Online Fiction

Vampires and werewolves do not mix, at all. But Will and I can’t stay away from each other. How could I have fallen for a man I’ll never get to be with? To make matters worse, supernaturals and humans are vanishing...and the number of disappearances are growing. How did I get dragged into that, you might be wondering? My best friend was taken, and even her scent vanished from the world. The only question now is...will I find her...before she turns up dead?

Noah Carver is still playing Sevenfold Sword Online, trying to find proof of the game's dangerous secret. Namely, that the game was built using dangerous technology taken from humanity's greatest enemy, technology that might give the enemy a way to return. But Carver hasn't found proof that will get the authorities to act. So when an old friend from the military offers help, Carver has no choice but to accept.

What if the death of one game meant the death of all? A terrible entity has consumed the game known as Mage World Online. But now that all virtual online worlds are connected, this monstrous hive-mind turns its sights to other games. It will take every power and friend that Riley can recruit to defeat this new, insurmountable menace. Because if he can't stop it in Sigil Online, it will consume everything in its path.

He didn't want to be in the game. Now, he has to save it. Killed on the first day on the job, 25-year-old police officer Nyle Maxwell finds his mind uploaded to Capes Online, the world's biggest and most popular VRMMORPG. Yet, the one-way, mind-to-game upload process means that Nyle can never return to his physical body. Now, he must become a real superhero and protect Capes Online from both hostile players and malevolent AIs and NPCs alike that seek to destroy the game itself.

No one wanted Gracie to become the Queen - hell, Gracie didn’t want to be the Queen. She is, though, and people are just lining up to take shots at her. Some want her gone; some want what she has. And one of them is determined to destroy the entire game if he can’t get what he wants - which means that Gracie might just have to team up with the absolute last people she wants to: Dan and Dhruv. Her only consolation? They hate the idea, too.

With all my best friends off the market, it’s time that I, Tori Sussex, join them. So where better to find my future husband than the internet? It’s great. I get to get all the awkward stuff out of the way and already know if I’m going to like the guy before we meet in person. It’s a shame nothing's ever that simple. My relationship with Colton Lane, my best friend’s brother, is the very definition of complicated - dirty little no-strings-attached hookups we’ve somehow managed to keep secret from all our friends for the past six months.

Accepting that they may be stuck on Aetheria for good, Zander and company take to the roads, honing their skills, clearing dungeons, and adding familiars to their growing repertoire. They choose to embrace a life of adventure, living by the blade and enjoying all of the wonders that this strange new realm has to offer. But a new threat looms in the shadows, and a fated encounter awaits that may shake Zander to his core...

Set against the backdrop of three major American Civil War battles at Antietam, Vicksburg, and Gettysburg, the same five narrators return to tell the stories of what happened in their communities of conscience. Members of Mennonite, Amish, and German Baptist churches choose their loyalties when their traditional belief of not participating in warfare collides with the demands of Union and Confederate forces.

Welcome to Marco's rollercoaster of luck. Find the right girl, have a job you only mostly hate, and eventually move out of Washington State. Except...Marco gets dumped, fired, and incorrectly imprisoned. His freedom brings a silver lining in the form of a big check that hits his bank account. Deciding to enter a new line of work, Marco buys a ticket to Myriad Online...only to realize things are not going as planned, not at all.

His wish led to the addition of a new system to Genesis Online: siege mechanics. Rival guilds can now declare war and attack each others' cities. If the attackers win, they take ownership of the defeated settlement. With few details on how the new system will work, Kevin must build up defenses to protect the town of Prosperity. He will need to train hard with his guild members and recruit allies to ensure they will have enough defenders when the attack finally comes. Will they be ready to withstand the forces of an enemy determined to get revenge?

After another unsuccessful relationship, twenty-nine-year-old New Yorker Callie Swan is still determined to find love. An aspiring author who makes her living as a phone marketer, she reclaims her virginity and begins writing a guide for finding your soulmate . . .

When James' greatest accomplishment leads to the worst day of his life, he turns to the one thing that never lets him down: Glorian Online, the world's greatest completely immersive MMORPG. But a chance encounter with an old acquaintance takes things from bad to worse, and even his beloved character, Crios Truelight, the Hero of Carrandor, must struggle to survive as his world crumbles around him.

Alexandra McInnes hat als Pilotin der Special Forces zahlreiche Einsätze erfolgreich geflogen. Doch bei einem verheerenden Unfall wird sie schwer verletzt. Der Kybernetiker Dr. Jensen eröffnet ihr die Möglichkeit, an einem einzigartigen Experiment teilzunehmen: Sie soll ihr Bewusstsein in das Online-Spiel Vorena übertragen und dort vollständig geheilt weiterleben. Als Alexandra die gigantische Welt Vorenas betritt, verändert dies alles. Fortan muss sie als Kämpferin Questen erfüllen, sich mit anderen Spielern verbünden und Reiche erobern.

Being murdered. Not so great. Waking up in your least-favorite game afterwards...While trying to figure what the whole “sword” thing is all about and which end of it he’s supposed to point at the cuddly, woodland creatures who keep giving him owies, Lucas stumbles across a player who looks rather familiar. Is he the man who murdered him? If he is, why is he in the game, and how can Lucas make him pay for what he did? Worse yet, Lucas’s pretty sure he left the stove and the air on before the whole getting murdered thing. Worst day ever.

In the game, the people of Tamernil live under the harsh rule of a vile bureaucrat, and Bokta - an outcast blood witch practicing forbidden magic - has a bold plan to save them all. She'll need to summon a powerful demon, one she's been watching through a scrying mirror for years. There's just one hitch: the mighty demon she's been watching isn't real. He's a character in Realm of Crafted War, and the man behind the keyboard is a far cry from a savior.

Taking the day off work to surprise Andy with a ticket to the hottest fantasy VRMMORPG, Emma returns home to find his cheating ass in bed with her sister. Throwing them both out, Emma sits slugging back the wine they’d just shared. Drunk and devastated she almost blows his gift, but watching the adverts for the amazing fantasy world depicting monster’s mayhem and adventure, Emma keys in her name and details - Akillia-F-22 - and decides to take on Puatera Online.

Var now faces enemies on all sides. The Alliance wants to destroy her empire. The Game Masters treat her and those like her as puppets. The Clockwork Princess will stop at nothing to kill her. Even her allies seem to have their own motives and squabbles. And above it all, the ever watchful eye of the System Hivemind rules AO by pain and fear. Some wish to control, some wish to destroy, where she looks to find a way to free herself and all those enslaved in Another Online.

Krator survived his first foray into the wilds of Talos. He fought his way through bloodthirsty monsters, deadly terrain, and friends who stabbed him in the back, all so he could finally come face to face with his rival in the race for the Heart of the Wild. But now that he has it, he has no idea what he is supposed to do with it! Krator made a career out of beating dungeons, not building one, and he's up against a very real–and deadly–clock.

Authentic voices shape this fresh look at a familiar story, the American Civil War, beginning with the rapid buildup of tension between North and South and continuing into early summer of 1862. But the narrative grip comes through the eyes of civilians, trapped in the conflicts of obedience to government and historic refusal to participate in warfare. Their options press with insistence (enlisting, fleeing, buying a substitute, or paying a fee) as the demands intensify.

When Kurt followed his brother into the world of Darklands Online, he expected a game like any other. What he found was a world more realistic than he could have ever imagined. The deeper he delved into the fantastic world of eternal night, the more Kurt suspected that something was amiss. It was only when he found that he was being manipulated by a rogue artificial intelligence that Kurt realized how far afield his journey had taken him.