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She thought they were safe. But someone is always watching.Alice is finally rebuilding her new life-new friends, new passions, and a sense of freedom she's never experienced. But as the nights grow longer, she can't shake the feeling that someone is watching her...waiting.When the...

A man returns to his strange hometown twenty years after his mother climbed a staircase in the wilderness and disappeared in this speculative mystery where We Used to Live Here meets The Midnight Library. As a boy, Nico once accompanied his mother on a...

A man returns to his strange hometown twenty years after his mother climbed a staircase in the wilderness and disappeared in this speculative mystery where We Used to Live Here meets The Midnight Library. As a boy, Nico once accompanied his mother on a...

Some towns never die...they just wait.Gideon Thorn has faced down cannibals, monsters, and men possessed by evil. But nothing in his long, haunted journey has prepared him for Lazarus-a ghost town that shouldn't exist.Fresh off a brutal case in frontier Missouri, Thorn is en...

Olivia Murphy's world turns blood-red on a stormy October morning. Olivia believes the unnerving vision is a product of her exhausted and overworked brain, until she wakes up after fainting in her cubicle. Hospital scans reveal nothing, but eerie dreams plague Olivia, and she...

Is death truly the end?Still reeling from Allison's suicide, the Legends find themselves at an impasse. Scarlett, still unclear about her stance among the Legends, is convinced Allison's death is not permanent. The others turn their sights to the future, as uncertain as it...

Nathan and Luke, now on the same team, are uncovering new mysteries behind the origins of the corrupt pharma organizations. With the intel received from their last escapade in Italy, they know there are other Snoopers, or people with their abilities out there.Two thousand...

Ev Solis had fantasized about quitting their job, but never quite like this. Auditing Victus Station's downside properties was boring. Beyond boring. The only thing that kept them coming back was Tobit Sinclair, the comms operator who always ended up running Ev's auditing missions....

Only a trap with the right bait will stop a crazed killer. Major is the bait; he sets the trap. Failure means death.Major's farm in Florida is no longer safe after all the neighbors leave to escape from the murdering bands of raiders.An organized...

Shane Reid is a retired history professor who normally divides his time between Chicago Cubs baseball games and debunking reports of unidentified flying objects or close encounters of the third kind. This routine and his perspective on extraterrestrial life change dramatically when a respected...

Increasing virus outbreaks, blasting off to new worlds and controversial technologies - it's a wonder humanity can even make it through the day.The writers of the Rainforest Writing Retreat are at it again! Each year, RWR accepts up to 70 guests to attend three...

To what length will a bullied psychopath go to satisfy his revenge?Alex Warner rushes to Caerus to find the murderer of a Cetusian Ambassador. Between an uncooperative son of the deceased, a grumpy partner, and an enigmatic Cetusian woman, Alex has his hands full...

In the shadows of justice, one woman becomes the very monster she hunts.FBI profiler Cassandra Vale is the Bureau's best-sharp, methodical, and unflinching. But beneath her composed façade lies a secret life few could imagine. When the system fails to punish the untouchable men...

Welcome to Delaware County or as the residents call it DELCO. A quiet suburban county where nothing strange or exciting ever happens. Until one day a teenage girl has gone missing and weeks later her body is found floating in the Delaware River. She...

In the captivating debut novel *Intercession*, author Louis Romano introduces us to the enigmatic John Deegan, a character who both fascinates and horrifies, captivating the hearts of readers despite his dark proclivities as a serial killer. But who, exactly, is John Deegan?John Joseph Deegan,...

Author: M. Luke McDonellISBN-10: 0991215346ISBN-13: 9780991215348Publisher: Bang and PoundLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/14/2025Pages: 452Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.91d

A science fiction tale of global warfare and the people who profit from it, Mindscape was Hairston's extraordinary debut novel, nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and short-listed for the Otherwise Award.The world has been divided by the Barrier. For 115 years this...

A possibly unsolvable cold case has gone even colder. It began with a missing person complaint on Halloween night. Clues at the scenes pointed to military-style traps and analog gear. Each new incident was signed by silence, precision, and a soldier's fingerprint.In The Big...

Is death truly the end?Still reeling from Allison's suicide, the Legends find themselves at an impasse. Scarlett, still unclear about her stance among the Legends, is convinced Allison's death is not permanent. The others turn their sights to the future, as uncertain as it...

A hat left behind. A man dead in his seat. And a theater full of secrets. In the heart of Manhattan, at the prestigious Roman Theater, a packed house is stunned when a well-dressed man is found murdered during a performance-his only trace a...

David Rathman, Martin County State's Attorney, has every reason to believe that the biggest case of his career is a lead pipe cinch conviction. After all, Carolyn Gallagher admittedly shot her sleeping husband, Dr. Grant Gallagher, twice in the head from a range of...

Abigail Winslow, the DSA's latest recruit, is dead.Unsure of who to trust anymore after learning the truth behind Agent Jacob Grissom's death, Ben Riley attempts to track down Winslow's killer without the use of the agency's resources. Facing a locked room murder, Ben turns...

What is the Promethean Project?On the hunt for a lead from the Bellbrook affair, Ben Riley and Morgan Dunleavy discover a dead body and a growing conspiracy. The only clue left behind? A handprint burned into the bone of the victim.Not everything is what...

The residents of Bellbrook, Ohio have vanished.Seven thousand people in a four-mile radius disappeared overnight. A dead zone remains, no outgoing signals emanating from the ghost town.Ben Riley, framed for a crime he never committed, is the latest recruit to the Department of Special...

The Fifth Volume in the Acclaimed Series!For more than four decades, New York Times and USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith wrote professional science fiction short stories that won awards and sold millions of copies.Now, for the first time,...

Author: John LallierISBN-13: 9798232153946Publisher: JCL PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/04/2025Pages: 230Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d

Emotions connect us all, and those links between people can be love, hate, anger, respect, fear. What if some people can see them?A rogue AI can be a fearsome thing. What if it was helpful instead?What if a spaceship appeared in a neighborhood car...

During the Great Depression, Martin, a 12-year-old only child and resident of Nashville, Tennessee, has lost his father to polio and his mother has become overbearing. She hires a World War One veteran, Seth, to dig up a section of hedge in order to...

It's springtime '81, and the Special Operations Bureau in Khanada is shuffling cold cases. Khanada (Hainan Island on current maps) is a hive of corruption, and Detective Koko Song's been posted there because her computer-matched marriage has failed. A once-in-a-lifetime Qilin Moon draws nearer,...

In the Heart of Mystery Lies Redemption... Every Sunday, Oona the St. Berdoodle and her current owner, Zsuzsu, make their way through the winding paths of the State Park to the enigmatic Redemption Center--a place often mistaken for a haunted mansion. When a local...

Philip Marlowe meets Redwall in this superior adult noir tale, where all the characters are animals, fighting for survival in the city underneath the humans. Down these mean streets a beast must walk... Meet Skotch. Racoon, P.I.--Yours for a few buttons as long as...

'Honest' Onyx Lee rules the wrestling world in Amerryland's premier promotion, Moodish Wrestling Federation. Some think he's the G.O.A.T. Some think he's overrated. But they all know him as champion. However, after a dirty rumor reaches the promoter's ear, Onyx Lee is cheated out...

TEENAGERS...OR TIME BOMBS?The nation is gripped by the shocking crimes: "good kids" who are suddenly, inexplicably lethal. When Connecticut doctor Dr. Lexi Bradley gets the call that her son has become one of those shooters, her life is turned upside down.Ten years ago, Secret...

It is the DSA's darkest hour.Branded as traitors, the field team lies in ruins. Ben Riley and Morgan Dunleavy are alone and on the run. Hunted on all sides, each must sacrifice everything to learn the truth about what's happened--not only to their own...

A Deceiver. A Superhuman. A Questionable Hero.When Hydra Legion Captain Severus travels to a loyal Empire world, he plots to spread lies, deceit and chaos.An old enemy waits in the shadows.Gripping. suspenseful. Shocking Fun. Connor Whiteley's Fuel To The Fire adds tense, page-turning depth...

A Deceiver. A Superhuman. A Questionable Hero.When Hydra Legion Captain Severus travels to a loyal Empire world, he plots to spread lies, deceit and chaos.An old enemy waits in the shadows.Gripping. suspenseful. Shocking Fun. Connor Whiteley's Fuel To The Fire adds tense, page-turning depth...

Gripping. Powerful. Alluring. Internationally Bestselling writer Connor Whiteley's Birth of The Empire offers fans old and new a fascinating glimpse into the infancy years of The Empire.When Lady Samantha Sage learns of a dire threat against the infant Empire, she descends into the darkness...

Emotional, Gripping, Powerful. International Bestseller Connor Whiteley's Terraforma explores the age-old science fiction trope in shocking new light.When Biologist Aaron Lawrence discovers a tense mystery on the only terraformed world in the Empire, Aaron fights to save everything he holds dear before disaster strikes.From...

Emotional, Gripping, Powerful. International Bestseller Connor Whiteley's Terraforma explores the age-old science fiction trope in shocking new light.When Biologist Aaron Lawrence discovers a tense mystery on the only terraformed world in the Empire, Aaron fights to save everything he holds dear before disaster strikes.From...

FROM GOD TO DOGFrom the mind that brought you Science for Heretics, comes a darkly comic thrillerWhen Khafre, the mighty Egyptian God-King, died four and a half thousand years ago, he expected an eternity in paradise. Instead, he found himself in modern-day Cairo, trapped...

Growing up on a small farm in eastern Oregon, USA, Finch Redburn, in his limited free time away from chores, developed an interest in American and British detective stories. Determined to obtain a private investigator's license, he moved west across his state to Eugene....

A strange entropy afflicts Lorenzo's city.As colour drains from the sprawling, failing metropolis, he becomes obsessed with the flowers in the kiosks, which seem only to grow brighter and more alive.Despite his wife's misgivings, Lorenzo is going to find out why.What begins with cardboard...

Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975) was a feminist, a suffragette, birth control advocate, journalist, editor, winner of the Mystery Writer's of America's Edgar Award, and author of science fiction, mystery, and true crime. Now, at long last, a collection of her science fiction short stories...

Dreams, delusions, hallucinations ... past lives? Whatever they are, I want them to stop.I had the first "episode" when I was eight. One moment I was a kid on a seesaw, the next I was a Pony Express rider galloping across the Western plains....

Raza Mugabi, a biologist turned software engineer, is not sure why this particular tech startup hired him. His track record is far from stellar. In fact, he's not certain what the company ultimately even does. Sometimes it's better to keep your head down and...

In this startling literary debut, the page has turned on humanity's utopian appetites, and a new chapter is underway-one of hunger turned inward; of collective anxiety, auto-consumption, and quantum mechanics run amok. Engineers plunge from balconies. Publishers fall in love with cultists. Severed limbs...

In a world where power corrupts from within, resistance comes at the ultimate price.The Continental Authority maintains order through systematic control-enhanced individuals serve as weapons, strategic resources fuel institutional power, and dissent disappears quietly in the night. But some refuse to stay silent.The Architect's...

"You could be a mash-up of Buffy, Dylan Dog, and Constantine.""So a private eye who slays vampires and exorcises demons on the side?"Shootings, raves, robberies ... during his years on the force, Detective Allen Miar has seen it all--or at least that's what he...

"You could be a mash-up of Buffy, Dylan Dog, and Constantine.""So a private eye who slays vampires and exorcises demons on the side?"Shootings, raves, robberies ... during his years on the force, Detective Allen Miar has seen it all--or at least that's what he...

In this moving, richly detailed speculative crime debut, the world is unraveling from an epidemic of human vanishing. Two novice investigators are dispatched to small-town Kansas to interview a woman who claims to have returned from Absence, offering answers to everything. People are "popping,"...