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Fifteen years have passed since Jim North was abducted. He and another boy were placed in a cage and subjected to unspeakable horrors. But what haunts Jim more than his abduction is his escape. After abandoning the other boy who was captured, Jim has spent his life searching for him. Now, as a detective in Seattle’s fifth Precinct, Jim and his partner, Kerry Martin, will have a second chance to solve the case.

The EMP was just the beginning. Destruction and chaos have devastated the nation. The unknown enemy who detonated the EMP continues to wreak havoc in communities across the country. Ben Riker, a prepper surviving with his friends and family in the North Carolina mountains, is closer to unmasking the enemy and understanding their plans. But Ben will discover the enemy is more tenacious than he anticipated as they seek retribution against Ben and his family.

Winona Treesinger is a Bigfoot - and no, she doesn’t just have large feet. She’s literally an eight-foot-tall walking myth, and the last great princess of the People of the Forest. All she and her people want is to dwell in the deep places of the forest, well away from mankind and the destruction they bring to the land and the world. But when Winona hears about a string of grisly murders in the nearby city of Missoula, she knows in her gut it’s the work of an ancient evil, driven away from their lands long ago.

Yancy Lazarus - mage, bluesman, and demon-souled - is having the worst hangover of his life. He just woke up in a dingy hotel in literal Hell with one eye missing, an arm covered in swirling golden tattoos, and no recollection of the past six months. All he wants is to figure out how he ended up in the Great Below and whether there’s a way home. But getting out of Hell is no easy feat. Yancy is the most wanted man in the infernal city of Pandæmonium, and he’s being hunted by demonic cutthroats for a series of high-profile murders he can’t remember committing.

Legions of murderous undead, Haitian voodoo, and a 5,000-year-old serpent god. Yeah, 'cause that's exactly what Yancy Lazarus needs in his life: more complications. As if being the Hand of Fate and the newly appointed guardian over one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse wasn't headache enough. All Yancy wants is an easy life on the open road - chock-full of ribs, beer, cigarettes, and smoky bars blaring with gritty blues music - but that just isn't in the cards. Nope, not anymore.

Ten years into the worst drought the United States has ever seen, fresh water has become the scarcest natural resource in the world. China, Russia, Europe, Mexico, Canada, Australia, and other countries are all experiencing the effects of this unnatural lack of drinkable water.

With a family missing, and after four years off the police force, Chase Grant finds himself back in the midst of a criminal investigation. But as he teams up with the FBI and the US Marshals working this high-profile case, Grant will be forced to confront a past that he thought he was prepared to deal with. But if he can't overcome his memories, then it could mean the end of a missing family.

The recent abduction of a four-year-old girl may be linked to a 30-year-old case. Jessica Donovan, the mother of the missing girl, will stop at nothing to bring her home. Even if that means digging up the truth about her past.

On the eve of the Civil War, New Orleans was far more cosmopolitan than Southern, with its sizable population of immigrants, Northern-born businessmen, and white and Black Creoles. However, by 1880 New Orleans rivaled Richmond as a bastion of the Lost Cause. After Appomattox, a significant number of Confederate veterans moved into the city giving elites the backing to form a Confederate civic culture.

Wren Burton, one of the top architects in Chicago, has never let anything stand in the way of providing a better life for her family, but those choices haven't been without sacrifice. And when the power shuts down across the city, which submerges the masses into chaos and cuts her family in half, tough decisions are only the beginning.

The heartland of the country has gone dark after an EMP attack has neutralized the power grid. John Carver, a construction worker and prepper, must rescue his family from the city and seek shelter in their cabin off the grid. The only thing in the way of John’s family reunion is one hundred miles, and the entire metropolis of Cincinnati fighting to stay alive.

Everyone has a past, and everyone has secrets, no more so than FBI Agent Kira Lockhart. But even after five years, Kira’s past keeps catching up with her. Hoping to distract herself with a new case, Kira realizes the disappearance of a young college student might be a part of a larger conspiracy.

A terrorist attack rocks the small town of Big Rock, NC, after an EMP shuts down the power grid. Lacey Stone, a survivalist and Forest Ranger, must save her daughter from the clutches of this ruthless enemy. But the terrorists aren’t the only threat Lacey faces, as she must convince the town who hates her to stand and fight before the enemy destroys everything they hold precious.

After an EMP disrupts the nation’s power grid, putting millions at risk, Charlie Owens flees Seattle with his family to his cabin on the remote Beckett Island. But it doesn’t take long for the dangers of this post-apocalyptic world to threaten his family’s survival.

Two detectives, both coming off of recent tragedies, are forcibly paired together to recover a missing child. But as they pull back the layers of the case, they discover more secrets, more lies, and more trouble than either are prepared to face. It’s a race to find the missing girl before time expires, but the detectives must overcome their personal trauma in order to succeed.

The early morning hours bring ill news for Detectives Jim North and Kerry Martin. As they learn of two dead parents and a missing child, their search leads them on a winding journey of deceit, lies, and betrayal because the only person more evil than a kidnapper are the people who let it happen.

Whether it's history itself getting lost in the stone silence of a lighthouse or the time flow of medieval armor clashing from the grave into the now of your mind, this year's honor roll of top stories from Tell-Tale Publishing will pull you up in your chair and set your pulse racing. But that's what you want...isn't it? There will be thoughtful dilemmas to keep you pondering, moral choices and choices for the oldest of reasons - love - and, above all, the test of love versus fate.

The day before Detective Jim North is set to be married, an entire busload of children goes missing. Jim and his partner, Detective Kerry Martin, are called to assist in finding the missing bus. But a closer look at the case reveals a connection to Jim’s past that he had hoped was buried forever.

No parent should outlive their child. But in the small rural community of Maples, Kansas, that’s exactly what’s happening. With authorities unable to explain the mysterious deaths of several children, one detective turns to an old friend, whose history is intertwined with the misfortunes of the town.

Abou Ben Adhem awakens to find an angel within his room writing the names of those who love The Lord inside a book of gold. To his shock, he discovers his is name will not be added and learns of the fate awaiting him.