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A human child falls into the hands of a fey warlord with aspirations to the unseelie throne. But when that child learns to fight and grows into a shadow-killer of the faewylds, old grudges flock home to roost.

Farnsworth and Diego are back, leading the newly appointed Division of Nerd Crime into the black heart of the regional Renaissance Festival where someone has stolen celebrity D&D gamer Vin Diesel’s identity.

When a young journalist disappears after a meeting with the galaxy’s most notorious criminal in a max-lock facility, Dekker Knight and his crew are called to investigate. What they find might very well unravel the political fabric of the core worlds, and the government and its corps of mind readers are committed to keeping their secrets at all costs.

After the debacle on Galilee, the Division of Confidential Secrets investigates the Dozen and their involvement in the Syndicate, spearheaded by a zealous new director with psychic abilities. As Austicon’s sentencing commences, his nefarious criminal contacts threaten action leaving none better suited to prevent terrorist activities than Dekker and his crew.

After widowed Indie author Kurtis Ward channels his grief into self-publishing his horror novel, an Internet troll decides to skewer his work so viciously that it triggers something deep within Ward - something far fouler than human rage. When Ward tracks down, kidnaps, and tortures his critic, he begins to recognize that the events of his book bear far too many similarities to the world around him. Is this lurker within his mind a product of his grief, or something far worse - could Akko Soggathoth, the horrific beast of Ward’s fiction, be more than a product of his imagination?

In the Kakos Realm, a place of mythology and magic, the brutal murder of his fiancée drives Rashnir, the leader of the Ranger's guild, to utter madness! His lust for revenge, finally fulfilled, ultimately leaves him hollow and cast off from society. Now, devoted to a newfound cause, he finds himself befriended by an outcast werewolf clan which cannot shape-shift, a pair of angels, and a mute orphan. But his mission spurns the demon-worshipping prophet and his deadly acolytes.

Grandma Ethel's got a long day ahead of her: a pile of cancer medications, a fistful of bullets, and a plate full of donuts. Good thing her car does zero to 60 in 3.5 seconds...if only she could see over the steering wheel.

Following the Intergalactic Singularity War, Dekker Knight, mercenary and collector of arcane artifacts, works for the highest bidder - but he doesn't take just any job. One in particular, transporting Austicon - the assassin who stalked his family for generations - to a max-lock detention, was supposed to close a dark chapter in Dekker's life. After Earth's constables botch Austicon's incarceration, Dekker's team is forced to hunt down the galaxies' most heinous criminal all over again.

The demon Dione existed before the dawn of time. Surely she was created alongside the very Divine Machine she came to loathe so much. From Dione's seduction by Asmodeus and imprisonment at the hands of King Solomon to her release by an unwitting archaeologist, the timeline is punctuated with the baal's influence and its counters by the time-traveling Ezekiel who repels the Arbolean invasion during the infancy of the Akkadian Empire with the weapons of an ancient Greek tinkerer.

The Light is his city's patron superhero. As his sidekick Red, Zach Redinger, is suddenly thrust into a world without his champion after the mighty TL falls to a mysterious super-powered madman known only as Black. Now Red, a speedster named Janet, and Franklin (The Light's wheelchair-bound former side-kick,) must find Black and prevent his horrible plans from coming to fruition. If they can't pinpoint this maniac before his doomsday weapon is activated tomorrow might not come for anyone.

Moments after our pastor exited the building that afternoon in 2008, most of the congregation sat in shock. A tiny but powerful minority wore victorious smiles at the minister's ousting. The lady to my left wept. Her pleading question kept me awake all night. "Why did our pastor have to leave?" Polls reveal startling statistics regarding pastoral ministry: 91 percent of ministers know three to four others who've been forced out of pastoral positions.

Human children have gone missing in the feyland of Arcadeax for years. Now that whatever is behind it has upgraded to the aes sidhe postulates of the magiversity, Suíochán Naséan seeks an answer. Remy Keaton is a human living among the fey. Working both with and for them. Protecting them. Loving them. He may have won his freedom in the fighting pits of Cathair Dé, but the life of a duelist unaligned with any guild house is a dangerous one—especially since he's human, and perhaps the most famous of his kind.