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An ancient secret lies buried in Earth’s religions. Magical beings once ruled our planet. Man has forgotten them, but they are coming back. Their plan for mankind? Enslavement. An ancient curse banished them from the realm of man...now that curse grows weak, and they are finding their way back.

My Name is Otto Schneider and I am a wizard. I think. When a missing person case brings me into contact with the only other supernatural creature I have ever seen, it’s not long before I am ass-deep in trouble. The police don’t like me, there’s a clandestine organisation who want me to join them, and what might be a demon trying to catch me. When I refuse to play ball with any of them, my life starts to get tough, but I had no idea how low they might stoop to force my hand.

Anne Le Clair, a successful young attorney, has managed to remain free from her family’s gothic past - until now. When she inherits her murdered aunt’s antique necklace, however, she finds no escape from its secrets.

He’s powerful, he’s virtually unstoppable, and he just wants to be left alone. In a world filling up with the supernatural, a lone werewolf drifts into a farming community looking for work and promptly kicks a hornet’s nest. Actually, he would prefer it was a hornet. What he kicks is much worse.

Grayson Lone Feather loves to wander the woods behind his stepdad's property. He finds all kinds of things out there, chief among them typically being peace of mind. But when Gray comes upon a barrel-sized egg exposed by the collapse of a short limestone bluff, and what's inside it turns out to be alive and more than kicking, he finds himself at the center of action far beyond his wildest imaginings. Soon a gigantic "something" is roaming the Illinois skies, and Gray and his friend Jaleen are off to find it.

Immortal wizard Otto Schneider misjudged his deal with Daniel badly. Now, he’s a demon’s puppet, and he's kidnapping people because he has no choice...or so the demons think. Forced to perform dread work or watch others suffer, he must bide his time, but millennia of being unopposed has made the demons complacent, and they turn their back on him at their peril.

In seven days, I have to surrender myself to a demon. That was what I agreed to. That was the price to rescue a teenage girl. What would you do with your last week? My plan to drink good whisky and relax got shot to hell within hours when the police, who hate me, by the way, begged for my help. They have a murder with...strange circumstances. I only need one look at the pictures to know they look like werewolf wounds. Could the killer we are chasing be my friend the snarky werewolf?

In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, to the steps of the nation's Capitol. Coxey conceived a plan to put millions back to work building a nationwide system of roads and drew attention to his idea with the march to Washington. Jerry Prout recounts Coxey's story and adds depth and context by focusing on the reporters who were embedded in the march.

Brutish with the soul of a poet; violent, but with the heart of a protective shepherd. This is not the one dimensional Polyphemus from the Odyssey, but a brilliant, mad, tragic, and darkly humorous being who embodies the best and worst of men and monsters. Enter the world of Polyphemus. The son of a god and nymph, despised and cast off by his parents, and feared by all others. Enter a world of magical realism, where dreams and reality merge, where destiny is bent by the fates and gods, and at the center of it all is the anti-hero for the ages - the cyclops, Polyphemus.

Harley Jones was one of the FBI’s best. From Harvard he went into the Army Special Forces as an intelligence specialist. Then he did everything for the FBI from undercover work to running the hostage rescue team. Now that he works with a small counter-terrorism unit, apparently, he’s been shelved. Some say he’s burned out. Others say that he’s the nuclear weapon, to be brought out only for very special occasions. Hasan Bucheri has been a terrorist all his adult life. He’s a professional, trained by the old KGB, respected and feared all over the world.

One grand ship. Two love affairs, decades apart. An idyllic summer resort town torn apart by class struggles, tragic loss, betrayal and murder. The EmmaLee Affairs plays out against a beautiful scenic backdrop and compelling historical context while exploring the deep emotions of tragic love and loss and the chilling effects of evil that often lie just beneath the surface of our fragile lives.

As the monks on the Holy Island of Lindisfarne saw the dragon ships approaching, they were wholly unprepared for the ferocity of what awaited them. “Death from the Mist: A Viking Prophecy” delves into the world of the Early Middle Ages as the Viking raiders attack the English coastal monasteries searching for wealth.