Soaring means leaving the nest.Q of Cygnus is tired of running. She’s safe with her found family, healing and learning to control her talents. But her enemies are getting stronger, too. She must take the fight to them and eliminate the threat, once and for all.Before she can go on the offensive, former allies destroy her plans. Trapped with a possible traitor, Q must outsmart artificial intelligences, Familia operatives and her own self-doubt. While battles...

Lucy is a successful hotel manager. But her boss's son has it in for her and plants some jewels on her. Accused of theft, her only hope of rescuing her career lies in submitting to everything the hotel's staff want to do to her. They display incredibly devious imaginations! Poor Lucy is used in every conceivable way in every part of the hotel, from the bedrooms to the kitchens and all stops between!

They call me Emo Barbie. And they're not far off, though I consider myself a little more alternative than that. I just so happen to do everything in six-inch heels and blood-red lipstick.I like it when people stare. I like the attention.I've never been drawn to the meek or mild. At least, not until I met Hannah Kate, the journalist hired by Dallin to do a story on Twisted Ink and feature me as its best artist.Even her name screams good girl...

With the beautiful red pointe shoe of On Thin Ice, cover artist Ann-Marie Brown offers this issue’s poignant opening act. Just as a dancer en pointe appears weightless, suspended in a moment of grace, so too do our authors, balancing the weight of beauty and sorrow.Blood and booze set the stage in ‘Wrap Party’ as featured author AM Dellamonica takes us behind the scenes of community theatre.It’s turtles all the way down as ...

Nineteen original horror stories exploring ancient sites, uncovering forgotten histories and prising open the tombs of the past, from award-winning authors and editors Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi.Perfect for fans of Ellen Datlow.Unearthed digs beneath these crumbling structures to reveal their archaic pasts, and their darkest secrets. Featuring the best modern writers of horror and dark fantasy, these stories explore the caverns and the c...

The Santa's Great Treasure Chest gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, and legends into an expansive archive of festive imagination. Moving between devotional verse, fairy tale, domestic realism, moral fable, comic vignette, ghostly wonder, and children's adventure, the volume traces Christmas as both sacred observance and secular cultural ritual. Familiar holiday narratives, carols, and folkloric retellings stand alongside less-circulated period pieces, making the ...

The Haunted House is a house that rules our minds with fear. Once we think a house is haunted we prove the point to ourselves again and again. Every floorboard creak or window rattle or unexplained happening is proof concrete.In this anthology our authors go to exceptional lengths to unsettle our minds and open them up to all sorts of terrors.1 - Haunted House - The Definitive Collection - An Introduction2 - The Lurking Fear - Part 1 by H P Lovecraft3 - The ...

In the tumult of this modern world, it is suddenly necessary for Muslim and Christian activists to unite to oppose Satanism, widespread in the United States. Hermano is a minister on a mission. Toby is an Air Force veteran working to avenge his murdered niece. Texas ranchers the Hunts are in the midst of a serious run-in with the church of Satan. Prepared for the battle ahead, their journey begins with the extermination of all participants in a black mass in Colorado. Simultaneously, at a ...

This children’s story tells the tale of a little dog who gets into big trouble on Christmas Eve after following her cat friend’s bad advice and about how a loving Grandmother comes to the rescue. Meg Bolton Scott, a former English professor and newspaper reporter, has raised twelve dogs of her own over the years and has also volunteered for over 300 hours with SPCA Florida in Lakeland. She currently lives in Plant City, Florida. Calamity Jane was her own remarkable little dog, rescued from...

Governess or duchess?After spending the last ten years following her late husband on campaign, the irrepressible Jane Kimball finds herself badly in need of a position to support herself. Marriage holds no appeal; she’s not likely to find a husband like her Jimmy again. But when Miss Thorn of the Fortune Employment Agency offers her a post with the Duke of Wey, Jane feels drawn to help the lonely widower with his three daughters. He may seem a bit aloof, but Miss...

From USA Today Bestselling Author Laura ScottWalking the line between danger and love!Stalked by a bomber!When Devon Thompson’s car explodes at the click of her key fob, she doesn’t want to believe she was targeted on purpose. But when the next bomb is found in her apartment, she can’t ignore the fact that someone wants her dead. Trusting Captain Rhyland Finnegan with the truth isn’t easy, but soon she realizes Rhy is an honorable ...

From USA Today Bestselling Author Laura ScottPlan your escape to Crystal Lake!Will he break this ironclad rule for her?Dr. Gabe Allen has a rule about dating colleagues but when he meets ER nurse Larissa Brockman he's tempted to break his vow. Larissa's faith draws him back to the church he'd left behind, but when their lives are on the line Gabe discovers that Larissa is the one who needs to learn about the true meaning of...