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How quickly the ground shifts beneath our feet. We make choices—in the face of love, or violence, or necessity—and the effects ripple outward. In these moving short stories, acclaimed authors examine the foundations of the past, uncovering the irreversible decisions and life-changing encounters that mark the turning point between before and after.

Dr. Alex Campbell has an agenda - finish his contract to provide medical services in Maine, pay off his medical school debt, and head back to his real life in San Diego. But when he meets Julia, all his carefully laid plans are put in jeopardy. Julia Stewart, Lobster Cove’s high school principal, swears she’ll never let another man drag her away from the home she loves. Her aging parents need her, and the cove is where she wants to raise her daughter.

A compilation of short stories from East Anglia written by a prize-winning author. Myths and history are threaded together with depictions of the landscape to illustrate the hardworking, bleak, and beautiful aspects of this land. The collection includes tales that have supernatural themes and unexpected endings. There are stories that leave a spine-tingling chill of fear and others where the writer produces stories that are filled with emotion, somehow managing to be heartwarming and heart-wrenching at the same time.

Many creatures lurk in the dark, weaving on top of one another, roiling together like waves on the night sea. The darkness forms in layers to encompass the land, fill the corners, and obscure angles. Untold mysteries lie just beyond reach told in many tongues, many inflections, many rhythms. The stories are many. Innumerable. Legion.

Suffering PTSD from her past cases, Inspector Regulator Fawn Granger is exhausted with her job and she can’t wait to move to the Southwest Territories, when another death violation drops into her lap. World famous Dr. Leonard Cho, obsessed with cybernetics, is killed. Fawn and long-term partner, Briscoe Baker, have investigated strange cases before, but nothing like this one. Potential witnesses value their tech over the death of Dr. Cho, making the case difficult to solve.

As the blood trickled from his lasergun wounds and the gash in his chest, Inspectors Fawn and Briscoe knew that being shot, stabbed, beaten, and discarded like trash in The District was no way to die. They are tasked with untangling the complex web of relationships and volatile personalities swirling around the ultimate social butterfly - Lucky Strange. But who hated him enough to kill him?

From the mean-streets of The District to the darkest depths of cyberspace, Inspector Fawn Granger is on a mission. She has one goal: to end The Fish's reign of terror. But when she finally gets her chance to capture the elusive violator, disaster strikes and Fawn finds herself in an impossible case.