Getting to Etna Station is all that matters, with the world rapidly collapsing around them, Mike and company make a desperate trek to reach what they believe to be a safe haven. Can they out run the demons that chase them? Will they succumb to Knox and his tyrannical army or Payne, a revenge-bent vampire? New friends will be made along the way while some old ones will fall. If they make it, will it be all they hoped or just another nightmare? Views: 20
William W. Johnstone's vivid, uncompromising novels stand as violent portraits of the rugged American frontiersman and the forces that forged him. In this powerful novel, Johnstone tells the story of a young Missourian forced by fate and violence into lawlessness—where he sees a chance to right the wrong that shattered his family and his soul...Smoke Jensen is a young man raised on loss and bitterness, nurtured by a mountain man named Preacher. Now, Smoke Jensen, with his, a new black horse and an old grudge, slips over the unmarked border into the turbulent Idaho Territory. Ahead is a town called Bury, built on stolen gold, and run by a band of ruthless men who had a hand in the murder of Smoke's brother in the Civil War. Smoke's father died in pursuit of those killers, but urged his son not to waste his life in vengeance...Swift, powerful and poetic, Return of the Mountain Man is an action-packed tale by William W. Johnstone, an American master—and a great... Views: 20
Rescued from her home, she faces change, life and losing everything she thought she was, to rise from sorrow.
Salika has grown up on her own with her sand dog, Saluk, at her side. Foraging in the sands and stealing in the city, she finally gets caught and pays the penalty. Death.
Thrown into the sand pit, she faces a certain demise until her sand dog comes to her rescue.
She finds the only stranger on her world who can take her away and demonstrates her ability to move sand. As a talent, she is just what the recruiter is looking for.
Salika is as surprised as everyone around her when her talent turns out to be electrical in nature and entirely under her control. Views: 20
Nominated for the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award and a finalist for the 2013 Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Debut Novel) AwardLate in the twenty-first century, big business is booming and state institutions are thriving thanks to advances in genetic engineering, which have produced a compliant population free of addictions. Violent crime is a rarity.Hyper-intelligent Jayna is a star performer at top predictive agency Mayhew McCline, where she forecasts economic and social trends. A brilliant mathematical modeler, she far outshines her co-workers, often correcting their work on the quiet. Her latest coup: finding a link between northeasterly winds and violent crime.When a string of events contradicts her forecasts, Jayna suspects she needs more data and better intuition. She needs direct interactions with the rest of society. Bravely—and naively—she sets out to disrupt her strict routine and stumbles unwittingly into a world where her IQ is increasingly irrelevant…a place where human relationships and the complexity of life are difficult for her to decode. And as she experiments with taking risks, she crosses the line into corporate intrigue and disloyalty.Can Jayna confront the question of what it means to live a “normal” life? Or has the possibility of a “normal” life already been eclipsed for everyone?Review"For readers who want a smart, subtle exploration of human emotion and intelligence, this is an excellent choice. Charnock’s dystopia is actually believable. It’s very like our own world, but slightly stretched at the edges—corporate interests reign unchecked, the class structure is rigid, and technology has taken us well beyond the limitations of our synapses and gray matter. Charnock is a subtle worldbuilder, but a convincing one." —Strange Horizons"A strong debut. Recommended." —Violin in a Void"Gets the grey matter firing." —The Taichung Bookworm "Stunningly relevant re-imagining of 21st century Britain as a bioengineered corporate dystopia." —Chris Graham About the AuthorAnne Charnock’s writing career began in journalism; her articles appeared in the Guardian, New Scientist, International Herald Tribune, and Geographical. She was educated at the University of East Anglia, where she studied environmental sciences, and at the Manchester School of Art. She travelled widely as a foreign correspondent and spent a year trekking through Egypt, Sudan, and Kenya. In her fine art practice, she tried to answer the questions What is it to be human? What is it to be a machine? and ultimately she decided to write fiction as another route to finding answers. Anne is an active blogger and reviews fiction for the online magazine Strange Horizons. She contributes exhibition reviews and book recommendations to the Huffington Post. She splits her time between London and Chester and, whenever possible, she and her husband, Garry, take off in their little campervan (unless one of their two sons has borrowed it), traveling as far as the Anti-Atlas Mountains in southern Morocco. Views: 20
For an ordinary
twenty-two-year-old college student like Lana, the idea of being kidnapped from
Earth by aliens would have sounded absurd… until the day it happened. As Lana
quickly discovers, however, her abduction is not even the most alarming part of
her situation. To her shock, she soon learns that she is to be stripped naked
and sold as a slave to the highest bidder.
When she resists
the intimate, deeply humiliating procedures necessary to prepare her for the
auction, Lana merely earns herself a long, hard, bare-bottom spanking, but her
passionate defiance catches the attention of her captor and results in a change
in his plans. Instead of being sold, Lana will be given as a gift to Dante, the
region’s powerful king.
Dante makes it
abundantly clear that he will expect absolute obedience and that any
misbehavior will be dealt with sternly, yet in spite of everything Lana cannot
help feeling safe and cared for in the handsome ruler’s arms. Even when Dante’s
punishments leave her with flaming cheeks and a bottom sore from more than just
a spanking, it only sets her desire for him burning hotter.
But though
Dante’s dominant lovemaking brings her pleasure beyond anything she ever
imagined, Lana fears she may never be more than a plaything to him, and her
fears soon lead to rebellion. When an escape attempt goes awry and she is
captured by Dante’s most dangerous enemy, she is left to wonder if her master
cares for her enough to come to her rescue. Will the king risk everything to
reclaim what is his, and if he does bring his human girl home safe and sound,
can he find a way to teach Lana once and for all that she belongs to him
completely?
Publisher’s
Note: A Gift for the King is an
erotic romance novel that contains spankings, sexual scenes, anal play, elements
of medical play, elements of BDSM, and more. If such material offends you,
please don’t buy this book.
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Johnstone Country. Frontier Spirit Lives Here. National bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone spin a breakneck tale about a heroic chuckwagon cook who knows just what to do when cowboys get hungry—for revenge . . . THE CHUCKWAGON TRAIL Framed for murder, Dewey "Mac" McKenzie is running for his life. Though Mac's never even made a pot of coffee, he talks his way onto a cattle drive heading west—as a chuckwagon cook. Turns out he has a natural talent for turning salt pork and dried beans into culinary gold. He's as good with a pot and pan as he is with a gun—which comes in handy on a dangerous trail drive beset with rustlers, hostile Indians, ornery weather, and deadly stampedes. Mac can hold his own with any cowboy twice his age. At least until the real showdown begins. . . . Trail hand, Deke Northrup, is one mean spit in the eye. Before long, he's made enemies of all his men. When Mac... Views: 20
Sentenced to death for abandoning his unit, a soldier recounts the events leading up to his arrest.The reality of trench warfare is a shock to Allan McBride. Like many other young soldiers, he enthusiastically signed up for the chance to join the war effort and be a part of the fighting. But after months in the ravaged battlefields, watching men, including his friend Ken, get blown up by German shelling, something in Allan snaps and he leaves his unit, believing he is "walking home to Canada" to get help for his friend.After nearly a week of wandering aimlessly, Allan is taken in by a band of real deserters — men who have abandoned their units and live on the edge of survival in the woods of northern France. Once Allan realizes what he's done, he is paralyzed by the reality of his circumstance: if he stays with these men, it's possible they will be found and have to face the consequences; and if he returns to his unit, he will be charged with desertion... Views: 20
