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The world is falling to the burning shadow of the Possessed and only the power of a battle mage can save it. But the ancient bond with dragonkind is failing. Of those that answer a summoning too many are black. Black dragons are the enemy of humankind. Black dragons are mad. Falco Dante is a weakling in a world of warriors, but worse than this, he is the son of a madman. Driven by grief, Falco makes a decision that will drive him to the brink of despair. As he tries to come to terms with his actions Falco follows his friends to the Academy of War.

When the members of a remote monastery are struck down by a mysterious illness, they enlist the aid of a former demon hunter and a man known as the Sage of Blackfell House. Setting out to find a cure, they soon find themselves caught in a web of danger from ruthless crime lords, vengeful assassins, and evil magic users who draw their power from the realm of demons. But why should a mission of mercy attract such grave and dangerous threats? Because the Sage of Blackfell House was once a feared and notorious sorcerer, and his name is Decimus Fate.

The first pulse occurred in the old calendar year of 2022. Gigantic solar flares created massive electromagnetic pulses that stopped the heart of our modern world and returned us to the Dark Ages. And Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant Nathaniel Hogan finds that he has been changed by the gamma radiation in the solar flares. They have enhanced his natural abilities, giving him increased speed, strength, and healing; indefinitely extending his life span and enabling him to be able to draw on the power of the solar flares to create magik. But even he was not prepared for what happened next.

When two young men go missing, Fate and the Tutor find themselves caught up in a fight for survival against dark witches, mystical assassins, and subterranean terrors in the flooded sewers of Guile. Their search for the truth brings them face-to-face with the notorious Butcher of Guile. But could it be that the greatest threat comes from much closer to home?

A burned-out businessman takes an unplanned vacation to his mountain lodge and meets a strange visitor who issues a startling summons. He is to leave his whole life behind and journey into the unknown on a mission which may have world-changing impact. Faced with the agony of this decision, he realizes that he may not have any choice against the hand of destiny. Join him on the path to discovery as he encounters teachers, guides and ragged shamans who change the way he sees the world forever.

The Forever Man: Onslaught is the ninth book in the genre-bending Forever Man fantasy series. If you like post-apocalyptic heroes, battles against mythical creatures, and wild temporal jumps, then you’ll love Craig Zerf’s crackling mashup.

The Forever Man: Cavalry is the eighth book in the genre-bending Forever Man fantasy series. If you like post-apocalyptic heroes, battles against mythical creatures, and wild temporal jumps, then you’ll love Craig Zerf’s crackling mashup.

This time, the boys have gone intergalactic. Space vampires, artificial intelligence, battles galore. But maybe Nate has taken on too much. After all–he’s only human…or is he? As always, Nate, Tad and Kob have gone large. Their quest–to save an entire species, whatever the personal cost. OORAH!

A potential reality-TV show based on NashVegas Paranormal is in the offing. But when ghost tours of the most famous Civil War battlegrounds begins in late November, a new menace arises from the shadows surrounding these favorite haunts. Someone or something has taken great offense to these ghost tours, especially the TV crew following them around. So much so that bodies begin showing up. Jimmy and Fiona are left with the task of finding and exposing the killers before they and their close friends end up with the same fate as the spirits they seek...dead.

Being haunted in Savannah, Georgia, one of America's most haunted cities, takes on an entirely new meaning when Solomon and Desiree find themselves caught in a war between good and evil. Chilling discoveries await the couple summoned to Bonaventure Cemetery. Three angels disguised as the ghosts of Hoodoo priestesses are responsible for Solomon's reawakening. But, unfortunately, they're also the ones who murdered him more than a century ago.

In the heart of Savannah, Georgia, lies Solomon Brandt Plantation, a spanking piece of suburban sprawl with a sordid past. When an amnesiac bearing this cursed name stumbles into town, he’s immediately drawn to the haunted antebellum and also to a Hoodoo practitioner who converses with spirits—and to her gorgeous green-eyed niece, Desiree McClinton. A descendant of the Brandt slaves, Desiree sparks emotions in Solomon—the likes of which he’s never known.

A birthright. It should be something no one can ever take away. But that’s not how it works in the world of vampires, especially when the birthright involves a unique type of blood necessary for an elitist vampire society to remain young and beautiful. Welcome to the continued misadventure of Txema Ybarra. The earth’s most privileged undead believe they deserve a stake in Txema’s blood, and there is power and prestige for whoever controls her ancient bloodline. However, the vampire demon, Ralu Izcacus, and his burgeoning Chupacabra army crave the same lofty status.

The world’s last civilized vampire kingdom brings Txema and her infant daughter, Alaia, to the remote Tien Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan. Seeking refuge and a lasting deterrent against vampire assassins, Racco and Gustav plan to recreate ancient amulets to protect mother and daughter from attack. Based on the only formula that can effectively kill any vampire, this one-of-a-kind protection currently belongs to just one person: Marissa de Saint Germain, Txema’s beautiful half-mortal/half-immortal cousin, and the offspring of the vampire Chanson and her former beau, Racco.

Within the deep woods of rural Alabama, along the forgotten southern course of the Black Warrior River, lies an unseen world long feared by the residents of the tiny town of Carlsdale. Down through the centuries, few people have survived a visit to this hidden place long enough to talk about it. Among these fortunate souls is Jack Kenney. Thirteen years old at the time of the event, Jack and his family were forced to flee Carlsdale in the aftermath and head north to the larger city of Tuscaloosa. Mercifully, the menace from their former home left them in peace for nearly eight years.

Seven marks upon a wall. Tom may rise, but he may fall. Through five lives, no one dares mention the sin for which he seeks redemption. Fates will meet, and you will see what will thus become of he.

Dead, dead, dead. Say it enough times and it becomes just another word. What would you do? Could you kill a killer? Does the death of one appease the deaths of a hundred? What about that hundred against a thousand? What if you had no choice? Meet Sin. No, not that sort of sin, but Sin, crazy as a loon (you ask Sister Moon), and proud of it.

AltaMira Pharmaceuticals releases Vigorex, a drug that allows people to sleep and experience R.E.M. while they're awake. A colorful cast of characters begin to take the drug, which if not taken properly will have hazardous consequences. But each of these people has undergone a deeply traumatic episode in their formative years, which will affect them in differing ways; murder, arson, kidnapping, vigilantism, among other crimes, will characterize their nightly personalities and send them crashing into one another.

Sometimes the only way to fight Evil is to simply go to work every day and do your job. Plob - Reetworthy Plob - Reetworthy Plob the Third - was doing just that. And it's proving to be more difficult than picking his nose with his elbow. What with attempting to restore his Grandfather's good name, learn the words of the Beer, Beer, Beer song and battle constantly with his testosterone fueled fantasies - he hardly has any time left to save the world.

Laith knows what loss feels like. She knows it in her bones, and in the way her minder, Akani, looks at her whenever Laith's attention is diverted. She knows it in the way that her father dies a slow, painful death as he succumbs to the wrath of a plague that has ravished the Evgans, her people, for centuries. She knows it in the loneliness and isolation of having nothing to attain except title of Queen of the Svissan Isles. And then her world ends.

The Celestial War is past. The Court of Enigmus has been under new management for half a century. Leid Koseling awakens to find she can see things that her subjects can't. As the Court of Enigmus tries to identify exactly what their Queen has become, a deadly mistake sets the stage for a new discovery: there is much more to Exo'daius than they realized. And with that discovery brings a new threat, set to wipe the Vel'Haru off the face of the Exodian map.