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Nature's Kiss

by Rachel Crosby

Nature's Kiss is a romantic fantasy about change and transformation.

Faye Bloomberg is 36 and a high school English teacher on Cape Cod. She's had a lifelong passion for fantasy, but aside from playing pretend as a young girl with her friend Wanda and reading fantasy novels as an adult, her life has been rather ordinary.

She does have a boyfriend, Drake Hershfeld, who is 42 and very hot, but also very practical and commitment phobic. He admits he likes Faye because she&rsq... more

A Magnet to a Flame

by Shawn Patrick Cooke

A video store that transports you through time. Immortality from a microwave oven. A trip across the Atlantic, from the comfort of an armchair. From the mind of Shawn Patrick Cooke comes a collection of stories that brush gently against reality. Featuring both previously published works and never-before-seen stories, this debut collection ranges from America's industrial past to a potluck at the end of the world; from windswept moors to suburban homes, from fairy tales to harsh reality—while ... more

Grandma's Magic Box

by Nadine Thomas

Each story takes the reader to a different location with facts about that location. The ending of each story is quite a mystery. These are sure to delight any child ages four to eight.

The Adversary

by Maurício Limeira

Seeking revenge for the murder of his girlfriend, a journalist is dragged into the criminal underworld not knowing what he is going to find. To search the services of a contract killer called Casimir, he would never have expected that the revenge he wanted would turn out to be much bigger and more frightening than urban violence and the corruption of traffic. Blood, soul mates, pain, fear, darkness, the obscure lurked in the background. The evil personified in Casimir's crudeness and aggression ... more

A Step Too Far: A Dryden Universe Corporate Wars Novel

by Daniel B Hunt

Paul Thorne is a violent man with a checkered past who has just obtained his dream job with one of the three most powerful corporations in human space. Working for a steady paycheck, under the protective umbrella of Syrch Corp, is an enormous opportunity that promises a bright future. But all that is jeopardized when Paul receives an unthinkable assignment.

Jillian Caldwell is the niece and ward of a biochemist on Papen’s World. Her mother hid sensitive information from Syrch Corp... more

Okuda!: A Dryden Universe Corporate Wars Novel

by Daniel B Hunt

Ambition, greed, and technology created her. Violence shaped her. Vengeance drove her. Lucky Okuda is a product of her past, struggling to make sense of a universe into which she was unwillingly born. Compelled to kill, struggling with rage, and haunted by voices and visions, Lucky Okuda is on a journey of murder, mayhem, and self-discovery in this Science Fiction novel set in the Dryden Universe.

The Lilac Plague (The Unchosen Series Book 1)

by Kristin J. Dawson

An oath betrayed. A centuries-long curse. A kingdom teetering on the edge of destruction. In a world of magic, Nicoleta is unremarkable, except for her cursed, stuttering tongue. No special powers, no renowned apprenticeship, just the terrible, stammering aftereffects of the Lilac Plague. Until she opens the ghostly blue vision from her mother. Instead of words of endearment, the vision reveals that Nicoleta’s mother was a Guardian entrusted with a magical key — a key so powerful ... more

Lifeshift

by MICHAEL KOTT

Was Zeus a Greek God or merely a space explorer?

Following his mission to bring civilization to Earth, Zeus vanished on a newly discovered planet in the system Wolf 1061. Before he left, he set up a follow-on mission to come for him 35,000 years in the future. LifeShift tells the story of how, at a small high school in the Midwestern United States, in the Earth year 1957, that quest came to light.

That year, when sixteen-year-old Alex Monroe escaped death in an Il... more

Lydia Green of Mulberry Glen

by Millie Florence

Lydia Green never had reason to worry much before. She lived in a timeless Glen on the edge of the Valleylands with her mismatched family of fairies, philosophers, and two troublemakers known as the Zs. But now, at age eleven, her world is turned upside down when rumors reach Mulberry Glen about a mysterious Darkness that dwells in the forest Tenebrae. Lydia knows it is nothing to be trifled with, but, fiery and headstrong, the Zs have other ideas. A foolish choice puts their lives in d... more

As Silver Is to the Moon

by R. A. Watt

New school. First love. A psychotic werewolf that wanted me dead. And it was only week one in Santa Isadora.

For fifteen-year-old Teavan Laurent and his older sister Suzanne, Santa Isadora seemed like a sleepy and idyllic California town to finish high school after their unexpected move west from New York City.

As he struggles to make friends in a town shrouded in secrets, Teavan soon finds himself the target of an irrational tormentor and rumored-to-be werewolf.... more

Icehaven (Sum of all Tears - Book 1)

by Kim Cresswell and M.K. Chester

They said it wouldn't happen. Everything would be better. They were wrong.

After a climate change experiment goes terribly wrong, August Madison, finds herself resurrected in a frozen wasteland.

With most of the world's population and food sources annihilated, depraved nomadic gangs patrol the lawless landscape as outlasters claw for survival.

Amid the chaos, Graysen Marx, iron-fisted leader of the domed settlement Liberty, emerges from the catastrop... more

Gunsmoke & Dragonfire: A Fantasy Western Anthology

by Diane Morrison

From the drought-plagued plains of Mars, to a post-apocalyptic Canada, to the familiar American West and Mexico, to other dimensions and other worlds weird and wonderful, an international cast of bestselling, award-winning, established, and emerging authors brings you 25 strange western tales! We invite you to explore these stories in the grand pulp fiction tradition: from weird westerns, to sci-fi and space westerns, to post-apocalyptic westerns, alternate history, time travel, and cattlepun... more

Penta Ka Wa: The Dark Gift

by Trevor Jones

Penta was a Horseman of great renown, some might even say he was legendary. Now in his retiring years and he is ready to watch the setting sun from the porch with his wife of many decades. But when unexpected violence takes her and everything from Penta, he must learn how to survive as an unwilling vampire.Set in the fantastical world of Kinthur, filled with magic and heroes, Penta’s journey will take him across strange lands and encounters with creatures of darkness and light. He must now find ... more

Ruins of Fate: The Omni Towers Series, Prequel

by Jamie A. Waters

One wrong decision, and the future will crumble… Skye Levanthe traded everything she owned in order to secure a place for herself and her son, Veridian, in a scavenging camp. But all contracts have an expiration date. Desperate to obtain the resources they need to survive, Skye agreed to navigate the dangerous ruins of fallen cities to search for tradeable materials. When a strange storm forced Skye and her scavenging partner into forbidden territory controlled by The Omni Towers, a rui... more

Eve the Elf

by Jeffrey Adams

It's the early 1970's and a human man and an elf woman fall in love at a Bangkok hospital. Meanwhile; a superhero with a secret meets a mystery woman who sees through her and confronts her with the lie that has been her life and gives her the chance to lead a bold new life. Months later, the couple give birth to a daughter who will face many temptations in her life and seems fated to be like the Biblical Eve.

Beneath the Fallen City (The Omni Towers Series Book 1)