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Bodies are piling up in once peaceful Edelleen, Colorado since Deric met Lana. Now in the grasp of a darkness that he cannot subdue or escape, he seeks vengeance on the residents of the sleepy mountain town. As Deric descends into madness, the creature demands blood. It watches. It waits. With a failing marriage and exposed affair sending his personal life and career spiraling, will Sheriff Haines be able to put his personal conflicts aside in time to catch a killer? Or will Deric lose the battle between conscience and terror, unleashing unabated evil onto Edelleen?

Eighteen-year-old Scott Breckinridge just wants to be left alone to play combat games on his computer and rack up kills. His plans are drastically altered, however, when his great-grandfather Walter has to move in due to failing health. Appalled by Scott’s gruesome video games, Walter voices his extreme displeasure.

Urgently needed, a gunslinger to protect a woman, her daughter, and her unborn babe. Newly widowed and with a baby on the way, Hannah Carson faces a chilling ultimatum—marry her evil brother-in-law or be forced off her land. As the town of Red Ridge is swayed against her, loyal but aging ranch hand, Gus, sends away for a gunslinger—the only man who might be able to protect them. Eli Jones takes the job, expecting a simple payday. But the situation is more complicated than he expected, and his presence brings additional risks to Hannah and to himself.

When Millie Hudson is introduced to Dr. Winston Felton, it’s love at first sight. She can hardly wait to become his wife and eagerly makes plans for their new life together. However, days before their wedding, her new mother-in-law, Mother Nola, announces she’s moving in. And everything changes.

Making It Big in Japan is your ultimate guide to living, working, and playing in Japan. The information you get about Japan from reading articles online in English only scratches the surface. Like an outdated textbook, the advice seems to be stuck in the 1980s without reflecting the real pace of change in Japan. There is a need for more clarity and explanations of information that is often only available in Japanese. To fill this gap, I have interviewed the people who influenced me, served as role models, or offered valuable perspectives along my seven-year journey in Japan.

Two brothers. A childhood sweetheart. Life has never been easy for this trio, and especially not after the end of civilization as they knew it. Having had their formative years ripped from them, they were thrust into a shattered, savage world, a world where they only had each other. Weary travelers on the brink, there is a storm brewing, a turbulent tempest that has nothing to do with the weather. When tragedy strikes, everything changes in the blink of an eye—façades come undone, and loyalty is pushed to a breaking point.

How does one record an extraordinary time? Confined to his Delhi apartment, Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee unravels the intimate paradoxes of the life he encounters in the first weeks of a global pandemic. His stories about local fish sellers, gardeners, barbers, and lovers merge with his concerns for the exodus of migrant labourers, the challenges faced by health workers, and a mother braving check posts to bring her son home.

A fallen angel and an assassin walk into a bar...For nearly 70 years, Murphy's had the worst luck any fallen could ever have. The Collector - a title Murphy never wanted - can't seem to do his job: Collect a soul. And after 70 years, Murphy's not so sure he wants to go back to the Below. Joy is a practitioner of one of the world's oldest professions. Murderer for hire, assassin, hitwoman - Joy's your lady if the money's right. Brought together by a job and dropped into the political machinations of the Above and Below, Murphy and Joy have to decide where their loyalties lie.

Grief and nightmares haunt us all in the wake of a parent's passing. For one man, the nightmares begin to invade his everyday life after his father dies suddenly. His father's neighbor offers their help to alleviate the emotional pain, but the cost may be worse than the dreams and visions. Memories are worth holding on to, no matter how painful.

Grace just can’t do it alone anymore. When her husband died, he left her with a store to run and two children to take care of. Now, her son is friends with the wrong crowd and her daughter keeps sneaking out. When a string of vandalisms hit her store and the sheriff does nothing, she’s more than desperate for help and puts an ad in the newspaper.

Dannel, a solitary Forester haunted by the death of his Guide, hunts the monsters and giant beasts to protect his people. But when the Lord's law is broken, he faces a choice that will set him on a path more dangerous than any predator's pursuit. As the line between hunter and hunted blurs, Dannel must decide what he's willing to sacrifice, duty or love. In a forest older than empires, a boy of mixed blood flees from his past. And straight into legend.

Len'Neth is wild. Merciless. Hungry. And every step forward must be earned with sweat and stubbornness. Yet even in the harshest corners of the world, brotherhood can take root. Hope can spark in the unlikeliest hearts. And the Nameless will discover that standing together may be the one strength no army can crush. So sit close to the fire and hear the tale of how it all began in the third thrilling installment of the Pendulum Series, where friendship carries men through darkness, perseverance shapes fate, and no journey is walked alone.

One town. One man. Zero mercy. Firebend is falling apart. Corrupt officials, a brutal cult, and killers in uniform rule the town through fear, fire, and blood. But when they came after Rex Hays, they lit the wrong fuse. After watching his cabin burn and his friends hunted like animals, Rex is done playing defense. A former soldier with nothing left to lose, he’s turning the tables—one ambush, one bullet, one enemy at a time. He’s not just fighting back. He’s tearing their empire down. But taking on a town this rotten doesn’t come without a cost. Every move he makes draws more heat.

For the men and women who pledge their lives to the Company of Bones, a new name represents a second chance, revenge, and mountains of gold. And just maybe, redemption. Shrouded in mystery, this ragtag band of elite misfits has been dispatched by the enigmatic Broker to right an egregious wrong. Under the dark canopy of the Oldwood trees, a boy flees the shattered dreams of youth as his ancestors' blood wars within his veins. Haunted and hunted, the boy must find a way to live with his brutal past or be swallowed by it.

Evie Brown would do anything for her uncle, the only family she's ever known. So when he comes to her with a desperate plea to help save his home and business, she takes the only job she can find—housemaid for a rancher she knows nothing about. Making friends with a ranch hand who literally sweeps her off her feet is just a bonus.

The sleepy town of Lordsland is rocked by a baffling storm, leaving the residents mystified to its origins. As the day progresses, an insidious evil leaves the entire town scrambling in a battle against the newly awakened dead.

They Hide: Short Stories to Tell in the Dark collects 13 chilling tales that weave through the shadows, exploring the nature of fear, powerlessness, and control.

Jim, Mercedes, Andrew, and Feline have their hands full. New supernatural threats keep hitting the city, and the Tempus Team are the only ones who can stop them!

Todd elevates genre short fiction beyond entertainment. Whether it's the titular story of a haunted mug driving the new office hire mad, or a worrisome look at the near future where the guilty simply hire someone to do their prison time, these stories will challenge as much as engage.

Shy and introverted, Dash grew up reserved and with few friends. Once meeting Bria and Talyn on his home planet's academy, they became his best friends. With more courage and knowledge than he could hope for, the pair consistently managed to pull Dash into adventures he would have otherwise avoided.