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Risk by MarkVictorYoung
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Martin is a 38-year-old virgin marked for greatness by the insurance gods. In his professional life, he is paid to assess risk, but in his personal life he plays it safe. Experience has shown him that lonely is better than brokenhearted. George is a wannabe architect with white man's dreadlocks. He risks his neck on the streets of Toronto every day as a bike courier, but his job is unchallenging and he chooses apathy over the risk of failure at what he really wants to do. When George tags along with Martin to investigate the scene of his latest claim, they stumble upon a burglary in process. Now they are being hunted by an unknown adversary who will stop at nothing to get what he's after, forcing Martin and George into a dangerous game of cat and mouse in which they must risk everything. This novel is now complete, but your comments (and votes) are always welcome! Thanks for reading.
Touched by ZoeWhitten
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Amber McKenzie considers herself a bland, normal student until she feels the touch of something cold and invisible. Scant hours pass before she's attacked by her best friend. She returns home to find her family slaughtered, forcing her to rely on the dubious protection of a D&D "mage" and a woman who may, or may not be a vampire. Is the threat real, or is Amber just "touched in the head"?
Wake Up With the Kimellians by ZoeWhitten
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Cab driver Roger Maple wakes from a five-year coma to a world defeated by an alien invasion during his long slumber. The remains of the human race are docile slaves unable to think for themselves. So when their masters flee from yet another alien threat, the human race huddles in waiting for the end. Desperate to do something besides duck and cover, Roger embarks on a quest to find his wife and son. But his journey offers glimpses of a dire threat left behind by the slaveholders...
The Sole Survivors' Club by ZoeWhitten
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Having lost her parents in a tragic multi-car pile-up, Monica Harper is drawn time and again to fatal automobile accidents without understanding why. Living alone, she works next to the same section of highway where her parents were killed. But it isn’t survivors’ guilt trapping Monica in her dead-end life. Fred Schott is a tabloid reporter obsessed with Monica, and with other accident magnets like her. Despite her mistrust of Fred, Monica is eventually convinced to speak with other people with the same problems. But in arranging this tiny support group, Monica has pushed for a confrontation with an invisible army of living spirits. One by one, her new friends are picked off until Monica is left alone to face an enemy she cannot see or touch.
Sandy Morrison and the Pack of Pussies by ZoeWhitten
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Sandy Morrison had enough trouble trying to fit in at school while transitioning from her old life as Robert, and it's only with the help of her best friend Maggie that she gets invited to the hottest party of the year. But the invitation is a trick. Humiliated by the lead cheerleader Trisha, Sandy climbs a water tower and leaps...and then all hell breaks loose. Saving herself with a mysterious power, Sandy soon learns that she's a witch. But before she can adjust to the shock of being another kind of freak hidden in normal society, she is rocked by another stunning revelation: her best friend's family is a clan of werecats, and werecats and witches have been at war for over three hundred years...