A centuries-old spirit of vengeance, born from the brutal suffering of enslaved Africans on a Grenadian plantation, awakens in the modern day. Sadia Baptiste, a historian, inherits her grandfather's estate and uncovers a horrific truth: a ledger detailing atrocities and an ancient slave collar that serves as a key to controlling the entity known as the Jab—a shadowy force with lips of blood that drinks the life of the wicked.As the Jab begins its bloody harvest, Sadia is forced int...

Ana, Captain of a spaceship, is lost in what appears to be a black hole, but she soon discovers it is an energy field full of life bent on taking over her ship. Later, she and her crew are forced to enter a real Black Hole. She is forced her from her body as the ship passes through, and runs from another energy entity set loose in the ship. On the other side the crew finds another live energy force that attacks their ship. They barely manage to escape and return back through the Black Hole...

In sun-drenched St. John's, Grenada, Oliver Jaloubi tries to maintain order in a house ruled by his three mischievous daughters: responsible Bondy (18), impressionable Dona (8), and Dinka (14), the petite trouble-devising genius. When trusted to guard a prized mango tree, Dinka convinces her sisters that tasting the fruit is "quality control," not stealing. The resulting disaster of pulpy evidence, elaborate lies, and a stern reckoning teaches them that honesty, earned through hard work, i...

Can anyone ever truly outrun his past?Back in the 1980s, Wes Raney was an ambitious New York City Narcotics Detective with a growing drug habit of his own. While working undercover on a high-risk case, he made decisions that ultimately cost him not only his career, but also his family. Disgraced, Raney fled-but history is finally catching up with him.Now in his early forties, Raney has been living in exile, the sole homicide investigator covering a two-hundred-mile stretch of...

Wounded, her arms shaking, she held her colt forty-five against the wall, and moved down the hall. A dark shadow appeared, a flash, she pulled the trigger, and felt pain in her side. The assassin fell back in the room. Screaming, she sent bullets into the wall until the Assassin threw his gun out. The monitor instructed her to put her revolver down. The assassin wounded, disappeared out the partition. Against the wall, she slid to the floor unconscious with her side and arm bleedin...

Her tears really flowed when he reached her. Slipping down from his horse, he helped her down and hugged her. She buried her head into his shoulder and continued to cry.Caressing her hair, he said, “Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to come out here. Things sure haven’t gone well for us.”“I’m sorry, Papa,” Rose said, “I’m sorry.”He felt a damp area in her hair and gently pushed her back. Turning her head, he noticed the bruise on the side of her face. Pushing her hai...

It was too late. Rose felt the giant paddle strike the boat. Huge planks flew from the wheel as it devoured the bow of the Shanadoa. The giant wheel was coming for the wheelhouse. She saw the raft. It was caught in the wheel. It was coming up towards her.Gripping the wheel, she dropped to the deck and covered her head. She closed her eyes as she heard the side of the wheelhouse coming apart. The noise was deafening, but she hung onto the wheel. She felt the roof being torn loose. T...

Slowly she placed her left hand over the cooked fish protecting them. She heard the animal move on down the branch until he was partway in the boat beside her. She felt the boat tip sharply to her left. Yes, it was very large.Suddenly she felt pain in her left arm. Sharp claws moved across her hand. It sent her screaming. Her fear came out in full force. She raised her hand quickly and struck something hard that had teeth in it. She kept screaming and swinging hard into the mass of...

She raised the lantern higher and looked in the mirror over the bar. She was bleeding from her head and arm. Her hair was a mess and mixed in with the blood. Her left hand was dripping blood over the crowbar she held. Her dress was in shreds and barely holding together. She had dirt from the holes sticking to the other parts of her body. She dropped to the floor and felt a dark cloud go over her head.

The story takes place in southern Alabama along the Tensaw River in the year 1852, twenty years after the Indian Creek massacre of1832. Rose lives a very sheltered life until she reaches the age of twelve when her adventures begin.In this first story, Rose meets Mrs. Stone and thinks she is a witch seeking to make a ghoul. She needs virgin blood, her blood. She screams to her mother, and her teacher, but no one will listen.

Suddenly four wolves attacked. The horse reacted and started kicking their legs out behind them. The wolves darted around them, but they were meant with a sharp stick from Rose and the accurate hooves of her pony.Rose poked the leading one in the chest and sent him squealing. The pony connected with the next one catching him in the face. The Colonel came out of the tepee with his saber drawn when Rose did not come inside. He saw her, and the pony attack the wolves and charged with ...

Jim lifted the burnt body to his chest and prayed. “Jesus, Jesus, heal this body. Heal this body!”Taylor opened his eyes and spoke through the pain, “Taylor not feel Jesus this time. Not feel Jesus.”“Nothing’s coming through. Jesus! Jesus! Please heal him!”Taylor whispered, “Not be healed second time. Hurt bad. Sorry Jesus, sorry.”Taylor died in Jim’s arms as he slowly rocked him as the fire approached his back.Jim cried out, “Jesus, I don’t feel you...