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I arrived in this world with no knowledge of my past other than that I'd been given a mission by Father Time. He granted me first stage powers in his art: slowing and speeding. These powers helped me complete the first part of my mission alongside a beautiful butcher with blood magic. But there's more to do in this world. First, I must save Danielle, a powerful player in this world who wields destruction magic. Then, it's gathering as many allies as we can before the Destruction Maiden's previous boss claims her back.

When a flash flood hits Marywill, the entire town is half-buried in water. My bookshop included. Thankfully, I managed to transport the occult tomes to a safe location at the local college for witches. The college, however, requires repairs that the witches don't have the money for.

Dropped into a world without memories, I’ve found myself teaming up with a beautiful butcher with a penchant for blood magic. I wasn’t sure about her at first, but she’s starting to rub off on me. It’s a good thing we’re starting to see eye to eye, because this world is filled with danger at every turn. And it’s all thanks to the gods. These divine troublemakers are choosing select individuals to wield incredible power, all for the sake of their entertainment.

This festive charity anthology has short stories from a variety of authors, including international bestsellers and award-winning writers. There’s something for everyone, with tales that will make you laugh, make you cry, or make you sleep with the light on. It’s the perfect book to curl up with on a cold winter’s night.

Bad leadership destroys organizations. How long before well meaning but terrible leadership destroys yours? If your COO or CEO had the time to be your mentor, they'd be telling you not to waste your time on what doesn't work. This book is a light, practical look at leadership and the ways you can identify and avoid ineffective behaviors.

A trio of cousins researching a family history project encounter a leprechaun who gives them a badge to a Magical Mousegate. The Mousegate is in Walt Disney World, and will transport them to an Old West Secret Service counterfeiting case. The trio are embedded in the consciousness of the three main characters in the book and follow the case from beginning to end, while experiencing life through their character's eyes, heart, and mind.

A sweltering heat wave strikes the Smoky Mountains and combines with cold cases of murder, producing work Sheriff Tony Abernathy doesn't want. He discovers evil in his little county. No one is safe. As he and his tiny force dig into the facts, the pieces don't fit. Lawn ornaments vanish each night. An anonymous person mails Tony notes and newspaper clippings about people who vanished twenty years ago. Baffled, Tony finds himself pulled in many directions, including Ohio, searching for answers.

Murder arrives in the Smoky Mountains along with the earliest flowers of spring. A snake-handling preacher is murdered with his own snakes. Tennessee Sheriff Tony Abernathy is happiest when his job doesn't require more than minimal work and searching for a killer makes him very busy. Soon, he and his wife, Theo, are embroiled in separate investigations. Tony must deal with reclusive, criminal and just plain peculiar residents.

Elliot Vail is a floundering San Francisco stand-up comedian who will do anything for a cheap place to live. So when strange Edward Bockman offers him free rent in exchange for some odd dos and don'ts, Elliot thinks his luck is about to change. After all, despite Bockman's over-active imagination, head-to-toe Robin Hood costume and locked bedroom door, he seems nice enough.

A young married couple, with a five year old daughter and a baby boy on the way, set out on a shopping trip to an out of town mall. Just as they reach the mall an EMP blast knocks out every electronic device in sight including every cell phone, automobile, and every plane flying in the sky. Their only choice to reunite with their family is to embark on a long and desperate walk home. As the hordes of refugees pour out onto the highways, some seek to merely survive while others seek to profit amidst the chaos.

If you are desperate enough, terrified enough, there is a jazz club in the French Quarter of New Orleans where you might find help. Might. You might also find Rind, the Angelus of Death, already waiting for you. Meilori's is that kind of club. Its owner, Samuel McCord, is that kind of man. The man with the blood of Death in his veins, who finds some small measure of peace in easing the pains of others, though he cannot ease his own.

Against the backdrop of Katrina's aftermath, an agnostic jazz club owner and his best friend, a haunted priest, engage enemies in the shadows that challenge both their belief systems. But there are two things not in doubt: their deep friendship for one another and the dark threat given license to kill by the absence of the police.

We have thirty days to write, rehearse, and stage a theatrical adaptation of the Odyssey, people have been promised a show that will blow their minds, and the budget is gratis. With these words estranged friends from New York, Chicago, and San Francisco theaters descend on a small theater in Denver to try and save a kid's after-school program.

The women of The Homegrown Café Book Club are over 40, single, and loving it. Fate, however, has a different plan with a younger man for every last one of them.

Maauro has survived the terrors of the Barjan Deep. Armed with new information on her Creators, she sets out. Disaster strikes the hyperspace channel. Seachange is thrown into uncharted space. But they have not exited alone. A Thieves Guild ship, pursued by the Ederi, has also been flung free. Seachange must find somewhere to land but the unknown planet ahead, is circled by huge alien vessels. What awaits when they slip through the blockade to find the strange world which they have chanced upon? Maauro continues to recover from Wrik’s passing and to deepen her relationship with Dassa.

Maauro, Dassa, and the Seachange flee Mystic, having dealt a deathblow to the pirate haven, but at a terrible cost. Rasfel, organ-legged by those pirates, lies in frozen sleep aboard. Beyond hope, Maauro must find a way to resurrect the boy.

All I wanted on my day off was to get some new ink and see the pretty tattoo artist who had been flirting with me during my last few sessions. I definitely didn’t expect to get teleported to an fantasy world filled with berserker zombies, fairies, and shapeshifters that lived in futuristic cities while oppressing the other races. I also didn’t expect my tattoos to come to life. And since most of them are weapons, it seems I am uniquely suited to fight. This world has already had an apocalypse, but maybe it’s time to start a revolution.

The Sanctity of Whores is a bold exploration of sex work, politics, and agency by charlieshe. From deeply personal anecdotes to incisive commentary on laws, Charlie intertwines vulnerability and defiance.

The Galaxy is breaking up as the Confederation of Species fractures. Maauro and her new companion, Dassa, have reached their safe Inner Worlds and sold their fabulous cargo of gems, but restlessness plagues Maauro the AI. She seeks a greater purpose for her existence.

Maauro and Wrik face their greatest challenge. A new area of space is being devastated by an unknown force: colonies and ships are disappearing. They accept Shasti Rainhell’s commission to find out what has happened and search for a lost cruiser. The voyage reunites them with the deadly Olivia Croyzer of Confed Intelligence. No one can imagine what awaits them on the other end of the starjump.