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Light Bender

by C. R. (Chuck) Downing

Clarissa Newland helps her friend, Belton Flournoy, invent a chemical that will bend light rays around his body, rendering him invisible. While working on refining the chemical, they discover the chemical's side effects. Aliens running the Traveler's HOT L, a time travel establishment, offer the developers a chance to go back to before the chemical was invented and never invent it. Although appearing agreeable to that plan, Belton embarks on his own undertaking. The story of Belton's travels bac... more

Pleasant Grove

by Jason Price

What’s outside Pleasant Grove? Welcome to Pleasant Grove, a quiet small town where neighbor helps neighbor and doors are left unlocked at night—an unspoiled paradise with one peculiar feature: It’s enclosed by a glass dome. No one can leave. No one can enter. No one can survive beyond the dome. But then, a visitor arrives from the outside. When 12-year-old Agnes Goodwin discovers a strange boy with no memory, she teams up with her best friends to unravel the mystery... more

The King's Daughter

by Dai Pryce

Wales 1294 . . . a hated English king, a country in violent rebellion against him, and a sixteen-year-old from Virginia Beach badly out of her depth. Following the death of her Navy SEAL father in Afghanistan, Megan Lynch is packed off to a new school in a new country. “Go stay with your grandmother in Wales, it’ll keep you out of trouble,” her mother had declared. In her mom’s defense, she could never have predicted the remarkable events that unfolded in the ruins of Flint Castle that aft... more

Elevator Quest

by Emmanuel M Arriaga

When the elevator cable snaps, they all think they are going to die. Instead, Tasha and her office colleagues find themselves trapped in a fantasy world, the crash only the beginning of their problems as they fight for survival. But the mystery of what happened gnaws at them as they venture deeper into an adventure filled with monsters, mystical weapons, and deadly challenges… A female-led, action-packed fantasy in a Dungeons & Dragons inspired world.

Foundra

by Emmanuel M. Arriaga

The Huzien Empire has existed for 80 millennia and a powerful invisible force known as the enesmic permeates every aspect of the Twin Galaxy.

Neven is an engineer working for the pinnacle of scientific achievement known as the MinSci on the Huzien homeworld of Thae. His genius draws the attention of one of the immortal Founders and he finds himself drafted into the military as part of an elite group of special forces known as the Founder’s Elites. Not given much time to adjust, his team... more

Twilight's Fall

by J. Steven Lamperti

On his way back to his capital to face down a rebellion, the young king Twilight is ambushed in the forest. Who wants to kill him, and why? His companions, Aela, Blaine, and Corentin, all rise to the occasion in ways the king never expects. Is there more to them than he sees on the surface? The journey back to the King’s Seat is fraught with danger, ghostly trials, and survival, but once there, they still must struggle to face down the rebellion. In the final battle for his kingdom, Tw... more

Tam Lin: A Modern, Queer Retelling

by T.J. Deschamps

Never break a promise to the fae...

After a fight with his fiance, Tom Lane needs a change of pace--more accurately, an escape so he can lick his wounds. He travels to Ireland in search of his Ulster-Scots roots.Though he was adopted as a child, Tom is adrift in adulthood and hopes the history of his biological family will help him understand himself and what he truly desires.

While on holiday, he meets Fergus and Aoife, sexy tour guides looking to show Tom a little more than the ... more

Where the Children Play

by Robert B. Warren

Alexander “Lex” Morgan has just moved to Red Grove, Alabama. At first glance, his new home appears to be the ideal Southern town. He soon discovers it's anything but. Supernatural forces have been terrorizing the locals for decades—and now they've set their sights on him. In order to survive, Lex must gather his courage and face a horror beyond his worst nightmare.

Black Gate Tales

by Paul Draper

A collection of 14 dark fantasy short stories, flavoured with folk horror and the supernatural

The Pale Wolf

by Robert B. Warren

Before she became a slave, she was a humble village girl. Before she became a child soldier, she was a fugitive. Before she became the Pale Wolf, she was simply Asha. Her tale begins in rural Africa in the 1980s, when she, a child with albinism, is abducted from her small, jungle community and thrust into a life of violence, heartbreak, and ultimately hope. We follow her through a wild, forgotten land as she transforms from an innocent tomboy to a seasoned warrior with superhuman powers—powers s... more

THE STEWARD (series)

by M. D. Ironz

THE STEWARD is an epic contemporary tale in which folklore and fantasy enmesh with physics and forensics. The expanded box set includes Volumes 1 through 4 of the series (Domaine Delafaire, Realms of Possibility, Alas The Best Laid Plans, and Storm Haven). Ellen Doyle must accept two facts. Firstly, she is named heir to the Stewardship of the hidden Grand Portal to the Multiverse, which unfortunately doesn't come with instructions. Secondly, and perhaps more unsettling, many of the creatur... more

Maverick Gambit

by Marjorie King

An impoverished town plundered by space pirates. A captain who decides to protect the town with shields. A crew that plans to steal those shields from the Goliath of space shipping. A plan that blows up in their face.

Children of the Night

by M. Dutchy

When two young girls come looking for Detective Vicky Smithton. During the investigation, Vicky learns that the darkness is kidnapping children. What does the darkness want from these children? And why so many? With her nan in a coma and Liam fighting for custody of his daughters in Boston, Vicky asks Lisa Williams and the FBI for help. While investigating Vicky comes across secrets, challenges, and magical beings. Victoria Smithton is a young detective in a small town. She is half-vampire/... more

The Cool Thing: A Dark Comedy. Or Not.

by Robert Rife

R.L. mistakenly buys a device taken from a long-ago crashed spaceship. When activated, it nullifies distance, allowing immediate access to the human staffed lab built above the wreck. A lab operated ruthlessly by Dr. Lillith Gaust, who has a terrifying history of failed species-splicing experiments. Not all her failures die; called Lab Spills, they’re abandoned in the toxic Waydowns. Occasionally one escapes, vastly invigorating the staff. Especially those who get eaten. ... more

The Book Lady: A Psychological Horror Novel

by Chandra Renee Powell

Lucinda McKay is a woman driven to the depths of insanity and ravages a Southern Louisiana town targeting it's most vulnerable population adapting fairytales as her MO. Can Lucinda McKay be stopped? The Book Lady will have your heart racing to an unexpected ending.

Free

by Yvonne Anderson

One of the most prominent names in the lore of the planet Urban, author J. S. Freeman is as mysterious and controversial as the island of Freemansland from which she came. In this, the last book in her three-part story, the remainder of her supposedly safe world crumbles to ashes. Just when she thinks she can't go on, she finds new life in a most unlikely place--the rejected legends of her own people. Come and see. The truth she tells is better than her fiction.

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