Xander thinks the George Wickerman Hospital would be the perfect setting for Spirits and Specters, a role-playing game where players go on "missions" to find evidence of paranormal activities. According to local legend, tuberculosis patients were used as test subjects in medical experiments that ended tragically, and their disfigured ghosts walk the hallways of this now-abandoned building. What better location to go ghost hunting? Even though they didn't really believe the rumors, Xander and his friends soon begin to suspect that they are not alone. Is this place actually haunted by ghosts? Or something even more terrifying?Orca Book Publishers is proud to offer this early ebook edition as part of our new Digital First initiative, with the release of the print edition to follow. Views: 198
La La Fine relates to animals better than she does to other people. Abandoned by a mother who never wanted a family, raised by a locksmith-turned-thief father, La La looks to pets when it feels like the rest of the world conspires against her.La La's world stops being whole when her mother, who never wanted a child, abandons her twice. First, when La La falls through thin ice on a skating trip, and again when the accusations of "unfit mother" feel too close to true. Left alone with her father—a locksmith by trade, and a thief in reality—La La is denied a regular life. She becomes her father's accomplice, calming the watchdog while he strips families of their most precious belongings.When her father's luck runs out and he is arrested for burglary, everything La La has painstakingly built unravels. In her fourth year of veterinary school, she is forced to drop out, leaving school to pay for her father's legal fees the only way she knows... Views: 198
Danny is trapped in a fragile relationship with the self-aware interstellar array which calls itself Noam.
The array provides transport and communications. Without its cooperation, the Carinad Empire would collapse, stranding billions of people and causing chaos and death.
Danny Andela, a former Ranger known as the Imperial Hammer, is the only human the array trusts. Danny’s work to keep the array happy and minimize its deadly temper tantrums is draining. Worse, other humans distrust her because of her association with the array, including the crew of her one-of-a-kind ship, the Lythion.
Broke and alone, Danny faces a new peril: The array may not trust her, afterall…
Star Forge is the second book in the Imperial Hammer space opera science fiction series by award-winning SF author Cameron Cooper. Views: 198
He's tall, and his build is anything but slight. Is it just me, or are the colored part of his blue-green eyes… glowing? He looks away from me, probably because I'd weirded him out by staring. Between being turned into a vamp, falling for a wolf and uncovering club Vudu's secrets, Madison Lowe's just dying to survive it all. After being murdered and left in an alleyway just outside of Club Vudu, twenty-year-old Madison Lowe awakens in a wolf's apartment. Dorian Ward, the hot bouncer she'd admired at Vudu, has taken her in with promises of helping her adjust to her new life as a vampire. Unable to resist him, she soon discovers why she's drawn to him, altering her shattered world further. And when she begins to work at Vudu in hopes of finding the vamp who ended her human life, she and Dorian uncover disturbing secrets about the establishment. Views: 198
At his beloved Nonno Paolo's deathbed, fifteen-year-old Nico receives a gift that will change his life forever: a yellowing manuscript which tells the haunting, twisty tale of what really happened to his grandfather in Nazi-occupied Venice in 1943. The Palazzo Colombina is home to the Uccello family: three generations of men, trapped together in the dusty palace on Venice's Grand Canal. Awkward fifteen-year-old Nico. His distant, business-focused father. And his beloved grandfather, Paolo. Paolo is dying. But before he passes, he has secrets he's waited his whole life to share. When a Jewish classmate is attacked by bullies, Nico just watches - earning him a week's suspension and a typed, yellowing manuscript from his frail Nonno Paolo. A history lesson, his grandfather says. A secret he must keep from his father. A tale of blood and madness . . . Nico is transported back to the Venice of 1943, an occupied city seething under its Nazi overlords, and to the defining... Views: 197
