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Caleb Hanson assumed the most exciting part of his field trip scouting in Northern Minnesota would be a rare bird sighting. Instead, he was abducted by hive-minded hexapods and forced to be their children's teacher. Not the worst way to ride out the end of the world. Two years later, the apocalypse has finally come for Caleb. His savior-captors are murdered, leaving him as the last line of defense for the alien kids he's grown to know and love. Now, he'll have to bend his values or watch his students die.

When I entered this competition, I never thought there would be so much at stake. Not only is my poor little battered heart on the line, but so is my life. As the dreaded family visits continue, more devastating secrets are revealed. And one changes everything. I’m only just recovering from the shock when it’s time for another elimination, and this one proves to be the hardest of all. Broken and torn apart, I’m forced to move on to the worst part of this entire competition: introducing the remaining bachelors to my crazy family. This should go well…

Growing up in trailer trash hell, the carnival was my only happy memory as a child. I held onto the magic of that memory until I could finally escape. And like Alice down the rabbit hole, I entered a world beyond my wildest dreams. A world with a shiny, colorful exterior, but filled with rot and corruption underneath. But no matter what these people put me through, I can’t go back to my life before. The man with the biggest secret is the only one I can trust. He’s dangerous, but he’s safety to me. He’s broken, but he put me back together.

Homeless and nearly destitute, I find myself standing on stage in a brothel, where I'm sold to the highest bidder. The winner, a massive half-orc named Knot Thazurok, happens to be a former priest and a former love interest of mine, but I soon discover he expects to get his money's worth. After the male's dominant claiming leaves me breathless, he shocks me with a marriage proposal, which I promptly decline. A fallen maiden has no business becoming a priest's wife, and besides, I have plans to leave the island far behind one day.

Malibu Washington (yes, that’s her real name!) is an R&B singer turned influencer with a voice that will bring you to your knees and a face made for magazine covers. She survived a messy divorce from Tyrese—her first love, father of her son, the man who made her famous, and the one who broke her heart. Now she’s engaged to Jaylen, a man who promised her forever.

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.

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.

Joshua Bennet needs some answers. After growing up with impossible stories about the undead, the young African American journalist receives a large and unexpected inheritance after his father’s suspicious death. Curious about his dad’s tall tales, he quits his hated newspaper job and sets off to unearth the terrifying truth.

In a world where nothing is ever as it seems, the seeds of love take root on the precipice of chaos, danger, and a great destiny. In the shadow of an ancient prophecy, two individuals will be drawn together to meet a dangerous calling--or die trying.

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.