, by night they hunt vampires. When JD agrees to train someone from outside the hunter society, little does he realise how much she will affect his life, and the lives of his fellow hunters. As she immerses herself in their world, she learns how deadly vampires are. Hunters have to kill or be killed and just one bite is all it takes to turn a human into a monster. When one of the team becomes infected with vampire venom, they are left with one burning question. ... more

Sweet Dreams

by Brittney Herrera

This story is about Ally, who is an energetic little girl who prefers to play rather than go to sleep. One night, her mom has an idea to tell her a story to show her that sleeping is not only necessary but can be fun as well. She spins an adventurous little tale for her baby girl about the Maya Heritage of Belize.

Blood of the Imagined

by Rayna & Dwayne Scott

Set in a world where magical abilities determine your survival rate. The King of Igoine has stepped down and has chosen his least qualified son, Clay, as his successor. The most qualified, Jacob, takes up arms against Clay in a jealous rage. Jacob is defeated and is banished from the city of Sunshine Valley. With his pride injured, darkness consumes him. He commandeers the city of Drone and forces its army of robotic humanoids to destroy Sunshine Valley. Magical abilities deteriorate with age, ... more

In The Darling Dark

by Wrenn McMaster

Nineteen-year-old Glynis Albion isn't like the others in Darling. With uncommon beauty and a history of sadness and loss, she is as isolated as the remote location in which she resides. The pain of Glynis's past, coupled with the mystery surrounding the disappearance of her best friend, has left Glynis open to a secret. A dark menace that has been watching and waiting, biding its time, until just the right moment.

Long before Sabelle Sabin became lost to Glynis, she'd been f... more

Children of Eden: The Trilogy of the Rising

by Melvina Hawkins Patterson

Serum 222, designed to kill a strain of deadly cancers. Serum 222, handed to the hands of a demented scientist and used to raise a nation.

Redline

by Carol J Parsons

Jefferson Brodie, a third generation Mars settler, fights to keep Mars free of Earth-based interference while expanding the mag lev rails to provide water for the settlers. Olivia Ellsworth, sent by the RPEC to sabotage the rails and pave the way for the environmental protection agency to take Mars under its jurisdiction, finds herself caught between the stubborn rail commissioner and her own code of ethics. Brodie gambles his reputation, career and the woman he loves to save his beloved planet.

Freedom Ride: Short Stories and Poems

by Ron S. Nolan

From the wheat fields of Kansas to surfing the immense waves on the shores of Planet Nuptia, the author takes readers on a journey which may be referred to as the “future meets the past.” In “Earth Boy” a child is held captive on Europa and in the ”Longevity Gene” a geneticist searches for a gene complex that may hold the key to immortality while stock car drivers race around a track in Alabama and discover something totally unexpected. As the book title suggests, searching for and struggl... more

The Night the Stars Fell

by Amber D. Lewis

"My name is Astra Downs, and in three days I may destroy the world."

The earth trembles and the stars fall. Things that were long forgotten return and Astra and her twin, Kato, are at the center of it all. Magic has been dead for centuries, but when Astra and Kato are born, it's a sign that something is about to happen. No twins have ever been born before—not in their kingdom of Callenia or anywhere else on their continent. Beneath their skin prowls a... more

FitzDuncan

by John Spearman

Meet Casimir FitzDuncan, a resident of the medieval kingdom of Aquileia. A woman has come to him, seeking his assistance in escaping a contract to marry a nobleman with a foul reputation. After their meeting, she is kidnapped not far from his residence. Caz is accused of abducting her and forced to investigate her disappearance. Aided by his friend Freddy, Lord Rawlinsford, and Freddy's mysterious cousin Lucy, Caz works to find the kidnapper. The closer he gets to finding the truth, the m... more

Another Dead Intern

by Joel Spriggs

Boston’s magical community is cursed with a snarky private detective. Private Investigator Hemlock Connal has a problem with her assistants. They all die... violently. When Morgan Burns became her new intern, they both wonder if he’ll meet a similar tragic end. As Hemlock and Morgan embark on a case together, she teaches about the unseen and blended landscape of magic. Hemlock introduces Morgan to grungy pixies, Fae royals, and the annoyingly bad musical talents of a half-demon. H... more

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