Stories taking place in modern-ish day settings.
Kennedy needed to get away. What better way to do that than go on a road trip? Open road, no plans, no one getting in the way. At least, not until she ran into motorcycle riding Emmerick in Oklahoma. He left his trip with his pals to follow her. He was persistent in his flirting, and she was unreceptive. That all changed when she leaned on him in a night of weakness.
Claire Langstrom is a loner by choice.
A bequest in her grandmother’s will exposes family secrets & a historical tragedy.
Claire begins a journey of redemption as the one despised searches for the one rejected.
Will Claire’s quest end in joy or sorrow?
Sárán is Elder Prince of the Aos Sí, the ruling clan of the Fae of An Réimse Naofa. For two Mortal Fae lifetimes he had ruled the Eastern Reaches in peace, but an old enemy he thought to have been defeated and imprisoned in the Court of the Dead has escaped and has issued an ultimatum. Come face him at the time and place of his choosing or An Réimse Naofa will be invaded. When the Eternal Prophets are consulted concerning the challenge, the only answer given is An Réimse Naofa will be spared when Sárán chooses his own destiny. Sárán, knowing the peril of this particular enemy, chooses to sacrifice himself to save his people, the Fae, even after learning Daighre may have acquired the powers of Necromancy. His fate is in the hands of the Prophets and The Creator.
Mariel is an ex-Marine living in a cabin in the wilds of Maine. She served in Iraq with a combat unit and had seen action, but her tour was ended by a car bomb that left her with PTSD and memories she needed to forget. The cabin was her grandfather’s and she had spent many summers there with him, learning the ways of her tribes, the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy. Now it was where she had retreated from the world, even from her tribes, to try to forget all that had happened in Iraq and to minimize the debilitating episodes of PTSD. The cabin is located on a piece of land on Douglas Pond called Cross Point, and is said to be a sacred place where ancient Native spirits cross to and from the eternal realm, but Mariel no longer believes the lore of her tribes.
When a freak wind funnel drops a badly wounded winged man into the lake, Mariel’s sequestered lifestyle is turned upside down. She must learn to cope with the presence of an alien being that has abilities she finds invasive and frightening. Mariel and Sárán must learn to cope with one another and the situation in which they find themselves, and to find a way for Sárán to return home, before her only neighbor, a nosy alien hunter, discovers his identity and exposes him.
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Take the plunge down the rabbit hole of insanity and wonder in this fast-paced, nonstop psychological thriller that will leave you questioning the very nature of reality and beyond. Part thriller, part romance, part existential horror, A Dream of Waking Life delves into lucid dreaming, psychedelics, existential ontology, video games, the nature of love, the nature of reality, and more.
When Matthew Willish wakes up on a cold steel floor unsure of how he got there, he begins desperately searching for answers. What Matthew doesn’t realize, however, is that this is only the beginning of a journey that will ultimately send him searching other worlds for the answer to numerous profound questions, the most pressing being: is he living in reality or in a dream? Or is he just an insane man who desperately needs help?
A Dream of Waking Life is a philosophical and psychological thriller that tells the story of one man’s journey through space, time, and mind to not only discover his true identity but also the love of his life—a woman who keeps slipping through his fingers and into another reality. A thought-provoking meditation on the thin line between what is real and what is not, A Dream of Waking Life will leave readers questioning how far they would go to understand the nature of their own existence and how much they would sacrifice for love.
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HUNTERS: Men and women who protect the world from things that go bump in the night.
Instead of the tranquility she hoped to find by moving back to her ancestor’s homestead in mystical Somerset County, South Carolina, Auria Rainer finds something she never expected. She also yearns for a reconciliation with her first love, Luke Havelock; and when Auria’s mother asked him to help her daughter settle in, Luke jumps at the chance to make things right between them. Once in Auria’s modernized old farmhouse, he thinks they’ll have a quiet evening to talk.
He couldn’t be more wrong. Their reunion becomes a struggle for survival as a violent thunderstorm rages around them, pouring and ebbing at the whim of a powerful source. But it’s not Mother Nature. Auria’s Halfling senses tell her she and Luke are under attack by a malevolent spirit bent on holding them hostage until they meet its demands.
Will it snuff out Auria and Luke before their rekindled flame has a chance to burn?
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Francisco was a college student at a music festival, experimenting with hallucinogens, when the voice first spoke to him. It introduced itself as Carnath, a supreme energy of the universe, and explained that it had chosen him to lead civilization into its next golden age. At first, he thought it was the drugs, but as the message took shape, so did his belief. Naturally charismatic, he amassed followers, eventually building a small utopian community in the rural woods of Missouri. When detectives learn of the commune, they go to investigate. To Charles and Laura, they seem like a small, peaceful group of people living their dreams.
However, when reports of firearm purchases and drug sales crop up, images of Waco and Jonestown stir in their minds. Maybe there’s more happening out there than meets the eye. Mason had always been an introvert, preferring to stay inside and fiddle with computers. His dream; create the first self-learning neural network. When he moves to his new apartment, he’s on the verge of a breakthrough, but an unexpected welcome gift from a neighbor starts him down a path that he never would have expected.
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One in five adults suffers from mental health problems. For Candice Williams, it’s depression and anxiety. On the good days, she can manage a normal existence, but on the bad days, she just wishes for it to end. When she hears the radio commercial for PsyConics, a pharmaceutical company offering a paid six-week trial for a new medicine promising to eliminate mental health issues across the board, something compels her to reach out. It seems like a chance to take back control of her life. It also seems too good to be true.
As the trial progresses, it becomes apparent the drug the three patients have been taking is working better than anyone could have expected. So well, in fact, it draws the attention of the government. Now, the trial has changed from a warm, welcoming environment hoping to enhance their lives to a cold, torturous testing cycle meant to exploit their newfound abilities. Abilities that could change the course of human evolution. It becomes a race against time to escape the grips of the new regime, as Candice and the others battle against an uncaring captor while also trying to harness and understand their new abilities. If they fail, the fate of the world may change forever…
Cressida Curtain has a business to run. She spends her time catching bad guys and turning them in for bounties. After all, she’s a natural born hunter.
She also isn’t exactly human. That’s her secret to keep, because her very existence is the only thing holding a great evil at bay. It’s a legacy that’s been passed down through the generations, and Cressida is the latest in line.
But she’s not going to let a little thing like the fate of the world get in her way.
Life as a bounty hunter is never dull. And hers is about to get a lot more interesting.
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He has lost everything. Life’s turbulent path had already taken Jeff Townsend’s wife by cancer, but now the company he worked for was filing bankruptcy and closing its doors. Jeff’s wife’s medical bills depleted him financially and losing his job left him homeless.
As a last resort, he moves to Michigan to live with his brother. As he settles in, he is driven to understand this deplorable social condition and becomes friends with a band of homeless people, a passionate priest, and a beautiful rabbi. Together they tackle the problems, but personally rub up against its dangerous sting. Jeff is propelled into an adventure of precarious existence led by life’s brutal interruptions.
What he realizes is that homelessness is more than a battle for survival. It is a fight to maintain dignity in a world where hope is sometimes tied to money and influence, and people who judge rather than understand.
Lipa has always refused to accept her place as a girl nutria in the rigid society of her burrow. She is fiercely protective of her brother, Suho, a runt who claims to understand the signs the humans have posted along the riverbanks. He believes that their river rat colony is about to be exterminated, but his warning is dismissed by the nutria leaders, who cling to their traditional mythology.
The brother and sister decide to run for their lives. Only a few other outcasts are willing to join them. Embarking on a quest to find a new home, they must swim against the current of the Great Flow, confronting steep cement banks and a barrier long thought to be impassable.
Venturing into the unknown, they encounter strange groups of nutria who have devised their own strategies for survival. Lipa begins to question the old beliefs as she leads the ragtag band of exiles into an uncertain future.
Then, with the help of a new friend, Lipa makes a shocking discovery that exposes the truth behind the nutria’s traditions – and means that the price of failing to carve out her own burrow is brutal confinement and certain death for all of her followers. She must risk everything to keep her new burrow alive and free.
Join Lipa, Suho and their adventurous friends on a heroic journey as they embark on an unwitting search for the meaning of life itself, during a time of spiritual crisis.
