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As the nation slowly crumbles around her, Sierra Forester returns home for a wedding - and finds herself in the center of an FBI investigation. She discovers her university friends are not who she thought they were…and they’ve left her in a perilous predicament. A quiet, reclusive stranger has moved to the tiny Southeast Alaskan island she calls home. Can she trust him? Or anyone? Meanwhile, Russia and China have launched hybrid warfare against the United States. A sleepy administration is slow to respond. Will they wake up in time to save the country?

Nina Anderson is lucky to be alive. After years of abuse at the hands of her boyfriend, she’s finally free. Determined to get back on her feet, she’s left her past behind for a fresh start on her grandparents’ farm in Despair, Kansas. Even though Jeremy - the man who’d abused her - is in prison 1,500 miles away, Nina is still haunted by dark memories. Then, a mysterious, unearthly man appears, bringing her the respect she’s always wanted - and maybe a chance at love.

In the near future, a NASA deep-space telescope discovers a planet that has the necessary requirements to produce life. Rebecca Evans, a staunch evolutionary scientist, is one of the people chosen to visit the planet. After arriving on the surface, she is kidnapped and finds herself caught in the middle of an ongoing planetary war between alien clans.

Fleeing the kingdom he once ruled, Lochlan Stormgarden leads the survivors of the Bloody Red Night across Myriad on a desperate quest for safety. With tyrannical High King Morlan's legions and the lethal bone ministers constantly dogging his steps, Lochlan discovers that the only refuge might be a legendary contagion-cursed fortress deep in the heart of the Gorrack nation.

In this allegorical short story, Nathaniel Hawthorne parodies John Bunyan’s famous book, The Pilgrim’s Progress. Rather than take the long and arduous road to the Celestial City, Hawthorne’s narrator hops on the express train to paradise. As he gets closer to his destination, however, he realizes that the clever-talking Mr. Smooth-It-Away may not be who he claims. While a caricature of Bunyan’s original tale, “The Celestial Railroad” ultimately drives home a similar point: there is no easy road to Heaven, so tough it out on the straight and narrow.

The Road to Chidarra is a Christian fiction novel based in an age when men worshiped at the altar of their cruel masters, the gods, and feared the monsters and strange beings who plagued their lands with malice and terror. The cries of the people are heard, and a stranger is sent from afar to guide, protect, and bring peace to the lands. This, however, comes at great cost, for the dark powers do not give in so easily, and the struggle for freedom always and forever shall be paved with blood and sacrifice.

In this fresh take on the classic Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, James L. Rubart explores the war between good and evil within each of us—and one man’s only chance to overcome the greatest divide of the soul. What if you woke up one morning and the darkest parts of yourself were gone? Torren...

The year is 2320. Andi Lloyd is content with her life as the assistant to her adoptive father, a starship doctor, but her secure world turns upside down when she begins uncovering secrets from her past. When her father mysteriously starts losing his mind, she finds that she can no longer count on him to guide or help her. With mutiny breaking out on the ship, and two factions desperate for a valuable secret she holds, she must race to help her father and herself, before time runs out.

Elijah Goldsmith has nightmares he needs to ignore. Why would a rich kid from Manhattan dream three straight nights about a dragon and the destruction of St. Peter’s Basilica? He’s never even been to Rome. It’s bad timing, too. He’s graduating soon and applying to be a spy in the International Security Agency. That’s where he meets Naomi. She’s the kind of girl who makes boys like Elijah want to share their secrets.

Braxton Luther is 16 when the Progressive Reform Party takes over the government. It can't be that bad. So they don't want religion in government - that's constitutional. He can't understand his church's hypersensitive reaction or his father's cryptic warning to stand against the Party's ultimatums. But after living under the new government for a year, Braxton faces a choice - conform to the demands of the ungodded in order to protect his best friend, Eliza, or defy the system and go into hiding, ensuring a life of misery.

Der Journalist Peter Adam erwacht im Kölner Dom - ohne Erinnerung daran, was in den letzten Tagen geschehen ist. Ringsum hebt sich der Boden, die Hölle tut sich auf, Menschen stehen in Flammen. Hat die Zeit der Apokalypse begonnen? Selbst der Papst im fernen Rom, der sich Petrus II. nennt, scheint von einem Dämon besessen zu sein und tut nichts, um das drohende Verhängnis abzuwenden. Die letzte Hoffnung der Welt liegt in der rätselhaften Tätowierung, die Peter Adams gesamten Körper bedeckt. Uralte Zeichen, die den Weg zu einem der größten Mysterien der Menschheitsgeschichte weisen. Dem Ursprung des Bösen.

How will the church respond to an android seeking to join? Find out in this short story by David T. Wolf.

Lucifer's plan to have his son rule has not been deterred by the conflicts raging among the Descendants and humans. In fact, they have only brought him closer to that goal. As Brody and Oliver and their allies remain a step behind Grayson Stone and the Descendants serving him, new plans emerge that preclude much more than his desire for British power. Stone intends to control all nations, using the United States as his new power base. However, in order to accomplish his goals, Grayson will have to go beyond what he's ever done before and join with Lucifer to become one.

The Law was written in stone. The debt is written in blood. After one hundred and twenty years of fire, water, and desert sand, the Prophet Moses climbs the jagged peaks of Mount Nebo for the final time. Below him lies the Promised Land he is forbidden to enter; behind him, a nation of two million souls waiting for a leader who will not return. But as the breath fades from the man of God, a cosmic trial of staggering proportions begins in the heights. Satan, the Accuser, has come to claim the physical vessel of the Lawgiver.

For three long years after losing her home in the Crylmar attacks, twenty-two-year-old Annette Beaumont has worked hard to keep her family together. But when her papa's debt to the crown is called into question, and she and her sister are sent to serve at the castle until it's paid, she's drawn into a plot that threatens everything she's worked for. Shunned and hated, Prince Laurent Villeneuve is running out of time to find a bride before he forfeits his right to the throne.

Narnia meets Stranger Things in this debut four-part fantasy inspired by the worlds of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. The world was whole, once. Before the Phoenix drew his line. Before the River split it in two. Before the Bridge of Evon.  When Foxlaris Scottsworth steps onto the legendary Bridge of Evon, he becomes the first to cross into the forbidden East in over a thousand years. But what begins as a triumph ends in desolation, casting Foxlaris into a forgotten world.

Clean Fairytale Retelling based on the Greek myth Hades and Persephone with elements of Swan Lake. Fans of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Melanie Dickerson will enjoy this epic fairytale adventure story. A princess of light, forever bound to darkness. A son of darkness, forever longing for the beauty of light. It has been months since Princess Julianna’s brother, Gabriel, left for the Winter realm to discover the source of the Spring realm’s waning power. Upon his return, strange things begin to occur.

A Thrilling Christian Dystopian AdventureWhen hope dies, who will carry the light? After the shocking events at Empyrean Enterprises, Kelly finds herself investigating mysteries that stretch far deeper than corporate corruption — while 400 years in the future, Kaden discovers that surviving The Tower was only the beginning. Mysteriously connected across two worlds and two lifetimes, they must navigate both 21st-century conspiracies and a dystopian future where betrayal lurks in every shadow.

Everything Thomas Benton ever wanted is finally within his reach. As Vice-Regent in the New World Faith Union, he is two steps beneath the spiritual adviser to Premier Immu Aali, the leader of the world. He has wealth, power, prestige and any pleasure he wishes. But memories of his best friend’s execution haunt him day and night. Why does he care? His job has been to eradicate all Deviants from the planet, and he’s been good at it...until one fateful day when he’s assigned to either break or execute a particularly powerful Deviant, the only woman he has ever loved.

With the world of Konsin II under Elorian control, Drin and Anais look to the stars for their next mission. But the church moves slowly in its deliberations. Each moment wasted is another in which her people might die—or worse. Anais has to grapple with the Elorian nanites living inside her, and what it means to have faith. Drin must once again leave his people to pursue a noble quest to liberate a people.