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Iris, Gum, and Aidan are vacationing in Bad Creek, just like every summer. Except Iris’s older sister, Glory, drowned in the lake last year, and Iris can’t seem to move on; Gum is hiding his sexuality from his family while being viciously haunted by Glory’s rotting ghost; and Aidan is distraught over a drunken argument with Glory that he fears may have led to her death. When Iris sleepwalks to the dilapidated house that Glory obsessively sketched in her final days, she and the boys begin to uncover a sinister history in the very bones of the town.

After years of fighting for justice with his deadly nanotech, Templar Drin abandons his post, crash landing on a desert world controlled by a tyrannical alien empire. Its inhabitants are forced into slavery, broken where a once-proud race cultivated its lands. For the first time in Drin's life, he has no backup, no support, none of his brothers. He stands alone against evil.

Listen to mystery stories by today's top writers and the masters who inspired them. The idea for this collection came to Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Lawrence Block when he was asked, "What is your favorite mystery story?" Block compiled this unique collection by posing the same question to some of today's favorite writers of the genre, including Stephen King, Tony Hillerman, and John Lutz.

In the heart of Boston in the 1980s, an unlikely friendship develops between two students at Cathedral High School. Patrick is an Irish Catholic born leader. His friends follow him with blind allegiance. Nate is a young, disciplined, Black athlete, focused on finding his way out of the neighborhood alive. The two young men find themselves on hectic school grounds in a culture that shuns friendships like theirs. This is the story of a Boston friendship that crossed neighborhood lines, broke cultural boundaries, and propelled two adolescents to rethink the world around them.

Tech-savvy Elna is determined to bring her family’s vineyard into the 21st century. Located on its own private island, Elna hopes her resourcefulness will finally earn her father’s respect and keep visitors flocking to their idyllic retreat. But her ambitions are shattered when a catastrophic EMP attack descends on North America. With only a brief warning before the missile strikes, Elna and her father soon realize they are marooned on their island with a group of unusual guests.

A forgotten nemesis returns from the mists of myth to fulfill an ancient prophecy heralding ruin for the old and decaying galactic empires. The only hope of survival: a band of unhinged misfits, assassins, and mages. They will need to overcome prophecy, madness, traitors, and allies to have any chance. To prevent a new dark age of atrocities, it will be necessary to sacrifice the unthinkable and do the forbidden.

In the first audiobook in this classic series, a former CIA spy behind the German lines in WW2 and secret agent fighting the Russian KGB in Europe during the Cold War, returns to the states to find himself up against the dirtiest plot ever against the U.S. Russia's top secret agent has infiltrated the country, making an unholy deal with the Mafia, for an unlimited supply of heroin, the Mafia agrees to back all Reds' activities in the United States. The streets will be flooded with smack...and the back alleys with Russian agents working to bring down America.

Pregnant and running for her life, Nora flees for the sanctuary known as Morala, an all-female asylum. Instead, she finds herself on Kilton, a sanctuary for criminals running from their sentencing. Now Nora must adapt to her new home, and do so quickly before her baby arrives, and deal with the ever-present reality that if she's found, her fate could be worse than what she ran away from.

It takes more than heroes to save a galaxy. Plunge into the astounding series finale and the ultimate outcome of the galactic war as the last great prophecy unfolds! Inside book three: War rages as uncounted victims turn to ash. The ancient prophecy reaches towards relentless oblivion. The terrifying face of the true enemy is exposed, even as madness afflicts the last surviving defenders. The fight for victory transforms into a grasping struggle against extermination and darkness. The epic conclusion to the landmark War of the Wheels trilogy.

The galactic wheel burns in an apocalyptic inferno. Unbridled conflict explodes and empires collapse. The unfathomable slaughter, by a seemingly unstoppable enemy, becomes a nightmare finally comprehended. Hope falters on a million, million worlds as the mages rise from the shadows with archaic knowledge. As defeat and surrender loom, few believe it will make any difference.

Join the galactic wheel of Prymus, and experience the intrigue, espionage, assassination, prophecies, and cataclysmic space battles. Witness the epic adventure of the misfit heroes who desperately struggle to prevent the next galactic war, and the secretive mages pulling their strings. Inside book one: The forgotten nemesis returns. The pain and sacrifice of a few might yet avert the looming calamity. They will need to overcome ancient prophecy, traitors, and allies to have any chance.

This collection of classic horror stories is sure to give you goose bumps, raise the hair on the back of your neck, and put some fright in your night. Includes Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper by Robert Bloch, Coin of the Realm by Charles L. Grant, Something Had to be Done by David Drake, The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner, The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury, Calling Card by Ramsey Campbell, The Words of Guru by C.M. Kornbluth, and Passengers by Robert Silverberg.