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Somehow, Brandon Andrew Morgan survived the Omega Vaccine and the total collapse of society that followed it. And yes, he’s just as surprised about it as you are. But while his brother is off to unknown adventures, Brandon has decided to stick around, make a life for himself, and care for his best buds as they transition to their new lives as vampires.

Randall Sullivan slumped in the passenger seat aboard a speeding train on its continuing trip between the realms of truth and fantasy. He will awaken, like many others, without a ticket, without any knowledge as to how he arrived in the seat across the aisle from an elderly couple dressed in gray attire. But during his time on this train, he’ll come to understand a mystery few have ever known. Many are travelers, those who languish between this world and the next.

Darkness choked him. It choked him every night. There was nowhere left for him to run. Solitude, loneliness, and fear loomed in the air as thick as morning fog. Where could he go to hide? He jumped into bed, clutched the covers up around his neck, wedged the blanket under his feet, and prayed for comfort from the watchers, ghosts, unseen visitors, monsters, and those unwanted and uninvited specters that always come from the other world into the room where he slept. They invaded his will, his mind, and his soul.

He can't seem to shake the memory. From the top floor of his office building, he stands in the window and looks out over his domain, one of the cities that never sleeps in the north. His mind is drawn to a simple uncluttered encounter, a scene stuck in his mind for over 15 years. Miles away, on the outskirts of a place called the "Shanty Town", Mrs. Craft remembers a person met by accident at the train station's taxi turnabout. She barely said thank you as he held the taxi door for her. But as he held the door, there was an undeniable sensation that he'd see her again.

In Alone on a Cliff, the girls return to the cliff where they spent a night stranded in 1973 while on a trek PerryAnn hatched to find Billy. Now, over 20 years later, they are on a trek to find Billy again, only this time, it isn't only Billy they are searching for. Unhealed wounds, the healing balm of forgiveness, and gratitude for those who stand by us weave the story like threads running through a tapestry. Through it all, MatiLou and PerryAnn always return to the most important quest they share: to care for Mother Earth.

Summer of Hard Choices is a mystery with a mission to find the truth. In the first novella Summer of Change, PerryAnn’s parents died when their VW bus careened off the road. Now, 10 years later, she and MatiLou embark on the quest to find out what happened that fateful day. In the search of truth, they brush imminent danger. PerryAnn deals with trauma from losing her family. MatiLou still deals with scars from bullying during her childhood. The truth about the accident offers some solace, yet they have hard choices to make as they navigate their experiences.

MatiLou is 11, the brightest one in her class, and an only child. She’s wished for a sister and on the hottest day, PerryAnn, who is 14, appears on Grandma Waters’ cactus farm next door. PerryAnn’s grandmother sells the minerals rights under the farm and begins drinking heavily while in the midst of grieving the loss of her only son, PerryAnn’s father. The threat of external change to the beloved cactus farm looms throughout the story because three men in steel toe boots have come to stake a well right in front of Grandma Waters’ house.

In 16 short stories and a novella, Anne Leigh Parrish explores the magic of life, love, and the soft boundary between fact and fantasy. The wife of an artist disappears under mysterious circumstances, a woman has the gift of taking away sorrow, another finds inner strength through writing poetry, and a great-grandmother spends the day sitting on a folding chair in a grocery store parking lot, contemplating the nature of the human heart. What Nell Dreams is Parrish's eighth book of fiction.

Puffton Village. Back in the 1980s, a group of strangers lived in a college town apartment complex. They became great friends and went through daily struggles together. They supported each other and comforted each other. They became an untraditional family. A Crazy Life. A life filled with drama, love, fear, bonding, and adventures. A life filled with fear, terror, heartache, and questions.

This is a collection of scary stories and mysteries. Some of them are even true stories. Some are also based on legends. Some are made up...or are they? Some happened and some didn't. Some of the stories are based on our experiences, and some are our imagination. We have lived in numerous haunted houses. We have seen and felt many spirits. This is a collaborating between mother and daughter.

After 30 years, John and Maria Salgado remain deeply in love and committed to each other. Enduring trials and tribulations that would have destroyed most marriages have only strengthened their bond. They have been flush, they have been poor, but they have always had each other - until they are confronted by a tragedy, and it forces one of them to confront reality without the other.

Closing the Circle & Murder in New England is about a very dysfunctional family. Closing the Circle & Murder in New England is about a deadly secret and a high school reunion.

Ximon and the unique crew of the scout ship Mantis continue their adventures. They come out of hyperspace far from their destination and badly in need of supplies. They find a habitable planet nearby and need to find the most likely place for supplies. Dangerous and humorous interactions with the locals follow. Will they make it out in one piece and with what they need? SolBound is the first of the short adventures from the Mantis Saga series.

The Domestic Abuse: His Story, Husband Abuse, and Partner Abuse bundle.

Domestic Abuse - Parent Abuse, Children’s Story, Those Left Behind, Our Stories & More of Our Stories Bundle. These are stories about the friends and families who have lost loved ones. Some have been forced to leave their abuser by going into hiding. Others haven't been as lucky. These people that are left behind tell their heartbreaking stories of their losses and grief.

These are stories of those falsely accused of rape and/or sexual assault.

False claims can hurt a person mentally and financially. False accusations can destroy lives. Shock, withdrawal, and panic are different stages of being falsely accused of rape. They may lose their sense of self-worth, their respect, their friends, their partner, and their freedom. They may experience high anxiety levels, severe depression, anxiety attacks, anger, be fearful, paranoid, suicidal, and PTSD. It is a horrible reality that people lie about being raped to get revenge or to hurt someone.

These are stories about women in abusive relationships. They tell us about what actually went on inside their homes. Some have survived by going into hiding, finding out our legal system doesn’t work, and others didn’t make it out alive. A few have been helped through the legal system. These stories are all too real for a lot of women, seeing them as their stories.

This is an issue that is rarely addressed. I wanted parents to hear from other parents going through similar things. You are not alone.

These are stories about junior high school and high school girls being sexually harassed, sexually assaulted, and raped. These girls were forced to live with the shame and the embarrassment. These girls had to deal with the aftereffects of mental, emotional, physical abuse caused by these boys. These boys were able to move forward, get married, and have families, while these girls had to find ways to deal with it and cope. Do the boys who committed these crimes ever think about what they did to someone's daughter while they look at their daughters?