A super-villain novelette by K.R. Gentile Cover art, Divine Blessing by Dylan Hansen Psychopharmacologist. Super-spy. Master assassin. Cult leader. ...Devoted Godson? This is the unauthorized biography of the infamous super-villain, Dr. Peppermint. --------------- Classification: Science Fiction/Fantasy Appropriate for Adults Only: Violence; death; brief, mildly-graphic sexual situations; frequent cursing. Phase 5 Elements: Sn 81 Supernatural; Sv 301 Super-villain; Dc 5 Death Cult

3 Tales of Horror features: The Solution by Rick McQuiston, The story of a vampire invasion, an evil book, and a strange little girl; ...The Colour of Time by K.R. Gentile, The unauthorized biography of the notorious super-villain, Dr. Peppermint; and Eden Succeeding by Christopher L. DelGuercio, the chronicle of a doomed human colony on another planet. --------- Phase 5 Elements: Forbidden Knowledge 111 (Kf111); Super-villain 301 (Sv301); Transmutation 195 (Tm195)

Phase 5 Annual Review: Short Fictions Vol. 1 ----- Volume 1 of the Phase 5 Annual Review: Short Fictions features nine short works of fantasy and science fiction by talented authors from Europe and the United States. Here you will find mutants, vampires, dangerously talented folks, ghosts, bots and aliens all nestled in with their all-too-human neighbors in settings as varied as urban fantasy, post-apocalyptic, timeless and alien. So sit down with your beverage of choice and step through t...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews once again pulls readers into the dark and dangerous world of the Kate Daniels novels in this reader favorite, previously published in the anthology Night Shift...Shapeshifting tigress Dali Harimau may be a powerful healer and magic user, but she’s far from what might be called “normal”. She dislikes the violence and bloodshed that are a way of life for most of her kind, even going so far as to be...

Book Six of Wicked PlayPro hockey player Holden Hauke has kept his sexual needs buried for years. After a near miss over a picture of him bound to a spanking bench resulted in a mid-season trade, he's kept his image clean. But with the season over, he's ready to surrender control. And he's found just the woman to help him-if only he can convince her to give him a chance.Bending men to her will is nothing new for Vanessa Delcour, aka Mistress V-she's a full-time rep...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Souls of Fire novels comes the second in the futuristic fantasy series that will make you want to keep the lights on...When the bombs that stopped the species war tore holes in the veil between worlds, they allowed entry to the Others. Now, a hundred years later, humans and shifters alike live in artificially lit cities designed to keep the darkness at bay....The humanoid s...

Stephen King, Lisa Morton, Nell Quinn-Gibney, Norman Prentiss, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tim Curran plunge readers into the dark side in this deeply unsettling short-story collection curated by legendary horror editors Brian James Freeman and Richard Chizmar.THE OLD DUDE’S TICKER by Stephen KingRichard Drogan has been spooked ever since he came back from Nam, but he’s no head case, dig? He just knows the old dude needs to die.THE RICH ARE DIFFER...

A Michelin two-star chef at twenty-eight, Violette Lenoir could handle anything, including a cocky burglar who broke into her restaurant in the middle of the night.Or so she thought.Elite counterterrorist operative Chase “Smith” had been through things that made Hell Week look easy. But nothing had prepared him for a leather-clad blonde who held him at bay at knifepoint and dared him to take her on.Now if only saving the world didn’t require he ruin her life.

Game loving shut-in Kazuma Sato's life as a young schoolboy in Japan abruptly comes to an early end...or at least it was supposed to. When he opens his eyes, though, he sees a beautiful goddess that offers him a once in an after-lifetime chance to be reborn in a parallel world. The catch is that the world is violent and threatened by a growing evil! Fortunately, he can choose any one thing to bring with him. So he chooses the goddess, Aqua! And so his adventure with his gorgeous companion ...

From "a major new talent" (George R. R. Martin) comes an epic speculative novel of revolution, adventure, and the struggle for free will set in a world that might have been, of mechanical men and alchemical dreams.My name is Jax.That is the name granted to me by my human masters.I am a slave.But I shall be free.

January Ian Mariposa, Jaim to his friends, and his feline familiar Bastet, have acquired a device that allows them to travel back in time. One scholarly subject that has always fascinated him is the influence that the Cthulhu Mythos had on Victorian society of Great Britain in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. As such, he spends a great deal of time in London of the 1880s.However, he needs a way to support his pretense of being a dilettante aristocrat, and what better way...

The third book in New York Times-bestselling author Tad Williams's cyberpunk fantasy series • “Tad Williams is the brightest and best of the fantasists.” ―Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods"The Grail Brotherhood has built the most powerful, sophisticated simulation network imaginable. At the same time, they have manipulated and injured the minds of thousands of children."This proclamation from the mysterious Mr. Sellars confirme...