Four unlikely friends are permanently linked together when they install a beta “ultimate collaboration” tool on their computers—that allows them to teleport to and from each other’s homes at ease. Of course, they get more than they bargained for when they discover they can’t turn their connections off . . . . . . .
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The enigmatic Peacock King, ruler of half of the known world, seeks to possess the land itself by enslaving the spirits of the wild. Gerald, a newly initiated Poet whose magic is as real as he can write it, is also one of the Armed—enforcers of the Law who wield guns with souls. His mission: infiltrate the Peacock King’s Court . . .
Marty hated his life, especially since breaking up with the girl he loved with his whole heart, Selena. That was before the Zombie Apocalypse hit. Now life sucks even more because not only does he have a broken heart, but the undead have nearly overrun the city. Selena died, lost to the zombies. His only means of communication with . . .
Life after death for the lost. The dead arrive in Gehenna as human beings, but if you stick around too long, as in don’t repent and get redeemed or simply die the second and final death, then you slowly turn into a demon—a vampire—and then you really do belong in hell. Michael Thane was just shy of scoring a millennia . . .
Roman Fairchild is your average reclusive bin-cron—until the government’s stonewall-busting war game comes crashing own on his doorstep, bringing forth an impending armageddon. . . .
Bellica Yarrow is faced with a tough choice: obey the laws of the nation laid down by her sister, the Empreena, keeping safe those she loves, or fight against the corruption that holds the Sceptre and risk losing it all. Yarrow has never been one to shrink from a good fight, but the looming battle threatens all she holds dear . . . and . . .
A fiction serial in epistolary form about the imaginary kingdom of Bentlefay, with particular reference to its royal family and their retainers. At the center of it all is Crown Princess Dulcie—young, beautiful, sought-after, and hating every minute of it. Will Bentlefay repel the attacks of neighboring Marshweather? Will the princess ever get porridge for breakfast when she wants it? . . .
Jason races into Azazel’s life—sweaty, tortured, and hunted by covert forces. Even though her football-player boyfriend doesn’t like it, Azazel is drawn to Jason. He’s so complicated. He gets in fistfights, but always wins them—efficiently and thoroughly. He reads Plato and argues with their AP teacher. But he’s also quiet and serious, haunted by a past he won’t talk . . .
Necromancer Robling Tremare has a golem — a construct spun from a suit of plate armor, enchanted to serve as Robling’s bodyguard while he wanders the world in search of whoever or whatever has slain all his kin. After two years of fruitless inquiries Robling’s finally stumbled upon a lead; now, with the help of a mercenary archer who has . . .
As Lee Harlem Robinson struggles to come to grips with the insanely fast-paced city of Hong Kong, where she was sent by her employers, she starts to wonder where it all went wrong. The reader is taken on a journey back in time from Lee’s early years in romance in London and Paris to her current life in the city . . .
Beyond The Photograph is a novel where the main character Jessica Wiler accepts a new job as a photographer for weddings. During her very first wedding shoot she discovers a murder in the background of the photograph and immediately takes it to authorities. After doing so her world is turned upside down. As she is trying to build a relationship . . .
It’s about Zombies. Groaning, moaning, maddened flesh eating abominations driven by their insensate desire to feed. Zombies, a metaphor for a struggle we face every day. A metaphor for our hopeless battle against the savage throng of the human tide . . . an ocean of grasping hands, tearing, ripping, desecrating what you have, who you are. We struggle to keep our heads . . .
Panflick is an online novel in the manner of Tom Jones. It deals with the limits of marriage, limits of family, limits of religion and limits of life. Its hero is Adam Panflick (1936 -). Irony, iconoclasm, a Terry Southern edge and a Kubrick sensibility suggest its general drift. . . .
“The Philosopher in Arms” is a fantasy novel written from the point of view of a great warrior-leader looking back on his life. Fourth Chevenga Shae-Arano-e’s people, the Yeola, live in a pre-industrial society where the Assembly makes the rules and the decisions, but the semanakraseye acts in times of war. Chevenga is the son of a semanakraseye, and has [more . . .]
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Breathless follows the misadventures of a teenage couple as they blunder their way through a religious-flavored conspiracy dedicated to the task of either getting them to bump uglies or kill each other. I didn’t stick around long enough to find out which.