Gay lovers meet alien drug runners and their human vampire dealers on a remote peak in Oregon.Jon and Luke plan a hike to the summit of Slain's Peak to heal their strained relationship. Instead, a sudden illness strikes Luke and an unexpected winter storm strands them. It doesn't help that Jon's secretly snorting meth whenever Luke's not looking. But then a mysterious stranger appears and leads them into a network of tunnels where they discover a flying saucer, alien drug runners, ...

Elam Vandreren arrives on Cabot's Landing expecting to become the planet's Resident and caretaker. Instead he finds himself investigating a grisly crime and uncovering even more disturbing secrets.When Elam finds the prior Resident murdered, he thinks the Resident's spouse did it. Sigurd van Dorstadt, the investigator from the transport ship Zuiderkruis, thinks Elam did it. They both think no one else is on the planet.It turns out they're both wrong—about everything....

History is a fragile thing. Haakon's job with Timekeepers is to prevent Deviations that could change the past and devastate the future. But saving humanity comes at a high cost, especially now when destiny forces him to choose between the man he loves and the future he's sworn to protect.

Delve into the darkness with author Max Griffin's collection of nineteen twisted tales of horror. Heavily inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Griffin's stories will leave you with a sense of foreboding, a glimpse into the mind's of those who have turned the wrong way, and many times, justifiably so.

When Brent Hyde arrives home from college to find his parents missing from their dairy farm, he feels a creeping sense of dread, but the inept local police won't take him seriously. Determined to find them, Brent drags his boyfriend, Gary, into the search.When Jason Killeen, a senior journalism student from Brent's college, shows up to investigate a twenty-year-old research project involving Brent's mother—and Brent's current employer—the situation gets sticky. Jason insists they'r...

Allen, a graduate student, and Sam, a cop, are unlikely lovers in the small college town of Hollenbeck. When a serial killer stalks young men in the town, Sam investigates, and the clues lead back to the genetically engineered dogs in Allen's lab. Danger mounts as the killer closes his grip on the city.

Flatland: where a fortune in mob money, a stone-cold serial killer, and a crooked FBI agent collide with two gay guys looking for love.Danny and Skip's jerky new neighbor is much more than he seems. Their boring trailer park in Flatland, fielded by wheat and occasionally threatened by unpredictable Kansas storms, harbors something deadly—a hit man on the run, waiting for his chance to escape to all the money he's swindled from the mob. But the mob doesn't let thieves get away....

Rick's brooding over his missing wife doesn't stop him from inviting Brandon to move into his mansion in the hills of southwest Wisconsin. When the sheriff finds bodies at the estate, it's a race against time to save Rick from accusations of murder.Brandon struggles with poverty and longs to be a doctor. He falls in with Rick, an older, closeted, banker whose wealthy wife Victoria is mysteriously missing. Romance blooms between the two men and all seems well, until the sheriff disc...

Frank Millwright is beginning his training as a psionic officer, just as he meets the girl of his dreams. When he returns to college in the fall, his girlfriend's employer has disappeared. Frank tries to apply his budding powers to find the missing woman, despite resistance from local law enforcement. But when his girlfriend is accused of murdering her employer, Frank must use all his psionic powers to find the real killer.

Farspace 2 is, at times, darker, more cautionary and less care-free than its predecessor. It is an exploration of the dangers of the future that we will be challenged with, should our species be so fortunate to reach that distant land. There are stories about control—by entities that want to harm or protect us. Stories about exploration—not the happy, "everything is wonderful out there and all will be great if we only go" stories, but rather the "yes it's dangerous out there, and we can ge...

"My life was the result of my crazy childhood." With these words began an extraordinary correspondence, between Roy Tester, a double-murderer serving a life sentence in the notorious Arkansas prison, Tucker Maximum Security Prison, and Doug Carnine, a meditation teacher and lay Buddhist minister on the other side of the country. In the letters that followed -- more than 700 over seven years -- these two men, along with three other prisoners at Tucker Max, developed a profound spiritual par...

The 'MAX BRAND Ultimate Collection' assembles over ninety novels and stories that traverse a spectrum of genres, offering a robust exploration of Western classics, historical narratives, adventure tales, and detective mysteries. This anthology showcases the dynamic range of Max Brand and Frederick Schiller Faust's storytelling prowess, allowing readers to journey through vivid landscapes of the American West, thrilling historical sagas, and intricate mysteries. Each piece within the collec...