As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often worked to distort the public discourse on important policy issues. Pope John Paul II's pronouncements on stem-cell research, the constitutional controversies regarding faith-based initiatives, the...

In the lush North Carolina foothills, the Moon women have put down roots: matriarch Marvelle Moon, who’s losing her grip on the world after more than eighty years of life; her daughters, Ruth Ann and Cassandra; and Ruth Ann’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Ashley, fresh out of rehab, unmarried, and three months pregnant. Despite Ruth Ann’s best efforts to live a life that’s all her own, her family is coming together around her. Marvelle and Ashley need a place to live and Ruth Ann is unable t...

Before the world was divided into light and dark, there was the Separation, which remembers everything. In the void between good and evil, an ancient force known as iL Separatio watches. Born in the instant light was first torn from darkness, it claims the soul of those too balanced for Heaven or Hell—and commands a silent warrior named Amantes to maintain the universe's karmic order. However, when the soul he's sworn never to touch stirs in the modern world, everything begins to unravel. ...

Sequel to Dead EndA Duncan Andrews ThrillerPrivate Detective Duncan Andrews is back, along with the usual gang: Robbie, Gina, Nick, and Daisy, the zombie bulldog! Duncan is trying to figure out how his boyfriend, Robbie, will fit in with the team now that he is no longer a ghost. That worry is soon set aside when Duncan accepts a new case to locate a missing young man named Graig Betz. Duncan soon learns Graig is part of a werewolf pack that is terr...

When times get tough, get a dog. Werewolves, optional.When the starving mutt showed up in my backyard, I thought he'd be the perfect distraction from the sorrow that’s plagued me all summer.But Cheveyo's no ordinary dog and the more I help him uncover where he came from, the more we learn about the dark side of the supernatural world.A world that I just outed in a viral video.I always thought it would be cool to be famous, but this ...

[Siren Classic: Erotic Historical Western Romance, HEA] Satin Daring thinks she has no other options than to run away when her father demands she marry someone she doesn't know. She wants to marry for love and won't settle for anything less. Drake "Black Thunder" Peterson needs time away from his white grandfather to cool his anger when the old man tells him he's found the woman Drake is to marry. All Drake wants to do is get away and maybe go to the Blackfoot village and visit with his fathe...

Old Moon Quarterly is a magazine of weird sword-and-sorcery fantasy. In the tradition of Clark Ashton Smith, Tanith Lee and Karl Edward Wagner, it contains stories of strange vistas, eldritch beings, and the bloody dispute thereof by swordsmen and swordswomen both.Issue 3 contains the following stories:"Evil Honey" by James Enge."Knife, Lace, Prayer" by T.R. Siebert."Singing the Long Retreat" by R.K. Duncan."The Feast of Saint Ottmer...

Could the life of this little black cat be any worse?Dumped outside, fed on rubbish, extremely thin, losing his fur, cold and wet. His lonely, miserable life contains no hope.When he appears to be rescued, are the new uncertaintieshe faces worth the risk?Maybe a new situation couldn't be any worse.Will there be adventures of fun and excitement orwill it lead to his destruction?Aren't cats supposed just to sit on laps, look out of the window, ...

Jamie is on the run.Nobody taught her how to be a vampire; no one told her the Rules of Vampire. How was she supposed to know her limits? Now the vampire hunters want her dead, and the Council of Vampires is looking for her, too.Every human Jamie bites becomes a vampire, and the feral Wilderings she creates are rampaging through the town of Crescent City. To stop this infestation, the legendary Terrill joins forces with the Vampire Council and conf...

Terrill was the most ruthless of vampires, but over the long centuries of his existence he has evolved into a Golden Vampire, renouncing violence, able to walk among humans and in sunlight.What he didn't know--what no one knew--was that the evolution was directed by forces bigger than himself.Terrill and others of his kind have evolved into a higher form of vampire, but another type of vampire has emerged, too. Shadow Vampires can walk in sunlight, for they carry the darkne...

The most powerful and feared vampire disappeared at the height of his powers and passed into legend. Most vampires think he's dead. He is not dead. Terrill has gone into hiding to evade his bitter enemy's wrath, and has vowed never to kill another human. But one night his vampire nature reasserts itself, and he kills an innocent young woman.Instead of running, he sets out to make amends. His quest for redemption goes terribly wrong, and Terrill finds himself reduced to hiding in wo...