When Victor Tookes went to work that beautiful spring day he never expected to see a man eaten in the street in front of his office. After convincing himself that they really were zombies, he makes a trip from his house in Pennsylvania to his family home in Virginia, battling zombies all the way. His three and a half year old son was bitten on the leg, but doesn't turn into a zombie. Instead, he turns into something more than human. Victor and his friends discover that not all zombies are created equal, some of them are smarter than others. Some of them are even able to pass for human. Views: 14
### From the Author Please enjoy this sample from The Trade... The kid looked good on paper. Very good. Cryptography, computer viruses, born in the Midwest, American citizen, both parents American citizens, dad a veteran, mom a member of the PTA. Very good indeed. But San Krantz hadn't risen to his post at the CIA relying on paper. Humint. That's what he'd asked for on the Calloway kid. Human intelligence. And he'd gotten very little of it. Apparently no-one in Vinton county knew the kid, or if they did, they didn't want to talk about him. At least there were some loose-lipped people at his university. And that's where something wasn't perfect. One of the people he knew at school, Rick Hewlett. There was something there. So today, Stan knew he'd get a chance to grill the kid and see if he held up. Like any good lawyer, Krantz wanted to know the answer to all the questions he was going to ask before he asked them. And he mostly did. But he didn't know all the answers. He doubted that Calloway even knew the answer to all the questions he was going to be asked. "Pull off for a second," Rick said. "What?" "Pull off for a second," Rick said. Jay eased off at the Mitchell Street exit, the way to the zoo. Rick and Jay both got out of the car. Jay walked around to where Rick was standing by the guard rail. "Are you alright?" Jay asked. "When you go to the CIA interview, don't tell them we're such good friends. They'll check on you, know you know me, know we worked together and studied together, they'll know we're friends, but it'll go better for you if you don't tell them we're good friends," Rick said. He didn't look at Jay. He remained looking out over the guard rail, alternating between speaking and spitting. "Why?" Jay asked. He realized it was a stupid question before the last syllable left his mouth. Wished he could pull the words back out of the air. Rick turned his head to look at Jay from the corner of his eye. Jay could see the scowl on his older friend's face. Had seen the angry older brother look before when he'd said or done equally inane things. He felt the back of his neck and the cheeks of his face go red and hot. "Sorry," he said. Tonia finally looked up from the spot on the ground where she'd been staring. She moved closer to him. Her navy blue eyes focused in on his. Her blonde hair, pulled back by a runner's head band, shone a dull gold in the tree filtered morning sunlight. Joggers and cyclists and roller bladers streamed past in bright Lycra or dull grey sweats. She took another step toward Jay and reached out and pulled him towards her, gathering him into a tender, then quickly frantic embrace. She held him and put her head on his shoulder for what was just an instant but what Jay remembered as being much longer. Stepping back, she broke the contact. Tears seemed to be welling, she was struggling to keep them from bursting out of her incandescent eyes. She looked straight into his tired baby blues. "I can't," she said evenly. "I can't," she repeated, more slowly with sadness in her voice and tremors in her lower lip. "I can't." And she was gone. She turned and ran away. Leaving him standing there with his heart that had been so newly awakened now slowly breaking. Jay walked back to the hotel, mile after lonely mile through the suddenly desolate streets of the big city that he was learning to love and hate at the same time. Only miles later did Jay notice that somehow Tonia had managed to slip the note with his phone number from his damaged hand. ### About the Author JT Kalnay is an attorney and an author. He has been an athlete, a soldier, a professor, a programmer, an Ironman, and mountain climber. JT now divides his time between being an attorney, being an author, and helping out with seven children. JT was born and raised in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Growing up literally steps from the Bay of Quinte, water, ice, fishing, swimming, boating, and drowning were very early influences and appear frequently in his work. Educated at the Royal Military Academy, the University of Ottawa, the University of Dayton, the University of Cincinnati, Long Island University, and Case Western Reserve University, JT has spent countless hours studying a wide range of subjects including math, English, computer science, physics, and law. Many of his stories are set on college campuses. JT is a certified rock climbing guide and can often be found atop crags in West Virginia, California, Mexico, and Italy. Rock climbing appears frequently in his writing. JT has witnessed firsthand many traumatic events including the World Trade Center Bombing, the Long Island Railroad Shooting, a bear attack, a plane crash, and numerous fatalities, in the mountains and elsewhere. Disasters, loss, and confronting personal fear are common themes in his writing. While "boy meets girl" appears to be JT's dominant genre, readers will experience a variety of styles and themes in his simple yet complex writing. Views: 14
Revenge. It destroys. It consumes you until all you are IS revenge. In this third installment of the Pearl Vampire Chronicles, Malina's Revenge takes off from the start - with the kidnapping of Matthew Pearl - and continues at breakneck speed as his wife Sarah and best friend Carlos fight their way through obstacles to try to save him before it's too late. Views: 14
When a dog training school opens in Greenfield, the Boxcar Children bring Watch in to learn some new tricks! But at the very first class, a Dalmatian goes missing—did the dog run away, or was he stolen? And when a second dog vanishes at the next class, it's clear that the Aldens have a dog-gone mystery to solve! Views: 14
TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY....Marriage and babies weren't what Andrea Cunningham wanted--but Brandon Hamilton was. The gregarious hotel owner had a head for business, a body for loving...and a heart as warm and welcoming as his strong embrace. Like Andrea, he knew two weeks was too little time to understand what was happening between them. But unlike Andrea, he was starting to want all the things she resisted.Andrea had thought these stolen weeks with Brandon would make for beautiful memories. But somehow her heart and soul had been tamed by the tall, dark bachelor for whom memories were not enough....Best buddies find their bachelor days numbered in bestselling author Joan Elliot Pickart's engaging new seriesThe Bachelor Bet Views: 14
EDITORIAL REVIEW: After travelling to Scotland on business, the bed of a highland laird is the last place Ali Graham expected to wake up. But there's no mistaking the irresistibly masculine Scottish Highlander whose chamber she's accidentally infiltrated - or the severe wound he's suffered in battle. As a doctor, Ali knows how to heal his injury, how to nurse his body back to health. What she doesn't know is how to heal his heart...A proud warrior and the leader of a powerful clan, Rory MacLeod is ready to fight to the death to protect his homeland. After all, ever since tragedy robbed him of his wife, he has had nothing to lose. Yet the mysterious woman sent to tend his wounds is beginning to reawaken something inside him - something that he'd rather stay buried. But when true passion is mixed with Scottish magic, even the most fearsome warrior could begin to fall... Views: 14
From the critically acclaimed author of Be Safe I Love You comes a dark and breathtaking novel of love, friendship, and survival set in the red light district of Athens in the 1980s that Garth Greenwall calls "a ferocious, brilliant book."Running brings together an ensemble of outsiders who get by as "runners"—hustlers who sell tourists on low-end accommodations for a small commission and a place to stay. Bridey Sullivan, a young American woman who has fled a peculiar and traumatic upbringing in Washington State, takes up with a queer British couple, the poet Milo Rollack and Eton drop-out Jasper Lethe. Slipping in and out of homelessness, addiction, and under-the-table jobs, they create their own kind of family as they struggle to survive. Jasper's madness and consequent death frame a narrative of emotional intensity. In its midst this trio become linked to an act of terrorism. The group then splinters, taking us from Athens to the cliffs... Views: 14
What
lies behind the human urge to collect things? What is the true
psychology of the kleptomaniac? These questions bear on all of us;
within every person there lurks a fanatical philatelist or a
monomaniacal lepidopterist, just waiting to burst forth. In his new
story cycle, Twelve Collections, Zoran Zivkovic, the master of
mind-bending surreal fantasy, applies his fertile mind to this problem.
Some of Zivkovic’s characters are lonely eccentrics, driven to gather
unusual objects by quirks of temperament or fate; others are the victims
of metaphysical collectors from Beyond, entities eager to snap up
memories, emotions, and other loose fragments of the soul.
In
these pages are explained the profound karmic consequences of
photographic narcissism, insane record-keeping, the archiving of one’s
nail clippings, and the infinite savouring of words; here also are
exemplary warnings against surrendering hope, living without creativity,
accepting too blithe a Heaven, and answering the phone in the middle of
a dream-haunted night. Of course, even with such sage counsel, life
remains uncertain and perilous; but even if ultimate answers can never
be found, a Zivkovic collection is always eminently collectable…
Also in this volume: “The Teashop,” a superb new novelette about storytelling and the miraculous weavings of Fate. Views: 14
