Vigilante is a short story about a small-town police detective called upon to assist in the investigation of the bombing of a motorcycle gang's clubhouse. The reader follows the junior detective through his fact-gathering process and eventually learns the identity of the bomber.

George Severe leads an expedition to a Colorado mountain top near Durango, Colorado. A tragic incident thrusts him to a strange land where mythical creatures exist, stone is alive, and traditionally incompatible animals and plants thrive harmoniously.George is drawn into a developing conflict between the leaders of a local village and the suzerain of the land. As much as he tries to focus on his research, he is forced to choose between the villagers he thought had rescued him and t...

Tom Billings is a dying homeless man, struggling to stay alive until Christmas. Believing he hears some church bells, he promises a reward to a friend if he will take him to the church. When they arrive, Tom discovers the church has fallen on bad times - a fate similar to his own. During the last moments of his life, Tom makes an impression on three people.

As a child, the author often spent his summers in Wells, Maine. While exploring the rocky shore between Moody Beach and Crescent Beach during low tide with a local friend, they discovered a lobster trap. His friend retrieved the lobster and took it home. Many years later, the author related this adventure to another friend who warned him about Fishermen's Justice.Fishermen's Justice is a short ghost story that takes place at sea after two lobster trappers from a New England fishing...

Anastasia Severe is a young woman of twenty years in search of her estranged father, George Severe, who had abandoned her and her mother ten years earlier. A telephone call from the Mount Washington weather observatory in New Hampshire propels her search onto a mysterious levitating land, but she is not alone in her search. Characters from both worlds seek her father and Wind Castle for their own purposes.All she wants is to ask her father why he went away, why he would not take he...

George Severe, a former Meteorologist, is a reluctant leader in a strange levitating world he had discovered while working for a clandestine agency. The Land is at peace, but George knows it will not last. He asks the Land's Warriors and Dragons to prepare for an impending conflict.Having been thwarted in earlier attempts to gain control, George's nemesis, Mark Waxman, is determined to find and occupy the Land. The agency he serves demands immediate action, but Waxman doesn't want ...

Hard Times Have Come to Dragon CityRetired adventurer Max Gibson has seen better times. Ever since he and his treasure-hunting friends struck it big and called it quits a decade back, it seems like things have slid downhill.It's hard enough to scrape by in a sprawling mountain city in which elves and dwarves live higher than humans in every way. It's worse at night, when the groans of the zombies laying an eternal siege to the city provide a ceaseless reminder that the Drag...

The Dragon Keeper series bridges the gap between Magic Tree House Merlin Missions and Harry Potter.An original short story (only available electronically!) adds background information to the newest book in this magical middle grade adventure series. It's an exciting adventure featuring Emmy's parents and the origins of the second dragon egg that appears in The Dragon in the Sea (Dragon Keepers #5).Praise for The Dragon in the Sock Drawer:"Funny and wonderfully writt...

Grey is a paranormal urban fantasy novel with horror overtones (sans vampires, werewolves, or wizards) dealing with the unseen world of balancing powers. Too often life is viewed in terms of good and evil, black or white, and the balance point tipping in either direction is ignored. Why should the afterlife be any different? We are given a choice when we die to move on to the Source, stay on earth and slowly evolve into more of what we were (good people become angels and bad people become ...

In this chilling original stand-alone novella, available exclusively as an eBook, Dean Koontz offers a taste of what’s to come in his novel, 77 Shadow Street, with a mesmerizing tale of a homeless boy at large in a city fraught with threats … both human and otherwise. Includes the first chapter of 77 Shadow Street.Twelve-year-old Crispin has lived on the streets since he was nine – with only his wits and his daring to sustain him, and only his silent dog, Harley, to call his friend...

Allison Sekemoto died so that she might live.As a vampire, she faces the rise of a deadly new plague to her kind. Allison thought that immortality was forever. Now eternity itself hangs in the balance. . .The legend continues BOOK TWO The Virus Must Be Stopped No matter what the cost No matter what the sacrifice Mankind’s survival depends on us

Following Desire Untamed and Obsession Untamed, Passion Untamed is the third book in Pamela Palmer’s outstanding Feral Warriors series about an elite band of fierce and sexy shape-shifter warriors who are sworn to protect the world from evil. This paranormal romance features Paenther, a powerful and dangerous immortal who must trust a beautiful witch in order to survive.