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Tales of Nightmares

by Loren Rhoads

There’s something magical about that sense of terror that grips you in the middle of sleep, when your heart pounds, you can’t catch your breath, and you know the monster is seconds away from grabbing you. While this anthology occasionally records the odd hallucination or vision from beyond, you’ll find no dream sequences here. These nine stories are designed to induce nightmares. In “La Japonesa” by Lisa Morton, a college professor chasing tenure comes face to face with something with sharp c... more

The Space Traveller’s Lover

by Omara Williams

It is the end of the twenty-first century. Droughts and floods have left Earth on the brink of collapse, with limited resources and habitable land. Erin Lobart, a bright young student living on the remote island of Tinian with her adoptive parents, is partnering with rescue teams to deliver food and medicine that is barely keeping civilisation afloat. On her sixteenth birthday, Erin and her best friend, Sam, make a startling discovery.

Brian, Created Intelligence

by AJ Pagan IV

Within a four foot stainless steel cube, a bodiless brain is awake, thinking, computing, knowing. Brian was created by genetic engineer Dr. Ellie Parsons, and neuroscientist Tom Marshall, at biotechnology company Dipol Inc., in San Diego, CA. Ethical questions abound as they hide Brian's true identity from him and the world around. To Brian, he's merely artificial intelligence, tasked with creating even more intelligent systems. To Ellie and her company, he's a means to an end, to create true ar... more

The Adventures of Toby Baxter: The River Elf, the Giant, and the Closet

by Tim Wright

Toby Baxter can’t wait to be a teenager. On the cusp of turning thirteen, the superhero-obsessed boy’s jaw drops when a baffling stranger appears and begs him for help. But when he’s led through a portal on a whirlwind trip to a magical land, he’s terrified to be plunged mid-battle between elves and a legion of stinky trolls. Bewildered and queasy, Toby is confused when his new friends claim he is the hero who will lead them to victory. And now only his dangerous quest to retrieve a legendary s... more

The Emergence

by Lee J. Keller

In 2142, a new movement promises freedom and inclusion to humans and machines. The sweeping persecution of its followers by governments will lead to the unraveling of a worldwide system of surveillance and control. Who is responsible? Is it an AI, terrorist group, or spiritual movement? As the leader of the new movement is about to be revealed, groups of followers, pursuing authorities, and kindred robots converge in one place. When the leader identifies herself as a woman, at a time when human ... more

The Captain's Secret Identity and the Cotton Candy Ship

by L.L. Faer & E. Raven

Captain Elaine Mermain has the perfect sea life. She has a delicious and magical Cotton Candy ship, a cat-loving crew, and a knack for outsmarting the trickiest pirates around. But everything is not as it seems. Waves crashing in a magical orb may spell a terrible future ahead. Elaine has faced down many foes, but can she face her fear of change? Sharpen your sword, grab your rainbow bandana, and come aboard to join Elaine and her fluffy cat comrade, Ginger, in their toughest battle yet.

Lochranza

by Mark Haviland

Young man wizard meets girl wizard, and they fall in love. The young man, Ben Troon, is required to go far away to continue his studies. He then finds he has lost his girl, and becomes distraught. His mentor, wizard and bookseller Ailsa Bleakwill, takes him to see the Archmage, Caerlugh, who introduces him to the mysterious Motria, and sends the pair of them on a mission to tour his whole world of Anoone and write about what he sees in a journal, the Book.

The Novus

by Lincoln Hartlaub

In Pura City, your life's path is determined by a test. You will become a slave, a normal citizen, or a member of the all-powerful Magna Council. When Alice Kingston takes this life-altering test, she becomes the first to achieve a perfect score, catapulting her directly onto the Magna Council, a position she did not desire. Soon, however, she discovers her best friend, Amica, managed to take last place in test scores, which forces her into a life of slavery. Knowing she can't live with that bur... more

Legacy Witches

by Cass Kay

Coming from a long line of murderous witches hasn’t exactly been sunshine and rainbows for Vianna Roots. When she inherits the family’s haunted house after her mother dies, she decides flipping the rundown dump is her smartest move—but the ghosts that haunt her have a different plan. When Vianna finds the ghost of her childhood friend Nancy, she’s drawn into the mystery surrounding her friend’s death. Her meddling attracts the attention of the oldest coven in Salem. In order to get her out of... more

The Virus (House of Heaventree #2)

by Nicole Seitz

Faith, not fear, should spread like a virus. A new day has dawned. Those without the mark are considered a virus to be cleansed from the Global Union. Pets are being targeted to lead the enemy to their owners in hiding. When the students of Heaventree receive their new assignments, Cornelius questions his ability to lead a team into danger. How can he trust his teammate, Atlys, after she showed her lack of loyalty in the building challenge? And does his mentor, Mr. Deal, truly understand thes... more

The Firstborn (House of Heaventree #1)

by Nicole Seitz

They must leave home now. They were told it's time--that they're finally ready. After the Great Storms, communications were down for a year and a half, and society was crippled. So when the G.O.D. (Global Operational Datalink) switch was finally turned on, the world was starved for electronic devices and ripe for what would happen next. It was the beginning of the end. Anyone who didn't receive the mark of the Global Union was an outsider, shunned--which made Flare and Cornelius Flanagan about ... more

Aeson: Black

by Vera Nazarian

Prince, soldier, hero of Atlantis. Haunted by death and the blue eyes of a stranger. Faced with an impossible choice. Love or Duty. Aeson Kassiopei, Imperial Crown Prince, survived his fiery death at Ae-Leiterra, saved the Fleet, and became the man we know today. Filled with alien knowledge he cannot understand and prescient memories of the blue-eyed girl who would change his life and save everything, he must make the most important decision of his life. Aeson has lived and died doing w... more

Clickers Never Die

by Stephen Kozeniewski

The seminal horror series created by J.F. Gonzalez, Mark Williams, and Brian Keene reemerges from the depths with the weirdest, most brutal installment yet!

Washed-up oceanographer Cameron Custer is hoping a mysterious living fossil discovered in the South Pacific could breathe new life into his career. Instead, Custer’s new specimen points him toward a heavily guarded secret—the truth behind the Guadalcanal Campaign. During World War II the U.S. Marine Corps had more than j... more

2023: World War III

by Carl Berryman

In 2023: World War III, the Peoples Republic of China explodes out of its borders. This book presents China's political, social and economic rationale, military preparations and grand strategy for such a disaster. It discusses the lack of political and military preparations by the West, the consequences for China's neighbors, and how the world in general and the United States in particular will respond. Events in today's world makes it all possible. The only way to prevent World War III is to pl... more

Legends of Daer: Champions of Tylwyth

by R.S. Howell

Legends of Daer: Champions of Tylwyth follows Isabella Strongfellow, a young, tomboyish farmer’s girl with a courageous soul as she journeys to find a cure for her brother’s magical slumber. Blaming herself for the incident, Isabella will stop at nothing to help save him. In her father’s shadow; she travels across Lyer Island bound to a quest tangled in intrigue that reaches across boundaries she never imagined. What would you sacrifice if it meant saving someone you loved? A rift rips her f... more

Encore

by Zane Pinner

A haunted cinema with a sordid past- will Robin and Evelyn survive their first date?

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