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Aiben leads an uncertain life as a cybermancer acolyte and part-time starship mechanic. When the Zenzani Protectorate invades his homeworld, he learns that the molecule-sized machines augmenting his body and mind have a centuries-old plan for him. He must find an ancient weapon and a long-forgotten people that will bring his past crashing into his future and seal his destiny forever.Left behind by his childhood friend, Aiben ekes out his existence as a cybermancer acolyte and part-time starship mechanic on a backwater world. He leads an uncertain life, until one day, the Zenzani Protectorate invades his home and destroys everything he has ever known. Aiben soon learns that the molecule-sized machines, which augment his body and mind, have a centuries-old plan for him involving nanotechnology, genetic manipulation, and hyperspatial thought. Now, along with his companions, an old soldier and a sentient mechanoid, he takes his journey to a world of fabricated prophecies. There he navigates the treacheries of war and espionage to find an ancient weapon and a long-forgotten people that will bring his past crashing into his future and seal his destiny forever.

Volume I: Danny "Mouse" Ormont has girl troubles with Patti, his dream girl he has YET to meet! Is he totally bonkers? And, when they meet in 6th grade, imagine the impossibilities! Underdogs and bullies battle wits sparking zany high jinx. Madness rules the school in the "Boy From Tomorrow", an enchanting YA series with a psychic twist based on the author's premonitions since childhood.In Volume I, "Premonitions", Danny "Mouse" Ormont has girl troubles from Patti, the vixen he has yet to meet. His mystery girl appears in dreams, family photos, watery reflections, sunsets – even a jealous dog! His puppy love girlfriend, Debbie Strong, thinks he’s gone totally bonkers. Even Danny can’t believe what is happening until he foretells specifics of his parents’ upcoming business trip. Elsewhere, Patti Connor grows up fast under the shady influence of her teen half-sister, Lynn. Convinced she caused her parents’ divorce, Patti revolts against her troubled life. Together with Reb, boyfriend du jour, they join Lynn’s pack of hooligans. Miles away, Danny endures the brunt of Patti’s antics through a synergy with Patti’s presence. …Could Danny actually be Patti’s pet?The new kid in 6th grade, it’s a battle of wits when Danny clashes with bully, Mark Parks. And, once Patti joins the class, imagine the impossibilities! Smitten, Danny must win his dream girl’s heart – despite Mark’s advances. Patti preys on Mark’s jealousy, manipulating her class pets into executing her hidden agenda. High jinks rules the school, but trouble unfolds in the neighborhood. Is Patti involved?"Mouse" must reveal his burning secret to Patti, or die trying. Can he prove they share a past, if not a future? Only Patti holds the key to his puzzle. In class, a team-building game intensifies Danny’s psychic abilities: reading Patti’s thoughts, anticipating her every move, and… Look! Her necklace! The triple spiral – that mysterious coin the pair cast into good luck charms on the beach years ago! Can Danny keep Patti honest by invoking their time-honored Gemini Promise? Surely, this’ll prove he’s her Boy from Tomorrow!

In 2014, Kiss and Tales: A Romantic Collection published by The Indie Collaboration got national and international media exposure and rocketed to the top of the "free" best-seller list on Amazon and Smashwords for the Valentine's season. This year they're back with a new collection of romance and poetry for you to enjoy on Valentine's day.In 2014, Kiss and Tales: A Romantic Collection published by The Indie Collaboration got national and international media exposure and rocketed to the top of the "free" best-seller list on Amazon and Smashwords for the Valentine's season. The Indie Collaboration was happy to offer a diverse collection of free short stories and romantic poetry highlighting a wonderful group of authors from all over the world. This year they're back with a new collection of romance and poetry for you to enjoy on Valentine's day.

Following a nuclear holocaust, Nathan Taylor and his family face grim choices in order to stay alive. Fleeing deadly radiation, plague and desperate men, Nathan, an army officer, leads his wife and their two teenage sons away from chaos and madness toward his ancestral home in Kentucky.Following a nuclear holocaust, Nathan Taylor and his family face grim choices in order to stay alive. Fleeing deadly radiation, plague and desperate men, Nathan, an army officer, leads his wife and their two teenage sons away from chaos and madness toward his ancestral home in Kentucky. Horrors lie in their path. From the prison struggling to maintain control of its inmates, to the desperadoes who enslave anyone who comes their way, even survival may cost Nathan his humanity...or that of his sons, Joshua and David. Nathan struggles to keep his family intact, but it requires making brutal choices. He wants to protect his sons, but knows they now must be deadly and cold at times.Nathan's home has been spared from the worst of the destruction, but a larger conflict over scarce resources erupts. For the survivors to have any chance they will have to fight and the desperate journey has transformed young Joshua and David into men called upon to lead and sacrifice. Torn between harsh realities, and wanting to hold onto fleeting childhoods, they are often conflicted and angry about the roles thrust upon them. Much will depend on how Nathan and his sons respond to a madman and his military regime seeking to conquer the fledgling community they are helping to build.GLIMMER OF HOPE is an epic tale of one family's endurance and triumph after tomorrow's apocalypse.

Katryn Johnson is an uncommon first time political candidate for office. Political campaigns and conspiracies are common in America. Strange events happen around her. She often does the unexpected. How will she respond to them? World events, fame, and answers to important questions will change Katryn's life and American politics.Everyone has secrets. Who uses them? What does Katryn know? What secrets are hidden from her? The Announcement takes readers on a journey through politics with a new candidate. Katryn Johnson is an innocent, a first time candidate. Katryn will find herself in the American political version of shark infested waters. Katryn discovers she is the chum every shark wants to eat as the waters grow warmer. Every four years elections are a dirty war for power. This series follows her from innocence into the feeding frenzy of The Election. Life or death may become the important question for Katryn and the people around her. This is the first story in a new, free series. The Announcement kicks off a wild ride into too much money, conspiracies à la carte, betrayals, intrigues, and, of course, murder.

First comes the invite then the obsession and finally possession. In a village in Lincolnshire a dark spirit looms waiting to preoccupy its next victim. A young girl comes into sight, her father dead and her mother is insane. Charlotte invites the spirit into her life and body. She has no idea what she has got herself into. But there is still hope can her cousin and Friend save her in time?When Tom's Uncle goes MIA his mother decides she has to be with her sister. She moves to the small town of Northlands in the middle of Lincolnshire England. Charlotte Tom's cousin is taking her father's disappearance hard and refuses to talk to anyone even her Best Friend Holly. Then she makes a huge mistake she lets a Demon into her body and mind. Can her Friend and Cousin save her in time or will she become the Trader's next victim.

The sad and depressing Chicago ER has worn down Dr. Michael Sheehan. He wants more. He wants to make a difference. He wants to give back. And what goes around comes around. ~~~~~ Doctors Without Borders has just the spot for Doc Sheehan, and Pablo is glad Doc came. The local historian and storyteller believes in paying it forward, even if no one can understand quite how he pulled it off.Evolved Publishing presents a feel-good story to brighten your day. At just over 4,000 words, this quick story from the author of the psychological thriller "Forgive Me, Alex" is the perfect distraction from your hectic day.~~~~~~~~~~...Stress stalked like a murderous mistress in any profession, but particularly so for a surgeon. Stress begot distraction, distraction begot mistakes, and one simple mistake by Dr. Michael Sheehan could well beget death. No one demanded he be perfect, of course--no reasonable person would expect such a thing.......They merely required he make no mistakes....~~~~~~~~~~The sad and depressing Chicago ER has worn down Dr. Michael Sheehan. He wants more. He wants to make a difference. He wants to give back.And what goes around comes around.~~~~~Doctors Without Borders has just the spot for Doc Sheehan, and Pablo is glad Doc came. The local historian and storyteller believes in paying it forward, even if no one can understand quite how he pulled it off.This feel-good story is a reminder that when we do good, we get good.

Ex-government agent Frank Compton must halt a murderous plague that threatens to turn the galaxy-spanning Quadrail into a ghost train in the fourth installment of Hugo Award–winning author Timothy Zahn’s acclaimed Quadrail series The Chahwyn created the Spiders to keep their intra-galactic transportation system, the Quadrail, safe and running smoothly, and contracted ex-security agent Frank Compton to protect its integrity. So far, Compton and his half-human, half-Chahwyn partner, Bayta, have had their hands full keeping this essential link between occupied worlds open and preventing the evil collective intelligence called the Modhri from using it to spread their mind-controlling infection. But now a new threat has boarded, one that troubles even the Modhri. While the Quadrail is en route to the farthest edge of the galaxy, a murder by poison occurs—then another and another—dark happenings that are not only disturbing but also technically impossible. The system Compton and Bayta have been charged with protecting is in grave danger of derailment, and unless they can get to the deep roots of a sinister conspiracy, chaos will come to the ordered universe. This tour de force from Hugo Award winner Timothy Zahn rockets the acclaimed Quadrail series to breathtaking new heights. The Domino Pattern is an ingenious amalgam of hard science fiction and locked-room murder mystery that would leave even the great Hercule Poirot bedazzled.

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Science fiction meets fantasy with just a dash of biblical threats for flavor!Allen Crowley is the greatest assassin in the Shadow and he has some very powerful friends. He will need them, all the power at his disposal, and a lot of luck when he is tasked with stopping an immortal monster.

Combining elements of horror and sword and sorcery, John Grover weaves an epic fantasy tale full of action, mystery and suspense.A long vanquished evil has returned to the beautiful and peaceful realm of Orum. An evil that will stop at nothing to plunder and enslave all of the realm’s people and lay waste to its lands.Combining elements of horror and sword and sorcery, John Grover weaves an epic fantasy tale full of action, mystery and suspense.A long vanquished evil has returned to the beautiful and peaceful realm of Orum. An evil that will stop at nothing to plunder and enslave all of the realm’s people and lay waste to its lands. An evil that refuses to die, that has ravaged every realm it has touched. Its name is Sinnia, the Spider Queen and she has set her eyes back on the one world that eludes her grasp.The leadership races must come together and harness the old power of their ancestors, sing their song of lore as one people and defeat this horror once and for all. These races will come to discover a long lost secret about their own ancestry, their connection to each other and the realm itself, a secret that will change their world…forever.Novella. 20,000 words.

Andrew Dickson, a retiring space pirate, stumbles across an old friend – one who ran off with a five million dollar prize she swiped from his crew some years back. What started out as a farewell party turns into a dangerous chase to retrieve the long-lost artifact that she pilfered from them.Frozen- Enter the future with Verick Cedar, a 16 year old boy who will be “Trick or Treating” for the first time. The world as we know it has come to the end, with the invasion of The Xecerptavode, an alien race that infused the land, drained all the fresh water, and forced the humans to live in destitute conditions. Join Verick on what could be his first and last All Hallows Eve.A Grim Tale- Over eight centuries the burden of reaping the dead has become routine for Cyrene. Tonight, the grim reaper sheds a little light into the world of the undead. As she goes about her normal collection, find out what the history books aren’t telling you.The Rabbit Hole-Trick or Treating and costume parties are for the weak hearted. At least Cam and Matt think so. Enduring a haunted house on Halloween should be a walk in the park. Perhaps they should think again. As the boys trudge deeper into The Rabbit Hole, they realize this may not be the excitement they bargained for.Come and become a part of the main attraction. You’ll never leave.

During a visit to Planet 505-D, the crew of the Humboldt starts acting strange―shirking duties and responsibilities. The chief engineer objects, but Captain Marie Penski and the rest of the crew tire of his act. Until they get a most unexpected visit from Muryah Abernathy, reported lost on an earlier expedition. Ten years earlier!Soon, the crew falls under her spell...with deadly consequences.During the final visit to Planet 505-D before human colonization begins, the crew of the Humboldt starts acting strange―shirking their duties and responsibilities. The chief engineer, Devin Calloway, wants no part of it, but Captain Marie Penski and the rest of the crew become tired of his attitude. Until the day they get a most unexpected visit from Muryah Abernathy, a woman reported lost on the original mission to 505-D —ten years earlier. Soon, the crewmembers are under her spell, ignoring even their own safety… with deadly consequences.Bonus Content: This 140-page novella (approx. 74,000 words) includes a sixteen chapter excerpt from Hunters, a new horror and contemporary fantasy novel involving modern-day vampires and the human hunters determined to exterminate them once and for all.

The Helmsman is a short story about the sailors of the Sea Guard and their adventures while underway. In this story, Petty Officer Meers wrestles with his decision to visit an old girlfriend during a port call in Jamaica. Read about the bridge talk leading up to this soon-to-be fateful shore leave.What Bucket-Man lacks in superpowers, he makes up for in having an overturned bucket for a helmet. Bolstered by his lack of common sense, he faces insane challenges from the likes of Ninja Janitor and Boring Man. And then come the *Spoiler Alert* plot twists and unlikely team-up! And these are just the first 4 of 19 stories available in the full compendium! For all the quirkiness of comic book superheroics—light on the superheroics, heavy on the comedy—look for The Adventures of Bucket-Man and His Ostensible Enemies!