Just when it seems that his grief may turn into madness, a disfigured man appears and reveals to Jeremy that his mother's death was no accident: She was murdered for unearthing a deadly conspiracy.Now, if Jeremy wants to stay alive, he must trust this mysterious stranger at all costs and find a way to eliminate the impending threat--before it eliminates him.Short Fiction. approx. 26 pages

    Sherman’s death sparks one of the wildest, weirdest adventures he’s ever had…Upon Mr. Sherman’s death, Charles learns the rich old gentleman gave away all his money, leaving only his Victorian mansion and the huge library in the house. His will clearly stipulates the new owner must keep the library intact. Of course, with Mr. Sherman being dead, how would he know or even care about the library?It isn’t until Charles buys the house and discovers someone has stolen items from the library that he understands the significance of keeping the library intact. Mr. Sherman’s letter to the new owner shares the secret of the library—every item in the library is haunted! But how can Charles ever imagine just how deadly the library keeper’s job is…or the blood bath that will follow if he fails to “protect and serve” according to Mr. Sherman’s will?Sherman's Library Trilogy Contains:1. Sherman's Library2. An Endless Search3. Gathering The Cursed

    and more?Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a complete roleplaying game. In it, you will find:• An introduction to roleplaying and the Buffyverse.• A roleplaying guide to all seven season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.• Detailed character creation, including pre-constructed Heroes and White Hats, for your quick-play pleasure.• Roleplaying specifics for the entire Original Cast, from Buffy to Dawn, including their wild and wacky changes.• The Buffy Unisystem, streamlined for cinematic slayage and sneakage.• A primer on magic mojo, for those who dare.• A guide to the hotspots of Sunnydale.• The monsters of mayhem, all stat-ed out and ready-to-slay, and the skinny every season's Big Bad.• Blow-by-blow instructions for creating Buffy roleplaying Episodes, Seasons, and Series.• A complete Episode to get slaying fast and easy.• A guide to Buffyspeak to add sparkle to your dialogue .

    But the heart came from a vampire, and he wants it back. The heart of a vampire is a powerful and valuable thing. From rabid dog-monsters to mysterious con-men and clandestine government agencies, there's no shortage of people who are after the heart that now beats in Maddy's chest. As people start dying all around her, Maddy begins to realize that she's in mortal danger. A mysterious figure arrives on the scene, offering to save her, but can even he be trusted? Maddy must make a decision fast, and the consequences could change the world forever. Will Maddy get to keep her heart? Who will win the struggle to win her trust? Why did one of the world's most powerful vampires lose his heart in the first place? And what dark forces are working behind the scenes to change the fate of the entire world?

    Damaged and determined, she'll take you to the wrong side of the tracks and you'll love it.Harmony's darkest secret has clawed its way back from the grave and only her best friend, Brea believes her. Adam, Harmony's boyfriend, fears for her safety. Her mentally ill mother is too busy tending her own demons to care. Brea's family, who has denounced Harmony's for years, buried the truth about their shared tragic past along with their former friendship.Harmony looks for answers about the monster's identity in the wreckage of her abandoned childhood home but when her search leads her down a dark path, Brea and Adam must pick up the crumbs to get much needed closure.Some secrets you keep, even from yourself. Dead Spell is about a ghost with a past and a girl who would die to forget it.A Young Adult novel intended for older teens and fans of YA fiction. Some mature themes.

    Armies are being raised and targets being set. All that stands between life and chaos are Alice Blood and a handful of unsuspecting federal agents. The war between the living and the undead has begun!

     Every hell has its devil. And Carson is about to become intimately acquainted with hers.Seventeen-year-old wallflower Carson Porter has always dreamed of being something special, but what she gets isn’t what she signed up for. Yeah, a girl’s supposed to change as she gets older, but this is ridiculous! Shiny skin, greener eyes and a run-in with the flesh-eating dead are just a few of the changes Carson has to adjust to, not to mention the arrival of very hot and very dangerous Derek Hrolf. If all that wasn’t enough to turn her once hum-drum life into something unrecognizable, a twin sister that haunts her from the shadows and a wheeling, dealing collector of souls will definitely do the trick. The question is: what will her life become? And what will she become?

    I can hear the dead. I’m struggling to figure out my new life as a psychic. I’m trying to figure out my new feelings for my best friend since second grade, Jax. And I’d like to pass my freshman year of college, too. And then the Hunters show up. Rough Luke and gorgeous Mave. It doesn’t take a psychic to tell those boys are trouble. They’re trying to stop the November murders. A girl disappears from campus every November, and they believe she’s being taken by a murderous poltergeist. They can’t speak to the dead. They need me. Most of all, the women on our campus, and the ghosts of the dead girls, need me. I can’t let them down. I hunt the ghost. And then the ghost hunts me. If I can trust Jax and these Hunters to have my back, we might all survive. But how can I ever reconcile these two worlds? I long for life with Jax, simple and sweet. And I crave the chance to use my gifts, with these two Hunters by my side. When you come back from the dead, how do you learn to live again?

    As the diary entries become darker and more mysterious, Emma meets a handsome stranger, and her personal life takes on uncanny parallels to her secret online translations. When her love life grows even stranger, Emma wonders if she should end the blog, but is it too late?The Rise of the Dark Ones Trilogy is perfect for fans of vampire and paranormal mysteries, psychic investigator thrillers, occult suspense, angels, demons, and lovers of a good twist.Alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.

    Yet each time he’s killed, he wakes a few minutes later completely healed of his wounds but with no memory of his past identity. What’s worse, each time he cheats death someone else dies in his place.Sent to steal an antique box from some squatters in an abandoned warehouse near the West Side Highway, Trent soon finds himself stumbling into an age-old struggle between the forces of good and evil, revealing a secret world where dangerous magic turns people into inhuman monstrosities, where impossible creatures hide in plain sight, and where the line between the living and the dead is never quite clear. And when the mysterious box is opened, he discovers he has only twenty-four hours to save New York City from certain destruction.

    But what if a monster isn’t enough? Shadows gather, winter deepens, and Assevan falls farther into the dark. Pitted against monsters and men, Konrad faces deeper challenges. Darker foes. Some can rival even the Malykant’s power. Pushed beyond his endurance, challenged beyond his sanity, at long last Death’s Avenger might need a little help... Konrad Savast returns for another chilling set of adventures in the second volume of the Malykant Mysteries.

    When Rihitel, their guardian, kidnaps Clalisa, he weakens the Door of Chaos as demons begin to pour through and threaten to destroy the entire kingdom. Will Mizeria find her sister in time to restore order to the world?

     What if everything you've been told is a lie? Fifteen years ago the war demolished Arrow's family. Lied to and betrayed, she's driven to shatter the conspiracy concealing how her parents and thousands of others died. But to go up against the powerful government she'll need to align herself with the strangest and most dangerous criminals in Victory City: the Specials. They are not what they seem... They are magic misfits and criminals, recruited and blackmailed to fill ordinary positions within the Sinistera Hotel. But for those who are greedy enough--or desperate like Arrow--there are opportunities to earn big money doing illegal magic jobs. The danger and the risks are high. Magic assassination, kidnapping, assault--there's a good chance Arrow and the others could be killed or wish they had been. But though the Specials each have agendas of their own, they are determined to rewrite history...if they can survive that long. Demon Leap is the first book in The Specials series. Check out this imaginative paranormal thriller that will grab you from page one and keep you at the edge of your seat!

    The estate is in disrepair, but one couple is determined to restore the estate to its former glory. But when strange accidents begin to become more dangerous, putting their crew’s lives at risk, the fixer-upper couple realize they might have bitten off more than they could chew.The Haunting of Calhoun MansionThree murders. One night. No convictions.Nicole Harper, a hospice nurse with a floundering marriage, is assigned a new patient in the remote Northwestern wilderness. But when Nic meets her new patient, she discovers the old woman's family history is as troubling as her medical condition.The Haunting of the Holloway FamilyA job opportunity has brought the Holloway family to a small desert town on the Arizona/California border in the middle of nowhere. But what is thought as a godsend soon devolves into a parent’s worst nightmare.

    Jade has dedicated her life to Karma Division, and in return she's expecting her own personal fairytale, complete with her dream job and love at first sight with a tall, dark, and handsome soulmate.After more than a decade of waiting, her destined soulmate still hasn't turned up, but a stellar annual performance review from the Powers That Be puts Jade at the top of the promotion list. All she has to do is maintain her territory's karmic balance until the selection process is over. Naturally, a deranged shooter picks the next day to start a rampage that threatens to destroy the karmic balance of Midtown West - and, incidentally, any chance Jade has of earning that long-awaited promotion.Unwilling to give up despite warnings from her boss, who knows the shadowy Destiny Division won't appreciate Jade's interference, Jade starts her own investigation. In the next shooting, she nearly becomes a victim herself, but she can't prove her near-death experience is anything but a coincidence. Detective Luke Jackson, Jade's unwitting and extremely unwilling soulmate, arrives on the scene to investigate. Instead of falling head over heels in love with her, Luke suspects her of being involved in the murders.If Jade wants her fairytale ending, she’ll have to convince her soulmate she isn’t a killer while trying to catch the real culprit, a task made more difficult and infinitely more dangerous when Jade becomes the killer’s next target.