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Suggesting this historic anthology is just a regional horror collection is like calling Frankenstein's monster a simple misstep in medical technology. Road Kill is no longer just an annual anthology of horror stories. It's a serial collection of some of the most serious voices in Lone Star literature. It's a chronicle of Texas terror, and Vol. 9 is eerie, edgy and feral. It will haunt you long after its first reading. It's as fine a selection of horror fiction as you'll find today. It's alive!

The extraordinary powers of a female CIA agent lead her into the dangerous heart of the collapsing Soviet Union—and the path of a killer that shouldn't exist. Minsk, 1990. The Soviet Union is crumbling. The scavengers and predators are gathering, eager to pick the meat off the bones of a dying empire.

Hap Collins looks like a good ol’ boy. But even in his misspent youth, his best pal is Leonard Pine, who is Black, gay, and the ultimate outsider. Inseparable friends, Hap and Leonard climb into the boxing ring, visit their families, get in bar fights, and just go fishing - all the while confronting racists, righting wrongs, and eating a whole lot of delicious food.

In colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen works in her cousin’s home, locking wills with everyone around her - including a mysterious Welshman who works for the family, a man whose forceful nature matches her own. Thomas Carrier is known for his immense strength and height, and as Martha discovers pieces of his past, her fascination of him grows. But danger is ever present, near and far as Martha and Thomas’ relationship deepens. Thomas suddenly has everything to lose....

From the author of The Heretic’s Daughter, an epic Texan adventure of love, loss, and kinship. Greed. Desire. Death. Love.... It's the 19th century on the Gulf Coast of Texas, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. Lucinda is intelligent, passionate, wily, and courageous - a woman who braves her affliction and risks her own life to pursue her lover, a man as charismatic as he is ruthless.

Betty Rhyzyk, die rothaarige, knallharte Drogenfahnderin vom Dallas Police Department, erholt sich nur schwer von den Verwundungen an Seele und Körper, nachdem sie der abscheulichen Meth-Sekte von Evangeline Roy entkommen ist. Sie ist unruhig, schreckhaft und unleidlich, selbst gegenüber ihrer geliebten Frau Jackie. Ihr Frust wird sogar noch größer, als sie von ihrem Vorgesetzten zum Innendienst verdonnert wird. Denn das Dallas Police Department hat Probleme: Ein neuer Player eines mexikanischen Kartells ist aufgetaucht - El Cuchillo, "das Messer", ein besonders brutaler Killer.

Detective Betty Rhyzyk aus New York City hat es zum Dallas Police Department verschlagen, Abteilung Narcotics. Betty kommt aus einer polnischen Cop-Dynastie, ist lesbisch und auffällig rothaarig. Texas ist, wie sie bald merkt, nichts für schwache Nerven, denn hier kämpfen mexikanische Drogenkartelle und fundamentalreligiöse Sekten, durchgeknallte Stalker und Society-Ladys mit allen Mitteln um einen Platz an der Sonne.