Patrick Maynard has it all: looks, wealth, and power. There is only one thing he lacks: a competent assistant. Enter Lucinda Stuart, a former high ranking executive looking to make a career change, and they seem perfect for each other, in this free prequel to the upcoming novel "Unstuck."A stray cat comes to the house and is taken in. He is named Nigel. The Schipperke dog, Jinx, is not happy. It takes a few days for the two animals to make peace and eventually become buddies.

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Two college students, outcast by those that surround them, find each other as an unspeakable horror descends upon their university.At its core, a story of two young people attending a major Christian University who, through their differing approaches to faith are outcast by the others that attend. Dejected and feeling alone fate brings them together on the very night that supernatural attacks on the college campus threaten to tear it apart.

Wind-Scarred tells a story of after the end, of a world that was once our own. Of people to whom even nature will bend, and the places mankind has grown. In a time of wormholes, secrets, and powers, where nothing is quite what it seems, shadowy forces hunt in twilight hours, while Elements dream their dark dreams.Ezra Hawkins is going to change the world. Although, honestly, there isn't that much world left to change. After the Great War that nearly destroyed the Earth, mankind has been reduced to a single city: Sanctuary. Hidden from the ravages of the world, the last scions of humanity have eked out their existence through hard work and ingenuity, managing survival, maybe even a little happiness. But Ezra Hawkins, last heir to the legacy of wormhole technology, will show them something that no human in over a thousand years has known: Hope.This is a story of science against magic, of people who can bend the elements to their will and the shadowy forces that police them. And most of all, Wind-Scarred tells the tale of a young man desperate to learn the true nature of the past, and of a planet that has its own ideas about the future.

The island was to be a retreat from the world where an aging man could contemplate on his life and the reality of his existence. He had spent much time studying the complexities of modern science and its implications for philosophy and now was the time to synthesize. But real life drama intervenes as he realizes that he cannot simply escape the desires and threats of island life.This is the story of what happens when a character begins to talk back to the author . . . not a good plan in the long run! (Watch out for those Woodle Pooves!)Authors often say their characters make the decisions in the stories. However, in the end, we all know who's really in charge, right?

In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye her hair blonde.

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This clever, sly collection of 'secret lives', lovingly illustrated by Mark Rich, is the perfect holiday gift for fans of Tim Burton, Edward Gorey and Gahan Wilson.

Morgan is an exorcist who walks that fine line between heaven and hell. She lives in a world in which demons co-exist with humans. Normally hailed as heroes, these demons can heal, help, and make strong the willing hosts who gladly accept their corporeal possession - unless a demon steps outside the boundaries of the law.

Joe Pickett's pursuit of a killer through the rugged mountains of Wyoming takes a horrifying turn when his beloved foster daughter is kidnapped. Now it's personal.

This short story is the third in a series. Unique to the others, the inspiration and story line follows Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung's theory of synchronicity. The story opens in a mental institution just as a group therapy session is about to begin. It is the moment when Daryl, an intelligent and eccentric young man finds the purpose behind a haunting voice speaking to him in his dreams.This short story is the third in a series. Unique to the others, the inspiration and story line draws from Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung's theory of synchronicity. The story opens in a mental institution just as a group therapy session is about to begin. It is the moment when Daryl, an intelligent and eccentric young man meets Ali, an unhappy victim of life's cruelty. This chance meeting that brought them together gives the final answer to the haunting voice within Daryl's dreams.

The 6th issue of Successful Startup 101, a magazine for budding entrepreneurs, startup founders and small business owners that covers business planning, strategy, management, accounting, finance, sales and marketing.In this month's issue:* The Birth of the Startup Excubator* Do You Have What It Takes to Start Your Own Business* Entrepreneurs: Here Are 7 Ways to Make the Most of Your Downtime* The Trend that is Changing Sales* 9 Ways To Create Time, Space, and Stillness For Meaningful Work* Self-Employment Taxes Demystified: Can You Lower Them for 2014* Symptoms of Customer Acquisition Procrastination Syndrome* Managers: Dont Treat All Employees the Same Way* Five Reasons Why Small Businesses Fail* The Guide to Running a Small Business: 8 Things Youll Never Want to Forget* 10 Common Startup Flaws Leading to an Early Demise* 5 Startup Lessons for Fast-Growing Companies* These eight Business Beliefs Are Killing Your Startup* Getting Ahead: Dont Forget to Feed Your Spirit* Operating A Business in the Age of the Brand Experience* Why Startups Hire Their Own Lawyers* How We Grew Our SAAS Startups MRR from zero to over dollar 2k in Under One Month* For Employer and Employees Alike, Automated Payroll is a Win-Win* 9 Ways to Make A Million* Neats Chris Barbier Talks about the Future of Small Business Solutions

Amid the Winter Snow (A Holiday Anthology)

When night falls, the far corner of Harold's living room becomes a dark place, a world where light has never existed. There are creatures there that call that darkness home, hungry beasts that Harold can hear but not see. The question, though, is what do they want from him?A young prince Calum escapes his bed in the dead of night to meet with the illusive wanderer, known to the men of Calum’s kingdom as Roland the Ferocious, at a crossroads. And with that, Calum begins his journey west to the kingdom of Dunway where he seeks a new life far from his father’s kingdom. Only the forests stand between Calum and his new home, the gruff, and hardened Roland, his only guide, but how will the young Calum handle himself when confronted by the beasts and trials he finds within.

A short story written using a unique style, The Imagi tells the story of humanities development of psychic powers and their first contact with an Alien race.Mitch, Danielle, and Ethan are thrown into a world of magic. It is not by happenstance that this is so it is nothing more than games of the powerful. Pawns in the game of life and death where empires rise and empires fall their roles play a pivotal part in deciding the fate of others. Thrust from a world of science into a world of magic they must learn to adapt to a new and wondrous environment filled with immense good and equally evil inhabitants. They find inner strength in each other and new friends they never in their wildest dreams ever thought of meeting. They find tragedy and death perpetuated by an ancient evil that threatens not only their very existence but also life on two worlds. It is they and their new friends that must find a way to stop this ever-encroaching evil bent on the bringing darkness were light reigns.

Anxiety drove Robert away from the city, but a mysterious cry in the night could bring more fear.Tedford Theodore and Tanjakwunu discover gold on their property near Almont, Colorado, but they also realize that United States' mining laws will award this gold to their neighbors, The Devil's Own Mining Company. Believing the law unfair, the two middle-aged friends decide to work the mine secretly at night. They risk imprisonment or worse: other miners in the area have recently turned up dead. Their work goes undiscovered for well over a year until…This novella combines historical western elements with some seemingly supernatural. It weaves and unweaves the shared tale of several unusual, memorable individuals including a Haitian priest, twin outlaw brothers, a Woman's Suffrage activist, and an Icelandic Horse, short in stature, but tall in intelligence.