Religious Satire/HumorAfter ions of hard work, God and Satan go on vacation for some much-needed rest, but they don’t go alone: Zeus, Poseidon Apollo and Pontius Pilot join them in their adventures in the Alaskan wilderness. Five men in a wilderness cabin: what could possibly go wrong? Suffice it to say, this will be no religious retreat.In their absence, the Grim Reaper and Jesus are left in charge and both are long on enthusiasm, but short on experience. In short order, a...

Religious Satire/HumorGod and Satan go on vacation and when they return, their worlds are turned upside down. It’s now up to Satan and Jesus to balance the books before God discovers the mess. Heaven is being taken over by escaped thugs from Hell and Jesus must call on help to stop them. For Satan, things are much worse. With his souls count dangerously low in numbers, he devises a clever plan to save his own kingdom: he will create a new race of humanoids, then take their souls. H...

The sixth book in New York Times-bestselling Seanan McGuire's witty urban fantasy InCryptid series about a family of cryptozoologists who act as a buffer between humans and the magical creatures living in secret around us."The only thing more fun than an October Daye book is an InCryptid book." —Charlaine Harris, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Sookie Stackhouse seriesImprobable, adjective:

THE COLDEST SHADOWSArcano-archaeologist Elijah knows that digging into the past can be its own reward—or peril. When he’s hired to find an ancient map purported to lead to a mysterious location at the bottom of the world, his professional curiosity is more than roused. But his quest to simply get his hands on the map is more dangerous than he expected—even for a shadow runner.He and his own team of runners—including everything from a goblin rigger to a trol...

In an impossible place under a door in the woods, Jimmy Fincher received the first of four gifts---given by a mysterious and desperate people trying to save the world from a ruthless enemy. Now, Jimmy flees to Japan in search of the second gift. Peril is inescapable and mysteries abound as Jimmy receives a haunting warning: THE STOMPERS ARE COMING.

Elijah:I thought that I knew it all.Until they turned me into a machine and wanted to use me as a weapon.I found love. But as usual, it was time for me to run.Until she found me and told me the impossible.That she was carrying my baby.Dana:He worked for my dad.But then he got fired because I loved him. He’s the only one I’ve ever been with.But then I found out I’m carrying his baby. He d...

Pramantha: Part 1 is the first episode of THE 33: award-winning author J.C. Hutchins' innovative new monthly series.After cutting a deal with a mysterious recruiter, Addison Creel is thrust into a world he barely understands. He's been called to join The 33 — a group of thirty-three misfits tasked with protecting humanity from ruthless criminals, malicious technologies, black magicians and hostile supernatural beings.Addison's first day on the job ...

One year after his sudden and utterly out-of-the-blue conversion to Christianity (which he describes in the riveting afterword of this book), John Shore reportedly found himself overwhelmed by the desire to write something that Christians could give to non-Christians by way of proving that just because one is Christian doesn't automatically mean that one is irrational. The result is the delightfully profound "'Penguins, Pain and the Whole Shebang: Why I Do the Things I Do,' by God (as told...

After discovering the truth of Starry Knight's identity and the truth of how he felt about her, Hamilton Dinger is facing his biggest challenge yet: Taking her out on a "normal" date, to a normal high school football game, with normal people.Can Hamilton have the perfect teenage date without getting interrupted by demons, dragons, parents, or social politics? Or will Wingdinger and Starry Knight need to make their appearance? Find out in this is a short story set between Book 4 and...

In a lonely part of the galaxy, in a cluster of stars where only a few hospitable planets drift, the planet known as Vwaa is in a state of decay, and there is nothing anyone or anything can do about it.The planet’s core is dying, bringing with it a slew of irreversible events, including the most devastating – a slow drop in temperature. Fortunately, this is nothing new to its inhabitants, the primitive Nowah race, who have been preparing themselves mentally for the apocalypse....

Needles: Part 1 is the fifth episode of THE 33: award-winning author J.C. Hutchins' innovative new monthly series.The Mojave Desert: bleak, merciless, murderous. Few people know this better than the residents of Needles, a windswept town on the California border. Strange things happen out there in those ancient sands ... and one townie has just paid the ultimate price for his curiosity.The 33, a team of world-saving misfits, has been dispatched to ...

Two sisters. One disaster.First things first: I’m the bad twin. While my sister, Marcia, has the perfect family in the perfect suburb, I’ve been making my living as an Internet advice columnist and designing Web sites in my downtown loft. I always thought I had the right answer - and hair color - for any occasion. That is, until Marcia ran up loads of debt and ran out on her husband and kids, and I was left helping to pick up the pieces. Her husband, James, is a lawyer who...