Vincent Cain is a 34-year old Detroit police officer in the year 2022. Vincent is not your normal police officer. He struggles to deal with a secret that he has hidden from everyone around him since he was a young child. Vincent is frequently visited by who he believes are angles. Vincent becomes annoyed with these frequent visits because of the confusing messages he receives.Vincent Cain is a 34-year old Detroit police officer in the year 2022. Vincent is not your normal police officer. He struggles to deal with a secret that he has hidden from everyone around him since he was a young child. Vincent is frequently visited by who he believes are angles. Vincent becomes annoyed with these frequent visits because of the confusing messages he receives. He will later find out that these messages are help to guide him to his very important destiny. His position in law enforcement requires upholding new federal laws that suppress religion and mandate the implantation of an identification microchip in the right hand of all citizens.Fed up with selfish and hypocritical politicians, the struggling people of America see hope in a new world leader named William Lester III who appeals to the desire for a brighter future and world peace. Lester III is a highly successful businessman and coincidentally the creator and producer of the identification chip. As Lester III grows in popularity at home and throughout the world he is eventually elected as leader of a one world government. Vincent is increasingly caught between his sworn duty to uphold the law and a growing distrust and dislike for the new regime. Although most of the world lovingly embraces Lester III, the few remaining Christian believers are skeptical of him and consider him the Anti-Christ and the identification chip “the mark of the beast”. They also believe the apocalypse is upon them and the end of times is growing closer. Vincent will soon receive one last very important message from an angel but will he be willing to listen?

Jennifer Logan likes Scott Parker, and Scott Parker likes her back. But there’s a problem. Jen’s best friend, Lindy Masters, already called dibs on Scott. Scott Parker is off limits according to best friend crush rules. Jen comes up with a plan. If she finds a new crush for Lindy then she’ll be able to go to the Snow Ball with Scott. Will Jen get a date for the school dance? Find out in Snow Ball!Jennifer Logan likes Scott Parker, and Scott Parker likes her back. But there’s a problem. Jen’s best friend, Lindy Masters, already called dibs on Scott. Scott Parker is off limits according to best friend crush rules. Jen comes up with a plan. If she finds a new crush for Lindy then she’ll be able to go to the Snow Ball with Scott. It sounds easy, but everyone knows that junior high is nothing but drama. Will Jen and Lindy get dates for the school dance? And who will win The Winter Wonderland fashion show? Find out in “Snow Ball”!

Jason is a hardworking employee, with a good life until he starts seeing two little goblins that torture him. His friends and co-workers can't see the goblins and question Jason's sanity. Can Jason fight off the goblins or will he end up in a psychiatric ward?Rob Stokes is an unremarkable twenty-one year old. He has a routine job, does ordinary things and tonight is going to a party hosted by his best friend. He’s hoping for a good time.In a short time his world will be changed forever as he becomes hunted by both a demonic assassin and a secret society trying to defend the earth from the forces of both Heaven and Hell.Rob has a destiny to become a Key; one of a handful of guardians created to protect mankind and in doing so he will become more powerful than he ever imagined but only if he can survive the night…Gothic is Steve Hester’s debut novel and the first in a series.

Four teens decide to play a game: three of them will close their eyes and try to catch the fourth one who is blind. But if nobody can see, can one of them get away with murder?Learning how to witness is a major priority for Jael, the littlest missionary. In this adventure she and her cousin Michaela learn the Romans Road. They learn a series of verses that will help them to make the Gospel of Christ clear to any boy or girl that they meet. It's important to know what to say when they talk to other about God, so Jael is really excited to have a simple plan to follow that helps her show children WHY they need Christ and HOW to get to know Him better.

A wish upon a star transports the luckless-in-love Jessica Blakely back in time to the thirteenth century. But her desire for a fair and gallant knight yields the fearsome Richard De Galtres. And it will take her tender touch—and stubborn will—to pierce his armor-clad heart...

Journey Through the Planets is a hilariously funny one act play suitable for children to perform. The plot follows a crew aboard a star cruiser shuttling a vacationing collection of comical passengers on a trek through the solar system. There is no fee for downloading or performing. You'll love this one.Journey Through the Planets is a hilariously funny one act play suitable for children to perform. The plot follows a crew aboard a star cruiser shuttling a vacationing collection of comical passengers on a trek through the solar system. You'll laugh as each performer brings their interpretation and energy to the script in their own interpretive way. The story is imaginative and funny and is definitely okay for children of all ages. There is no fee for downloading or performing. You'll love this one.

When war rages across the universe, tell me, which side are you on?First book in the Balada series.On Caliupus 27th, Imperial year 1898, Federal year 3941, and Republican year 953 on the small home world of the Tolstoy sector, a Federal fleet clashed for less than 3 hours with an Imperial one. This small battle which was the first shot in The Great War was situated above a place called Graperust Manor, owned by a Novo Albetan lawyer called William Murasaki Kuckluck. After the Battle of Graperust, mister Murasaki said that he had enough of the whole affair and decided to move his family 560.000 light-years to a town called New Hope within the Tremera system, to a house called Woodgrom Courthouse with the intention of avoiding the war in its entirety. Years later the commanders of the belligerent forces came to that very same courthouse to sign the ending of all hostilities. So when it was over Mr Murasaki could boast that the war began on his front lawn porch and ended in his backyard gazebo. The Great War raged across millions of star systems, billions of planets and trillions of light years, within it farm workers from Nova Bronze City of the Towar System, clashed with fisherman from Seshrim 9, lawyers and schoolteachers from the Brumbaki Plains of Bulla 8 with doctors and accountants from The Tjigu asteroid cluster. Whole nations and ways of life would disappear only to be replaced by new ones and within this age of chaos great heroes and villains would emerge, several sentients would join the war, each from the three superpowers, they would be at the most crucial and most bloody of the battles and somehow survive them all, and give testimony of just how unrealistic reality could become. A smuggler would save a country , a shadow warrior would emerge from the darkness, a rebel would reshape the galaxy, a sentient would change the way things were forever, and a potions brewer who did not go a single day to military school would become the greatest commander the known universe had ever seen or perhaps would ever see. So the sands of time flowed and with their passing the universe changed forevermore. Grand Scholar and Great War Expert Djanus Todomari Imperium Archives

A healer’s duty is to sustain life, not take it. It seems a fact irrefutable. But when a dark prophecy seems ripe to unfold, She will become His Instrument of Death.A healer’s duty is to sustain life, not take it. It seems a fact irrefutable. But when a dark prophecy seems ripe to unfold, She will become His Instrument of Death.After the Wrongful Execution of her father, the Healer takes the young girl in, intent on Raising her in Five Virtues, Squelching thoughts of Revenge, Training her to take her place among the Elite Guard that protects him from the Tyrannical King who has sworn to rid the world of Magic, but when that King brutally murders one of the healer's own and a Dark Prophecy seems ripe to unfold, he will go from forbidding revenge to laying the way for her. His Sanctuary of Healing will birth an Assassin.

A wildly imaginative and gritty new adventure from the author of horror epic "The 9th Fortress." Ham Taylor: Lost in Time is the first step in an incredible journey spanning space, time, and everything in between.A wildly imaginative and gritty new adventure from the author of horror epic "The 9th Fortress." Ham Taylor: Lost in Time is the first step in an incredible journey spanning space, time, and everything in between. When an unstoppable comet sets its sights on New York City - the time machine, and its creator, are the only hope humanity has left. From the near future to a long forgotten past, falling skyscrapers to rising pyramids, Ham Taylor is put to the ultimate test in this battle to save the world! The adventure starts here!

On her way to meet her girlfriend for their vacation together in Honduras, Elodie gets thrown off-course and ends up in Placencia, Belize. There she finds herself tempted by an alluring woman, and encounters a fisherman who is a haunting reminder of the father she’s never met.Elodie decides to sojourn in Placencia, Belize for a few days. This comes as a surprise to her girlfriend, Andrea, who is waiting for her in Honduras where they planned to meet up for their vacation together. Elodie says she is "coming to terms" with some things. Also visiting Placencia - a beautiful woman named Sage, who is not afraid to go after what she wants: Elodie.

He was my little brother. I loved him, from his tiny toes to his drug-addled mind and his selfish heart.I love my brother. I loved him when he was a little baby with his tiny fingers and toes. I loved him when he was growing up and stopped following me around. I loved him when my parents gave him everything he asked for, even sometimes at my expense. I loved him in his rebellious teenage years that took him down the mean streets and away from me. I loved him when I would wait up all night and he wouldn't return at all. I loved him when I pulled gun on him and asked him to leave. He was my little brother and I always loved him.

Death is not the end--however badly Jeanette Winters wishes it was. Accompanied by Rupert, her angelic guide, Jeanette must journey through her past to correct mistakes and preserve her eternal soul. From Evan Fuller, author of Mutt & Stray, comes a scathingly scathing satirical novelette that will appeal to fans of Douglas Adams & Terry Pratchett.We’ve been keeping an eye on these subjects for a while.A simple glance couldn’t tell you the extraordinary things these anomalies, these gifted individuals we call Outliers are truly capable of. And those differences often find them on the wrong side of families, friends and the law.Most wish only to hide from persecution or from being studied. But more emerge with every passing year, and it is becoming harder and harder to keep them secret. Worse, many don’t want to be hidden and have begun to gang together to obtain power, wealth and control.Gathered here are reports and dossiers from AURA, the United States’ Agency of Unusual Resource Acquisitions. Our task is the extra-judicial monitoring and containment of Outlier-related incidents, and keeping the chaos to a minimum for the sake of national security. But the job is getting more difficult every day, and if the past is any warning…—Adam Zimmerman, Director of AURAIncludes several pieces of flash fiction, as well as the four short stories:FUBAR by Jonathan WardFor a Fistful of Diamonds by A. R. AstonThe Falcon by Jonathan WardThe Beast in the Beauty by James FadeleyAlso featuring characters and factions developed by Alec McQuay and Robbie MacNiven, and illustrations and artwork by Manuel Mesones.

As a last resort, Valerie Campbell is sent to a facility for troubled youth called "New Horizons". The jaded and stubborn 17-year-old clashes with the counsellors and residents of the program, and is pessimistic about her stay. After Val witnesses an escape attempt from fellow delinquent and nutcase, "Jenny Shoulders", Val decides the only way to get better is to get out.Valerie Campbell is a high school dropout without a life plan when she is taken from her home and dropped off at New Horizons, a wilderness program for troubled youth. After a strip search and a brief stint in solitary confinement, Val is placed in cabin 519 with five other delinquents from across the country. In denial about her belonging at the facility, Val clashes with several of the residents of the program, and makes a quick enemy with her cabin mate, Karen. Val's mouth and attitude gets her an overnight stay in the ward, where she witnesses an escape attempt from fellow nutcase "Jenny Shoulders". The director of New Horizons denies the rumours of an escape, but Val knows the truth and has to decide what to do with it.Raw, tragic, and uplifting, "New Horizons" follows Val's journey of self-acceptance in a program meant to break her.

The ride down the elevator to Agni Mining Station was like a ride into Hell itself. On a planet where you could never quite get warm enough, it quickly became uncomfortably warm, then uncomfortably hot. G. Drew Akers had been in deep mines before, he'd worked in one for two years in Hussy Crater in his early twenties.The ride down the elevator to Agni Mining Station was like a ride into Hell itself. On a planet where you could never quite get warm enough, it quickly became uncomfortably warm, then uncomfortably hot. G. Drew Akers had been in deep mines before, he'd worked in one for two years in Hussy Crater in his early twenties. He'd decided then that he never wanted to return to one, fortunately he wouldn't be in this one long. But that mine in Hussy had only been two kilometres below the surface of Mars, this mine was almost twelve.At the mine in Hussy he rode an elevator like this one twice each day, but here the miners lived below. Agni Mining Station was a small self-contained town at the bottom of the elevator shaft. He reached up and wiped the sweat from his brow. He'd only been in the elevator a few minutes, and already his clothes were soaked with sweat, and he was developing a headache. He opened his jacket hoping the sweat would evaporate, and in the process exposed the butt of the pistol in his shoulder holster.

Feisty young Ariana must find the strength to undergo a radical shift in her reality. Can she embrace her inner monster and not lose her humanity? Can she have it all?Ariana Yates wakes in the night with a real snake bite on her arm, and horrific monsters fight in the darkened street outside her window. With her nightmares bleeding into reality, she fights to resist the changes that are draining her body. When she finally relents, a whole new world opens up in front of her; a world that is equally terrifying and fascinating. She is welcomed into a new family, and discovers that the city of Caerton is home to a host of shapeshifters, the Chosen of Artemis, who guard the veil between the world of humanity and the realms of deadly demons and inhuman fae. The ancient gods of Greek and Norse mythology seem to watch over the shifters and werewolves of the city, at least, that's what Caerton's shifters say... Ariana must adjust to the radical changes in her life, and struggles to balance her humanity with the beast within, in the midst of a hidden, war-torn world. Mysteries unfold and tensions mount in this, the dark and thrilling first instalment of the Echoes of the Past series. REVIEW "This debut novel is a breath of fresh air but at the same time it is deeply rooted in mythology, religion and shamanism. Author is undoubtedly an erudite and has a great knowledge which makes this novel deeper than what you normally expect of this genre. The story is truly captivating and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping. H. Lyne's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a turbulent ride that they will never want to end. I couldn't put the book down and cannot wait for the second part!!!" - Customer Review

Raised to take the place of her dead brother,  Carlota de Zubaran can do anything that Carlos could  have done. She races her stallion through the  California lowlands, dives into shark-infested waters  searching for gold, and fights in the battles that  rage between the Mexicans and the Americans. At  sixteen, she is fearless--and that pleases her  father very much. Yet while Carlota  throughly enjoys her freedom, she wants to be more  than her father's "son." She wants to be  herself, brave and courageous but free to show  feelings of tenderness and compassion as well. Her  father thinks such feelings are shameful, so Carlota  must defy him. That will be the most difficult  battle of all.

The Robin Hood legend comes thrillingly alive in Robin McKinley's reimagining of the classic adventure Young Robin Longbow, subapprentice forester in the King's Forest of Nottingham, must contend with the dislike of the Chief Forester, who bullies Robin in memory of his popular father. But Robin does not want to leave Nottingham or lose the title to his father's small tenancy, because he is in love with a young lady named Marian—and keeps remembering that his mother too was gentry and married a common forester. Robin has been granted a rare holiday to go to the Nottingham Fair, where he will spend the day with his friends Much and Marian. But he is ambushed by a group of the Chief Forester's cronies, who challenge him to an archery contest . . . and he accidentally kills one of them in self-defense. He knows his own life is forfeit. But Much and Marian convince him that perhaps his personal catastrophe is also an opportunity: an opportunity for a few stubborn Saxons to gather together in the secret heart of Sherwood Forest and strike back against the arrogance and injustice of the Norman overlords.