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Saving the Gingerbread House

by Lois Wickstrom

Is the Witch really going to enter the House Beautiful Contest? For that matter, is there really a witch? Something is tapping in the woods. Hansel and Gretel investigate. It's not a witch building a beautiful home. It's a woodpecker. They were in such a hurry to find the source of the sound, now they are lost. They come upon a beautiful home. It's made of gingerbread. Animals are nibbling. Hansel and Gretel, eat some, too. Then the owner comes out. Have the hungry children ruined her chance to ... more

The First Assignment

by Billy Kramer

Dead. Seventeen-year-old Shawn Turner no longer belongs to the world of the living. Armed without a heartbeat, he starts his afterlife as a reaper. After being given the name of a person destined to die in the next seven days, he must go out and collect their soul. As Shawn separates himself from the living and moves below ground, he attends Wayward Academy which teaches him the training and traditions all first-year reapers need to know to perform their duty. The only thing is, Shawn i... more

The Broken Darkness

by theresa braun

In her debut collection, Theresa Braun explores the inner workings of the human heart and what it is we most desire—forgiveness, acceptance, love, fame, or merely to escape who we really are. Whether we are battling ghosts, demons, mythical monsters, the past, or other dimensions, we are really facing the deepest parts of ourselves. These thirteen tales of horror and dark fantasy may appear to be a matter of good versus evil, but they are all a reflection of the hidden corners of the soul that a... more

Beyond Words

by Celia Bonaventura

How much more could be learned about using and conserving ocean resources if humans could communicate with intelligent marine creatures? This question is sure to intrigue readers who follow the adventures of Mo and Duke, a lonely girl and a dolphin who develop a deep friendship when they learn how to use whistles and mental linkages for communication. Duke, a curious young dolphin, was poisoned by contact with poisonous blue slime in the hold of a sunken ship. Paralyzed and unable to swim... more

The Golden Thrine

by Lindsey Daugherty

Celestial Academy: Essence (Afterworld Book 1)

by Olivia Pharos

Orphan. Slave. Drug dealer. As a Demon-Owned human, in an Afterworld that has Hell and Heaven on Earth, Wen White is the lowest a being can be. Her life is one of drudgery, degradation—and mortal danger. And that's before she started dealing Angelescence. Unlike anything in existence, it's a drug only she can produce, and everyone would kill, or die for. With decommission and execution closing in, she’s desperate to buy out her and her best friend’s Indentures. But upping her operations on... more

Krystal Winkle and the Peacemaker of Kigali

by Carolyn Roth-White

Fantasy Action-Adventure for middle graders who love detective stories, mystery, magic and animals. Ten-year-old American girl discovers she is at the very heart of a magical world filled with danger. While she and her family are in Africa, she begins to unravel the mysteries of who she really is and what her noble destiny will require of her all while she thwarts her enemies and risks her life to save the town's beloved silverback gorilla, the Peacemaker of Kigali.

Still Hungry

by Bob Reiss

A waitress faced with the most terrifying customer she’s ever encountered. A bully who meets the world’s shyest supernatural creature. A biologist summoned to a military base where a strange phenomenon is occurring. A global leader trapped 28,000 feet above earth. Best selling novelist and world class story teller Bob Reiss has been a lifelong fan of the original Twilight Zone TV series. Here he presents his first short story collection; odd tales of eight characters resembling people we’ve a... more

The Light Within Darkness

by David C. Jeffrey

Year 2218. Commander Aiden Macallan of the Sun Wolf has defeated Cardew’s attempt to annihilate Bound Space, and Elgin Woo has discovered a vast new astrocell of interconnected voidoids, expanding humanity’s prospects exponentially. But Cardew escaped into the new astrocell and claimed it all for his emerging Posthuman empire. Hell-bent on eradicating the human race, he’s secretly cloning an invincible army of bionic psychopaths to do his bidding. The Alliance must stop him before he invades, bu... more

Squeal

by Gitte Tamar

Forced to move from home to home throughout his childhood, Tom’s fantasy of a family member rescuing him from the foster care system dies after several years pass without as much as a phone call. His life unexpectedly shifts in his early teens when his only remaining blood relatives, his grandparents, suddenly reappear. For the first time in his resentment-filled years of abandonment, Tom experiences a moment of optimism over moving to the family pig farm. Tom’s change in fortune should br... more

Unleashed Vol. 2

by Edward Jefferson

It is a fact that the choices you make will seal your fate.

She is the product of man’s own greed. She is the beauty who stalks the night. Her chosen name is Raven, and she is death that walks. She hunts her prey while hiding in plain sight; her alluring beauty shields her from suspicion and conceals her insatiable desire to kill. A primordial fire burns within her that cannot be quenched. No force known to man can stop her, and everyone who crosses her path is a pote... more

The Indomitable Titans: Gods of Men

by EVAN BROCK

A Titan named Sulem Al’Tarik and his apprentice Zion, attack another Titan family, House Araelus, looking to take their Jade Crystal shard and restart a war. Every Araelus in that attack is killed except for one, Jessie. She is saved by a young group of Titans ready to fight A'Tarik. In the attack, Al’Tarik learns that the Araelus family don’t have the shard in their possession. A young human woman named Katie Rooney has it revealed to her by her dying grandfather that he is guarding a powerful... more

Kill Your Darlings

by L.E. Harper

INCEPTION meets INKHEART in this allegorical epic. A depressed fantasy author writes a dark ending to her story, killing her beloved characters. When she awakes and finds herself magically trapped in their world, she must fight to change the fatal finale. Trading her pen for a sword, she sets out to defeat the insidious villain who feeds on blood and dreams—but if she can’t overcome her inner darkness, she’ll die with her darlings.

Dystopomart: Survivorium Maxi Catalog

by Ryan Patrick

Be the first in your Habitable Zone to take advantage of the available wonders in the world's first-ever Dystop-o-Mart Survivorium Maxi Catalog! Need weaponized cuisine and fast-acting lava-resistant portable shelter? You bet! Originally an apocatourist destination known for its Fume Flume(TM), Petting Zoo Hospice, and Louseatorium, Dystop-o-Mart also offers the consumer so much more. Why leave your hunger, defense, and home library to fate? The 64-page, all-color catalog includes a wishlist of ... more

The Sweetest Betrayal

by Natalie Mae

In this heart-pounding conclusion to The Kinder Poison trilogy—which People magazine proclaimed a "delicious high-stakes adventure"—war looms over Orkena, but can Zahru save her people without losing herself?

War has come to Orkena.

Zahru has risen as Mestrah, and she is determined to peacefully end the escalating tensions with Wyrim, her country’s long-time enemy. Yet diplomacy proves to be futile, and when Zahru turns to Orkena’s allie... more

Manxiety

by Daemon Manx

The stories in this book were inspired by real-life events. Some are loose interpretations of my nightmares and experiences, and others are dark memoirs. All were designed to evoke emotion. Longing, fear, remorse, desperation, and of course, anxiety, are a few of the horrors we all face and the ones from which there is often no escape. These stories were written during the most difficult periods in my life. Addiction, incarceration, and depression are the demons of which I speak. Creating this c... more

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