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Dungeons are a lot like sea turtles. They’re born in clutches of dozens, if not hundreds. A 100 may be born at one time, buried in still-burning cities, in forests where the canopy hides the sky, or in ocean trenches at the bottom of the sea. But, only one in a clutch ever makes it to the surface. Everyone knows about dungeons - monstrous factories that emerge out of the earth, full of riches and Arcana and power - and monsters.

Something is listening to the prayers of St. Paul’s United Church, but it’s not the god they asked for; it’s something much, much older. A quiet Sunday service turns into a living hell when this ancient entity descends upon the house of worship and claims the congregation for its own.

James was no one special. That all changed when he became an overnight millionaire. After building a mansion and leaving his past life behind, James is finally free. Living in a massive home on top of a large mountain range has perks, but it doesn't help with crippling loneliness. With his financial worries gone, he sets his eyes on a local waitress named Beth in hopes to explore a possible relationship. But the world was about to change forever.

The cult known as the Black Phoenix is hot on my tail, attempting to thwart me as I liberate monster women across the multiverse and bring them back to my castle. Worse yet, a half-sister I never knew I had is their champion. The only thing that can stop a Van Helsing is a Van Helsing, so I can’t afford to take her lightly. What’s more, I have to stay focused on my mission. But when there’s downtime.

The world’s most notorious slashers hacked their way into our psyches and buried their hatchets in our hearts. Summer camps became sinister slaughterhouses, jigsaw puzzles twisted into bloody brainteasers, and all small Texas towns conjured images of cannibalistic chainsaw carnage.

The first of upcoming new author J.P. Willie's horror novels, Blood in the Woods is based upon disturbing real-life events that took place in 1990s Louisiana. For Jody, growing up in the late '80s and early '90s in the small Louisiana town of Hammond with his best friend Jack was filled with wonderful childhood memories.

Clues come thick and fast as Daniel attempts to unravel a plot that spans ten thousand years. With his stone secured, a gorgeous dwarf comes to his stronghold with a proposal he finds impossible to refuse. But other problems are gathering on his horizon, and the meddling of the Gods is beginning to frustrate him at every turn. People aren’t who they seem. Worse, time is running out.

With the wood to build his stronghold secured, Daniel turns his eye to the Stormbane Mountains and an unlikely partnership with the Annuck goblins. But will Tanaka, a beautiful goblin female, be willing to do business with him? He needs her stone, but more than that, he needs access to stop the Grey Sorceress’s curse and reverse the blight of the elves. To get both, and capture Tanaka’s heart, he must take on the hobgoblins of Treygorvo in a do or die battle.

Even on a world where everyone lives forever and abilities are god-like, there's always one who struggles to keep up. His name is Bernie. More than anything, young Bernie wants to be a great universe builder like his father. In school he learned to build suns and planets and to create life. When he gets the chance to build his own universe, Bernie finds it full of problems: mysterious asteroids, unexplained volcanoes, and shifting continents, all threatening to destroy his beautiful planet.

Two novel-length sci-fi stories in one? Check. A mix of hot human and alien women? Check. Capable MCs who know how to get things done? Double check.

Earth has fallen. Humanity’s mighty fleets and brave soldiers weren’t enough to hold back the relentless creatures of the Voidborn. Hope now rests in the hands of Kayden Reynolds and his crew of misfits and aliens. Will they be able to rally enough forces to launch a counterattack and take Earth back? Or will the rest of the galaxy soon follow?

The Phase Titan now has six Harmonics, but Ethan is just one man with no way to wipeout the worldwide infestation. Moonshot experiments risk unintended consequences. Worse, an alien fleet prepares to turn Earth into a radioactive wasteland—not to stop the Swarm, but to prevent Ethan from gaining more power. Faced with two converging apocalypses, Ethan and his Harmonics will need brains, brawn, and all the Psy they can get their hands on. The question is if they can handle it.

The Swarm is mortal. Ethan, with the help of his Harmonics, destroyed one outbreak and harvested its power. The problem? Ethan wasn’t Earth’s first Phase Titan, and his predecessors did him no favors by scattering the Titan armaments.

The experiment’s final stage is here, an apocalyptic Swarm ravenous for biomass and Psy. Its arrival wakes a dormant extraterrestrial artifact that seizes Ethan and transforms him into something more than human. Phase Titan—the title means nothing to Ethan or his scientist companion. But to the alien babe he finds fighting the local warlord the Titans are legendary warriors, a myth that she came to Earth chasing, and the only hope for stopping the Swarm.

Despite doing everything in his power to overcome the association with his father, his job at the NSA was shrouded by suspicious looks and doubt. When his mother is killed, he flees the US and takes a job with Eidolon, working as the communications lifeline for the team. For the first time, he’s found a purpose and a brotherhood that fills the empty corners of his life. Yet, he still yearns to uncover the truth about his mother’s death, and his father’s part in it.

The Grim, the post-mortem chaperone who collected me, is the crankiest Death in the greater Kansas City area. Understandable, since her job is to bag the souls of the worthless and rotten. Apparently I'm so crummy they made me her apprentice. There are so many other kinds of Death, and of all of them, I get lassoed to Miss Buzzkill, who loves to remind me I'm hers with her big green gargoyle finger, pointing and giving me her spooky come-hither. As the Grim's new involuntary Lackey, some of the rules are easy.

Take a space-pirate, inspired by a long-ago Dark Lord. Take a long period of quarantine within the tiny confines of a stolen starship. Now, take 42 busted, broken, or overbearing tropes of fantasy and science fiction. One by one, the Dark Lord twists each into a strange shape and uses it to tell a new story - many of them disgracefully funny, some rather dark, and none of them suitable for vulnerable minds such as yours. Jeff Mach brings tight, interesting, usually satirical, often quite twisted stories, to light a fire in your belly like whiskey, and light a whiskey on fire.

When a wealthy and gorgeous woman asks PI Frank Orpheus to find her missing identity, he just can't say no - even if the case leads him into a criminal underworld more horrific than anything he ever imagined. Private detective Frank Orpheus, searching for a mysterious woman’s missing identity, finds himself entangled in a web of underworld characters far nastier than any he’s ever met.

In a world of angels, demons, vampires, shifters, and magic, Alec, a regular mortal is thrust into a world that’s been hidden to every race but witches. With nothing more than his wits and an old book, Alec volunteers himself to help Celadon, a stranger he found injured in an alley, complete her Blood Trials. The three trials set Alec and Cel on a mission of death, secrets, and blood. Will they make it out alive or fall victim to whoever has the hidden agenda of the missions they’ve been set on?

Mark Peter - middle-aged, soft belly, weed wacker haircut - likes the quiet life. Any day spent indoors eating frozen pizzas, painting RPG figures in the basement, and feeding his scruffy cat is a good day. The problem is the outside world. When Mark touches certain things, he draws. Sometimes, it’s a little boy lost in the woods and sometimes, a throw pillow held tight against a grandmother’s face as she scratches at gloved hands.