Based on the Resident Evil series by Capcom. Albert Wesker runs the Arklay lab by day and commands the S.T.A.R.S. Alpha team by night. William Birkin runs the Raccoon City lab and tries to please his wife and daughter. When a mystery man from the past returns to cause havoc, S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team goes to investigate. Now, officer Rebecca Chambers must join convict Billy Coen to fight the outbreak.Based on the Resident Evil video game series by Capcom. Albert Wesker and William Birkin have worked for Umbrella for fifteen years. Birkin is the head of the Raccoon City laboratory and an absentee father to his young daughter Sherry. Wesker runs the Arklay laboratory by day, and by night he is the commander of a special unit of police officers called the S.T.A.R.S. team. Wesker deals with the pressures of two demanding careers, and Birkin deals with an unhappy family life and strained relationship with his wife Annette. But when a mystery man from their past resurfaces and releases the Progenitor into the open, they have to find a way to salvage what they can. The S.T.A.R.S. Bravo team is sent to investigate, and their youngest recruit, Rebecca Chambers, must join forces with an escaped convict named Billy Coen if either of them are going to survive the outbreak ...

Many tales warn us to beware the Fay Queen: yet when she steals-away Rouger, his friend Luna sets out to find her magical realm.A small key made of a mistletoe berry provides her first clue, a box containing all our fears another.Yet it’s the secret of the Fay Queen’s eternal beauty that will ensure her success–for the queen may take the youth of any girl foolish enough to willingly approach herMany tales warn us to beware the Fay Queen: yet when she steals-away Rouger, his friend Luna sets out to find her magical realm.A small key made of a mistletoe berry provides her first clue, a box containing all our fears another.Yet it’s the secret of the Fay Queen’s eternal beauty that will ensure her success – for the queen may take the youth of any girl foolish enough to willingly approach her

I wasn’t always a killer. I was an average guy, living an average life. Then my fiancé was kidnapped and murdered. I buried my conscience, teetering on losing my soul, and stepped into the vengeful role of a killer. I became a hitman. A hero to some. An angel to others. I am Michael Lynch and this is my story. This is where it all began.I wasn’t always a killer. I saw life just as easily as the next gullible, naïve kid looking at a rainbow with hope filled eyes. I was just another average guy, living just another average life. I did what was right, and never understood why anyone would choose to do differently. Then my fiancé was kidnapped and murdered. I quickly saw life without blindfolds. The kid inside me that still clung to dreams had to run and hide as there was no place for him anymore. Not with what I had in mind. Not with what had to be done. I buried my conscience, teetering on losing my soul, and stepped into the vengeful role of a killer. I became a hitman. A hero to some. An angel to others. I am Michael Lynch and this is my story. This is where it all began.

With salvation is in sight: albeit salvation marooned millions of miles from Earth; Peter makes his move, and instead of hope there is only death.After receiving a mysterious letter, a withdrawn mid-level public servant is pulled from his quiet routine and thrust into a world of intrigue and danger. Invited to join the Black Tower Hunt Club, Patrick Pierce quickly realizes that the luxurious grandeur of Ravenwood Manor belies a dark secret within. Unsure who to trust, he delves into the past to find out why he was recruited and who is behind it.Meanwhile one of Ravenwood Manor’s maids finds herself caught up in an internal power struggle for control of the Club. Trapped between two brilliant and dangerous adversaries, Jane is forced to choose a side in order to achieve her goal of a life beyond servitude.As the stakes become higher, both Patrick and Jane will have to look inward for the strength to survive the perilous ordeals they’ve been pulled into.

War is pending as Bakalor, the Demon of the underworld, sends his minions out to ensure total destruction of all those who live above ground in the sun. His plan to resurface and rule the world is nearing the final stages as he tricks land dwelling leaders into a war that will wipe each other off the face of the earth.Bakalor, the demon of the Underworld, plans to resurface and rule the world. Nearing the final stages, he deceives land-dwelling leaders into waging war upon each other, making it easy for his victory.Ergrauth, the demon lord of the Del’Unday, leads his army of Altered Creatures to the final battle in order to seize the world before Bakalor claims it for himself.Learning of the pending war plans, Thorik attempts to prevent the demons from succeeding, while searching for a way to save his grandmother, Gluic. Unaware that he is being used as a pawn by those of great power, his desire to revive her inadvertently puts his life, and the lives of everyone he cares about in great danger.

One day we mayWork it all outLeave out the doubtSay face to faceAll these thingsWe saySo constantlyWishin that weCould make the miles disappearHerein are selected poems by J. Berchman Bernard Stewart. These poems were created over ten years in relative isolation; hence, this is the first public exhibition of Mr. Stewart's poetry.Most of the works took 1,000-6,000 hours, yet a few fell like ink drops from the pen and appear here almost unaltered from their original drafts.They range from "closed form", metered, to looser internal rhyme. They are in all styles, from imagist to jazz. Some are romantic, some solemn, some a bit silly, and one a touch scary.These works are concise and speak clearly.Above all else, the goal of this poet is to move the reader with "a thing of beauty," which "is joy forever."

Carolina G. Phoenix and her four sisters are faced with unspeakable challenges. Having witnessed the murder of her parents’ and discovering the empty grave of her beloved sister, she discovers that her Aunts are far worse than what meets the eye…Carolina must use her wits to understand her family’s past before she and her sisters get consumed in the evil forever.Carolina G. Phoenix and her four sisters are faced with unspeakable challenges. Having witnessed the murder of her parents’ and discovering the empty grave of her beloved sister, she discovers that her Aunts are far worse than what meets the eye…Carolina must use her wits to understand her family’s past before she and her sisters get consumed in the evil forever. She journeys forward to the infamous Holstridge Manor where the horror unfolds.

Sixteen-year-old Vallanie Sharp has always dreamed of finding and diagnosing criminals. When she starts her apprenticeship, she finds there is much more to the job than she imagined, including some unsettling secrets. An encounter with an unusual pair of perceivers leads her to believe they may have the answer to some of her questions, but when it really comes down to it, does she want to know?Vallanie Sharp is an ordinary genetically designed girl who has always dreamed of being a perceiver. After her sixteenth birthday, she is finally given a chance. Leaving home and her over-protective mother for the first time, Vallanie follows her mentor, Scia, to the city, where she learns to conduct mental evaluations on the disorderly. While struggling with the pressure of her prestigious mentor, hoping to avoid the mean taunts of a former classmate, and trying to gain the attention of the cute valedictorian, she is reunited with an old friend and his mentor who may be more than they appear. When the tables start to turn and Vallanie finds her friends in the patient’s gowns, she begins to question her job and her surroundings. What dark secrets are embedded at the root of her society and—more importantly—does she want to know?

Adam discovers a twist to the reality he once saw when Eva decides him to be the exclusive form of escape in her demented world. Friends and enemies swirl as Adam and Eva explore the direction they are going in the beginning stages of a changing world.An unrecognizable glow draws Adam, an expert cataloger and curiouser, to decide if he is ready to move beyond the loss of his wife. With his closest friends and a new acquaintance Eva, Adam finds friend and enemy reveal themselves to be little by terms and much more by actions as the world around him uncovers what is and what is to come. The future in a changed world will depend on the strength of a very few and how they interact.

David Cole is having a quiet dinner in a Parisian restaurant situated on the bank of the River Seine. Seeing a young woman crying her eyes out a few tables away, David makes a crucial life-defining decision and invites her over to join him. What will be the outcome? Find out in “Affair of the Heart”. ##It's a free short story from the pen of Christopher Forward. So why don't you download it?? ##David Cole has a mundane job working for a company that sells toilet basins and other toiletry equipment to construction firms in France. “Coals to Newcastle” would be an apt term if it were not for the fact that David has a knack of talking French building companies into buying anything his employers, Ridgely’s, can produce. Paris has long been his predominant place of work and everything changes one fateful night in Marcel’s, a restaurant, situated on the bank of the beautiful River Seine. Could the girl he meets just be a one night stand? Or will it turn into “An Affair of the Heart”?

A sudden change in Gish's status rocks her world and sends her on the trip of a lifetime - literally and figuratively.Gish Heart returns in An Unplanned Trek of an Arbitrary Nature. It's been five years since The Gish Chronicles (also here on Smashwords). Gish has moved to sunny LA, which, to her surprise, she enjoys. Poised to be made partner in her PR firm, Gish is on top of the world. But a sudden change in status rocks her world and sends her on the trip of a lifetime - literally and figuratively.

America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: insects. When the Agency discovered that Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40 was a cover for a secret laboratory, a special team of agents was immediately dispatched to discover its true purpose and its weaknesses—it could not be allowed to continue. What they discovered was a nightmare more horrific and hideous than even their paranoid government minds could devise. First published in Galaxy magazine in 1973 as "Project 40," Frank Herbert's vivid imagination and brilliant view of nature and ecology have never been more evident than in this classic of science fiction.

Lew Alton was returning to Darkover - returning at the command of men who had once been all too glad to see him leave. For Lew, a Darkovan on his father's side, and a Terran on his mother's, had always walked between two worlds, accused by each of belonging to the other, and trusted by neither. Yet Lew alone had the power to understand both worlds and to save them from each other's unknown forces. That was the reason he had returned at last - armed with the legendary sword of the Sharra matrix, whose destiny was to cross forces with the equally mystic Sword of Aldones in one mighty battle that would decide Darkover's fate . . .

"More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people's minds." – Wall Street Journal Many thousands of readers worldwide consider Philip K. Dick to have been the greatest science fiction writer on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's work has continued to mount and his reputation has been enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now presented annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works. This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including several previously unpublished stories) covering the years 1954-1964, and featuring such fascinating tales as The Minority Report (the inspiration for Steven Spielberg's film), Service Call, Stand By, The Days of Perky Pat, and many others. Here, readers will find Dick's initial explorations of the themes he so brilliantly brought to life in his later work. Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for best novel of 1963 for The Man in the High Castle and in the last year of his life, the now-classic film Blade Runner was made from his novel Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep? The classic stories of Philip K. Dick offer an intriguing glimpse into the early imagination of one of science fiction's most enduring and respected names. "A useful acquisition for any serious SF library or collection." – Kirkus Reviews "Awe-inspiring." – The Washington Post

In the Old Testament, God called His people to action with the blast of the shofar, a ram's horn. He still calls His people today.In this relevant and timely novel, dynamic young preacher Paul Hudson is committed to building his church--but at what cost? When Paul accepted the call to pastor the struggling church, he had no idea what to expect. But it didn't take long for Paul to turn Centerville Christian Church around. Attendance is up, way up, and everything is going so well. If only his wife, Eunice, could see it that way. Still, he tries not to let her quiet presence distract him. But Eunice knows that something isn't right . . . and it hasn't been for a long time. The more Paul's zeal and ambition builds, the more he loses sight of the One who called him. As Paul and those around him struggle to discern what it truly means to live out their faith, they must ultimately choose between their own will and God's plan.

Culled from nearly 20 years of the playwright's career, a showcase for Tom Stoppard's dazzling range and virtuosic talent, The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays is essential reading for fans of modern drama. The plays in this collection reveal Stoppard's sense of fun, his sense of theater, his sense of the absurd, and his gifts for parody and satire. They include The Real Inspector Hound, After Margritte, Dirty Linen, New-Found-Land, Dogg's Hamlet, and Cahoot's Macbeth.

One summer night, a boy and his beautiful cousin plunge naked into the moonlit waters of a rural quarry. Twenty years later, the boy, now grown, flees the wreckage of his life and returns to Arden, Wisconsin, in search of everything he has lost. But for Miles Teagarden, the landscape he had known so well has turned eerie and threatening. And the love he shared has become very, very deadly . . .

Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, digs into a case more bizarre than any she has ever faced, one that has produced not only unusual physical evidence, but also tantalizing clues about the inner workings of an extremely cunning and criminal mind. She and her team --- Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and her niece, Lucy --- track the odd connections between several horrific crimes and the people who are the likely suspects. As one psychopath, safely behind bars and the subject of a classified scientific study at a Harvard-affiliated psychiatric hospital, teases Scarpetta with tips that could be fact --- or fantasy --- the number of killers on the loose seems to multiply. Are these events related or merely random? And what can the study of one man's brain tell them about the methods of a psychopath still lurking in the shadows?

One of the signature novels of the American 1960s, Couples is a book that, when it debuted, scandalized the public with prose pictures of the way people live, and that today provides an engrossing epitaph to the short, happy life of the “post-Pill paradise.” It chronicles the interactions of ten young married couples in a seaside New England community who make a cult of sex and of themselves. The group of acquaintances form a magical circle, complete with ritualistic games, religious substitutions, a priest (Freddy Thorne), and a scapegoat (Piet Hanema). As with most American utopias, this one’s existence is brief and unsustainable, but the “imaginative quest” that inspires its creation is eternal. From the Trade Paperback edition.