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A security gaurd, a feisty elderly woman, a passive son, a deranged gunman and one tragic event. A short story about a single event told in four different perspectives.

Sectoraus saw his entire race nearly perish, before a seemingly divine being descended with the first rains and saved his people. Thandrua was worshiped as the Life-Bringer from the moment he first became conscious. Together, the two must weather the chaos of a rapidly changing landscape and bring the Serpenoids to a new world, their promised land.

Because society had failed to create an effective safeguard for these vulnerable beings, God called upon a meeting with Enoch, the archangels, the foreman of the spirit guides, and last but not least, Abel, beloved son of Adam and Eve. It was during this meeting that Abel pro-posed The Universal Law of Youth Protection. God was pleased with Abel, and so mandated what is now known as The Thirteenth Law. What happens when a terrifying loophole is discovered within the thirteenth universal law?

He could use a break. With his wife expecting and the undead rising, he’s not going to get one… Newly minted wizard and NYPD Detective Eddie Berman is burning the staff at both ends. Between his crime-fighting duties and the fast-approaching birth of his third child, he knows he’s staring down more sleepless nights. And when a drug bust exposes vampires attempting to fulfill a sinister prophecy, he’s in a race against time to stop them from raising the dead.

In a world where success is predominately measured by how much money we have in the bank, the size of our financial portfolio, and how prestigious our lives are, there have been great American Entrepreneurs who have chosen to take the path less traveled–to be truly compassionate and giving. They risked judgement, ridicule, and their fortunes; but in doing so they realized they could never out give God.

The Moonstomper series is a two-fisted, suited-and-booted tale that take the listener through Chicago’s dive bars, dark alleys, and smokey house-parties to deliver a curb-stomped world filled with Punks, Skins, Goths, Skaters and Metalheads. In Book 3, as dawn breaks across Chicago, Cheyenne, Joey Zion and Happy are tasked with completing a time-sensitive errand while Steve makes moves which may alter the course of his life and the lives of those around him.

Adam Eberhardt has always felt different, but he never would’ve guessed he was a clone of Albert Einstein. Science geeks don't usually live inside the body of a hulk. A brain that never shuts off can be a blessing or a curse, but Adam hasn’t felt many blessings during his sleepless nights, regular victims of his severe anxiety disorder. Weaving through harrowing childhood memories, science research, and self-doubt, he most enjoys spending his mind power thinking about his wunderkind fellow student, Margot. . .who remains oblivious to his interest.

Set within the fast, loud and sometimes violent world that was Chicago’s Hardcore Punk and Metal scenes of the mid-1980s, Moonstomper follows Steve Andersen, a Trojan Skin who does anything he can to protect his younger siblings Matt and Luna from the negative influence of their father and disgraced Chicago cop, Mike.

The sequel to Negus volume one, Negus II continues with another compilation of African-American science fiction. With memories of the planet Earth not too far behind, Huey's journey on the new planet of Negus resumes with Rosa and Kwame. Rosa discovers another phenomenon related to the decalcification of pineal glands. Previously introduced in book one and the stand-alone book, The Melanins continue as visitors from another planet trek to the United States.

Birth of a nation on steroids! Techno science fiction. A close roboticist friend of Dr.Overton uses nanotechnology to recreate Nat Turner and the slave uprising of 1831. The incident takes place in historical Southampton, Virginia, with the whole of mankind being at stake this time around....

When private detective Barney Little is kidnapped by two creeps trying to overthrow Hell, banished demon Samm is on the case! Tasked by Satan to stop the potential coup d'etat, with fellow demon Jude, witch-in-training Adesina, and a three-year-old kid who seems to be more than meets the eye, Samm will have to travel around the globe and beyond to solve his latest assignment. But first, he'll have to get his hands on the object everyone wants.

Years ago, a desperate widow was left an inheritance to kill for. Three organized crime families had to hide their assets, and their accountant had a desperate widow and limited time live, so he devised a way to steal their money. To his surprise, it worked. Eighty years later, the powerful families are in a war for their legacy, when they discover the widow's debt. Everyone on both sides of the law wants the money, but where do they look?

Almost a year has passed since the kidnapping and unlikely return of heiress Megan Whittmeyer. Now CEO of her family's company, Megan is dealing with the cleanup effort of its sordid past, while her rescuers try to move on and manage the everyday drama of their own lives. Before long, cryptic poems and the appearance of a strange man in black makes it apparent that their troubles with John Styles are not over...despite the small problem of him being dead.

With the Developers destroying any race they find a threat to their advancements, the Renegades must destroy them quickly or risk losing more civilizations. Bixom is back from behind enemy lines, and he knows the threat is even greater then he could have imagined. He is ready to wage war when he unexpectedly runs into his lifemate. How can he protect her in the midst of a battle he does not even understand himself?

The Splinter Galaxy, once believed to be nonexistent, now holds the fate of life in the universe. The phantom galaxy hidden within the Draco constellation is a system in conflict. See how the universe is affected when Earthlings are abducted to fight in the war of other worlds - only to find that wars never really end. Now, the peacekeepers create Bounty Hunters to aide in the disputes. Korbalus Gunson is one such Operative. The terminally brain-damaged gunslinger may be the missing key to unlock everyone’s desires. The only problem is he wants out.

A colored human Android device, Chad is also the first fully functional sentient Afro-American robot. It has a mission to assimilate into Afro-American culture and use its supplemental characteristics to improve and enhance. Welcome to the world of Chad! Chad will excite and thrill, opening up doors and the possibilities of Afro-Americans in the 21st century.

The war has taken a turn, and those the Renegade once thought were allies have turned out to be an even bigger threat than Golan. Brock wakes up on the Developer's warship after being dematerialized and mistaken for a Developer. He has no way to contact his team and no way of knowing where he is heading, and it is only a matter of time before he is discovered.

What happens when you cross Harry Potter with Douglas Adams? You get Little Idiots! Samm is a lower-class demon having the worst day of his millennia: banished from Hell, powers stripped from him, caught in the middle of a demon turf war, and an escaped soul is out for his blood. Satan has promised to allow him back into Hell; all he has to do is capture the soul and discover who helped it escape. The good news is he already knows who did it. The bad news is it’s him. Samm will have to wade through the middle of this if he ever wants to see Hell again.

It is 2005. The multi-billion dollar company, Whittmeyer Industries, is under threat of bankruptcy. The CEO and founder, Harry Whittmeyer, has been mysteriously murdered. His daughter and successor, Megan Whittmeyer, is kidnapped soon after.

The Robot and the Vampire tells a futuristic story of man and machine becoming more than most can imagine. The strange and seductive mix of robots, vampires, and mechanically enhanced humans result in emotional entanglements, weird romantic connections, and murderous retribution.