When Colette experiences strange dreams, her friend Grancis connects it to a recent incident of a disappearing sailor. Colette’s taken in her sleep to the vessel’s doctor Estradia, a half quack, half electric eel surgeon and shares a dream with Grancis, under the pretense that it will solve the problem.It doesn’t.Ahoy again! Batten down the hatches and make firm the ties, The Nocturna is under attack by something from below! When Colette experiences strange dreams, her friend Grancis connects it to a recent incident of a disappearing sailor. Colette’s taken in her sleep to the vessel’s doctor Estradia, a half quack, half electric eel surgeon and shares a dream with Grancis, under the pretense that it will solve the problem.It doesn’t. Colette wakes up in confusion to find an exact copy of herself aiming to hunt her down. With The Captain no where in sight and the crew asleep, it falls to her to turn Grancis around, make her see the light, and take down the eldritch assassin parasite... thing. If she fails, the parasite will take her place, and no one will no the secret danger surrounding the crew. The fate of The Nocturna and its dozens of lives are in Colette’s hands, and she’ll stop at nothing to clear herself of any suspicion and save the crew! Watch your shoulders and tread lightly, The Eversea awaits you! This is the third in the series. If you’re looking for the first one, (which is free, mind you,) search for “Nocturna League: The Witching Book”.

The narrative describes the life of an Englishman, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies who eventually makes his way to sea. One half of the book concerns Singleton's crossing of Africa and the later half concerns his life as a pirate. Defoe's description of piracy focuses for the most part on matters of economics and logistics, making it an intriguing if not particularly gripping read. Singleton's piracy is more like a merchant adventurer, perhaps Defoe's comment on capitalism.

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Denise Zen has been having dreams, seeing visions, instilling in her a sense of impending dread more than wonder.Her senses and gifts will prove to be right as usual, when she is contacted by a member of Rome’s Ninth Legion who, along with five fellow legionnaires, and the beings from another world who abducted them nearly 2000 years earlier, arrive to ask her assistance in finding Coventina.Denise Zen has been having dreams, seeing visions, instilling in her a sense of impending dread more than wonder.Her senses and gifts will prove to be right as usual, when she is contacted by a member of Rome’s Ninth Legion who, along with five fellow legionnaires, and the beings from another world who abducted them nearly 2000 years earlier, arrive to ask for her assistance in finding Coventina, the reincarnation of the woman Quintus left behind.Their search takes them on a dangerous and horrific, fast paced, action packed journey through Europe’s human trafficking sex slavery living hell to find Coventina and her cousin Anna, who were kidnapped upon arriving in Rome for a vacation.Denise and her friend Layla Martine will need to bring all their powers to bear before the journey is over, having to deal with sex traffickers, some of the most vile humans on the planet, and the six Roman legionnaires, who have their own ideas of, and methods for administering justice.

As soon as Jackie Cruise lands on the streets after being in prison for five years, someone is taking shots at him. Hoping to find out who wants him dead, he hooks up with some old pals in the Family and goes to work as a low-level thug. Making ends meet by dealing out mayhem, can Jackie survive long enough to find his would-be killer?Part 1 of 5As soon as Jackie Cruise lands on the streets after being in prison for five years, someone is taking shots at him. Hoping to find out who wants him dead, he hooks up with some old pals in the Family and goes to work as a low-level thug. Making ends meet by dealing out mayhem, can Jackie survive long enough to find his would-be killer?Also AVAILABLE:Guns 'n MoneyGuns 'n Money: Episode 2Guns 'n Money: Episode 3Guns 'n Money: Episode 4Guns 'n Money: Episode 5Guns 'n Money: The Collection

A magical new series from Pseudonymous Bosh, the bestselling author of the Secret Series Magic is BAD. As in fake. Cheesy. Unreal. At least, that's what Clay, who has seen one magic show too many, thinks. When words from his journal appear mysteriously on his school wall as graffiti, he never imagines that magic might be to blame. And when the same graffiti lands him at Earth Ranch, a camp for "troubled" kids on a remote volcanic island, magic is the last thing he expects to find there. But at Earth Ranch, there is one strange surprise after another, until Clay no longer knows what to expect. Is he really talking to a llama? Did he really see a ghost? What is the scary secret hidden in the abandoned library? The only thing he knows for sure is that behind the clouds of vog (volcanic smog), nothing is as it seems. Can he solve the riddle of Earth Ranch before trouble erupts? Elusive author Pseudonymous Bosch introduces an extraordinary new series that will have you believing in the unbelievable.

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Gary, a 45 year- old self-employed businessman and a student pilot is faced with the challenge of flying a crippled airplane. His life is in jeopardy, and he must utilize everything he's been taught to return to the airport and attempt a safe landing.Gary, a 45 year- old self-employed businessman, is close to obtaining his pilot's license.One of his final steps is to accomplish a solo cross country flight across the plains of northern Colorado.The weather is close to perfect, and his airplane, a Light Sport Gobosh is ready to go. Unfortunately Gary realizes something has gone very wrong soon after takeoff, and he now has to face the challenge of flying a crippled airplane. His life is now in jeopardy, and he must utilize everything he's been taught to return to the airport and attempt a safe landing. Will this dire situation prove to be too much for a student pilot to handle? Will Gary live to tell this tale? Grab a copy of this short story to find out.

Souls shouldn’t be plucked out and slammed into an alien body to fight an alien war. Nor should the dead rise during The Day of the Dead festival and wreck havoc on Cael and Jake in small town Arizona.This first collection of short stories by Bestselling Author Clover Autrey dodges dragons, ghosts, and aliens, and one monster fish with heroes that don’t know the word Quit.Dead things should stay dead, right? Souls shouldn’t be plucked out and slammed into an alien body to fight an alien war. Nor should the dead rise during The Day of the Dead festival and wreck havoc on Cael and Jake in small town Arizona.This first collection of short stories by Bestselling Author Clover Autrey dodges dragons, ghosts, and aliens, and one monster fish with heroes that don’t know the word Quit.

Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there's the runner who simply vanished one day. Joe doesn't mind admitting that the farther he rides, the more he wishes he could just turn around and go home. And he is right to be concerned. Because what awaits him is like nothing he's ever dealt with, like something out of an old story, except this is all too real and too deadly. When he'd first saddled up, he'd thought of this as his last patrol. What he hadn't known was just how accurate that thought might turn out to be.

Propeller Island (1895), a science fiction novel about a massive ship in the Pacific Ocean inhabited entirely by millionaires, was first published as part of the "Voyages Extraordinaires."

Hailed as a clever blend between science fiction and fantasy, Terrene explores the challenges of accelerating technology and global climate change through the stories of two remarkable women in two worlds that are not as distant as they seem.Within every person lies the power to change one world. Within Flora lies the hope for two.In the isolated rural valley of Terrene, where technology is grown, not manufactured, Flora Karachi paints her anguish with flowers and yearns to travel outside the mountain walls that guard her village. But in a society which values harmony and symmetry above all else, her dangerous curiosity and her indelicate scars, earned from a lifetime of inexplicable blackouts, make her an outcast with few prospects for adventure. Then the dreams come. Lucid and overpowering, they throw Flora into a fascinatingly advanced world where she lives the life of Jane Ingram, an American scientist fighting global climate change while trying to raise a child in a society where interpersonal interaction is becoming obsolete. Flora’s blackouts open a window into knowledge lost long ago and possibilities that are yet to come. To unravel these mysteries, she must travel to the enigmatic Institute, an ancient enclave hidden in the surrounding mountains, where scholars guard the secrets of Terrene.Living two lives, Flora will fight to become an Institute scholar in her own world while struggling to save the planet from humanity's neglect in Jane's. Yet all of Flora's courage combined with all of Jane's experience may not be enough to defeat the powerful forces protecting the secret which ties their two worlds together. To find salvation for both worlds, Jane and Flora must sacrifice their own dreams, conquer their fears, and discover hope for a new beginning.Hailed as a clever blend between science fiction and fantasy, Terrene explores the challenges of accelerating technology and global climate change through the stories of two remarkable women in two worlds that are not as distant as they seem.

Meet John, future savior of the universe. At least that's what he says... Moron's Guide to Surviving the Space Race is a Science Fiction novel about how a simple guy just out to make a living winds up as a slave, then a pilot, gets wrapped up with an intergalactic drug cartel, and through it all discovers there's more to life than making moneyBook One of Moron's Guide to Stellar Pursuits seriesA young girl who curses like a sailor, a drunken hero, an incompetent wizard, a thief on the lam, a cowardly ogre, and a boyish goblin unite to banish the narrator and author of the tale so they can do what they damn well please. Or at least what pleases the girl. She’s a bossy little bitch with a secret. Here's a sample: - - -Appalled by the idiocy, she looked up in disgust at the strip of metal which gave the Iron Bar Tavern its name. It was attached above the door. Demonfolk could not step over cold iron but they had no trouble walking under it. She considered leaving but she’d gone to a lot of trouble to find this forsaken place, and her last informant had sworn that the man she sought spent much time here. Sighing, she pushed the door open and was assaulted by stench. The boisterous crowd failed to notice her at first, but when she headed for the bar, a burly drunk with a particularly ugly face saw her.“Hey, look! A girlie!” he shouted and suddenly every eye turned to her.Her long loose robe and hood hid her figure and most of her face, but her petite size implied she was an underage girl rather than an adult woman. Not that it mattered to brutes such as the denizens of this tavern. The drunk stuck out a leg to block her passage. She stopped and stared at him. Only the high level of alcohol in his blood kept it from freezing solid in the glare of her icy blue eyes. The crowd hushed as they watched. Without a word, she reached and picked up the heavy pewter mug the man was using. She extended her arm and held the mug beside the man’s ear then stood on one foot and pirouetted. At the end of its rotation, the mug hit the drunk square in the face. His nose disappeared, partly splattered sideways and partly pushed back into the space where a normal man’s brain would be. His eyes rolled back in his head and he fell to the floor. Three little yellow birds appeared and flew circles around his head, their twittering clearly audible.When she walked to the bar, a strand of hair escaped from her hood. Shiny, golden, and with the artistically perfect amount of curl, it hung down to her waist.“I’m looking for the famous warrior-hero Aretino Searle,” she told the bartender. He pointed to an empty table and explained, “Not at the table, dearie. Under it.” “Oh shit,” she muttered when she saw her man in a drunken stupor. “This can’t possibly be right.”

After discovering that he has elemental based superpowers, Niyol must work together with his sisters Aura and Sefarina to stop a secret organisation from destroying the world.It's the summer holidays, and Niyol has been sent to spend it with his grandparents in the countryside.One evening, his grandpa gives him a strange silver book called Elementals: Ventus.After reading it, Niyol discovers that he and his sisters have more in common than sharing the same DNA: they have superpowers.Almost instantly, Niyol is taken to a secret organisation called the Elementus Populas, and is told that he must work with his sisters Aura and Sefarina, as a group named 'Ventus', to save the world.But there is another organisation that is desperate to use the teenagers for their own twisted desires. An organisation that will stop at nothing to get what they want- and this puts the siblings' lives in immediate danger...

Shasa and her siblings, who have water based super powers, are dragged into the fight against the Inimicus, a team of super villains. The only problem is, they don't know exactly who the villains are...Shasa is sick of living on an island. Sure, it might be an island in the Atlantic Ocean, but when your only friends are your brothers and your sister, life can be tedious.Especially when you’re forbidden to leave. Having trained for years to hone her elemental super powers alongside her siblings, Shasa wants to escape Aqua Island and use her water based skills to help people. But before she can, Shasa is dragged into a fight: a dangerous battle between good and evil, one that the Ventus Trio are already engaged in. But when Niyol and his sisters arrive on Aqua Island, a massive revelation changes everything. And Shasa doesn’t know who to trust…Taking place three weeks after the events of Ventus, Aqua is an action thriller that pits one team of superheroes against another: but who will triumph?