Time splinters and the world lurches in Kathryn Daugherty's *The Hollow World: A Clockwork Apocalypse*. Beneath the surface, a colossal clockwork heart beats erratically, governing a subterranean realm where continents drift, memories fracture, and timelines collide. Six souls, lost in this temporal labyrinth, find their destinies intertwined.Anya, an exiled cartographer, chases the myth of the Still Point, a place where time flows true, desperately seeking a past she may never rec...

**Two People. One Plane.Their Lives Will Never Be The Same...**How long should your heart keep a promise?When Dr . Isabelle Kelly is offered a first class plane ticket from a fellow passenger, how could she know that this meeting would find the two women’s lives so intertwined.Isabelle is still in love with an Air Force Captain that she promised her heart to before he left for a second tour of duty in Vietnam. When he didn’t return, even fo...

Experience the Strong Literary Culture of Local Iowa AuthorsIndependent or Traditionally Published, it doesn't matter. In the end, we're all IOWA.Step into a world of fantasy, love, business, mystery, adventure, and horror as you open the pages of this book to discover the intense literary culture that resides in Iowa. This Annual Short Story Anthology is a collection of works by writers of all walks of life. If you're interested in partaking in Next Year's...

Inside this heart-warming short story collection, you will find tales that are close to the author's heart-stories that may be considered "slice of life" narratives. These ten fictional stories are provoking, insightful, and they include twists and turns throughout. They are based on ordinary lives and will bring a smile to your face or a tear to your eye. "Erica" is a story about a love of a lifetime. "Remote Wars" shows how one everyday item in the home can bring a person to devious ways...

Welcome back to VIRGIN RIVER with the books that started it all… and the basis for the longest running scripted series on Netflix!Sometimes love takes root in unexpected places—if you'll only let it growColin Riordan came to Virgin River to recuperate from a horrific helicopter crash, the scars of which he bears inside and out. His family is wonderfully supportive, but it's his art that truly soothes his troubled soul.Stung personal...

In this thrilling story Maximum Exposure, New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan introduces tough-as-nails investigative reporter Maxine Revere, the compelling feature character of NotoriousTwo years before the events in Notorious, Max travels to Colorado Springs to investigate the disappearance of a college student. Frustrated over the lack of interest from both friends of the victim and campus authorities, Max tags along wit...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Shades of Magic series, The Near Witch, and The Archived, comes "Warm Up," a Tor.com Original prequel story to V. E. Schwab's ViciousIt's been 297 days since David died--and came back. He may have survived the avalanche, but the aftermath has been far worse. His wife moved out, taking his son with her, and a devastated David hasn't left his house since, terrified of the m...

A young man comes of age as he fights to survive amid the downfall of America in this post-apocalyptic thriller.With the economy in free fall, the government crippled by indecision, the streets taken over by desperate mobs, and the fragile institutions of civilization crumbling, America suffers a full-scale collapse. Amid the destruction and anarchy, a young man finds himself homeless and alone on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., facing certain death unless he can...

Not all love is innocent. Some desires swallow you whole. . .There's more than meets the eye to the twenty twisted pleasures collected here, with death and desire lying in wait behind every corner.One goth girl finds the man whose love can make her beautiful and whose body can bring her ecstasy—if she can stomach the price. . .A zombie apocalypse destroys a man's family, but "til death do us part" is a vow his wife won't forget—even if she's now more on the undead s...

Having inflicted the smug homes of suburbia with witches and werewolves. Esther Friesner now unleashes the undead to tap a vein of blood and humor, and drain the suburbs dry of both.Vampires and the suburbs are a match made in heaven, or maybe Levittown. Remember Dracula? He didn't run into any real problems until he took his act on the road and traveled to the Big City. But in the suburbs, everyone is polite and respectful of their neighbors' right to privacy. And if your neighbor...

For some, death is not the end. There are those who are doomed to walk the earth for all eternity, those who are trapped between one plain of existence and the next, those who, for whatever reason, cannot or will not let go of the lives they left behind. These are the vengeful spirits, the tortured souls, the ghosts that haunt our realm. Welcome to FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE, a collection of 19 original ghost stories from:Brent AbellGordon Anthony BeanRose Blackthorn...

In this post-apocalyptic novel, millions struggle to survive in the wasteland America has become as one man fights to maintain its founding promise.Starvation, violence and death run rampant in the remains of our once-proud country. Federal troops, commissioned to protect the homeland, have turned their guns on the lawless population. Citizens find shelter in government safe zones while ruthless gangs enforce their will outside the camps. When the military transform...