When twenty-two year old Mark Prior jumped at the opportunity of joining his friends on a backpacking holiday around the Aegean islands, he never imagined that they'd come across a forgotten relic that would change their lives forever. The mysterious island of Samothrace is the group's first stop and the epicenter of secrets where the blue lightning is harbored, hidden deep within its ancient mountain.Who are the enigmatic Order of Knights, known as the Clergy, that are sworn to pr...

Three months have passed since the fateful events of Glastonbury and the group of friends find themselves caught in the madness of their new home in Sao Paolo, Brazil, as they try to make sense of their new lives as super-powered beings.At the same time, on the other side of the Atlantic, the Inquisition forces launch their secret weapon, one that is designed to bring down the newly activated Lucidi.Enter Strike Force Fury and the Ravens, an elite task force of young Inquis...

Jack and Alice are the best of friends. For a year they embark on fantastic adventures born from Jack's relentless imagination. In a field outside of Storyville, tigers, pirates, pink lasers in space, and cheeseburger-eating dinosaurs come magically to life.But a mystery has begun . . .Who is the horse-wrangler named, Fred? What is happening at the pumpkin-carving contest, and why is Alice imagining castles?Jack has been laboring in secret on something he isn't abou...

The search for the legendary Great South Land began in 1557 when Alvaro de Mendaña led the first Spanish voyage of exploration deep into the uncharted waters of the South Pacific.In his wake came the English corsairs, Francis Drake and the bloodthirsty Thomas Cavendish, commissioned by Queen Elizabeth to seek out Terra Australis and plunder Spanish interests anywhere in the world. Then came the Dutch and the Portuguese. But Terra Australia eludes them all.Tumara and Naomi are...

The theme of Volume 6 is life in the city, specifically life in London and Paris. Collected here are five essential Penny Dreadful texts showcasing the sights, sounds and smells, the locations and, most of all, the colorful denizens, from aristocrat to criminal, that populated each metropolis, both of which feature heavily in some of the best penny blood literature.In The Seven Curses of London, chronicler of the times James Greenwood diss...

When geophysics instructor and former CIA operative Alex Cave responds to a mysterious mayday in Puget Sound, he boards an oil tanker—only to find it empty and abandoned. Hours later, the bodies of the crew appear frozen to death on a mountain 150 miles away.As more tankers vanish and an Alaska pipeline station mysteriously fails, Alex realizes these events are connected by an unseen force… one capable of draining millions of barrels of crude oil in minutes and lea...

THE MOGHUL was immediately a European bestseller, optioned by Indian producers who commissioned a six-hour mini-series, then Canadian producers with the BBC.Based on real people (ca. 1620) – THE MOGHUL begins in a rip-roaring sea battle north of Bombay in which the vastly out-gunned adventurer, Brian Hawksworth, ship's captain and emissary of King James, blows away a flotilla of Portuguese galleons to gain access to an Indian port. He's come to open trade for "barbaric" England and ...

Come into a dark, strange world, where everything is firmly rooted in the familiar—except for some quirky detail that twists the yarn, and takes it for a spin in an unexpected direction. So prepare yourself: keep the lights on.If you like to read a horror anthology in the strain of Edgar Allan Poe, or if you like to witness the battle between the devil and God, you will enjoy outwitting the devil in this book. As befitting a dark fantasy, it is a woman--or rather, her ghost--who fi...

Shenandoah National Park, Thanksgiving Morning, 1967The morning mists are still rising in Whippoorwill Hollow when two aging friends find themselves staring at each other: one pointing a gun and the other beaten and chained to a tree. Their love for the same woman has buckled under the weight of a long-held secret -- until now.Out of the blue mountains of Virginia comes a 1960s American tale bound with the regrets people carry to their graves and a...

The ice will melt between them...in one hot night.When Rachel returns to her hometown for the Christmas holiday, she doesn't expect to be stranded alone in an ice storm with David Harris. David is her brother's best friend, and she's known him all her life. She lost her virginity to him. And he's the one man she can never forgive.Despite all the reasons she has not to trust him, she finds herself falling for him again. It doesn't matter how irresistible she still f...

A single mom and her teenage daughter move next to a spooky old house, and the small-town sheriff comes to their aid.THE GHOST NEXT DOORWhen destiny takes a hand...You've got to hold on tight.When single mom Elizabeth Jennings gets sent to a new town to revamp its weekly paper, she resists. Her daughter Claire is just fifteen, and has recently started high school. But Elizabeth’s boss insists, so the two pack up and move to...

Dark. Raw. Gritty. Blond.from USA Today bestselling author V. J. ChambersEver since blond detective Ivy Stern got herself kicked off the police force for “sexual conduct unbecoming an officer,” she’s been slumming it as a private investigator. But she’s handling the fact her life is in shambles just fine, thank you very much. She manages to get up to open her office by the crack of noon every day, no matter how hungover she is or whose bed she woke ...