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Action. Adventure. Women. Lots of wonderful, maddening women. It would be an ideal world, an ideal life after the last week's carnage and mayhem.... Except for the part where the local Overmind has taken an unhealthy interest in me and wants to both make my life a living nightmare and an unparalleled paradise. What is there not to like? Despite the situation we found ourself in and having to get used to our new life, all I needed were Scarlet and Katya. But it wouldn't be interesting if a single day could go by without the cosmic order kicking you in the nuts.

Most of Eli’s life has been spent running, doing everything in his power to protect his family. His world is plagued by war, wild magic, and unimaginable monsters. But none of these threats are more dangerous than the immortal beings known as Adventurers. They are players and Entarra is their game. Its citizens aren’t real. Yet, to the billions of near-sentient AI that live there, the game world is the only one they will ever know. It is where they are born, live, and die. Eli is no different.

A freak accident leaves childhood friends Aiden and Scarlet dead and stranded in Hazard Online, a VR MMORPG. They're pushed to the brink of their sanity as they awaken with the knowledge of their death and are thrust into an experimental expansion, which only further threatens to tear them apart.

The Universe is a vast place managed by millions of species known as the Onatics. Ancient rules have established how expansion, warfare, and immortality are governed. Our enlightened neighbors scorn us humans for failing to integrate and advance. Insert Mack...a young man whose main goal is to become a ZBall pro. An advanced Emperor marks Mack for greatness. All of a sudden his life is swirled into a series of combat situations, generated competitions, intricate business dealings...and a few perfectly engineered females.

We don't always get to choose our friends. Left battered and wounded, but still very much alive, Ocken and Riley race to save more than 20 young girls from a life of servitude at the hand of crime lord Edward Ziken. The difficulty of the task ahead leads them to once again ally themselves with the nefarious Viper. Their plans are going well until a familiar third party inserts himself into the mix landing Ocken and Riley in hot water. Will they be able to get themselves out of this risky situation? Or will they be handing in their swords for a pair of shackles instead?

Meliu survived the horrors at the Shrine of Burdenis, her scalp mangled by the Taken, but she braved her soul's eternity to rescue holy tomes. Escorted by Ivin Choerkin and the wardens, she found the legendary Codex of Sol, a book thought destroyed by the Clan Choerkin centuries ago. The Codex once brought holy war with its forbidden prophecies; its pages once again seem poised to change the destiny of a people.

Everybody makes mistakes. But rarely do those mistakes result in somebody's death. Riley Harper is trying to forgive and forget. Yet it's not as easy as it sounds when the person she's trying to forgive is herself. Ocken understands that no one can control absolutely everything that happens in life, but perhaps taking action that will help people is exactly the kind of remedy she needs.

Hope burns brightest in the night. Death follows Riley Harper like an unwelcome visitor. Yet this time, her goal is to save a life from his cold embrace rather than ushering it into the great beyond. The king's assassins have marked the governor of Havan for death, but the elusive Viper sends Ocken and Riley to kidnap her for his own machinations. As the events unfold, the pair soon discover that they aren't the only ones after the governor, and what should have been a simple job turns into a convoluted scheme with far-reaching ramifications.

A crownless young queen and her protector fighting corruption, one job at a time. Riley Harper wants to kill the king. Yet his godlike power makes him nigh untouchable. When their money runs out, Riley and Ocken have more basic problems - like where to find their next meal. But if Riley has to don another barmaid's uniform, she's liable to snap. Fortunately for them, a mysterious hooded stranger, who goes by the name of Viper, might have just the job they're looking for.

The earnings from their last heist have dried up. Now, Ocken and Riley are once again in need of a job. Ocken doesn't dare work for the mysterious Viper again, but Riley wants to use the stranger to take down the crime lord, Edward Ziken. Except Viper is nowhere to be found. But Viper isn't the only one looking for hired hands. Soon, Ocken and Riley find themselves as pawns in yet another plot for power.

Riley Harper wants to kill the king. Yet his godlike power makes him nigh untouchable. When their money runs out, Riley and Ocken have more basic problems - like where to find their next meal. But if Riley has to don another barmaid's uniform, she's liable to snap. Fortunately for them, a mysterious hooded stranger who goes by the name of Viper might have just the job they're looking for.

Five hundred years ago the world shattered, banishing the gods from the Sister Continents and stealing the memories of the mortal peoples in an event known as the Great Forgetting. In 17 days the stars will align, and a religious cabal will summon the gods back to the realms of men.In the northern tundra priests search the Steaming Lakes, a place tormented by the Wakened Dead. Deep in the mountains, demonic shadows assail priests at a holy shrine. In the south, the clans know something foul is afoot, and dispatch warriors to seek answers, but instead they find horrors.

Between death still existing in the afterlife, running through death games that resembled a few videogames I had played in my past, and just trying to survive, just trying not to get squished...Sigh. And between the death of my wife a few years back, not knowing if my daughter was alive or not, and meeting a new friend who mysteriously received all my memories—even my weird dreams that I don’t want anyone to know about—and then having her expose those buried memories to everyone...Sigh. Between all those things, you know what sucks more?

Five years in the prime of his life, wasted. And now finally, after so long, he was returning to society, ready to resume his life. And this time he wouldn't make the same mistakes. This time, he would do it right. Yet just as he was about to gain his freedom...everything changed. He found himself in a new world without explanation, a world of magic and possibilities beyond his wildest dreams. Orc, elf, ogre…hundreds of possible races. Blacksmith, fighter, rogue…thousands of possible classes. And each of them with tens of thousands of possible skills.

Chief McAdams is a legend in the ranks of the United States Coast Guard. His career spanned twenty-seven years from 1950 through 1977. During that time, he operated numerous patrol and motor lifeboats. He commanded stations, wrote training manuals, and assisted in designing and testing new boat designs. Throughout his career Chief McAdams is credited with participating in over 5000 rescues and saving over 100 lives.