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From the creators of the internationally bestselling Edge Chronicles comes an epic story of dragons! The wyrmeweald is a hostile place, an arid wasteland where man is both hunter and hunted, and where the dragon-like wyrmes reign supreme. Seventeen-year-old Micah enters the wyrmeweald intent on stealing a wyrme egg to sell for a bounty. With the riches such an egg will bring—returner's wealth—Micah can go home to a life of luxury, and win the hand of the girl he loves. But the wyrmeweald is a treacherous place, and Micah quickly finds himself in mortal danger. When a tracker named Eli rescues him, Micah is forced to prove his worth, and together he and Eli defend a rare wyrme hatchling from kith bandits intent on stealing and selling wyrme eggs. As Micah soon discovers, this hatchling has a guardian already—the beautiful, brave, and dangerous Thrace. Micah and Thrace make the worst possible match: Micah is a would-be bandit, and Thrace is a wyrme... Views: 27
The second novel in the exciting Zombie Dawn series that follows the outbreak of a deadly Zombie plague and the people that are left, fighting to survive. This book continues the story one year on from Zombie Dawn Outbreak. The world is now a very different place, far from the disorganised and desperate struggle to simply survive an hour, the remnants of humanity have formed new communities with their own unique approaches to survival in a zombie dominated world.A ragtag flotilla of ships sails the Pacific looking for any survivors and supplies. A chance find of a missing Ocean Liner that appears to be in distress leads to an elite team being sent to investigate. With time running out, what will they find and how many will make it back alive? In Australia, former medieval re-enactor Bruce has become the unlikely leader of a road column, living like a rock star whilst trying to find enough food to survive. The lax discipline and careless attitude leads them in to a dangerous trap.Dave, the bored British office worker has settled down in a small community built around a wealthy landowner's house. The community has a strict rule set to stay alive, but when one man gets over ambitious, everyone has to deal with the bloody consequences. Madison, the daughter of a Pastor, is bored of living within the safe and teetotal confines of their seemingly perfect community in the American Midwest. But when a horde of enemies the size of which no one could have imagined threatens the town, they must make the tough decision to defend their homes or run for their lives.In the United Kingdom tiny groups of survivors travel the highways in the West of England in heavily modified and armoured convoys looking for supplies. In the Pacific the safest place to be is the Sanctuary, formally known as Hawaii. Well defended and supplied, it is the last, best place to live for the remaining living. It was, until a combination of a disgruntled ex-employee and secret biological research experiments combine, leading to catastrophe.Part of the Zombie Dawn series of short stories and full length novels that chart the events of Zombie Apocalypse throughout the world. This series is written by the renowned authors of the ZOMPOC manuals 'How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse' and 'Weapons & Tactics for the Zombie Apocalypse'. Views: 27
Sometimes playing to lose is the only way to survive the game of Houses.Trapped in an arranged marriage to lower-caste Jannik and trying to make the best of her fall from grace, Felicita is immersed in the machinations of powerful families. MallenIve is worlds apart from Felicita’s native Pelimburg, and her family name and standing will not help her here. Haunted by her past and those who died because of her, she attempts to regain her status as the scion of a once-great house.If MallenIve’s leaders have their way, Jannik will soon have no more rights than an animal, and a union that once seemed to offer a solution to Felicita’s problems is now a liability. Felicita’s feelings are conflicted and it is all too easy to fall into the prejudiced mindset of the higher castes … until faceless corpses begin turning up on the rubbish tips, and Felicita might be the only hope Jannik’s people have. Views: 27
AN UNSPOKEN LOVE BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE WHO WOULD DO ANYTHING FOR EACH OTHER, BUT WON’T ADMIT IT. Things are not looking good for Samantha Fox and her ‘partner’, the gorgeous former playboy, Brian Morton. Their new gym is not attracting customers, thanks to a crushing campaign from a rival gym. Having sunk all his money into Sam’s dream, Brian is almost destitute. Views: 27
Mira Chambers has an infallible gift for
solving mysteries ... but using it comes with a price. Determined to regain her
independence after ten years in orphanages and asylums, Mira leaps at the chance
to help her friend, Bennet Chiron, an enigmatic ex-con who risked his life to
save hers. Mira plans to investigate the murder-robbery that put him behind bars
for six years in the hope of clearing his name. But people are turning up dead
under bizarre circumstances, and Mira discovers that she′s being hunted by two
old adversaries.Layers of secrets are about to be ripped apart ... is
Mira the only one with a steep price to pay? Views: 27
First published in Galaxy , April 1956. Appeared in Pilgrimage to Earth collection of science fiction short stories by Robert Sheckley published in 1957 by Bantam Books. Views: 27
On a distant planet called Nova Prime, the United Ranger Corps defends the galaxy's remaining humans from an alien race known as the Skrel and their genetically engineered predators, the Ursa. But one ordinary man may have just found the key to humanity's last stand: a secret weapon hidden deep within his own psyche. "Ghost Stories: Hunted" is the first of six eBook short stories that lead up to the events of After Earth, the epic science fiction adventure film directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Jaden Smith and Will Smith. For all his charm, looks, and skills on the holographic battlefield, Daniel Silver has been drifting through life in Nova Prime City. After proposing to his girlfriend and getting rejected in the cruelest way possible, Daniel has no choice but to accept an altogether different kind of proposition. Sigmund Ryerson, an eccentric energy magnate, has asked him to lead a civilian expedition to take down an Ursa, the... Views: 27
