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The end of life as we knew it didn’t come with a nuclear blast of light. It didn’t come with the deadly impact of a hurdling asteroid. No. It came in a wave of illness that swept the world with fear. With all the humans in quarantine, quiet settled over the planet for months. Beasts hidden away for millennia ventured out of their buried caverns to investigate the sudden stillness.

My name is Belle, and I was looking forward to finding my mate at the annual Shifter’s Ball. Unfortunately, my petty side had to strike out at a homely patron who was not dressed for a ball. She looked more like the one hired to pick up after the horses. And I said so, loudly, as my friends snickered at my dark wit.

Everyone thinks the Kringles only work in toy making. Nope. I slay monsters. But when Christmas rolls around, I protect Santa’s sleigh. So, technically, on Christmas Eve, I’m his little helper.

A story of perseverance, the will to fight and never give up, and living with a purpose and calling.

There are three rules all genies must obey: No killing. No raising the dead. And above all else, never fall in love. When Ali comes to me with an impossible wish, I must decide whether to follow the rules, or break them and be banished to my lamp forever.

Obsession puts Lilith within the grasp of immortality, but the price for living forever creates a different, much darker fixation.

The American Revolution was not only a political contest for liberty, equality, and independence (for white men, at least); it was also a contest to define certain accounts of reality to be truthful while defining others as false and dangerous. Misinformation Nation argues that we must also conceive of the American Revolution as a series of misperceptions, misunderstandings, and uninformed overreactions.

Across a thousand battlefields and a million wars, there is always a question. What do you do when all the chips are on the table? Do you run? Try to find salvation in the arms of an easy peace? Or do you stand and fight? Send your enemies into whatever hole they crawled out of? On Deadly Ground has 10 stories handling that exact question. Each character faces the impossible in different ways, but all will be tested before the day is done. Can they earn a heroic victory amongst the endless eternity of space, or are they doomed to fall into obscurity?

Decidido a darles una vida mejor a su mujer y a sus hijos, Ivan Pritchard se adentra en los confines del espacio conocido junto con los astro-mineros de la nave Mad Astra. Está preparado para realizar los trabajos más duros y soportar la soledad, pero no para afrontar lo inimaginable. Tras entrar en contacto con una misteriosa sustancia alienígena, Pritchard descubre que comparte su mente con otra entidad mientras va sufriendo una perturbadora transformación física. Con su propia humanidad en juego, deberá salvar la Tierra de una guerra interestelar a gran escala.

Los sorprendentes resultados de un experimento sobre el principio cuántico de la incertidumbre llevan al estudiante Bill Rustad y a sus colegas a crear un portal interdimensional por accidente. Encuentran "el otro lado": una Tierra alternativa con similitudes geológicas a la nuestra en la que los humanos jamás pudieron evolucionar. El grupo de amigos se concentra en asegurarse el control del portal antes de que el Gobierno, el Ejército o cualquier lunático se lo robe.

Decidido a darles una vida mejor a su mujer y sus hijos, Ivan Pritchard se adentra en los confines del espacio conocido junto con los astromineros de la nave Mad Astra. Está preparado para realizar los trabajos más duros y soportar la soledad, pero no para afrontar lo inimaginable. Tras entrar en contacto con una misteriosa sustancia alienígena, Pritchard descubre que comparte su mente con otra entidad mientras va sufriendo una perturbadora transformación física. Con su propia humanidad en juego, deberá salvar la Tierra de una guerra interestelar a gran escala.

The "Windwalker" serial killer stalks the inlets of Southern Maine for the next beauty to advance his collection, and Special Agent Steve Williams is frustrated with always being a breath behind the slippery psychopath. Escalating the pressure, Steve’s adopted sons, CJ and Tom Ryan, take teenage rebellion to an entirely new level, leaving Steve in an explosive situation.

Assistant DA Carolyn Hastings has an uncanny knack for putting away criminals. With one of the best prosecution records in recent history, her future as Manhattan’s next district attorney looks certain. But her sixth sense for winning cases threatens to work against her when she starts seeing a string of murders through the eyes of the killer. With suspects piling up as fast as bodies, and the motives of those closest to her questionable, Carolyn doesn’t know who to trust.

Special Agent Steve Williams, still reeling from the death of Chris Ryan and his unexpected inheritance, isn’t ready to step back into the line of fire. Relations with his wife are strained at best, and now he’s saddled with a new partner and a not so silent guardian angel. When his boss calls with news of another case, a serial killer in Atlanta targeting children, it strikes a nerve in Steve.

Go behind the book with authors Katie Salidas and J.E. Taylor, as they give you an inside look at all aspects of the publishing industry. Meet the authors working their way to the top of the slush piles, and see what it takes to bring a story from idea to print.

Bien décidé à offrir une vie meilleure à sa femme et ses enfants, Ivan Pritchard s'aventure aux confins de l'univers connu en s'enrôlant comme mineur d'astéroïde dans l'équipage du Mad Astra. Il s'attend à une épreuve faite de dur labeur et de solitude... mais certainement pas à se confronter à l'impensable. À la suite de son contact avec une mystérieuse substance extraterrestre, Pritchard subit une troublante mutation physique, ainsi que l'intrusion d'une entité dans son esprit.

When Kyle Winslow escapes from custody and targets everyone Special Agent Steve Williams cares about, a turn of fate brings Steve face to face with Ty Ari - a criminal mastermind topping the FBI’s most wanted list. Torn between justice and vengeance, Steve must make a decision. Join alliances with Ty, or arrest him and lose his best chance to catch the bastard who destroyed his family.

Living large in New York City as a corporate lawyer for the most savvy drug lord on the East Coast, Special Agent Steve Williams carefully plots Charlie Wisnowski's downfall. His plans go to hell when his wife Jennifer survives an attack by a serial killer.

Will dragon’s blood be enough to save the kingdom? Long, long ago, a princess was born into the Kingdom of Light. She was said to be the most beautiful baby in all the world, and her tears turned into the morning dew. The king named her Aurora after the goddess of sunrise. Royals came from far and wide to honor her birth, but one guest was not there to celebrate. When it was her turn to present a gift, the dragon queen offered something much darker.

A sadistic killer stalks the secluded college town of Brooksfield, New Hampshire. With bodies piling up and rumors of the murders being part of sacrificial hazing rituals, the FBI plants Special Agent Steve Williams in a fraternity at Brooksfield University. His investigation takes a 90 degree turn into the bizarre when he’s introduced to Jennifer, a clairvoyant coed who swears the killer isn’t human.