What if the next Santa Claus were a twelve-year-old girl?For Mary Cairins and her Uncle Dave, life has always been a financial struggle and they never seem to catch a break. Until one rainy night at the CraveCo store when a hidden Easter egg in a video game lands Mary a spot in the most highly anticipated contest of recent history: The Reindeer Games.She quickly learns that Santa--as in "the" Santa Claus--is behind the contest. Four heart-racing ev...

Never underestimate an apprentice’s ability to ruin everything. When mishaps and mayhem befall, they must develop their talents to untangle the messes they’ve made. Black magic, talismans, and incantations intertwine within their worlds, making solutions murky.Featuring eleven stories by best-selling and award-winning authors, The Mage’s Apprentice will take you to fantastical realms, new dimensions, and across time, exposing the secrets of magic.Will the apprentice remain ...

The balance between good and evil is always in flux. Demons vie for control for the key to heaven’s gate to wreak havoc on the Earth and destroy mankind by any means necessary—striking fear, famine, deceit and damnation into the world. Our hope of redemption is entrusted to angels, as they thwart the forces of evil. These eight original tales unveil the hidden world of angels and demons and the battle over our very souls.Contains the short stories:...

“I’m proud to call George a mentor and a friend.” —Michael JordanOrphaned at just thirteen in a still-segregated Washington, D.C., George Raveling was introduced to a relatively unpopular sport—basketball—in high school. The rest, as they say, is history. Raveling went on to become one of the winningest coaches of all time, a mentor to legendary athletes, and a confidant of the sport’s greatest coaches, including Bob Knight and John Wooden. He convinced Michael Jor...

"To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace."~ MALCOLM XIn Harlem's tumultuous history, there are many tragedies. For those growing up in this part of New York City, a young man known simply as Fritz from West 112th Street became an urban legend in Harlem.In the 1970s, Richard "Fritz" Simmons is introduced to the drug trade, by an associate of the Lucchese crime family, one of the five families of La Cosa Nostra (the Mafia). Af...

Second chances only come around once.Eight years ago, Adam Elliot made the biggest mistake of his life. Now that mistake is coming back to haunt him. His family’s beloved vineyard has gone into foreclosure, and the new owner is the sister of the only man he’s ever loved—the man he dumped under pressure from family and friends who thought the match was beneath him.When Freddy Wentworth, aka the bad boy of Bishop’s Glen, left town with a broken heart...

“I’m proud to call George a mentor and a friend.” —Michael JordanOrphaned at just thirteen in a still-segregated Washington, D.C., George Raveling was introduced to a relatively unpopular sport—basketball—in high school. The rest, as they say, is history. Raveling went on to become one of the winningest coaches of all time, a mentor to legendary athletes, and a confidant of the sport’s greatest coaches, including Bob Knight and John Wooden. He convinced Michael Jor...