The Fey

      Claudia Hall Christian
     The Fey

In The Fey, we meet Alexandra Hargreaves, the last surviving member of the Fey Special Forces Team, as she moves on from her loss. Haunted by the past and terrorized in the present, Alex must reach past pain, through memory and beyond the grave to find her self, and her future.In The Fey, we meet Alexandra Hargreaves, the last surviving member of the Fey Special Forces Team, as she comes to terms with her injuries and begins to deal with the loss of her team. But Alex was never supposed to survive. Her enemies torment and torture her until she’s lost almost everything important to her. Trapped in a dark, sensory deprivation room, Alex puts the pieces back together and comes out fighting. With the help of her friends, she takes a leap forward in her life.Back cover copy: Released from Walter Reed Hospital, Sergeant Alexandra Hargreaves settles in her hometown of Denver, Colorado. With her family and friend close, and her enemies even closer, she strives to collect the pieces of her shattered life.Then everything falls apart.Haunted by the past and terrorized in the present, Alex must reach past pain, through memory and beyond the grave to find her self, and her future.The Fey is the first book in the Fey series.“One of the best books I have every read.” – V.A., Escondido, CA“The Fey is a romance for people who hate romances; a thriller for people who hate thrillers. If I’d read this on a bus, I swear I’d have missed my stop.”–J. Creasey , Denver, CO“I love thrillers and this one ranks up there with James Patterson and Michael Palmer.”– K. Williams, Las Vegas, NM“A page-turner.”– S. W., Denver, CO

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    The Battle of Hyannis

      Larry S Gray
     The Battle of Hyannis

And I saw a great multitude of frogs ascending up out of the sea...of did I? Did frogs really rise up and overtake a beach, a neighborhood, the city of Hyannis, and then march right back into the sea? Overactive imagination? Lucid dream? Insanity at 22? In this twisted little tale you can have the answer in just minutes!"The problem with life is that you can toil through the years chasing this illusion, this dream of a life of wealth, leisure, power, sex, and all the other abstract ideals that have driven and tempted people throughout history. By the time you finally lay a hand on that dream, the vision has evolved, the goalposts have moved, and you've broken yourself trying to get as far as you have. You're in too deep to stop by that point, so you juggle what you have while still chasing your new vision of happiness, and life just gets more complex and unstable with each iteration. Some people settle for what they have at some point, some continue this cycle with no end, and others simply break completely, but no one to my knowledge has ever successfully found true happiness by chasing perfection."My own life fell into the first category. I was told at a young age by both my parents and no less than three of my school teachers that I needed to devote my life to finding and holding a good-paying job or risk a life of poverty. So I struggled through twelve brutal semesters of college, immersing myself in all of the subjects considered most attractive to potential employers. I networked with executives and higher-ups at prestigious companies. I expanded my portfolio of engineering experience to buff my résumé. I sacrificed my time, health, and even a few friendships and relationships to claw my way to the top. And finally, I reached out and seized my dream as a powerful player in HASBAM Technologies, a highly profitable technology and systems corporation. Achieving this goal, however, felt hollow somehow. I had all the money I needed, and I tried to continually reassure myself that I was happy, but the happiness was empty and devoid of meaning. There was no higher to climb without selling my soul to management, an occupation even more devoid of meaning, and I couldn't bear giving up this life and throwing away all of the sweat and toil I had poured into it. I took the only option I could bear: live the "perfect" life I had created for myself..."

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    The Surveillance State

      Duke Kell
     The Surveillance State

Freedom Files Book 3, What if the camera on your phone, computer, TV and security camera were watching you, recording your life? What if your school records, your medical records were no longer protected? What if the people who are controlling our government have crossed the line and everything you’ve ever done will be held against you. This is The Surveillance State and there is nowhere to hide.The Surveillance State is the third book in the "Freedom Files" series, a collection of novelettes about ongoing civil liberty issues. Cameras and microphones are embedded in everything we own, and we gladly gave up some of our freedom for security. Where is the line that we won’t cross, the point where our principals stop us from being monsters? What if the camera on your phone and your computer and your TV and your security camera were watching you, recording your life? What if your school records, your medical records were no longer protected? What if the people who are controlling our government have crossed that line and everything you’ve ever done will be held against you. This is The Surveillance State and there is nowhere to hide.Included at the beginning and the end is the Freedom Files that correlate with this story.

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    A life with no Light and Other Stories

      Kayla Moseley
     A life with no Light and Other Stories

A LIFE WITH NO LIGHT and other stories, contains three flash fictions. The stories deal with extraterrestrials, zombies, and war. Each story is categorized in it's own genre, so the entire book consists of Horror, Sci-fi, and adventure.In this collection of stories, the characters are fighting for their lives. In the adventure story, "A life with no Light", a war erupting in the united states blacks out the sky causing generations to grow up with no light. When the main character's father is drafted for the war, he must fight to keep the rest of his family alive. In the horror, "The Cost of Mercy", Mark's family is thrown into an apocalypse. When a devastating event takes place, Mark must make a huge choice for the good of his family. In the Sci-fi story, "Guinea Pig", Greg wakes up in a mysterious room. With new clothes and no memory of how he got there. With a horrible discovery of abduction, Greg must figure out a way to escape his abductors and return home.

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    The Cassandra Compact

      Robert Ludlum
     The Cassandra Compact

For over thirty years, Robert Ludlum has been acknowledged as the master of international suspense and intrigue. In 2000, Ludlum managed to raise the bar yet again with his widely acclaimed bestsellers The Prometheus Deception and The Hades Factor, the first novel in his exciting Covert-One series. Now Covert-One is back, in a novel that could only have come from the imagination of the world's greatest storyteller. "What they're going to do, I never would have believed it. It's insanity!" They were the final words spoken by Yuri Danko, an officer in the medical division of Russia's security service, before his body was ripped apart by a spray of assassins' bullets. In possession of Danko's classified papers, Covert-One operative Jon Smith and CIA undercover agent Randi Russell have unearthed a terrifying global conspiracy that threatens to unleash a plague of immeasurable proportions. A Serb terrorist has been dispatched from Russia to spirit hazardous vials of deadly bacteria into the United States. His mission: deliver it to an unknown American government agent-- a shadowy figure whose own motives for acquiring the bioweapon are made all the more unfathomable when both men are found murdered, and the strain is stolen. Now Smith and Russell must track it down, find the madman who possesses it, and stop him before he holds a defenseless world hostage with the power to render the human race extinct. Visit the Covert-One Web site: www.CovertOne.com

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    L.A. Burning

      King O'Bryan
     L.A. Burning

What happens when terror strikes by the hand of an unlikely source? Trevor and Alyssa are getting married, but this wedding quickly becomes the wedding they never planned. Be thrilled in less than 30 minutes with this tiny thriller. Expect tension, ultra-heightened expectations, suspense, and surprise as you witness the unthinkable, the unplanned, the unforgettable--L.A. Burning."Your end is coming now!" Ezekiel 7:3

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    Murder In Mo-Town

      Lee Ivory
     Murder In Mo-Town

In the small town of Moscow, TN everything is calm and friendly until some new neighbors move to town. Jade and Janine Hawthorne, two suspicious acting sisters, move in and everything starts to change. A group of close friends experience something that changes their lives forever, even uncovering something unexpected.Jeffery considered himself a pretty good guy. He never bothered anybody and he never bothered to get involved. One day he witnesses a terrible event and does nothing. That lack of action may cost him.This short story deals with the subject of indifference, something we are all guilty of at one time or another, and what it may cost us.

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    Time Ship (Book One): A Time Travel Romantic Adventure

      Ian C.P. Irvine
     Time Ship (Book One): A Time Travel Romantic Adventure

Image the combination of four amazing films - 'The Perfect Storm' meets 'The Philadelphia Experiment' meets ' Contagion' meets 'Pirates of the Caribbean', and you will have the plot for TIME SHIP!A Pirate ship from the 17th Century is caught up in powerful electric storm and transported through an electrical vortex to the year 2014, landing in the Caribbean. The world is in danger!Book One of a Two Part Series. Readers must get Book Two to conclude the story. TIME SHIP. has got it all: romance, adventure, treasure, nuclear weapons, time travel, a plague that threatens the existence of humanity, humor, hurricanes, swashbuckling, Pirates, the United States Army, and a Court Case in the Supreme Court of America. And what's more, it ends with a twist that you will never guess and will make you smile.Written for adults and teenagers alike, TIME SHIP is another classic by Ian C.P. Irvine, the writer of Haunted From Within, The Orlando File, Crown of Thorns and London 2012: What If?: best-selling thrillers in which Ian C.P. Irvine makes the implausible sound plausible, and lets you see the action in your mind as if it's a movie playing in your head. So what is TIME SHIP about?Image the combination of four amazing films - 'The Perfect Storm' meets 'The Philadelphia Experiment' meets ' Contagion' meets 'Pirates of the Caribbean', and you will have the plot for 21st Century Pirates Inc.During a daring raid on a secret Pirate stronghold in the Caribbean, Captain Rob McGregor of the Sea Dancer and his own pirate crew steal the infamous treasure belonging to Captain William Kidd. Rich beyond their wildest dreams, Captain McGregor and his band of pirates set out to sea, their ships' holds full of pirate booty.When they are hit by the most intense electrical storm of the 17th Century, the Sea Dancer is transported through time to the year 2014. Bemused, hungry and thirsty, Captain McGregor and his crew sneak into a secluded bay in Puerto Rico, hoping to find food and water.Instead they find a 'palace' : an exclusive five-star holiday resort for the rich and famous.Scared, bewildered and desperate, they take over the resort, holding everyone hostage.Quickly, the situation goes from bad to worse. Within hours of landing at the Blue Emerald Bay Resort, several of the crew fall sick. When one dies, the resort doctor identifies it a unique and new strain of pneumonic plague, never before seen in the 21st Century, and an infection so deadly that if it infects the residents of the Blue Emerald Bay and escapes the confines of the resort, could threaten to wipe out the human race…TIME SHIP is the most gripping time travel romantic adventure you will ever read!Download, settle back in a comfortable chair, and enjoy!

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    The Scarlatti Inheritance

      Robert Ludlum
     The Scarlatti Inheritance

Her weapons: money and power. Her target: the most dangerous man in the world—her own son. Elizabeth Wyckham Scarlatti has a plan, a desperate, last-minute gamble designed to save the world from her son, Ulster, an incalculably cruel man who is working for the Third Reich under the name of Heinrich Kroeger. If Elizabeth cannot stop him, Ulster will give Hitler the most powerful instrument on earth. Praise for Robert Ludlum and *The Scarlatti Inheritance *  “[Robert Ludlum] has that sense of drama and pace that only the best storytellers have.”—San Francisco Chronicle  * “Gripping . . . Ludlum writes with imagination and convincing authority.”—Baltimore Sun  * “Great, astonishing, the most spellbinding suspense in years!”—Minneapolis Star Tribune  * “Drive and excitement from first page to last.”—Mario Puzo, author of *The Godfather BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Robert Ludlum’s *The Bourne Identity.*

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    The Queen of Bedlam

      Robert R. McCammon
     The Queen of Bedlam

His epic masterwork, Speaks the Nightbird, a tour de force of witch hunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as "deeply satisfying...told with matchless insight into the human soul." Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero of that spellbinding novel, Matthew Corbett, to eighteenth-century New York, where a killer wields a bloody and terrifying power over a bustling city carving out its identity -- and over Matthew's own uncertain destiny.The unsolved murder of a respected doctor has sent ripples of fear throughout a city teeming with life, noise, and commerce. Who snuffed out the good man's life with the slash of a blade on a midnight street? The local printmaster has labeled the fiend "the Masker," adding fuel to a volatile mystery...while young law clerk Matthew Corbett has other obsessions in mind. Earnest and hardworking, Matthew spends his precious spare time attempting to vindicate the abuses he witnessed growing up in the Sainted John Home for Boys, at the hands of its monstrous headmaster. But Matthew's true calling lies not in avenging the past but salvaging the future -- for when the Masker claims a new victim, Matthew is lured into a maze of forensic clues and heart-pounding investigation that will both test his natural penchant for detection and inflame his hunger for justice. In the strangest twist of all, the key to unmasking the Masker may await in an asylum where the Queen of Bedlam reigns -- and only a man of Matthew's reason and empathy can unlock her secrets. From the seaport to Wall Street, from society mansions to gutters glimmering with blood spilled by a deviant, Matthew's quest will tauntingly reveal the answers he seeks -- and the chilling truths he cannot escape.

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    Advice from the Chief Rabbi, Taken from The Taba Convention

      Stephen Ayers
     Advice from the Chief Rabbi, Taken from The Taba Convention

Jordan Kline is troubled and, even though putting himself in danger, travels to Eilat to seek out advice from the Chief Rabbi. He seeks advice on life and Jewish values.He is deeply troubled by suspicions of traitors within Israel, men who would kill to sweep aside all threats to their conspiracy.This is one of my favorite passages in Book1 of the Jordan Kline Trilogy.When an Englishman visits an American rodeo show, he gets far more than horse-play...A horror fantasy story with a Lovecraft tinge, for fans of the wierd tale...

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    Born Lucky: A YA St. Patrick's Day Story

      Rusty Fischer
     Born Lucky: A YA St. Patrick's Day Story

Mandy Nash is the first “Normal” (i.e. human) to invite Calvin anywhere since he became reanimated, one of the living dead. But what will he do when he finds out her invitation to the big St. Patrick’s Day party in town is just an elaborate ruse to get him to take her into the Z-Zone , a place where "Normals" are forbidden, and even zombies are in danger?One can live for several weeks without food but only a few days without water, a fact that seventeen year old Niko is only too aware of as she struggles to provide for her two younger brothers in a post-apocalyptic landscape where the rain burns like acid, food grows scarce, and any Slither that crosses her path is laid low before it can sink its teeth into her.Then one night everything she's ever worked for, everything she's ever loved is consumed by a raging fire, leaving her with one brother dead, the other missing and herself gravely injured.She's rescued by the Rose Circle, a rogue group of Slither hunters. They sneak her into Amaryllis City, a decadent metropolis where those able to afford the exorbitant entrance fee live a life of relative ease.But for Niko, Amaryllis City is not the haven she grew up believing it would be, the deeper she delves the nastier it gets and when her unique abilities as a Slither hunter are discovered things get positively filthy.All Niko ever wanted to do was find her baby brother but that's proving to be harder than she ever would have expected.

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    Alert

      James Patterson
     Alert

"This is not a test"—every New Yorker's worst nightmare is about to become a reality. New Yorkers aren't easily intimidated, but someone is doing their best to scare them, badly: why? After two inexplicable high-tech attacks, the city that never sleeps is on edge. Detective Michael Bennett, along with his old pal, the FBI's Emily Parker, have to catch the shadowy criminals who claim responsibility—but they're as good at concealing their identities as they are at wreaking havoc. In the wake of a shocking assassination, Bennett begins to suspect that these mysterious events are just the prelude to the biggest threat of all. Soon he's racing against the clock, and against the most destructive enemy he's faced yet, to save his beloved city—before everyone's worst nightmare becomes a reality.

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