From the brilliant and wild mind of Eric Lahti comes a collection of stories ranging from the edge of tomorrow to the edge of reality. Filled with AIs and angels, heroes and villains, this is a must-read for anyone who enjoys the excitement of science fiction, the heady heartbeat of horror, or the wonder of near-term futurism. In here, you'll find:An angel that saves people in a most unexpected wayA club that isn't really thereThe last two people on Earth

Ace Colton is a Lead Slinger, one of the last of a group of gun-toting modern-day Samurai who have dedicated their lives to shooting. On a routine job to find a bank robber, he finds the still-living severed head of a powerful wizard stuck on the end of a mop. It's just the latest in a crime spree that has the city reeling in disbelief as people who went missing suddenly turn up with larceny on their minds. As soon as the crime is done, the criminals fall over dead.Worse: It's begin...

A piece of hell is hiding in a tiny Arizona town...During a not-so-routine investigation into a haunting, a pair of ghost hunters receive a strange text message beckoning them to Dragoon, Arizona. The message promises them a ghost unlike any they've ever met and riches galore for investigating the entity. They find the ghost, but more sinister forces are lurking in the town and soon the ghost-hunters - and the ghost they were sent to hunt - find themselves caught between a renegade...

A piece of hell is hiding in a tiny Arizona town...During a not-so-routine investigation into a haunting, a pair of ghost hunters receive a strange text message beckoning them to Dragoon, Arizona. The message promises them a ghost unlike any they've ever met and riches galore for investigating the entity. They find the ghost, but more sinister forces are lurking in the town and soon the ghost-hunters - and the ghost they were sent to hunt - find themselves caught between a renegade...

A unique blend of horror and adventure, the Saxton series follows the adventures of Wilford Saxton and his talking gun. He started out as a simple DHS agent, but found himself caught up in the events of the Henchmen series. After confronting gods, Nazis, and Valkyries, Saxton finds himself mutated beyond belief. Struggling to understand a world that's not as simple as he expected, Saxton soon finds himself hunting monsters and wondering what he's gotten himself into.As if the monste...

Eight tales of magic, mystery, horror and just plain mayhem. From the dusty shelves of a forgotten gas station to a graffiti tagged alleyway on another planet come a series of quests, epic battles, and good old fashioned mysteries interlaced with the paranormal.The Clock Man and Other Stories shows the world as seen through the eyes of the bogeyman, a talking gun that knows far too much, and a man eating a fried tarantula. Read it with a friend or read it alone, but be sure to leav...

Join a small organization of lovable bad guys: a super villain and her henchmen. Eve, the seven-foot-tall, bulletproof blonde is their leader. Frank and Jean are a couple that can get into any computer or building unseen. Jacob is a rough-around-the-edges biker type that has a deep and abiding love of guns and explosives. And Steven? Well, he’s really good at manipulating people and pretty handy to have around in a fight. As supervillainy goes, they’re just starting out. They don’t have mu...

Aluna has seen its share of horrors. Started by Chinese sorcerers over two thousand years ago, the planet has seen wars with dragons, dangerous mystics, and religious cults arise. But now, a new threat has arrived: a new drug that promises users heaven has hit the streets and a boy with strange Earth magic has shown up.Felix Crow knows there's a mysterious player pushing the drug and hunting the boy, but he doesn't know who The Beast is or where to find him. Now, with the help of an...

Steven was having a pretty good time for a guy who helped release a captured god. He had a nice place in Colorado, a pretty girl sent him a picture of herself in a bikini, and he had neighbors that left him alone. Everything was looking pretty good until he woke up to find two people in his house that were planning on killing him; one was an old coworker and the other was an old boss.It seems that releasing the God of Dreams caused some ripples in places best left alone and Eve's a...

All he wants is a dinner date with his girlfriend, but there are jerks everywhere.As if Steven doesn't already have enough problems dealing with the Dreaming Lands actively rebelling against his rule, the freshly minted God of Dreams has to learn how to be a god, deal with overzealous followers, and generally get his head in the game. To make things worse, a powerful enemy has set its sights on Steven and Jessica, and the entire world could be at stake.New god. New powers. Ne...

On a long-abandoned alien space station orbiting a mysterious black object, the rules are different. Whether it's the immersive virtual reality that's indistinguishable from reality, the wild bazaar where anything and everything is for sale, the drunken debauchery, or the group of giants who run everything and keep the peace, Endpoint is the place where people go to do what they'd never do anywhere else.For instance, two nights ago, a hacker deleted her brain. This morning a thief ...

Ace Colton is a Lead Slinger, one of the last of a group of gun-toting modern-day Samurai who have dedicated their lives to shooting. On a routine job to find a bank robber, he finds the still-living severed head of a powerful wizard stuck on the end of a mop. It's just the latest in a crime spree that has the city reeling in disbelief as people who went missing suddenly turn up with larceny on their minds. As soon as the crime is done, the criminals fall over dead.Worse: It's begin...