Piracy can only survive for so long. Through turbulent times and mismanaged leadership, Sebastian Teach (Blackbeard's Great Grandson) takes the helm to steer the I.I.C (The Independent Islands of the Caribbean) away from danger. However, rumblings inside the Captain's cabinet threaten to sabotage his success. With his love of piracy compromised, what will he resort to to keep piracy the dominant threat of the seas?

Good things come from unexpected places...Magic and mayhem. Vampires and gods. Cops and werewolves. The binding thread of mysticism in the modern world and acts of kindness, small and large, random and focused. Join these ten authors as we travel through their worlds.All of the author proceeds from the sales of this anthology will go to the Random Acts Organization, sponsoring kindness throughout the world. This is not official Random Acts merchandise, but is a fundraising ...

This romance,about two sisters who both love the same man, opens in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, in September 1965. The story weaves between a small Salisbury shop, an old Rhodesian gold mine,and the precarious career of a teenage fashion model in London. After Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in November 1965, many of the characters who appeared in Squares in a Grooved Circle are drawn together again but, as the country braces itself to counteract the threat of retaliati...

Er ist Englands goldener Sohn. Niemand weiß, was — oder wen — er verbirgt.Marcus Ainsley hat alles: die Kapitänsbinde, die Sponsoren, die Hoffnung eines ganzen Landes auf seinen Schultern. Was ihm fehlt, ist der eine Titel, der ihn vervollständigen würde — verloren in einem WM-Halbfinale, entschieden durch einen einzigen, verheerenden Moment, den er bis heute nicht ganz begreift.Dann verliert er alles andere. Wochen nach diesem Finale stirbt seine Jugendlie...

Last year, we were born of defiance.This year, we are born of rage.In turbulent worlds born from science fiction, fantasy, and the fantastical, find stories of women who rise like the phoenix in flames of fury. The wrath of goddesses, the power of grief and ire, and the strength of women to transform themselves and their worlds.Refusing to settle for just surviving, they choose to build their lives on their own terms, despite whatever may stand in their way....

Ceres had never met anyone like Liam before. It wasn’t his looks or anything physical that made him different, but was something that was impossible to see and even harder to describe. It was the way that he made her feel.As if a world filled with the reanimated dead wasn’t enough, a new, even more insidious threat has now reared its ugly head. They tore her away from him and made her fight for her life. Cornered and hopelessly outnumbered she was about to succumb when an unexpecte...

Determined to help the war effort, Frankie Norris joins the US Air Force in 1943. Braving intimidating drill sergeants and unending marches, Frankie struggles to hide his secret—he's queer. But having passed basic training, he's not going to risk an undesirable discharge or any of his fellow recruits finding out. Then he receives word that he's been granted a position flying the plane he loves, the P-51 Mustang.But as Frankie finds his wings in the sky, feelings of isolation may ke...

Time is a central feature of geomorphological research, and is used in this book (first published in 1977) to provide a conceptual framework within which to consider and compare old and new approaches to the field of geomorphology. The emphasis is on providing not merely a manual of current research but an introduction to isolate ideas and concepts, stimulate critical discussion and examine some of the problems that are involved in dealing with data.

In this unnerving volume of tangled lives and broken truths, reality is the one thing you can’t rely on. A killer hides in a room that was never supposed to exist. A whistle echoes through an old hollow bell tower—but it only tolls for those with regrets they’ve buried too deep.A dream engineer discovers that synthetic dreams don’t always obey their creators. Meanwhile, a séance doesn’t bring comfort to the grieving—it cracks open something far older, and far less kind.On the...

Light bends around the edges of a cloaked elliptical sphere as it glides down and attaches to a freeway overpass. It begins spraying a green mist that wafts down across all lanes of traffic. It’s the evening rush hour in Tokyo and there are millions of cars on the freeways so the green mist goes largely unnoticed. A similar scene happens near Moscow, then again through several major cities across Asia and Europe including London, England. Following the setting sun to the west ...

In this haunting bundle of twisted tales, nothing is what it seems—and no one escapes unchanged.A legal case begins to unravel not in court, but in the fractured mind of someone who can’t forget a crime that may never have happened. A lighthouse stands not by the sea, but at the edge of existence, drawing in more than just lost ships. A society built on fluid identities breeds paranoia, obsession, and danger for those who dare to remember who they really are. When reflections speak,...

Twenty to thirty million Americans suffer from some form of diagnosable depression, and their ranks are growing. Psychologist Michael D. Yapko explains that in order to find relief, more than the current episode of depression must be examined. In Breaking the Patterns of Depression, he presents skills that enable listeners to understand and ultimately avert depression's recurring cycles.Breaking the Patterns of Depression begins by translating the clinical literat...