A forbidden book. A dangerous pact. A door that should never be opened.When young scholar Elias breaks into a forgotten monastery in search of lost knowledge, he discovers more than ancient secrets—a living book that writes back, binding him to a secret society of shadow-weavers and a voice that calls itself the First Author.Each word Elias writes bends reality, giving him power beyond imagination… but at a terrible price. Hunted by monstrous beings and hau...

The Hacker's Gamble is a thrilling, high-octane journey into the digital underground, where one man's skills could either save or doom him. Jack Helix, a top-tier hacker, is thrust into a life-or-death heist when an unknown adversary blackmails him into breaking into the world's most secure vault. But things take a twist when Jack realizes he's not just stealing data—he's walking into a trap. Now, with his reputation and life on the line, Jack must navigate a web of enemies, decep...

WHEN I am in my room looking upon the walls I have painted I see there reflections of the personal life, but when I look through the windows I see a living nature and landscapes not painted by hands. So, too, when I meditate I feel in the images and thoughts which throng about me the reflections of personality, but there are also windows in the soul through which can be seen images created not by human but by the divine imagination. I have tried according to my capacity to report about the...

This special commemorative edition of AEs The Candle of Vision is published on the 10th of April 2017ev. This is the 150th anniversary of the Feast for Life (birthday) of George William Russell, the man who bore the name Æon. This is also the 113th Anniversary of the writing of the third chapter of Liber AL vel Legis, the Book of the Law. The Candle of Vision is part spiritual biography, part inquiry into the mechanism of visions, and partly instructional. Originally published in 1918, AEs...

From the twisted mind of AE Stueve (author of Former, Deicide, and The ABCs of Dinkology series), comes a love letter to comic books, from romance to horror to sci-fi superhero. The Age of Heroes #1: First Born begins an epic series that aims to reconstruct the superhero archetype from the ground up.For May and Jack Norman in Oakview, NE in 1981 things are as they should be . . . until the paperboy goes missing.Light years away on the planet Essa,...

Owen Lipke is looking for adventure. When he hears about a ranch in the Muskokas catering to kinky men who don’t want to settle for backroom amateurs, he signs up in a second.At the Braided Crop Ranch, Owen finds what he’s looking for: A sex-positive space with safety protocols and Doms (trainers) who know their business. And a stable full of well-behaved ponyboys to prove it.Owen thinks his trainer, Kamal, is hot as hell but finds being a ponyboy isn’t as intuitive as he e...

Twenty years ago scientists made some remarkable discoveries with genetics and the ability to perfect the babies we gave birth to.Ten years ago the governments of the world made a hard choice: earth or people.Nine weeks ago the choices they made came full circle.Fourteen days ago the truth of their mutations leaked out into the borderlands and other areas.Yesterday the worst thing they ever made learned about what she was.Today she's coming for them,...

The world has changed. The buildings have fallen, blown away with the winds. The roads crumble as the forest takes back the land we stole a long time ago.It's only been ten years since the end, but it feels like a hundred for Emma, who has been alone since the beginning, surviving on the skills her crazy father forced on her.Trust no one. Pull the trigger. Hide. Run. Stay away from the other survivors. Stay away from the Infected. She has obeyed her father's rules since she...

Why did the demon cross the road? Apparently to escape Kyle McKinley. Which is more than fine with her.The last thing she wants is to be dragged into another supernatural crisis, but the Fates have something different in store for her. Trina, a young shifter girl she helped in the past, is being stalked, and Kyle will do whatever it takes to protect her.The secretive shifters reluctantly agree to allow Kyle and her vampire and demon teammates to investigate. Are poachers tr...

Twenty-two-year-old Simon White begs for a place on Captain Dinesh Martin's pirate ship, the Arrow. When he proves hilariously inadequate at most tasks, he finds himself in the captain's quarters as cabin boy, housekeeper, and bed warmer.Captain Martin used to be a British naval officer, until he became disenchanted with the hypocrisy, racism, and classism of the institution and embarked on a life of piracy. He runs an organized and efficient vessel and prides himself on the men wi...

Oliver Lambert has taken his photography skills and run with them. By the time he's thirty, he's made a name for himself and now has jobs whenever he needs them. He likes to be behind the camera, watching the world through a safe lens, protected from actually engaging with it.An unexpected referral takes him somewhere he never expected-a kinky fetish ranch in the Muskokas, where men pay to play pony and trainers teach them how to behave.Adam Marsland needs a visual record o...

Dark Isis is on a rampage in Egypt. Artemis, Lynx, and Aphrodite are trying to get isis back before she is transformed for good. It is an all out war against Dark Isis as the women from Gearz, Victoria’s Secret Service, Cleo, Valkyrie, Judo Girl and more come crashing in.