Weird. Provocative. Bizarre. There are a lot of words that could be applied to the ten tales found in Tim Tracer's debut short story collection, but perhaps they could best be described as strange.A young lawyer is asked to give his idol, a master magician in his day and now a corporate giant, the pink slip – and he discovers that the "Magic Man" has one more trick up his sleeve . . . A couple with a strained marriage encounters some unusual "Road Hazards" while driving the Oregon ...

This wasn't a time for visitors, not when Nick's wife has been dead a week and his son has an inoperable brain tumor. How can one family suffer such agony? Then a strange man shows up claiming Nick's wife wasn't who she claimed - and that there might be a magical place in the shadows of the trees that can save his son. A unique and haunting tale of wood sprites in the California Redwoods.

Everybody was talking about Daren Pharl. For once, it seemed an independent candidate for President was actually going to win. But when Seth attends one of the rallies, his unique psychic abilities allow him to see what's really happening in ways no one else can. Pharl may be exactly what he seems, but the people helping him certainly aren't. People who turn out to be a lot like Seth.

A sex-crazed pastor. An alien abduction. The fate of all humanity hanging in the balance. A wacky science fiction tale about the slippery nature of morality -- and aliens with weird accents.Tim Tracer lives in Oregon. A collection of his best short stories, STRANGE TALES, was recently published by Flying Raven Press.

Now with a new afterword by David Drake!They were the toughest fighters in the galaxy-until they got used up.The mission: redemption-or death,The troops were walking dead already,so there wasn't much of a downside.Major Arthur Farrell and the troops of Strike Force Company C41 had seen too much war with the alien Kalendru. They had too many screaming memories to be fit for combat again, but they were far too dangerous to themsel...

Ellie Colson is the only one who believes in the end of the world.As an agent of the Department of Advance Analysis, she's one of a handful of people who knows about the spread of a new virus—one she believes will wipe out mankind. With her bosses in denial, she flies to New York to get her ex-fiance Chip to safety.But he's already been scooped up and quarantined—and so has his adopted daughter. Pursued by her own agency, Ellie will stop at nothing to break Chip out before ...

Book one in an exciting time travel series...Professor Simon Cross has spent his life searching for evidence of vampires and avoiding emotional entanglements. When a mysterious accident transports Simon and his assistant, Elizabeth West, back in time, Simon finally finds both the proof that he's been looking for, and the romance that he hasn't.Simon and Elizabeth's developing relationship is tested by demons real and imagined. In 1920s Manhattan, there are more tha...

Blood doesn’t just make her who she is…it also makes her what she is.Like being a sixteen-year-old vampire isn’t hard enough, Tessa’s throwback human genes make her an outcast among her relatives. But try as she might, she can’t get a handle on the vampire lifestyle and all the…blood.Turning her back on the vamp world, she embraces the human teenage lifestyle–high school, peer pressure and finding a boyfriend. Jared manages to stir something in her blood. He’s smar...

They burned his world to the ground. Now he’ll infiltrate theirs.When Will Stark returns home on his birthday, he finds his life in ruins—his house engulfed in flames, his family gone, and a team of professional killers waiting to finish the job. But Will survives—and is pulled into a secret war between rival factions of a powerful, centuries-old society known as the Aliomenti.These people possess gifts beyond imagination. And they see Will as more than jus...

A haunted man. A murdered friend. A deadly enemy.Dan Taylor’s career as a bomb disposal expert in the British Army ended when an IED killed three of his team and left him scarred for life. Years later, and on the brink of self-destruction, Dan struggles to cope with the nightmares that haunt him.Until the day an estranged friend leaves a voicemail message for him, moments before he is assassinated in cold blood.Plunged into a global conspiracy, Dan ...

When Gabrielle Harper’s gutsy investigative reporting attracts a serial killer, her new neighbour begins keeping an eye on her. Cooper Marshall, an Elite Operations Division specialist, knows when the time comes he’ll protect Gabrielle – even if it means breaking his cover…

From New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy comes a high-stakes romance of a nurse on the run from a menacing ex…‘He’s found me – I’m dead.’Running from an abusive past, nurse Chloe Moreno arms herself with a new identity and seeks an uncomplicated life in Eden Falls. But her security in the once-peaceful community is crumbling fast. Not only is there a kidnapper on the loose, but it seems her worst nightmare has tracked her down. She needs...