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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.

I moved to Florida to leave behind the old Jamie Flynn and the small town that fostered all her insecurities and self-hatred of being a plus sized woman. I needed a fresh start. Somewhere not tainted by faulty memories. Somewhere I could focus on myself and all the things I wanted to achieve. But when a couple of drunk idiots left my painstakingly crafted confidence shattered, I ran out into the night so fast I didn’t even stop to thank the sexy stranger that defended me.

What if you woke up alone in a different galaxy with superhuman abilities and post-traumatic amnesia during a galactic war? In the near future, twelve-year-old Conor Hawk wakes up on an advanced planet, in the palace of a charismatic military leader just before vicious alien warriors attack. Conor departs for the Academy to train in the fight for survival against the fearsome Kravii, but he isn't just honing his combat skills as he encounters strange species, mythical weapons, colossal ships, and danger around every curious corner

Being restrained isn't what anyone wants. Not emotionally, anyway. But Elliott is shackled by guilt. ensnared by grief, tethered by dark and taboo secrets, and immured by wicked desires. But Jonah is the only man who has been able to rid her of the emotional ropes she's wrapped herself up in. After learning about Jonah's responsibilities, though, she becomes convinced that he is caged by expectation and constrained by belief.

Only one thing keeps me from turning this world into a nightmare...and that's the angel of a woman I've fallen in love with. Her purity and beauty are the only things that soothe my tortured soul. The world fears me. It doesn't matter if you're a human, orc, or dark elf—you shrink away in terror when I come into view.

She was a forced sin servant praying for death. Until the day she decided to run—right into my arms. One touch, and I know she's mine. One taste, and I know she belongs to me. My good little human will only truly be free when she's on my tight leash.

In The Hard Choices we reconnect with Chicago Rudeboy Steve Andersen, utterly exhausted from working three jobs while sacrificing his schooling and future to protect his sister Luna and brother Matt from the hands of their estranged father, Mike. Meanwhile, things seem to be looking up for Sammy as his relationship with fellow Metalhead, Tiffany, begins to bloom and a shaky friendship with Luna develops.

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.

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.

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.

The invading alien Astrals have been stopped in their tracks, humanity's warring political factions have been consolidated under a semi-united Earth Federation government, and the lag time between Kari Skye and Drae Rache's Sympathetic Program exchanges has stretched to a week. All less than a month after they consummated their relationship on her father's Raider ship. Now, Space Force soldier Kari is deploying on a secret interstellar mission against the Astrals, with her bunkmate, Luna, in tow and her family close behind.

The super secret agency fights video game monsters that have leaked into the real world. Together, with an unhinged, talking spaceship sidekick, an agency that isn’t set up to work with child agents, and a war wagon chock-full of royally epic gear, Max and Zoe face an endless supply of video game baddies. And if that isn’t crazy enough, they discover secrets of their past, unraveling a mystery around their missing mother.

An inspirational memoir that takes the listener on an emotionally charged spiritual journey that begins with a single act of family violence and tragedy that forever changed a young African American boy's life. Resulting in the incarceration of a parent, the event left him in trauma and scarred him both physically and emotionally. Set against a backdrop of both the rural South, and the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia Scott shares the tragedy that rocked his family to the core, and his subsequent journey to overcome the betrayal.