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Darkness Below

by Barbara Cottrell

Nightmares. Disappearances. Suicide. Fall semester is always a challenging time at Miskatonic University. All Ellen Logan wants to do is pass her classes while holding down a bad job at a New Age bookstore. But when a former roommate jumps to her death from the university clocktower and another friend vanishes, leaving her with a mysterious book, she embarks on her own investigation. With the help of renowned professor Andrew Carter, she uncovers evidence of a murderous cult, a terrifying cr... more

Identity Crisis

by Clayton Pulsipher

“Fate turns the wheels of time and drives us all—and I cannot help but feel it has more in store for you.”

Jag is human—but all he knows is that he’s different from everyone else on Rixxon Prime. And when a group of offworlders show up and cause trouble, he and his brother, Sixxis, get swept up in a seemingly unstoppable series of events that propels them into a galactic conflict far beyond the confines of their primitive planet.

Aided by the... more

The Female Breeders

by Melanie Bokstad Horev

In the near-future dystopian society of EVE, women control the world. Young brilliant scientist Neen Salvek of Clan Triverser is assigned to screen imprisoned males of the Dome, to assess their mental and emotional fitness before breeding season. Her task is crucial in order to protect the breeding women, and continue the development of their genetic enhancements. As she embarks on her mission she finds more than she bargained for – a system of brutal mutilation and slavery that condemns any ... more

Cul-de-sac

by Nick Perilli

The Oughtside has slipped in through the cracks in the world and judgment has come for Habre Circle. Some boy rips himself out of sleep paralysis to find his dead-end street overtaken by the Oughtside, a limbo where the dead are remade as clay bones, shadow and porcelain. An opaque mass of a human figure meets the boy at his front door, offering him employment as judge and jury of his neighbors’ banal lives. He accepts this unpaid call to adventure seemingly plucked from the video games... more

The Brothers Thanatos

by Joshua Gamon

After the ritualistic murder of Max’s younger brother, Charlie, the grieving warlock tethers the man’s soul to his own to keep it from eternal damnation. He knows the only one who can change that fate is the great Celestial Beast, Lucifer, but finding the devil is not easy. As Max’s search plunges him into an insidious world of horrors and fabled societies, he finds a lost girl who might hold the key to all his troubles, not realizing she will bring him far greater troubles than he can imagine. ... more

Blackout Trail: A Post-Apocalyptic EMP Survival Thriller

by Linda Naughton

Doctor Anna Hastings is no stranger to disasters, having spent much of her career as an aid worker in conflict zones around the world. Yet when an electrical phenomenon known as an EMP brings down the power grid, Anna faces catastrophe on a scale she never imagined. She must learn what it means to be a doctor in a world deprived of almost all technology.

As the blackout causes planes to fall from the sky, Anna crosses paths with devoted father Mark Ryan in the chaos at the airport. Mark... more

Greetings from Gehenna

by Etzel Edelweiss

While the story begins under the guise of a traditional fantasy, it gradually becomes more surreal, meta-fictional and allegorical, until finally revealing the true nature of its scope and deeper meaning. Difficult questions are raised, forcing viewers to think and draw their own conclusions. While the story begins under the guise of a traditional fantasy, it gradually becomes more surreal, meta-fictional and allegorical, until finally revealing the true nature of its scope and deeper meani... more

Ranger’s Sojourn

by Ulysses Namon

Since she was a little girl Tomi Ryan wanted to make a difference in an indifferent world. Her search for the path to that goal led her to the federation service called the federation rangers. Leaving behind her safe but boring life on Earth Tomi set off across the stars on an adventure that will take her from sun- soaked planets to deep space. Along the way her inner fortitude and ability to adapt will be tested as much as her stamina. But the real test will be when she is called to war for a c... more

Bequeathed: A Family's Tale Featuring Elle

by ShaynaJay

Bequeathed is a tale of trauma infused with terror, and layered with sinister secrets and lies. Every family passes something on. What did you inherit? After a series of unfortunate family tragedies, three young siblings find themselves in a new home raised by their wealthy maternal grandparents. All three have different experiences growing up in the household that eventually shape the way they live their lives as adults. When their grandparents die, the estranged trio is forced to come toget... more

Jestin Kase and the Terrors of Shadow Metal: Dragon Metal Book 2

by J. Michael White

What happens when you give a group of kids the power to fight the ultimate evil? Trauma. Now able to harness Dragon Metal, Jestin suffers from crippling panic attacks and visions of memory, pointing to the terrors of his past. The timing couldn’t be worse, as he finds himself up against a mysterious enemy leaving bodies wrapped in chains, a plot to cover Chicago with darkness, and a race toward the fabled First Relic coveted by one of the Three Great Schools of Magic. Not exactly an easy to-d... more

The Einstein Object

by Kevin Hincker

All Preston wants for his 12th birthday is a phone.

Instead he gets a coding language secretly created by Albert Einstein, the power to change reality, and a magical enemy inherited from his long dead grandfather. So not the birthday he'd been hoping for.

It all starts when a mysterious course in computer programming injures Preston's fingers. Because of that, he misses months of school. And when he returns he finds the world strangely altered. H... more

A Nameless Curse

by G.W. Prouse

Felicity is a weapon trained to expose secrets, slit throats, and weaken realms. A Fae orphan raised among humans, she's loyal to the guild who trained her. She needs to complete one final mission to be inducted among those who call themselves Master Spy.

Ordered to uncover the rebel informants within the king's court, she finds herself amidst the gossip acting as the rakish prince's latest conquest. When her guild returns memories she hadn't known they'd stolen, she... more

the haunted cookie jar

by siaeeda bellal

Ella was an ordinary house wife, she had given up her dream job to stay home and raise her first born child at the insistance of her mother-in-law. But after the birth of her child, everyone started to show their true selves and she could not imagine how her perfect life unravelled into insanity... or is it something more sinister?

The Accidental President

by I. Michael Grossman

The last man standing? Earth is in crisis. And the intergalactic managers who oversee all creatures of the Milky Way Galaxy are tasked to bottom-line man’s usefulness. Should they let homo sapiens survive or watch them continue to their own destruction? To answer that, the extraterrestrials charged with evaluating us as a species discover incredible truths about who we are – the good, the bad, the really, really bizarre. They look at how we govern and decide to change the rules. The Acc... more

Choice of the Traveler

by Toni Binns

Betha’s night out dancing pivots into a dangerous fight as demons pour through a rift in space. Peace is shattered and her friends are drafted to fight against the invasion. As unknown powers emerge within her, hopes of stopping the invasion fall to her.

A Debt to the Stars