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MachoPoni: A Prance with Death (Poniworld Chronicles #1) by Lotus Rose (Death Pout)

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In this "children's book for adults," MachoPoni has no choice but to enter the Dark Kingdom, where the undead ponies roam. He must rescue Dust, the poni he loves from the dark princess's castle, using wit, creativity and his magic bouncy blue ball to survive. A twisted parody of My Little Pony, The Care Bears, and other 80's staples. Warning: contains gore and mild sexual content.

The Z Word (Apocalypse Babes) by Bella Street

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It's been said that a sure sign of the coming apocalypse is an 80s roller skate disco movie coming to DVD (with special features). In the science-fiction novel series Apocalypse Babes, a stylish group of twenty-something friends are torn from the Babylonian arms of 2006 West Hollywood and flung nearly thirty years into the past. It might be because one of them purchased the taboo film in a nostalgic moment, setting off a chain of events more disturbing than a roller skating conga line. They wake up in an apocalyptic but strangely familiar landscape, complete with a hidden mountain compound and retro survivalists, hinting at hidden and retro secrets they must face if they want to survive.

Book One of Apocalypse Babes, The Z Word, follows Seffy Carter and
her longtime friends Gareth, Addison and Lani. The four besties share a past dysfunctional and dark enough to keep them bound together under do-over identities. But rends develop in their relationships from the flesh-eating
pressures of ending up in 1980, in a Montana desert, surrounded by
zombies wearing dated disco duds.

Vultures in the Playground by A. Sparrow

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Name: Archie Parsons. Occupation: Malaria consultant. Hobbies: Mosquito husbandry. Boulder climbing. Long walks at sunset in failed states.
That last item nearly gets Archie killed when he is mugged fresh off a plane in Monrovia,Liberia. He is lucky to limit the damage to a scalp contusion and a stolen passport.
Turns out, these weren’t run-of-the-mill thugs. They work for a powerful and shadowy industrial consortium. Their goals: murder and identity theft. They seek Archie’s visas and connections to lubricate a killing spree of obstructive politicians and activists. These executions are to be conducted by their lead assassin – a man named Black.
During a second attempt involving Black himself, Archie’s would-be killer is accidentally killed by a freak accident in an airport washroom. But the consortium assumes that their man prevailed. He’s Agent Black, after all.
They blindly shuttle Archie around West Africa, providing tickets and weapons and intelligence via briefcases left in luxury hotel suites. For a time he plays along, exploiting his mistaken identity to warn intended targets of their peril.
When the consortium discovers their error, they dispatch Black’s East African counterpart, a man named White, to set things right. Archie finds himself pitted against the most brutal corporate assassin on the African continent. The State Department won’t help him because he’s officially deceased and some of their people are consortium plants. The only person who comes to his aide is his cat-sitter Melissa, a young woman whose shadowy past makes her much more formidable than she seems.

Traveling Bug by Edna Curry

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What REALLY happened behind the scenes when a computer virus crashed computers from coast to coast, hitting the headlines? Jeff helps his father solve a software pirating problem, but will he lose his heart as the price?
Travel agent Diane is thrilled to help Jeff lead a computer company’s VIP group to Puerto Vallarta, but finds herself embroiled in way more than she bargained for as they try to solve this mystery.

Finding Grace by Sarah Pawley

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Grace is seventeen. She is bold, intelligent...and unmarried. In the eyes of her family and her mountain born neighbors, she is hopelessly willful. But she is determined to forge her own path, come what may. When her parents try to force her hand in marriage, she flees, seeking out her brother and his wife, who once watched over her. Settling down with them, she finds a new life...and possible romance with a handsome neighbor. But the past will come back to haunt her, possibly destroying the happiness she has worked so hard to find.

The Devil's Lover: The Wish by Dahlia Lu

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A Paranormal Romance.

Lucifer, Sovereign of Hell, was awakened ahead of his time by the blood of a teenage girl. To satisfy his curiosity, he revived her from her untimely death and granted her a final wish worth dying for.

Shadow Games by Doug Welch

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The novel Shadow Games occurs in and near Jamestown, Kentucky, a rural town in the heart of the state. Beneath the small town backdrop, danger lurks for Paris and Alexandra Fox, identical twins. The sudden death of their parents in a suspicious accident has brought with it some painful revelations.
The first is that the person who they called mother is not their birth mother, and therefore they possess an unknown genetic inheritance. The second is that their father held a dangerous secret, one that caused their parent's death, and it looks like the Fox twins may be next.
To complicate matters, they meet two wonderful people, Elizabeth and Caesar Rowan, brother and sister, who may be the soul mates they have always desired. However, their attraction poses a danger for the Rowans and a vulnerability for themselves.
A race of people called Shadows who have the natural ability to hide in plain sight, want their father's secret and are willing to kill for it. They need to learn how to use their innate talents and the secret holds the key. Unfortunately the twins can't find it, and the Shadows are drawing closer. The twins must discover the the secret, protect the Rowans, and find the ability and the courage to confront the Shadow people. Their lives and the lives of the ones they love depend upon it.

The Ultimate Choice by Lisa C Hinsley

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In a dystopian near-future, overpopulation has led to a government dedicated to reducing citizen numbers. Suicide is legalised, food is rationed, and reproduction forbidden without permission.

Cassie O’Neil broke the law, she had sex before marriage. She is sentenced to die on the game show, The Ultimate Choice, but when a contestant collapses Cassie takes her chance and runs. Staying alive is hard with no ration card or place to hide. But she is a woman who refuses to die.

Shaun Horrigan, AMAZON VINE VOICE and TOP 500 REVIEWER, said of The Ultimate Choice: Set in a near future dystopian vision of England where population growth has run out of control, people are starving and food is rationed, this is a very thought provoking novel. Suicide is legalised and in fact encouraged, police patrols search for homeless people at night and get paid a bonus based on how many they euthanise, only those licensed to do so can have children and government propaganda keeps everyone naïve and ignorant of the real scale of the problems.

Diary of a Vampeen by Christin Lovell

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Imagine living a human charade for fifteen years and never knowing it. Imagine being provided less than a week to learn and accept your family’s true heritage before it overtook you. Alexa Jackson, Lexi, is abruptly thrown onto this roller coaster and quickly learns that she can’t change fate, regardless of how many lifetimes she is given. She will be transformed into a vampeen on her sixteenth birthday, she will be called upon to fulfill a greater destiny within the dangerous world of vampires, and she will have to risk heartbreak and rejection if she ever wants a chance at love with Kellan, whether she likes it or not.

THE JYNX by Kenneth C. Crowe

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THE JYNX is a novel of clamming, art, Swiftboat politics, and revenge in the age of Karl Rove. The protagonist of THE JYNX is a clammer, barely surviving in a dying industry, whose dream is to become a successful wood sculptor. A political operative, who is being stalked by a crazed Vietnam War veteran, hires the clammer/sculptor to protect her while she writes a book in an isolated cottage on a Long Island estate. She is the protagonist’s inspiration for The Jynx, a sculpture which advances his career and turns her into a vengeful enemy. The story takes place in the first nine months of 2006.

The Price of Life by T.M. Nienaber

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In this book a politician comes to a necromancer for the ability to make a campaign promise no one can match, in the middle of a war the ability to raise soldiers from the dead in unresistable. But as their partnership continues the two fail to see eye to eye and eventually go to war with each other. The necromancer's army of the undead goes against the politician's well trained military for a civil war like no one has ever seen before. While all this is going on we also discover a small compound creating a society all their own, recreating Victorian England as a backdrop for a murder game and a fake vampire.

Vindicator by Denney Clements and Robin Clements

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Wichita’s struggling newspaper, the Examiner, sends veteran reporter Joe Emery to Colorado. The dam at the Herman Gunderson Reservoir, 60 miles west of the state line, has collapsed, sending billions of gallons of water coursing downstream into Kansas and killing three people. What at first seems a gut-wrenching natural disaster story, however, quickly becomes something far more sinister.
First, the Kansas governor, Mabel Hodge, bullies her way into a press conference aimed at explaining the disaster. She tells reporters that the collapse of the dam is a blessing for water-starved Kansas farmers and ranchers. These tasteless remarks are apparently intended to shore up Hodge’s candidacy for re-election. Election Day is two weeks away and her Republican challenger is ahead in the polls.
Then, a rival reporter for an upstart Internet news service reveals upstages Hodge. He suggests that the FBI’s official cover story for the disaster, that it is an ‘act of God,’ is a sham. He asserts that the dam was sabotaged and demands that the lead investigator for the FBI confirm it. Instead, the investigator shuts the press conference down.
Thrust into what could be the best story of his life, Emery, an old-school ink-stained wretch, learns that the feds not only lied about the cause of the disaster but also have detained three terrorism suspects – members of a radical environmentalist group. With the help of Carol, the lovely embattled sister of one of the detainees, Emery learns that the feds have the wrong people in custody – and know it.
Emery’s story on their deception quickly goes viral, humiliating the FBI. He’s ready to dig deeper for the truth but the Examiner orders him back to Wichita. During the trip home, he survives an attempt on his life. Two days later, the newspaper lays him off, citing declining profits as the reason. Off the story and stripped of his hard-earned identity, he sinks into despondency.
But with Carol’s encouragement, Emery shakes off his funk and starts The Vindicator, a public-affairs blog. He’s back on the story, navigating a treacherous political environment, uncertain who he can trust, trying to fend off goons sent to stop him. He soon learns that telling the story could carry a terrible cost to the people he loves, and that it may already be too late to back off.

Zombie Sun: The Zombie in the Oval Office by Steven Mohan Jr.

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Any spec ops mission is bound to be a dangerous and nasty affair—but this one is RIDICULOUS. Not only does the President of the United States send Commander Achilles Black’s ghost team to a dying world, but he forces Black to take along a senior political advisor. But that’s only the beginning of Black’s problems.

Because something is killing off his troops.

And the revelation that he’s up against ZOMBIES won’t be the worst surprise that Black encounters.

This short story also includes a FREE excerpt of the first four chapters of the exciting short novel, ZOMBIE SUN: THE DARKNESS BETWEEN WORLDS.

Fans of 28 DAYS LATER, LEGEND, and LOST will enjoy the fast-moving series ZOMBIE SUN.

Novellas/Short stories:

The Sway of Disaster by Mikael Aizen

Hell by Randy Noble

Lord of the Trash by Sarah MacManus

OtherWhere: The Crazies by Garry Grierson

Where Sheep May Safely Graze by Roger Parkinson

Black Man Telling Tales by Barry Davis

Occam's Razor: A Short Story by John Brinling

The Robbery: A Short Story by John Brinling

A Twisted Bard's Tale (An Erotic Lesbian Short) by Selena Kitt

The Artisan by H. Bradley Stucki

If I Had A Car by Ted Summerfield

For Crying Out Loud by Severin Rossetti

Diary of a Dead Muse by Benjamin Goshko

The Twin by Dan Barbier