Special deputy Jameson Arkeley stopped a vampire rampage 20 years earlier, during which he whittled down all known bloodsuckers to a single survivor, Justinia Malvern. Kept alive at a sanitarium in rural Pennsylvania by minimal life support and bizarre laws preventing her extermination, wispy Justinia seems a threat to no one—until a series of vampire killings in the area suggest . . .
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The Urban 30 captures the lives of several heroes, on and off the clock of being super. Each main character is written by a different writer. . . .
Welcome to Super Powereds, the story of five young people with abilities they cannot control, called “Powereds” by society. They are resigned to life with their personal hurdles, until one day each is approached by a company claiming it will give them what they never dared hope for: control of their abilities. This would make put them in a rare . . .
When Snake-Boy, the defective clone of a supervillain, falls in love with Sky Prince, the son of the world’s greatest superhero, he has no idea what the consequences will be—for himself, for his beloved, or for the world! . . .
Deucalion Chronicles is a meta-series containing many stories all set within the same universe. So what’s that universe look like? To put it in TvTropes terms, it would be Fantasy Kitchen Sink Space Opera, full of Magitek. Or, to put it another way, it’s what happens when high fantasy gets out of the dark ages, shoots past urban fantasy, and . . .
No longer able to withstand his abuse any longer, Callie Longstreet, in a fit of anger, takes a frying pan to the back of her father’s head and knocks him out cold. Now, she and her older brother Michael must ride the dark roads, pursued by nightmares, their psychotic father, and an unseen enemy who watches their every move. . . .
The story of Cirno Excalibur, who found a pole in his back yard, got struck by weird lightning, and went with his new talking pole to go fight the demons. . . .
Max and Mick are two brothers who’ve just moved away from home. In the city for the first time, they try to make it big while dealing with rent, local criminals, work, the authorities, their own propensity for getting into trouble, and each other. Also, they’re mages. . . .
The story centers on six strangers in the bible-belt trying to survive a virus outbreak. A virus that starts out with flu-like symptoms that, if you’re lucky, kills you, and if you’re not, reduces you to man’s most basest nature. Zero reasoning skills and zero humanity, the only thing that remains is the will to exist—and the desire to destroy . . .
The world as they know it has ended. Anything running on gasoline has either blown up or will—very soon. Peter and his ragtag group are traveling toward Boulder City while Graham and his band of Ancients head to White Sands. Insert the Pennyman, a quasi-mythical character, and mix well. A war is coming . . . . . .
Oktober is a labyrinthine, psychological road novel that blurs the line betweens reality and fantasy. Each chapter is divided into four sections, each of the sections is a journal entry written by one of the main characters. Thus, each chapter is told four times over, from each character’s point of view. The characters openly invite the readers into their minds, . . .
Told in the style of classic pulp fiction and film noir, each week you can catch up on the latest in the adventures of none other than Samuel Swift, a private eye with a penchant for cases that are dark, dreary, and fraught with more than a touch of the supernatural. . . .
Set in a fairly near future in which fossil fuels are unavailable but electrical power is plentiful–in Seattle anyway–the initial chapters create a dystopia that is actually not such a bad place to live. Pedal power rules the crumbling streets and freeways, while people live where they will and, increasingly, however they wish. The Northwest is lucky: it still . . .
Read the synopsis for this completed novel and if it reads like your kind of thing than it will be.
Darkside is a tightly woven rip-roaring adventure which delivers right from the first chapter.
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I am enjoying this book so far. I am enjoying the writing, the plot, and the characters (mostly).
As far as I am in the story (chapter four) the chapters are moving me forward,and I am getting into the plot.
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