You can't hide from the past.No matter how hard you try.Holden’s been avoiding investigations, and all his friends, since the last investigation. But when there’s an opening at a site she’s wanted to study for years, Leanne convinces Holden to stop come along.Hetherington Manor doesn’t make its money as a ghost attraction, but it does boast reliable activity. Holden starts putting together the puzzle of the manor’s past, but it seem...

Some people will do anything to keep their secrets.Holden isn’t quite over discovering a real ghost on the last investigation, but this time, he’s just coming along for the ride, so everything should be fine. Of course, “should be” and “is” are very rarely the same thing. While the team uncover evidence the haunting at the Fairhaven Hotel is a fake, Holden isn’t so sure. Not when he sees the story play out exactly as it’s supposed to have happened....

What would you do to save the world?The Institute for Preservation of the Earth is dedicated to saving the world. It is the promise that lures scientists, activists, and idealistic people to help them achieve that goal. This goal is the truth, at least, as their founder sees it. When two of the institute’s members discover what that means, they make a different choice.However, the Institute’s actions have far reaching consequences, and the world is...

Newly revised and redesigned, this is the human history of the company that powered the development of the electric system in British Columbia—and in turn played an integral role in shaping the province.“A utility is a thing with a heartbeat—a steady beat of progress brought about not by water and wire, turbines and transformers, but by all the people who put our resources and equipment to the benefit of all.”—Sam Weston of the BC Power CommissionFrom its e...

Being a psychic doesn’t mean you have to believe in Ghosts.Unfortunately for Holden, his best friend refuses to accept that.Holden can read the history of an object just by touching it. It’s been a struggle most of his life and every time he’s tried to use it for a beneficial purpose it’s gone horribly wrong.But when his best friend convinces Holden to step in for a paranormal investigation, it turns out hauntings are as real as psychics. S...

The future is determined by small moments in time.Visions of the future and regrets for the past. Finding your way and leaving the lost. Childhood quests and old age retirement. Spanning a range of lengths and genres, this collection of new and previously published stories takes on moments of choice and change, and the difference outlook has on the outcome.

When you’re sent to the Dogfights, you die.Bairn is determined to survive.When his parents lose an Exhibition match, young Bairn is traded from the flash and show of the spectacle matches to grit and realism of the Dogfights. There are only three ways to win: knock your opponent out, break their limbs, or kill them.Bairn needs to survive his training, earn out the money on his family debt, and find some way to get ...

To preserve the memory of their service during the tumultuous decade since their commissioning as Army officers, members of the West Point class of 2004 have written The Strong Gray Line. This class suffered the highest casualty rate since those that graduated during the Vietnam War. In this book, thirteen of their classmates who lost their lives fighting the Global War on Terror are profiled to help the reader gain an understanding of the bond forged between classmates during time at West...

Find what you seek, for better or worse.This collection of fantasy (or fantasy-adjacent) stories are connected through those seeking something. Whether they are looking for a cure to their condition, a way home, a quiet life, or a murderer, these are stories of journeys taken and refused, successful and questionable.Includes the stories:- Wild Minds- Our Stars- Bernard Slauson- NPC- Of the Manxsome Ways

What happens when the dream has ended?When she was a child, Xue and her three best friends went to a world of fantasy and defeated the evil there. Or so they thought.They returned to their own world, only to wake up in the hospital after a terrible accident. From that first waking moment, Xue struggled with what was real.Was it the memories of saving that other world, as her friends said?Or was that all a coma-dream as her parents, ...

Beyond the world we know, mysteries hide.We exist in worlds that are fantastic places, full of the strange and the wonderous. This collection contains seven stories of the strange and unusual. From a family duty that was never explained, to the danger of unchecked ambition, and on to a quiet moment that nevertheless changes a life. Each story explores a moment that can only be experienced when you no longer view the world through the veil of the expected.In...

We arrive yet again at the end of it all: the dreaded holiday season, where everything is too bright, nothing is where it should be, and you will be constantly hounded by the persistent dread of having forgotten something very important. And traffic will be totally and utterly f*cked all the way to the mall. We are doomed.But there may still be some spark in these fading minutes before the heat death of the universe, before the last tear is shed, and before the last present is unwr...