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Blood Lust


L.M. Mountford
    His only concern that night was finding his next drink, preferably from a flavoursome twenty-something with loose morals and no expectations. Then he saw her…Kate is just a girl from the country, who came to the city with her brother to find a life away from their parents’ car crash. That is until the police came knocking on her door one morning and ripped her new life apart.Now she has nothing and no one, with only one on her mind…When these worlds collide, and the things that go bump in the night come calling, can they mend the rifts in their souls and give each other what they need?Blood Lust is a sizzling-hot Paranormal romance. If you like strong-willed, sassy heroines and oh-so-bad, drop-dead gorgeous Vampire heroes with lots of bite, you’ll love this page turner.

Three of a Kind: Tales of Luck, Chance & Misfortune


Kristen Middleton - 2013
    The hot Irish girl across the street claims her creepy father, Mr. O'Darby, is a leprechaun who collects more than just gold coins, and 17-year-old Trent begins to fear for the safety of his brother, Ben, whose tenth birthday grows near.~Lucky Strike~Atlantic City, New Jersey – For years, the city has brought to mind bright lights, big shows, and of course, games of chance and luck. For Chance Lamont, the city has begun to lose its appeal. Luck doesn't strike everyone, she'd been told, and they were right. Her life had been steadily going downhill since her teens. Will a chance encounter with someone from her past, as well as a brush with a fabled lucky creature change her fate? Or will her only luck continue to be bad luck?~Leprechaun~Be careful what you wish for, it’s the classic warning. For Chicago native Noah Graham, he didn’t care about warnings. He had everything he ever wanted in life and he wasn’t even 30 yet. Yet there was one thing he still wanted, but didn’t have – a divorce. But how to divorce her without giving up half? A strange man he meets in a bar offers him a way out…for a price.Free excerpts of all the authors' other books are included in this book! Recommended for ages 16 and up.

Your Biggest Fan?


Sydney Aaliyah Michelle - 2016
    Callie James is such a big Noah Patrick fan, she named her energetic Chihuahua after the man of her dreams. When they find themselves hiding out in the same Brooklyn Brownstone, a crazy blizzard, a never-ending supply of spaghetti, and a dog with identity issues bring them together even though they both have secrets that would tear them apart.One-liner: Snowed in with the man of her dreams, a football fan and her dog find love.

Jeff Edwards Military Thriller 3-Book Box Set


Jeff Edwards - 2018
    With the world hovering on the brink of war, a handful of U.S. Navy warships must track down and destroy a wolfpack of state-of-the-art submarines.The adversary is skilled in deception and incredibly lethal. Out-gunned, out-maneuvered, and out-thought, the U.S. Navy crews must throw the rulebook out the window, to become every bit as devious and deadly as their enemy.The Seventh Angel (Book #2) The world has forgotten the true nature of terror. It’s about to be reminded.A military revolt in southeastern Russia puts a former hard-line Soviet leader in command of a ballistic missile submarine and its arsenal of nuclear weapons. His goal: re-ignite the communist revolution and recapture the glory of the fallen Soviet Union. Without warning, Russia, Japan, and the United States become hostages in a scheme of international nuclear blackmail. When the warheads start falling and people begin dying, no one can pretend that it’s a bluff.As the earth rushes toward extinction, a lone U.S. Navy warship must penetrate the Siberian ice pack to destroy the submarine before it can destroy the world.It may already be too late.Sword of Shiva (Book #3) A single spark can ignite a war that consumes the world.Three Tibetan rebels attack a train carrying Chinese soldiers into the Tibet Autonomous Region. The insurgents escape across the Himalayas into India, unaware that the son of China’s First Vice-Premier lays maimed and dying among the burning wreckage of the train.As an escalating series of retaliations drive China and India toward outright war, hostilities spill over into the sea, and the Bay of Bengal becomes a crucible of naval warfare.The president of the United States orders a U.S. Navy strike group into the area as a stabilizing force, but the situation between the two nations has already deteriorated beyond any hope of peaceful resolution.With Asia sliding toward annihilation, a small force of U.S. warships must defeat the Chinese Navy to preempt the coming firestorm.The fuse has already been lit.

Forced Entry


Komrade Komura - 2014
    30 months. 8 million dollars. Under the radar, always a denominator, never a numerator. Obsessive planning, powered by a deadly combination of paranoia and greed. That's the life of a southern grower. Only light sleepers survive. The rest get free room and board at Parchment prison. A refugee from a high rise corporate plantation was in his 19th month and sailing safely toward the finish line. The kid was looking for a dry place to stay, away from the cops, away from the shit on the streets. Jackson, Mississippi is a toxic place. Been that way for a long time.

Seven Wakings


S.K. McCauley - 2014
    Are things as they appear, or could there be help that even the resurrected can’t see?

The Slob Who Lives Down the Hall


Sandra Sinclair - 2016
    When Cara’s daughter, Jade, begs her to ask the man from down the hall to help her with her schoolwork, Cara gives in, and finds herself learning about the most mysterious man on the compound, who as it turns out, isn’t as bad as they say or as unatt

The Other Man


Nancy Adams - 2015
    After being stuck in a dwindling marriage of five years, she has changed. Determined to find herself again, Christina finds herself tempted with the unthinkable: an affair—and this new man seems to have all the answers to her problems. It doesn't take her long to decide on what she wants, but before she can finalize those plans, she receives news no one is prepared for.

I'm the Queen


Tirzah Lee - 2014
    She was no ordinary hood chick. She wanted to get out of the hood and never become a statistic. But growing up in Avondale, a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio wasn’t the kind of area people “made it” out of. Once Queen falls in love with a local drug dealer she thinks she has it all. She thought she finally found happiness, but once he commits a crime that lands him in prison she loses everything. Queen is forced to move outside her city in order to forget about the one place she calls home. Besides her family and friends something is keeping her from forgetting her past, so she returns to Cincinnati. To her surprise the city didn’t forget how and why she left. With her enemies trying to knock her out the game it seems she can’t win for losing. Friends betrayed her, men hurt her, and the one person she hates the most ends up saving her in the end. Does Queen finally find happiness? In the end will Queen finally get her King, or will she be the only one left on the chess board? Will she finally get her fairytale and end the game with a CHECK MATE or will she be out the game forever?

Going Under


Adrian Thomas - 2015
    After her mother is killed, she's left to live with her hateful grandmother. When her grandmother passes away, her aunt and uncle takes her in.She'll lose one of many people she has grown to love dearly, which will leave a huge dent in her heart. In the midst of it all she gets accepted into FAMU. She struggles to be the cream of the crop. Things take a drastic turn for the worst. Will Mahogany have to put her life on hold or will she be able to maintain? When all of the trouble arises the person that she least expects will be there to be her Clark Kent and save the day.

The Last Broadcast


Christopher Ruz - 2011
    There are too many gaps in his code, too many mistakes left unfixed.Could Barry's programmers really have been so lax? Or does he have a greater purpose, some secret mission buried in his source code? He has another eighteen thousand years to find the answer. In the meantime, he's growing bored, and idle hands are the devil's playthings...

Roommate Menage: Sinful Desires


Maria Lucy - 2015
    The younger roommate, Sherry has boyfriend troubles and cannot find a break when it comes to love. The older of the two roommates, Danielle is a traveling business management consultant and often finds herself at odds in her relationship with Jon. She doesn’t trust Jon when she is out of town and believes that he might be a bad boy at heart.After an eviction from his house, Jon needs somewhere to stay until he can get back on his feet. Against her better judgment, Danielle allows Jon to move in while she is away on a business trip.Sparks fly when Sherry runs to Jon for emotional support and advice. Will they resist their carnal pleasures for each other? Can Danielle trust Jon well enough to leave him alone with her longtime friend and roommate, Sherry? If Jon screws up, where will he go to live if his girlfriend kicks him out for his indiscretions? And, will someone get hurt in the end?Author's Note: Mature audiences only.

The Armageddon Machine


Simon Kewin - 2010
    But the Draconian ship is still a terrible threat: it is the Draconian's final weapon, a device that can trigger the cascading collapse of space/time itself.Mackenzie, in charge of the Million Star fleet, fears what will happen if he attempts to destroy the device. Then, one of the semi-mythical Xin ancients arrives on his ship, suggesting a plan that appears to endanger all of reality. In the final battle with the Draconians, Mackenzie must decide whether to trust the Xin or not. The fate of the universe itself hangs on his actions ...'A beautiful story of trust and hope in dark times ... a masterful, compelling work, with deep themes underlying it that brush against life, eternity, and the meaning of existence.' - Keesa Renee DuPres, Tangent

An Android Dog's Tale


D.L. Morrese - 2013
    He is a construct and an employee of the Galactic Organic Development Corporation, which searches the galaxy for primitive sentient species to save from extinction, and then transplants colonies of them to Corporation agricultural planets where they can live happily and safely. The transplanted species survives, and its members produce some of the most expensive and sought-after food in the galaxy, which the Corporation profitably sells to developed worlds with this guarantee:Caringly grown, cultivated and harvested by simple sentient life forms.No artificial ingredients, pesticides, herbicides, or mechanized equipment used in processing.Guaranteed 100% organic. Of course, keeping the primitives primitive enough to ensure the Corporation’s promise of natural purity can be a challenge, especially when they’re like those it found twenty thousand years ago huddling in caves and scraping a meager and precarious existence on a pale blue planet in the Milky Way’s Orion–Cygnus spiral arm. The humans keep trying to change things.An Android Dog’s Tale is the 15,000-year episodic story of one canine mobile observer android who must make choices about what he wants to accomplish in his artificial life. Does he accept the wisdom of his makers or does he dare to question?This book is available in eBook and trade paperback editions.

Shadows on the Highway


C.S. Valentine - 2016
    This collection of delightfully twisted, supernatural short stories will captivate your imagination and entertain your darker side. A monster with a love of bakery, an old woman living in fear with her ex-con nephew, a widow with only one chance left, and a demon with a dark and powerful heart, are some of the characters wrestling with their darker selves in this enjoyable collection.