A short story introducing sassy and spunky Goldie Locke and her menagerie of magical and rare creatures.Witch Goldie Locke's mission in life is the rescue and rehabilitation of endangered Magical creatures. She will put her life and all she has at risk to save them.Normally, the school creates the hunters - not the monsters. Abby Sorrensten likes to play rough. Ripping the horns off the foreheads of demons, manipulating lightning and setting things on fire with the flick of your wrist can give you a serious rush. So she probably wasn’t the best choice for the Order’s experimental training program. Thirteen years of isolation, lack of affection and a bruised and broken body from horrendous training sessions creates more than just an exceptional fighter, it creates an evil within - an evil responsible for several deaths the night she left. Two hundred years later Abby resurfaces as the very thing the Order trained her to kill: a vampire. A mythical demon has set his sights on the school and only the ordained hunter has the powers to face it. Unbeknownst to the Order, Abby’s their precious ordained one and their only chance for survival. As much as she would love to leave them hanging, she’s not willing to risk the life of Emily, a fellow friend and hunter also fed up with the organization. But for Abby, locking herself away in a fortress with angry descendents of those she killed causes suspicions and tensions to run high. Abby must learn the demon’s weaknesses for battle before the Order learns hers.(

Boddaert's Magic portrays the unending struggle between good and evil, set in a world seldom visited by man.Boddaert's Realm is a world dominated by magic and the moon - a domain where the Prime Mover holds the ultimate power.The struggle to gain control of Boddaert's Magic takes Darkburst on a long and dangerous journey to Migaro Lake, where he discovers the Circle of Claws. How could he know that allowing the Preceptor access to the relic would destroy them all?

Elaina Johnson was born with a vision of her own death. It was something she had accepted, but as the end moves closer, she learns that seeing and knowing are far different things.This is a short story of approximately 3600 words. Additional content includes a free three chapter preview of Bound by Prophecy.Waking up locked inside a container is something Vivian was not expecting. She knows she died before she could complete her previous mission, but why was she put inside the container?However, once she frees herself, she learns that people are not only living underground, but in an isolated town outside, where the air was pronounced to be toxic. But this town has been around for years, so who are these people? Once Vivian gets involved with them, she can't pull herself out. Someone from her past is right around the corner.

Just when Dr. land was about to give up on his dream his luck changed, but this expedition was going to be his last when he entered the tomb of King Necron."I can't believe I've been an Archaeologist all these years and all I have to show for the thirty plus years is a couple dinosaur bones. I feel I've been nothing, but a disgrace to all archaeologists abroad. When will my luck change?" said a sad Dr. Moreland.Sometimes when we are at our lowest points in life some kind of intervention steps in and our luck changes, and that's what is about to happen to Dr. Moreland the moment he pulls his revolver from his desk, and points the gun to his head. Just as he pulled trigger, and closed his eyes, and nothing happened the door of his study burst open with the news he had been waiting for all these years. A young ambitious student of Dr. Moreland's said "Dr. Moreland! Dr. Moreland!" as he gasped for air."What is it? Can't you see you interrupted me, I was about to end my worthless life, this better be good," explained Dr. Moreland in frustration."You're not going to believe this, but a good friend of mine was on an expedition in Egypt and was told by some old man that said he can lead us to King Necron's tomb.""What do you need me for? There are many well qualified archeologists that were more successful than I.” “Why don't you go now and let me try again? Maybe this time I'll succeed,” replied Dr. Moreland in a sad tone of voice."Didn't you tell no matter me how frustrating it can be in this business to keep on trying because when you least expect it your luck can change in an instant?" explained the eager student."Yes, I said those words, but I only said it so you wouldn't end up like me old and broke with nothing to show for it," as the doctor laid his head down on his desk sobbing."Dr. Moreland, don't destroy what you instilled in me. Wipe those tears dry, and let's get on the next plane to Egypt, and make history. I'll make a deal with you if I'm wrong I'll end my life as well. Come on! Come on! What do you say?""Ok! Ok!" then the doctor placed his revolver in his suitcase for protection when he and his colleague arrived in Egypt. The doctor got on the phone and scheduled their flight to Egypt.The student helped Dr. Moreland in rounding up more students to help with the expedition.Later that afternoon, Dr. Moreland and his team of wannabe archaeologists were on a plane heading towards the greatest find ever and a curse that would be unleashed when the tomb of King Necron was opened.

A mixture of horror and fantasy. Where a psychiatric has a taste for red meat, and elsewhere a statue greets the end of time. A fantasy that delves into the underworld and lives forever in the cyberworld. Where late night autopsies prove the existence of the metaphysical, and an encounter with a gypsy creates monsters. A collection of short stories from the mind of Zachary Adams.A mixture of horror and fantasy. Where a foodie can't stop eating, and an EMT meets a patient unlike any other. Where a psychiatric has a taste for red meat, and elsewhere a statue greets the end of time. A fantasy that delves into the underworld, and another into the cyberworld. Psychological manipulation, one attempt resisted, another willingly accepted. Where late night autopsies prove the existence of the metaphysical, and an encounter with a gypsy creates monsters. A collection of short stories from the mind of Zachary Adams.

"The Journals" will be a mini free series of short writings that dives in the confused and sometimes dark mind of a young struggling writer.The Journals: Part I: Letters to Nobody-The young struggling writer express his feelings for a lady friend as well as his distance from othersIt has been twenty long years since the Dark Shogun’s victory at the Great War. After the war, everyone expected peace. Everyone wanted peace. But in the twenty years since the war there has been only fear and uncertainty and oppression. The Shogun, with the approval of Emperor Yozei, has outlawed the Samurai class and the public display of swords. He has outlawed the use of Ninja and the practice of Ninjutsu. He has outlawed the Kensei order, the legendary Sword Saints of Japan. After the Kensei surrendered, he began systematically dismantling the great Samurai clans. The Shogun's army would be the only military force. The Ninja clans retreated to their secret mountain villages. The great Samurai clans chose to fight. They were crushed. The Shogun's army is too massive. Too ruthless. The Dark Shogun now rules the country with absolute power. Some say he is invincible. Some say he is a God. Only a handful of Samurai clans remain. Only a handful of Kensei warriors remain. But not for long…

A friendly alien village welcomes strange visitors to their planet but the visitors bring unwelcomed and dangerous visitors of their own.Alias Meets The X-FilesWhat dark secret is the FBI’s newest recruit hiding? Dawn Dempsey’s apartment is a shrine to a lost world and civilization. She yearns to see a once noble empire restored to its full splendor, and her mother ascend to the throne and take her rightful place as ruler of her people. Dawn, a brilliant scientist and martial arts experts, has a more immediate problem. An important phone call is late: has something gone wrong with tonight's planned rendezvous? When an FBI agent hammers on her front door, the night is about to get a whole lot worse for her. The FBI has captured a Greae alien, and a 10 year old boy is trapped inside the blazing wreckage of a spaceship. All the strings of a perfectly orchestrated and intricate plan look like they are about to unravel – unless Dawn can think on her feet, act swiftly, and deal with each new crisis as it erupts; even if it means resorting to murder. Alias meets the X-Files in a dramatic pulsating new series of paranormal mystery investigations, with an enigmatic character at the heart of the FBI's elite alien hunters.

'Greywolf', volume eleven in the Stanton Chronicles series of novels.The Millennium war games amid 'Circles of Fear', the government and media covered up the fact blues guitar player Jason Brinkly fought the battle of Armageddon at the turn of the second millennium, but with the hand of whom on his shoulder? The awesome weapon Adam resurfaces in the hands of Greywolf, but had it ever slept?'Greywolf', volume eleven in the Stanton Chronicles series of novels.The Millennium war games amid 'Circles of Fear', the government and media covered up the fact blues guitar player Jason Brinkly fought the battle of Armageddon, but with the hand of whom on his shoulder? Governments and commercial entities withdraw to their own circles driven by fear as the awesome weapon ADAM resurfaces in the hands of Greywolf, but had it ever slept. They regrouped ready to strike, they waited a long time for the ageing vigilante to wane, they would soon beg for his return. The stock market crashed, as the rich ran for cover they left the poor to put the bill, the rich for no other reasons than wealth rather than purpose, were hunted down. Greywolf unlike Stanton was not confined by matters of state, but by matters of servitude. He lived by the gun, the gun of his father; he served the righteous, in the name of his mother. Greywolf began to stalk the corridors of power. Educated by the sword of the cross, armed with the power of technology, authoritative information far beyond the gun, loyal to none but servant to all, even Stanton struggled to understand his creation. His mother 'Bella Elizabeth', a ruthless assassin was horrified. Grey by the wisdom of his father's hair, wolf by the virtue of his mother, 'Greywolf' became the law.

In Area 51 three of the country's best leaders converge in a top secret meeting to negotiate a truce: an alien race is demanding a number of our people in exchange for money or the planet will suffer extermination by intergalactic battle cruisers. With clashing viewpoints, thinning patience, and an itchy trigger finger, doom seems inevitable. (Part one of a series).The post apocalyptic world is both a hostile and beautiful place. Follow the adventures of nomadic clans, hidden worlds and the observing remains of a once untouchable technological threat. Both sides of every dilemna have answers for each other, but will they be able to overcome their fears of one another?Beautiful digital illustrations and dialogue woven by the master airbrush illustrator Paul Knipfer. CE Publishing's primary cover artist. This is his first big adventure into the sequential panel world.

A short story about a young, stubborn priest and a convict on death row, and their strained relationship surrounding the status of the inmate's soul after death. Will he conform to the priest's requirements, or will the young priest simply give up on the doomed man?A retelling of the classic Russian folk tale about the prince who must complete three challenges in order to bring the firebird back to the king. He has help along the way in the form of a white wolf. Even if he finds the firebird, will he be able to bring ot home?

Wonka is proud to present his very own tale, a Christmas Caterol for all to enjoy at this special time of year. It does of course feature his Owner, who is slowly warming up to the season of goodwill, and it will also wave a paw in the direction of that most famous of Christmas tales, by Mr Dickens. So it's a Merry Christmas from Wonka, with Owner not far behind..The sixth Wonka story is of course a Christmas story as told by Wonka, with Owner for once listening along.. underlined as ever by the voice of reason, this gentle Caterol introduces us to a cat called Sheba, a ghostly shadow by the poor back door and other Christmas Eve happenings! As a special treat there is a small paw waved at Owner's hero Mr Dickens, who brought us the best Christmas story of all. Wonka can only do his poor best, and hopes you will as ever, keep up with Wonka! Thanks to Wonka, Owner can sit back, enjoy the story and forget her troubles. Do join in! Merry Christmas one and all.

Happily mated Tiger shifter, Fhina has the Purr-fect life with her no-longer-cursed Wolf shifter husband and their brand new babies. So, why is it that life suddenly took a turn for the weird for her favorite cousin Tessa? And why did Fhina’s Magician ex-boyfriend and his gaggle of pixies suddenly appear in Tessa’s bakery.Happily mated Tiger shifter, Fhina has the Purr-fect life with her no-longer-cursed Wolf shifter husband and their brand new babies. So, why is it that life suddenly took a turn for the weird for her favorite cousin Tessa? And why did Fhina’s Magician ex-boyfriend and his gaggle of pixies suddenly appear in Tessa’s bakery. It will take a lot more than a curse book to solve this mystery. It’ll take the combined talents of an dysfunctional Enchantress, a first level Witch, and more than a little luck.

Finding the perfect gift for friends and family is hard enough, but when your friends have such specific tastes, it can be murder.The Party Line, a Myrtle Crumb Mystery prequel, shows readers where Myrtle's sleuthing all began--with her telephone's party line! Ada, Tansie Miller's daughter, has moved back home. Word on the party line is that her husband has shown an interest in another woman. When the other woman is found dead, Myrtle is on the case! Myrtle is the sassy, sixty-something sleuth who won readers over in Between A Clutch and a Hard Place, When Good Bras Go Bad, and Claus of Death.

I meet a dream boy on holiday, accept his invite to his dream mountaintop castle; but when I get here, it’s a nightmare of invisible staff (apart from old, sour-faced Lisa) and gardens of either freezing white snow or sheer darkness. Oh, and magpies who appear out of nowhere.Now I’ve found a book for ‘young wytches’; but will it help me survive the castle, or is it just another trap?I meet a dream boy on holiday, accept his invite to his dream mountaintop castle; but when I get here, it’s a nightmare of invisible staff (apart from old, sour-faced Lisa) and gardens of either freezing white snow or sheer darkness. Oh, and magpies who appear out of nowhere.Now I’ve found a book for ‘young wytches’; but will it help me survive the castle, or is it just another trap?

Jim Grady is off on another adventure, this time by land as he rescues another kidnapped girl.****Please write a revue for the book****Thank youThe authorMayenta has returned once again to the land with no recollection of where she had gone. All she knew was, every time she returned to the vale, she returned lying in the same spot underneath a dogwood tree growing high upon Honor Mountain--and, as usual, she returned naked. What did it mean that she left Paigorya without warning? Where did she go? WHY did she go? And, most importantly, who was she?The Dogwood Tree eBook short story includes a free excerpt from Laurie Y. Elrod's novel, Blackridge-Book One of the So'ladiun.

Three lost souls are connected by the glittering and extravagant parlor of Acier. Who is a dream? Who is flesh and blood? Who can leave and who must stay? Who can lay claim to the power of dreams and lost things? In this mysterious and snowy little town nestled high on a mountain, the line between what is real and what is fantasy is as separable as the edge of the earth and the sill of the sky.A young man waiting tables. A finely dressed stranger who wears his hat inside. The editor-in-chief of the town newspaper. These three lost souls are connected by the glittering and extravagant parlor of Acier. Who is the dream? Who is flesh and blood? Who can leave and who must stay? What does it mean to exist? Who can lay claim to the power of dreams and lost things?In this mysterious and snowy little town nestled high on a mountain, the line between what is real and what is fantasy is as separable as the edge of the earth and the sill of the sky.

This short, flash fiction starts with an open gate in a picket fence. Closed, the gate guards the pathway to paradise. Open, it becomes an omen; a harbinger of death; a reminder of the horrors she has already survived. But now, instead of her husband, it is her children at risk.A mother returns home from work to find the gate in her picket fence open. Immediately she panics, reminded of the last time she came home to an open gate - the day her husband was murdered by his former partner. Closed, the gate guards the pathway to paradise. Open, it becomes an omen; a harbinger of death; a reminder of the horrors she has already survived. But now, instead of her husband, it is her children at risk.

Winter, bastard of a dead War God, fostered at birth to a hostile country to account for the war crimes of his Mother, comes of age in a world torn apart by the wars between gods and men. Can he find the way between them with on foot on both sides?Winter is the child of Devonshire, the High Mage of the Scioni Institute of Magic. His birth father was Othr, the last god of a destroyed people, killed by his mother shortly after his conception. After birth, his Mother also killed the daughter of the sea god Atlantica and was forced to give up Winter to fostership with him in recompense. Now on the cusp of adulthood, Winter finds his loyalties pulled between those of his mother’s people, and his foster people. If that wasn’t hard enough, he’s also plagued by mysterious dreams he can only conclude come from the long dead people of his father.

A heroic prophecy must be a good thing, right? ...Right?The 7 Poems of One Direction: Harry Edition is part of a collection of books created by Amanda Song. The young mind will be able to learn about poetry while reading about their favorite people or topics. Teachers can grab their young ones attention by using examples of poetry that involve their interests. Students can impress their teachers by already knowing different styles of poetry. There are many styles in the collection, including Acrostic, Haiku, Cinquain, Sonnet, and even Sestina! Once students become acquainted with the different style of poetry, they will be able to identify where the author went outside the lines every now and then.

Unusual sounds come from inside the walls of a hospital waiting room. Walls that should not be there according to the blue prints.A mother waits for her son's broken arm to be set in the waiting room of Keller Hospital.Unusual sounds come from inside the walls of a hospital waiting room. Walls that should not be there according to the blue prints. Can she and the Detective that brought her son to the ER discover what lies behind the wall?