Imperial law enforcer Amaranthe Lokdon is good at her job: she can deter thieves and pacify thugs, if not with a blade, then by toppling an eight-foot pile of coffee canisters onto their heads. But when ravaged bodies show up on the waterfront, an arson covers up human sacrifices, and a powerful business coalition plots to kill the emperor, she feels a tad overwhelmed. Worse, Sicarius, the empire's most notorious assassin, is in town. He's tied in with the chaos somehow, but Amaranthe would be a fool to cross his path. Unfortunately, her superiors order her to hunt him down. Either they have an unprecedented belief in her skills... or someone wants her dead.

A Novelization of the 2002 video game The Thing. Captain John Blake of the US Special Forces has fought in nearly every environment on the planet. From running down drug runners in Mexico to kidnappers in South America to Counter-Terrorism ops all over Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, he's seen and done it all. Or so he'd thought. As he prepares to go on some well-earned R&R, he is suddenly shoved onto a helicopter and flown to Antarctica. Given a team and a very short briefing, Blake is tasked with investigating an isolated American research outpost that has been mysteriously destroyed. What begins as a simple mystery and fairly straightforward mission quickly degenerates into a grim struggle for survival as Blake encounters a shape-shifting alien horror from beyond the stars. It assumes the forms of those it kills and it can hide in plain sight, as anyone can be infected. Now, Blake must assemble scattered remnants of the Special Forces personnel, scrounge for supplies, and brave the subzero antarctic temperatures, all while trying to discern who is human, and who is The Thing...

In a world with two suns, Tesni Kendrick has been taught to fear the blue sun and the people it shines over. In the South, the Wilde can harness the blue sun's power to perform great and terrible feats of magic. Tesni makes her home in the North, where the Wilde are the enemy, the blue sun doesn't shine and magic doesn't exist. Or at least it's not supposed to. For five years, Tesni has hidden her ability to wield magic and suppressed her powers. But when her father, the king's most loyal general, captures a group of Wilde men, Tesni's curiosity gets the best of her. From a handsome Wilde boy, she learns there is more to her magic than she ever imagined. Tesni's quest for knowledge--and the consequences it brings--takes her on a journey to the Wildelight, where the blue sun shines in full force and magic runs rampant. Can she learn to tame her magic from a people as wild as their name?

A young boy, Adam, discovers a gold medallion in a lump of coal. He keeps it as a curious good luck piece for the next twenty years, until as a scientist, he discovers it contains a message and is clearly alien. Join Adam and his colleague, Linda, as they embark upon an adventure of revelation, ultimately giving up all they hold dear to discover who we are and who put us here.

A thousand years before, lead by the Nines, the armies swept their shadows across the globe, decimating all in their paths right to the very foothills of mount Shagrii. It was there that the armies were obliterated by Shagrii herself, it was there that their reign of terror ended. A thousand years on, evil hides in the shadows as it prepares to returned to the lands once again, to bring forth its black, metal beasts of war and terror once more. Set in a fabulous world scarred by long forgotten battles, Armies of the Nines tells the tale of a boy who in losing his family, discover a world that he had never imagined. ''NjSternbergheyze's epic fantasy overturns the expectations of readers and then goes on to tell the story of both good and evil in a richly imagined ancient world.'' ''Fantasy literature has never shied away from grandeur, but the sheer mind-boggling scope of this epic will have you turning page after page.''

James Kirkpatrick's difficult life leads him to take solace in virtual reality—a momentary peace soon shattered by mystery, intrigue, and unseen forces bent on plunging the world into chaos. An epic tale of love, loss, and the boundless influence of technology, No Life to Lose examines our fears, our hopes, the price of our dreams ... and what it truly means to be human.

Seven girls tied by time. Five powers that bind. One curse to lock the horror away. One attic to keep the monsters at bay. ** After the storm of the century rips apart New Orleans, sixteen-year-old Adele Le Moyne wants nothing more than her now silent city to return to normal. But with home resembling a war zone, a parish-wide curfew, and mysterious new faces lurking in the abandoned French Quarter, normal needs a new definition. As the city murder rate soars, Adele finds herself tangled in a web of magic that weaves back to her own ancestors. Caught in a hurricane of myths and monsters, who can she trust when everyone has a secret and keeping them can mean life or death? Unless . . . you're immortal.

Horror/Suspense Lovers, Look No Further! Prepare to lose sleep as you journey through this award-winning Horror/Thriller novel with an ending you won't see coming! One Blood is a supernatural thriller that will leave you wanting more from this author. Rich themes of voodoo, family curses, political ambitions and a quest for power are dominant in this roller coaster ride set in Louisiana. Governor Randy Lafitte is popular and beloved after battling back from brain cancer, but his political success has come with a price. When his daughter is kidnapped Lafitte is confronted with a past he thought died a long time ago. However, what hasn't caught you, hasn't passed you. And what comes for Lafitte may way more than he or the forces behind him can handle as he fights the demons (literally demons) from his past. ˃˃˃ Accolades for One Blood Kirkus Review's Best of 2012 Winner of the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Award Winner of two 2012 International Book Awards Winner of a 2012 Global eBook Award Winner of a 2012 Indie Reader Discovery Award Winner of a 2012 National Indie Excellence Book Award Finalist in the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2012 Reader's Favorite Book Awards Silver Medal

Seventeen year-old spirit medium Emily Chambers has a problem. Actually, she has several. As if seeing dead people isn't a big enough social disadvantage, she also has to contend with an escaped demon and a handsome ghost with a secret past. And then there's the question of her parentage. Being born an entire year after her father's death (yes, a year) and without the pale skin of other respectable English ladies, Emily is as much a mystery as the dead boy assigned to her. Jacob Beaufort's spirit has been unable to crossover since his death several months ago. It might have something to do with the fact he was murdered. Or it might not. All he knows is, he has been assigned by the Otherworld's administrators to a girl named Emily. A girl who can see and touch him. A girl who released a shape-shifting demon into the mortal realm. Together they must send the demon back before it wreaks havoc on London. It should be a simple assignment, but they soon learn there's nothing simple when a live girl and a dead boy fall in love. THE MEDIUM is the first book in the Emily Chambers Spirit Medium trilogy. Yes, that's *trilogy* - meaning not everything will be wrapped up nicely at the end of The Medium. There are 2 more books after it, both of which are published. Check out my website for details.

The gods have abandoned the royal family of Nahwan. Nonetheless, fifteen-year-old mech-crazy Intan Aghavni enrolls in the piloting program at the Royal Military Academy, pursuing the vague memory of a woman who saved her life as a child... When the sudden appearance of rogue mechs on campus grounds propels her to the forefront of a political revenge plot that has lain dormant for almost twenty years.