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Earth, 2082. Operative Calvin Rae infiltrates an enemy space station to steal a revolutionary prototype on behalf of President White, Father of the Renaissance. But the Space Station Erasmus is infected with the alien parasite which has spread across Europe and now threatens the American Union’s 12 Sanctuary Cities.

Can Valrin save the one who saved him? Tossed by a storm into an island, they narrowly escape an attack by monstrous beasts when several strangers appearing wielding magic unlike no others upon the seas. It soon becomes obvious that these strangers are the only ones that can help them but it will not be so simple. Valrin will learn of evil beyond mere pirates but will he have the skill to save an entire race before it is too late?

Valrin was born of the sea, or so he was always told. Orphaned on a desolate island, he knows nothing of his true past and wonders of his future...until the unexpected arrival of a mysterious ship changes everything. For a fleeting moment, he feels like he might have an answer to everything and then his life is suddenly ripped apart. The one person that loved him is killed protecting him and a wanted sea-captain and his misfit crew become the only hope Valrin has. If he is to survive the coming darkness, he must learn who he truly is.

Arantxa thought her best friend was crazy to even think about applying to an alien matchmaking agency to find a husband. Samantha thinks it’s a great opportunity for them to escape their mundane lives and get husbands. She will even pay Arantxa's fee. She finally gets Arantxa to agree to a plan for them to only look for mates on the same planet. When Samantha finds her mate first, Arantxa convinces her she should go ahead and meet him. With Samantha gone, Arantxa decides to take a chance on a man named Biurk from the same planet. Things start to go haywire from there.

Herman's busy crawling up out of the underclass, and he can't relax. He's on a knife edge - one false move and the man will send back down into the depths. Then, he gets a break. Uncle Sonny, a psychopathic taxi driver, dies in prison, and Herman inherits his house and car. But Sonny's legacy proves to be poisonous, and Herman finds himself fighting to stop history from repeating itself.

Heroes of Normandy: The Untold Stories delivers seven action-packed combat stories. You will be taken behind enemy lines with a young Airborne soldier in the early morning hours of D-Day and then lead British troops forward as they discover the truest definition of heroism. You will also witness the same events through the eyes of retreating Germans and advancing Americans and might end up rooting for both sides to survive. You will experience a gritty assault against a stronghold in a German-held town, and learn the terrible secret hidden there.

Rory Quinn is a New York police officer who enjoys chasing women, drinking hard, and beating the crap out of bad guys. He's used to waking up with hangovers that leave most people curled around a toilet. But that all changes after one drunken night of revelry. Instead of a bathroom floor, he wakes up to find he's been dead for 500 years. And if that ain’t enough, the earth he knew is long gone. Zombies, cataclysmically evil robots, and techno-demons seem to be the least of his problems, as they all pale compared to his crazy immortal ex-wife!

Short stories with bittersweet themes that suggest horror, despair, and uncomfortable emotions. Featuring: Essel Pratt, Catt Dahman, Mark Woods, Brian Woods, Tabitha Baumander, D. A. Roberts, Amanda Lyons, TL Decay, Sharon Higa (editor’s choice award), Dona Fox, Michael Kanuckel, Nick Hatfield, Sam Reese, Shaun Meeks, Edward P. Cardillo, Richard Ramsey, Roy C. Booth, Axel Kohagen, Christina Engela, Justin Hunter, and Kerry Lipp.

A perfect stranger comes to town and wants to be friends with Rocket. Somehow, this girl seems to know Rocket’s reputation quite well yet they have never met. She seems okay on the outside but Rocket senses something sneaky and mysterious deep inside. Spit and Abigail, Rocket’s two best friends, insist that this girl named Cricket is out to crush her reputation, but Rocket just can’t believe that anyone would do such a thing.

For countless generations, the inhabitants of the village named Elnubrium have passed down one rule: Never enter the forest that surrounds them. Hidden deep beyond its borders is a world full of secrets and wonders to behold, but also death to those that don't belong. However, the village is slowly dying; blocked by impassable mountains and the ancient forest, there isn't enough room to provide for people of Elnubrium. If something isn't done soon, drastic measures will be taken to preserve the current way of life in the village.

Rocket McKenzie is an amazing skateboarder, but she skates alone most of the time because the boy's from her school don't skate with girls. While heading to practice at the beach, five popular boys from school watch as Rocket flies off course and crashes into a man's sandcastle. The boys tell her to stay on the beginner's course and out of their way. Never mind that it was the only way she could avoid smashing into a young boy that had run into her path and never mind that she'd just completed seven huge jumps on the cities steepest hill.

The audiobook includes 13 poems about resurrection and clockwork.

Bowman Rafferty was forgiven for what he considered to be a heinous act: the killing of Armandus. However, he never forgave himself for the misdeed, accepting the tragedies in his life as payback for his offense in the bitter cold and foggy forests of the Ardennes. Later, his precious wife and son gave him solace, offering balm for the festering wound in his heart. But they would leave him. He wandered alone in this world, searching for relief from his misery, and his journey led him to the Belgian Congo, where he was befriended and loved by Catrin.

After getting bitten by a squirrel in the park, Bob’s life takes a dramatic turn for the worse as people begin to die around him. The police believe these deaths are just unfortunate accidents, but Bob questions the police findings. Are they just accidents or are squirrels killing people and if so, is this the start of something bigger?

My name is Harley. I was thrown away when I was a child. But I was found by angels that folded me in their wings and delivered me to a safe place. It wasn’t heaven; it was imperfect in ways that mere mortals are apt to gaum things up, but it was close to paradise, especially for a young ‘un, with creeks to swim, hollows, cool, deep woods to explore, and hillsides on which to lay down in the sun, surrounded by fields of wildflowers and the whisper of the wind in the long, waving grass.

Allison Dane and her friends take a journey to Europe for a graduation ski trip. With so much scenery and the beautiful mountains surrounding the little town they visit, it is no wonder the enchantment of this snowy paradise mesmerizes them. Now, abducted and tortured, what should be a lasting memory becomes a nightmare fight to survive. Her struggle to live is just the beginning. Her tormentor has sinister plans for her. Will she become another victim for Abdul Ahab?

When a photographic retoucher is commissioned to fix the abnormalities on a Great War portrait, he finds his own past and that of the subject beginning to connect. Are his personal nightmares returning, or is it something more? A short ghost story in the M.R. James tradition, "The Last Photograph of John Buckley" is a dark tale of past crimes and unfinished business.

Harry Cunningham often likened bad luck to “a starving dog that followed him everywhere, eager to lap up his misery”. He was correct. Since childhood he was dogged by bad, even disastrous luck. Unbeknownst to him, there were guardians posted along the treacherous road he travelled, from the peanut fields of Georgia, to the jungles of Colombia, to the Arabian gulf, Texas, Mexico, and to the vast prairie of Illinois.

During the embryonic years of this nation, Indigo Island was cultivated with plantations and populated with slaves brought from West Africa to work them. Needless to say, life was hard for the slaves, but because of the remoteness of the sea island, they were allowed to keep much of their West African culture alive and devise an exclusive way of communicating - a patois of their own called "Gullah Gee Chee".

There were two certainties for the residents of Bilurn. One, that Mitch Stone was the biggest, baddest bully that’s ever graced the halls of any middle school...ever. And two, that the Cleveland House was as haunted a house as you’ll find. Nobody needed to prove these facts to Jon Evans, age 13, but he ended up finding out just how true both of them were, anyways.