Earth Moon Colony Two - DREAM CASTERS - 2053


When is a perfect alibi not so perfect? Cody Callahan and defense attorney Travis Longstreet must answer this question to save grandmotherly Lucille Prettyman from murder charges. Mike Solomon is a struggling young musician with dreams of rock stardom. When his band is hired to play a college party he meets a woman who quite literally changes his life.

Where do they come from, the makers of legend, those larger than life leaders of men like Alexander the Great, Arthur, Caesar and Napoleon? Mark had a problem. He only had two months to live and he had to decide between going out with a "bang" or becoming an "angel".

The Angel Program would strip his memories and personality and save them onto a "halo"; a storage device of magnificent proportions. John Wyeth was a successful man. At nineteen, he graduated at the top of his class at a respected university. By the age of twenty-two, he had survived three brutal years of warfare, serving as commanding officer for a behind-the-lines reconnaissance platoon. Now at thirty-one, he was the Senior Project Leader for the super secret think tank NATech, and he was very good at what he did. Everyone knew and no one doubted that within a few years he would be the Director.

Over a year has passed since Aurora, who was once Browne, escaped the Candidacy with her love, Bain to Canada. Life amongst the Resistance; however, does not bring peace for any extended amount of time as Ren, Angel, Bain and Aurora find out in Zephyr Unfolding. After the grisly murder of a family including their seven-year-old son, Nick Bishop and the Office of Paranormal Research have been called into to solve this mystery. King is a twisted retelling of the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, in a modern setting.

Increasingly concerned over the publicity the rats might bring, the mayor orders the search for an exterminator to solve the problem. The search brings a new kind of exterminator to the area? Writers are the only true magicians in the world. They create worlds with words, and in the case of fantasy, they bring magic into our lives.

Because of writers we can converse with dragons, follow a quest for the sake of good, and find love lost through the centuries. Battles have been lost before men have stepped a foot on the battlefield. Your tactics are the plans you make for the upcoming battle and strategy is the careful planning and managing of your activity on the battlefield. Heed this lesson well young man as the lives of men are in your hands, and should always be in your heart.?

Everyone, male or female, who drinks very much and frequents singles bars has probably woken up one morning with a less than desirable bedmate, one who looked very good right before the bar closed. The less appealing a person is physically, and the more they have had to drink, the more likely it is that such an event has occurred. Timothy Meeker was so physically repulsive that it happened often to him. Going home with a bar hag was about the only time he ever got laid.

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Finally he decided to do something to change the situation. Boy, did he ever! It looked like a perfectly ordinary chicken egg, just like the others in the carton. There was only one difference. Becky wanted to throw it away. Carl decided to keep it and try to find out what it was made of. But then the egg began changing. Double Dragon Publishing - Fifth Anniversary. A Celebration of Cover Art to Selected images from the book of the same title. Come celebrate five years of cover art with Double Dragon Publishing!

Included within this full color paperback is a selection of cover art reproduced to "actual publication size", commentaries from various authors including Piers Anthony, Sheri L. Outnumbered in vessels and fighters, the riverers advance for an epic showdown. Who was the force behind the uprising in Heaven against God and His Angels? The written word of the bible acknowledges Satan as the agitator; however, as we find out through mythology and pagan cultures of ancient times, Satan did not act of his own free will.

He was influenced by this entity of true anger, evil and power beyond power. This entity was neither male nor female, living nor dead, flesh nor spirit, good nor evil, merciful nor malicious, alpha nor omega, beginning nor end, hope nor hopelessness. Its name was no name. To encounter it was endless and to understand it was futile. Hades was a sand box compared to the vast wilderness of its Armageddon. There is an alternative to the universe we know and understand: Some friendships are dangerous When Crystal and Etric find themselves in an unusual amount of trouble they should have realized that two people they never expected to see again had returned to their reality.

Abby and Tristan are back The crews of Freedom and Fame team up to save the emperor, protect the last remaining heir, and face the gods and demons as they again work to help Abby and Tristan in the latest battle of their long war. Nobody wants to be a vampire hunter. Told with a campfire flair Unholy Whispers is an old fashion ghost story possessing elements of the macabre, sadness, erotica and terror.

Being raised in and by the home, she bears unending witness to mankind at its most primordial level of drunken savagery and insatiable lust. Her short life translates into a long nightmare, twelve years in duration. Then, on a stormy night, Leah is brutally murdered, along with every single harlot in the bordello at the hands of frenzied seamen.

There are spirits afoot deep in the Ozark hills of Blackburn County, Arkansas. Elemental creatures dance to the wild music of the rhythms of Nature. In the wild days of the Martian Iron Rush, the Martian Territorial Rangers were all that stood between the guilty and the innocent. And the best, truest, fastest on the draw Iron Marshal was Roids Cavanaugh. Now Martian author HK Devonshire brings his stories to Earth readers, regaling you with accounts of this rarest breed of lawman.

Read the same stories the Shards Universe characters love and celebrate. Irish hero Oisin travels to the Land of Youth with Princess Naomh to enjoy its pleasures, but after three years revisits home to find that three hundred years have passed in Erin Shocked, he ignores a warning not to leave the magical chariot conveying him, as a result of which it disappears leaving him trapped.

But is there a hidden agenda at work" Why is he sent to Hyperborea. What is Death doing in the Land of Youth" This Chronicle raises questions provides answers taking Oisin through danger, sacrifice and transformation, half revealing a secret as the lovers challenge Death in a tale uniting myth with fantasy. Underground radical reporter Darbee Donavon doesn? When the lofty Earl of Ashebrook discovers someone is digging into his past, he sets out to discover who it is. As the icy earl comes face to face with the radical rebel the sparks fly, and the challenge begins to see which of the strong-willed antagonists will come out the winner.

The ultimate winner here is definitely the reader. Lormere Haleil wants to stay in her home village and nurture her healing gift in peace. There she is plunged into a world of magic, competition and intrigue. The initiates of the House must learn the skills of an adept, but only a few of them will be chosen to become a master of the power. A noble by birth, Brennet Darcon has dreamed all of his life of becoming a master. When Lormere bests him in every competition, his pride drives him to take dangerous risks to regain the upper hand.

Using a magical crystal, he enters a forbidden realm and soon Brennet and Lormere are locked in a deadly competition that could destroy the House. Will pride drive them both too far? Or will love find a way to spare them from the crystalline fire? During any one of these exasperating instances, catch a flash?

Aware now from enslaved humans that the Earth possesses incredible technology and weapons, the Lizzars use their teleporter to steal more pieces of Earth in an attempt to gain those. However, one of those pieces includes a military academy with real weapons and ammunition. Now the Lizzars are in for a real battle against a force of trained cadets while the Centaurs race to ally themselves with the new humans on their world.

Thomas holds a glow of beauty and timeless grace. Beneath that, though, lies an anguished past of destroyed lives, enslavement, and endless attacks by nature itself. The people of St. Thomas are desperately in need of a protector. An angel that will lay down her life to see that there will be justice for them. Something smells in the rural backwater of Plattsford, Ontario A local politician-turned-developer is found dead in his own future industrial park.

Prior to their redefinition by Ogawa in , the Namban group of tsuba had received scant attention from scholars. In part, this had been due to the lack of a clearly defined categorisation, making systematic attribution of the group difficult and thus preventing coherent study of the corpus as a whole. Dr John Lissenden uses this redefinition as the starting point in his accessible, creative and thoroughly researched study of Namban tsuba, for which he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts in East Asian Studies by the University of Durham in The author has made good use of the research that has been previously done by European and Japanese students, but has also been originally critical of some of the established scholarship.

This approach has allowed him to present interpretations of Namban tsuba that are indeed new. Among collectors and curators, some aspects of this study will be debated? Collectors also will value this study because it presents an innovative categorisation of this previously neglected group of sword guards, and serves to clarify the diversity and relationships of the Namban style.

Naked Venom , the first book in a series, takes place on an alien planet and follows the life and turbulent love affair between a famous half human, half alien general and a visiting human doctor from Earth. As the book opens, the general is plunged into conflict with the royal house when he's falsely accused of the king's murder.

As he struggles to clear his name and restore his position, he is helped by the doctor, who becomes his reluctant love interest and confidant. When she too loses her position of trust for helping him, they form a partnership to find the truth behind the murder and the poison called Naked Venom. It is a dark time for the ancient vampire hunters known as the Wraith. The oldest and most prestigious of their academies lies in ruins, and the ruling order, the Council of Seven, is dead.

The armies of Vampire Lord Bane march almost undaunted across the face of the Earth. Thousands of Wraith have died during a war they have come to know as "The Purge. Four rotations passed since the battle exposing the village of Strom. The Alliance had been up rooted and forced to move by the heavy hand of the Parliamentary Council. Their very existence depended on their ability to escape find a destination known as Pangea Pon.

Rhyden Fabhcun is tired of being a hero. In the last twenty years, he has survived two wars, fought countless battles, lost friends, severed family ties and earned himself the status of a living legend in his native realm of Tiralainn. Now he is returning to his home across the sea, his life as an ambassador to the Torachan empire, and what he expects will be a predictable, uneventful, if not lonely existence. New Strom is growing into a successful settlement where Sapiens, Crows and half-breeds exemplify a model community. Only one element remains in order to solidify New Stroms existence, an ultimate weapon powerful enough to deter its enemies in the Parliamentary Council.

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His mission is to return to the Sapien controlled moon of Jenco and steal its super weapon of mass destruction. Even if it means taking the life of his cousin Carlen, moon lorde of Jenco. This will be the final struggle between the Parliamentary Council and the Alliance for the total domination of Earth. A charismatic rebel commander of legendary fame, Signe drives a force of rapacious Columbian invaders off Main World of Gaea.

During a succession of lightning strikes launched at military installations in the heart of Columbia, the warrior-woman parlays a single space ship captured during a raid, into a fleet. Warrior, statesman, and man of sterling honor, Arlen wields dictatorial power over his male-dominated, militaristic, fiercely competitive society. Besieged on two fronts, he cleverly outmaneuvers the four ruthless rivals seeking his downfall, even as Signe raids military bases on his populous world. A scientist as well as a master of political infighting, Arlen engineers a scientific breakthrough that renders Columbia impregnable to attack.

Will two gallant adversaries find a way to overcome the dangerous misconceptions each harbors regarding the other, and achieve a peace that both sides can accept with honor? In the second installment of this epic adventure, Rhyden Fabhcun must forge a tentative peace with his captors, the nomadic Oirat tribe, and their beautiful, strong-willed leader, Aigiarn Chinuajin. Aigiarn gives Rhyden a bargain he is hard-pressed to refuse: The only problems -- the map is written in a long-lost language and Rhyden has less than two weeks to decipher it.

The pivotal event depicted in the first book, Warrior-Woman: No suspicion fell on Galt, who engineered the disaster. That ruthless rival seeks to overthrow Arlen, who employs his peerless talent as a master of intrigue to outwit Galt, with the aid of Adrienne, a courageous courtesan. Signe sets out to find the prize that would assure that Gaea could never again be conquered. Arlen follows her, and the two finally meet.

Will these two high-minded warriors finally realize that each harbors badly flawed perceptions of the other? If so, what profound change will that realization produce in their feelings for each other? In this third book of the series, Signe and Arlen found the Interworld Corps: The former archenemies marry, having fallen in love after achieving the accord depicted in Master of Intrigue. The rigorous training program they conduct defuses lingering feelings of enmity assailing their twelve captains. When a violent clash between a Gaean and a Columbian occurs, Arlen handles the situation brilliantly.

A potential crisis becomes a bonding experience for all twelve men. Twelve ships begin to patrol a vast volume of space. When Michael reveals that he desires a slave willing to exist solely for his pleasure, his shocking invitation resonates on some gut level within the woman married for fourteen years to a man afflicted by periodic bouts of impotence. A fellow member of the Order of the Black Lily, Raoul levies a bold demand that Michael considers himself obligated to grant.

Raoul, who fascinates her, or Michael, who she knows loves her? In this first half of the fourth book of the series, Signe and Arlen use a computer program to match couples. Jess fears that no man will wed a female lieutenant. Brant grasps an opportunity to avoid having to rely on the program. Evan takes a bold route towards attaining a bride. Amin embarks on an emotionally charged courtship. Signe handles the trauma engendered when Jason seeks to marry despite being burdened with a gruesomely disfigured face. Conor and Eric patrol while their peers wed. Conor initiates a pitched battle, so as to foil a major attempt at larceny.

When Eric hunts an outlaw in space, Midori encounters hostility from a Columbian misogynist who refuses to believe that the lovely woman qualifies as a warrior. Will problems develop when emotionally scarred people stand face to face with the stranger selected as their match by a computer program? Will two undermanned captains succeed in keeping the peace?

In this second half of the fourth book of the series, Theo warms to his match, until a confession she makes scandalizes the morally upright Gaean. Jassy unwittingly disappoints his wife, owing to his inability to rouse her to passion. Evan negotiates with a demented hostage-taker levying demands the Captain cannot grant. Utilizing techniques learned from Arlen, he resolves an incendiary crisis. Jason prevents a public clash between Amin, who refuses to lower his standards, and the wife pushed to her physical limit. Juli performs a dangerous feat during a dramatic rescue of Gaean stationers trapped in a mine.

When Dahl and his crew aid the survivors of a disastrous explosion, Dahl conducts a daring rescue, thereby changing his own life. Confronted by an enigmatic brotherhood of militant Gaeans, Signe and Arlen develop their first major disagreement. Will Arlen discover the magnitude of her danger in time to launch a rescue mission? Will Signe survive the worst danger ever to threaten her?

A self-reliant Westerner meets an intriguing stranger who radiates an aura of danger. Sensing that Julian understands her as no one ever has, cognizant that this sometimes cruel partner reaches depths in her nature hitherto never plumbed, she learns to place an astonishing degree of trust in a man who relentlessly increases the demands he makes while raising her to unprecedented heights of pleasure.

Julian develops an irresistible urge to bring his not-fully-initiated partner as his guest, when he attends the yearly gathering of his fellow members of the Order of the Black Lily. Knowing what he risks, he conducts a short but rigorous initiation, employing electronic devices engineered by his brother Michael, and techniques identical to those favored by his brother.

Will Julian avoid suffering the disgrace sure to ensue should Mercedes rebel in the presence of his peers? Will his independent-minded lover consent to participate in the rituals unique to the Order? It would seem that as the Terrans finally ventured from their Planet Earth, and out into other solar systems beyond their own Region , they came into contact with the RAWR star system containing the planet now called Erda.

In ages past, their neighboring planet with three moons suffered long periods of intercontinental warfare, plagues, famines, depopulation, pollution and even some natural disasters. A few of the survivors were found and taken to nearby Erda by some of the first Terran Dark Energy powered hyper-space spheres to reach the solar system.

The Terrans then joined with those from other overpopulated star systems in colonizing and repopulating both planets. They possess no pulse, nor a heartbeat. Their lungs have long since discarded the need to regulate oxygen. Logical thought escapes them, as does such common emotional states as happiness, sadness, or depression. The age-old weaknesses of man, such as lust, greed, or envy, no longer apply. Katera would rather die than allow the Elders to present her at the altar of Kopa Na An. Intent on escaping a similar fate and craving an end to her suffering under the merciless rule of Askinadon, she constructs her own demise.

Her plans are foiled when an attractive stranger rescues her from her attempt to plunge hundreds of feet down a waterfall to her death. The stranger takes her to a cave and releases her from her forced servitude to Askinadon by removing the high tech device implanted in her head. Invited to take shelter from a blizzard by Alison Haldane, a self-reliant ranchwoman, Manuel performs a service that his hostess regards as the saving of her life. Impressed by this personable, courageous ranchwoman, Manuel frankly admits that he is a member of the Order of the Black Lily, and explains the special nature of his tastes in sensual pleasure.

The two mature sensualists enter a sexual relationship that soon grows deeply satisfying to both. In this second half of the fifth book of the series, Wolf lacks goods to trade. Desperate, he raids Barton, a grasping Gaean. When Barton refuses to pay ransom, Wolf seduces the lonely Gaean.

Before he sets out to capture Chapell, a vicious outlaw, Lesley offers to marry him, so he can gain Gaean citizenship. Wolf refuses, out of concern for her. Will the daring adventurer win amnesty for himself and his crew? Merline gives Austin a job ashore. Will the rescue mission mounted by Merline, Hogar, and Wolf succeed? And if it does, will Signe learn what happened to Hogar and Merline in Columbia? If she does, how will the warrior-woman react? Again, she enters the world of Nirayel.

To an extent, Jesse comes to terms with his delusions, though he remains unprepared to handle the advances of a most frustrating female Wood-Elf, the discovery that there are two of Sarah, and the prophetic ramblings of a benign Demon. Finally reunited in the forth and final book of the Rendering Nirayel series, Sarah One, Sarah Two, Jesse and Borin are guided by the Demon Surripere, as they journey through uncharted lands in a final quest to reclaim Arbitos against all odds, and to free the lost souls of Earth.

The Oath of Fire: And when they die, allows passage of demons to Earth through their lifeless flesh. His duty now torn between the Trust Corps and his own children, he must prove his son innocent of Oath-taking while doing battle with a host of demons that threaten to kill thousands. When an advanced form of artificial intelligence is unintentionally loosed upon the Internet role-playing game entitled Wayward Fates, a quarter-million gamers become redefined as the fantasy characters they play.

Among their number is Borin Krue, whose harrowing journey through a world of dangerously realistic fantasy begins at the end of a long voyage, and his unenthusiastic acquaintance with a Druid. Their obligatory and somewhat precarious association continues to land Borin in an almost constant string of ill-fated circumstances. Intrigue and humor set the pace in Book One of the Rendering Nirayel series. Corporal Krue becomes unwittingly entangled with a large number of friendly and non-friendly types of Faction, Class, Race, and Magic.

Sarah volunteers to make an unauthorized entry into the now militarily controlled project. Sarah opens her eyes to find herself in the alien world of Nirayel. Arbitos is attacked by the Dark Empire. A horde of Dark-elves burst through an exploded section of wall surrounding the city. Sarah returns to reality just as several government agents close in on her home.

The result is a seventeen-year-long gap in memory as a pseudo-Sarah wakes to discover a world where Dark-elves dominate civilization. Jesse Berrach was formerly a paramedic. The ghastly accident that put him in the hospital also caused the end of his career, and coincided with the end of his marriage. During his recovery, he receives a package containing the online game entitled Wayward Fates, but when he initiates the program, he becomes catatonic. He enters a world far removed from that of his hospital room. Confronted with severe conflicts in terms of reality, he begins to doubt his sanity.

While the very boundaries of reality become distorted, the star-crossed web of lives and crisscrossed intrigue continue to expand, in Book Three of the Rendering Nirayel series: In this first half of the sixth book of the series, Sebastian, Chief of Security of the Columbian Military Complex, captures and interrogates Marianne, a Gaean spy.

He conceals evidence so as to shield her from harm. Over four weeks, Sebastian cleverly conditions the repressed Gaean, who loses her inhibitions. Her hatred of Sebastian prevents her from growing emotionally attached to him. After Merrill gets exchanged for Simon, Sebastian paroles Marianne.

Engaged in a brutally stressful program of work and study, she excels academically. She battles despair after learning that the data she secured at such cost just lost its strategic value. Will Sebastian learn the explosive secret Marianne managed to conceal from him? Will her lover eventually tire of her, as she now fears? What will happen to her when the war ends? In this second half of the sixth book of the series, Marianne marries Sebastian, now a teaching fellow at the University and a consultant to the Ministry of Internal Security.

Threatened anew, Bianca again appeals to Sebastian, who duels and kills Dominic, a man who extorted credit from her. Marianne proves to Sebastian that she places unshakable trust in his word. Will the daring infiltrator outfox the dangerous adversary who captures her? Will she succeed in her mission to find and transmit to Sebastian crucial evidence incriminating the plotters? And if she does, what effect will her feat produce in her marital relationship? In this seventh book of the series, Aubrey, brother of Islara, a female broker, unwittingly causes Regan, a Second Corps Captain turned broker, a huge financial loss.

To protect Aubrey, Islara marries Regan. Regan hires her, and treats her as his intellectual equal. Islara enjoys a new life spiced with exciting professional challenges. Orwell, a shady investor, threatens Tanner, owner of a ship Regan purchases. Regan buys Davison Engineering, which angers Orwell. Islara unearths crucial evidence. When Regan and Samson suffer wounds in a later battle, Islara prevents Regan from bleeding to death. True stories from John Klawitter, Hollywood writer-producer-director. From the book-lined offices of Random House and Doubleday to the West Coast movie studios with their wide views of palm trees and the blue Pacific, the wilderness is a strange place for those not expecting the weird, the unpredictable and the rough-and-tumble.

To you, storytelling is as important as life itself. So as you take the first steps off the beaten path and into the tall grass toward the distant blue mountains, remember to stay alert, keep your weapons handy, and always expect the unexpected Is there life after death?

Hours away from big brother Gotham, this sleepy town has its own secrets buried just below the picturesque suburban landscape. Persuaded by Neville, First Minister, to host a gathering of merchant-spacers whom Arlen and Signe wish to meet, Lacey does Signe a favor. Faced with a socially incendiary situation, Arlen reacts in a way that stuns those watching.

After Signe offers Lacey an advantageous shipping opportunity, Lacey marries Adrienne. Brendan, a Gaean industrialist to whom Signe recommends Lacey, discovers that Lacey married a courtesan, but divines why Signe condoned his act. Lacey meets a former enemy, and behaves gallantly. Adrienne achieves an economic breakthrough, infuriating Marcus.

In this second half of the eighth book of the series, Lacey hires four Gaean women and two Gaean men when he buys another ship. Adrienne fears that if these likeable new shipmates discover that she was once a courtesan, they will withdraw their friendship. When a misunderstanding arises between Liam and Hilary, Adrienne reconciles the pair. Lacey duels Yancey, the fugitive who plotted to steal his ship and kill his crew.

Wounded, Lacey yet prevails. Loser in the battle of wills, Lacey seethes until Liam and Thurston succeed in cheering the Captain. Will Adrienne succeed in getting the license? Will Lacey survive his next duel? For the good of the river, Captain Vanda leads a force against a Kog raiding force that massacred an apprentice crew only to find herself at odds with Captain Jemit over following orders.

Is it possible that the faint flicker of warmth you feel toward a random face in the crowd is in reality an echo of love past? Mind Control and World Domination take form in the successful development of a mind numbing drug created by the son of a Nazi physicist. Al washed up in a remote area of a relatively unknown beach which lay on the central coast of California. Early morning surfing aficionados revived the man, who instantly attacked them for their trouble. Defying his condition, he shook his rescuers off like fleas and babbled an insanely violent tale.

Storms which descended like Ragnarok from heaven. Add in an overwhelming guilt complex, and intense feelings of persecution. Al claimed he had killed a million men, women and children; he ranted that someone had torn him apart limb from limb and sewn him back together like a rag-doll. Taken to a psychiatric hospital, the attending doctor documented that first the patient only screamed and shouted at people, and not always in a language they understood or identified Lord Stephen purchases the virginal Healer, and consigns her to the care of two trainers themselves slaves.

A gifted leader, Radu forges strong ties of love that bind Antony, Ariane and himself, so as to insure their survival. During the storming of the Dark Citadel by a traitorous vassal, Radu, Antony, and Ariane escape, bearing their wounded owner with them. Having forced Stephen to open the gate of the secret exit, they flee to the one place where Ariane knows they can live safely: With the help of the two bosom companions whom he loves, Radu first captures, and then recruits, a rag-tag group of noble outcasts, whose liege lord and all of his followers died in battle.

When a band of unemployed mercenaries attacks the Keep of the Unburied Dead, Radu utilizes all of his formidable military skill, and all of his native craftiness, during the ensuing battle. Ebook and soon to be released paperback! Sally and Anne Mae Harris, the deeply loved wife and daughter of successful L.

On a trip to Copenhagen a year after the accident, Mica believes he is hallucinating when he sees the two of them, seemingly still alive. Follow Gisel Matah and the thunder of hooves as she strikes back at the Imperial armies that threaten all she has worked for. Risking her life and her love, Gisel negotiates even greater hazards in a new adventure.

Partner, Yohan Felger, becomes a problem when the Baron has him smuggle a steam engine to the Empire. Gisel knows of the subterfuge but cannot admit it, while Yohan is almost torn apart by the need to deceive her. She protects her fledgling Radical movement with the hope it will bring more justice for the peasants and workers in societies now ruled by money and aristocracy, but has to lie to friends to achieve it. Her reckless courage is needed to carry out missions in the rear of an Imperial army.

The fight finds her opposed by ever increasing odds until in the final confrontation she must outwit two enemies who vie to dominate Iskander. Beneath the shimmering veneer of the human world, there is a war raging. Fought between Vampires and Wraith, it has stretched over untold millennia. But the balance of power has shifted, and the Wraith now find themselves, and humanity, facing extinction.

The fate of the entire world rests on the unborn child of two preternatural creatures. It falls to Wraith Emily St. Louise to protect the child from the world, but will its birth bring salvation, or damnation? Some would call them angels, but they could be the harbingers of the apocalypse. Rolling waves of violence and dangerous adventures, quirky desperados, long-lost romance and heated passions collide on the back roads of the Southwest as the charismatic and mysterious Man With The Scar tries to bring order to his chaotic world.

For humanity the transformation from savagery into civilisation can only be led by heroes and geniuses, but new inventions, like the concept of zero, the first books and the use of metals, come at a heavy price. Does love really change us? Or rather, does it distract us from our true selves? In each relationship, Monty realizes more and more how different he is with each woman and all the variety of ways he loves them. Daria, the first woman he ever loved and the only one to have ever broken his heart has always held some unexplainable power over him--to the point where, she could just reappear in his life a year after she broke his heart and change him in an instant.

Ice, best friends with the woman who falls for him as soon as she rests her eyes on him, remains as his cool, rejecting his affection at first, until finally thawing under the attention. Their relationship blossoms like something Monty has never experienced. Angel is his heart. Angel is the woman with whom Monty melts from the need to protect her and respects above all, well, besides Mildred, his perfect woman--his strength. Could the fact that they know everything about each other make or break their relationship?

Only time and exploration will tell. In essence, their mutual truth is what keeps them the same. The heart-heavy tale is wrapped in love, loss, pain and everything and everybody in between. Fast forward a full decade later, where he finds himself pursued across the rolling plains of the Southland by a mysterious, otherworldly assassin responsible for systematically eliminating members of his former unit in a retribution-laced killing spree. Retracing fantastic events from his own hand-scribed journals, as well as those of the young Chinese immigrant girl for which he is forced to Guardian, Luther Henry describes facing down all manner of supernatural horrors with little more than his trusty Colt Peacemaker, a sharp-edged Bowie knife, and ample supplies of grit and determination.

Amongst the brooding woods that line the field is a pond that constrains an evil of immensity and cunning. No one except Morgan has faced this evil A must read from suspense thriller superstar Bill Wilson. No amount of philanthropy or repentance can change that fact. She's seen it all, but nothing prepared her for what was to come next. The end of a day disastrous. The end of a cataclysmic century. The end of a fateful era. The falling apart of a fragile relationship. The fall of a fractured empire. The demise of a deal demonic. Your final fight for that last breath.

As you may note in the introductory paragraph of my first newsletter below, I had a purpose for beginning to publish a newsletter in a monthly format. However, as time went on, I found that I really enjoyed writing it, much more than I thought I would. It has also become quite popular, even with readers who have never read one of my books or stories. Only the highlights of the newsletters are being published here, the rambling part, so to speak.

I have also edited here and there and added explanatory footnotes in places. I devoted much more space in the first newsletters to promotion of my books than I do now. My Progress Report is one of the smallest sections of the latest newsletters. My wife Betty asked me once where I get all the ideas for the topics. So I keep a little notepad by my computer, one by my easy chair and one by my bed. I like receiving letters from fans and readers. I can be e-mailed from my web site www. Have fun and may you always have happy reading and time to pursue what is one of the most pleasurable of human activities.

Well, that all depends on how the word is used. The context, you know. Irreverence is not limited to what many people think-something to do with religion, although that can be a large part of it. Nope, it is a big word with broad meaning. Let me give you a few examples of how it is used:. Its basic meaning is "disrespectful". Now you have an idea of just how broad it can be.

There is a whole world of irreverence in the pot. Our authors gleefully dip their pens into that pot and scribble out their twisted views of this world-or other worlds. Words that can be used in place of irreverent synonyms are: As you can readily see, the majority of the Twisted Tails authors are world class representatives of the word in all its specific meanings; not just a couple. I have gathered together several cheeky authors whose impiety is well known and asked them to grace these pages with words of insolence for your reading pleasure.

As always, there is no genre restriction. The only common element here is Irreverence. The other big deal about the Twisted Tails series that is a must are unexpected endings and sheer quality of writing. Have fun while you cringe at their out-of-line talent at twisting irreverent tales and we hope to see you again-should there be a next time. I have it on good authority that there probably will be a next time, so keep a watch for it.

In the 23rd century a young woman disillusioned with the sterile life of a utopian society is taken on a profound journey of self discovery and personal transformation. It's a land where humans mingle with stubborn dwarves, mysterious elves, and feathered biata against shape-shifting gryphons, necromantic zombies, and silly goblins. It's a land where things are never as they seem; where good and evil are not always clear-cut, and where the strong do not always prevail. In Fortannis, one can learn magic by summoning the power of the flow of order in the world, to tie yourself to the living cycle of all around you.

Or, if your inclinations are darker, you can be tempted by the flow of chaos and entropy, which allows you to create undead abominations and cast substantially more powerful spells in exchange for the corruption of your soul. Hey, the choice is yours. This is the fifth collection of stories which take place in the world of Fortannis. Some of these stories feature characters introduced in the novels and the first four collections, but you don't have to read the earlier ones to enjoy these stories.

You'll enjoy them more if you do, however. I recommend reading the books in the following order to keep the timeline consistent: Titles Available from A clandestine society, financed by a billionaire, has created a new infectious virus capable of inserting genes which determine the way individuals feel about sex.

The virus spreads rapidly, but its effects are not noticed by individuals to begin with? When an FBI investigator finally does suspect that something unusual is going on, the Center for Disease Control is contacted and brought into the investigation. It is quickly discovered that indeed a virus capable of changing sexual attitudes is spreading over the world. While the FBI and CDC are racing to discover the originators of the virus and to create a cure or vaccine, the investigation is hampered by the fact that the agents themselves are becoming infected.

The men and women trying desperately to stop the sex virus have to cope with their own changed attitudes and hope the virus can be stopped before society is irrevocably changed. And it may already be too late. She is every man's fantasy, but all things come with a price. When the sexiest, most mysterious woman in the world takes you as a lover. Song Shia warned Alex right from the beginning that he should run like hell, but he didn't listen, and neither of them had any idea where things would lead.

The only thing he knew for sure was that Song was a wild one, and that he would never attempt to tame her. Outpost Earth proposes an alternate reality where man descends from an alien culture shipwrecked on Earth after greed, lust, and love sabotage their mission.

Close friends since birth, Dana and Rucker have grown up aboard the Pangaean space transport Hyperion. While Rucker is sexually attracted to Dana, she refuses to become another of his one-night stands. Rucker's sexual frustration is further aggravated by Gay, an exotic beauty he encounters while marooned on ancient Earth. Rucker truly loves both women but knows he must make choice, if he can keep them both alive. At the brink of an impending dark age, year-old Allison Taylor escapes Earth on a colony ship to the stars. But a catastrophic quark drive failure forces a desperate, near-light-speed return a millennium into Earth's future.

Allison is surprised to find humanity in a "New Renaissance" and to see the Great Geostationary Towers her father engineered still stretching majestically from ground to high orbit, now housing Earth's billions. Will fulfilling her father's dream be worth abandoning her chance to finally reach the stars? Would you like to live for years? The benevolent global government of LIV can help. With the miracle of Extender Technology, you can be a fit, healthy, sexy specimen for centuries.

All that's required is a bit of genetic engineering, a daily dose of True Age Bromide and complete loyalty to a new world order. In this new society, concepts such as marriage, work and the meaning of life have been retooled for the billions of people fighting for their place on the planet. While most people decide to become Extenders and embrace the chance to live for centuries, there is a growing resistance. A rebellion brews and soon explodes into a war that asks you to decide what matters most - living long or living well? There is no easy answer.

For Hollywood stunt girl Juniper Warren, the dangers of running a motor bike off a sheer cliff are nothing compared to the sheer terror of being forced out of a vintage airplane without a parachute. Juniper has to use the witching powers bequeathed by her grandmother if she is to survive. And once she does, she will find herself face to face with her evil black widow spider Aunt Regina who will do anything to destroy her. The scarefest begins from the start of the book and doesn?

His tales are beyond what the generation X? Within these stories you will find icons and archetypes that you are familiar with. Melody Chalis survives each vampiric night by feeding off of the blood of her lovers until one night when she is confronted by Eric, the elder vampire. She can either join him, or face a horrible death by the sun. The Adventures of Biff and Buff: Besides having the ability to speak, as have all animals, Biff and Buff bring to every experience the exuberance and enthusiasm associated with dogs. They also have academic sophistication, artistic and pragmatic talents, as well as compassionate, understanding, and helpful natures.

Biff and Buff complete a family. Mom and Dad and their girls, Garrett and Raine, constitute the core cast of characters. The reader is also introduced to Boom, Toady, Piddle and Puddle, who are best friends and who appear in other stories. Of those who make things happen, watch things happen, or wonder what just happened, Biff and Buff certainly make things happen.

Whether it's helping a little girl in a learning center understand subtraction, or ensuring their friends' safety at night, Biff and Buff rise to the challenge with inventiveness, imagination, and? I, Robert Winstead, was brought here by someone I did not know for some purpose I had yet to discover.

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Thomas are desperately in need of a protector. The Last Door - Collector's Edition. The old gods, long abandoned and forgotten, are awakened, and seek to settle old scores and draw the tribes of mankind into a bloody death struggle. The city also refuses government money for schools and roads, has little crime and no sign of racial unrest. Once you get in you can?

But I also knew that only by fulfilling that purpose would I be allowed to leave Somewhere among the hallways and denizens of this haunted environment I would find the answer. Collected herein are the stories of another character created by Pat Welch that will please those of us who still miss the Grey Mouser stories of Fritz Leiber and the Retief stories of Keith Laumer. Brendell is a member of the Thieves Guild and these are his adventures as he tries to gain his Journeyman status. On this world there are thieves but they have a code of honor and only steal when under contract and have a set of rules to live by.

In these stories, Brendall must obey the rules but he will bend them as much as possible in order to do the right thing by his own instincts. There is plenty of magic, twists, double-crosses, dragons, demons, and delightful reading and if you are a fan of well written light fantasy with a well drawn lead character, this is one of the best ones to come along in a while.

Are heroes born, or are they made? Hecker weaves an intriguing story of two brothers--fliers in the bloody skies over Europe--who bear each other no love and who were cetainly no heroes. At the current temperature of seventy degrees, I figure my shelf-life is about half a day. Being a zombie certainly has its complications, but Paris is determined to survive. An old-fashioned remedy might hold the secret to her longevity.

If only she can stay alive long enough to test it out Because of the presence of the Entity, the creatures that live on the Earth are liable to be corrupted and manipulated to bring about the escape. Beings from other parts of the galaxy have been watching Earth for untold ages, occasionally taking a message of hope down to the Babil, as they are known. On earth she is a pop singer. In the monitoring station orbiting Jupiter she was known as Glindra. Her son Anbethan does not know that his mother is a Messenger. Every kid has parents who embarrass them on occasion, but Gabrielle Jordan has more to complain about than most.

A vampire must not sire a child on a mortal. Hazardous voyages, desperate battle on land and sea, human sacrifice and arrest by ruthless Amazons confront Hero and Aito in their quest to save the people of Crete from starvation and ruin. Amazon Grain finds them in peril, and only courage and determination will ensure that they achieve their aim. They must also evade the clutches of their deadly enemies in the sinister and unforgiving tin syndicate who relentlessly pursue them to suppress the knowledge they have gained.

When the Williard brothers get going, any resemblance to a real war is purely coincidental! James Williard uses his position as the hauncho of a medical dispensary in Vietnam as a base, while he and his crazy medics turn the war zone into a party zone. Williard's two brothers, Jerry, a naval ensign and Jason Jumpin' Jase the Marine fighter pilot who regualrly loses 15 million dollar planes join the fun and then it is like no war ever recorded.

After the war the zany Williard brothers and their paramours go looking for adventure and find all they can handle when they decide to see if there really is a dinosur still living deep in the Congo. Flying a beatup old seaplane, the brothers are shot up, shot down, chased by the Mafia for carrying drug money they don?

The Williard brothers are tired of the sedentary life. It started with a corpse sitting in Jim's office chair Jim sat across from the dead man, an unfired gun in his hand. What are you doing at my desk? The weapon's scarlet tassel clashed with the burgundy fabric of the chair, as did the red plume in his hat. He changed professions abruptly after his partner and best friend was shot in the line of duty.

You will learn about his strengths and weaknesses. You may forgive him, although he can not forgive himself. You will pity him. These short stories feature Private Detective Keith Richardson, who has one adventure after another and somewhere in the whole mess gets involved with the government. Crystal Blue Keith discovers something he did not expect while investigating a girl's missing identity. Spring Break See what happens when a Private Investigator goes on vacation. The Governor Keith is hired as bodyguard for the Governor.

Ruby Just when you thought Keith was clear of the government, they come back. Marcel Maki Marc is a gigolo and a "kept man". He doesn't see it that way, and he's the writer. The reader should know better. Marc's a ghost-writer, specializing in celebrity autobiographies. When his wealthy university "sweetheart" asks him to look into the disappearance of her father he resists until she and her family make it clear that he has no choice but to do what they want. Trouble is, all the members of the family want different things. A book for everyone who is interested in naval history, Deeply Canadian: New Submarines for a New Millennium tells the story of how Canada nearly lost her submarine service in the s after decades of dedicated duty.

The story follows the couple through almost ten years of their lives, their two meetings, their marriage and divorce. It then follows each separately yet still joined by the common bond of Morgan's brother, Patrick, a charming ne'er do well with whom Morgan doesn't get along. Finally, there is a book that tells you how to handle the toughest problem in our organizations, homes and sports today - how to talk to someone when you are irritated, angry or hurt.

Did you know when you are upset you disconnect from that part of the brain where you effectively solve problems? You can't think straight. The Body Shop consists of a novella and twelve short stories. The title piece is the most engaging and original story in the whole collection. Its 40, odd words pack in a fair amount of black satirical horror. Set in a post apocalyptic future where life is very cheap and rapidly cannibalised, we discover the human body to be very much in need of a Dr. Frankenstein figure Edgerton to put us back together. Of course there's a high monetary cost, and disregard of gender and ethics.

For our hideous human vanity will do anything to procure a functional body. My favourite moments are when the heads only , of the injured rich, argue about their needs. They've been waiting for a body for years. Even become a little community, that gets to sing carols with Edgerton once a year! No one sane wants either of the two most powerful positions on the planet Nublis. Emperor and archon, supreme judge, are slaves to 3, years of tradition. The emperor can abdicate. Only death can free the archon.

But the planet of Nublis is rich and the ripe plum desired by a pirate who would be king. Can those who have pledged their lives to serve their world save their world? This incredible collection of books is composed of three trilogies: Unholy alliance and weapon without defense, who shall free the worlds from the conscienceless? Who shall choose the one who cannot be corrupted to free all the fearful voiceless suffering injustice?

Where lies the duty of an emperor? Only to his people? Book three from Nublian Chronicles I - The Julian Trilogy Concubine's son, illegal witch child, consummate trader for a world in bondage. On Nublis he proved his worth. But the prophecy was only that one would be born who might have the strength to endure and end the bondage of a world.

Shattered words, trust abused, maimed and slowly dying, who will hear the soliloquy of the silenced? Sanctuary of peace in the grasp of demon spawn, love is forbidden to the one leashed between the realms. What price will he pay for tasting the forbidden? Vice of men consuming greed, the defense awakens near too late. Hell hound and full moon, what price a demon to defend the light?

Beyond priceless is friendship to the one whose price has been established, to the one too useful to be allowed the title person. Princess Sybilla of Lodebar is forcibly married to her mortal enemy, Prince Darius of Illyria, and falls deeply in love with him. When she discovers that her reluctant bridegroom is carrying a torch for another woman who is as beautiful as she is not.

Sybilla decides that all is fair in love and war and sets out to win him for herself. The much-acclaimed A Circle of Arcs, which is a unique blend of time travel, actual historical figures and speculative fiction. Joan of Arc and an alien sorcerer, time travel and a centuries-old mystery, Gilles de Rais on a modern city street, why? Following the biggest heist of his career, interplanetary jewel thief Alar Zarkadon rescues the only daughter of the wealthiest man in the Interplanetary Synod and becomes a media hero.

Since he's anyone but who he seems, the last thing Alar needs is public attention, and even his magical spirit dog, Min-Ha, can't help him get out of this one.

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