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The bionic bots that roamed the danger zones cowered before my biomancy, yet the real threat was a little more human. See, the beautiful poltergeist haunting my mind created a real-life, legally distinct mimic monster, and now it wasn’t just the fabric of reality I had to contend with—it was lawsuits from its parent company, run by a smoking-hot boss lady. Between that, a cute secret agent on the run (partly my fault), and the boss of Steelheart gunning for my shop (mostly my fault), I really had my hands full.

It started out just like any other job, stealing an artifact of unknown origin for a beautiful client. Turns out, that client was literally not of this world, and the artifact was the key to the kind of life I'd only seen on the screen.

The Swarm is mortal. Ethan, with the help of his Harmonics, destroyed one outbreak and harvested its power. The problem? Ethan wasn’t Earth’s first Phase Titan, and his predecessors did him no favors by scattering the Titan armaments.

Clues come thick and fast as Daniel attempts to unravel a plot that spans ten thousand years. With his stone secured, a gorgeous dwarf comes to his stronghold with a proposal he finds impossible to refuse. But other problems are gathering on his horizon, and the meddling of the Gods is beginning to frustrate him at every turn. People aren’t who they seem. Worse, time is running out.

With the wood to build his stronghold secured, Daniel turns his eye to the Stormbane Mountains and an unlikely partnership with the Annuck goblins. But will Tanaka, a beautiful goblin female, be willing to do business with him? He needs her stone, but more than that, he needs access to stop the Grey Sorceress’s curse and reverse the blight of the elves. To get both, and capture Tanaka’s heart, he must take on the hobgoblins of Treygorvo in a do or die battle.

The Phase Titan now has six Harmonics, but Ethan is just one man with no way to wipeout the worldwide infestation. Moonshot experiments risk unintended consequences. Worse, an alien fleet prepares to turn Earth into a radioactive wasteland—not to stop the Swarm, but to prevent Ethan from gaining more power. Faced with two converging apocalypses, Ethan and his Harmonics will need brains, brawn, and all the Psy they can get their hands on. The question is if they can handle it.

Healer Sean Danet is immortal - a fact he has cloaked for centuries, behind enemy lines and now a paramedic’s uniform. Having forgotten most of his distant past, he has finally found peace - and love. But there are some things you cannot escape, however much distance you put behind you.

The first of upcoming new author J.P. Willie's horror novels, Blood in the Woods is based upon disturbing real-life events that took place in 1990s Louisiana. For Jody, growing up in the late '80s and early '90s in the small Louisiana town of Hammond with his best friend Jack was filled with wonderful childhood memories.

Here’s a little secret: Reality is insane. A death cult led by a box of Kraft mac and cheese. The Bermuda Triangle. Lizard people walking among us. When every conspiracy theory, urban legend, and fever-dream headline is true, someone has to keep it all cataloged, contained, and out of sight. That someone is the Bureau of the Bizarre. John Doe always thought his paranoid father was crazy, then the crazy showed up on his doorstep with a job offer. Now, he’s a Collector for the Bureau, partnered with Edith Sinner, a metanatural vampire with a murder glare and a past that refuses to stay buried.

Junie never felt good enough to be the high school hockey star's girl, especially when she caught him kissing her best friend. Or she could have been kissing him. But did it matter? He was the hottest guy in town and he'd be the hottest guy in college and then the NHL eventually. It was inevitable that he'd find someone better than her, so she ran away.

When Andrew meets Beth at the Myles-Bend State Mental Hospital, he knows she has issues. She checked herself into the place because of her problems, but he can’t help falling in love with her anyway. He’s willing to put up with her constant mood swings and all the baggage she brings into the relationship. He’ll help raise her kids, give her siblings a place to stay, and even look after her creepy grandfather. After all, he has the space in the huge house left to him by his parents.

After narrowly escaping certain death, James, Claire, and Beth have taken refuge in his luxurious mansion. Their goals are simple: fortify his mountainside home into a base of operations and, with some luck, survive. Fortunately for him, he has two beautiful women to help.

The Grim, the post-mortem chaperone who collected me, is the crankiest Death in the greater Kansas City area. Understandable, since her job is to bag the souls of the worthless and rotten. Apparently I'm so crummy they made me her apprentice. There are so many other kinds of Death, and of all of them, I get lassoed to Miss Buzzkill, who loves to remind me I'm hers with her big green gargoyle finger, pointing and giving me her spooky come-hither. As the Grim's new involuntary Lackey, some of the rules are easy.

Despite doing everything in his power to overcome the association with his father, his job at the NSA was shrouded by suspicious looks and doubt. When his mother is killed, he flees the US and takes a job with Eidolon, working as the communications lifeline for the team. For the first time, he’s found a purpose and a brotherhood that fills the empty corners of his life. Yet, he still yearns to uncover the truth about his mother’s death, and his father’s part in it.

When a wealthy and gorgeous woman asks PI Frank Orpheus to find her missing identity, he just can't say no - even if the case leads him into a criminal underworld more horrific than anything he ever imagined. Private detective Frank Orpheus, searching for a mysterious woman’s missing identity, finds himself entangled in a web of underworld characters far nastier than any he’s ever met.

In a world of angels, demons, vampires, shifters, and magic, Alec, a regular mortal is thrust into a world that’s been hidden to every race but witches. With nothing more than his wits and an old book, Alec volunteers himself to help Celadon, a stranger he found injured in an alley, complete her Blood Trials. The three trials set Alec and Cel on a mission of death, secrets, and blood. Will they make it out alive or fall victim to whoever has the hidden agenda of the missions they’ve been set on?

Even on a world where everyone lives forever and abilities are god-like, there's always one who struggles to keep up. His name is Bernie. More than anything, young Bernie wants to be a great universe builder like his father. In school he learned to build suns and planets and to create life. When he gets the chance to build his own universe, Bernie finds it full of problems: mysterious asteroids, unexplained volcanoes, and shifting continents, all threatening to destroy his beautiful planet.

Mark Peter - middle-aged, soft belly, weed wacker haircut - likes the quiet life. Any day spent indoors eating frozen pizzas, painting RPG figures in the basement, and feeding his scruffy cat is a good day. The problem is the outside world. When Mark touches certain things, he draws. Sometimes, it’s a little boy lost in the woods and sometimes, a throw pillow held tight against a grandmother’s face as she scratches at gloved hands.

Satanic panic, a mass hysteria created in the 1980s, has returned to a small college town in the Midwest. Ritualistic murders and the presence of the occult have bled below the surface of the town in the form of icy accidents and other coincidences. And when three lifelong friends find themselves on the radar of a killer - and leader of a satanic cult - they must fight for what's good without being seduced by the evil that possesses their campus.

Something is listening to the prayers of St. Paul’s United Church, but it’s not the god they asked for; it’s something much, much older. A quiet Sunday service turns into a living hell when this ancient entity descends upon the house of worship and claims the congregation for its own.