Alit is a girl like any other.By night, she wards off clumsy advances from boring scribes and functionaries, and dreams of other lives she could have led.By day, she carries letters across dangerous Numush to add coins to her dowry, and awaits with some trepidation the day when her brother is finally old enough to sign her over to another man.Her world shatters when her tablet house is attacked, for the second time, by men with knives. They want to know more about h...

War has returned to conquered Ekka. At its heart, a sorcerer promises victory and, at last, freedom from oppression. All he asks in return is a throne.Hidden in the salt marsh, a banned cult hatches its own plots. Gemeti, daughter of a dying priestess, has few allies. If she is to a win a throne of her own, she will need support from all the wrong people.Rimush has good reason to distrust Ekka's would-be liberator. His own hands are not so clean. If he is to blunt war's bla...

Kamvar, a soldier, has lost his way. Leonine, a thief and sorcerer, has forgotten that he had one to lose.When the daughter of a High Priest finds herself exiled and hunted across the entirety of conquered Ekka, both men will remember who they are, and the country's invaders will learn that memories, unlike temples, are not so easily torn down.Pale Queen's Courtyard is the first novel by Canadian author Marcin Wrona, and a finalist in SciFiNow's 2009 War of the Words.

BramblemanCharlie Sherman, a down-and-out Atlanta writer, is chosen by a mysterious stranger to complete a dead professor's unfinished work. What Charlie finds is an unwieldy manuscript about the mob-driven expulsion of more than 1,000 blacks from Forsyth County, Georgia in 1912. During the course of his work, Charlie uncovers a terrible secret involving a Forsyth County land grab. Due to its proximity to Atlanta, the stolen farm is now worth $20 million—and a sale is pending....

Ella Fine has never seen the moon. She has never seen the stars, or the silhouettes of trees at dusk. She, like every other member of Humankind, has been locked inside her home, behind metal shutters and thick walls, to be safe from the NightKind, unimaginable beasts who screech and howl through the streets of Los Angeles as soon as the sun has fallen out of the sky.But that doesn't stop her from dreaming of what it would be like to walk under the stars, to feel the cool blue of ni...

Forget what you think you know about mythology. There was a time when gods from all pantheons walked the earth, and their children—demigods of extraordinary power—lived among mortals, shaping the fate of the world. Now, the gods of Olympus and Asgard face an ultimate threat, one that could destroy their realms forever. A prophecy has spoken: two demigods will either save the gods' kingdoms or bring about their complete ruin. The clock is ticking, and the chosen children must rise.K...

An out and back is a run that starts and ends at the same point. Along the way we are changed. In the end we are back where we started.Amber runs every morning, bakes home cooked meals, and keeps a spotless house. She homeschools her children, grows an organic garden and milks her own goats. But Amber Stonewall is not perfect. She is a mother who fails, a wife who is unable to show affection, a daughter who is absent and a sister who knows it all. When her mom dies, it all slaps he...

Working fast food is hell, literally, for Justin. He finds himself stuck at work, reliving the same hour over and over again and there is no escape.

A call for heroes. A forest in peril. A patroller forced to face his past.Jerrick Bur was once a proud member of the King’s Patrollers, but those days are behind him--until a desperate plea from an old friend draws him back into a world of danger. The Simmaron Forest is in turmoil. The Hall of the Wood, a sanctuary for the King’s elite scouts, has fallen silent, and dark forces are stirring within the woods.Haunted by a past he cannot escape, Jerrick must u...

After a murder at Bonaire Elementary, Richard and Anna Lee Gray seek a good school for their son Nick in a safe neighborhood. Their search leads them to Malliford, a "school of excellence." When redistricting sends scores of minority students to Malliford, iron-willed Principal Estelle Rutherford declares war on kids to raise test scores and save her reputation. Dissident parents revolt, electing Richard to head the Parent-Teacher Organization, and tensions explode. Welcome to Chain Gang E...

Once, long ago, the ruler of a mountainous Asian nation sought counsel from a Tibetan holy man on how he could help lead his people through change. The holy man gave the leader a magic flute that would drastically change his life. This is the story of that flute which led the leader on a journey of self-realization. The flute would eventually lead him to a young farm girl who had the most divine singing voice in the world. When she sang, people wept at the beauty of it and people were also...

THE HOWLING IIIByGary Brandner* * *"If you haven't read Gary Brandner, you're missing a treat."~ Stephen KingThey are man. And they are beast.Once again they stalk the night, eyes aflame, teeth flashing in vengeance.Malcolm is the young one. He must choose between the familiar way of the human and the seductive howling of the wolf. Those who share his blood want to make him one of them.Those who fear him want him dead....