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Power is in the mind. The mind is in the network.As the NAU's "Shift" approaches, the Directorate and Enterprise parties are doing whatever they can both on-Beam and off- to win the citizen's minds. The Beam itself, however, seems to be evolving.As more and more people become addicted to connectivity, a question arises: Does the Beam serve our minds ... or do our minds serve the Beam?Meanwhile, using politics as cover, an organization is pushing human enhancements further than they were ever meant to go - and maybe more than the struggling NAU with its hyperconnected minds can hope to survive.Platt and Truant deliver deep political intrigue and incisive social commentary along with a generous helping of big philosophical themes through engaging, multifaceted characters and rich worldbuilding. If you enjoyed Altered Carbon and The Fifth Element, you'll feel right at home in the world of The Beam.

Sometimes the safest place to hide is directly in the public eye.Someone has been glamouring Dr. Annabel Rice, and Maurice is not happy about it. Especially when he figures out what kind of information they are trying to glean. This time, hiding in the shadows isn't going to work. When a TV producer approaches Maurice about turning some unfortunate online videos of Reginald being a vampire (which the human world assumes are hilarious fakes) into a real TV show, Maurice and Reginald hide from dangerous vampires by enmeshing themselves in the complex world of the small silver screen. Will the fame go to Maurice's head? And can the good guys stay alive long enough to see Reginald's TV show wrap and outwit their stalkers?Fangs and Fame is the fourth book of Johnny B. Truant's Fat Vampire Chronicles, a spinoff of his bestselling Fat Vampire series. If you've been enjoying the exploits of Maurice, you won't want to miss this latest installation from his centuries-long life. Download your copy today!

From the authors of the bestselling series, Yesterday's Gone, comes the roller coaster ride of a sci-fi serial thriller, WhiteSpace: Season Two.The quiet bedroom community of Hamilton Island just recovered from a school shooting that rocked the community. But, as it turns out, Roger Heller didn't act alone.He was part of something bigger ...A conspiracy of scientific experiments, missing people, and ancient secrets that threaten the island and its people.And behind it all, the enigmatic transhumanist icon, Blake Conway.Can Jon Conway piece the mystery together before it takes another of his loved ones?Can the Heller family move on from the actions of Roger Heller?Will Cassidy's drug addiction destroy the new family she is building with Jon and Emma?Can Milo trust the mysterious Don Bellows?And what will happen when Brock Houser begins to launch his own investigation into the strange goings-on?WhiteSpace is a character-driven, mysterious, creepy, paranoid sci-fi thriller that reads like the literary version of a televised serial with the mysteries of LOST and the future paranoia of Black Mirror. Read the whole series today.

The wait is over - the final season of Whitespace is here.It's an ordinary day on Hamilton Island ... until a group of random people commit horrific acts of coordinated violence.Except it wasn't random.Police Chief Kevin Brady finds himself closer to the truth about his daughter's disappearance and how it ties to the massacre. Jon and Cass attempt to recover from tragedy, only to find themselves haunted by inner demons that threaten to undo them both. Milo is closer to learning what really happened to Alex, as his father attempts to protect him from the truth - and his employer. And Sarah finds an unlikely ally who might be able to help her get back home.A covert surveillance and mind control program, missing children, transhumanism, clones, and murder are all part of a secret agenda which could determine the fate of humanity in this stunning series finale of the smash sci-fi thriller series.

In The Color of Pain, author E.G. Rose delivers a haunting horror novel that explores the dark side of human nature.Raymond is an orphan with a talent for art who suffers from chronic stomach pain. He has been ruthlessly bullied about his strangeness and "special" abilities that sometimes frighten the other children at The Haven for Little Wanderers Orphanage. When his new case worker, Ada, shows him affection and helps explain how he can see through people's emotions and secrets, Raymond is thrilled. However, as he delves deeper into his strange abilities, he discovers the horrifying truth about himself - he must feed on the pain of others to survive.Ada becomes increasingly controlling and possessive, pushing Raymond to feed off his only friend, leading him down a dark path that culminates in a tragic ending. With chilling prose and a gripping storyline, The Color of Pain is a must-read for horror fans who crave stories that delve deep into the human psyche.

Revenge is served.Twelve people bound by a secret arrive for an exclusive dinner only to find that the other guests are familiar in the most troubling of ways.Ella Boyer isn't looking forward to attending the Bayshore alumni dinner with her husband, Noah. There aren't enough pills in the world to numb her fears of seeing her classmates again ... especially after what she did all those years ago.Her sorority sister Heidi Blanchard, equally guilty, will be at the same exclusive restaurant that night. In the aftermath of their secret shame, Heidi's turned lying into a sport and has lost her compass for truth. She's there for a job ... or so she thinks.Bindi Bridges, former guidance counselor at Bayshore, has no idea about the alumni dinner or Heidi's job offer. She's at Crave to learn who her husband's been sleeping with, tipped by an unknown source.Mason Pace is there to meet a headhunter. His life is about to turn around - a relief, after the horror that happened eleven years ago.Seven others - each seeking their own redemption and hiding their own sordid sins - are just as ignorant of the sinister purpose behind this elegant event.Their host? A Hollywood star with glamour to spare and all the money in the world to spend on that most useful of hobbies: revenge and the extraction of secrets.The only guest not in attendance is the one who deserves to be there most: Casey Davis.What happened to Casey? And who's to blame?Pretty Killer is Agatha Christie for the modern age. It's Truant & King at their duplicitous best, weaving a tale with more layers than stratified ground in which a murderer digs a stone cold grave ... proving that revenge isn't always best when it's cold - and sizzles when it's piping hot.Warning: Pretty Killer is a tense psychological thriller that includes adult language and situations. While it is all within the context of the story, some readers may find this content offensive. Intended for mature audiences.

From Ninie Hammon, the sorceress of psychological suspense comes the next impossible to put down entry in her thrilling Through The Canvas series.Bailey Donahue's past just caught up with her ...After two long years in the Witness Protection Program, hiding from the man who murdered her husband, Bailey spots him in the background of a photo. From her own birthday. In the tiny town of Shadow Rock. There's no doubt about it; it's definitely him: Sergie Mikhailov.Will Bailey finally get to testify against him and put him away forever?Can she return to her old life and her daughter at last?Before Bailey even gets the chance to try, she paints another psychic portrait, this one showing the image of her younger sister, Maria, lost to a wall of flames. Another loved one, dead.Then Mikhailov kidnaps Maria. Bailey knows she has to save her. Along with T.J., Dobbs, and Brice, Bailey races against time to find Maria before the portrait -- and Bailey's worst nightmare -- comes true.Blue Tears is the fourth book in Ninie Hammon's new series, Through the Canvas: A riveting psychological thriller series about an ordinary woman ripped from her life, and drawn into the darkest of tales by mysterious forces she can't explain.

The wait is over.On October 15th, humanity went missing. A handful of scattered survivors woke to find the world empty of friends, family, and neighbors.Now they are home. But they're not alone.The Darkness has killed nearly everyone on the planet. But it is no longer the biggest threat to humanity.THERE IS SOMETHING ELSEOne final battle.One last shot to save the world.Can this band of survivors overcome an even greater threat before all is lost?In the stunning conclusion to the best-selling Yesterday's Gone series, Sean Platt and David W. Wright challenge everything you thought you knew.Join this final post-apocalyptic thrill-ride today!(Warning: This book is intended for mature audiences and contains disturbing and potentially offensive material.)

From Ninie Hammon, the sorceress of psychological suspense comes the next installment in her thrilling new Through The Canvas series you won't be able to put down.To save the missing children, Bailey Donahue must first untangle the web of secrets...A boy disappears from an elementary school playground in the sleepy town of Shadow Rock, West Virginia. As the local sheriff hunts for the missing child, two more children disappear and Bailey Donahue knows she must step in to help.She turns to her "gift", the ability to paint scenes of mysterious crimes and events that haven't happened ... yet.But the picture she paints is of the wrong child, a girl, who doesn't match the description of anyone in town.Bailey teams up again with T.J. and Dobbs to find the girl in the painting and discover the connection to the kidnapped children. But the tangled web of secrets surrounding the little girl leads to an incredible discovery that's darker and more deadly than any of them could have imagined.Will they be able to save the children in time? Or will they become victims themselves?Red Web is the second book of Ninie Hammon's new series, Through The Canvas: A riveting psychological thriller series about an ordinary woman ripped from her life and drawn into dark and thrilling tales by mysterious forces she can't explain.

From Ninie Hammon, the sorceress of psychological suspense comes the next installment in her thrilling new Through The Canvas series you won't be able to put down.Bailey Donahue has finally found a new normal...After leaving her life, her daughter, and everything she has ever known behind to assume a new identity in a bid to stay hidden and alive, she now has three friends and a loyal apricot-colored golden doodle, Sparky, to call her own. She hasn't suffered through a psychic vision or picked up a paintbrush in months.That is, until she wakes up on the floor one morning with paintbrushes in her hands and a new terrifying painting on the easel. A teenage girl with a ruined face, and hands wrapped around her neck. Bailey's "gift", the ability to paint things that haven't happened yet, has struck again.As Bailey's visions become strange and confused she struggles to hold on to her own sanity while, with the help of T.J., Dobbs and Brice, racing to find the mysterious girl and prevent her murder.But as the truth begins to reveal itself, they uncover a darker, bigger conspiracy than they could have imagined, racing right back at them.Can Bailey uncover the truth and save the girl without finding herself in the hands of the same dark enemy?Gold Promise is the third book in Ninie Hammon's new series, Through the Canvas: A riveting psychological thriller series about an ordinary woman ripped from her life, and drawn into dark and thrilling tales by mysterious forces she can't explain.

Life's a Fish and then you FryGrowing up as a kid in Louisiana, AJ Joiner's all-time favorite thing was his grandmoh's Fish Fry. Now that he's all grown up in Atlanta, GA, AJ is working a job he doesn't like and living in a neighborhood he doesn't love - at first.But when gentrification threatens to strip the community of its authentic charm, AJ hosts a Fish Fry to get to know his neighbors, and he begins to fall in love with each one, despite their eccentricities.But this tight-knit community doesn't have the money to fend off rich developers and determined city planners, helped by one of their own: Eddison Fisher.So AJ decides to throw a second Fish Fry to raise some cash. Despite increasingly-serious issues with his health and his marriage, the event is a huge success.But it's still not enough.Can AJ and his new friends throw a Fish Fry big enough to save their neighborhood?Or will Eddison and his outsider allies destroy everything they love about their home?

Time is running out.Eleven alien vials hold the fate of humanity, but who can be trusted with them?In their race to save the world, the Black Island Guardsmen must put Paola in a danger unlike anything she's ever faced.How far will the Guardsmen go to get the vials? Can Mary protect her daughter from an insidious alien who's caused too much destruction?The Darkness has already consumed two of their own.Will Luca be mankind's savior or its final judge? Can Boricio overcome his past, or will he succumb to his single weakness - an infected Rose?Will the world fall prey to The Darkness, or is there still time for The Light to triumph?Find out in Season Five of Yesterday's Gone, the penultimate game-changing season of Sean Platt and David W. Wright's best-selling post-apocalyptic thriller series.(Warning: This book is intended for mature audiences and contains disturbing and potentially offensive material.)

How do you live a normal life when you've been through hell?More than a year has passed since The Event, and the survivors who returned home are trying to stitch their lives back together.They think they are safe. But that is a lie.The Darkness has followed them, and this time It's amassing an army of allies. While key officials at Black Island fight to keep the secret, the survivors' lives converge again. Confused by terrifying visions and unpredictable rampages, they seek help wherever they can find it.A set of alien vials holds the key to their survival, and to the world's fate. Can the survivors find the vials before getting swallowed by The Darkness?Find out now in Yesterday's Gone Season Four!(Warning: This book is intended for mature audiences and contains disturbing and potentially offensive material.)

The #1 bestselling horror sci-fi series with over 1,000 5-star reviews starts here with Yesterday's Gone: Season One.They thought they were alone. They were wrong.On October 15th, humanity went missing.A handful of scattered survivors wake to find the world empty of friends, family, and neighbors.Among them, a child searches for his family. A special agent turned enemy of the state survives a fiery plane crash with no way to reach his daughter. A serial killer discovers he's no longer at the top of the food chain.Now these strangers must find the strength inside them to weather the new world.But they are not alone.In the absence of civilization, a new threat emerges. In the stillness, it waits and watches, preying on their weakness. Their only hope is to find more survivors, rise above their fear, and face the oncoming darkness.But can they unite before they too are lost? And can they all be trusted?Season One of Yesterday's Gone by Sean Platt and David W. Wright is a tense post-apocalyptic thriller that will leave you guessing to the end. Combining TV's thrilling, episodic nature with the in-depth character only found in novels, Yesterday's Gone is a new wave in fiction. If you like The Stand and LOST, you'll love this series that combines tension, intrigue, and fear of the unknown. Get Yesterday's Gone now and see who lives and who dies!(Warning: This book is intended for mature audiences and contains disturbing and potentially offensive material.)

They survived the end of the world. Can they survive what's next?Five months ago, most of humanity disappeared. Now the survivors must unravel an ugly mystery on a seemingly empty planet.In a world where nothing is exactly as it seems, small groups of survivors band together in search of the truth. As each faces an impossible choice, their paths converge and lead them closer to the truth. But at what cost?A mysterious island, a religious compound, a serial killer, and a new miracle are at the heart of their continued existence.The fate of the world hangs on their every decision, action, and betrayal ...Season Two of Yesterday's Gone by Sean Platt and David W. Wright picks up where Season One left off. This page-turning post-apocalyptic thriller delves deeper into the dark new world and the dangers that lurk in its shadows to keep you on the edge of your seat.What would Boricio do? Find out in the next season of Yesterday's Gone!(Warning: This book is intended for mature audiences and contains disturbing and potentially offensive material.)

Who's afraid of The Darkness...The fight is on and the surviving humans don't know if they're on the winning side.As they battle The Darkness and fight to find their way home, the future has never felt more uncertain. Will they survive, or will The Darkness finally end them?The past is revealed, and as the remaining survivors discover the truth behind the mysterious disappearances, they uncover a danger far greater than anything they ever imagined.In Season Three of Yesterday's Gone by Sean Platt and David W. Wright, all will finally be revealed.As this gripping post-apocalyptic series intensifies, your questions will be answered and new ones will arise. Elements of The Stand and LOST, with a dash of alien invasion, make this series one for the ages.Join Team Boricio by Grabbing your copy of Yesterday's Gone today!(Warning: This book is intended for mature audiences and contains disturbing and potentially offensive material.)

Family loyalties, deadly feuds, and international drug wars are brought to life in Ninie Hammon's new intergenerational tale set in present-day Kentucky, four decades after the rise and fall of the Cornbread Mafia.When Ruth Hannacker finds a "just-in-case-anything-happens-to-me" letter among her mother's things after she was killed in a tornado, it opens a new chapter in the family's decades-long, fraught, and often tragic story with Righteous Weed. The letter from Jessica Monaghan Hannacker tells of the Tree House, a propane tank buried in the ground where Willie Ray Taggart stashed his marijuana money back in the heyday of the Cornbread Mafia. When Ruth finds the Tree House, she discovers $75,000 in cash and quart jars of Righteous Weed seed, the finest strain of marijuana ever developed. Over the protests of 72-year-old Riley Hannacker, the only remaining living member of the original Cornbread Mafia, the family decides to grow an indoor crop, illegal in Kentucky, so they can patent the strain and get a license to grow in one of the 11 newly legal states. They plan to market it as a premium boutique cannabis, appealing to the nostalgia of the smokers' first-time high. But as so often happens with the best-laid plans, things quickly go awry. Jealousy, resentment, anger, greed, and deeply buried feelings from long gone wrongs resurface and wreak havoc with what is left of the family.So Shall The Tree Grow is the fourth and final book in Ninie Hammon's new Cornbread Mafia series, a fictional story inspired by the real Cornbread Mafia that sprang up in picturesque Marion County, Kentucky, and grew into the largest illegal marijuana-growing operation in U.S. history.

He sacrificed his family for ambition - but now they're all he has left.Cameron Parrish became Hollywood's #1 action director by refusing to use AI-assist technology. Every film is a box office success, but neither fame nor fortune makes up for the fact that Cameron's dying to make real cinema - an Oscar-worthy movie that will show the world he's an auteur, not the clever hack that the critics make him out to be.But mere hours after being greenlit for the film he knows he was born to shoot, director Cameron Parrish is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. There's no treatment, and if he's lucky, he might make it another year, but more likely, he's got a few months left.As word gets out about his illness, Cameron realizes he has no true friends. No real family either: his obsession with finding perfection behind the camera lens has long since alienated his ex-wife and his adult son.Desperate to make his final days matter, he signs up for an experimental program that promises to help him discover the meaning of his life - and his death. Accompanied by an artificial intelligence named Sofia, Cameron embarks on a bucket list journey - from the Maldives and Bhutan to Toledo and Morocco - designed to round out his unbalanced life and help him make peace with his impending death. But what if it's too late for Cameron to see the world through a new lens?Eat, Pray, Love meets The Bucket List in this vibrant but poignant story exploring the possibility of second chances and the unexpected beauty of an imperfect life.

The journey concludes here with the seventh and final book in the blockbuster Alien Invasion series; the breakout sci-fi series with over 1000 5-star reviews.ETERNITY HAS A NEW BEGINNING...With the human race decimated, only a handful of survivors still wander the planet. They've forgotten the Astrals and they've forgotten their pasts, ready for a fresh start ...... or at least, that's how it was supposed to happen.In a small desert village without memory, the Lightborn labor unseen - while in the Mullah stronghold beyond, Clara fights an old battle to free the minds of mankind. She's come up against a wall. She's fallen into a trap. Then, finally, the walls begin to crumble.The Astrals linger unseen, unable to leave the planet. But now they face a challenge they've never known before: a new human mindscape that persists despite their best efforts to erase it, a will that refuses to die.The Archetypes rise, but their chore is an impossible one. They must infiltrate the collective on their own terms and perhaps save what little humanity still holds in its grasp ... or force the planet's deadlocked overlords to destroy the human race for good.This relentless, page-turning tale of colonization and alien empire is the SEVENTH AND FINAL book in the completed Alien Invasion series.

Continue the journey with Book 6 of the blockbuster Alien Invasion series; the breakout sci-fi series with over 1000 5-star reviews.THE ENDING HAS BEGUN...The arrival of a metropolis-sized Astral vessel (the "Eternity ship") sounds the opening bell for the beginning of humanity's end. Judgment is over, and now the Horsemen have come to restart the planet's clock.As the final countdown begins, Meyer and his crew find themselves with only two options: stay in the city and die, or run into the coming apocalypse and take their chances.But Clara is still missing, and she's found new and powerful friends.A Stranger has arisen with odd magical powers, keeping secrets that even the overlords don't know.Viceroys in the remaining capitals are tasked with eight disturbing challenges to decide who among humanity lives or dies.Seven new leaders arise, each with their own unseen talents for the end of days.And as the deathbringers lay waste to the planet and herald the start of a new epoch, a new force brews out of nothing ... one that even the Astrals never saw coming.This relentless, page-turning tale of colonization and alien empire is the sixth in the completed Alien Invasion series.