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From Within by John M. Dow

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Something hideous is stalking the streets of Wakely.

"They stopped, looking around, trying to pinpoint the source of their discomfort. The tension in the air suddenly snapped, released, and with a series of staccato bangs, every door down the length of the street swung open.

From out of the houses and shops they came, shuffling, staggering, and swaying. Fly-by-wire humans, jerking along the street like meat marionettes, with mouths agape and eyes empty. In their suits and their dresses, overalls, smocks and pyjamas, the locals of Wakely marched to their own rhythm of decay to greet the visitors to their town."

Three strangers find themselves drawn to Wakely, a small village in the Scottish Borders, where a centuries-old conflict between two warring Celtic deities is drawing to its gruesome conclusion.

A small boy holds the key to their survival, but first they have to find him. And they're not the only ones looking.

The Emerald Talisman (Talisman Series, Book 1) by Brenda Pandos (Obsidian Mountain Publishing)

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To be normal, sixteen-year-old Julia Parker would shed her empathic gift in a second. Life has been difficult since her mother's mysterious disappearance ten years earlier - an event she witnessed, but can't remember. Julia's situation becomes more complicated after a near death experience from a blood thirsty stalker. As high school students go missing it is clear there is a connection to her own experience--past and present. Someone has to stop the madness and a chance encounter with a creepy psychic foretells that only Julia is the key to stopping the madness, but it may require the life of the one she loves.

Readers who enjoyed Twilight, Vampire Diaries, Blue Bloods and The Morganville Vampires will enjoy The Emerald Talisman.

Marysvale by Jared Southwick

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John Casey was ten years old when his mother was murdered…and ten when his father hid the truth from him. Without that knowledge, he has no idea of the enemies that lie in wait.

Now grown up, John lives a solitary life, in a world enslaved by ignorance and superstition, when anyone unusual is treated with distrust and even killed…and John has some very unusual gifts. When he is accused of witchcraft, John does the only thing he’s ever done—Run! That is, until he meets Jane, who lives in the bleak, imprisoned town of Marysvale. Life outside the safety of the town walls means certain death from the brutal monsters that hunt there. However, life inside, under the rule of a tyrannical leader, means no life at all.

As the love between John and Jane grows, the dangers of Marysvale unfold; and for the first time in his life, John discovers that there is something worth dying for.

The Penal Colony by Richard Herley

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The future.

The British government now runs island prison colonies to take dangerous offenders from its overcrowded mainland jails.

Among all these colonies, Sert, 25 miles off the north Cornish coast, has the worst reputation. There are no warders. Satellite technology is used to keep the convicts under watch. New arrivals are dumped by helicopter and must learn to survive as best they can. To Sert, one afternoon in July, is brought Anthony John Routledge, sentenced for a sex-murder he did not commit. Routledge knows he is here for ever. And he knows he must quickly forget the rules of civilized life. But not all the islanders are savages. Under the charismatic leadership of one man a community has evolved. A community with harsh and unyielding rules, peopled by resourceful men for whom the hopeless dream of escape may not be so hopeless after all ...

Kindred Spirits by Ashanti Luke

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Past due bills, last minute term papers, annoying ex-boyfriends. Michelle Long’s life is the life of a typical engineering student--or so she thinks until the night of September 17, 1991.

Jason Dyer, a vigilant revolutionary from the not-so-distant future, travels back to 1991 to save a seemingly innocuous college student’s life. He gives up the life of an ordinary college graduate for what he believes--to save the world from destruction in his time, Maximilian Powers, an amicable patriarch of a local church, has to die in 1991, and Michelle has to kill him.

Core Values by Louis Bertrand Shalako

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Charles Henry Brubaker is the other guy that everything bad happens to through no fault of his own.‘Hang on to your Core Values.’ When the whole world is corrupt, what else can you do? When things are going well, that is not the measure of a man. When everything and everyone is against you—it’s what you do then. That is the measure of a man. A dark comedy.

A Selection of Meats and Cheeses by Danny Gillan

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Twelve short stories from Danny Gillan. Some sad, some funny; some serious, some silly; some poignant, some pointless.

Meet homicidal Estate Agents, happy mendicants, inept stalkers and rubbish action heroes. From crime to comedy and thriller to thought piece, the thread combining these bites of life is that everyone makes decisions, and good people often make bad ones. It's how you deal with the consequences that matters.

HEARTBREAK HIGHWAY by Emma Daniels

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Everyone warned Emma Taylor about Dean Price, the bad boy of the south coat. Even his own family don't trust him, but Emma can't help falling in love with her best friend's handsome and way too charming older brother, so when Dean breaks her heart, she knows she only has herself to blame. Only days later her grandmother, and only living relative, dies after a long illness, and Emma decides there is nothing to bind her to her home town anymore, so she moves away and makes a new life for herself in the city.

Eight years later Emma has a new man in her life, a single parent like herself. Not until she accepts a temporary job on Lord Howe Island where her 7 year old son Adam can escape the big city bullies, does her past, and Dean catch up with her.

Tormented with guilt over the way he treated Emma, Dean has spent the past eight years searching for her to try and make things right, but Emma won't forgive him, not until she finds out what really happened to Dean after that dreadful night.

Dragon's Pupils - The Sword Guest by Martin Chu Shui

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When East and West combine…

Half-Chinese, half-Australian, Liz is not interested in her father’s ancient Tao wisdom, or his cryptic tales. She is more concerned with environmental issues—particularly the plan to mine one of Australia’s great landmarks, Wave Rock. Her father’s latest gift, a Chinese calligraphy pen, seems set to take its place in her bottom drawer forever.
Then Wave Rock is blasted open by something more than a mining operation, and Liz finds that she must battle monsters from ancient times as well as creatures from other worlds, all intent on destroying Earth. She must call on all her powers, from both her Eastern heritage and her Western upbringing, to save her world. Her pen becomes her way into a new and magical world, and Liz discovers she has powers—and allies—that she never could have guessed.
An exciting, fast-paced tale that combines the wisdom of ancient tradition with the pace of a Kung Fu movie and brings them to life in contemporary Australia, this exciting tale takes the best of two cultures and blends them to open up a new world of adventure and mystery.

The Four Towers of Alacantar : Episode 1 (Third Age of Timare) by Stephen I. Carmer and Gregory L. Otvos

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Episode 1: The adventure begins here.
Enter a land of wizards, dragons, castles, elves, dwarfs, ghosts, and more.
Prince Deki Orr has been exiled from his homeland as a child. Now he shall return and discover a world that he could never have imagined. And a dragon that will devour him if they ever have the misfortune of meeting. Many pen and ink illustrations.

Breathless: Book One of the Jason and Azazel Trilogy by V. J. Chambers

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Azazel is seventeen and sexually frustrated. Her biggest issue is trying to figure out why her seemingly normal boyfriend won't sleep with her.

Then Jason races into her life. He won't say where he came from or who's chasing him. He's a delicious puzzle, a boy who has no problem using his fists to solve arguments or quoting Plato to justify his actions. Azazel is drawn to him. She's obsessed with finding out his secrets.

What she doesn't know is that Jason's secrets are entwined with her own town's secrets. Her friends and family have conspired to use her as a pawn in a violent scheme. Soon, she will have to choose between protecting Jason and staying loyal to everyone she's ever trusted.

A story about forbidden love, fate, and free will, Breathless is Rosemary's Baby meets The Da Vinci Code meets Romeo and Juliet.

This title is also available from Amazon, along with the other two books in the trilogy, in The Jason and Azazel Trilogy Omnibus.

Short Stories:

Wicked Science: 5 Short Works by Joshua Scribner

Scream Angel by Douglas Smith

infinities by John Grant, Eric Brown, Anna Tambour and Garry Kilworth

Morning Mist of Blood (Buck McDivit Mysteries) by Eric Wilder

Meant to Be ((The Saving Angels book 1)) by Tiffany King

The Premium: A Short Story by Joshua Scribner

Decision LZ1527 by Joe Vasicek

Goddamn Redneck Surfer Zombies (Fiction Friday) by Michael Jasper

Sinkhole: A Short Story by John Brinling

The Death Clock - a short story by J. Rock

Force and Restraint in Strategic Deterrence: A Game-Theorist's Perspective by Dr. Roger B. Myerson