"In the dust zone every man lives with a shotgun under his mattress and a bullet in his brain." Life in the post apocalyptic dust zone of the Texas Panhandle can be brittle at best. Georgy Founder has already lost his wife, his daughter and his legs. But he still has three sons. With ingenuity and cunning the Founders have learned the secrets to surviving their threatening environs. But fear has governed them for too long. Survival is no longer enough. As neurotoxin-ravaged Twitchers rally for control over the region, Georgy is forced to reconcile his past in order to provide his sons a future worth living.

Vladimir Balunski... the Russian with big ambitions, and no fear. He sets out on a mission to reunite he and his long lost brothers, after twelve years of lies and betrayal. A sick psychopath by the name of Viktor Petrov murdered their parents, and now he's hunting the four brothers down with everything he has. Vladimir must get to them in time, and warn them of what is inevitably going to happen. But he'll need help, and the only people with the means to do so have risky links with the criminal world. Can he go against what is right, to let justice prevail?

ON HOLD. Ultio Dulcis (Revenge is Sweet) Rico and Georgia walked soundlessly like shadows down Westbrook Avenue. The knives strapped to their belts and guns in their hands gave them a little extra security in Montfield Town. Being the only two remaining members of a once strong, and feared gang wasn’t easy, especially when you were on the road for revenge.

Taylor Dubois has live in an orphanage since she was six. Her mom is an Angel, and her dad the Devil. What happens when she meets Bryson, her "other half", when she still loves Rob, her best friend? Secrets uncovered and lies discovered. Can Taylor handle romance, trust, and family issues?

The dead have taken Earth. Only a week had gone by since the outbreak before the world was on its knees, a few days later and people are far and away the minority. Now, only two weeks into the apocalypse, people are doing whatever they can to live. This is the story of those people, the last of the living.

"You will never escape, Danielle. Never." The world is tainted. The world is shadowed. The world is cursed. A demon presides over everyone, ruling with power and fear. Every few months, the Games of Hell are held, twenty people culled from the masses to compete. Nineteen will die. The twentieth will want death. Join Danielle in her mission to escape the Games: leading the Competitors to hope. She is tested time and time again, tortured with memories and pain, but still preservers in her desperate attempt to escape. What happens when she finds love and friendship in the darkest of places? Will she find the escape she needs, or is she fated to fail? Under all the pressure, of the terrible things she must do to further her plans, will she break? Read to find out in Toys of a Dangerous Mind: winner of Undiscovered Thriller 2011

Imagine being afraid to leave the wall. What if you couldn't look in a mirror? What if when you were five... you saw the monsters behind you while your reflection stared back at you? Well, Glorie is afraid. She hasn't left her basement for twenty years. Why... there are demons out there. They swarm around her. They surface in the light. The only way she can keep them away is to sit with her back to the wall and remain in total darkness. Will Gretchen be able to help her overcome her fears... will she leave the basement and learn to live her life?

With two brand new stories by Grady Richards. In this dark collection you will find otherworldly spiders, zombie debt collectors, malevolent pets, and prophecy gone awry. You will see into the heart of a child-killer and into the heart of a man mourning the loss of his daughter. You will find terrors locally in a man who fears his neighborhood demons, and distantly in a man who caught a devastating illness in deep space. You will look through the eyes of a maniac, you will feel with the soul of the vengeful, and you will peek through spread fingers as you watch the things which keep you up at night as they begin to crawl forward and feed.