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It seemed like a brilliant plan. To entertain her young son on his spring break week, and to get back into the dating world, youthful widow Sally Cartwright advertises on a dating site, requesting...

Jonah Staples wants to become a bounty-hunter to make the money he needs to advance in alchemy. Being a good researcher, Jonah tracks down Tamalaria's best bounty hunter and applies to become an...

Lawyer Erin Tsong knows how to put on her game face, intimidate an opposing witness, play tough, but there's such a thing as carrying intimidation too far. At least that's what the judge says when...

Fresh out of prison, Mike Zeeman and Tio Manetti get caught up in a scheme to steal a million in smuggled diamonds. Zeeman doesn't expect much from Meri Darling... she is the woman who turned on them...

Deep in the heart of the Carpathian Mountains, in Transylvania, lies an castle once home to a nobleman who warred with the church, bound his servants with a curse of silence, and ruled his lands with...

When Harry Bronstein, a young American tourist, is mistaken for a CIA agent, he finds himself embroiled in a three-way conflict between Chechen terrorists, Russian counter-spies, and a Chinese...

Richard Vandross, a power-hungry warlock has claimed four of the five Orbs of Eden's Serpent. If he can gain the fifth, he will become an unstoppable force. Even with the four he already possesses,...

Deacon Bishop is an ex-cop and trained detective. How hard could it be to trail a woman from the airport and see where she goes? What Bishop learns, though, is that he's not the only one after the...

If he hadn't turned into the rest stop, Deacon Bishop wouldn't have heard about the hundred million dollars--or gotten involved with his favorite Mafia family. But he stopped--and gave a woman a lift...

Torn from a tragedy, a young woman from the past must find her place in the present. Some of the people she meets seem familiar--do souls migrate through time? Dare she choose again the man she...

A plague sweeps through Jacksonville in Northern Europe. Virtually everyone in the city is temporarily disabled, even hospitalized. Everyone except a small number of 'reverse effect' people. These...

Two bodies in two days is too much. Postal worker Kimberly Walsh becomes a murder suspect when it turns out she had a motive to kill one of those men--and the police don't seem anxious to look for...

England may look like a peaceful island, but it swarms with ancient forces: old gods hungry for a touch of worship; mysterious spectres that can grant wishes, no matter how destructive those wishes...

The fate of the earth, according to his Tuatha masters, depends on Arrius Marcus Niger (Arri) and his legion defeating the enemy in battle. Arri has trained his men, built a powerful Roman-style...

Ewan drops into Tia Burns's life like Lucifer falling from the skys. His eyes hold ancient secrets, and from the moment he arrives, she's constantly under threat. Her girlfriend guesses he's a...

Attorney Paul Newton knows to stay away from psychological cases. This one, though, grabs him and makes him want to do something. His client developed multiple personality disorder as a result of...

A retrovirus mutates human DNA--exposing long-suppressed 'junk DNA, ' and manifesting supposedly magical creatures. When vampires, trolls and werewolves rage out of control, only the Warders stand...

Police Lieutenant Charamir Kooteck has a problem. It's not that he's a humanoid lizard...that doesn't bother him at all. Instead it's the series of murders, conducted by a man, or man-like being,...

When Martians invade, will they do so with bombs and spaceships, or perhaps with jelly donuts and pepperoni pizza? What's the King of the Whales up to when he asks a con-man to buy pizza for his...

Seeing ghosts has always been something of a curse for Annie Neeter but when talking to a ghost makes her a suspect in an attempted murder, she realizes it's gone too far. Still, does she have any...

Abandoned on a medieval-technology planet, Jake Borenski wants nothing more than to return to 'civilization.' But as he learns about the planet, he realizes an entire civilization may vanish unless...

In today's 'everything in a hurry' world of the Internet, there's a new appeal in short-form stories. Author Michael A. Kechula has uncovered a demand for ultra-short (100 word) stories called...

When her husband divorces her publically and in the most humiliating way possible, Heather Montag says some crazy things. Which explains why the police come calling when Montag is murdered. Assisted...

Investigating a murder, cop Olivia Jardan uncovers evidence that the death was an assassination, violating the great compromise between the corporate consensus and the religious Interfaith--the...

According to Hahtooshan legend, they were the mythic birthplace of their people. Nobody, though, actually thought they existed, or that there was any way to reach them. Nobody, that is, until...

Monsters Everywhere! The Staff and Students of the Theological College of St. Van Helsing are run ragged keeping ordinary humans ignorant of the creatures that want to destroy civilization. And the...

A young woman is rescued by two men--and attracted to both. Her choice, between the beautiful golden man and his dark and brooding friend, sends reverberations throughout time.Author: Cathy Richard...

She just wanted to live quietly. The crumbling purple house, wedged into a little-known Dallas neighborhood, seems the perfect place for Gypsy Larabee to hide from her homicidal ex-boyfriend. But the...

Roman Centurion Arrius Marcus Niger (Arri) of the 9th Legion hadn't planned on dying in Britain. Lying in a cold bog, abandoned by his officers, and surrounded by dead cohorts. Unfortunately, that's...

In Hollywood, all the stars, the top directors, the studio tycoons and, of course the rock stars have replaced their first wives with the younger, newer, hotter model. Everywhere she looks,...