Fate is on the line in this steampunk-esque, fantasy novella. Michael Bandolier, a simple bookbinder from Wind Quarry, accepts a paying job to hunt down the mayor’s stolen watch, but instead, finds himself fulfilling a secret family destiny.Fate is on the line in this steampunk-esque, fantasy novella. Michael Bandolier, a simple bookbinder from Wind Quarry, accepts a paying job to hunt down the mayor’s stolen watch, but instead, finds himself fulfilling a secret family destiny.With the help of Debora, his highly underestimated secretary, Michael is wound into the ultimate struggle between good and evil, trying to save a world that is nothing like he imagined.The enemy has acquired a map that leads to the complicator, a legendary device said to contain the power to reshape the earth. But even with fate, and a newly discovered family history at his back, Michael learns he can't succeed without the help of his unassuming office assistant. Debora proves to be more than just the quiet office help, and Michael can never look at her the same again.The first in a series of fantasy novellas, this story is set in an alternate world of steampunk-esque qualities, such as airships, paddle-wheel boats and secret machines buried deep in the earth. Michael and Debora's mission takes them from the Great City to the canyons of Wind Quarry where they face the stark question- Is fate a friend or a foe?

A plane crash, frostbite, a search and rescue, a fur coat with a heartbeat, wildly passionate dreams, and a couple of armed killers--what’s real and what’s hallucination…? Dawn has no idea, but she’s about to find out.Frozen Dawn is The Prequel to Bloodlines, the first full-length novel in Chrystal Bahl’s Twisted Tails Series. Watch for Blood Ties, the second book in the series, coming soon.A plane crash, frostbite, a search and rescue, a fur coat with a heartbeat, wildly passionate dreams, and a couple of armed killers…what’s real and what’s hallucination…?Dawn has no idea.But she’s about to find out.Frozen Dawn is The Prequel to Bloodlines, the first full-length novel in Chrystal Bahl’s Twisted Tails Series.Watch for Blood Ties, the second book in the Twisted Tails Series...coming soon!

"A book to rival TWILIGHT and VAMPIRE DIARIES, and one that will have you wanting to keep reading until the very last page! If you are into adventure, love and vampires this book is the one for you!" --Vampirebooksite.com (Turned) The #1 Bestselling series! THE VAMPIRE JOURNALS, comprising 11 books, tells the story of 18 year old Caitlin Paine, who finds herself uprooted from her nice suburb and forced to attend a dangerous New York City high school when her Mom moves again. Before her new romance can blossom, Caitlin suddenly finds herself changing, into something she does not understand. A love between the races will risk both of their lives, and will force them to decide whether to risk it all for each other...

Beware! Dangerous secrets lie between the pages of this book. OK, I warned you. But if you think I'll give anything away, or tell you that this is the sequel to my first literary endeavor, The Name of This Book is Secret, you're wrong. I'm not going to remind you of how we last left our heroes, Cass and Max-Ernest, as they awaited intiation into the mysterious Terces Society, or the ongoing fight against the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais. I certainly won't be telling you about how the kids stumble upon the Museum of Magic, where they finally meet the amazing Pietro! Oh, blast! I've done it again. Well, at least I didn't tell you about the missing Sound Prism, the nefarious Lord Pharaoh, or the mysterious creature born in a bottle over 500 years ago, the key to the biggest secret of all. I really can't help myself, now can I? Let's face it---if you're reading this, it's too late.

BEFORE "UNDERWORLD, " THE WAR RAGED ON.... For untold centuries, a secret conflict has been waged between two immortal rivals: The vampires -- ageless aristocrats with a sensual appetite for blood and luxury. Among their ranks are the Death Dealers, an elite corps of the undead sworn to the destruction of their ancestral enemies.... The werewolves -- feral warriors capable of transforming into hellish beasts of unearthly power and ferocity. Once the faithful servants of the vampires, the savage lycans now fight toothand claw against their former masters. Throughout history, the clandestine war has been fought in the shadows of the mortal world. And the seeds of this destructive conflict were sown long ago, when a courageous lycan daredto lose his heart to a beautiful vampire princess.

“You see, there is safety in simplicity… in a life of simple peace, where the electricity doesn’t dance across the backs of my eyelids, and the sparks don’t slither over my consciousness. Only asinine peace, where my paintings don’t seem to paint themselves, leaving me with terrible feelings of premonition and a chill beneath my fingernails.” Seraph Black used to think that she was prepared for anything. She could last days without eating and she always walked away from the violent altercations with her father relatively unharmed. She survived working at the club and the drive to school every day in her mother’s rust-bucket of a car… but it all changed when Noah and Cabe came bulldozing into her life, careless of the precious secrets they picked apart in their quest to take over her world. She was even less prepared for the mysterious Miro and Silas, and nothing could have prepared her for the bond. The connection. The reason for it all. Someone wanted her to stay away from her new friends, but she wasn’t willing to do that. Everyone had secrets. She wanted to know theirs. They wanted to own hers. And the stalker? He seemed to know everything already.

After Glory St. Clair kicked out the demon that had set up shop in her body, she had a serious fallout with longtime lover Jeremy Blade. But before Glory can win him back, she has some issues of the hellish variety to deal with. When Lucifer himself offers Glory the ultimate temptation-work for the devil and he'll make her a size six-the curvy vampire's not sure if she can resist. But what Glory does know is that somehow, she's going to get back the man she loves and show everyone that real vampires always have more to love.

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

When the mysterious stranger shows up at Nova's parents' hotel, she thinks her luck has changed - until she realizes she's the only one who can see him. Liam explains he's been here a long time. And he can never leave, no matter how hard he tries. Soon, Nova begins to piece his tragic story together. But she's hiding a secret of her own - one she's desperate to keep from her family. And now Liam's found her out . . .

After a great war, King Scarlet has Razor City in his blood-soaked clutches. Only Scarlet's son Dante, now known as Grey, and a motley band of rebels can take back the city.After a great war that destroyed the nation, the government has fallen, and the cities are run by corrupt false monarchies. The Kings and Queens control the law, and the powerless, terrified citizens are being snatched from the streets in droves, accused of treason and imprisoned or worse. The children of the accused must band together just to survive. In Razor City, only the rebel Uprising is willing to stand up to King Scarlet, but their efforts are crushed at every turn by disloyal bounty hunters, bloodthirsty outlaws, Scarlet’s ruthless, vigilant nobles and his cruel son, Dante.Petra Strom has given up hope. Everyone in Razor City has given up hope.When Petra discovers Prince Dante beaten half to death in an alley without any memory of his identity or his past, she thinks she’s finally found a way to force Scarlet to release her brother, Ren, and the other falsely accused prisoners. Planning to ransom the prince in exchange for the prisoners, Petra lures Dante back to the children’s secret compound and convinces him he’s one of them, a lost child called Grey whose family was torn apart by the King. As her lies catch up to her and Grey begins to discover who he really is, the children are pursued by the King’s Marshals, bounty hunters and a deadly assassin whose connection to Scarlet might be the real reason the prince was attacked in that alley. Grey begins to uncover the truth about himself and his father, and he knows someone has to end Scarlet’s tyrannical reign once and for all. He might be the only one who can. As they join up with the Uprising, Grey and Petra realize their fight isn’t just about survival or freeing the prisoners anymore. It’s about taking back the city.

Jazz walked away from a crash landing and right into the monster ghetto known as Clowntown. She’s hurt, tired, hungry and needs to make it out before dark as even her shadow sight won’t do much good against the residents of this nightmare neighborhood. If she keeps moving, keeps quiet, and gets lucky she might make it out unnoticed. But the only luck Jazz ever seems to have is bad, really bad.Jazz, Season One, Episode TwoJazz and Ship were forced to crash-land in one of the most dangerous places outside of the wilds, the monster ghetto known as Clowntown. She’s already hurt, tired, and hungry and time is running short as even her shadow sight won’t do her much good against the residents of this nightmare neighborhood once it’s dark. If she keeps moving, keeps quiet, and gets lucky she might make it out unnoticed. But a golem of make up and design too horrible to mention has noticed her and it’s eager to harvest some of her very favorite organs. Jazz is always well armed, but nothing in her current arsenal is going to stop a creature that can constantly reconstitute itself. And, as she’s deep inside Clowntown, there’s nowhere safe to run to. What Jazz really needs is a good dose of luck, and the only luck Jazz ever has is bad, really bad.

Jennifer Nielsen awakens one morning to a life that doesn't belong to her. Thrown back eight years into a past she doesn't remember and again married to her ex-husband, she struggles to make sense of the situation that resembles something out of The Twilight Zone. Join her on the quest to find the truth--is she insane, is this a dream, or has she in actually traveled in time?Jennifer Nielsen awakens one morning in a room she doesn't recognize, and next to a sleeping man that she knows all too well -- her ex-husband. Terrified that she has made a horrible mistake, but unable to remember the details of how she came to reunite with him, she quietly attempts to escape only to find her eldest daughter asleep in another room. But on this morning, her daughter is a young child again and not the teenager she is certain she saw the night before. Now finding herself unexplainably thrown back eight years into a past she doesn't remember, again married to her ex-husband and a mother to only one child, she struggles to make sense of her situation and is determined to seek out the truth of how this new reality came to be. How can she be back in a different time in her life--one that she doesn't recall living? Where is her real husband and the daughter they have together? Is she having a mental breakdown? Does she have amnesia? Was the life she's certain she had, just a figment of her imagination or a vivid dream? Conventional doctors and rational explanations cannot provide the answers she seeks. Out of desperation she turns to Astrid, a local psychic, and together they unravel the mystery.

Jay can't wait to make his girlfriend, Jorinda, his wife, but his plans for a romantic proposal go horribly wrong, and now it's up to Jay to save his true love.This short story is an update of the Grimm Fairy Tale 'Jorinda and Joringel'.no.1 bestselling author, David Edwards, has created an adventure story for 9 - 14 year olds that combines action and pace with technology and social networking in an epic adventure. 4 friends play a new game on facebook called world domination. but the secret intelligence services believe that the evil madam musseine, mm, is using the game to control the world’s stock markets. they are are recruited by mI6 and the cia to join mm’s neural network of 100 youngsters in her hideout under mount kilimanjaro. objective - stop mm’s evil plans and save the world.

Waki has had a slow and boring life in his little village as far as he can remember. Then one day a stranger arrives and with it Waki is thrust into an epic adventure. . .Deception ~ Short romance, 86 pages. Trey's boss is old, sick and his days are numbered; and he wants to see his missing granddaughter Katharine before he dies. Trey will do almost anything for the old man, even if it means having artist Sacha Fortune pretend to be Katharine.Sacha is forced to assume the other woman's identity, because if she doesn't comply, Trey will expose her criminal past to the art world which has so recently embraced her art. But Sacha has more to lose than Trey could ever guess.

Mid December, 2015, three years after the much touted 12/21/12 date, but the Aquarian 'Golden Age' has not yet come. Instead the world is now recovering from the recent nuclear war, known as the Final War. In the backdrop of all this, unassuming college graduate, John 'J.C' Casey, discovers he may be the Slayer of the Serpent, the one who is prophesied to destroy the Dark Illuminati Brotherhood...Mid December, 2015, three years after the much touted 12/21/12 date...but the fabled Aquarian 'Golden Age' is still nowhere to be seen. Instead, the world is now recovering from the ravages of the recent nuclear war, known as the Final War, and, in the name of 'security', is fast being transformed into a global Fascist state, the most basic of humans rights stripped from people on a daily basis...In the backdrop of all this is unassuming NYU Astrobiology graduate, John 'J.C' Casey, who has a great interest in the Occult, Conspiracy Theories and Aliens. After receiving an email from a mysterious man, claiming that he wants to give him vital, Above Top Secret information, J.C embarks on an amazing, synchronicity-filled adventure. The sensitive information apparently holds the key to defeating the secret society John has developed an unhealthy obsession with in recent years: the Illuminati, an ancient brotherhood of Black Magicians that he knows to be behind both the recent war and the looming Dark Luciferian New World Order...John soon comes face to face with a world he never knew existed. A world full of White Magicians, Dark Sorcerers, Angels and Lower Astral Beings. He also discovers he may be the fulfilment of an ancient prophecy, which tells of the Slayer of the Serpent, a powerful Magician destined to destroy the Illuminati Dark Cabal. Framed for murder, on the run from the law and hounded by Illuminati minions at every turn, John must now race against time to stop the Dark Brotherhood from actualizing its millennia old, Byzantine plot...J.C and his new friends have but a few hours left to meet the stringent requirements laid out in the Intergalactic Quarantine Removal Code and, if successful, will set the much delayed New Aeon of Aquarius into motion. If they fail, however, the Earth will become a Prison Planet for all time!