In a futuristic time, Bruno Redding, doctor aboard the "USS Encounter" awakens after 750 years in cryosleep to find himself the only survivor of a doomed voyage lost in the vast and lonely cosmos of deep space. Here he begins to notice strange presences aboard the lone and ancient vessel, one of good and one of evil. In a fit of impulse, Bruno rescues an alien visitor on his ship only to become embroiled in a chase conducted by slave merchants of a futuristic system of slavery in the Estar...

Beauty Hired the Beast. The year is 1986. The crime is kidnapping. The storytelling is three points of view; the Beauty, the Beast, and the Kidnapper. The Beauty: Her name is Juliette Wilde. She is a young supermodel who is fading from the spotlight, only to be brought back into it by the actions of the Beast. Everything changes when she hires him. The Beast: His name is Mitch Corvin. He is a reformed criminal who is given a second chance by the Beauty. Equally indebted to and fascinated b...

Hello, I am the Angel of Death, and I want you to work for me. There was a time in which your kind foolishly believed the world would end, and I will transplant you from your current dimension to that era. You will bring such an event to a dark and evil threat to mankind; this of course being a powerful cult comprised of the cruelest psychopaths orchestrating their venomous plans to destroy your future with their practices. For this you will be gifted with my powers of strength, wisdom, an...

Motherhood is the creator of all Love.While vacationing in a quiet village, celebrated singer Algernon James finds himself the target of a mysterious ghostly figure. Upon each recurring vision, James begins unraveling her mysterious past and forms a stronger connection by finding the creature's living daughter. However, all is not as it seems, and James slowly begins to realize that the Ghost may not belong to a deceased victim but a living person whose life he is about to save.

"A Good Dream is Better than a Filthy Reality."These words could have been spoken by a legendary heroic figure but were instead expressed by America's most notorious pirate, Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard. Having recently plundered his first ship from an unwitting merchant captain, Cristian Chaucer, Blackbeard begins a reign of terror upon the seas. Having survived the attempt on his life, Cristian returns with a plan to destroy Blackbeard once and for all. However, every...

Hello, I am the Angel of Death, and I have a proposition for you. I'm offering you a job that involves transporting you from your current dimension to an era when humanity feared the world's end. Your mission is to thwart a powerful cult of psychopaths bent on destroying the future. To aid you, I’ll grant you powers of strength, wisdom, and flight, protecting you from the cult's weaponry. An additional perk is meeting the woman of your dreams ten years earlier and altering her fate for the...

While vacationing in a quiet village, celebrated singer Algernon James finds himself the target of a mysterious ghostly figure. Upon each recurring vision, James begins unraveling her mysterious past and forms a stronger connection by finding the creature’s living daughter. However, all is not as it seems, and James slowly begins to realize that the Ghost may not belong to a deceased victim but a living person whose life he is about to save.

In a futuristic time, Bruno Redding, doctor aboard the "USS Encounter" awakens after 750 years in cryosleep to find himself the only survivor of a doomed voyage lost in the vast and lonely cosmos of deep space. Here he begins to notice strange presences aboard the lone and ancient vessel, one of good and one of evil. In a fit of impulse, Bruno rescues an alien visitor on his ship only to become embroiled in a chase conducted by slave merchants of a futuristic system of slavery in the Estar...

Beauty Hired the Beast.The year is 1986.The crime is kidnapping.The storytelling is three points of view; the Beauty, the Beast, and the Kidnapper.The Beauty: Her name is Juliette Wilde. She is a young supermodel who is fading from the spotlight, only to be brought back into it by the actions of the Beast. Everything changes when she hires him.The Beast: His name is Mitch Corvin. He is a reformed criminal who is given a second chance by the Beauty. E...

2024 SUE GRAFTON MEMORIAL AWARD WINNERChief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the brutal death of a young Amish man in An Evil Heart, the latest installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo.On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty ...

New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick delivers “a promising start to a Victorian-era series”* with the first Ladies of Lantern Street novel…Evangeline Ames has rented a country cottage far from the London streets where she was recently attacked. Fascinated by the paranormal energy of nearby Crystal Gardens, she finds pleasure in sneaking past the wall to explore the grounds. And when her life is threatened again, she instinctively goes to the gard...

**2024 EDGAR AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SHORT STORYA troubling discovery leads Chief of Police Kate Burkholder on a strange investigation ending at a long-abandoned Amish farm in this short mystery from bestselling author Linda Castillo.**When a family dog brings home a human bone, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder finds herself on a desperate search for answers. Where did the bone come from? Who does it belong to? And perhaps most importantly, are the bones a result of foul play?...