Metaphysical Mysteries

The continuing adventures of the survey starship Yellowjacket after an alien force larger than any in living memory sweeps through the worlds of the Engel Empire. Note: The Stars Dark series is an homage to thrilling pulp sci-fi of yesteryear. If you're interested in hard science fiction look elsewhere. But if you're looking for action-packed adventures on strange worlds with even stranger aliens, this series is for you!

Montaro Caine, CEO of the Fitzer Corporation, is losing control of the company he built just as his teenage daughter is experiencing her own difficulties. At this moment of crisis, a man and woman appear at his office with a coin of unknown provenance, composed of a metal unknown on Earth. Montaro immediately recognizes it as the companion of a coin he analyzed as a graduate student working in a lab at MIT, which was later returned to its unidentified owner. The coin's appearance draws the attention of scientists, collectors, financiers, and thieves, all of whom vie to get their hands on it....

Read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, this short story by Philip K. Dick takes us where the powers of earth had finally exterminated the last of the horrible tribes of mutant freaks spawned by atomic war. Menace to homo sapien supremacy was about ended - but not quite. For out of the countryside, came a great golden, godlike youth whose extraordinary mutant powers, combining the world's oldest and newest methods of survival, promised a new and superior type of mankind.

Sam Meeko never thought that he’d ever get a superpower, especially one that allows him to smell everything. Everything. With his unconventional power, Sam joins forces with a group of women hellbent on getting to the bottom of a countrywide conspiracy. It’s going to take some thinking outside the box, and when that doesn’t work, Sam and his group might need to tear the walls down.

Buried secrets. Magical lies. With a shadow’s whisper, darkness begins to rise… When June Morgan returns to her hometown of Stonebridge, she isn’t expecting it to be easy. Having denied her magic for far too long, she feels it beginning to break free, leading her to seek out the Stonebridge Witches for help. Turning to her one-time mentor, Alistair Blackthorn, June begins to seek control…only to find herself in the midst of shadowed whispers of a rising darkness that feels all too familiar. A power so consuming that claimed her parent’s lives and sent her running. A power, that ...

Take the plunge down the rabbit hole of insanity and wonder in this fast-paced, nonstop psychological thriller that will leave you questioning the very nature of reality and beyond. Part thriller, part romance, part existential horror, A Dream of Waking Life delves into lucid dreaming, psychedelics, existential ontology, video games, the nature of love, the nature of reality, and more.

Jane Frey inherits a Gothic mansion filled with unexpected treasures: original paintings by 18th-century visionary William Blake, secret rooms, and an ancient underground cavern. A prophecy claims it hides an important artifact - the key to an energy grid laid down by the Founding Fathers themselves. Whoever controls this grid controls the very centers of world power. Except Jane has no idea what they're looking for.

I’m Natasha, a dark blood. In plain speak, I'm naturally drawn to dark magic and forces of the wrong kind. That's not the half of it. The powerful Guild of Mages, in charge of maintaining order among the magical, is all too eager to brand me a rogue. I wanted to be normal, away from magic, free from the perpetual tug-of-war between light and dark that rages within me. Had it not been for the money I needed to keep my brother alive, I would have totally fought off that intense craving to use my powers. Being a magical investigator seemed like an easy and respectable way to have it all. ...

A mummy is nothing but a pile of bones covered with dried up skin, right? That is until you add a few demons and combine this mixture with a band of monks shrouded in secrecy. For some this story will bring tears of joy while others will experience tears of compassion. But, one thing is for sure – all will be left on the edge of their seats by this thrilling adventure. Dr. Andrew Rogers, a notable archeologist, along with his equally famous partner and friend, Dr. Kathleen McGregor, are persuaded to chaperone a class of thirty female students to the ruins of Egypt. While they have been ...

My name is Erin Stone. I’m 43, with a daughter away at college and a successful career as a communications officer with the 911 dispatch center for the Toronto Police Service. My life had just returned to a new normal after my divorce and everything was going smoothly. Then, boom! I dreamed of a plane crash - only it wasn’t just a dream. The crash happened in real life. A vision, plain and simple. Not exactly. My family certainly wouldn’t understand. And me…psychic? I’d dabbled in new-age spirituality in the past, but never plunged into the deep end.

Writing in England at the turn of the 20th century, G.K. Chesterton was dubbed the "prince of paradox" for addressing serious questions with his light, whimsical style. In this classic allegory, which has captivated generations since it was first published in 1908, Chesterton tackles such profound concepts as honor, truth, and God with insightful humor and colorful enigma.

When Isaiah Choi, a holistic healer on the Big Island of Hawai’i, becomes afflicted with a mysterious illness, he suspects he may be suffering under the influence of malevolent, inter-dimensional beings.

This book was previously published as Fairy Neat by Katharine Sadler. The human realm has been saved, but what is Chloe willing to sacrifice to save the fairy realm? The nightmares have been pushed out of the Non, but they’re destroying Rubalia. Chloe and her friends don’t have enough fae on their side to combat the thousands of nightmares in Rubalia, so they plan a sneak attack. In order to surprise the nightmare empress, they’ll have to journey across Rubalia, encountering friendly and less than friendly fae along the way. And, when they finally get to the fairy palace where the ...

A fast-paced supernatural thrill ride filled with demonic villains set in the heart of South Florida! My name is Patrick Bannon, and I'm a demonologist. Most people would agree that the study of demons isn’t a practical area of research. Lucky for me, Miami has never been a practical kind of city. With more reported cases of demonic possession than any other two cities combined, the jewel of South Florida can be a dangerous place for those who don’t respect it, and when trouble strikes, it falls to me to set it right. Now a renowned Catholic reverend is dead, and the church wants to ...

The year is 2117. In the farthest reaches of Earth's territorial space, a spree of depraved murders has local cattle ranchers fearing for their families. A fear, they will soon discover, that is more than justified. Apparently, John Gallic's reputation proceeded his arrival to the fringe-world of Muleshoe. A reputation suggesting he be given a wide berth. As the new Territory Abettor, commonly referred to as a Frontier Marshal, Gallic would be there for the long haul.

Booklist calls the world of Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear’s spellbinding Jacob’s Ladder series “magnificently populated, well worth visiting.” Here the trilogy that began with Dust and Chill draws to its stunning conclusion. The passengers of the generation spaceship Jacob’s Ladder have found a new home at last. But the planet Grail is already inhabited - and its population of genetically engineered humans has no intention of sharing the world.

In 1872, the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was intact, but the crew was gone. They were never found. While on a voyage to Africa, an unproven young writer named Arthur Conan Doyle hears of the Mary Celeste and decides to write an outlandish story about what took place. This story causes quite a sensation back in the United States, particularly between sought-after Philadelphia spiritualist medium Violet Petra and a journalist named Phoebe Grant, who is seeking to expose Petra as a fraud.

In the year 1960, private eye John Nyquist arrives in Delirium, a city of a million borders, to pursue his strangest case yet: tracking down Oberon, the stolen, sentient image of faded film star Vince Craven. As Nyquist tracks Oberon through a series of ever-stranger and more surreal borders, he hears tantalising stories of the Yeald, a First Wall hidden at Delirium's heart. But to get the help he needs to find it, he'll have to journey into the fractured minds of the city's residents, and even into his own.

Goldilocks' latest case takes her to the Plains of the Rocky Mountains, in search of a killer who has murdered before. Goldilocks' professional reputation is in tatters, her name blacklisted as a result of her actions the previous year. She’s got few friends, and even more enemies, both within the tribes and her own agency. To make matters worse, she’s assigned lead on the murder investigation of two teenagers, their deaths seemingly designed to create strife between the Plains Striders Tribes and the Forest Service. The message from the top is clear, play it straight and solve the ...

This book was previously published as Bloody Fairy by Katharine Sadler. All play and no work makes Chloe a very grumpy fairy. The very last thing Chloe wants to do is play an amenable hostess to a horde of nightmares, but her only other choice is to stand by while they forcefully and brutally move into the human realm. That or die when she tries to stop them. So, she does her best to welcome the lizard-like creatures and make sure they follow the few rules she’s imposed. When playing nice no longer works, she and Frost and all their friends will have to work together to fight creatures ...