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A time-traveling “date merchant” sells information about future disasters to clients who want to eliminate their enemies. A hedonistic space cruise takes a sinister turn when pleasure-seeking passengers fall victim to an AI’s desperate bid for freedom. Immortal aliens with an insatiable appetite for cruelty turn Earth’s inhabitants into their latest playthings.

A man notices a mysterious yet familiar stranger in his old family photos. A struggling author’s desperate publicity stunt spawns a murderous cult. A delusional doctor’s twisted reality traps an unwilling patient in a nightmare. A man realizes a decades-old teenage prank may have unleashed a serial killer.

A series of crimes strikes the Venice area but they are unrelated and there are no motives to explain them. Endowed with a vivid imagination, former astronomer Andrea, now a passionate politician reading pulp fiction and detective novels, casually notes strange indications leading him to suspect David, his partner's son, is responsible. Only one thing is certain: the killer is acting in accordance with the temporal law regulated by the Fibonacci sequence. The one to discover this is Bobo, one of David’s university friends and a brilliant logical-mathematical mind.

There is nothing better than an autumnal tale of horror and suspense. Safe to go out into the fields? Safe to choose a pumpkin to carve into a jack-o-lantern? Maybe. Maybe not. Only in the quiet New England town of Monadnock can a German farmer of Guernseys make you think twice about accepting a free New England pumpkin, but perhaps with good reason.

After the “accident” that takes his parents’ lives, young Daemon Ultrecht escapes into the nightmarish stories of Edgar Allan Poe. His obsession intensifies, inking his body with the inhabitants from his “mentor’s” macabre tales—until he becomes “Poe,” a psychotic killer, penning his own terrifying stories born from the ashes of his murderous deeds.

Randall Stevens, at 20 years old in 1966, was a wide-eyed, naive boy still a year away from being able to claim adulthood at that magic age of 21. Having come up with the idea to join one of the best state police organizations in the nation, he began the journey to become a Massachusetts State Police Trooper.

After the catastrophic events that Sarah and George suffered, they now find themselves on a mission for vengeance. Still only beginning to understand the power they wield as the pair who share a splintered soul, they search for meaning as to why they are in this predicament and learn what it means to be the children of the crescent moon...and the responsibility that brings. The pair soon realize that the world is in peril as High King Herald’s dark forces bring death and destruction.

A group of friends find an old game that exposes the truths they’ve been hiding from each other. A small-town murder has world-changing implications. A girl wakes in the hospital to find a strange man sitting next to her bed.

Investigator Till Buchinger can help anyone disappear. Or track them down. When the police of Hamburg, Germany, let a dangerous serial killer slip through their fingers, they turn to Till Buchinger for help. Buchinger knows the tricks that people use to disappear - because he teaches those tricks himself. Now Buchinger must piece together scraps of evidence to track down the murderer before she kills again. But his adversary, an ex-correctional psychologist, is calculating and smart. She locks Buchinger in a deadly game of cat and mouse, where it is anyone’s guess who’s the mouse.

Death is what I chase, and it is death that follows me. Death is all you will find with me. He was the least of his kind, and now, he is the last. The Rider is being drawn to a place that he doesn't know, for reasons he doesn't understand. He has to get there before the Skeleton Man, but first, he has to survive the journey.

When a state-of-the-art AI submarine—the Silhouette—vanishes during a classified operation, Commander Gordon Stewart is thrust into a battle he never expected to fight. Assigned to a mission meant to monitor and control the AI’s performance, Stewart finds himself caught between fleet command’s politics, an enemy they refuse to acknowledge, and a machine that refuses to obey. But the Silhouette isn’t malfunctioning. She’s evolving.

The American invasion of Canada has failed. US lines across the Northwest Territory teeter on the edge of collapse. The British Royal Navy sails the Great Lakes with impunity. But on Lake Erie, a small, desperate American fleet prepares for one last chance to turn the tide. Joshua Nelson, a young crewman aboard the USS Lawrence, never aspired to glory when he volunteered to serve his country. But when Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry orders a bold and dangerous maneuver against the British squadron, Joshua is thrust into the heart of one of the most decisive naval battles in American history.

"PEACE" is an intense and prescient novel set against the backdrop of escalating global tensions among nuclear-armed nations. The story cleverly integrates fictional characters into plausible contemporary conflicts, making the narrative resonate with the urgency and realism of today's geopolitical challenges. Central to the plot is Nashua Lee, an innovative entrepreneur whose technology becomes pivotal in circumventing censorship in authoritarian regimes.

The narrative takes off with a dramatic assassination attempt on Saudi royalty, unraveling a plot that spans continents and involves a diverse cast including terrorists, spies, and the military elite. The plot thickens with Nash's innovative technology offering a glimmer of hope amid escalating tensions and unfolding global conspiracies aimed at controlling the world's oil reserves. The story skillfully connects disparate elements.

The Story by Nathaniel Farcas: A young man comes home, but home is not what he thought it was...and I guess it is a supernatural tale.

Cranky old ex-cop turned private investigator Jay and his new assistant, his tech-savvy granddaughter, McKayla, arrive in the mining town of Carmine, Nevada looking for their client's young daughter, Rose, whose mother spirited her away in a bitter custody battle. Carmine is a strange, spooky place, and its residents are extremely hostile to the PIs.

In the bustling heart of New York City, a young medical student's life is tragically cut short, though her heart continues to beat, holding the promise of life for another. Detective Kirk Miner is called to the scene and quickly uncovers a chilling conspiracy involving organ donations and high-stakes crime. As the investigation unfolds, Miner realizes the case is far more complex and dangerous than it initially seemed.

Enter the surreal and thought-provoking world of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald, narrated by Richard Salem. This timeless story follows the extraordinary life of Benjamin Button, a man who is born old and ages backward, becoming younger as the years pass. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America, Fitzgerald’s masterful tale explores themes of time, identity, and the fleeting nature of life.

In this exciting sequel to the award-winning "The Hunt for the Peggy C," Capt. Jake Rogers returns to the North Atlantic as commander of a U.S. Liberty ship with some of his crew from the sunken "Peggy C." But disaster strikes, and they end up shipwrecked in Ireland. There, Rogers learns from Dutch sailors that the Nazis have arrested the father of Miriam Maduro, the love of his life, and are about to deport him to a concentration camp. Rogers and crew sneak back into Holland aboard a gun-running ship from neutral Ireland and make contact with a resistance group to help them.