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Amid the ruins of Ancient Mexico, a prophecy predicts the end of the Fifth Sun, the universal destruction of our own time. While recovering from a vicious attack on her life and returning from the brink of death, Rebecca gains the ability to see the ghosts and spirits found all around us. This power brings her to the defense of a boy with the miraculous ability to free the earthbound souls. The child is hunted by the ghost of the most blood-...

It's rough being a Horseman. Over the last six months, Nikki Jeffries has learned that everything she thought she knew about herself was wrong. Now, as the semi-mythical Horseman Death, she's watching her world literally fall apart at the seams, despite her best efforts to save it. The World Walls are nearly gone, and all sorts of Blood and Chaos creatures are hunting innocents. The government's Department V, tasked with protecting the populat...

Heroes can save the world, but villains can CHANGE it. We've assembled a great mix of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction. Come with us while we explore villains of all stripes - sons and daughters, lovers and fighters, minions and masterminds, in this giant volume of thirty great stories by award winners, rising stars, and bold new voices. With masterful tales by: Camille Alexa Erik Scott de Bie Chaz Brenchley Eugie Foster David...

A fun and quirky adventure - Chris Wong Sick Hong is an author to watch!" - Patricia Briggs Dick Richards lives and breathes a world full to bursting with technology and magic, wonder and whimsy. Skyscrapers kiss the edge of space, the magical races are quietly mixing back into thronging humanity, and itinerant superheroes are one step ahead of the law. Dick is at home in the seamy underbelly of this world-if you wrung his coat, it would d...

The final Scimitar Seas novel in the award-winning series! Between the devil and the deep blue sea... The expedition to Akrotia has succeeded, Cynthia's baby is safe. But she and Feldrin both know that their trials are not over. The emperor demands answers for the destruction of his ships and deaths of his soldiers. Plume Isle has been ransacked by pirates, Dura has been captured by cannibals, and Camilla is acting like a woman possessed...

Farren, a journeyman cabinetmaker, sees the dead. He can't help it: they walk, they talk, they nag and complain. His neighbors view him with dark suspicion. Is he a Shadebinder, a sorcerer who enslaves the souls of the dead for evil purposes? Mericia, Princess of Ailsandia, is cursed. Everyone she loves, or treats kindly, either dies or suffers horribly. And then there's Caprio, the Goat apparition, who has a hobby. He dips his cloven fore...

Friendly. Useful. Current. Written by a collection of well-known authors for new authors, The Complete Guide to Writing Paranormal Novels: Volume 1 covers a wide range of topics necessary for building your first paranormal novel. Paranormal novels are found in all sections of the fiction bookstore. One of the most prevalent forms of fantasy masquerading as romances, mysteries, general fiction and urban fantasy, this guide has tips and topics s...

The sea hath no wrath like a seamage betrayed. Cynthia Flaxal and Feldrin Brelak desperately pursue the mer who have stolen their son. They seek the floating city of Akrotia, forsaken a thousand years ago, which the mer aspire to restore to enchanted glory with the life of their child. And along the way Cynthia must persuade the powerful young pyromage, Edan, to help, not hinder, their quest. But while the Seamage of the Shattered Isles is a...

A brave prince, a ferocious dragon, and a magic sword are all familiar elements of the classic adventure story. But for thirteen-year-old Prince Aster of Caledon, the quest for the Empress Sword-the only magic strong enough to defeat the dragon menacing his kingdom-is just the beginning. Aster has always been told that wielding great magic requires a sacrifice, but what the Empress Sword demands from him is the last thing he ever expected to ...

Vladdir, King of the underground Temlochti State, is cast out into the Desert when his kingdom is invaded by Aragoths - strange soldiers controlled by the Sorcerer Ilet, who has made no demands and is destroying everything without reason. On the brink of losing everything, Vladdir gives in to a curse that fills him with cannibalistic desires, and gains him access to the capricious, dark magic of the Desert. With his new powers, he overwhelms ...

Jake has married his emperor, but happily ever after is for fairy tales. The empire is restless. The nobility isn't hiding their distaste for Jake, the unclass who married the emperor. The unclass see him as proof that they can be more, and they're not going to sit by and wait any longer. And someone is trying to kill Jake. As friends become enemies, and enemies become allies, Jake has to discover the catalyst that has his world cascading in...

In his final volume, award-nominated author Tony Ruggiero weaves a tale of intrigue, secrecy and choices. Commander John Reese will bring an end to the vampire saga-whatever the consequences. But to do so he must defeat the forces that are trying to control him in reality and in his dreams, before the human race as we know it is irreparably changed. In his dreams, a trial convenes as Reese is accused of crimes against humanity and faces his...

An ancient evil leads a rampaging army of demons and undead warriors across the countryside. Martin, a failed Templar, is slain on the field of battle only to be reanimated in service to the very evil he hoped to destroy. The Black Yew, the dark force that controls the undead army, considers him a gifted minion. But life is not done with him yet.

In 2095 Darwin's Evolution kills. Darwin's Disease is tearing apart the ordered peace of North America. Julie Crane is a brilliant data handler with a unique talent for finding the impossible fast, and getting into trouble even faster. Her relentless search for a cure leads her to a horrifying discovery that incriminates her in a heinous conspiracy to recast humankind. "This is a story with great scope... as Julie finds out the truth abou...

Deryl Stephen's uncontrollable telepathic abilities have landed him in a mental health institution, where no one believes in his powers. But when Joshua Lawson, a student of neuro linguistic programming, takes part in a summer internship, he takes the unique step of accepting Deryl's reality and teaches him to work with it. As Deryl learns control, he finds his next challenge is to face the aliens who have been contacting him psychically for ...

HEROES come in a thousand guises, and so do stories about them. The only survivor of a war struggles to return to a home that doesn't exist anymore. A rebel leader loses everything she fought for and must start from scratch. A hero who has fought for her village her whole life must retire into obscurity without ever being known for her deeds. A starship returns to an Earth that is much changed, yet too much the same. A soldier is haunted by th...

Magic, monsters, mayhem...AND PIRATES The moon is full, floating above the black ocean waters. The night is quiet - until a shot is fired across the bow of your ship, and the dreaded cry goes up from all quarters - "Pirates!" This book is packed with 15 more tales of swashbuckling, derring-do and magic on the high seas. Following the wonderful Rum and Runestones, this second pirate anthology from Dragon Moon Press brings back several authors ...

Marie Bilodeau knocks my socks off." -Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of WAKE A broken tradition. A hunted child. A rebellion that threatens to topple the very fabric of the universe. When Layela Delamores gives birth to her first child, the ether immediately rejects what should be its only heir. A wave of destruction sweeps the ether races and sparks Solaria's ire and rebellion on Mirial. A new heir rises to take the throne ...

When Jacob Dawes is selected for the Imperial Intellectual Complex as a child, he's catapulted from the poverty-stricken slums of his birth into a world where his status as an unclass is something no one can forget, or forgive. His growing scientific renown draws the attention of the emperor, a young man Jacob's own age, and they find themselves drawn to each other in an unlikely and ill-advised relationship. Jacob may have won the emperor's h...

A devastating disease. A world on the brink of disaster. One woman can save it or destroy it all. Julie Crane must confront the will of the ambitious virus lurking inside her to fulfill her final destiny as Darwin's Paradox, the key to the evolution of an entire civilization. Darwin's Paradox is a novel about a woman's fierce love and her courageous journey toward forgiveness, trust, and letting go to the tide of her heart.