As the Titanic sinks, an English playboy aristocrat is murdered. Professor Axelson and his assistant Agnes investigate - and discover a dark conspiracy among the most powerful nations on earth. The quest becomes a breakneck life-and-death chase across an ocean and two continents - and Agnes finds she has the power to save a world on the brink of war. Or to destroy it.Yi is a retired warrior of the World Kingdom who has lost everything he loves—his home, his wife, and his daughter. Tulip is an abused child of a prostitute with a special ability—a secret that will put her life at risk if the wrong person learns of it. As war and political intrigue threaten their home, fate brings Yi and Tulip together. This novella is an excerpt from first novel in the series. Enjoy this free introduction to the Asian-inspired fantasy world of 3 Kingdoms! Views: 459
The matchmakers have their eyes on romance—and in this small Amish community, no one is safe. Their sights are first set on plain, independent Willow, who's shocked when her parents try to marry her off to bachelor Samuel. But can she and Samuel evade their parents' meddling long enough to find love on their own? Then there's Valerie, a widow who's never recovered from losing the man she really loved. Now at her friend's urging, she and Ed have one last chance to find their own happiness...if they can revive the spark that once promised a lifetime of love. Views: 459
What would it be like to turn into a mermaid? To feel the same blood flow in your fingers as in the tips of your tail? Samantha wasn't expecting to find out when she rescued what she thought was a drowning woman, only to have the tides turned. And she certainly wasn't prepared for the depth of the changes as she sank deeper— and more irreversibly— into the mermaid's world.Egan Bagley is a talented clockmaker who is about to create one of the most magnificent clocks the country has ever set its eyes on, but after a visit from a gypsy selling him a bewitched bead, things are about to turn peculiar. With the magical powers of the four faced clock, the little gnome of a man plays havoc with time and is about to become one of the richest men in the city with upsetting consequences. Views: 459
1. The Second Great War rages on, threatening to tear the world apart. Himmler’s SS Paranormal Division is scouring the globe in search of magikal artifacts and preternatural operatives to add to Hitler’s growing supernatural forces. If he isn’t stopped, he will soon have an army of vampires at his disposal, creatures that will stop at nothing to see the world bathed in blood and darkness.
It is in this terrifying world that Raven Storm finds herself after her fight with the Harlequin in present day Chicago. Cut off from her friends and family, Raven joins forces with Mack Mason to investigate the murder of an antiques dealer in Old Town, an innocent who left the words Black Eon behind in his own blood.
The mystery deepens when more bodies begin appearing around town, the burned and bloodless corpses stuck inside concrete and brick as if left there by the hand of God.
What is Black Eon? And how do they stop it before it kills again?
Stormfront.
Time is a Killer. Views: 459
StoriesThe Last Days of the Lotus Eaters – Leigh HarlenKeeping the Peace – Catriona Butler & Rob ButlerDeath Acceptance – Tony ClavelliApocalypse Beta Test Survey – Gregg ChamberlainSpirejack – Patrick WarnerLowland Clearances – Pippa GoldschmidtThe Last Moonshot – Vaughan StangerThe Sky is Alive – Michael F RussellThe Useless Citizen Act – Ellis S. J. SangsterInterview with Cory DoctorowSF Poetry by Marise Morland, Bill Herbert, Peter RobertsCover –Reader at the Thought Discharger, by Stephen PickeringSF Caledonia – Monica Burns on Colymbia by Robert Ellis DudgeonTales of the Beachcomber—Mark TonerBook ReviewsThe Delirium Brief, Charles StrossWalkaway, Cory Doctorow Views: 459
'One brown mouse. Victim of foul play.'Chalk Street, Camden Town, is the busy scene for all kinds of commercial activity – some legal, some a little less so. By day, local crime boss Mr. Rivers works as a market trader, but gladly turns his attention to the potentially lucrative theft of fox-skins in the countryside. However, what should have been a simple robbery leads to a string of murders, and a Scotland Yard investigation, led by Chief-Inspector Thompson. A case in which one of the clues is no fox, but a fat brown mouse ...Death by Two Hands was first published in 1937, and has remained out of print until this new edition. It includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.'Little people in [the] grip of tragic destiny ... brilliantly done' Saturday Review of Literature'I have the highest opinion of Peter Drax's murder stories ... The secret of Peter Drax's success is his ability to make the circumstances as plausible as... Views: 459
'A peculiar genius with no modern equivalent, except possibly Kafka' - Jonathan MillerRegarded as a central part of Kapuscinski's work, these vivid portraits of life in the depths of Poland embody the young writer's mastery of literary reportageWhen the great Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young journalist in the early 1960s, he was sent to the farthest reaches of his native Poland between foreign assignments. The resulting pieces brought together in this new collection, nearly all of which are translated into English for the first time, reveal a place just as strange as the distant lands he visited. From forgotten villages to collective farms, Kapuscinski explores a Poland that is post-Stalinist but still Communist; a country on the edge of modernity. He encounters those for whom the promises of rising living standards never worked out as planned, those who would have been misfits under any political system, those tied to the land and... Views: 458
Three members of the family, young Dan Lind and his two relatives, Ingrid Lind and Ulvhedin Paladin, set out on the long journey north to the forgotten Valley of the Ice People. Dan's objective for the trip was purely scientific, while the other two wanted to get hold of the powerful, magical root that they were convinced they would find there: the mandrake, also known as the gallows flower because it was said to grow at places of execution. Views: 458
Brendan Leary, assigned to an Air Force photo squadron an hour from L.A., thinks he has it made. But when the U.S. invades Cambodia and he joins his buddies who march in protest, he is shipped off to an obscure air base in upcountry Thailand. There, he finds himself flying at night over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in a secret war that turns the mountains of Laos into a napalm-scorched moonscape. As the emotional vise tightens, his moral fiber crumbles and he sinks ever deeper into a netherworld of drugs, sex, and booze.When a visit by Nixon looms, Brendan dreams up an all-squadron bicycle race to build morale, win hearts and minds in rural Thailand, and make him and his underpaid buddies a pile of money. The Big Buddha Bicycle Race is a last gasp of hope that turns into a unifying adventure—until the stakes turn out to be far higher than anyone imagined. The Big Buddha Bicycle Race is a new take on the Vietnam War. A caper on the surface, it is also a tribute to... Views: 458
