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In this third volume of the Valerian Chronicles, Valerius' plans to strike at Fantar are forestalled when he is besieged in the city of Zagorbia. Meanwhile, his half-brother, Thorngere travels north to gather troops in his homeland and discovers the secret of his birth, while Princess Vahla, who like Thorngere is still pained by the revelation that their love is incestuous, travels east with her ubiquitous servant Chad. Some of the tricks taught her by the Mage Volkmir stand her in good stead there as she dupes the Oracle at Cartho and enchants the Viceroy Asperides, but not when she is captured by invading Scythians. After finally throwing off the siege, Valerius moves east with a growing host, and aided by the brilliant but tiny King Koltar, confronts the God, Balam, and the Scythians, and also faces the greatest threat to his entire quest-his own pride.

The shrieking siren of the police car gets people making the same comment, 'they're coming to get you'! Ha ha, very funny, but what if 'they' were coming to get you, what if you had a threat of retribution hanging over your head, what if you disregarded the warnings that they were really coming to get you...this set of stories will show you just what some people have been through when 'they' were about to interfere with a life...

When Professor Jake Stoughton and Dr. Jenna Corey dive to the Andrea Doria, 250 feet below the Atlantic, it's a recovery operation for a reward placed on the remains of the 17th diver to the shipwreck, Thom Richards--last man to lose his life in the effort. The motivation is to create a documentary on the seemingly unluckiest place below the waves. But it soon turns into a frightful discovery of secrets that the Andea Doria has kept hidden for 60 years. With the help of Sharky, Jim, and Dolph the dive team uncovers a supernatural element named Lenora, the lost child of the Andrea Doria, but they also uncover a terrible secret beyond anything ghostly. They discover an all-too-human conspiracy to take the ship down in 1956 when it 'collided' with The Stockhom. A conspiracy to make it and its menacing cargo a home for sea life and a DEAD SHIP DOWN.

What makes a king? It takes more than a name, more than gold, more even than the possession of an ancient power stone-as Valerius learns in this second volume of the Valerian Chronicles. With his Hidden Valley discovered by the enemy, Valerius faces tough decisions about the future of his rag-tag force, and must either make war on an old friend, or risk annihilation. Meanwhile, Thorngere travels the Inland Sea in the guise of a peddler, building a resistance network he hopes will help free the Empire from Fantar and reestablish Valerius Everreigning as High King. As he slumbers by his campfire late one evening, his life too, is suddenly changed by a dancing girl named Vahla... A girl whose blurted prophecy leads to a naval battle outside Dulcai; the thrilling rescue of King Reuters' daughter, Eomer; the siege of Kantar; and a major battle which brings Valerius to Zagorbia and threatens Fantar himself.

The Third Book of Joy: Chain Dance is the second notebook of family lore, the collection of Joy's magical stories about her enslaved ancestors, researched by Professor Bo Wolfson in Burning Streams; the first notebook was published in Blood of Angels. When Heaven's heartbroken death in childbirth and Whip Man's torture at her father's hands lead her to resurrect herself as a death dancer, magic and terror drive the plantation's owner off of his land. Most of the men and women who labor on the haunted plantation flee, following Heaven's brother to his Louisiana swampland.But not everyone runs. A winged angel, a dancing coven of witches, a shapeshifting wildcat, and a ferocious pack of werewolves defend Solace's plantation from attack. Marauding patrollers and opportunists clash with the cunning, the blood thirst, and the supernatural powers unleashed by women determined to free themselves and the men and children they love.

Left Hand of the Moon is an American Romeo and Juliet story about doomed love between the very young. In the early 1800s, as the fledgling United States completes the Louisiana Purchase and marches troops through the newly acquired state, executing by firing squad the freed adult children of enslaved women and their owners, an enslaved teen and her owner's youngest son run away to live together. They have grown up together and have always trusted and loved each other. Now that adulthood threatens to force them into roles they would rather die than play, the passionate young couple determines to create their own future.Defying French and Spanish colonial custom and the new American laws, Aurélie and Jules masquerade as revelers and escape into the festive chaos of All Hallows' Eve in old New Orleans. On this night when spirits walk abroad, the lovers discover they have begun an adventure that may ultimately shatter every illusion they have about themselves, their families, their countrymen, and each other. Perhaps some dreams are best left undisturbed.

It's 2060. In Backstreet Records, a brooding audiophile thinks murder. Upstairs at Studio4Ward where skulls, dreams and beer cans are the stuff of art, 300 pounds of human sculpture dangles dead from the wall. It's time to call in the notorious super sleuth Boston Jonson to smoke out the murderer with insults and Zen.

After successfully sending Gutrillus Canus back to Hell, Tiffany LeBouf and her sidekick Chip, the mischievous inferior demon, are sent to Central Florida on a brand-new assignment-to find a delinquent inferior brought up by Braithwaite, the super demon who has come up from Hell to replace Balberith. Along the way they meet Ashley, a young girl innocently caught up in one of Braithwaite's evil schemes. Just as they befriend and try to help Ashley, the three of them are caught up in a web of corruption involving rich oil sheiks and a sinister scheme to sell off Central Florida land and turn it into a terrorist training center. Will Tiffany and Chip be able to sour Braithwaite's land deal? Or will they be sent back to Hell and forced to remain there forever?

As a medium I am used to spirits walking in and working with me. There are a lot of books out there with my name on, all of which have been dictated by spirit authors. Richard Laymon arrived some time before we actually began work on the novel he wanted to write: he was just there, a companion whilst I fought my way through the process of getting the first channelled book into the public arena. Once the book was published, he began hinting that it would be rather fun to begin something which was not historical, which we did. We then started to write what felt like a non-stop stream of short stories which have been published in anthologies, both print and on-line. Richard asked me to collect them into a separate anthology as we worked.In my computer the file was marked 'Richard's anthology', knowing that sooner or later the right title would appear. I thought for a while it would be When Our Graves Grow Cold, initially the first story in the collection (and my all time favourite) but it didn't happen because Bela Lugosi arrived to collaborate on the novel (which explained why it stalled for some weeks, the two men were in discussions) and I went looking at Bela's official website. His startling image and unmistakeable voice saying 'I bid you welcome...' was all I needed - we had at last pinned down a title. Bela wrote stories with me, as did many others who walked in, smiling, offering their tales of death and destruction. Some only came once, having said what they wanted to say, others returned to give me more stories. My grateful thanks go to Roald Dahl, Edith Wharton, Charles L Grant, Virgil Grissom and Yul Brynner for their welcome contributions. Most of the collection was written by Richard Laymon, that I know. There was no mistaking the oft-times evil chuckle when he wrote something particularly gory...!The invitation is sent out. Richard, Bela, all the other contributing writers and I bid you welcome to a set of stories that will, we trust, entertain and possibly chill you as you read late at night. Enjoy.

Sexy, sassy and dead, Tiffany LeBouf is pulled into Hell by the incompetent demon Gutril. Paired with the demon Chip, she is sent to find Gutril after he is summoned to Ohio by a teenage girl goofing off with a spell she'd found online. They are given three days to find Gutril and bring him back before he can select a mortal host and remain here. As a spirit, Tiffany finds that she has the ability to change her appearance at will and conjure up any outfits she desires. She also realizes that her new powers can keep her from being forced to return to Hell.

Welcome to a squalid place where horrid creatures wave their snake-like rat tails, crawl under beds, crouch under tables, slither in the shadows, and tear flesh from bones, spreading terror, terror, terror.Here, with his fluffy, black-silky tail trailing behind, Eippy, the knee-high pie pygmy and his dog, Spinach, search for a safe haven. Struggling to survive, they travel through Mother Nature's reclaimed pockets of former magnificent beauty. Up ahead, under the banner of the Black Sun, huge hog-people and swarms of sharp-toothed red pygmy madness wait in a land where pig-people's renewed molestation has created environmental degradation.

From the author of TIME'S FICKLE GLASS...Susanne Bruante, the conniving antagonist in TIME'S FICKLE GLASS, is featured front-and-center as the main character that readers will love to hate, in this concluding sequel to Charles J. Schneider's exciting time-travel two-book series. A brilliant neuropsychologist and Susanne's psychiatrist partner at first professionally, and then romantically, in a psychological thriller taking place at first in a mental institution where Susanne is recorded narrating her past escapades; and then later in the streets of Paris after Susanne escapes from her 'house-arrest'. Is their patient truly afflicted with a unique mixture of psychiatric disorders, or is she really a time-traveler who inserted herself diabolically into the lives of two famous Impressionist artists? Readers will believe, then doubt, Susanne's delusional-psychosis diagnosis until they finally reach the unexpected concluding pages of this often-steamy, multi-genre piece of fiction.

On the brink of a religious war between Makeem and Novo Femina, Celeocia Prosser's struggle for gender equality leads her to Reesa Zimms; the one woman in all of history who can identify the first Mavirus victim. Believing the information surrounding this patient zero to be pivotal in the fight against the Makeem, Celeocia sets her sights on Reesa Zimms, also known as Caresse Zimmerman. There's just one problem; Reesa Zimms is a science fiction novelist who lived and died hundreds of years in the past. Utilizing wormhole travel and antimatter discs, Celeocia sends her son Hedric and the crew of the ship known as the Lothogy careening through time. When Hedric finds Reesa, the novelist is accompanied by her best friend Kate, who just happens to look like his recently murdered wife. Stunned and reeling, Hedric abducts both women, bringing Reesa and Kate on a not-so-gentle ride into the future. Time travel might be easier for Reesa to accept because Hedric Prosser, the High Priestess, and the very ship they're traveling on, all belong in Reesa's novels. Confused and pretty sure she's going insane; Reesa tries to prepare her friend Kate for the very male-dominated society they've been dumped into. When she finds herself abandoned by Hedric, Reesa must rely on Matthew Borden, the villain of her books to rescue Kate and fight their way home.

Methodist denominations have Wesley's theology in common and the distinctive of not just justification by faith but additionally the distinctives of sanctification and entire sanctification, the idea of Christian perfection.This concept of Christian perfection fascinated me; to be perfect, how? How fif this theology of John Wesley come about? How is it actuated? Was mysticism involved? This is what led me to writing this book.

DCI Julie Ashton arrives at her new posting. She is booked into a hotel, and as she is settling in, her phone rings, alerting her to a suspicious death.Lady Sophie Mac Adams has collapsed at a dinner party having been poisoned.Julie needs to work out if she was the intended victim? Was her husband to blame to avoid a divorce settlement? Was it to do with the re-opening of the local quarry, which she was in favour of? How could the murderer know she would taste the wine, and not her husband, unless it was her husband. Or was he the intended victim?Mr. Morris was next, again with poison, a woman's weapon. He was also in favour of re-opening the mine, was this the motive?The next victim was shot, which added to the confusion. Why change the MO? It is not unknown, but not normal, and to go from a female choice, to a male choice, very unusual. To add to the confusion, he was against re-opening the mine. Now, even the motive was blurred.Can DCI Ashton pick through all the contradictory facts to solve the crime, or is it the one that got away?

Born of the smokeless flame in the wilderness of prehistoric Arabia, a djinni comes into being. A creature of pure energy, he takes the form of a green-tinged blue flame that feeds off the life forces of human kind, taking pleasure in death and terror. A chance encounter with a shepherd on a mountain alters the course of his existence. The man mistakes him for a god and offers up an act of worship. Amused, Djinn maintains the deception and the god al-Ilah is born.Over hundreds of years, he bends the tribes of Arabia to his will until another man and another god oust him from his place of pre-eminence. Cast back into the role of demon, Djinn wanders the Islamic world, from Spain to India and beyond, bringing death and despair to those whose lives he touches. Then he encounters a Raksha demon in India and finds himself fighting for survival against the gods themselves.

When young Ben Cross escapes occupied Boston in 1775, he has no idea that he will become a cannoneer of the First Artillery Unit of the Continental Army under Colonel Henry Knox, nor that he would be in the company of the Green Mtn. Regiment of Ethan Allen and the tough Vermonters. Now could he have dreamed of dining with General George Washington himself, or helping to arm the Continental Army. But it takes a gargantuan effort which involves a 600 mile round-trip over some of the roughest mountain ranges, the Adirondacks and the Berkshires, to haul 73 cannons, most 24-pounders, via oxen train over iced over rivers in dead of winter through areas where no roads exist until the American soldiers build them ahead of the artillery train.Col. Knox, a bookseller in Boston at the time that war broke out, was one of the few men who had trained on artillery with the British, and using is own funds, he financed the movement of the captured cannons of Fort Ticonderoga from the Upper Tier region of northern New York to Boston. Ben, a 17-year-old boy, fast becomes a man when faced with responsibility, sabotage, and the court martial of Henry Knox as a spy.

Without warning, the Dark is starting to tip the scale to rule over the humans. God needs to activate a new Lite Sentry. This chosen human is asked to battle the Infiltrators and Demons the Dark is sending to Earth. Osiah has a special insight to the Dark and is asked to train the newly activated Lite Sentry. Alexandria Johnson, who goes by Alex, is a 17-year old high school popular student who dresses in Goth attire. She has two best friends; Kale, nicknamed "Mole", is a recovering alcoholic who trains for an Iron Man as a coping mechanism. The other is Sara, a motherless, sweet, girl who lives with her abusive father. Alex accepts her new role in life to help maintain the balance between the Lite and the Dark. She grows from learning her role to actually understanding what is asked of her. Along the way she is introduced to a whole new world containing Angels, Demons, and others who are knowledgeable in this war.

For eight Saturdays Brett drops Eleanor off at the cabin of their new friend and motivational coach Aaron. Brett picks her up hours later, but only knows what Aaron tells him, Eleanor is sworn to secrecy. The program's goal is to push Eleanor beyond her low self confidence and along the way open her up sexually. The program goes far behind Eleanor living up to all of Brett's fantasies. However Eleanor has wilder fantasies of her own she is going to live. She began the program as a demure housewife-but returns a wanton slut, much to the shock of her husband.