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Quarantined. Isolated. Paranoid. Trapped. Stuck at home with nowhere to run, Kevin Tamura isn't holding up well under quarantine. Exhausted from overwork and lack of sleep, his sanity slips as society crumbles. But what will he do to protect himself when the greatest terror of all might be hiding right next door? From the mind of A. J. Payler, author of Lost In the Red and The Killing Song, comes a story of a man pushed to the edge in a world that's ready to break.

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 against terrifying odds and unfamiliar threats for survival, Carson finds himself in a world he never expected, where every encounter forces him to confront deadly opponents and difficult truths.

Would you risk everything for one shot at immortality? 1996, the American Midwest: Zach Coleman is beginning to suspect the nineties aren't all they're cracked up to be. His fledgling private investigation career is sinking fast, his band just broke up, and even his boring day job isn't paying off. But when a chance audition with a long-lost, legendary rock star leads to the opportunity of a lifetime, will Zach turn his back on everything he's known and pray both his worlds don't burn down around his ears?

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.

Everyone—everyone said that getting the Artery Boys back together was impossible…and for once, high-powered music manager Alec Rodenbaugh might even have agreed.

A mysterious figure stalks the murky backwoods of the Midwest on an unrelenting mission for revenge, with nothing but a Bowie knife to protect him against the monsters that haunt the forest. And even if he’s able to find what he needs… it’s already too late.

1996, the American Midwest: Zach Coleman is beginning to suspect the nineties aren't all they're cracked up to be. His fledgling private investigation career is sinking fast, his band just broke up, and even his boring day job isn't paying off. But when a chance audition with a long-lost, legendary rock star leads to the opportunity of a lifetime, will Zach turn his back on everything he's known and pray both his worlds don't burn down around his ears?

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.

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?