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Stories include: Chocolate - Chocolate can kill a dog. That gave Weston an idea. Butter Pecan - It's been a long time since Iris indulged in her favorite flavor. Pistachio - Mr. Finchner swore he had to eat pistachio ice cream every day...or else.

The end of the world arrives while a massive blizzard hits the city of Colorado Springs. During the storm, people begin losing their minds. These people instantly become giddy killers who laugh while they murder. Every fiendish assault on normal people is hilarious, every death a cause for hysterics. No one is safe from them. They hunt the young and old alike. They soon become known as the laughers. Ember and her family don’t know any of this yet.

"From an underground bomb shelter, Andrea Johns has been watching the apocalypse play out through live feeds from around the world. A tsunami hitting the Rockies, tornadoes in the Andes, lava filling the Grand Canyon, earthquakes in Paris—the world is literally being wiped out one natural disaster at a time. And it’s only a matter of time before every living being is wiped out with it.

An American soldier's life spirals out of control after he makes a fateful discovery on the Korean DMZ and then falls in love with a beautiful brothel courtesan whose tragic past becomes entwined in a volatile confrontation with Communist North Korea. It's the 1960s, the Vietnam conflict is raging, and a delicate Korean armistice threatens to fall apart at the world's most dangerous border, pushing the US toward the brink of another war in Asia. With his life in danger, GI Eddie Profar must decide if he should reveal his startling secret, which has already caused the deaths of two people.

Betrayed and left for dead, Lash reemerges the victor, edging ever upward in the Assassin’s Ranking, and catching the eye of the sultry nightclub singer Cassandra Nile. Drawn into drugs by Cassie, Lash begins to doubt himself, yearning to leave his life of violence, even as enemies close in from every side.

Still mourning the recent events that changed their lives, the remaining survivors search for the strength to move on. But, the storms of the past often linger. When a new wolf attacks and an FBI Agent starts snooping around, they will have to put aside their pain to protect the people that matter most. Between old friends and new foes, they must stop at nothing to find the justice they seek before the spirit of Blue Ridge is lost forever.

One specific patient opens up his eyes to another mindset that he didn't know existed—there are gay men who refuse to top. Dr. Cage dives right into this lifestyle to help these men figure out what it is about topping that they don't like, and even performs some exercises to help them out. Will these men change their minds and decide to stick the pole in the hole? As always, Dr. Cage vows to help them figure it out, no matter what he has to do...

CEO Debbie and demon Shaker’s first year of partnership was a smashing success for both Pandora Productions and their own new intimate relationship, ending with the announcement of their engagement last New Year’s Eve. Shaker now inhabits a human host, Pandora’s rising action star Jett Black, putting the possibility of a family within Debbie’s tentative grasp as the couple pledges their love at the altar.

When the head of a hovercycle club inexplicably calls in news of his own murder, Detective Simon Grave and his team are drawn in to Crab Cove's hovercycle underworld, a world of loyalty, betrayal, greed, and-yes-irony. As if murder weren't enough, the bombing of an election debate stage has the mayor pressing for a quick resolution to both crimes. It becomes increasingly clear that the crimes are connected, and that the solution will require the unraveling of an elaborate criminal scheme-and more.

For Commander Roland horn, he finds his special operations squadron put to use in increasingly dangerous operations. Most of the Union Fleet outside the Mars Sphere is held up in the Avalonian space fortress Trafalger. High command would have left the fortress at the whims of a simple blockade were Trafalger not running cover for Union convoys to the outer solar system. Convoys that don't seem to return.

Faced with losing Pandora Productions as well as her best friend Rebecca to the smarmy Paul, savvy film executive Debbie makes a pact with the demon Shaker, agreeing to bind herself to him as his human master in return for killing Paul and securing Pandora’s future. Yet even as Pandora gains accolades and renown, Debbie’s strong resolve begins to crumble under the weight of her actions. And the pleasure she finds in Shaker’s arms is becoming more than sex. Is Debbie doomed to lose her heart as well as her soul to a demon who has only been waiting for the chance to claim both?

Twenty years ago, Madison, a skilled auto accident investigator, had her life changed forever when a terrible car crash with a wolf-like creature took the lives of her husband and son. After another incident occurs in the present day, under suspiciously similar conditions, she must fight through her depressive isolation and seek to uncover the truth of the past.

Baron is a man from nowhere in a land that has forgotten its name where the dead walk. After killing a strange man in cold blood, Baron finds himself imprisoned-- and inextricably tied to an even stranger woman, Thalia. Thalia harbors a terrible secret. The daughter of immortal scientists, she knows that the zombie outbreak is cyclical; those infected will live again, and generations later, a new outbreak will run its course. And she alone might hold the key to ending the vicious cycle once and for all.

Boothe lives life on the road, traveling wherever he’s needed to cleanse the area, never knowing where that may be. He’s an exorciser, blessed by the church and trained to remove demons who have possessed humans. He didn’t know taking a break in a small-town bar would change his life forever. Lady Parr, a bartender at Brewski’s, has seen her fair share of belligerent customers. When one is particularly difficult, a tattooed, bearded stranger steps in to help.

Wanting to wind down after a week-long seminar, U.S. Federal Marshal Stokker Teague finds himself in a hotel bar with plans to celebrate with a few drinks. Seeing a cute female sitting alone a few tables away, he’s interested and decides to make his move to see if she’ll bite. He’s got some time to kill before his flight home in a couple of days, so why not? Diane takes the bait, but their one-night stand ends up being so much more than either of them expected.

Presenting six stories involving science and its interaction with the human psyche. Included are elements of mystery, horror, whimsy, fantasy, touches of romance, and some technology run amuck. From the story of a group of elder humans hoping to ride to the stars, an AI system taking its programming too literally, and a young woman who can really take charge, to a story that will have you watching the night sky in case an ovoid spaceship appears, each story stretches reality beyond the norm and shows how our qualities as humans have to take charge.

Two years ago, Sheriff Jim Burch saved Harper’s Landing, but the once-tranquil town seems to attract trouble. The forest that surrounds Harper’s Landing is no longer safe. Death lurks behind every bush; young people, picnickers, and fishermen are brutally murdered by an unknown assailant. While Jim Burch and his deputies scour the walking paths and hideaways, danger creeps out of the forest, headed for the Grove and the families that live there.

A Navy SEAL for ten years, Bishop has seen a lot of fighting and bloodshed. On leave, he's ready for something good and sweet in his life. He's dedicated to his country but Angel, a pretty kindergarten teacher, makes him wonder if there's room for more in his life than just war. Will she be his salvation?

Shortly after the discovery of a mysterious book of witchcraft spells in her home, Carmella unknowingly invites something sinister into her world, a long-deceased Navajo skinwalker, and this skinwalker wants to walk the Earth in human flesh again. The witch's faithful servant follows each step that Carmella takes as he serves his Mistress.

Disinherited and poverty stricken, bastard Danial clutches at the slim chance to earn a living as a guard, until a night attack leaves both he and his half-brother Devlin vampires. After finding true love with the aristocrat Lacey, Danial comes to the attention of James, the Vampire Lord of France. Enslaved by James, his love murdered, Danial plots to escape, his complex plan of years finally succeeding only to result in all of Europe's demonic forces on the hunt for him.