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James and Marla Weller are preparing for a relaxing weekend, when an unexpected blackout spreads far beyond their St. Louis suburb and starts a devastating chain reaction. But the disabled power grid was only the beginning of a national nightmare as their vehicles and cell phones won’t function either. 

The dance haunts me. The music, the seduction. The sex. I’m like an addict, searching for the Sinful in dark corners, remembering the way their moon-kissed skin glowed under my touch. But I came here for a reason. I want retribution for my murdered family...but more than that...I’m searching for salvation to find a way out of this torture. I’m falling to my knees, desperate to find a way out from under their clutches. I shouldn’t be tangling my fingers in Cassian’s hair. I should be burying a knife in his heart. Kill or escape, the words haunt me. I want this over.

What happens when all means of transportation and communication suddenly vanish? What happens when you can’t call for help? What happens when the only person you can rely on is yourself? What happens when an EMP sends Anchorage, Alaska back into the Stone Age? Find out now with this collection of pause-resisting EMP thrillers.

They’re sinful. Beautiful. Deadly. And more dangerous than the wolves who hunt us in the woods. Three Vampires rule our world. And now I find myself in their clutches. Abducted in the dead of night, I’m taken to a market where 11 others like me are paraded in front of the Sinful. The Vampires want the perfect companion. The one mortal who’ll not only sit beside them on the throne...but who’ll occupy their bed. We’re to be judged, challenged...and selected one by one to continue the hunt. They’ll punish us. They’ll seduce us.

2019. The year certainly made its mark on the world. It also made for a bounty of good horror stories of the extreme kind, the best of which the tales herein serve to illustrate. 2019 was the year Year's Best Hardcore Horror went global. Not by design but because the stories inside just happened to have been written by authors hailing from various parts of the globe. From Australia by way of South Africa, to Italy, Scotland, Norway, Taiwan, North America and India - the common denominator being that their tales come from darkest regions of imagination.   

The Sinful are my enemy. But are they also my protectors? I can’t get them out of my head. Or the things they want to do with me. My past is dragged to the surface. But it’s a past I don’t know. Someone else’s memories invade me. The answers lie in the half-truths Arkyn whispers. "I’ll take care of you," Arkyn whispers as he kisses me. I want to lose myself in them. But fate, it seems, has other ideas. 

The thin thread holding the civilized world together has been severed. A ranch on the outskirts of a city becomes the sanctuary for a family during the unfolding crisis of an EMP. The nation's power grid has failed. Hundreds of millions are left without basic utilities, and the enemy responsible for the EMP's detonation now wreaks havoc throughout the countryside.

Surrounded by autumn-touched trees, an ominous Art Deco-inspired 1923 hotel overlooks the raging Atlantic Ocean. A silhouetted figure stands behind one of its dark windows, eagerly awaiting his next guest. Anna Hall, a workaholic single mom, purchases the infamous and historically-rich Club Blue to fulfill her romanticized dream of being an independent hotel manager. Unaware of the hotel’s baggage, she quickly finds herself overwhelmed by the abnormal amount of freak accidents, the influx of strange guests and the everyday struggle of raising two teenage boys.

These people, the Sumerians, influenced not only all the other civilizations that arose in Mesopotamia but virtually every other human society that followed. Without the Sumerians, the world today would be a very different place. However, although we know a great deal about these people, there are fundamental mysteries about the Sumerians that have still not been solved by historians or archaeologists.  

Prepare and survive. An EMP cripples the nation on the day Detective Mike Thorton was supposed to bury his father. Fighting a panic-stricken city, an unknown enemy, and his own grief, Mike must rescue his family before the city devours them all.

Do you get tired of starting your diet off with a bang only to fizzle out after a month, a week or even less? Are you tired of working hard to finally shed a decent amount of weight only to gain it back within two years or much less? Are you so sick of being on the losing end of your weight loss battle that you are ready to give up the struggle permanently? This audiobook will help you rediscover that all important mind-set and help you to stay in that “groove” for longer!

They’re sinful. Beautiful. Deadly. More dangerous than the wolves who hunt us in the woods. Three vampires rule our world. We call them the Sinful. And now I find myself in their clutches. Abducted in the dead of night, 11 others like me are paraded in front of the Sinful and taken to a castle in the middle of the woods. They want us to compete for their attention, to be selected for their bed. Only I came with a secret of my own. They are the monsters I hate...the monsters who killed my family 11 long years ago. And now I want revenge.

When an EMP cripples the nation's power grid, lawlessness erupts across the country. Fighting against the chaos, Detective Mike Thorton must rescue his family from the city and bring them to his sister's cabin in the mountains.

I’m cold, hurt. Confused. I’m trying to hold on to my anger and rage. But Cassian carries me from the darkness. He whispers words filled with anger. Words filled with rage. Words filled with retribution. They echo my own vows for blood. I shouldn’t be tangling my fingers in his hair. I should be burying a knife in his heart. Kill or escape, the words haunt me. I have to find the strength to end the torment. 

One person holds the thread binding my past and my present. And as my true nemesis reveals herself, I realized I knew nothing all along. Hate has revealed her true face. At the center of her retribution is me. This time, I don’t think my vampires can save me. I think, this time, it’s the other way around.

I’ve lived with heartache. Lived with the unknown. But as the prophecy comes true and takes the one I love, I do the unthinkable. With teeth and savagery I face down death itself. Nothing can take me from them. Not now. As I take the final stance, can I save my Sinful? Or, will I succumb to darkness after all?

The past came for me with fangs and claws and hate.... My Vampires raced the darkness to save me from the light. I fought Corvina’s sire. Fought the Wolves, and the cold...but there’s one thing I can’t fight any longer. The truth of who I am. In a cavern high up on the hill outside my family home I find out about my bloodline...and it shocks me to my core.

Through the howling terror, the Vampire Castle is attacked. Wolves come crashing through the walls, and a new enemy rises. One that shakes me to my core. He carried me from the filth and the terror and taken to a place out of reach. My body is wracked with fever, plagued with more than nightmares. I’m haunted by the truth. My enemy is here - one I’ve known forever. And this time, he’s not letting me go.

Revenge has come for me. They want the truth of what happened to Corvina. But they aren’t the only beasts at my door. The Wolves are howling. I can hear their cries grow closer in the cellar. Only one can save me, only one can race the night to rescue me. Arkyn. I’m calling for him, fighting the waves of pain from my spelled mind. I’m holding on the only way I know how...through another woman’s memories. In her dreams I can hold onto my Sinful. In her dreams I can scream their names.

Their touch still burns my skin. The memory of their lips as vivid as a summer squall...when darkness swallows me. Hands over my mouth. I’m taken by a coven of deadly vampires. Ones who will seek revenge on those I love. I need to stay alive now. I need to send a call for help, the only way I know. Arkyn. Lorcan, and Cassian. And hope my vampires hear me.