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We are all looking for the ultimate, something wild and beautiful beyond our wildest dreams. The reason I hit the road, went to skid row, and climbed high peaks was to search for the raw, pure holiness that I suspected permeated all of life. You see, I was not seeking religion, salvation, or even success. I was tracking down the truth. I was pursuing the source of all this. I was hunting wildness. And I found it.

Refusing to heed an evacuation warning, Wade Freeman and his family stay to protect their home in the destructive path of a hurricane. But after the storm the devastation is too much for the Freemans to bear. Hoping to secure a better future, Wade moves his family deep in the Canadian wilderness to a remote riverside community called New Haven on the advice of his brother.

A collection of short stories; some are true, some are fiction, but all are captivating. To say that the deep south is different is stating the absurdly obvious. In many ways it has not changed in the last 100 years or so. This is especially true of South Louisiana where I grew up, just a stones' throw from the Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and practically on the banks of the same river that Huck Finn rafted down. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Hershey Bars and Werewolves.

When Sloan Booker’s father dies tragically, he has no other option but to give up his job as an FBI agent and take over his family’s vehicle restoration business in Oahu, Hawaii. Giving up his badge is difficult but having Homeland Security and his old boss request the use of his house in a stakeout, spying on his Muslim neighbors who they suspect are terrorists, is just too damn much for a man already frazzled. It makes no difference that they’ve offered him a partner to be in charge of the surveillance...until he meets the gorgeous divorcee.

If love for his father makes a man weak, what’ll happen when he gives his heart to a woman? When Special Agent Finnegan O'Reilly gets shot, and the news brings on his father’s heart attack, he decides to take leave from further undercover assignments. The O'Reilly has suffered enough, and Finn can’t be the cause of more distress for this beloved old rascal. Unexpectedly, his boss forces one more case on him - to take place in their own pub.

When high-powered corporate lawyer Dupree arrives in White Owl, Washington, he should know better than to get between a corrupt deputy and the focus of his lust. Little did he know that his actions set in motion a reign of terror on the whole town. Will the town continue to allow a corrupt man to destroy their gentle life and make law the enemy? Sometimes the battle between good and evil seems unwinnable, until just one man steps out of the shadows and dares to make a difference. 

Forced into a marriage arranged by the orphanage where she lived, Sadie escapes the clutches of an abusive older man: her betrothed. She needs to stay hidden, where no one knows her or cares that she has broken the law. Dr. Elliott Larkin is still reeling over the loss of his young family. His brother in Big Rock has convinced him to come back home to visit, and he decides a change would do him good. Who would have thought a mine collapse on the outskirts of town would be just what the doctor ordered? 

Seconds chances come in their own time. For Mindy and Creed the flame remains. Newly divorced and empty nester, Mindy Sage, decided that her hometown might be the perfect place to reinvent herself, or at least find the wild and carefree girl she used to be before she moved away. She’s craving small town comfort, but the problem is, in Cooper’s Hawk, everyone knows everyone. Secrets can feel as tall and wide as the Montana mountains that backdrop the friendly, picturesque town where she’d left her heart in the hands of a handsome cowboy 19 years ago.

Humanity has come face to face with its own mortality. The Earth, its environment overwhelmed by the products of an increasing human civilization, no longer offers its inhabitants quality of life. Survival, for all of the Earth's species, has become the only goal. Then they came. Not many, just a few. Their behavior and instincts were more like the bear and the deer than human but they possessed powers beyond humanity's comprehension. They came to restore paradise on Earth.

Adam Dupree is at a literal crossroad of life. Dupree’s life has become a living hell, and it’s time to make a change. Turn right and end it. Or, turn left, break free, and see where life takes him. That one decision sends Dupree on an epic journey of rediscovery, as he attempts to understand the mystery inside himself. Moving down a literal and figurative highway, his life attains meaning by defending the weak, protecting the poor, and standing up for what is right in an unjust world.

Honor, courage and a profound sense of right and wrong! These are the character traits Marshal Wallace McKenney lives by. His reputation is known far and wide in Kansas and neighboring states. Those on the other side of the law usually give him and his pearl-handled Colt a wide berth. Those that don’t...well, they pay the price.

Kevin J. Kennedy has put together some of the horror world’s best-selling anthologies over recent years. Now, for the first time, he has collected some of his own short stories in one place. Dark Thoughts features a brand new, 8,000 word tribute story to Richard Laymon's Dark Mountain. 

Something doesn't want the inhabitants of an isolated mountain town to leave. When local hermit Maul Thorndean disappears, Sheriff Joe Moorefield finds his cabin in a bewildering state. All of the surrounding trees have turned white and brittle and are leaning towards the cabin. There is blood on the floor but no sign of Maul. The dying of the trees spreads and soon the townspeople are encircled by ash grey trees with limbs that wont allow them to leave. That's when the people begin to disappear.

Dr. CC Peladora never expected to ask a stranger to father her child, but neither did she think she’d be diagnosed with a chronic disease. With a failed marriage and a busy career, love is the last thing on her priority list, but she wants more than anything to experience motherhood before it’s too late. When she hears through the grapevine that Adam Colt, the sexy, mysterious son of Buzz Colt, must marry to meet the stipulations of his father’s will, she sees an opportunity that won’t come along again.

A missing student. A gunned-down detective. A woman in fear for her life. All three are connected somehow. Detective Inspector Carl Sant and his fellow officers get on the case. But what links the disappearance of a university student, the death of an off-duty police sergeant, and a professor reluctant to help them solve the case?

Hailey is a palm reader and a fortune teller, complete with crystal balls and tarot cards in her little shop in the French Quarter of New Orleans. She is a throwback to the '60s, with her boho style and long, blonde hair. Joshua is a marketing guy - a handsome business type - who has been seeing Hailey professionally for over a year. She predicted his promotion, that he'd find the perfect condo, and just about everything that's happened in his life recently.

Former homicide detective Brandon Mattson takes command of his hometown police force just one year after his brother was killed in the line of duty. Still haunted by his brother’s unsolved murder, he struggles to rein in the fledgling department while learning the ropes as a newly divorced single parent. Brandon’s respite from homicide is short-lived when a missing woman’s body washes ashore on the nearby Quileute Reservation. Savage fang marks and a series of ominous vampire-related graffiti point to a member of a secret blood-sucking cult.

He is known as the "Master". Spy, double agent, freelance assassin. He has been at the top of his game for 30 years and worked for Nazis, Communists, intelligence agencies, and terrorists alike. No one knows his true identity. Now, the world’s most secretive assassin has disappeared, and several intelligence networks want him captured, interrogated, and "redacted".

An off-duty detective gunned down. A dead woman. A student missing, feared dead. And now, a former policeman in search of his past. All these people, dead or alive, have one thing in common. D.I. Carl Sant must discover what it is. A series of cold-case enquiries leads D.I. Sant and his colleagues to investigate a botched assassination plot dating back to the 1980s. The deeper they dig into the case, the more secrets are revealed, including shocking connections to the infamous National Front.

On January 17, 1781, at Cowpens, South Carolina, the notorious British cavalry officer Banastre Tarleton and his legion had been destroyed along with the cream of Lord Cornwallis’s troops. The man who planned and executed this stunning American victory was Daniel Morgan. Once a barely literate backcountry laborer, Morgan now stood at the pinnacle of American martial success. When George Washington called for troops to join him at the siege of Boston in 1775, Morgan organized a select group of riflemen and headed north.