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Alexandra's Secret
By: Annie Laura Smith

Alexandra's Secret

Can a teenager defeat the might of Nazi Germany?

After the plane carrying Special Security Officer Lt. Jason Norris is shot down over German occupied Belgium, the Allies send their youngest OSS agent, Alexandra Cockrell, into enemy territory to find him and destroy the invasion plans he is carrying. She soon tracks down Jason posing as a French artist, but because he sees her in the company of a Nazi colonel, she must convince him she’s not a German sympathizer. It becomes a race for survival when the Gestapo discovers she’s a spy with secrets about the Allied invasion known as Operation Dragoon...


All the Paths of Shadow
By: Frank Tuttle

All the Paths of Shadow

Walk warily, walk swiftly, walk away.

The king’s orders were clear enough. “Move the tower’s shadow,” he bellowed. “I refuse to deliver my commencement speech from the dark.”

As the newly appointed mage to the Crown of Tirlin, Meralda Ovis has no choice but to undertake King Yvin’s ill-conceived task. Tirlin’s first female mage, and the youngest person to ever don the robes of office, Meralda is determined to prove once and for all that she deserves the title...


An Improper Death
By: Paula Paul

An Improper Death

Always Dress Well for Murder

The small town of Newton-Upon-Sea is stunned by the death of a retired admiral of her Majesty’s Navy, and even more shocked at the state in which he is found. Everyone is ready to assume that he took a drunken fall from a cliff, except for Dr. Alexandra Gladstone. Along with Nancy, her maid, the London barrister, Nicholas Forsythe, and her faithful dog, Zack, she will battle local authorities, morticians, and the gossip of the town in order to learn the truth...


Bell of the Desert
By: Alan Gold

Bell of the Desert

“I believe the Arabs will unite under a fearless warrior—”

Gertrude Bell had a dream—to unite the thousands of tribal clans in Arabia into a single great nation. Putting her political brilliance and deep cultural knowledge of Arabia to the ultimate test, she developed a plan to do just that. But with the onset of The War to End All Wars, her success rests not only on stubborn politicians who believe a woman’s true place is in the kitchen, but on the Arabic tribes setting aside their differences and fighting as one for freedom...


Campfire Tales
By: Anthology

Campfire Tales

 

 


Deadgirl
By: B.C. Johnson

Deadgirl

Dead is such a strong word…

Fifteen-year old Lucy Day falls between the gears in the machinery of the afterlife. She is murdered while on her first date, but awakens a day later, completely solid and completely whole. She has no hunger for brains, blood, or haunting, so she crosses “zombie,” “vampire,” and “ghost” off her list of re-life possibilities. But figuring out what she is becomes the least of her worries when Abraham, Lucy’s personal Grim Reaper, begins dogging her, dead-set on righting the error that dropped her back into the spongy flesh of a living girl...


Eternal Shadows
By: Kate Martin

Eternal Shadows

Embrace your past, and find your future.

Vampires aren't supposed to be real, and Kassandra is not supposed to be one of them. But now, world leaders, including her father, are being replaced—by vampires. And one day shy of her eighteenth birthday, she discovers she has fangs, a hunger for blood, and a body with abilities she can't control.

Rhys, the vampire who changed Kassandra, is intent upon teaching her how to live as the undead...


Evil of the Age
By: Allan Levine

Evil of the Age

Murder and corruption in nineteenth century New York...

In the sizzling summer of 1871, New York journalist Charles St. Clair is tracking down the story of Lucy Maloney, a 'kept woman' found murdered and stuffed in a trunk at the Hudson Railway depot. His search takes him from the mansions of Fifth Avenue to the brothels of SoHo and the seedy and dangerous saloons on Water Street. St. Clair soon uncovers Lucy's connection to a ring of abortionists and to Madame Philippe, a wealthy woman who is known as Madame Killer...


Flying To the Light
By: Elyse Salpeter

Flying To the Light

How far can you run, until you just can’t run anymore?

Seventeen year old Michael Anderson and his kid brother, Danny, find themselves in mortal danger after their parents are kidnapped. Michael discovers Danny has a special gift—he knows what happens after a person dies—and now others want to know too. The brothers must outwit and outrun Samuel Herrington, a lethal biophysicist, the FBI, and even fellow Americans in a harrowing cross-country chase, because whoever gets to Danny first will have the power to rule the world...


Flypaper
By: Chris Angus

Flypaper

How do you fight a deadly disease that came from beyond Earth?

Scientists may have mistakenly released a new and deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin when they examined the genetic markers of several ancient mummies. The devastating error causes a worldwide plague—one for which mankind has no resistance.

Sino expert Eric Logan and archeologist Dr. Marcia Kessler lead an expedition into China to extract a twenty thousand year-old body from a glacier that could hold the secret to a cure...


Half a Mind To Murder
By: Paula Paul

Half a Mind To Murder

An epidemic of murder…

 

Murder is in the air in the small town of Newton-Upon-Sea. A mysterious illness is claiming the lives of men of a certain age, and where the illness fails, a sharp knife does not. Dr. Alexandra Gladstone must determine what is causing the sickness, but the only survivor of the illness is soon found with his heart surgically removed. The panic-stricken townsfolk do not know who to trust, and Constable Snow is at a loss to find the killer...


Leandra's Enchanted Flute
By: Katy Huth Jones

Leandra's Enchanted Flute

Sometimes the magic lies within.

Fourteen-year-old flutist Lee Ann Graves is a survivor. She spent the long days of chemotherapy listening to the song of a Carolina wren. One day he reveals himself as Songcatcher, a talking bird from the magical realm of Finian Jahndra—a land in danger of being consumed by a deadly canker that only she can truly understand.

Lee Ann is transported to Finian Jahndra where the animals call her by her real name—Leandra...


MMM
By: J. E. Shoup

MMM

Survival is the ultimate game...

 

Matt's life is turned upside down when he discovers that his favorite game, Ruan3, may be a real place in a real time—the year 2813. And when three high school girls are murdered, Matt is drawn ever deeper into the mystery of the serial killer at large, even as he forms a psychic connection to Sirena, the ultimate fantasy girl of Ruan3. She spirits him off to her world of violence and conflict, but unable to keep the link, Matt returns to the present day...


Shadow Street
By: Anthology

Shadow Street

Take a right turn at the light…if you dare.

Shadow Street sits deep in the black heart of the city, atop an ancient, pagan sacrificial site. Within the crumbling buildings and on the pitted plazas, the creatures of the night still roam among the scarred and desperate residents. These are their supernatural tales of terror…and of hope. Visit the mortuary that needs a new knocking man, the dark stranger who turns up at the lunatic asylum, and the library where reading a certain book can kill you...


Sins of the Empress
By: Paula Paul

Sins of the Empress

All that she did was done for love...

Princess Sophia knows nothing of the world before she is taken away to marry Peter III, the heir to the throne of Russia. The Empress Elizabeth changes her name to Catherine and commands her to produce a son, but Peter is incapable of fathering a child. He plays with wooden soldiers while leading the Empire into a long and expensive war. Catherine takes lovers to provide Russia with an heir, keeping silent and to the shadows––until the day Peter is assassinated...


Spandex Always Rises
By: The Keioskie Brothers

Spandex Always Rises

When a hero falls, don't despair – SPANDEX ALWAYS RISES!

Look up in the sky–

Is it a bird?

Is it a plane?

No, it’s...Bird Boy.

WTF?

Crowman wants to be a superhero—one of those guys who flies up, up, and away and fights for truth, justice, and the superhero way...


Symptoms of Death
By: Paula Paul

Symptoms of Death

You can't cure murder…

When the old country doctor of Newton-Upon-Sea passed away, he left his only daughter, Alexandra, with the secrets of his trade. Now, the village depends on its lady-doctor Gladstone for its births, deaths, and all the inconveniences in between.

Dr. Alexandra Gladstone is visiting the Lord of Dunsford, when he's found murdered in his bed. Joined by Nancy, her maid, the London barrister, Nicholas Forsythe, and her faithful dog, Zack, she soon discovers that other nobles in Lord Dunsford's circle of acquaintances have very good reasons to see him dead...


That Which Survives
By: Morgan Ashe

That Which Survives

How can something so dead be so...alive?

It’s hard when a short story (approximately 5k) is released. People keep asking me what is it about, and I simply answer “Zombies”. I can’t tell them the plot of the story; it would give it away. So instead, I tell them about zombies in general.

The zombies of today’s movies do everything from dating to playing video games, but the classic zombies of lore didn’t...


The Good Witch of Morgan's Peak
By: Sheri Broadbent

The Good Witch of Morgan's Peak

Can a reluctant witch cast a spell powerful enough to catch a murderer?

The very night Estelle Stabb seals the real estate deal of a lifetime, her dead husband, Mort, brings her the ghost of Colby Martin...his throat cut from ear to ear. All the clues point to Estelle’s new neighbor, Andorra Greenblood, but Colby’s ghost has a glitch in his memory and doesn’t know who killed him. Now she must join Sheriff Tom York to track down the murderer so Colby’s spirit can leave for the great beyond...


The Phantom Pilot
By: Ann Swann

The Phantom Pilot

What do you do when a ghost needs your help?

Stevie's friend, Jase, tells her that a small plane crashed into his backyard and now the ghost of a dead pilot is haunting him. He asks for her help to rid him and his gentle dog, Lady, of this supernatural visitor. Their efforts bring on dangerous poltergeist activity that makes them run for their lives before they finally manage to communicate with an angry, sad ghost who only wants one thing––and that one thing involves murder...


The River Goddess & Other Stories
By: Valentine McKay-Riddell

The River Goddess & Other Stories

Sometimes when you talk to Things, they talk back.

Alyssa is not your ordinary twelve year old. She can talk to Things—plants, animals, even rocks. But when she meets the mysterious River Goddess she finds out that her powers can also be a curse and that with knowledge comes the need to act. Now she must find a way to use her growing powers to save those she loves, and rescue her friends from an awful man-made catastrophe. But she is not alone. With a number of helpful animal, plant, and insect guides, and a very old friend she tries to right the wrongs of an uncaring world...


The Sack
By: Gwen Peterson Choate

The Sack

You can't deny the music...

Althea is trapped in a reclusive commune where she is forced to wear a sack-like garment according to the restrictive laws set down by inflexible elders. But growing inside of her is the 'music', a stirring rhythm demanding that she dance. When Miss LaForge contrives Althea's escape to study at the sack-free Institute of the Arts, she hides the truth of her scholarship from her parents and the elders to embark upon the adventure of her life...


The Trinity Pact
By: E. M. Shelton

The Trinity Pact

When evil threatens, and all seems lost, there is still a glimmer of hope.

Trinity never fit in with the other kids in Salem. She was too smart, too distant, and strange things happened wherever she went. Then she met Colin, a brilliant student and loyal friend. It seemed she might be able to live a normal life after all. There was just one little snag—the appearance of a mysterious man who seemed determined to kill her. Now, in order to save her only friend, Trinity must follow the elusive assassin through time and space, into a world she never knew existed…

 


The Wastelanders
By: Tim Hemlin

The Wastelanders

When water is scarce, a drop is more precious than gold.

America is controlled by a corporate oligarchy known as the Water Cartel and warrior-priest Joey Hawke finds himself trapped between a mysterious geneticist amassing a clone army and a group of political fanatics convinced that a dead president will rise from his tomb to lead them to salvation.

Caught outside his spiritual haven when the Cartel moves against the Wastelanders, Joey is aided by Bear, an enigmatic weapons runner, a lovesick Scrapwoman, and Bernie Hawke, his estranged father...


Thomas Talks To Me
By: Denise Vitola

Thomas Talks To Me

Thomas is the scribe of the Elohim, the angel who wrote down the Word.

Author Denise Vitola, met the angel Thomas one lonely, desperate night in 1991 when she was about to abandon her dream of finishing her first book. Thomas took her under his impressive wing and guided Denise through the creation of several novels and short stories that sold to major publishing houses and magazines. She joins him now to show you how to become a successful writer by creating your own muse in the new non-fiction book, THOMAS TALKS TO ME...


Timeless
By: Anthology

Timeless

Step into the romantic and often times, dangerous world of immortal love.

Follow the story of a teenager trapped at a lonely, forest pool with the oceanid who cursed her. Feel the anguish of a demon that falls in love with a mortal woman, and of an angel trying to save her shape-shifter soul mate. Share the darkness with a blind girl from ancient Rome as she realizes the heavy price for a miracle, and lurk behind the Trippet Stones watching the deadly battle to vanquish the evil sorceress, Morgana...


Weirdo World
By: Cathy Seckman

Weirdo World

When lightning strikes, you never know where you'll end up...or when.

They say it's rare for a person to survive a lightning strike, but that's exactly what happened to Hunter when he stood in the garage one evening, holding an antique punch clock. Not only did he get hit, he was sent back in time to the year 1963. He finds himself trapped in a world where desktop computers don't exist, people don't realize that cigarettes will kill you, and where the President of the United States will be assassinated one dark November day...


Wizard
By: Paula Paul

Wizard

In a world corrupted by acceptance, could you be yourself?

Meghan’s life had never been easy, either being overlooked as Merlin’s younger sister, or getting the wrong kind of attention for being different. When Merlin’s attempt to save Meghan’s life by transporting her to eleventh century Amorika, France, goes awry, she finds herself in twenty-first century America. There, she discovers that it is all too easy to fit in with the popular crowd—if she hides who she really is...


Wrongful Termination
By: Mike Farris

Wrongful Termination

When you strike a deal with the Devil, there's hell to pay.

Law associate Meg Kelly is fired after she blows the whistle on fraudulent billing by the firm’s most powerful partner, Tripp Malloy. She teams up with Bay Muckleroy, a partner in the firm, who champions Meg’s wrongful termination case. But soon, they wade into a murderous undercurrent, discovering that Malloy is a government hit man who launders his contract payments as legal fees—and who will do whatever it takes to silence Meg and Bay...


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