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My whole life, my mother told me I would never find love. So when my university’s hot, rich, starting quarterback asked me to marry him, this girl said yes. We had only been dating for two weeks. By the third week, he had shattered my heart. Maybe I shouldn’t have made a big deal about bringing him to the next family get-together. Luckily, there was one person who could always fix things when a guy left me in pieces: my best friend, Titus. He was my rock. That’s why I asked him to come home with me to pretend to be my fiancé.

Amber has emerged from the Cauldron of Rebirth, the first resurrection since Christ. The news of a new Dark Messiah spreads chaos and fear through the magical world, as the small harbor city of Portland prepares for doomsday to descend on the quiet harbors of Portland. With her human life dead and buried, Amber must find a new purpose in the second chance she has been given.The Heavenly Host and their army of the faithful will not rest until this dark new messiah is returned to the afterlife.

Griffin Everson and friends make it to the land of Kinstone, a magical world inhabited by only animals, real and mythical. In the days past, they lived in harmony within civilized kingdoms of forest, jungle, savanna, and winter lands. That is until Morreen spread her corruption. The sky smoulders in hues of orange and struck with the ever present veins of lightning. Fire consumes the trees like torches, sending ashes skyward to fall like snow. Creatures, once peaceful, now seek old primitive and unnatural ways of other worlds, putting evil at every corner with little refuge.

From kid horror master K.R. Alexander, the story of spirit that comes back to life... by taking your body. You've been warned -- if you summon a spirit, it may want to go back to being human... by living inside you. Another chilling tale from K.R. Alexander.

Kendal Seers might be a lot of things—weird, introverted, boyish-looking—but she’s not stupid. She doesn’t have to learn the same lesson twice. But, when her professor selects her as a counselor in an exclusive program mentoring troubled students, and is assigned the same set of broad shoulders and marble cheekbones, this time she can’t storm off. Why was Nero Roman, star running back, in a program for troubled students? Could it have to do with his small-town roots? Can Kendall lower her guard long enough to find out?

The players in Living Jade Empire grow as their adventures expand their experiences. The game is also expanding its experience and growing more complex. Danika explores new job opportunities and slowly admits to her own feelings. Relationships develop with time, and actions are taken that extend the time available for several of our players.

Xlina Dar’Karrow finds all her nightmare magic useless in mending her broken heart. As she struggles to cope with her loss, the wily necromancer Oxivius hatches a plan to steal Amber’s soul from the fires of hell. Bound to the demon Valeria; the journey provides Xlina a glimpse of her own hellish fate should she succumb to the vile succubus. Xlina soon finds herself facing the judgement of the Counsel of Magic as the forces of heaven and hell align to thwart her plans.

After a great deal of preparation, Danika begins her new digital dragon's life in a very small way. They say the "Living Jade Empire" creates individualized quests. They say it can read your mind. They say you can find your heart's desire. They say that there has never been a game like it, and they are right, but they are also wrong. The game is a data mine, built to retell the old tales that humans have been telling each other since language was invented.

Carla Bucchio never cared about things like boyfriends and SATs. If she did, maybe life at 20 would be more exciting than developing photos on Long Island. When she chooses the guitar over a social life, it only makes sense because no one talks to her anyway. Music may be Pete Albrecht's life but what good is his talent if he has no one to share it with? When he's not getting bitched about coffee at work, he's getting nagged about college by his girlfriend. What would they say if they really knew about him?

Xlina’s move to Portland, Maine was supposed to be the start of a new life. A normal life. One that didn’t involve her magical-duty-obsessed druid father or her own legacy as a descendant of the Baku: an ancient creature that consumes nightmares. But when the supposed social worker who pointed her toward Portland in the first place turns out to be not-so-human and puts a demon mark on Xlina’s soul, a normal life looks a lot less likely. To survive, she just might need to start listening to necromancer Oxivius, who wants her to embrace her power instead of running from it.

What is life to the full? Our souls long for a life that is full and flourishing, but so often it feels beyond our reach. Blinded by false rewards and temporary relief, we look to sources that promise happiness and wholeness. We attempt to fill our lives with more, increasing our pace and capacity, but accumulation doesn’t ever seem to satisfy. We see the circumstantial evidence that others might have found this sort of life, but we cannot seem to experience it for ourselves.

Ride the waves of feelings as Andy Junior shares his powerfully emotional experiences with his family of limited means and the crushing moment his childhood was abruptly interrupted. Discover the fear and heartache of abandonment thrust upon two very young and innocent brothers when they were placed in the care of the Polish community of nuns at the St. Joseph Home for Boys in 1960. From the eyes of a frightened youngster, Andy details the captivating events of his journey and the challenges he endured during his five years at the orphanage.

He might make her nerdy heart pound like the drums at one of his football games, but Quin needs to get over star quarterback, Cage Rucker. For one thing, he has a girlfriend. For another, she didn’t come to college to find a guy, even if he is sweet and kind, and volunteers with kids on the weekend. She has bigger plans. Unfortunately, those bigger plans require one thing she doesn’t have—the ability to talk to people. And who’s good at talking to people? Cage Rucker.

On what should have been a typical Monday morning in the business district of Starbanks, Rae Stevens and her coworkers are faced with a workday they'll never forget. Held captive inside the building they work with no explanation as to why, they band together to try and figure out what exactly is going on.

The band is eating at a cheap diner with the local club manager, making arrangements for the evening's gig, when they are attacked by a swarm of flying snakes. Adrian, the organ player and wizard, is bitten. Before he puts himself into a magical coma, face turning purple, he warns his band mates that they only have three hours to save him. Can the band find a cure before Adrian's time is up? Why is the town's preacher obsessed with the ancient Israelite serpent icon, the Nehushtan? And can the band get out of town before the snake god Apep arrives?

How did I end up almost 300,000 dollars in debt? It wasn’t as hard as it sounds. I went to Columbia and studied anthropology. The perfect background to get a great job. Right? Okay. It was a stupid choice. As it turns out, one of several. So, I ended up answering phones at a third-rate magazine. In New Jersey. When a duffel bag full of big bills showed up in my gym locker, I did what anybody with student loans would do. I paid them off. It turns out that the money didn't come from my fairy godmother after all. Some goons stashed it in the wrong locker.

For as long as Enrandl can remember, everything he desired has come effortlessly to him. In his studies of the magical arts, he has always had a natural ability to channel magical energy. And when his mentor tries to change Enrandl’s views instead of teaching him more magics of the realms, killing him is easy, too.

Thirteen year-old Griffin Everson had always dreamed about magic, yet little did he know that his dreams would soon be a reality. Growing up without a family or a true home, Griffin had always stayed in the confines of fictional books as he circulated the foster care system. It was the only reprieve from his chaotic life. Soon, in the light of tragedy, Griffin's world changed faster than a turn of a page.

Benjamin Reilly is an aircraft mechanic working at Ontario International Airport. Eileen Rivera is an emergency room nurse working at Loma Linda University Hospital. Richard Clark is an inmate, serving year three of his 20-year sentence in Chino Prison. Follow the stories of these three Americans as they deal with the aftermath of the black hole paradox, which created the Blue Hole Radius.

Time has no meaning. When the storms come, time, place, and world no longer matter. A ship of brave souls faces the ultimate battles as Lilith and her ilk prey upon men, slaughtering them if they are fortunate. And when the ships are tossed into the world of the Old Ones, there is a battle, unlike any other.