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For teenagers Angel, Rahsaan, and Kahmeer, the summer before their last year of high school is the time for unadulterated fun. What they don’t expect is for a party to lead to a shootout that changes the trajectory of their summer and their lives permanently. Cousins Imani and Darla, don’t expect connecting with Angel and Rahsaan to reshape their hearts and lives, but it does. They learn quickly that the only thing stronger than love is hate, and the only person they can trust is themselves.

They fear him because they can’t control him. When an ancient vampire tied to a forgotten god performs a forbidden ritual, the world of the undead fractures. Styles’s act of defiance sends shockwaves through the supernatural realm, awakening powers long thought buried and forcing the Vampire Council to confront a threat they can no longer ignore. To some, Styles is a savior—a chance to reclaim their true strength. To others, he is a harbinger of destruction, a force that could unmake everything they’ve built.

A security gaurd, a feisty elderly woman, a passive son, a deranged gunman and one tragic event. A short story about a single event told in four different perspectives.

Sectoraus saw his entire race nearly perish, before a seemingly divine being descended with the first rains and saved his people. Thandrua was worshiped as the Life-Bringer from the moment he first became conscious. Together, the two must weather the chaos of a rapidly changing landscape and bring the Serpenoids to a new world, their promised land.

Because society had failed to create an effective safeguard for these vulnerable beings, God called upon a meeting with Enoch, the archangels, the foreman of the spirit guides, and last but not least, Abel, beloved son of Adam and Eve. It was during this meeting that Abel pro-posed The Universal Law of Youth Protection. God was pleased with Abel, and so mandated what is now known as The Thirteenth Law. What happens when a terrifying loophole is discovered within the thirteenth universal law?

The Drake family family has known more than its share of tragedy at sea. After the devastating and mysterious loss of their patriarch, Bryan, to a strange storm, his grieving wife and children sail to his last known location to lay a wreath in his honor. They are caught in a storm freakishly similar to the one that took Bryan from them. A funeral becomes a joyous reunion, as they find him alive and well but equally stranded on the mysterious island of Avalon, where the descendents of King Arthur rule a world filled with knights, elves, dwarves … and magic!

The Moonstomper series is a two-fisted, suited-and-booted tale that take the listener through Chicago’s dive bars, dark alleys, and smokey house-parties to deliver a curb-stomped world filled with Punks, Skins, Goths, Skaters and Metalheads. In Book 3, as dawn breaks across Chicago, Cheyenne, Joey Zion and Happy are tasked with completing a time-sensitive errand while Steve makes moves which may alter the course of his life and the lives of those around him.

In a world where success is predominately measured by how much money we have in the bank, the size of our financial portfolio, and how prestigious our lives are, there have been great American Entrepreneurs who have chosen to take the path less traveled–to be truly compassionate and giving. They risked judgement, ridicule, and their fortunes; but in doing so they realized they could never out give God.

Adam Eberhardt has always felt different, but he never would’ve guessed he was a clone of Albert Einstein. Science geeks don't usually live inside the body of a hulk. A brain that never shuts off can be a blessing or a curse, but Adam hasn’t felt many blessings during his sleepless nights, regular victims of his severe anxiety disorder. Weaving through harrowing childhood memories, science research, and self-doubt, he most enjoys spending his mind power thinking about his wunderkind fellow student, Margot. . .who remains oblivious to his interest.

Only one thing keeps me from turning this world into a nightmare...and that's the angel of a woman I've fallen in love with. Her purity and beauty are the only things that soothe my tortured soul. The world fears me. It doesn't matter if you're a human, orc, or dark elf—you shrink away in terror when I come into view.

Broken Glass is a gritty, high-octane British crime thriller set against the violent underworld of organized crime. The novel is the first in the Glass Family series and follows Charlie Glass, a man haunted by his past and driven by vengeance, as he takes on powerful criminal syndicates in a bloody quest for justice and survival.

Professor Walker Grant always wondered what his pet beagle Darwin was thinking. Now he knows! Using artificial intelligence to translate Darwin’s vocalizations into human speech, Walker launches a podcast to bring their conversations to a wider audience. Darwin’s dog’s-eye view of contemporary life turns him into a media sensation. But have Walker and Darwin bitten off more than they can chew?

It’s July of 2065: twenty-one years into humanity’s quiet march toward extinction. The discovery of a potent, non-lethal, addictive wonder drug—extracted near the Wreck of the Titanic—has decimated the world’s productivity and birth rate. Delaney “Del” Martin is among the few who has elected to avoid it. Instead, he has committed himself to advancing America’s nuclear program. Unfortunately, the mega-corporation that produces the drug doesn’t care about energy. Only profits. And more addicts means a higher bottom line.