In Los Angeles the question on everyone's lips… "Who is the Invisible Assassin?" The elusive hit man who has the authorities baffled, the general public intrigued and the local gangland highbrows hiding behind razor wire and hi-tec weaponry.With the city's second most powerful crime family slaughtered, Joshua Grenire is pressed into action by his mentor, Max Barlow: hunt and kill the assassin. Though burdened by social inexperience and the crushing responsibility of his mission, he...

"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...

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...

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?

Few people know the true purpose of the Badger Survey of Atlar. Ashlin Smith wants out of his boring, frustrating, and apparently pointless job. But it's about to get a lot more interesting, and not in a good way, as events foreseen decades earlier begin to unfold.A giant badger, murderous cultists, abominations and dinner guests straight from the fairy tales, and a frighteningly clever and stubborn empress soon stand in the way of Ashlin's desire to return to a quiet life.

Slices of MidnightThe Black Craft Saga, vol. 1Marissa Bonifay was born unto magic.The product of untold millennia of selective breeding on the part of one of the universe's most successful covens, Marissa began life with the mind and mettle to become an all-powerful practitioner of the arcane arts. But, such greatness wasn't in the offing. At least not yet.A motherless child, living in a land where the practice of magic was reserved for only those of noble bl...

Now with new Content by Tom KratmanHE RAISED AN ARMYAGAINST THOSE WHOTOOK EVERYTHING FROM HIMThey should have picked their enemies more carefully.Five centuries from now, on a remarkably Earthlike planet that is mankind's sole colony in space, religious fanatics called the "Salafi Ikhwan" have murdered the uncle of former colonel Patrick Hennessey. That was their first mistake, because...

Well 'whoopy doo!' Here's another little Quick Flash story. Again it's in A and B mind movie form. The B part which is first (logic), tells another little part of a writer's life i.e. usually about handling the huge amounts of money which comes to writers from their armies of adoring fans. Writers you see are traditionally believed to be so broke that when they buy a box of matches to light the candle to heat up the economy beans they double use the matches, which means they get a piece of...

Contains all-new images and a new Appendix by Charles E. Gannon!2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy on Earth's Moon—a history-making clandestine project—and ends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later, Riordan awakens to a changed world. Humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel and is pioneering nearby star systems. And now, Riordan is compelled to become an inadvertent agent of conspiracy himself. Riordan's miss...

A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star Saw the dance of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes.

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?

Once you’ve been touched by darkness, it never leaves you…Abandoned by her parents as an infant; seventeen year old Hannah spent her childhood wading through countless foster families until being adopted by the Whitmans three years ago. Unfortunately, Atlanta’s high society wasn’t quite ready for Hannah…or the strange events that plague herChilling visions of murder, unexplained hallucinations, and a dark, mysterious guy who haunts her nightmares all culminate to set in mot...