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When the dead get up, the guns last for weeks. The water lasts three days. The System arrived the night after the dead did. It did not make anyone a hero. It read what people already were, off the licenses in their wallets, and reported the truth in flat capitals. Vernon Dettmer, twenty-two years running a small city's water plant, drew PUBLIC WORKS, OPERATOR, GRADE III. People with combat classes laughed. Most of them were dead inside a month, and not one of the people drinking his water was. Because his readout tells him what nothing else in the collapse will: the actual state of things.

Chase Lawter is the only being in existence that can pull material from between dimensions and shape it into whatever he likes. Naturally, Chase uses his ability to make a buck or two. With his company, Black Box, Inc., he specializes in hiding what can't be hidden, storing what refuses to be stored, and transporting the untransportable.

Unspeakable horrors have been unleashed on Asheville, North Carolina. Spectral demons tear victims apart from the inside out, leaving nothing but gory destruction in their wake. And their next victim is one of the biggest extradimensional crime lords around—the One Guy. To survive a fate equal to but also worse than death, he’ll have to convince Black Box Inc. to save his sorry ass.

Jilted by the beautiful Lucy moves Wyatt to find a woman based on her heart rather than her appearance. After a lengthy correspondence, he decides Vera’s the one. Yet, he didn’t want her looks to influence his decision, so he arranged a proxy marriage. Vera, an upright, no-nonsense, lady, is the perfect wife, but could they fall in love? Christmas with Vera’s family in Missouri is a turning point in Vera and Wyatt’s relationship.

Hell runs on rules. Survive them. A deadend life ends even deader… and he wakes up in Hell’s lobby, where the clerks have horns and the staplers bite. The only way out is down: nine Circles, each a lethal, bureaucratic nightmare with bosses who measure your sins in triplicate. Good news—there’s a system. Bad news—it’s fair. He’s not alone. A bythebook imp (assigned as his auditor) and a battlebroken 13thcentury knight (who’s seen this game before) form a reluctant party. Together they’ll parse infernal contracts, kite monsters through killzones, and raid departments with more forms than fangs.

Believe it or not, most people do not consider themselves charismatic, while they know people who are. It's also true that people are born to be charismatic, but the fact is, you can work on this as a skill and become more charming, likeable, attractive, confident, and build rapport with anyone you'd like.

Twenty-year-old Meriwether Walker enjoys the challenge of teaching her varied group of students in the one-room schoolhouse. What she doesn't like is the nomadic lifestyle that comes with it as she rotates boarding with families in the community on a month-to-month basis. Meriwether longs for a home of her own, but since single female teachers have to follow so many rules, she doesn't see any end to her plight, until the letter from the attorney handling her uncle's estate arrives.

Three Shepherd Security cases intersect with one woman. There is no such thing as a coincidence in the world that Shepherd Security operates in. So, when this woman falls into the middle of the cases, needing protection, but refusing to offer explanations, the team goes on high alert. Dr. Evelin Rademaker, DVM, is an innocent person targeted by a dangerous group. She doesn’t know that she holds the key to resolve the Shepherd Security cases. What she is sure of is that she doesn’t know who she can trust, so she trusts no one…

A dying Stasi operative known only as Cabal breaks forty years of silence to deliver a message no intelligence service has ever intercepted—a transmission revealing the existence of the Talisman, a state sponsored assassination network that has operated flawlessly for decades. Its kill list is updated across three independent nodes, and when a name appears on all three simultaneously, the assignment is already funded, scheduled, and unstoppable. The newest name on the list is Pope Innocent IX.

The frost is spreading. The darkness is deepening. And something has crash-landed on Whidbey Island. When Dylan Wylde and his friends accidentally unleash a horde of strange and terrifying creatures in the days before Christmas, they know they have to put things right. The lights keep flickering as the nights grow longer than they should. And a stranded elf with a wrecked sleigh brings a warning that changes everything.

From the thunder of legionary boots on marble roads to the whisper of incense in sprawling basilicas, this book brings to life the cities, battles, emperors, and philosophies that shaped Rome’s eastern frontier. Explore the rise of Ephesus, Pergamon, and Antioch under Roman rule. Witness how Roman engineering, law, and military precision fused with the cultural soul of ancient Anatolia.

Vengeance came at a high cost. Paxton Locke not only lost his job, but he’s also the subject of a Federal manhunt. On the run, with no backup or resources, he still has a mission, albeit a cryptic one, issued by his angelic patron. But his old Division M coworkers aren’t the only threat. Renaissance Gitano—an elite operative from a secretive order of magicians Paxton has faced before—also hunts him. She will go to the ends of any Earth to bring him to justice and satisfy her own need for revenge.

After a number of earthquakes hammer the Sierra Madre region of Mexico, Grupo Verdugo, a splinter group of cartel enforcers, takes control of the drug shipping routes through that territory. Caught in the middle, a small orphanage high in the mountains, desperate for supplies to care for the children and the battered earthquake victims, reaches out to Abel Yeager for help. Yeager and his friend Victor agree to deliver the needed food and medicine.

England is under the thrall of a dragon. Paxton Locke can do nothing about it. In shock after the disastrous battle with Aleister Knight, Division M is grounded. Ordered to do nothing as England falls into chaos, Paxton is left with little to do but focus on the yawning hole in his life.

Deacon Cole and his rifle face off against a cruel Japanese commandant while liberating Allied POWs from a remote jungle prison camp. Before Deke and Patrol Easy can get there, they must continue the battle for Leyte in the Philippines across rice fields and roads still held by the enemy....

On a mist-shrouded Weirdbey Island, where even the shadows hold monstrous secrets, a spooky contest is about to begin. One that may hold a most fearful fate. After meeting a dastardly trickster clown, Dylan Wylde and his loyal friends are forced to face an extraordinary challenge—confronting not just one, but three formidable foes! The prize? The coveted Halloween crown. The cost? A nightmarish contest.

Eerie howls pierce the gloom. Mysterious figures lurk in the shadows. An ominous storm looms in the skies. The North Island Night Crawlers have awoken, and they’re readying the stage for an epic battle between good and evil. Join Dylan and his friends in a race against time to stop the dastardly fate threatening the island...if they can!

Abel Yeager is dead broke, down on his luck, and suffering from a serious case of what-the-hell-does-it-matter. His transition from active Marine to stateside long-haul trucker hit a wicked speed bump, when his rig was involved in a wreck that claimed the life of a pregnant woman and laid him up for several months. Back at work but deeply in debt, Yeager meets bookstore owner Charlie Buchanan in St. Louis and jumps at the chance to haul a load of remainder books to Austin for her. On the way south, a crew of truck thieves tracks his every move.

The captain offers to get their friend released if they undertake a mission on his behalf. If they don’t accept, the Cujo will be without protection in a very dangerous environment. The job? Kill one of the most powerful and feared men in Guatemala: Herman Gustaffson, also known as El Escorpión.

Lacey Reagan is an abused woman who escapes her violent father by answering a mail-order-bride advertisement. Joe Dwyer is the gallant playboy who rescues her. Their marriage is simply an arrangement—or is it? A romance begins, but tragedy strikes, where they have to decide if it will stay just business, or if they can find true happiness together.