Homicide Detective John Cooper begins to receive telephone calls from a mysterious caller claiming to know facts of the current cases he is working on. With each call, .John find himself pulled deeper into a game of death, where he begins to question everything that he has ever believed about his life.If you enjoy a villain that you will LOVE to HATE then Next Move, You’re Dead is for you.Homicide Detective John Cooper has always followed the evidence to solve any case; that is until a mysterious caller begins to make him question that evidence. With the murder cases he has been working on already solved, John wonders what the phone calls have to do with them. The evidence clearly proves the guilt of those involved, but the calls make him begin to question his findings, as well as himself - for the first time in his career. With each move, John finds himself caught up in a strange game with an unknown opponent. The caller is always one-step ahead of John, and seems to know John better than he knows himself, but how? How can someone know every detail of a murder and not be involved, but more importantly, how can this chilling caller know everything about John? As John prepares himself to take on the challenge, he soon realizes that everything he has believed is no longer part of his new reality, but merely the next move in The Game. This trilogy is not for the faint of heart, but rather for those who enjoy a dark thriller; full of twists and turns until the last page. While reading this trilogy, you will find yourself lost on a journey into the mind of a diabolical villain, as he pulls you deeper into The Game. If you enjoy an exciting psychological thriller, with a villain that you will LOVE to HATE; Next Move, You’re Dead – Book 1 of the Next Move, You’re Dead Trilogy is for you. Views: 786
The 1970 World Cup would be an exciting event for all of Brazil. All young Rego Ouliveyra wanted was to watch his favorite player Pele and to witness this historical moment in sports from his humble roots in Brasilia. But unbeknownst to him fate would have other plans as he is entrusted with an incredible secret and is pressed into embarking on an adventure of a lifetime!The Brazilian follows young Rego Ouliveyra, an ordinary college-age teen, growing up in Brasilia. Rego loved to play soccer and was eager to watch his favorite player, Pele, compete in the 1970 World Cup. But his life is thrown into a frenzy when a stranger implores him to go on an incredible journey. The stranger entrusts him with a mysterious leather satchel containing an unknown secret. The journey takes Rego on an adventure of a lifetime through South America and across the Atlantic. He encounters many people along the way, both good and bad, in several wondrous and unique locations. All the while, his own government will stop at nothing to catch him and seize the contents of the satchel for themselves. Explore with him on this exciting journey of discovery and intrigue! Views: 786
A private investigator is on the trail of a psycho who's has a taste for blood.When Miss Graham's singer friend doesn't come home she hires a private investigator Keith Jackson to bring her back. But he finds her horribly murdered. Then more women began to follow. Keith realizes he's on the trail of a psycho. Will Keith be able to stop this crazy dude before he kills again?This novel is action and mystery. Views: 786
A beautiful French chateau nestled in a quiet backwater of rural France. It's a designer's dream. Landscape Architect, Darcy, leaps at a job offer to redesign the gardens, thinking that she'll have time to collect her thoughts after finding that her husband has cheated on her. However in her hasty search for peace and quiet, she never quite took into account the chateau's new owner, Gabriel DuboisDarcy's husband, Patrick-le-Pew, turned out to be a right stinker. He casually announced over dinner one evening that he was leaving her for one of their dinner guests. Needless to say, the dinner ended badly.Oblivious to her rival sitting at her own dining table, Darcy didn't see it coming.Now the husband is an ex- and Darcy is left to pick up the pieces.She packs up her life and her two children, leaving London for rural France and a job designing a new garden for an old chateau not far from the historic city of Rouen, thinking this will be a golden opportunity to collect her thoughts before she moves on to something more permanent. But Life, like even the best of design, seldom goes precisely to plan and Darcy discovers that unexpected opportunities and complications arrive in the form of the chateau's straight-shooting owner and local bad boy made good, Gabriel Dubois. Views: 786
Ever imagined bullying? Imagine that ten times worse, and all over a school. Then a town. There's organised and not organised bullying, and even meetings every Friday. How do the kids survive in this bully filled school? Why don't you read on and find out? Go on! Part One.High School is almost every single Primary School child's worst nightmare. A huge school, unfamiliar people, and very tall Year Elevens! But what also gets on the list is Bullying. So, a school where there is organised bullying, not organised bullying and a literal Bully Network that meets up every Friday after school seems like a horror movie compared to your usual name calling. But how do the kids survive in this school? Why don't you read on and find out? Part One. Views: 786
The island nation of Keykan is losing ships and sailors to violent storms, but how to stop the death continues to evade the leaders. The current president, having himself lost family to the storms, travels to the United States seeking help from that president, but finds no help, until he meets a long-haired man, unkempt at best, with something in his eyes that bespeaks trust and ability.The island nation of Keykan is losing ships and sailors to violent storms, but how to stop the death continues to evade the leaders. The current president, having himself lost family to the storms, travels to the United States seeking help from that president, but finds no help, until he meets a long-haired man, unkempt at best, with something in his eyes that bespeaks trust and ability. Another short-story adventure in the life of Mike Maltby. Views: 785
(5850 words) After Bryce's eight-year-old daughter tells him she can't remember last summer, or any summer for that matter, he starts to notice discrepancies in the world of his cozy little town. How long has this winter lasted? And why does he feel so cold all the time? A slightly different version of this story appeared in Wild Violet, Feb. 2013.Vivia Brisk knows about the dead. She should. She’s died enough times. Vivia is a hag – or death witch – one of the last of her race, and can die, visit the underworld and return at will. As a consultant with charity The Lipscombe Trust, she has a job she loves – helping London’s most vulnerable supernaturals, even if her colleague Malcolm drives her round the bend on a daily basis. Vivia thinks she’s got Malcolm’s measure – sexist, not too bright and generally a pain in the ass, but then Malcolm zombifies and, along with his fourteen year old son Ben, flees the police. With a zombie on the loose, London goes into lock down and Vivia is roped in into find them. After all, Malcolm can only keep control so long without fresh flesh, and the risk of the zompocalypse increases the longer he’s on the lam. At first what happened seems simple, but then the police find decades-old corpses hidden near Malcolm’s house, and Vivia begins to realise Malcolm’s missing son is in a lot more danger than from just a single zombie on the loose… Views: 785
Join the Sisters as they twist the veil of reality as we know it.Join the Sisters as they twist the veil of reality as we know it.Good and evil collide in The Memory Remains, a short story by Riley Ross. Samantha has to protect her loved ones from an evil witch, who also happens to be her mother.Not all is what it seems in An Almost Ghost Story by Dovey Mayali Cralk. Pippa Harrington moves into her dream house only to discover she isn’t the only occupant. What will she do about this “Griffin” who haunts her new home?BONUS: Get a sneak peek into the full-length novel The Summer of Alyssa by Kaydence Rayne! Alyssa has been trying to get Seth's attention for what had felt like forever, but his family secret demands that he stays away from her. What will happen if she discovers the truth?BONUS: Get a sneak peek into Deviate 2 (A Cleo Perry Novel) by Sally Slayer! Cleo’s struggles continue as she tries to determine her identity and keep her sanity intact. Views: 785
We’re the D’Artigo sisters: savvy half-human, half-Fae ex-operatives for the Otherworld Intelligence Agency. My sister Camille is a wicked good witch with three gorgeous husbands. Delilah is a two-faced werecat and a Death Maiden. And me? I’m Menolly, a vampire married to a scorching hot werepuma. And right now, we’re facing enemies on all sides? It’s been a long and devastating week. Back in Otherworld, war has decimated the elfin city of Elqaneve, our father has gone missing, and Shadow Wing has managed to obtain another spirit seal. On the home front, somebody burned down my bar, the Wayfarer, killing eight people, including a friend. To make matters worse, we still haven’t found a way to stop Lowestar Radcliff—the daemon in charge of a supernatural corporate power grab. He’s attempting to awaken Suvika, the lord of vice and corrupt businessmen, and we have to stop him. Our enemies are closing in on all sides, and this time, there’s no place to hide? Views: 785
The first entry in the Living Novel series, Identity Illusions is a story that was born in the community of RolePages.com - There thousands of creative people have come together to build a rich, and dynamic world, filled with exotic magical races, and strange charismatic heroes. The characters in this book all live in that place, along with many others, and the stories of their struggles are beingIn an empire of technology and power, a populace of once magical beings has been stripped of their abilities using cruel injections. Forced to relocate to crowded cities, they are pressed into mundane, toil laden lives. The only escape comes from the Weave, a device that allows you to log in and become anyone, do anything, and live out your dreams. But only for a few hours each day. Meanwhile the ruling Crowley family is struggling over the future of the True Evolutionist Empire. More of the wealthy and powerful are getting physical upgrades, reinforced skeletons, cybernetic implants, functional wings and extra limbs. Others are going further, removing their brains from their bodies and pumping them full of chemicals to expand their capacities, then tying them into factories that can control hundreds, or even thousands of robotic drones at a time. Corgan Crowley finds the implications of concentrating so much power in the hands of so few to be troubling. He doesn't like that so many people, even important people, are spending so much time in the Weave either. He believes the empire should get back to the roots of the True Evolutionist doctrine. But he's out of favor with the emperor, and can already feel political hands closing around his neck. What can he do? Views: 785
In this short story we meet Marta who is living a fairly isolated life with her son with autism. We share some of her experiences and thoughts about how she came to this place in life and we also consider what it means to live in an authentic way.In this short story we meet Marta who is living a fairly isolated life with her son with autism. We share some of her experiences and thoughts about how she came to this place in life and we also consider what it means to live in an authentic way. Through Marta's experience, we see that relationships and friendships can take us on journeys in so many directions. We also become aware of the complexity entailed in beginning and ending relationships and consider the costs and benefits involved. We may also be forced to think about how we treat others and the reasons behind our actions. Views: 785
World Cup Dreams is a challenge that author Chris Harvey set himself during the FIFA World Cup of Brazil in 2014. To bring together his love of writing and football he decide to write a short story or poem of between 300 and 500 words every day of the World Cup. The challenge was successfully completed and this book contains all thirty two short stories released durng the World Cup.World Cup Dreams is a challenge that author Chris Harvey set himself during the FIFA World Cup of Brazil in 2014. To bring together his love of writing and football he decide to write a short story or poem of between 300 and 500 words every day of the World Cup. The challenge was successfully completed and this book contains all thirty two short stories along with details of results for each day of the World Cup. The stories look at football from many different perspectives such as fans who love the game, those that hate it, managers, players and referees. It is a fun and insightful look at football from the angle of a fan, a fan who is trying to understand the beautiful game from other peoples' points of view. Views: 785
Raised in a little fishing town, Cairo Goodridge instead opts for a bigger brighter future in the concrete jungle, New York City. Success surrounds him, but all good things have to come to an end. After the cruel hand of mother nature brings destruction and desolation to his new home. He is forced to survive in the new untamed twisted city, were being human just doesn't cut it any more!Joshua Laden is tired of ashram life. Setting out with a group of friends, he goes in search of a mysterious Yogi living in isolation far up into the mountains. It is said that this man has achieved Enlightenment - the divine state of bliss - and not only that, he is willing to share his experience with anyone willing to make the effort to go and find him... A short story Views: 784
The Notting Hill Mystery is thought to be the first detective story of novel length. Views: 784
