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Kenji Sanada has always been more comfortable with classic fictional monsters than with other people, even his family—Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, the mummy—all safely immortalized on his wall of fame. But what will he do when the all-too-real horrors of modern reality threaten to break right through those selfsame walls?

Shane and Jewel have been hanging onto the edges of life by their fingernails for so long they can’t remember any other way of living. When enough money to solve all their problems drops out of the sky, it seems like a windfall from heaven—but it might be the worst thing that could ever have happened. Can love survive when money comes between lovers? Caught between the criminal underground and the law, Shane and Jewel race toward freedom despite a parade of bizarre characters, secret plans, and hidden agendas standing between them and the life they so desperately need.

From A. J. Payler, master of modern fiction behind The Killing Song, Bank Error in Your Favor, and Terror Next Door comes Stop All Interference—seven stories of struggle against overwhelming odds and unstoppable fear, people pushed beyond betrayal and forgiveness, of the world we live in and what people will let themselves do just to survive in it.

Labor Day Weekend, an empty office building down in sleepy Point Loma: basically a sitting-duck target for any second-story man worth a nickel. Especially one with a lifetime of skills to draw upon—not to mention all the magic passcodes tucked comfortably away in his back pocket. Nothing could go wrong, or that was how it seemed… but in the end, he couldn’t honestly blame anyone but himself for not seeing it coming.

Carson Adkins had no doubt he was born unlucky, especially after his college folded one semester before graduation but he never expected to find himself caught deep in the heart of an uncharted land sheltered against the passage of time for decades! Compelled to struggle for survival against terrifying odds and unfamiliar threats, Carson finds himself in a world he never expected, where every encounter forces him to confront deadly opponents and difficult truths.

The only thing that made those seemingly unending days in prison bearable was knowing what was waiting for him on the outside, buried deep in the frozen ground where she’d sworn to leave his share of the loot. And after years of isolation, all he has to do is dig it up, rejoin her, and get back to the life that’s rightfully his.

From A. J. Payler, master of modern fiction behind Bank Error in Your Favor, The Killing Song, and Terror Next Door comes Should the World Fail to Fall Apart—6 stories of people pushed beyond forgiveness in a world without pity, personal struggle against overwhelming odds and unstoppable fear, & the resilience that resides at the center of the human heart.

Mick MacFinn makes bad choices and blames bad luck when his life goes wrong. A failure as a mob enforcer and petty criminal, Finn’s ended up on the run, burdened with cold-manipulation powers that might give him an edge—or it would, if he really knew how to use them. Virginia Ann Davenport is a captain of industry, an icon of success, and the highly-trained wielder of heat-manipulation powers that give her a leg up on her competitors.