The ancient slave mongers who killed the adults and enslaved the children have angered a more advanced species of aliens. Composed of pure energy, this superior race has attacked the Anunnaki home world and is now setting a course for Earth.The energy-based aliens believe in a system of trial by battle. They seek to push Shane and his friends into the arena with the ones who killed their parents. The results will determine if humans deserve to live, or if they should be made extinct as well. It's up to Shane to keep his friends—and an army of kids who look up to him—alive. They'll be fighting not just for their own lives, but for the fate of the entire human race. Can the enemy of Shane's enemy be his friend, or is this just another species determined to exploit and destroy them? Views: 445
Award-winning author C.S.E. Cooney indulges in luxurious, dizzying fantasyIn Desdemona and the Deep, the spoiled daughter of a rich mining family must retrieve the tithe of men her father promised to the world below. On the surface, her world is rife with industrial pollution that ruins the health of poor factory workers while the idle rich indulge themselves in unheard-of luxury. Below are goblins, mysterious kingdoms, and an entirely different hierarchy.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Views: 445
Borne of Personal Strife is a trio of flash fiction stories that focus on conflict, both within and without, through the eyes of two characters on opposite sides of the world, both in times of great struggle.Downed in a Storm and The Paper Package focus on the misadventures of World War II Royal Army corporal Llewellyn Baines. In Downed in a Storm, After being shot down over Japanese-Occupied Thailand, Baines finds himself wandering through the dense jungle in the middle of a heavy rainstorm. After being found by an army truck driver and driven back to camp, he finds himself reassigned to an infantry unit in The Paper Package. In The Paper Package, it is Christmas Eve, some months after being shot down and reassigned, and Baines has been sent a package. His sleep is troubled as he has an internal fight between his greedy and prideful devil and his patient and insistent angel, both sides arguing over whether or not to open the package he had received from home.Their True Colors is a flash fiction focusing on a confrontation between two mobsters, whose names are not given, but wearing colors and groomed differently to show something of a duality and polarity between them. Western-style, the two draw their pistols and shoot each other, and die by each other's hands, with a vague indication that one goes to heaven, and the other to hell. Views: 445
Ecology can have unlikely helpers, from the soldier committing the ultimate sabotage, to phantoms from the future foiled in their attempts to save the human race. And corrupt councillors beware the lady with too many cuckoo clocks, the company offering replacement bodies, mirrors reflecting the truth… and always remember that badgers are people, too.Dark Poetry is a collection of dark psychological and emotional poems.To have one written for you send a Prompt, Word or Picture.I’ve never cut myselfBut I’ll understand if you doI can’t blame youIt must feel so goodI can picture itI’ll use a knife not a bladeA blade can easily slipAnd things can turn bad fast...From Self HarmI’m a coward I’ve always beenAnd it’s all in my headIn reality I’m in bed cryingI don’t know why you left me even though I doLie Smile Scream BegYou’ll come running back to meI know you won’tBut I will pretend anyway it’s all I have left...From Heartbreak Views: 445
She's never felt desired. He's never craved a woman more...in this sizzling classic from New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter. Previously published as Can't Hardly Breathe.Dorothea Mathis has overcome the obstacles life tossed her way...but she can't shake her long-standing crush on former Army Ranger Daniel Porter. The sexy bad boy is back in town and using her inn as a personal playground. She should kick him out, but his heated glances are making her stupid. No way she'll give another chance to the man who didn't want her in high school. Right? Daniel craves curvy Dorothea night and day, but all he can offer is a few no-strings nights to burn off a little steam. He's learned to despise romance—love brings loss. Except, being with Dorthea only makes him burn for more. Winning her over won't be easy, but he'll fight to prove a second chance isn't settling for second best.Read the entire reader-favorite Original... Views: 444
The people of Pie Time are suffering from God's Finger, a mysterious plague that leaves its victims dead with a big hole through their chests. In each hole is a random consumer product. Mano Medium, a sensitive, young cigarette-factory worker in love, does his part by quitting the factory to work double-time as Pie Time's replacement barber and butcher, and by holding the things found in the holes of the newly dead. However, the more people die, the bigger Mano becomes. XO, the power-hungry corporation bent on overtaking Pie Time, and Father Mothers, the bumbling priest, have their own ideas about how to capitalize on God's Finger. By contrast, and powered by honoring his own lost loves, Mano fights to resist this exploitation by teaching death to those who can't afford to survive it. As Pie Time and Mano both grow irrevocably, Mano must make a decision about how he can best fit into his own life. With a large cast of unusual characters, each struggling with their own complex and... Views: 444
Dan Broderick finally believed Brody’s ‘beauty of life’ existed for him. His dad cared, his mom loved him, his blood family and unit brothers found him, and Sexy Lexie wanted him! Life was great … until he crumpled to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut.Lexa McKenna risked all she valued for a man. But Dan wasn’t just any man … her heart and soul knew what her rational mind didn't. When Dan is laid low, Lexa fears she will never get the chance to figure out what might be.Dad—one word William longed to hear, yet accepted he wouldn’t. But Daniel just called him Dad! Hope surged in General Broderick … only to be plunged into a nightmare as blood blossomed from Daniel’s chest.A Broderick invasion is poised to get Danny back and heal nineteen-year-old wounds, but a thirty-year-old vendetta threatens to take Danny from them yet again.Will Dan’s blood family, chosen brothers, and his beauty of life be able to help him recover and rejoin Alpha Team? Can Dan once again prove he is an OUTLIER and beat insurmountable odds or has his luck finally run out? Views: 444
Good intentions can be deadly . . . * *
Cat Connolly is back at work. Struggling to adjust to the physical and mental scars, her workload once again becomes personal when her best friend Sarah Jane, daughter of a Pulitzer-winning American journalist, goes missing.
Her father is un-contactable, but her mother reports that he'd believed Sarah Jane was investigating something dangerous - yet the only records Cathy can find suggest that Sarah Jane was just involved in a seemingly innocent children's project.
Sarah Jane was last seen leaving her workplace - a popular Dublin restaurant - but seems not to have made it home.
And then a body turns up, and Cathy fears they have failed to save her friend. But when it transpires that the dead woman is not Sarah Jane, she realises that this case is only just getting started . . .
In the world of missing persons every second counts, but with the clock ticking, can Cathy find Sarah Jane before it's too late? Views: 444
