"The deeper you go into the shadows, the heavier the chains become."To those on the outside, the occult promises power, enlightenment, and hidden truth. But for those who cross the line, the reality is far darker. Beyond the promises lies a spiritual weight—an unspoken oppression that grows heavier with every ritual, every boundary pushed, and every threshold crossed.In The Weight of the Threshold, H.J. Val delivers a raw, eye-open...

I’ve always known Evelyn was the one for me. She is the reason I live, my every hope, dream, and promise of the future. She is my moonbeam.When she discovers my secret life, however, our bond is broken and she completely shuts me out, wanting nothing to do with me ever again. This was not acceptable. Without her, I am nothing.To survive, I decide to take matters into my own hands. Sometimes, life doesn’t go as planned, but there are always still choices. She could wallow in...

When yakuza underboss Shigure Matsunaga meets Kenneth Harris at a boring social event, he's surprised to find himself attracted to the blond gaijin with the mismatched eyes. Shigure is even more pleased when he discovers Ken not only speaks Japanese fluently, but is fluent in Japan's ways, even the more violent of the martial arts. Ken's expertise at kendo is not his most striking quality—it's the passion beneath his quiet, almost fragile exterior that ignites Shigure's lust, and the two c...

The last thing I expected was to find a crazed gunman, bleeding to death in my woodshed. My cabin deep in the Montana mountains, I am all alone and helpless when Body O’Rourke takes me captive, threatening to kill me if I didn't help him.The man is dangerous, an admitted killer, who had forced himself on me, so why didn't I run for my life when I had the chance? Why did I nurse him back to health? Why did he make me quiver with unknown sensations every time he gazed at me and pract...

"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapa Flow, Britain's greatest naval base! It sounds incredible..." - William L Shirer, journalist, 18 October 1939Sinking the battleship HMS Royal Oak in the Royal Navy's home anchorage, with the loss of more than 800 of her crew, was Germany's first shattering blow against Britain in the 1939-45 war. Within six weeks the long-standing German dream of breaching the defences o...

Jordie has lived through the worst. Widowed at twenty-three and left to raise a child alone, she packed up, moved to NYC and beat the odds. Now, a successful business owner, nothing can shake this indomitable woman. Nothing until a chance at love arrives in the form of handsome movie star, Nathan Harper.Jordie is nothing like any other woman he's ever met. Her quick wit and sass only add to her beauty. A late night walk and breakfast quickly becomes something more. But Jordie's pas...

There are several benefits to losing weight for your health and wellbeing. Here are a few advantages:Reducing weight can lower your risk of developing chronic illnesses including diabetes, heart disease, and some types of cancer. This is due to the fact that being overweight can strain the body and raise inflammation, both of which can result in chronic disorders.Better cardiovascular health: By lowering blood pressure, lowering harmful cholesterol levels, ...

Neo's Call to Journey is a thrilling tale of courage, friendship and survival in the heart of the savanna. Neo, a young wildebeest, is preparing for his first great migration alongside his father, Tau, and his playful friends Banzi the bold zebra and Tano, a jumpy young wildebeest full of energy.When Neo stops to rescue a baby wildebeest trapped in the mud, Tau, Neao and his friends are seperated from the herd. Their journey to reunite with the herd becomes a daring adventure throu...

From the USA Today and AMAZON best seller of The Reckless Series, HJ Bellus, comes a sexy romance: DIRTY."Wrong Has Never Been So Right”Survival.It's all about the next dollar.It started out as a job, but has morphed into an addiction.Money flows and life is good.Women respond to my mere presence, begging for one more taste.I was the King, on top of the world.It was all a game and ...

SPLATTER THE NORMALFor this book, weird horror isn’t weird enough, and the extreme needs to be more extreme: the nineteen stories in Extremely Weird Splatter take the “quiet” respectability that characterizes a lot of weird fiction these days and fuses it with the elsewhere typically grounded—but very loud—transgressions of the extreme and splatterpunk. The results are messy, fantastic, and nineteen kinds of bizarre and disturbing.Join three Lifeti...

Invaders threaten us from above, below, within, and beyond. Not scared enough yet? This anthology will help! From the Horrific Scribes web archive of original short fiction (and some poetry) come 24 selections that involve horrific invasions. Only 23 are short stories--one is a group of poems--and that's not the only way the book cover deceives you. None of the stories involves UFOs attacking Earth. Horrific Scribes seeks "the provocative, scary, and strange," and these w...

In the middle-of-nowhere town of Schweizer-Reneke, the quiet is a lie. Beneath the surface of Sunday sermons and routine farm life, a truth buried fifteen years ago is finally rising from the grave.When a savage murder shatters the town's peace, Detective James Van der Linde, a man of tailored suits and deep emotional scars, is thrust into a hunt for a predator unlike any seasoned detectives have seen. Haunted by a past he cannot o...