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Race Riot is a short-form prison memoir drawn from the author's time inside California's maximum-security facilities during a period marked by racial tension, gang politics, and repeated lockdowns. Serving a decade behind bars, Glenn Langohr recounts how segregation policies, inmate alliances, and underground economies created a fragile balance that could collapse into yard-wide unrest with little warning.

Out of the ashes of the First Breaking arose the holy city of Deneth, a beacon of faithfulness that called unto it the wise and progressive. But beneath the veneer of magnificence lay a wicked world that governs without compassion or elegance. Yet as the city finds itself under assault from beyond, a lowly temple servant will upend the balance and set it on a course for salvation or destruction....

For years Johnny Pearl tried to escape his demons by being a gunslinger. With his killer's cool and famous pearl-handled pistol, he made a name for himself in the years following the Civil War as an outlaw. But fame has proved hollow, and Johnny finds himself on the outskirts of the Wyoming Territory, on the verge of taking his own life after one gunfight too many, until he finds redemption in the smile of Katie Small Dove.

A time so very long ago decided the very fate of our race. Men and women once survived below the Earth's crust. Our faces, banished from the warmth of the sun, and left to the darkness and the cold stone. Our tale has been told so many times by so many different people. Yet, no one heeds the warnings, and the message of the tale is lost from generation to generation. The time is coming again, oh so very soon it will be upon us. Darkness will fall upon the Earth, and one of the five races will reign supreme.

The lone survivor of a tragic airplane crash, Trent Hawkins inherited a supernatural lucky streak that made him famous - and hated - in the poker circles of the City of Sin. So the powers-that-be kicked his ass out. Five years later, Trent and his wife return to Vegas, only to find themselves facing a demonic serial kidnapper, Armageddon-seeking angels, impossible shadow creatures, and an unholy blizzard that threatens to smother the city with ice. And Trent's the only one who can make things right.

A time so very long ago decided the very fate of our race. Men and women once survived below the core of the Earth's crust. Our faces, banished from the warmth of the sun, and left to the darkness and the cold stone. Visit a world where Vampires, Witches, Elementals, Demons and Humans once ruled the land. In the fifth part, Gerwulf faces the Vampire Grythe and Alex learns of his Destiny.

Richard of Tenneth, after witnessing his father murdered over mounting debt, flees to the city of Loridium to be taken in by the Holy Order. Protected and educated, the lecter grooms young Richard to lead the faithful, to sit atop the Order and follow the bidding of the Almighty without question, without mercy, and with absolute devotion. This is the second of three short stories from the world of the forthcoming series, Kingdom of Ash, to be released in autumn of 2012.

John Logan has left his life in the intelligence community behind, eking out a meager living as a private investigator and trying to stay off the espionage radar. But keeping a low profile proves harder than he thought when Coral Bay's millionaire Golden Boy ends up on the wrong side of a Samurai sword and his former mentor's wayward daughter the number-one suspect. Finding himself honor bound, Logan is forced to join the hunt for the real killer. What they uncover will have Logan questioning everything.

A time so very long ago decided the very fate of our race. Men and women once survived below the core of the Earth's crust. Our faces, banished from the warmth of the sun, and left to the darkness and the cold stone. Visit a world where Vampires, Witches, Elementals, Demons, and Humans once ruled the land. Part four continues with the tale of Gerwulf, as he torments a small village under the command of a demon. The witch Isabella intervenes and provides him with some troubling news.

A time so very long ago decided the very fate of our race. Men and women once survived below the core of the Earth's crust. Visit a world where Vampires, Witches, Elementals, Demons, and Humans once ruled the land. In Part Six, Grythe kidnaps Moira while she dreams, sending her sister Kyla out on a journey to save her with Gitch. While this is taking place, the demon king Abatu sends his trusted warrior to aid in the safe return of Moira, while Gerwulf's bloodline prepares for a surprise.

A time so very long ago decided the very fate of our race. Men and women once survived below the Earth's crust. Our faces, banished from the warmth of the sun, and left to the darkness and the cold stone. Our tale has been told so many times by so many different people. Yet, no one heeds the warnings, and the message of the tale is lost from generation to generation. The time is coming again, oh so very soon it will be upon us. Darkness will fall upon the Earth, and one of the five races will reign supreme.

In this dark, philosophical tale of horror, a man has the opportunity to sit down with Death. What he discovers is that the dying process is a little more complex than he imagined and that making a deal with the Grim Reaper comes with a price.

Our tale has been told so many times by so many different people. Yet, no one heeds the warnings, and the message of the tale is lost from generation to generation. The time is coming again, oh so very soon it will be upon us. Darkness will fall upon the Earth, and one of the five races will reign supreme. Follow an epic tale in which vampires, witches, elementals, demons and humans once ruled the land. Experience the power of the Pentacle of Light, and lose yourself in a new world of fantasy.

Private Investigator John Logan has always been haunted by the tragic mission years before that took the lives of his black-ops team. But when he sees one of his former teammates alive in downtown Coral Bay, with a young woman by his side, and a horde of Russian hit men on his tail, Logan realizes that there was more to the ill-fated mission than he originally believed.