Notice to the PUBLIC OF JAMAICA Due to the threat of a rebellion by the slaves of this island, be it therefore enacted that from this day, 1st of July 1792, all persons report any suspicions of revolutionary plots immediately! BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNOR Presenting the fifth adventure from the spirited Cat Royal in which she joins a travelling theatre, turns pirate, undertakes a Caribbean Cruise, and gets mixed up in a slave revolt. WITH A GUEST APPEARANCE FROM MR. BILLY SHEPHERD (formerly of Covent Garden) Prepare to swash your buckle in Cat's most outrageous adventure yet!

Adele of Berron; the lone suvivour of her family's murder.Rafe of Valrek; the stranger she is betrothed to.The Enemy? Wants them dead.Dear Reader, I wish to tell you a tale that began with a promise destined to change the lives of many. When only a child, Lady Adele of Berron lost her family during a dreadful battle and was betrothed to a stranger.Lord Rafe of Valrek, only a boy himself when the battle of Calis raged, grew to be a feared warrior and trusted advisor to his King. But sadness filled his past and Adele served only to remind him of all he had lost.However the promise that bound these two together caused great anger to some.What, Dear Reader, happened in those days of treachery and darkness? Incline your ear that I may whisper the secrets that you so desire to hear......Lady Quill

When her plane crashes into the ocean, Zanas is dropped into a brutal world of survival. She soon learns that this is no ordinary place, as the land mutates all that live within its borders. Her sister is kidnapped and taken beneath, thrusting Zanas into the middle of a primitive society, where she will find her death, or her destiny.Martin awakes naked on the shores of a silent and hungry world. He has no memory of how he got there, no memory of anything beyond his name. Now he must journey through the Eating Wastes in which the very land he walks on tries to consume him. His only hope of escape are massive gateways that call to him to enter, all he has to do is make it to one. The journey will test both his will and flesh as nightmarish creatures stalk his every move, wanting to claim him for their own.*THE RED MAN is a 9000 word short story.

A Greek demigod reincarnates in a gaming computer of the future to fight an alien god for the freedom of humanity. Torn from his wife by Zeus's thunderbolt for resurrecting the dead, Asklepios now fights for our future, aided by gamer Darla Kaplan. In this struggle for the freedom of mankind, the most powerful weapon of all may be the love of a woman for a man who is only a ghost in the machine.A demigod fights for Earth's freedom -- in the mind of a computer -- as two pantheons fight for the right to guide the future of humans. But can Asklepios -- Homer's "Blameless Physician" -- defeat the The Devourer of Millions? AES is the story of a man who wakes up after 3,000 years to find himself thrust into a fight for the independence of Earth from the control of alien superbeings. His battle is real and the stakes are real, but he will fight in a simulated battlefield -- in the memory of an online gaming computer. He is as real as his comrades, but while they have real-world bodies, his self-driven avatar is all he has -- an incarnation as living software. For the mortals who log in to help him, the prize is freedom from the aliens who want to control humanity's development to further their own power. For Aes himself, the reward for success is his own apotheosis -- the right to dwell with the superbeings of Olympus. His only chance is the help of Darla Kaplan and her gamer friends. In this struggle for the freedom of mankind, the most powerful weapon of all may be the love of a woman for a man who is only a ghost in the machine.

After a lifetime of unsuccessful attempts, Hope Matthews may have finally found a way to escape her undead pirate guardian. That is, if she can make sense of the map her foster father left behind and locate the legendary amulet, Poseidon's Tear before her demonic pursuer finds her and drags her back to to his lair.Darrel Bird and Barbara Yoder team up to bring you this powerful allegory.Two children find the way out of the dome they were made to live under by their ancestors, A painted dome under a painted sky where the clouds do not move and the birds do not fly.They rush back under the dome one more time to tell their friends and family there is a world outside the dome, but they will not listen.The children must rush to freedom before the escape route closes.

Cor Pelson, a commoner in the Kingdom of Aquis, is no common boy. The gray pallor of his skin and his coughing attacks separate him from those around him. He learns that the world is no safe, secure place as his parents and the priests would have him believe. He must learn to tap the power within his blood to survive the brutality of those who would control him and return his race to the world.The Shining West, free from the yoke of the Loszian Empire, has long stood as a beacon of freedom, guarding its people from the evils of the Loszians. Aquis is the largest of the Western Kingdoms, ruled by its benificent Queen Erella, High Priestess to Garod, leader of the gods of light.The son of a farmer in the bountiful kingdom Aquis, Cor Pelson had always been different. Shortly after he was born came the horrific coughing attacks, and his skin changed color to a gray reminiscent of the grave. He is a Dahken, a race the Loszian necromancers fear, reviled by the Western priests, and thought extinct by both. As a child, strangers entered his life, even if only briefly, and drove home that there are those that would bend him to their wills. Frightened and determined to protect those he loves, Cor steals away from home. He finds that the world is not the good, safe place that his parents taught him of, but in fact is a cruel, brutal place where blood flows readily and the ability to protect himself is paramount.He finds, even on the open sea, that those who would control the power within his blood follow him, intent on inflicting harm upon those around him. He must learn to tap the power within his blood to find his own path, take revenge and build a new world for his kind.

Time Coins Stolen! An Impossible Crime And The Thief Remains At Large!Greg Thompson is nothing more than an average 16-year-old boy living a carefree life in Grass Valley, California. But that all changes when he witnesses a hit and run accident. Before the homeless man dies, he hands Greg a handwritten notebook leading to a treasure cache.Time Coins Stolen! An Impossible Crime And The Thief Remains At Large!Greg Thompson is nothing more than an average 16-year-old boy living a carefree life in Grass Valley, California. But that all changes when he witnesses a hit and run accident. Before the homeless man dies, he hands Greg a handwritten notebook leading to a treasure cache.Greg plucks an all too familiar coin from the loot, and is thrust into an adventure he never saw coming.The Keepers of Time are on the hunt for the stolen time coins, and will wreak havoc to recover their loss devices, including unraveling the lives of any who stand in their way.Greg Thompson, aided by a mysterious ally, will jump across space and time to avoid the unimaginable grasp the Keepers hold over the ARROW OF TIME!

All three of Diane Duane's classic "Middle Kingdoms" novels together in one volume for the first time. The Omnibus contains The Door into Fire, The Door into Shadow, and The Door into Sunset, all in the author's preferred versions, updated and revised from the previous print editions for this omnibus.

A quick action tale of a soldier defending the fictional island of Namalsk from the zombies invading from the south. Focus on the details of battle.A children's fable. The local farming community is focused on this year's village fete vegetable competition and Mr Plum, the farmer, thinks he is in with a good chance to win. But his prize parsnip has other ideas. Is the grass really greener on the other side of the fence, or will the parsnip learn that it's important to be grateful for who you are.

The legend of the true California bandit the world came to know as the fictional character of Zorro. Salomon rode the California hills as a ranchero, and then as a scout for the Mexican Army. He returned home to a land overrun with gold seekers. Brutal circumstances lead Salomon to become one of the most legendary bandits California has ever seen. An adventure of love, revenge, and redemption.Before the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill brought tens of thousands of prospectors to California, the land was sparsely populated by Californios up from Mexico. It was untamed land. The wild West. Salomon Pico was one of these Californios, the cousin of Pio Pico, the last governor of Alta California, before it became a US territory after the Mexican-American War. Salomon rode the California hills as a ranchero, and then as a scout for the Mexican Army under Captain Andres Pico. These glittering hills would eventually be named for Salomon, although, the reasons for which are bloody. He returned home to a land overrun with gold seekers. Brutal circumstances lead Salomon to become one of the most legendary bandits California has ever seen. The life of Salomon Pico became the basis for the fictional character the world knows as Zorro.

An abandoned lab facility reveals evidence of a man-made biological weapon--a flesh eating parasite. The parasite has inhabited a pack of wild dingoes and threatens to destroy the Australian population unless a young married couple and their guide can find and destroy the infected animals.Kobi and Derrick Reed are on their honeymoon in Australia and have hired a guide, Dane, to help them explore the Northern Territory. While hiking one afternoon, they find what appears to be an abandoned lab facility partially buried below ground. After investigating the facility, they discover that they are not alone. There is another person there rummaging through the rubble frantically searching for something. His name is Dr. Trevor Tomblin, and he tells them a story that is quite unbelievable. The “normal” scientists were working on a government funded medical research project and using dingoes as their test subjects. A disgruntled scientist was secretly developing and mutating a flesh-eating parasite which he was planning to release on the population of Australia. He secretly infects the dingoes, as well as, the lab employees with the parasite, hoping to witness its power. Trevor is the only person that doesn’t get infected. The dingoes escape into the Northern Territory and are now free to infect the country. This is a nasty parasite that consumes the flesh and continues to spread in search of its next victim. Follow Kobi, Derrick, and Dane as they agree to help the Center for Disease Control (CDC) track down and destroy the infected dingoes. The hunt is dangerous, exciting, and turns to tragedy as one of the CDC members becomes infected with the parasite. The hunt continues toward Perth where an infected body has been buried, and threatens to infect the surrounding countryside and underground water system. On the way back to Darwin, the CDC plane crashes in the Outback, where their survival skills are tested in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Modern-day Daniel is forced to go back to the early 1900s. Then he must assume the identities of six very different individuals in different decades and in different geographic locations in the world in order to work his way back to his own starting time and place.Time. Most would admit they find it at least somewhat intriguing. And many would confess they are utterly fascinated by it. You have probably been at a gathering of friends and heard someone pose questions like, “Where would you go, or whom would you want to meet, if you could go back in time?”Interesting questions, indeed. But, what if they were not questions? Or, even options? What if you were forced to go back in time? And, what if you didn’t get to choose where you would go, or whom you would meet?One evening, Daniel finds himself in that very predicament when he discovers his only option for continued existence is to walk through Sarah’s kitchen door and go back in time.For Daniel, time is no longer an option. In order to find his way home, he must first temporarily assume the identities of six very different people in different geographic locations in the world while traveling forward in time through the twentieth century. Join Daniel in his rare opportunity to experience life as a young Austrian man at the turn of the 20th Century, a teenage Polish servant girl in the 1930s, an Arab orphan boy in Syria in the 1940s, a blind middle-aged black man in the 1950s African Congo, a young battered mother of two in 1960s USA, and an elderly Southeast Asian farm woman in the 1970s. His life, and yours, will never be the same.And, of course, there are a few love stories that tie the entire adventure together.

A devastating story of five children who are abandoned and are forced to survive the treacherous obstacles of the wilderness.Five children are going an a trip to visit their relatives on the other side of the country. It seems like a totally normal one before their aeroplane unexpectedly crashes into the mountain side. The five are forced to battle the treacherous obstacles of the wilderness while waiting to be rescued.

Young FBI agent Chevie Savano arrives back in modern-day London after a time-trip to the Victorian age, to find the present very different from the one she left. Europe is being run by a Facsist movement known as the Boxites, who control their territory through intimidation and terror. Chevie's memories come back to her in fragments, and just as she is learning about the WARP program from Professor Charles Smart, inventor of the time machine, he is killed by secret service police. Now they are after Chevie, too, but she escapes--into the past. She finds Riley, who is being pursued by futuristic soldiers, and saves him. Working together again, it is up to Chevie and Riley to find the enigmatic Colonel Clayton Box, who is intent on escalating his power, and stop him before he can launch missiles at the capitals of Europe.

It is 1969 and James Bond is about to go solo, recklessly motivated by revenge. A seasoned veteran of the service, 007 is sent to single-handedly stop a civil war in the small West African nation of Zanzarim. Aided by a beautiful accomplice and hindered by the local militia, he undergoes a scarring experience which compels him to ignore M's orders in pursuit of his own brand of justice. Bond's renegade action leads him to Washington, D.C., where he discovers a web of intrigue and witnesses fresh horrors. Even if Bond succeeds in exacting his revenge, a man with two faces will come to stalk his every waking moment.