Astrid Fells, meticulous and passionate about restoring forgotten beauty, believed her perfectly orchestrated dinner party marked a fresh start. Twelve guests gathered in the resurrected kitchen of her century-old Portland craftsman: old friends, new acquaintances, and one enigmatic stranger. As the grandfather clock chimed 9:13, Astrid’s vision of a perfect evening shattered.The world shimmered, resetting. Appetizers vanished, music restarted, conversations rewound. At first, Astr...

From a true-life “Survivor Island” tale to the women who flew fighters and bombers for the Allies in World War II, Ed Butts invites you to meet twelve women who dared to live their lives on a tightrope. She Dared takes the reader to the Far North, where a single Native woman put an end to a ruinous war. There’s Molly Brant, who stepped out of the shadow of her famous brother Joseph to make her own mark, and Dr. “James Barry,” a prominent army physician whose true identity remained...

Kathe Koja's classic, award-winning horror novel is finally available as an ebook.Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall - "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." It begins with curiosity, a joke - the Funhole down the hall. But then the experiments begin. "Wouldn't it be wild to go down there?" says Nakota...

A cop races against time to prevent his own death in this heart-pounding thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz.Harry Lyon is a rational man, a cop who refuses to let his job harden his soul. His partner urges him to surrender to the chaos of life. But Harry believes in order and reason. Then one fateful day, he's forced to shoot a man—and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes utteres the haunting words that challenge Harry Lyon’s...

"They say the Jackal Man lives in that house..."Months after a family is forced to flee the beachfront property on 100 Winthrop Road, three young travelers lost outside of Cutler, Maine find themselves taking shelter in it. Strapped for cash, the three of them spend a night in the house, wondering why the lovely old building has been left abandoned.They don't have to wonder for long.Strange things take place in the empty house. Noises come from behi...

Come meet The Liar, The Secret Keeper, The Crybaby, and the rest.Nine children travel with their families to their Grandfather’s vacation property, where strange things begin to happen: eyes blink from the bottom up, mushrooms ooze blood, people's faces don’t hang right anymore—except they do, once you look more closely. Transformations warp the children’s sense of time and place, the very land itself seeming to encroach upon them.As The Liar watches the ch...

After barely surviving an IED while serving his country, Reese was whisked away by a shadowy government agency and somehow... enhanced. Now he's an agent—smarter, faster, stronger, deadlier—and executes his missions with cold precision. But when he's inexplicably drawn to a down-on-her-luck waitress, Reese learns he's not the emotionless killer he thought Division had made him.One minute Holly Candless is getting fifty-buck tips from a strange but seemingly harmless customer. The n...

As a genetically enhanced agent on the run, Cal has given himself one mission: to find and protect the woman who calls herself Trinity. Yet he's not the only one looking--the shadowy government agency Division is also hot on her trail.Despite enhanced analytic and self-healing abilities, Trinity has no memory of her life before infection. Desperate to uncover her identity before deconstruction hits, she has little choice but to trust another agent--even one who has every reason to ...

Ava Monroe's escape to the Blue Ridge Mountains is a mystery she holds close to her heart. Stranded by a snowstorm in the quaint town of Jubilee, Georgia, she meets the steadfast Deputy Jack Sullivan, who becomes an unexpected beacon in the haze of her tumultuous escape.With her loyal boxer dog lost in the storm, Ava's search leads her to more than just her missing companion—it reveals the warmth of a town that welcomes strangers like family and a deputy whose kindness turns into a...

A violent home invasion shatters Eileen’s tranquil country life, forcing her to confront her deepest fears.This short story takes place in the world of the Elements of the Undead, but is not part of the series.

Ren thought his reward for being the first to clear the sequel to The Legend of the Seven Heroes would be personal satisfaction. So when he’s rewarded with “special content,” he quickly accepts...only to wake up as a baby in the game’s world. At first hoping he’s been reborn as the hero, Ren instead discovers his new life is that of the story’s shadowy antagonist, the figure suspected to be the mastermind behind the entire trilogy. Good thing Ren is fully intent on living a peaceful life i...

A special collection of three Steve Vernon releases:Long Horn, Big ShaggyRoadside GhostsTwo Fisted NastyCollected now in a single set at a discounted price, see why Ed Lee said, "This genre needs new blood and Steve Vernon is quite a transfusion."