Illya and Berial go on another item-gathering mission where they encounter a member of the mysterious--and formidable--Dragon God tribe. Later, Berial incurs the wrath of a noble who sends S-rank adventurers after him. Facing off against the mercenaries, the demon unleashes his dark side...a side he has kept hidden even from Illya.

After forging a contract with Berial, the king of Hell, young Illya obtains an incredible education in the art of magic. Her skills grow by leaps and bounds, catching the attention of the royal court and qualifying her for an elite apprenticeship. But court life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Illya quickly grows tired of the manipulative machinations of nobles and the scheming of the high court wizard. Her only choice? To quit! Leaving her post and the entire country, Illya now searches ...

Prepare to have your blood run cold, your heart race and your brow bead with sweat: this anthology of horror stories ranges from the starkly terrifying to the tantalizingly creepy. There's magic mixed in with the chalk dust, evil lurking in the textbooks, malevolence biding its time in the labs and perhaps something even more horrifying in the student cafeteria.Chilling tales born from the dark shadows of campuses across Canada. Edited by Mark Leslie, the author of the non-fiction ...

An Aurora Award FinalistSix contestants. One haunted house. And a whole lot of bloody murder.B-grade horror masters the Gowan brothers have devised a new reality TV show with a killer hook. Six contestants compete for the chance to star in an upcoming slasher movie. All they have to do is survive one night in a “haunted” house and be voted Scream Queen.The setting is perfect: a crumbling Victorian mansion with a gruesome history an...

Not all vampires are tall, dark, and handsome.Some are short, fat, and ugly.Amanda Peck is stuck in a dead-enbd job, lives with a deadbeat boyfriend, and is dead set on changing her life. With no thought about what tomorrow might bring, she packs up and runs. She hitchhikes west, accepting rides from truckers, but what she know is that prowling the enedless miles of asphalt on eighteen wheels is a vampire who’s already claimed the lives of five women, leaving their...

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE: Mark Dalton isn't sure if he finds trouble or if trouble finds him. But ever since his wife traded him in for a prettier model, and he traded in his Private Eye business for a Peterbilt, it seems to be everywhere he goes. In this collection of loosely interwoven who-dunnits, Edo van Belkom introduces Mark Dalton, Trucker Detective. Whether he’s scooping up pretty hitchhikers with secrets, getting back goods stolen right out from under his nose, making a shady repair sh...

Reality is so monstrous that sometimes it's not even worth the effort to take it seriously. To explain it, we have to imagine grotesque figures; we have to backlight it among undecipherable scrawls in the hopes of finding some coherence in their outline. This novel by Fernando Contreras, originally published in Spanish under the title Los Peor in 1995, employs multiple ways of looking, ranging from humor to revulsion, like someone trying to decipher the invisible amid the noise. Eyes multi...

Lizzie Borden took an axe...We all know the rhyme. But behind the sing-song verse lies a mystery that has haunted true crime popular culture for over a century.In 1892, the brutal axe murders of Andrew and Abby Borden shocked the nation. Their daughter, Lizzie, stood trial in a case that gripped the public like none before it—an early true crime spectacle that still echoes through popular culture today. Was she an abused daughter pushed to the brink, a cold-blooded...

This book is a culmination of the music that I have written over the past 36 years. This is not all of the music I’ve written but the ones I felt represented major turning points in my writing. I grew up with a piano in the house. No one was really musically inclined and there’s no recollection of anyone seriously playing it. There are vague memories of my mother playing “Clementine” while I sang along, but I can’t confirm that. So the piano was dusted and cleaned once a week, otherwise si...

The book Maximized Parenting helps parents who consider parenting as one of the important responsibilities of their lives achieve their goal. It equips parents with the knowledge that fosters proper foundation for parenting in a down-to-earth way. The information in the book empowers parents to engage their children in a manner that motivates them to be outstanding persons in life.

The stunning conclusion to the critically acclaimed Wolf Pack series, the inspiration for the hit show on Paramount+Werewolf rising…Battling a wolf to save a little girl’s life makes Argus Brock a local hero. But what the small town of Redstone doesn’t know is that the tough teenager is secretly a werewolf. Which means the wolf Argus bit during the fight is now a werewolf, too. But unlike Argus and his wolf pack siblings, this wolf man is far from tame.

Leaving the Royal Court of Egdoalm and all its political intrigues behind, Illya escapes to a nice quiet life in the countryside. Word about her skills spread, and soon enough she gains some renown as a magic item craftswoman. But things don't stay quiet for long. From getting kidnapped along with some elves to being coerced to partner with a sleazy businessman, things sure are far from peaceful. And what's up with the demon Berial? Could it be that he has feelings for Illya?