When a giant alien ship pulls into the harbor of their city, Michael and Stephanie Lincoln are compelled to check it out. Michael works for the city paper. Stephanie works as a researcher.Similar ships pull into the harbors and piers of cities around the world, appearing as by magic. The crowd that gathers, awaiting a sign from the silent hulk, is soon plagued by an unnatural stirring of sexual arousal. It is a pervasive phenomenon, affecting men and women.Mike struggles with...

The year is 2185. The world is at Peace. Everyone is encouraged to live up to their fullest potential. Everyone is asked to be the best of who they are…Emily Robinson was three weeks from her twentieth birthday. After flunking out of college, Emily needed a job. Jobs are scarce.A card pinned to a community board offers a laugh… Pet Wanted – Female. Petite, attractive, twenty to thirty years old. Full time. Limited.Sounded kinky… there was a lot of kink in the world…

Brian McCloud had good looks, money, a carefree spirit, and no complications. Focused on his online business, he didn't care for distant family, or keeping friends. The women he dallied with were temporary playthings… no ties at all. Enjoying beautiful, sexy, women, didn't mean he wanted to keep one. Playing at being earnest, caring, and sharing… was a lie. He cared for no one. He played at living, barely keeping score, but for his business success. He had no idea someone kept score, or ho...

Rebecca Winters, now Beck, has grown comfortable with her life, being owned by the twins, Trisha and Thomas. She has learned who and what they are and what their mission is… everything she learns tightens their growing bonds.She and June, her lover, have developed a strong relationship… a rather complicated relationship… growing closer than either had imagined possible.Beck's mother, with Aurora, and Mark form their own relationship, and between them have a baby… a baby whose...

These coaches will motivate you to give up everything… Even your life.Nina loves using her social media platform to educate people about scams around the world. When Bribre, the clothing multi-level marketing company, falls apart, she’s ready to declare victory. That is until she realized that only Patty, a former consultant, jumped to a new company and is claiming to be a marketing guru.Intrigued, Nina shifts her investigation to focus on Patty’s new coach...

Even the afterlife gets decided in a committee.The afterlife is more like a large retirement community than a fiery pit where even collecting souls has been automated. Death has nothing on his to-do list until his co-worker, the Devil, tells him she’s retiring. For years he’s relied on her to keep the ever-growing population of Patala running smoothly. After five hundred years he needs to replace the most important woman in his life.To avoid mutiny from the...

The first Books of "IS", is full of contemplative designs and graftics, along with rhythmic writings. All are created to move gently, your sences, and your brain, to "stiring" you "awake", and into thinking, sensing and obseving the life within you and around you. The writings and graphics are meant to be contemplated upon, and carried into your daily life, so to awaken you to the truth of you and the universe of life here, now, and beyond "here" and the "now". I have also included pages a...

Dive into the world of Harrowgate Valley University, where not everything is as it seems on the surface. This shared world anthology features eight tales of secrets, scholarship, and the paranormal."The Sensation of Pain,” Hieronymus HawkesNew faculty member Tom Babbage realizes there's something strange about Harrowgate Valley University. Could it somehow be linked to the recent disappearance of his mother, a former professor?“The Thief,” Sheri QueenJoe Malon...

Spacefaring researchers disturb an ancient horror. An enchanted object curses a grieving widow. A haunted reel torments a film student. A murder trial hinges on a chilling testimony.In Howls From Hell, sixteen emerging horror writers pave the way for the future of the genre. Fans of dark and macabre fiction will savor this exhibition of all-original tales born from one of the fastest-growing horror communities in the world: HOWL Society.With a foreword by GRADY HEN...

This book is contemporary, topical and global in its approach, and provides an essential, comprehensive treatise on bovine tuberculosis and the bacterium that causes it, Mycobacterium bovis. Bovine tuberculosis remains a major cause of economic loss in cattle industries worldwide, exacerbated in some countries by the presence of a substantial wildlife reservoir. It is a major zoonosis, causing human infection through consumption of unpasteurised milk or by close contact with infected anima...

Taking a disease-based approach, Fish Viruses and Bacteria: Pathobiology and Protection focuses on the pathobiology of and protective strategies against the most common, major microbial pathogens of economically important marine and freshwater fish. The book covers well-studied, notifiable piscine viruses and bacteria, including new and emerging diseases which can become huge threats to local fish populations in new geographical regions if transported there via infected fish or eggs. A con...

The last battle for the fate of your country is coming. My kin are out for blood and revenge. Another empire sees a chance to come in and pick up the pieces of our war. Most of your warriors are stuck hiding in the swamps, always aware that they do not have enough numbers to win a straight fight.And from over the seas, my people bring their most deadly weapons, the Fateguard. Living suits of armour, imbued with mystical and deadly power. The end times have come for your land. I hav...