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Colonel Edward Pierce of the Confederate Army has gone rogue. He and the nearly five hundred men under his command have vanished into the West, pursuing a fabled ancient treasure and leaving only death and destruction in their wake. Tasked with killing the deserter, Jess Shepherd and his two companions will weather the unforgiving trail in pursuit, encountering bandits, bounty hunters, and true evil. A bleak tale of the callous indifference of the frontier, the unsettled West, and man.

Beware of the night, for it shows no mercy. Anxieties run rampant as the last sprinklings of light twinkle out on the inky horizon. The shadows dance their choreography in the damp, dusky air. Night is taking over, and it knows how to keep a dark and deadly secret, for it allows no witnesses. And that screaming you hear nearby? Watch out, because you might be next. The Sinister Supernatural Stories series brings you delicious horror that focuses on elements of the supernatural. Pull up a chair and dig in, but never after dark—everyone knows bad things always happen after dark.

Fleeing an abusive relationship, Ellie Carson suddenly finds herself in The Unworld; a peculiar in-between, mimicking our reality. A place with infinite entrances for those who aren’t looking. A strange realm filled with forgotten things, people, and beings that shouldn’t exist. The underside of the cross-stitching of time, never seen and all binding. The way out is always shifting, and may not exist at all.

Caught in a blizzard, a handcart company desperately needs help, food, and supplies. They will send ahead three men to seek assistance at an old army fort, only to discover that the fort is not only abandoned, but also locked from the inside. Through an unfortunate accident, one of the men becomes injured, requiring them to stay at the old fort. Over time, they will piece together the horrendous history of this place and discover that all is not as it appears to be.

Willow Burrow: the most isolated town in America. A small mining town tucked away against the base of the mountains in the upper reaches of the United States. After a cave-in at the mine reveals a previously undiscovered underground chamber, something is awoken from an ancient slumber. Cut off and being closed in on, the people of Willow Burrow will have to fight for their lives against the thing that has been stirred from the depths.

Ladies, the book you are about to listen to is a compilation of the reflections of men. This piece of literary gold is for your benefit. Man Square was created to give women an accurate assessment of most men's basic requirements for a long and fulfilling relationship. A square has four equal sides; a man has four equally important requirements.

A gang of roaming gunslingers down on their luck cross paths with a mysterious one-eyed preacher. When the priest offers them their long sought after "honest work", they will jump at the chance. But this strange encounter was no mere coincidence, something these outlaws will soon find out. Their destination? Hollow Canyon, a place thought to be more of legend than of fact. Inside the looming, towering stone walls, an ancient evil awaits. An evil that has set its sights on finally freeing itself from the confines of the wicked pass.

You will learn how to assemble a balanced and talented leadership team, to understand the definition and value of a true business leader, and what resources are critical to business success.

Restoration of Wood is a comedy set in Austin. Howard Goodson Woodley, whom everybody calls Wood, is a self-absorbed Anglo divorce lawyer in a law firm started by his grandfather, a three-time governor of Texas.

Condemned by day to the dark side of red, a lonely, magically talented, and horribly breathtaking vampire spends his nights slipping over the veil. There, he revels in terrorizing young adults to their deaths. But for one girl, who's melted his heart: Emily Hunts. But when the world threatens to take her away, when he learns of her true loyalties, his mask is unveiled, and he must take her to the other side of red.

Once in a Blue Moon, intended for all ages, is the magically realistic story of the Rainwater family and their island in the middle of Good Bear Lake below Shadow Mountain in Colorado. Gabriel Rainwater is the family patriarch and Chris is his 20-year-old grandson. The Rainwaters are members of a clan of superhumans known as Rangers, whose mission is to escort human spirits into and out of this world, and Gabriel is their head man.

Christmas Angel is a collection of memories of three events in the life of a retired surgeon, a man who is self-admittedly not perfect and who has not always been religious. A grumpy sort of a fellow who blames his personality defects on his genetics, as do most of us who are well-educated enough to appreciate the value using DNA as an alibi.

She thought she had escaped her past. It chased her to the other side of the galaxy. Trapped on the surface of Palanda Ire, an occupied human colony world, Marlay Saccar is exactly where she needs to be. Since the decapitation of the empire's intelligence corps field agents just like her have become the best possible chance of uncovering the enemy's true intentions. Marlay knows one thing already — whatever the great enemy is up to on this world it is of paramount importance to his plans. But that is all happening somewhere in the city of Arroch, a place of fresh slaughter, a place no-one...

In the second book of the Blue Flower trilogy, Karl and Lydia’s story continues in the Forgotten World. Captured, tortured, and then spared from death, Karl is trapped. Wynn, the master Azurean himself, holds Karl prisoner in his castle where Karl must learn his place in a society that Wynn controls by the obsessive use of his god-like powers. Unable to escape and completely out of his element, Karl must rely on new friends to learn how to survive, but more importantly, he must decide just how far he’ll go to stay alive. Back in the mountains, Arujan continues to stir up discord against...

Cylus pulled the hourglass from inside his cloak to transport himself and the infant princess to our world. Once on Earth, he would keep her safe, out of the hands of her enemies until she was ready to return and use the power only she possessed to reclaim her kingdom. But, when the hourglass broke, something went wrong. The baby disappeared, and Cylus was left behind. Now years later and a world away, Lydia Miller is lost from her true identity, feeling out of place everywhere but on the soccer field. When Lydia secures a scholarship to play at the collegiate level, it seems she is ...

He wanted to avoid the spreading war. Far, far away was just not far enough. Introverted scientist Rex Bel-Kenita is on his way home. Snatched from the chaos unfolding on Kementhast Prime's southern continent, he has been asked by the Imperial Navy to fix a mysterious navigation issue affecting their entire armada. In return they will grant him safe passage to his family home on Damastion. But someone else has a keen interest in the prototype star cruiser Ardent, someone who will stop at nothing to possess not only the ship itself, but everyone aboard. For Rex, what should have been an ...

The battle between the Sapphiri and the Azureans has been raging for centuries, destroying lives and worlds. Only a true reconciliation between the two peoples will restore peace. In the Forgotten World, Queen Ria (Lydia) sets out to lead for the good of the people. But, she is not without enemies. Arujan was there when Wynn died, and he is determined to take power for himself. With Arujan pulling strings behind the scenes, Lydia has a lot to overcome before the people will accept another Azurean leader. Things aren’t quite right back on Earth, either. A Sapphiri plot puts the two worlds ...

A Football Story, set in football-crazed Dallas, Texas, is an action-filled drama told with dark humor. The story begins on Christmas Eve, 1988, with Burl Ives singing “Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas” and immediately flashes back six weeks as Matt Story, a young, undermotivated NCAA infractions officer, accompanies his boss, Dick Brotherman, to view a routine post-probation compliance signing at a football powerhouse, Texas Methodist University.

A young ranger recon sergeant major, Danny McCarty, returns home following the apparent suicide death of his father. What Danny doesn’t know is that he’s being recruited by his aunt’s Forty Two club for his military and outdoorsman skills to root out his dad’s real killer and bring them to justice. A series of encounters follows wherein Danny goes to jail, breaks out, goes back in, and breaks out again. Between escapes, he wins a football game, blows up the mine with a homemade bomb, and has several confrontations with his brother, his girlfriend, and three persistent thugs.

For almost six centuries the First Unified Imperial Combine has ruled the Orion arm of the galaxy in the name of Earth. But things are about to go horribly, horribly wrong. All alone at the very edge of human territory, a clandestine Imperial facility has fallen silent for reasons unknown, and special operative Elm Caden has been tasked by the Empress herself to find out why. All Caden wants is a straightforward mission with a simple conclusion; what he finds is a woman whose mind is missing.