Hunter has no idea what's coming his way. Destiny is about to break down his door, drag him into the night, and plant him at the center of a war between a cult and his employer, a shady agency bent on controlling people with special abilities, people like Hunter himself.Hunter has no idea what's coming his way. Destiny is about to break down his door, drag him into the night, and plant him at the center of a war between a cult and his employer, a shady agency bent on controlling people with special abilities, people like Hunter himself. The only one who seems to be on his side is a girl claiming to be a guardian angel. To survive, he'll have to become the person he was always afraid to be. Review Snippets "A interesting and fun read filled with fun one liners and just a overall sense of finding oneself and liking oneself." https://hello-booklover.tumblr.com/ "I really enjoyed this book! I thought it was a unique take on paranormal 'entities' and that it was thrilling and suspenseful and kept me wanting to turn the pages so I would know what would happen next." https://skizzles22hu.blogspot.com/

When Physics Research Station Howard, in orbit around HR 2251 A, misses a couple of monthly reports to Earth, a trio of ensigns fresh out of primary naval officer training is ordered on a milk run to investigate. They do not anticipate what they find, and they must rely on the help of Howard's sole survivor to establish what they are facing and what is at stake.The author's mother has always been present in her daughter's consciousness, manifesting in front of her eyes at times. In this second story in the series mom tells her own story, luring her daughter into a world created to the daughter's liking, made of childhood fairytales, memories, and dreams. Mom tries to encourage her daughter, disheartened by the harsh realities of her surrounding life, to adapt a different point of view towards life, one in which the future is more bright and colorful. Will the mother succeed?

Strange happenings in a big city soup kitchen: A horribly deformed man inadvertently plays havoc with the social order until the vision of a blind girl reveals him to be much more than he appears.Sick and Twisted is a collection of funny cartoons and award-winning comics by Oliver Gaspirtz.Over the past 20 years, his cartoons have been published in many newspapers and magazines across the US, including the National Enquirer, Saturday Evening Post, SUN, Medical Post, Physician, Funny Times, American Police Beat, as well as in magazines in Germany and England. During the 1990s, Deike Press, Germany's largest syndicate, distributed his cartoons to hundreds of German newspapers while King Features syndicate distributed them in the US as part of The New Breed comic strip.Cartoons by Gaspirtz have appeared in over 20 books, such as Chickensoup For The Country Soul. Since 2000, Gaspirtz has been publishing his work on the Internet.His cartoons have been on display in several museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in Tehran, Iran and the Cartoon Art Museum in Boca Raton.His colorful artwork looks harmless and family friendly, reminiscent of early Disney cartoons. But his uncensored dark humor reminds of Gary Larson's single panel gag cartoons The Far Side.=== If you like this book, please rate and review it. Thank you! ===

The first episode of a series of short stories.The Alaris nebula is home to over a million and Marack Nor sees himself as their best defense. Outnumbered and outgunned Marack and his fellow pilots attempt to protect desperately needed convoys from a seemingly unending swarm of pirates. He knows who is behind the attacks, he just has to live long enough to stop them.The first episode of a series of short stories.The Alaris nebula is home to over a million colonists from the planet of Irakillion. They exchange rare minerals from the nebula for desperately needed supplies. Always kept on the edge of starvation they are looked down upon by Irakillion and ignored by the rest of the galaxy.When a group of pirates begin attacking the supply convoys the Alaris Defense Force is re-founded with a handful of outdated ships and a dozen inexperienced pilots. Outnumbered and outgunned no one expects them to last more than a week or two. Only one pilot proves them wrong.After six months of attacks Marack Nor is the last of the original pilots. Numbed by repeated losses and defeats he has become convinced that the Irakillion government is behind the attacks. All he needs to do is survive long enough to prove it.

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Kristian Jobe was living every man's dream. Health, wealth, and faith in God characterized his life, until tragedies of epic proportions strike him. Now he must cope with his accusing friends, and struggle to grasp why his loving God would allow a good man to suffer.Killer babies, Red-Eyed zombies, neighborhoods on fire, towns and graveyards infected with the dead, sexual black widows, and of course constant, insatiable hunger. These are just a few things to look out for in this new zombie-plagued world. The only good thing is that every one's equal after death, right? Of course not. You should know things wouldn't be that easy, even here at the end of the world.

"The Blessing of Pan portrays English rural life under a sign of paganism, after the fashion of writers like T.F. Powys." -- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy **

Being on the losing side of a war has consequences.Robert and Timothy Byrd learn that lesson firsthand as they are taken from their family and sent to live among mankind's new alien overlords, the Artemu. But with human and Artemu both chafing at the restrictions of an unwanted treaty, can peace be maintained long enough for the boys to leave the planet unharmed?Book one of Clan Gonther.Lost wars have consequences, and its usually the innocent who suffer most. Young Robert and Timothy Byrd learn this firsthand when empire-building aliens threaten the extinction of all humanity via asteroid strike. Resistance proves futile, and the twin brothers are ripped from the bosom of their loving family to grow up among the Artemu, mankind’s haughty new overlords. But is the fighting really over yet? Or is time for the human race to accept the bitterest of defeats— at least temporarily— as the only possible road to survival?What’s it like to be forced to fight against your own people in alliance with their most terrible enemy, because doing anything else means the death of everyone everywhere?Book one in the Clan Gonther Cycle.

Daniel Henstock thinks he’s an ordinary schoolboy but discovers he's the world’s first genetically-engineered human - codenamed Tiberius - and the man responsible wants him back to continue his deadly experiments. As his enemies close in Daniel must draw on resources he never knew he had to win his freedom - but in doing so he may be walking into a deadly trap ...What would you do if you discovered your whole life to be a lie?Daniel Henstock thinks he’s an ordinary schoolboy but on his sixteenth birthday his world is turned upside down. He is the world’s first one-hundred-percent genetically-engineered human - assigned the codename Tiberius - and Gregory Dryden, the man responsible, wants him back so that he can continue his deadly experiments.Running for his life, Daniel flees to New York and is forced to go ‘off-grid’. In this near-future America, where the security-obsessed authorities require citizens to carry DNA cards, Daniel meets the feisty and beautiful Eleanor. But by falling for her, Daniel also puts her in terrible danger.Daniel pursues the facts about his origins but is hunted by an agent sent by Dryden to bring him to heel. Can Daniel find out the truth whilst trying to evade those who think they own him? As his enemies close in Daniel must draw on resources he never knew he had to win his freedom - but in doing so he may be walking into a deadly trap ...TIBERIUS FOUND is the first installment in a thrilling series - The Emperor Initiative - that introduces an engaging new hero that will appeal to fans of Alex Rider and Jason Bourne.

Fraser Jaensch is about to learn that sometimes the punishment does fit the crime.Privileged rich kid Fraser Jaensch faces a twenty year prison sentence for a shockingly violent crime. His attorney advises him that his only alternative is to become a subject in a top-secret program of radical therapy.Fraser thinks it’ll be a breeze. He thinks he got off scot free.But he has no idea what he’s in for.

Slithers are vicious creatures. Craving flesh and blood, they will stop at nothing until their hunger is satisfied. So when sixteen year old Benjamin King discovers that one has been smuggled onto the train, he's eager to see it, even if it has been drugged into a mindless stupor.But one moment can change everything.Slithers are vicious creatures. Craving flesh and blood, they will stop at nothing until their hunger is satisfied. So when sixteen year old Benjamin King discovers that one has been smuggled onto the train, he's eager to see it, even if it has been drugged into a mindless stupor.But one moment can change everything.Set six years before Niko, Pale and Crimson chronicles how one decision can have far reaching consequences.

Two brothers develop a model for sabotaging the value of listed equities in order to profit from short selling. First, the vulnerable companies are identified and then the erstwhile non-existent shares are sold into the market. There follows one or another form of criminal manipulation of the value of the company's stock price whereupon the "non existent" shares are repurchased with profits.Two half brothers, Peter and Jim in Sydney Australia discover the phenomenon of short selling equities or shares on the global stock markets and set out to make their fortunes. With a little early bending of the rules the crime spree that follows encompasses industries as diverse as agriculture to manufacturing, banking and finance to horse racing. Crime and betrayal are not just the prerogative of the central characters however as others are drawn from across the globe to join in the frenzy. Regulators who should be there to supervise and prevent errant behaviour are themselves subject to human frailty when vast amounts of money are involved. The crime spree expands to major markets and ensnares even some rich and powerful players. In the end blind greed leads to an unwelcome denouement for some of the players while others may perceive that a certain amount of crime does, in fact, pay.

Beware tin cats offering invitations, psychopathic chemists with a turret full of collectable porcelain, priests pursuing satanic cults, and evil entities living in windmills.Better to listen to the green spirit peering over your shoulder, the ghost of a young man with no heart, and Victorian palaeontologist who has unearthed the face of God.Review by Waverley:Worth the money for the cover alone (a stunning combination of colours enhancing an intricate design), but there's more on offer than just a nice cover. The alliterative title gives the clue to the content, although I had the sense that the curious cats were slightly tacked on as an afterthought to the crimes and the cults. Jonathan Day writes sharply and amusingly, with a nice line in wry/snide social comment that will raise more than the occasional smile, but he's also a gifted story-teller - almost too gifted, really, for the chosen format, because so many of these stories feel as if they could (perhaps should) have been developed further - most contain enough material for a novella, if not a full-length novel. Although the style of writing is light and humorous, some of the stories have serious subtexts (on occasion, the subtexts threaten to subvert the actual narrative, as in "Behold, the Face of God", even though the twist in this, possibly one of the less convincing stories, is cleverly managed). The author's art and achievement is to combine fast-moving and entertaining narrative with thought-provoking reflection about a world (or worlds) that can prove to be nastier places than we'd ideally like them to be.

**Publishers' Weekly STARRED REVIEW** After setting out to avenge the murder of her father, a young woman with a mysterious connection to dragons finds herself caught up in a deadly struggle for power and must embark upon a dangerous journey to save herself and her kingdom.Is it possible for a single falcon to save a kingdom?Erynn Taylor was fourteen the day she witnessed the random and brutal murder of her father. She should have died that day too, alone on a forest road in a kingdom that was not her own, but a reclusive golden dragon swooped down upon the scene—scattering her attackers and sparing her life, but ultimately denying her justice. Two years later, her father’s killer reappears—riding boldly into her kingdom for a visit with her king. But her elation at the nearness of justice turns to anger and then fear as she learns there is more to his visit than meets the eye—a conspiracy that threatens the entire kingdom and just might bring her the death she so narrowly avoided.Fleeing the castle where she has lived ever since her father’s murder, and soon becoming the subject of a kingdom-wide manhunt, Erynn sets out to find the man who holds the key to her past only to discover that her escape will not be so easy. That reclusive golden dragon is back—and following her. There is a fast-flowing river she needs to cross. And then there are those unresolved problems she left behind.She wants justice. She also wants to save her kingdom and her king. But does she want either badly enough to die?THE LAST FALCON is the first installment of the epic fantasy adventure series THE CAEL STONE. It was awarded a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and has been listed on the Kirkus Reviews website as a “similar book” to GAME OF THRONES. If you like fast-paced, quest-adventure stories that are also brimming with mystery and political intrigue and set in a world filled with dragons, elves, and dwarves, then you will love this series from Colleen Ruttan.Buy THE LAST FALCON and get started on your adventure with Erynn today!