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All Mara Shaw ever wanted was to be a physicist and use her incredible gifts to give the world a reason to hope. Constructing GRASP to harness the solar winds, Mara and her team find themselves on the cusp of a breakthrough in free energy—enough to power the world forever. Yet Mara got more than she ever expected, opening a doorway to an unfathomable mystery and answering the most fundamental questions in human history.

Robert Hammock had a restless spirit. He grew weary of the quiet life of Colonial Virginia and left his ancestral lands in 1774 in search of a new life on the edge of civilization. He and his wife, Milly, guided their family on a adventurous overland journey to settle in the rugged, untamed Indian lands of Georgia. Frontier life suited the Hammock family. They formed new friendships and hacked a rich and fulfilling life out of Georgia woods.

Remi Dumas, a local detective, is reluctantly partnered with the older, more experienced FBI field agent Elias Suarez when a string of mutilated corpses start showing up near the Louisiana swamps. A serial killer known as “The Beast” who terrorized the community by targeting young men for years has resurfaced. When he discovers the victims have the same strange carvings in their skin that were found on his older brother Rene’s body 20 years ago, the case becomes personal.

Benjamin Reilly is an aircraft mechanic working at Ontario International Airport. Eileen Rivera is an emergency room nurse working at Loma Linda University Hospital. Richard Clark is an inmate, serving year three of his 20-year sentence in Chino Prison. Follow the stories of these three Americans as they deal with the aftermath of the black hole paradox, which created the Blue Hole Radius.

Welcome to the fourth volume of our best-selling horror anthology, featuring tales of terror and dark, slithering things to chill the marrow and keep even the most resolute of horror fans awake in the small hours of the night. This is the time when the inherently evil and deliciously malevolent come out to explore our earthly realm. Another superlative gathering of the dark and disturbing from some of the best independent authors writing today.

Thirteen year-old Griffin Everson had always dreamed about magic, yet little did he know that his dreams would soon be a reality. Growing up without a family or a true home, Griffin had always stayed in the confines of fictional books as he circulated the foster care system. It was the only reprieve from his chaotic life. Soon, in the light of tragedy, Griffin's world changed faster than a turn of a page.

The solar eclipse is a time to celebrate. The followers of El Baan have other plans. They need to complete seven sadistic sacrifices on the nights leading up to the eclipse to release their dark god from his immortal shackles. Astral druids, living in a secluded abbey, deep within the mountains are the only ones who can stop El Baan’s high priest, but the passive druids must find and train someone to do the one thing that betrays the very essence of their beliefs...to kill. The Soulless One is their champion.

Xlina Dar’Karrow finds all her nightmare magic useless in mending her broken heart. As she struggles to cope with her loss, the wily necromancer Oxivius hatches a plan to steal Amber’s soul from the fires of hell. Bound to the demon Valeria; the journey provides Xlina a glimpse of her own hellish fate should she succumb to the vile succubus. Xlina soon finds herself facing the judgement of the Counsel of Magic as the forces of heaven and hell align to thwart her plans.

Xlina’s move to Portland, Maine was supposed to be the start of a new life. A normal life. One that didn’t involve her magical-duty-obsessed druid father or her own legacy as a descendant of the Baku: an ancient creature that consumes nightmares. But when the supposed social worker who pointed her toward Portland in the first place turns out to be not-so-human and puts a demon mark on Xlina’s soul, a normal life looks a lot less likely. To survive, she just might need to start listening to necromancer Oxivius, who wants her to embrace her power instead of running from it.

Amber has emerged from the Cauldron of Rebirth, the first resurrection since Christ. The news of a new Dark Messiah spreads chaos and fear through the magical world, as the small harbor city of Portland prepares for doomsday to descend on the quiet harbors of Portland. With her human life dead and buried, Amber must find a new purpose in the second chance she has been given.The Heavenly Host and their army of the faithful will not rest until this dark new messiah is returned to the afterlife.

Pierre Grimard’s dream was to leave his boyhood home in France and voyage to America. He longed to begin a new life, business, and family in the French settlements of the faraway frontier in the Illinois country. Ten years later it seemed that Pierre had fulfilled every one of his dreams. He had a beautiful, devoted wife, a home full of children, and a thriving business in the French trading outpost at Vincennes on the Wabash River.

Early in the evening on July 18, 1959, Dr. Bernard Finch and his girlfriend, Carole Ann Tregoff, drove from their Las Vegas love-nest to the Finch home in the Los Angeles suburb of West Covina to speak to his wife Barbara about obtaining a speedy divorce in Nevada. But the plan went awry and the conversation turned deadly with Barbara’s lifeless body ending up in her in-laws’ backyard next door.

Less than two days. That’s all the notice America gets of a fast-approaching solar storm so unprecedented in scale it sets the geomagnetic scientists in a panic. Many citizens don’t have the resources, or even the concern, to take preparatory measures for the overhyped-sounding warnings that life as they know it is about to be over. Joel McConnell, a self-made Washington DC businessman and survival hobbyist, is not one of those. But bugging out with his culture-loving girlfriend before the solar flare hits proves to be a too much of a challenge on such short notice.

After a great deal of preparation, Danika begins her new digital dragon's life in a very small way. They say the "Living Jade Empire" creates individualized quests. They say it can read your mind. They say you can find your heart's desire. They say that there has never been a game like it, and they are right, but they are also wrong. The game is a data mine, built to retell the old tales that humans have been telling each other since language was invented.

For as long as Enrandl can remember, everything he desired has come effortlessly to him. In his studies of the magical arts, he has always had a natural ability to channel magical energy. And when his mentor tries to change Enrandl’s views instead of teaching him more magics of the realms, killing him is easy, too.

I survived a situation. I awoke in a dark basement with 14 other people. We were in dog cages and our arm and legs were cuffed into another cage. The cages made a circle. Of those in cages, some of the other captives were compassionate, brave people; others were total jerks. There were all kinds there in the basement with me. I liked some, hated some, pitied a few, and would have killed a couple if given the opportunity.

Walter Billingsley’s entire life changed on a dark, violent night in the spring of 1776. At the tender age of fifteen, he witnessed and experienced unspeakable acts of terror against his family, perpetrated by militants loyal to the British Crown. The horrors of that unforgettable night launched this innocent Colonial lad on a determined course toward service in the rebellion known as the American Revolution.

The players in Living Jade Empire grow as their adventures expand their experiences. The game is also expanding its experience and growing more complex. Danika explores new job opportunities and slowly admits to her own feelings. Relationships develop with time, and actions are taken that extend the time available for several of our players.

In the Lord's year 1303, a holy order of knights faces the brink of extinction. Their holy crusade falters as a fiendish monster from beyond the mist decimates their numbers. In desperation, the Knights Templar dispatch a unit to find an ancient relic hoping to tip the scales in the battle against the forces of darkness.

What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and discovered that our reality was existing right along side another reality, one where the monsters of our legends and fairytales were real? Now imagine that the barrier separating our two realities was collapsing. A new world is about to be formed, whether we want it to or not. A tragedy in the law enforcement community of Smith-Lake, Louisiana drops Detective Mike Acothley right in the middle of a power struggle between government operatives and the monsters from the other side of the barrier vying for control after the collapse.