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I'll do anything to keep what's mine, and she's mine. I wanted a girl to keep me company at night. What I found was something entirely different. But will she dare to take the ride?

Amateur film makers inadvertently invoke a demon when they break into an abandoned elementary school to perform and film an authentic Black Mass for their entry into a short movie competition! Dave Priestley reveals his plan to his the movie-making friends - to film an authentic Black Mass in Watsonville’s abandoned elementary school - the site of a horrific tragedy nine years before.

The last person Ean Sangrave expects to see on his return home from the Deadlands is the magician, Sadiek Nidot. Two years ago, he killed Ean and stripped the lovely Azalea of her wings. Upon seeing his murderer, Ean can’t decide if he fears using his own dark power more than he thirsts for revenge. The brief moment of indecision allows the crafty Sadiek to slip through Ean's fingers, but not before he gleefully reveals that Rottwealth, Ean's hometown, is in danger. Ean speeds to the land of his birth and rebirth on a mission to save it.

Sensation. A sacred place free from judgment or inhibitions. The only rule: Ask before you touch. Sensation is an exclusive black-tie party attended by at least 150 of the clubs most privileged members, and held once a month at an undisclosed mansion in Beverly Hills. You may watch. You may interact. You can come together or you can choose to come alone.

Thirteen seconds of pure terror in a shootout with a drug dealer...Real crime. Real-life cop stories. Sergeant Mark Langan relives his front-row seat working the seamier side of crime during his decorated 26-year career from youngest rookie in 1978 to narcotics sergeant on the Omaha Police force. Langan caught bold burglars who silently entered homes to get thrills off of touching sleeping victims. He hit bookie joints in smoke-filled bars, squeezed snitches for information, and arrested prostitutes and their everyday “Johns” in dangerous downtown alleys.

As the layers peel away one by one, Bailey comes to find that Glen’s interests and obsessions are far more sinister than studying the brutal acts of those less than human and his fantasies are much darker than Bailey could’ve ever imagined. It is these fantasies that lead to the abduction of a pretty high school senior and a series of grisly murders that leave a small middle-American town bathed in blood.

She's back, and they’ll regret what they’ve done. Mildred Wells had a miserable life that carried over to a lonesome death. In the end, they betrayed her - played her the fool. She was the last to know, but there's still time to catch up. She'll formulate her painful plan as they live their lives in blissful ignorance. With no more family, only vengeance drives her; in fact, it’s all she has anymore. She would rather have rested in peace, but for Mildred, dying isn't so easy.

Tim Russell just put his last dollar on a handyman’s dream: a quaint but dilapidated farmhouse in New Hampshire. Newly single after a messy divorce, his plan is to live in the house as he restores it for resale. To his horror, as soon as the papers are signed and his work starts, ghosts begin to appear. A bone-white little boy. A woman covered in flies. Tim can’t afford to leave and lose it all, so he turns to his real estate agent Holly Burns to help him decide whether he has any shot at solving his haunted problem.

“Think of what late greats James Herbert and Richard Laymon may have given birth to had they ever collaborated” (Richard Chizmar). Welcome to the long-awaited collection from the writer of horror novels Pede and Tenebrion; a foreword by Richard Chizmar (coauthor of Gwendy’s Button Box and author of A Long December), 18 short stories, five flash fiction, and even a poem - all skin-crawling, soul-shredding tales of terror, of the darkest things that skulk among the night’s inky shadows, and of the everyday gone horribly awry.

For centuries, Randi has waited for all her mates to arrive and awaken her omega designation. She spends her days in lonely flight and her nights managing her rut bar, Frenzy. Now, the wolf shifters are on the verge of extinction. The mate runes have vanished, and alphas are turning feral. With Frenzy's services in high demand, the Wolf King sets his sights on the dragon, wanting her magic for his own.

In this dual-timeline story, two women come to terms with seeing the future. Living in one of the whitest counties in Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Jess Atwood is plagued by visions she doesn’t want and can’t control. At the same time, she struggles to keep her family’s organic farm out of foreclosure.

Danielle Harrington has the life many women envy: She’s beautiful, rich, has two wonderful children, and is married to the Preston Harrington - the handsome, charismatic, retired quarterback who won two Super Bowls. Unfortunately, something is very wrong with Preston. Having suffered more than his fair share of injuries and concussions, he becomes quiet, withdrawn, and distant. As Preston spends more time away from his family, Danielle begins to suspect an affair without realizing her husband is involved in something much, much worse…

Tessa and Kristin Morgan are identical twins, exquisitely beautiful, and have the world at their perfectly pedicured feet; they are also profoundly different beneath their stunning facades. But, on the night of the pair’s debut as top-tier models, and with a high-profile movie role in the bag, tragedy strikes the twins in the form of a cruel acid attack by an unknown assailant. Thus, a gruesome chain of events begins—one that leaves a trail of blood, death, and devastation behind both Tessa and Kristin.

Eleven-year-old Smiley was taken. He lived at the mission school where he was reconditioned. Smiley will tell you his story, how he lived and how he died. Francis Malachi Pratt, the mission school superintendent, had a deviant hunger.

A career is such a valuable thing in our society. It represents the difference between people who live pay check to pay check, doing the same level of work for their entire life, and those who manage to start in the same dead-end jobs, but rise to lives of great fortune. A carefully designed career can launch you into extremely high levels of income, even showing you the path into entrepreneurship while providing the resources to get you started.

Meagan's Run walks us through the love and loss of a young girl and her family. Filled with love, betrayal, laughter, and suspense, Meagan's Run is a celebration of love and family while also showing us how the strength of family and friends can bring us through the toughest of times.

As one of the last Seers, Nathan Masterson is struggling to fit into his new role as an Organization Detective. He and his partner Leigh Vashti are charged with recovering the the sins and apprehending the culprit, while at the same time pursuing a potential lead into the genocide of the Seer Clan. Along with a new partner who has a bad attitude and a mysterious ability to back it up, they're on the case. But something's amiss, and the culprit may hit closer to home than either of the detectives may think.

Jack Frost currently finds herself training Nathan Masterson, a protege with a magic thought to be extinct, who now finds himself drawing attention from the Organization, the magical government's law enforcement group. On the run for a murder he didn't commit, and struggling with the secrets of his past - is Nathan seeing double, or is someone out to frame him? Even with help from Jack, the world seems colder than usual as death approaches. It's gonna be a cold summer. Get ready for Frost.

When Gaia, the Goddess of Planet Earth, decides to mess with a suicidal vampire’s life in order to save the planet, it could only lead to good things, right? Coven leader Torin Von Sapien is tired of, well, life. He has chosen to leave the coven with both his vampire daughter and human son before embracing death. But there are greater forces at work than even he could guess.

Peter Toombs never stopped loving Diana Ward. Not after they broke up; not after she married someone else; not after she died. Peter never got over how he failed Diana when she needed him most when they were in college. Even as he became a successful TV writer, his failure haunted him more than the monsters he created to scare others. His obsession prompts him to lease Diana's childhood home in the small Utah town of Bern.