Parn is a poor man in a galaxy of immeasurable wealth. He harvests star pepper, the most valuable commodity in the galaxy. Vast corporations make cosmic profits on the harvests, while he can barely feed himself between voyages.He has one hope: a map to a secret pepper planet. If he can decipher the map and finance an expedition, he can free himself from wage slavery. But now he's out of time: someone knows about the map and is prepared to kill him to get it.On the run, Parn...

Denver in the 1920s becomes the backdrop for this blend of Dashiell Hammett and H.P. Lovecraft. Private detective and witch Stanley Fields is dispatched to Denver to stop dark sorcerers. He discovers that the sorcerors have concealed themselves among the KKK, exploiting the hateful organization's rise to power for their own purposes. They are trying to frame Otoniel Garcia for the murder of an heiress to foment racial hatred that can feed their evil summoning rituals.Fields encount...

A young Initiate faces an ancient beast!In the 1920s, the Cult of Mithras trained Stefani to hunt unearthly terrors, so her first assignment seems easy. Be the secretary to a British fashion designer on a dig to Egypt. Determine if the designer is a sorceress associated with a rival cult. Leaving her hometown of Denver for the first time, the assignment is even better than she imagined. Trains and ships, parties and shows-it is all delectable delights.But she has no idea wh...