A tired old parrot in the pet store spells adventure for Dunc Culpepper and Amos when they learn that the parrot speaks four languages and has outlived ten of its owners. Views: 17
Preston Tauschen is a liar. April Ersten is a severely troubled genius. Holly Diem is a morally-ambiguous witch. Sumire Iwakura is an invulnerable hero. Jenny Frost is a homeless psychotic. Professor Dawes is a scholar studying unreadable books. Joshua Fulton is an agoraphobic hacker.Unless, of course, they are all something else entirely.Welcome to The Kadath Estates, an apartment building in a city at the end of everything, an island of stability in a crumbling world. In the midst of a city full of desperate people and oppressive architecture, of half-remembered pasts and a future no one care to contemplate. A city where the moon is an object of fear, haunted by rumors of strange monsters and elder gods, and plagued by the seemingly random violence of a nameless cult.Preston and April are just hoping for a place to hide from their enemies, somewhere to heal and rest before they return to their flight without a destination. What they find at The Kadath Estates is something far beyond that, something outside the realm of previous experience. In The Kadath Estates and their bizarre inhabitants, Preston and April find something like magic.Unless, of course, it isn’t that at all.The first in The Unknown Kadath Estates trilogy by Zachary Rawlins, author of The Central Series, featuring illustrations by artist Xi Lu, Paranoid Magical Thinking is a warped blend of the Cthulhu Mythos, urban fantasy, and black humor in the style of a Japanese light novel - now with added illustrations and revised text! Views: 17
Her childhood sweetheart was all man now...But renegade U.S. Wildlife Service Agent Hank Emrich seemed intent on destroying the very land Shadoe Deerman cherished. For half-Lakota Shadoe, her horse ranch in the Montana mountains was her soul, her lifeblood. No matter what the cost, she meant to protect it—even when her buried past appeared out of the shadows....Hank only wanted to introduce the magnificent wolves back into the Montana wilds—and to win Shadoe's heart again. But together, he and Shadoe were a loose cannon, ready to explode. They were also the unsuspecting targets of someone else's hidden plan: to get rid of them—dead or alive.LAWMAN—There's nothing sexier than the strong arms of the law! Views: 17
Cimmerian n. One of a mythical people described by Homer as inhabiting a place of perpetual mist and darkness, guarding the way to the land of the dead. Views: 17
She thought they had the perfect family...For eighteen years Serena Soltanis has poured herself into her family, making every effort to please her husband and to protect her daughters from the evils of the world. Respected and admired for her obvious parenting success, she leads a popular mothers' group at her church, passing along wisdom gained through years of experience.until she woke up in a mother's worst nightmare.Then the unthinkable happens. Sixteen-year-old Tristan, the quiet "good girl" of the family, disappears--and the search brings to light unpleasant truths that prompt Serena to question nearly everything she believes about her children, her marriage, and her faith. "Where did we go wrong?"Brokenhearted by her daughter's behavior and her husband's angry response, Serena struggles to see God's hand of grace in their lives. Initially determined to rescue Tristan from whatever trouble... Views: 17
Famous solo violinist Lucy Carless is making a guest appearance with the provincial Markshire Orchestra, only to be found strangled with a silk stocking part-way through the concert. Everyone in the orchestra had access to the scene of the crime, and the police officer in charge, Inspector Trimble, has no idea where to start. Luckily retired barrister and amateur detective Francis Pettigrew has been acting as an honorary treasurer to the Markshire Orchestral Society, and he is soon on his way to finding the murderer. Views: 17
After escaping en route to their appointment with the gallows, eight condemned men led by Javier Rodriguez blazed a trail of destruction. Wherever they went, the Gallows Gang left behind swinging bodies as a reminder of the fate they had avoided. Four men set out to bring them to justice, but the prison guard Shackleton Frost and Marshal Kurt McLynn both blamed the other for the prisoners having escaped. All they could agree on is that they didn't trust Nathaniel McBain. Wrongly condemned himself, the Gallows Gang held the key to proving Nathaniel's innocence. None of them knew what demons drove the enigmatic man known only as The Preacher. Can this mismatched group put aside their personal feuds for long enough to end the Gallows Gang's reign of terror? Views: 17
