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Hunter thought he lost his pack for good, but his brothers have reappeared. The pups are overjoyed at seeing their uncles again, and we’re all relieved to know some of his pack members survived. The only problem? His brothers hate humans. Which only adds to my confusion when I hear they have a shaman like me.

The hardest part of being ringmistress? Juggling my feelings for three men. Connor, my stubborn protector always battling his demons. Hunter, the dashing wolf shifter who sends my heart into overdrive. And Razvan, the dragon I wish I could stop thinking about.

Every burn on his paws, every poke and prod from his cruel masters, I feel as if it were my own. I also feel his anger and his thirst for blood. He’s even more of a predator than Hunter or Razvan. There’s a danger about this tiger shifter I’ve never experienced before. But the road leading to his rescue takes a detour to my past.

Something is watching me. I can’t tell if it wants to hurt or protect me. Is the howling at night real or is my mind playing tricks on me? What about the flashes of white fur I see out of the corners of my eyes? And who is the beautiful, pale man haunting my dreams? As carnival performers, it’s always on to the next show. A tattooed sword swallower with an affinity for fire has gotten me all fired up. Connor not only doesn’t mind, but he’s encouraging the sparks to fly. My heart’s being pulled in multiple directions and somehow it actually feels right.

Two months after her eighteenth birthday, scrappy Hikari Skye is ready to leave her ramshackle mobile home on Earth for icy dwarf planet Ceres and the underground bases that house Space Force. She's trading her dingy trailer park; her baby sister, Bea; and her best friend, Rho, for the excitement of the Proxy Wars and the freedom of the galactic front lines—where her father once deserted his own platoon. And the most appealing part? She's leaving behind Draeden Rache, the cocky, privileged bully who tried to kiss her last year.

Habitual cheater Xavier Richardson likes his women naive, subservient, and plus-size. Hope Richardson, his wife of five months, is all of the above, in addition to being a homebody who's self-conscious about her weight; something Xavier takes full advantage of.

They fear him because they can’t control him. When an ancient vampire tied to a forgotten god performs a forbidden ritual, the world of the undead fractures. Styles’s act of defiance sends shockwaves through the supernatural realm, awakening powers long thought buried and forcing the Vampire Council to confront a threat they can no longer ignore. To some, Styles is a savior—a chance to reclaim their true strength. To others, he is a harbinger of destruction, a force that could unmake everything they’ve built.

ATF Special Agent Cooper “Coop” Bellamy's rigid adherence to rules has left his relationship with his 11-year-old daughter in ashes. When Charleston's fire chief calls him to investigate a series of mysterious nuisance fires ravaging the city, Coop sees a chance to redeem himself as a father and catch a dangerous arsonist. But as the fires turn deadly, he finds himself torn between family and duty.

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.

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?

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.