The Egyptian goddess Sekhmet, with an insatiable taste for human flesh, smells the blood still flowing within the pump of the circulatory systems of the throngs gathered so closely in antebellum Boston, reeking so of blood that the perfume ignites her killing frenzy. Are the Ushers powerful enough to stop her murderous rage and send her back to the deep pockets of eternity whence she came?This is a continuation of The Tell-Tale House of Usher and The Tale of Hatotep. Hatotep, a few thousand years old but none the worse for wear and tear, continues to reside at the Usher town house on Franklin Square in Boston. He's gone from frightful novelty to a houseguest who is beginning to wear out his welcome. Not that he isn't charming and good company but his continual shedding of his earthly remains keeps the fastidious Madeline in an exhausting state of alert.While enjoying a cup of tea, Madeline and Edmund notice drops of blood condensing from the air of the parlor. When Hatotep is told of this phenomenon, he becomes despondent at the news, knowing that this is a first sign that the Lady of Slaughter herself has entered this world and that now his friends are in danger of their lives. In this first chapter, Madeline is made to see the only course open to her if she is to defeat the goddess Sehkmet and send her away. She vanishes without trace or explanation leaving the others to face a terrifying confrontation with the Mistress of Dread. Can Madeline return in time with the knowledge she has sought to save them?

Native American ingenuity faces criminal-element in this suspenseful, dynamic and exciting tale of an P.I. whose has the Native-foxlike skills to outwit, investigate and capture some of the modern American West's culprit.Bo Jon is an private investigator who works out of the West. He is native-American, a former-Marine and Green Beret stationed at DMZ and went on to attain his Masters in Economics... Intelligent, wise and cunning he's learned from his heritage a father sitting Chief of his tribe, and many accolades from as a Reservationalist-officer to retiring to live on his ranch, Secato S. A very capable detective. He works out of the Modern day West from Alaska to discover fishery disease to Houston TX to uncover a heist thought impossible. He aids, assists and solves many sorts of crimes that he has the innate ability to solve and apprehend.

Collection of 100 haiku centered around various critters with a fair share of insects mixed in.There's danger in the beauty...Two years, six months, and twenty-five days. That's how long it had been since I'd seen my winged hero— not that I'd been counting. I'd suffered through years of counseling just to convince my friends and family that I wasn't crazy and knew he didn't exist.But he did. And I was done waiting.Days after college graduation I headed back down to New Orleans to retrace my steps and find Owen again only to find my life was about to get even crazier... thanks to the most beautiful and dangerous of all paranormal creatures, the Allures.*New Adult Paranormal Romance*

A short story about a man and his experience with a different kind of fountain of youth.Sixteen-year-old Anna Grey has the personality of an online encyclopaedia crossed with a leashed miniature bulldog and she is about to discover that she has a very special gift. The 'gift' doesn't compute well and her orderly little world is about to be turned upside down. Anna is about to discover that she can see the dead ... speak to the dead and crush (blush) on the dead.Meet her two mismatched best friends always annoyingly by her side–Dylan Ray, a drama queen of an undecided nature and Jacqui Van Eden, a fragile butterfly girl. Together they inadvertently summon the soul of an Australian WW1 teenage soldier named Leo. Leo is confused and stuck, pining for a love long while being a bit on the nose.Being amongst the living is becoming harder for Leo to achieve and he is scared that he will dissolve into a bootstrap with an earlobe before his mystery is solved. Armed with their cutting edge IT devices, the trio travel virtually through history to unearth why Leo has one foot in No Man's land and a bum cheek on Anna's good couch. It's going to take more than facts and figures–it's going to require HEART.

Anton Splendor loses his leg in a car accident, and when he meets the man that caused the accident from a mutual acquaintance...can he learn to rebuild his shattered life, and more importantly...to forgive?Anton Splendor loses his left leg in a car accident, but along with losing his leg he also loses his drive..ambition and zest for life.But when he meets Michelle and starts dating her at behest of his friend Larry, everything changes!Until the day that he meets the man that caused his accident...can he learn to forgive and move on with his life?

"'Just three more stops,' I thought to myself. I gripped my knife, the handle digging into my flesh. I closed my eyes and tried to think of Eris."A descent down the path of self-destruction, does salvation lie around the corner or is it merely an illusion? The Last Three is a captivating story of a lost soul on the streets of a modern dystopia.“Imagine things and make them real.”When Oliver Bell meets a beautiful young woman one night in his dreams, he literally can’t get her out of his mind. Unfortunately, he also can’t tell if she’s anything more than just a wonderful figment of his imagination. It’s only when she starts leaving him clues for how to find her in the real world that Oliver’s sense of fantasy and reality begin to blur into something strange and new. The journey that follows takes Oliver everywhere he can imagine and beyond; across the country to a city he doesn’t know, to things from his terrible past he would rather forget; over concrete and bluebells and snow and ice; all leading him to the truth that love can exist in dreams.

The journey of unimaginable terror continues in volume two. One person is set to find out what terror truly is. (highly recommend to read volume one first for free).The fast-paced journey continues to haunt everyday people who come face to face with kind eyes and the blade. Will someone find out who Mr. Beautiful is and why he is determined to cause the most inflicted pain anyone can imagine? (highly recommend reading Volume One first for free).

SpaceForce Corporal Nigel Halsted thinks he's in deep when he gets recruited by a shadowy organization to help derail a treaty between two interstellar species. But when the mission turns sour, he quickly learns that "deep" is all a matter of perspective...In the year 2833, two friends Tyren and Reda set out to discover new worlds in the universe. They reach Planet Ziplo and get to explore the planet with the Mintrones that inhabit it. The Mintrones welcome Tyren and Reda and they have a great time together. All if well till a cataclysmic event occurs. The dark and evil Zonetrones want to get a hold of the power cube on planet Ziplo in the hope of increasing their own powers. This leads to an attack of planet Ziplo by the Zonetrones. The Mintrones fight the dark Zonetrones with the help of Tyren and Reda. To find out how this story unravels, read our book – THE DAY THE WORLDS MET. A Note from the Author This book was written to put into words the adventures of the Mintrones as my son imagined them. So it’s an effort of a mom to document her son’s thoughts. I have tried my best to bring his ideas alive here. The website www.mintrones.com offers a range of creature toys based on the characters in this book. This whole process of creating our company started when my son who is seven years old came to us and told us that he would love to create his own toys. He drew some sketches of the creatures that inhabited an alien world called Planet Ziplo. He imagined their abilities, their world and their adventures. We decided to go for it and create a range of toys based on his thoughts. In this process, he got to work with artists, prototype designers and even the manufacturer to some extent in the design of the toys. It was an awesome experience for a little guy to take what was an idea and see a tangible product come from it. We had a lot of fun in this process as well. We thought it would nice to give every child the same opportunity to be creative and enjoy being a part of an experience like this. From this was born the “Create Your Own Mintrone” Contest. Your child can enter a design of a mintrone into our contest. The entries get voted upon and the winners get to be our next great toy designers. They also get paid royalty every time a toy of their design is sold to help fund their college! We are out to impact the lives of our children in a positive way. So go ahead and be part of this journey. We hope you have a blast doing it!

Mia, while walking her dog, Bubbles, comes upon a teenager, Angelina who has sculpted a papier-mâché life-size cow. The cow's name is Milky Whey and she needs a home. Mia and Bubbles take her in unaware she is a magic cow. One night Mia learns about Milky Whey's life when she was a real cow. Mia's and Bubble's lives have been touched with a bit of magic and a bit of truth.When facing the most difficult challenge that life can throw at us, can we come together as a family or will we fall apart? It is an everyday battle that Savya and her family, ever since that fateful day when her mother was diagnosed with cancer. It didn't seem fair or reasonable that her mother had to suffer when everybody else just went about their lives unhindered. But, it is what it is and it is time to understand the true meaning of family.

She knew she should have just flown back to Hangtian with Cheng. That was all that was required. Find the missing strato-freighter and report its location. But this was an American airship, and she was going to be damned if she let a bunch of rebels rescue it.The insulation of the thermal-suit was good as well, she couldn't feel the icy air touching any part of her skin, but after an hour or so, a cold ache set into her arms, and then her feet, and then legs. By the time she reached the airship the ache had spread up her back, and the Cyber Heads-Up Display implanted in her eyes was reporting mild hypothermia. She suddenly realized she had been running through the darkness, and wondered if Cheng could have even made the journey without waving around a light that would have let everyone on the airship know he was coming. Did the Confederacy implant its troops this CHUDs?She knew she should have just flown back to Hangtian with Cheng. That was all that was required. Find the missing strato-freighter and report its location. But this was an American airship, and she was going to be damned if she let a bunch of rebels rescue it. America might have lost the war against these Eco-Rebels on Mars, and America might have fallen to its own Eco-Revolution back home, but damned it, America could still rescue its own ships!

Two businessmen from Tanzania start a business that at first does not do as well as they would like. That is where Prof Moto Moto comes in. When he fails Prof Pima Moto takes over. But as they say when the hand gets tired, the shoulder takes over. The shoulder appears in the shape of Prof Zima Moto. So where does the albino child come into all this?Albinism is a genetic condition that results in the lack of pigment in a person's skin, eyes and hair. Some witchdoctors in Africa claim that organs and body parts from albinos have magical powers. And their greedy clients get trapped in schemes to secure these items to be used in rituals. This short story takes a peek on how the ‘professors’ hatch and execute the dirty get-rich-quick or healing schemes for those who believe in their magical powers. And that takes a toll on People living with albinism and humanity.

This should be considered sample chapters in the novel: THE SKIES ARE LIGHTED WITH LAMPS, which will be out in a couple of months.Kiskadee can be a wonderful place to live. It is a small village on an island in the Caribbean. Life there is generally simple and serene. But in the middle of this little world, there exist an uneasy feeling that this is not one of the happily ever after stories.Kiskadee can be a wonderful place to live. It is a small village on an island in the Caribbean. Life there is generally simple and serene. But in the middle of this little world, there exist an uneasy feeling that this is not one of the happily ever after stories. And so, this village sets the stage for a family reuniting and another immigrating. Be prepared to keep guessing throughout this book, and of the series! This book is part of the series: The Skies Are Lighted With Lamps.

The truest and most reliable account of the creation of...er...Creation. You name it, it's here! God, Lucifer and Michael. Adam, Lilith and Eve. Talking animals and voices in a head (not one, not two but three! Yes, three!). Chaos, as itself. Guest appearances, Jesus, Cthulhu and Shub-Niggurath. And don't forget the vicious but quite divine Headache... did I mention about the aliens?There, in the middle of absolute nothing, deep inside the blackness of primordial space void, several awkward moments before the Bing Bang that gave birth to one of the innumerable universes, he (or He, if you prefer…someone, anyway…) made his discreetly appearance. Someone, who hadn’t the faintest idea about how he got there or who he was or even if he should be there, at all. The random discovery of the power of speech and his innate divine abilities will spur on and convince him to stay at that spot and become famous. With the help of his First (who drags him to the brink of nervous breakdown) and a multitude of other angelic creatures, benign and extremely impressed, he creates one of the most original worlds of the multiverse (in his mind, at least). Light and darkness, planets and stars, earth and seas, all of them created in mere moments (from a lower lifeform’s point of view) of divine, artistic inspiration. Higher and lower forms of life passed, in a blink of god’s eye, from the sphere of ideas into the material world. All of this of course with the assistance of angelic side-kicks, archangelic fights and a thrice-split Luciferian personality (things are rarely what they seem). The construction of the being in the image and likeness of the creator, along with its spouses, will force Chaos and all the other vague cosmogonic forces to seek for serenity in some other, more interesting universe, far away from potential gods and their creative delusions. Creator, Lucifer (evil background music), Archangels and firstborn humans. Love and jealousy, thrills and action, enormous carnivores and tiny blind and naïve animals. Plenty of laughter and a persistent headache. All of them having as background our freshly-constructed universe, in the truest story ever imprinted on paper without the chronicler losing his mind. And all, in a week’s work…

Young Ackerley has only ever known the small town life on the edge of society. That is until his brother takes him to a large castle to live out the remainder of the war brought by horrible invaders from the north. It is here that Ackerley makes his first friends, learns the history of the kingdom, and helps a lonely princess. All while the threat of attack looms ever larger.It’s late summer in 1901 and Joseph Albers is a man in trouble: he bet everything on a Kentucky coal mine, but soon after his mine collapsed the family and friends who followed him from Atlanta began falling to smallpox and yellow fever. In a desperate attempt to save what’s left of his town – and his dream of making it big in coal country – Joseph hunkers down at the crossroads, hoping for a midnight meeting with the devil.Instead Joseph encounters the ancient, ageless god Charley Cat, and finds himself surrounded by the demons, legends, and creatures of myth who travel with him. By the time their parley has ended, the fate of Piquette will have changed forever.

She is an impoverished noblewoman who lives by her wits as a Tarot reader for the English nobility. He is London's most notorious cat burglar. They met one dark, glittering night. Yet even Jessamine Maitland cannot foresee the destiny that will sweep her into the adventure of her life with the proud, arrogant thief who has no intention of ever being caught—by man or woman. But Alastair MacAlpin has not reckoned on Jessamine—and a passion that will turn a game of cat-and-mouse into a matter of life and death. As the elusive aristocrat attempts the most daring coup of his checkered career, he is undone by this elegant beauty who sees the tenderness behind his mocking façade... and who will pursue him over rooftops and to the ends of the earth, if she must, for the love only he can give her.

In Tracy Wolff’s sizzling novel of erotic tension—perfect for fans of Sylvia Day, E. L. James, and J. Kenner—sex and suspense steam up the sultry bayou. Desperate to leave a traumatic past behind, photographer Serena Macafee prefers sex with no strings attached—no commitment, just pure pleasure. Her new subject, sculptor Kevin Riley, seems like the perfect man to fulfill her hottest fantasies. And where better than the torrid wetlands of Baton Rouge, where Kevin works—and plays? But as their sessions heat up, so do Serena’s feelings for Kevin. As she opens herself up to emotions she never wanted, Serena leaves herself vulnerable to everything she thought she’d escaped. As her guard breaks down, her fears are aroused. Something has followed her to the sweltering southern bayou, exposing her to the twisted fantasies of someone in the shadows—and to dangers beyond her wildest dreams. Praise for *Full Exposure  * “A first-rate tale . . . [Wolff] combines the adrenaline of a psychological thriller with the intensity of an exquisitely sensual romance while skillfully exploring the deepest emotions of her characters.”—RT Book Reviews (Top Pick) “Edgy and erotic . . . a sultry, red-hot read.”—New York Times bestselling author Shannon McKenna   “This book kept me on the edge of my seat. . . . I recommend Full Exposure wholeheartedly.”—Fresh Fiction “The perfect read . . . I adored Full Exposure.”—Romance Junkies Includes a special message from the editor, as well as excerpts from other Loveswept titles.**

A page-turning serial killer thriller From million-bestselling author Bella Forrest comes a dark and delicious new crime novel... Megastar Isabel Morales has never been one to shy away from controversy. But after a particularly daring, full-nude shoot on Wall Street, it's not only the media that has spiraled into a frenzy. Fans, and heck, the entire world seem to be turning against her. Rants, insults and death threats - Isabel has experienced it all in her time... But never like this. Her stunt was meant to be a statement of empowerment to women - a show of taking back her body from the capitalists who claim it as their own. But people don't get it. When Isabel vanishes in broad daylight from a building, Private Investigator Erin Bond receives a desperate call from Isabel's manager requesting her to join forces with the police in the case. Erin suspects she's in for the ride of her career, but given Erin's own celebrity status as an abducted child, she never thought it could become the ride of her life... Nothing is as it seems in the search for Isabel Morales. Buy now to join the hunt...