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Arizona started a new life when his birth daddy, Gaston Bondurant, found him living with a foster family and facing criminal charges for assaulting his abusive stepfather. Plucked from the squalor of rural Acadiana, Arizona was thrust into New Orleans high society and an elite New England boarding school. Home for the summer, Arizona sets out to find his younger brothers and sister, who were scattered to different places when their family was torn apart. Along the way, he reunites with his 10th grade sweetheart, Preston Montclair, who still holds a torch for him.

Drake’s a very angry and (quite literally) heartless orphan obsessed with avenging his parents. Balt is a sometimes-thief from another world who’s trying to get home and maybe make some friends along the way. Cammie is an agent who just wants to retire. And then there are the hand hats. Together, they confront an evil greater than any of them have imagined.

Three short horror stories and one piece of nonfiction by Mark Tullius, one of the hardest-hitting authors around. The tales are bound to leave you more than a touch unsettled. Find yourself an overweight father ignored by his family, a gang member breaking into a neighborhood church, a cameraman who finds himself in a hopeless situation, and an aging author who’s paying the price for a reckless past, doing all he can to repair his brain. These shocking stories will leave you wanting more.

Adventure, action and dark humor galore, delivered Ralph Cotton style, in his fictional take on the real-life DEA - FBI joint Operation Swordfish, a covert effort launched by the two agencies in the early 1980s. Meet Eddie Vango - Chicago gambling debt collector for the Outfit, the lovely Leslie Wright, and ex-con Delbert Moss as they make their way through the ranks of South Florida Drug Lords and take a giant share of the underworld’s operating capital while the drug world is busy 'replacing' its leadership.

They thought they were finally safe. Now, they’ve awakened on Nathasia—a world drenched in blood, scarred by war, and teeming with nightmares. Once home to billions, Nathasia is a ruined graveyard: its seas poisoned by engineered toxins, its surface crawling with Thraxon breeding pits, its skies sealed by a relentless Marck fleet. Kerriah and her companions wake with fractured memories—and the young Tolagon is missing.

Crix’s past is about to collide with his future. His past—murdered parents, his home destroyed, the key to changing everything within him meets his future when a black spaceship crashes nearby. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, Crix is resolute in his quest to unravel the mysteries of the ship. His journey, however, takes an unexpected turn as he finds himself in a high-stakes race for survival.

Even before Lightson could begin to understand how he mysteriously woke up in the strange land of Shreik-Daila, he finds that his life is at risk. As he runs into stranger and more dangerous places by the day, he is also supported by new and unusual friends: a dwarf, a lion-bear, a scholarly worm, and a 150-year-old teenage girl. Together they brave the deadly woods of Zakhirkoot, the one place where the writ of the tyrannical king of this realm, doesn't hold. Scuffling with death itself, the five companions seek an old merchant who might have some answers.

The author that brought you Veritas the first in the Neil Baggio Suspense series brings you a day in the life of the Golden Family told through the eye of Travis Golden on his wedding day. As he reflects through the years of his life with his twin sister Terra, growing up in a stressful household, overcoming the odds to reach his goal and meeting the woman of his dreams. From the outside people see Travis as a successful professional basketball player marrying his college sweetheart, from a perfect family, what they don’t see is we all go through trials, tribulations and strife.

Im Jahre 1287 geschah in Bacharach am Rhein etwas, das nie aufhörte, die Gemüter zu bewegen.

Jack defeated the hideous monster in the Three Rivers and then left for Carthun, a new land where he might be able to meet characters...like himself. In the small village, everyone he’d met was an NPC. Despite that, he'd made friends and learned a great deal. Arriving in Carthun, Jack quickly makes friends with a few characters, and together they form a party. In the game world, Jack knows knowledge is power, and the more he learns, the better equipped he’ll be the next time somebody comes after him.

n the darkest days of the Civil War, Neville Goldsmith set the world on fire. As Captain for the Union Army, he marched with General Sherman through Georgia, setting homes and cities ablaze with sadistic glee. For Goldsmith, starting fires was a lifelong obsession. And when the war ended, he set his sights on the great American West—to burn it all to the ground. Years later, Luke Jensen learns about a series of fires wreaking havoc from the Dakota Territory to Kansas.

Cal, a grad student in music composition and a scholar of Mozart, has his dream come true when he plays a duet with the maestro! Cal bumps into his long-lost childhood sweetheart, Emily, while they are both at grad school. Emily is part of a physics experiment that involves time travel. Partnering with Emily, they travel back to 1791 Vienna to save Mozart from a premature death. But the rescue goes wrong, and they must restore the timeline before they get stuck in 1790s Vienna for good.

Driven by an unrelenting wanderlust, Henry Ossian Flipper, the first Black cadet to graduate from West Point, sets out on a remarkable journey across the American West. From the heights of glory he achieves during the Apache Wars to the depths of despair brought by a court-martial, Flipper's life paints a vivid picture of both triumph and hardship.

Lennox Holt never expected to venture outside of her castle walls, least of all to seek out the mythical island of Dawnlin to cure her mother. Searching for the healing waters was only one of the many challenges the island forced upon the Voyagers, and learning to trust Dawnlin and those already on the island wasn’t as effortless as she expected.

As panic spreads through the fragile UMO alliance, its Marck protectors—controlled by Crix—begin to fail without warning. Kerriah, driven by love and desperation, knows that the young Tolagon who stole her heart is dying somewhere deep within the Central Core. Now, with allies rallying to her cause, she prepares to attempt the impossible: his rescue.

Reborn after near nuclear eradication, humanity struggles in a world defined by a secret history of conspiracy, rivalry and inhuman domination. As an ancient powerful race attempts to retake planet Earth, a courageous and sophisticated band of freedom fighters, the Cerberus rebels, leads the resistance in a daring battle to free humanity from the grips of an alien power struggle. In the Middle East's legendary Fertile Crescent, millennia-old artifacts are unearthed. Shockingly, they appear to belong to one of Cerberus's own.

With both her mother and grandmother gone, Maray is left with the prospect of the crown—and a marriage she doesn’t want. As if that wasn’t enough, Gan Krai slowly tightens the sling around her neck, setting loose the nightmares of Allinan history. Now, Maray has to decide what type of ruler she wants to become—and what she is willing to sacrifice for it.

The new religion left no place in Havenston for a human witch like Etain. It not only jeopardizes her safety and livelihood, but threatens a fiery death as well. That didn’t mean she was prepared to be stolen away to the Fae Realm. Ciaran must find a way to break his curse in order to become the true king of the Night Court. The prophecy the Many Faced Goddess gave him is a riddle that holds the key.

After narrowly escaping a fight against a giant orc shaman, Silas must continue collecting the last two shard pieces of the broken dungeon core to prevent the goddess core from dying.