"A Blood Moon rises! For too long we have hidden from reality, fearing the loss of our past should we attempt to find our future. No more! Our day of infamy has arrived. A spark has ignited our universe and set it ablaze. From those ashes has grown a force that will crush the League of Brothers and drive it from our Realm! The decision has been made! Today we go to War! Phoenix rises!"Tears flowed down the new king's face as she thought of her sister, Darla, hoping beyond hope the ...

As if groggily rising from some drunken stupor, the whole universe was waking to reality, shaking off its former illusions of complacency and indifference. The realization of who the oldest child had really become was beginning to sink in. To publicly attempt the destruction of an innocent mind for no reason other than selfish desire had pushed their limits of tolerance beyond the breaking point. No honest person could find an excuse for Asotos' actions. There was no longer any defense for...

Noahashonie angrily cried out to Sodasonie, "Was the murder of my husband and my rape not enough to satisfy your bloodlust, so that now I must seek a way to bed this man who stole my soul from me?! And for what… to deliver another bastard seed of Azazel into this world so Atlantis can rise again?" She cursed, "Then shall the souls of both Heaven and Earth be cast into the coming darkness!"

Ghosts of Lagandow, an ancient, noble race faded from memory, for most of Lowenah's children existing only in myth and legend save those alive for untold ages having lived on Lagandow, taught by these Ones Who Came Before. Even they are ghosts, hiding their knowledge. There are other ghosts of Lagandow long thought dead, coming to life as though out of the mist of Time. Now all go to war at the side of their brothers and sisters of the Children's Empire...those from the First Realm and rec...

Seutonius stared into Noahashonie's face, the woman seething, her eyes a fiery blaze. "You, they call the 'Black Angel', demon-chaser from before Atlantis. You judge me for the evils I have done. But only as a Roman, for Rome, have I committed these acts. Should your soul be any holier than mine, then Hell would reject us both. I am not the one being judged here today… It is you!"

Gabrielle warned Noahashonie, "Your sword will weep tears of blood!" Now the girl was coming to understand as she watched a mortally wounded woman writhing upon the ground. Yet this was just the beginning. The necromancers of both good and evil must have their day. Her people would bleed, the enemy would bleed, the world would bleed, before all the prophecies would be fulfilled.

From distant star systems they had hazarded journeys to gather for the upcoming moot that might well decide the future of all living flesh. Filled with questions and wonder, they sought out wisdom from the greatest of oracles in the universe, to gain understanding of riddles long ago uttered and prophecies hauntingly whispered in dark shadows. So they approached the oracle as she stood upon a mountain overlooking the city of the gods, seeking added insight into the Fates and reasons why th...

"Scanning the maddening scene around her, Trisha sighed under her breath, 'So it has come to pass... Hell is delivered to Heaven's heights. Look and see! I am Death, Destruction my lover! Today I set the universe ablaze. Phoenix will burn, and the gods will bow low to the Children of Damnation!'"Phoenix... Across the globe, legends of old tell of a majestic, beautiful bird known from antiquity, its age measured in centuries and beyond...a symbol of peace and justice, dying in flame...

When darkness falls and the air turns cold, ghosts come out to play.Heather Beck presents Haunted, an anthology of ghostly encounters and paranormal events.Ghost ParkAfter discovering a mysterious playground in the woods, Chase is stalked by angry ghost children.A Haunting PastTruce’s class trip to an old native reserve turns deadly when Bear, an infamous chief who died two hundred years ago, blames him for the tribe...

Jake Greenwood is your average, wannabe war hero up until a head injury causes him to forget his most cherished memories. Armed with only his name and a few personal belongings, Jake must fight his amnesia while he tries to remember not only more about himself, but what happened at the time of his injury. As Jake struggles to reclaim his memory, a pressing question can be asked: Will Jake be successful in remembering who he is?

A young woman is haunted by her phone. Photos that she never took, which reveal images of her working on her computer show up on the phone. Is there a night stalker following her around? Or is there something even more sinister lurking about her apartment?

Apocalypse unleashed. Swift and deadly. Merciless.Seven billion people inhabit this planet in blissful ignorance of imminent annihilation. Destruction comes, not from meteors or nuclear holocaust, but from a source no one even knows exists. The architects of doom have long moved among us, hidden in plain sight, waiting for the signal to trigger our extinction.A handful of survivors—traumatised, bewildered—must come to terms with the new reality. And quickly...