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“Five blazing STARS!”
— Tracy M Joyce, author of The Chronicles of Altaica
Her entrance exam just became a fight for survival.
Subria is going to be one of the few, a Rider dedicated to scouting the food and resources her people need to survive, but first she has to pass the entrance exam. Of course, it’s more than just an exam, it’s a chance to attain the one thing that a Rider needs above all others; a steed.
The bond between these genetically engineered companions and their riders is legendary, and Subria wants it almost as much as she wants to follow in her father’s footsteps as a Rider. Legends might be all she ever gets to know it as though, because as soon as the test starts, something goes terribly, terribly wrong.
Now, Subria’s no longer fighting for a dream, she’s in a battle for survival.
Hunter is the first action packed instalment in The Hero Rebellion, a YA sci-fi series perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, featuring genetically engineered companions, illegal street races and a butt-kicking heroine who won’t take no for an answer.
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Barin the Byssinnian, mighty-thewed barbarian warrior from the snowy North, is hired by the wizard Avrum Ghul to deliver a precious gift to the Doge of Zeelon. When Barin discovers what the gift is, he's surprised--but as long as the gold is bright and the girls are welcoming, he sees nothing to complain of...This love story will please even the most bah humbug reader. For the lover of a good story about romance, you're in for a treat. Get comfortable with your electronic reader; a favorite drink of choice and enjoy more than a few hours of reading entertainment. This was my first novel written about ten years ago. A doctor who's the grandson of a very powerful woman is called to assist a young woman who has succumbed to the summer heat of New York City. She lies on the sidewalk in front of his clinic. From that encounter the relationship takes off like a rocket to extend from the families vineyards in California to the properties on the Atlantic Seaboard. Their love deepens as well as his family business he must attend as his aging grandmother needs her grandson at the helm of their vast empire. From modern day bankers to Old and New World mafia ties blends together a story we can all relate to. An even bigger love blooms as well as the business as the years pass by. Enough said. For the price of a Starbucks coffee, enjoy the story. PS, have tissue at hand. Views: 524
When Shan was fifteen years old, dark soldiers came out of the west, like a cloud of evil boiling over the soft hills of his homeland. They commanded terrible beasts, which killed with hook claws like scythes and cold eyes that dripped icy fire. The soldiers wore helmets that looked like fiends, tusked and snarling and sneering.
The terrible consequences of war have left the boy Shan wounded in body and mind by the invading army of Magravandias. He's taken from his devastated village by the magus Taropat, chosen by the master's mysterious impulse to become the wizard's pupil, and a weapon against the invading empire. Views: 524
From Brian McClellan, author of The Powder Mage trilogy, comes the first novel in the Glass Immortals series, In the Shadow of Lightning, an epic fantasy where magic is a finite resource—and it's running out. "Excellent worldbuilding and a truly epic narrative combine into Brian's finest work to date. Heartily recommended to anyone who wants a new favorite fantasy series to read."—Brandon Sanderson Demir Grappo is an outcast—he fled a life of wealth and power, abandoning his responsibilities as a general, a governor, and a son. Now he will live out his days as a grifter, rootless, and alone. But when his mother is brutally murdered, Demir must return from exile to claim his seat at the head of the family and uncover the truth that got her killed: the very power that keeps civilization turning, godglass, is running out. Now, Demir must find allies, old friends and rivals alike, confront the powerful guild-families who are only... Views: 524
A simple case of blackmail gets lethally complicated when "Nameless," exposes a nasty scam that involves junior accounts executive Jay Cohalan, his unhappy wife, and a mistress with a serious drug problem. It's the kind of case "Nameless" likes, because bleeders—the blackmailers, extortionists, small-time grifters, and other opportunists who prey on the weak and gullible—sit near the top of his most-worthless-human-beings list. So he contemplates with pleasure the prospect of putting another one or two of these parasites out of commission, and then returning the $75,000 in cash to its rightful owner. "Nameless" discovers, though, that he is not going to be able so easily to close his Cohalan file—not when he finds his client face down in the middle of a four-poster bed with a bloody, powder-scorched hole behind the right ear. And only by a hair's breadth does "Nameless" himself escape a similar fate. Aggrieved, cut to the psychological quick by his close brush with death, "Nameless" embarks on a relentless hunt for his unknown assailant in San Francisco's shadowy underworld. There he encounters bleeders of every ilk—like the loan shark Nick Kinsella, drug dealer Jackie Spoons, punch-drunk boxer Zeke Mayjack, and crankhead Charlie Bright—before he tracks down his quarry. At a deserted backcountry road stop "Nameless," packing his long-unused .38, attends to the last of a bad business and, in a climax as powerful as it is unexpected, finally confronts his own demons. He maybe even conquers them. Views: 524
Examines the events of the Civil War through the eyes of General Robert E. Lee's closest companion and devoted horse, Traveller. Views: 523
A companion to the Wizard of Ends fantasy adventure series - learn more about the characters and author, and read two free chapters of Wizard of Ends.This companion to the Wizard of Ends fantasy adventure series includes character interviews, a guest post written by the series’ main character, Lashlor Leaflin, insights into the series, its characters and the author, and the first chapter of Books 1 and 2. Views: 523
In the desert town of Cambio Springs, the water is cool, the summers sizzle, and all the residents wear fur, feathers, or snakeskin on full moon nights. In a world of cookie-cutter shifter romance, head to the desert for something different. In "Long Ride Home," Jena Crowe escaped the Springs ten years ago. Now, she's heading home with two boys to start a new life. With her husband's ghost keeping her company on the road, Jena will learn that moving back and moving backward aren't necessarily the same thing, and sometimes the places you try to escape are exactly where you need to fall. In "Five Mornings," Alex McCann and Teodora 'Ted' Vasquez never had a simple relationship... but you couldn't call it a boring one either. Five mornings in their past shape who they will become to each other. To their families. And to the mysterious town they call home. In Stings & Arrows, Sean Quinn escaped Cambio Springs with nothing but the... Views: 523
The Madness is Back!The third annual "Days of Madness" short story anthology is back with twenty new short-short tales that explore the extremes of the human condition, and beyond!Features new stories from the pens of: Richard Godwin, Benjamin Sobieck, Anthony Cowin, Angel Zapata, J.J. Steinfeld, L.W. Salinas, Matthew Wilson, Jack Horne, Donald J. Uitvlugt, and Chris Allinotte.The Madness is Back!The third annual "Days of Madness" short story anthology is back with twenty new short-short tales that explore the extremes of the human condition, and beyond!Ride shotgun with a distraught father as he floors it down the highway in pursuit of justice.Answer the "Babysitters wanted" ad in your local paper, but be ready for the game of your life.When frogs scream like crickets and mermaids become reality, you've in for a wild ride through ten days of madness.Features new stories from the pens of: Richard Godwin, Benjamin Sobieck, Anthony Cowin, Angel Zapata, J.J. Steinfeld, L.W. Salinas, Matthew Wilson, Jack Horne, Donald J. Uitvlugt, and Chris Allinotte. Views: 523
On her 16th birthday, Savannah is consumed by overwhelming power. She must choose between two loves; the one who taught her to smile or the darkly seductive stranger who tempts her towards another path. Suddenly, an unspeakable evil comes to claim a debt. How will she survive the greatest evil she has ever witnessed… long enough to have a choice to make?A witch raised in a cage of darkness...Savannah Cross was born into a life of isolation and abuse.As a child, she witnessed her parents perform acts of malevolent evil,and now feels permanently tainted by their dark deeds.When a coven discovers a tear stricken child, wounded on their elders lawn,they offer her a sanctuary she has never known.Savannah spends the next several years shattered,continuously looking over her shoulder,waiting for the darkness to claim her.On her 16th birthday,Savannah’s life takes a drastic turn.She is consumed by overwhelming powerthat forever alters her emotionally and physically.She must choose between two loves;the one who taught her to smileor the darkly seductive stranger who tempts her towards another path.Savannah must decide between the coven that was her havenand another one vying for her initiation.Just as Savannah begins to grasp what fate has in store for her,an evil looms over her loved ones;coming to claim an unbreakable debt.How will she survive the greatest evil she has ever witnessed… long enough to have a choice to make? Views: 523
"In the Eye of the Storm" is a collection of verse in three sections, from "Demeter's Dance", where aspects of nature are sometimes threatened by neglect or interference and "Breakages" - emotional responses to love and life, to poems prompted by Greece in "Moonbirds and Wild Water." They are hopefully impressions and thoughts of more than merely personal relevance."In the Eye of the Storm" is a collection of verse in three sections. "Demeter's Dance" conveys mysterious or disquieting aspects of nature. In the poem "To Marcus by the Corn", the past one can feel locked beneath the earth of a Suffolk field, seems, momentarily, to uncannily possess the boy walking through the field with the poet.Demeter was the guardian goddess of the land which she let wither while searching for Persephone, her daughter, abducted by Hades and carried to the Underworld. The poem "Demeter" recalls her as a ghost, still wandering the fields and waiting to return. And in "Moon Hare" there is a recollection of the folk belief that a girl left by her lover turned into a white hare!In the section "Breakages", the experience of loss and regret is rife in such poems as "The Dream", conveying the unreachable, in "In Retrospect", comparing a lost love to "dark music in reluctant depths without expression", while turmoil and compassion surface in "The Final Piece", where the element that would complete a person's character, has gone astray.Youthful pessimism persists in "Drowned", bemoaning the loss of our universal soul and "The Butterflies" have but a fleeting beauty.The collection "Moonbirds and Wild Water" is inspired by Greece and her islands - from the birds that sang all night in Skiathos and thoughts on Santorini's volcano, to verse about Crete where I live - from the resilience of her mountain folk to the myth of the Minotaur in the Knossos labyrinth. Views: 523
Tristan is sweating it out hitching a ride in New Zealand, 2030, having just retired from Peace-making army duty in the Middle East. Rau, a Maori priest, takes him fishing, and there they meet the mysterious Joshua. Now on a life-changing road-trip to Wellington, the heart and power of the nation, Rau is finding a new kind of faith, but Tristan knows he must end the growing threat of Joshua.Tristan Blake is sweating it out trying to hitch a ride past Kerikeri, up north. It is summer in New Zealand, 2030: the temperature is rising, and Tristan is looking to get away from it all, after retiring from Peace-making army duty in the Middle East.An old red Holden Ute pulls up on the side of the road, with fishing lines strapped in the back. A Maori priest, Rau Petera, is offering him a ride to Ninety Mile Beach.Keen to fish, Tristan agrees: but there on the expansive sand, trying to escape the rising tide, Rau and Tristan stumble across the mysterious Joshua Davidson, from Kaitaia. Rau follows Joshua back into the rising sea, and Joshua catches him a massive snapper, with no bait.Now Rau and Tristan find themselves driving Joshua on a road-trip like no other, down the centre of the North Island and toward the Beehive in Wellington, the ruling power and heart of the nation. Joshua is reminding Rau of someone: he is finding a new kind of faith. But Tristan is being thrown into increasing confusion and dismay, when he finally realizes what he must do to end the growing threat of Joshua.A New Kind of Zeal is a spiritual and psychological suspense: a travel adventure seeking out the heart of family and friendship, confronting loss, pain and corruption on the road back home. Views: 523
When Derek Doyle wakes up next to a ripped-apart body, he's terrified he's about to lose everything he holds dear—Ever, his job, and his family. Dealing with his past has never come easy to Derek, especially since he's too afraid of what people would think if they knew exactly what kind of monster he really is. But finding out who's setting him up could be harder than the team thinks. As long as Derek has lived, there's bound to be a long list of enemies.Ever Chace has a lot on her plate. Confronted with the possibility that she is indeed losing her mind, Ever tries to push it aside as they deal with the ramifications of Derek's past. Every new relationship has teething problems, but learning to deal with a mate who's used to being a lone wolf has its own set of issues.Can the team figure out how to save Derek from a swift execution? And just how much strain will the revelations put on Derek and Ever's shiny new relationship?Collateral Damage is the exciting sequel to Skin and... Views: 523
With the help of family and friends, Annie and Liam's wedding day looks as if it's going to be perfect until everything starts to go wrong. Liam's father doesn't show up, nor do the magic-wielding guests. Members of the wedding party come down with strange afflictions, Annie's gown is ruined, a storm floods the castle grounds, and an unknown king lays seige to the castle. Queen Karolina decides that they need the help of her fairy godmother, Moonbeam, but a pea-soup fog keeps the messengers from leaving. Only Annie and Liam can get past the magical fog to find Moonbeam, but even after they find her, it’s up to them to discover who cast the spells that ruined the wedding, and why the unknown king wants to conquer Treecrest. Views: 523
Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun. They know the truth--but who will listen? They have foreseen the cost of abundant energy--but who will believe? These few beings, human and alien, hold the key to the Earth's survival. Views: 523
