In this sultry collection of short stories, five emerging authors reveal what it means to be marked.When a mobster's ex-girlfriend is marked for murder by a dangerous gang of criminals, she will do whatever it takes to escape, even if it means taking on a whole new identity.A hot, sensual night at a Las Vegas club quickly turns dark and foreboding. When the young woman's lover takes the fall, she is forever indebted to him, marked by a tattoo that reminds her of their share...

The PrincessA Collection of Royal TalesA Chipper Press AnthologyIn The Princess, young royals discover that being a princess is about so much more than wearing a tiara and attending etiquette lessons. Follow fourteen future rulers as they try to come to terms with who they are inside and who others want them to be.A tiny dragon teaches a princess to embrace her inner mage, while a tutor helps another to embrace her inner dragon. One young royal learns an imp...

Spirit Walker features nine tales of healers, both novice and experienced, and the spiritual journeys on which they embark. Young spirit walkers must rely on the advice they glean from their earthly and spiritual mentors as they are faced with new challenges, including healing the village elders, finding their true selves, and even solving a murder. While some healers seek to return to their roots, others create new traditions for the benefit of the tribe.The path may not always be...

A Collection of HorrorsA Zimbell House AnthologyChasing the promise of freedom, wealth, or fame, many will play the game, but none will win. In The Dead Game, the lines between the real and the imaginary, the dead and the living blur together, as competitors, motivated by greed, curiosity, or survival, compete for their prizes. When players' arrogance, vanity, or disregard for the rules begins to emerge, a roll of the dice, a click of the mouse, or even a childish prank or ...

In this sultry collection of short stories*,* five emerging authors reveal what it means to be marked.When a mobster's ex-girlfriend is marked for murder by a dangerous gang of criminals, she will do whatever it takes to escape, even if it means taking on a whole new identity.A hot, sensual night at a Las Vegas club quickly turns dark and foreboding. When the young woman's lover takes the fall, she is forever indebted to him, marked by a tattoo that reminds her of their sha...

Spirit Walker features nine tales of healers, both novice and experienced, and the spiritual journeys on which they embark. Young spirit walkers must rely on the advice they glean from their earthly and spiritual mentors as they are faced with new challenges, including healing the village elders, finding their true selves, and even solving a murder. While some healers seek to return to their roots, others create new traditions for the benefit of the tribe.The path may not ...

Faya - My eyes close and I brace for the pain. Except it doesn’t come. It always comes. Wait for it my mind tells me, making me brace some more. I hate waiting for it, when that happens it’s always so much worse.Crane - The job was to prevent her from testifying. I’ve already been paid because my ass isn’t moving before the cash is in place.That’s right, I have a spotless reputation. A hitman who gets the job done. Any job, any tim...

2015 Best Science Fiction and alien anthology, Publisher's Weekly Science Fiction Best SellerThe future is here…the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too.A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field.From Alien Invasion to Alternate History, from Cyberpunk to Comic ...

Anouk - He’s a killer who took me with him. Although he was sweet, tender, and yet so very dominating a moment ago; that’s all insignificant now.Ronin - I answer to no one. As the Prez of Lost Valkyries MC, people answer to me, not the other way around. Even if they place an order for a hit, I’m in charge and can flip the order back in their face along with their last breath before they leave this Earth. I’m ruthless, to everyone. No exceptions. Ye...

The first three volumes of The Best Horror of the Year have been widely praised for their quality, variety, and comprehensiveness.With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straub, and many others, and featuring Datlow’s comprehensive overview of the year in horror, now, more than ever, The Best Horror of the Year provides the petrifying horror fiction readers have come to expect—and enjoy.

Warning: This book contains explicit descriptions of an older, alpha male having sex with a much younger, submissive female. The content is strictly for adults only!Emily is sexually frustrated, unemployed and living in a house with her boyfriend and his smoldering father, Charles. When Emily encounters Charles alone in the kitchen one morning, he begins to dominate her in ways she hadn’t ever expected.Torn between her boyfriend Will, who’s sleeping in the ...

Macabre meetings, sinister excursions, and deadly relationships; uncanny encounters; a classic ghost story featuring an American god; a historical murderer revived in a frightening new iteration; innovative Lovecraftian turns; shadowy fairy tales and weird myths; strange children, the unexpected, the supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while invent...