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Lust and Submission
Princess Kaeleen of the Nine Worlds has been disinherited. And the daughter of light and dark, now just “Lacey,” has been content in the world of heavy metal music, clubbing, fashion, one-night-stands, takeaway, and hangovers ever since.
That is until her carefree, party-girl lifestyle comes to a screeching halt when her powerful best friend tears off on a heartbreak-fueled path of self-destruction and mayhem. Add a dangerously strained relationship with Lacey’s demon Queen mother, an ambitious half-sister jostling for power, and a demon assassin ripping her friends apart, and Lacey is well out of her depth.
On the precipice of losing everything she values, fatherless and powerless Lacey must find the strength to unite violently opposed factions and personalities to protect the lives she holds dear.
The fresh voice of Nicole Walsh delivers steamy-hot urban fantasy with a polyamorous, paranormal romance theme.
The Island Bruised Blue
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Molly Hanson, prone to knucklehead moments, is still struggling to fit into her remote fishing island community with her waterman husband Hank. After mistakenly shop-lifting a can of pasta, Molly is sentenced to perform a community service stint at Sunnydale Acres Retirement Home. There she meets Sylvie, a senior resident with purple hair who leans towards the wild side. When news that severed body parts have been unearthed in flowerbeds set up by Grow Green Landscaping, suspicions fall on the former owner and current caretaker of Sunnydale Acres in a way that could tie him to multiple homicides that include girlfriends from his past.
Despite serious warnings from Walter, the local sheriff and Hank’s best friend, Molly follows her gut instincts and begins digging around the gardener’s affairs along with her new sidekick, Sylvie. As Molly begins putting the pieces together, this wannabe detective just can’t stop herself from walking head-on into trouble and into the path of the killer, with no way out.
The Island Ran Red
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Meet zany Molly Hanson, part of a husband and wife commercial fisherman that’s mostly her husband. Still learning the ropes, she loves her idyllic watermen island village of Smithtown but her blundering courage and unsafe curiosity cannot be contained when she uncovers a female tattooed torso floating in the water. The mystery and cover-up in this innocent town she adopted is just intolerable, and minding her own business is way too boring. Much to the dismay of Walt, the local sheriff, and her husband, Hank, Molly’s meddling in police work leaves her dangerously entangled in investigating a crime ring where her shenanigan sleuthing lands her in the crosshairs of the killer. She’s fishing village-tough, but will it be enough?
Author Bio: Michele M. Green is a professional artist/writer whose work is done plein aire by foot, boat or canoe. She has been a frequent contributor to the Outdoor Delaware magazine and her work has been featured in the Delaware Today magazine. Michele’s work is also in the collection of Vice President Biden and Delaware’s Governor Markel. She resides on an island in the lower eastern shore of Maryland with her handsome husband and two dogs.
From Ed Schaeffer, REVIEWER: In THE ISLAND RAN RED, author Michele Green writes of heroine Molly Hanson, in an exciting, humorous, and dangerous romp in her island home of Smithtown, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Molly, on a boat with her husband Hank, discovers a woman’s body floating in the water. This shocking discovery leads her through various experiences as she tries to identify the murderer.
Always with the natural wonder of the Eastern Shore highlighted in the background, local characters interact with Molly, mostly helping her in her quest, and sometimes offering danger.
To the reader, Molly displays all her personality, affectionate to her husband, but rough toward those who impede her progress.
Beneath the story runs a very capable writer with a knack for using just the right words to effectively summarize specific feelings and happenings.
First you begin loving Molly, then the author herself!
-Ed Schaeffer, Rattlesnake Hill
Before the Ruins
In the unforgiving deserts of 13th century America, the Morning Crows half-heartedly maintain an uneasy peace with their rivals, the troublesome High Rocks clan and the powerful Ash Owl clan. With the return of long overdue rain to the region, all three Anasazi clans expect a good harvest, a promise that may ease tensions. But when a vampire begins hunting the Morning Crows, their finest warrior, Makya, determines that he must kill this Enemy Stranger to protect his people. As dangerous misunderstandings multiply and the curse of the Enemy Stranger spreads, the three clans sink into a spiraling cycle of vengeance while the unprecedented threat of complete annihilation looms…
Universal Enigma
Equal parts science fiction and mystery exemplified by Nebula-nominated tales by Jack McDevitt and Stanley Schmidt, and Fantasy & Science Fiction author Ken Altabef.
Featuring Vincent L. Scarsella and Elizabeth Hosang.
“Do you want to know what goes on at the IRS? Or do you not want to know?” Danny “Creds” Shapiro wants to know and he may get killed for it. In the meantime, he’s impressing the hell out of his girlfriend…Maybe.
Drastic Measures: An anthology of short fiction
GEORGE CLAYTON JOHNSON (Ocean’s Eleven, Logan’s Run) joins the print edition of Drastic Measures anthology of short fiction, volume I, to help spin tales of where the human mind goes when its cornered. New discovery MELISSA LYONS is the most powerful new voice in suspense since Dean Koontz with her story, “Snow.” Editor BEN PARRIS adds two stories of his own edited by Fantasy & Science Fiction contributor KEN ALTABEF. In “Murder in Songjiang”: All Brian wanted to do was teach English in China. All the U.S. State Department wanted of the CIA was a quiet investigation of how Brian got killed there. Espionage trainee Mike Spoto stood in the middle and cared about his training case too much for his own good.
ROBERT HORSEMAN presents “Déjà vu”: There are two kinds of déjà vu: The kind where you remember things that never happened, and the kind Daniel has; BRAD POST gives us “The Trees”: Sharon had second thoughts about her new husband Johnny. Her father detested the man, and the trees didn’t like either of them.
Those tales and more by new discoveries SUSAN DAVID, CATHY DOUGLAS, KATE LARKINDALE, MICHELLE D KEYES, and GERALD VINCENT. DAVID MACK (The 4400), who wrote the foreword for this volume, says, “You’re in for a wild ride.”
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Wash the Spider Out
The follow up to Drastic Measures, an anthology of short fiction. People pushed to their limits reaching deep inside themselves to find resources they never dreamed they had, and pay a price for that discovery. The stories range from daily life to the extreme and the exotic, the range of things that can happen in a lifetime, and beyond, told from different perspectives. It’s the antidote to the world we live in.
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Mars Armor Forged
The tiny colony at Mars launched during an Earth emergency sits uneasy, starved and hopeless until an astonishing chain of political intrigue lands it the Twenty-Eighth Winter Olympics in 2038. The risky venture nearly works until terrorists gain a formula to reignite the dormant volcano. Olympian skier Yves Loitte and skater Terri Finney find themselves in the middle of a power struggle that may end in the destruction of all they hold dear.
MARS ARMOR FORGED is a near-future techno thriller for those who love a hard SF showcase and the rich Mars subgenre.
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The Other Mr. Nedzi
Dan Nedzi is the most charming, lazy, arrogant, greedy, and annoying con man you’ll ever meet. He’s a legend in his own mind until he encounters… the other Mr. Nedzi.
Classic science fiction first published in Apex Digest in September 2005, and among the first stories to be picked up in Apex Magazine when it became a Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) qualifying short fiction venue in June 2008.
Return of the Eagle
Government and privateers clash in this adventure in the near future of space development. “While one was driven by greed, and another by hatred, the real threat came from the one sworn to loyalty.”
At a time when private space launches have finally become reality, Blueberry Lane Books found this short story more realistic and fresher than ever. First published in Farspace Anthology: Pt 1 in 2008, and reprinted in Nowa Fantastika in May 2010.
Kreindia of A
morium
The long-awaited sequel to Wade of Aquitaine.
“One day Kreindia would tell her children that this was the very moment she swore to the empress that she would overcome her limitations, return to Wade, and drive a sword into anything that stood between them.”
Wade of Aquitaine
Deep in the Dark Ages, with Vikings to the north and Aghlabid pirates to the south, a small flicker of the Roman Empire has been nurtured as an island of high civilization. Defeated Longobards scheme to bring it down from within. If Byzantium falls 600 years too soon, nothing of western civilization will survive to spark the Renaissance. Enter Wade Linwood of the 21st Century. Suffering of crossed senses where scents can conjure objects and sights can call up tastes, he wants nothing but the ordinary life of an insurance underwriter. When a trip to the acupuncturist opens an unused portal in his synesthete’s brain, a plea from the past draws him to a time when he must save the remaining shreds of history to preserve his own.
“Wade of Aquitaine is wonderfully well-written and exciting, an interesting and insightful volume that makes you say to yourself we’ve got a smart guy writing this. Ben Parris understands the challenge that a writer has, to write sentences that nobody ever wrote before.”
–George Clayton Johnson (Oceans Eleven, Twilight Zone Movie, Logan’s Run)
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Walk Smart, Walk Thin
WALK SMART WALK THIN: YOUR MINI-GUIDE TO A BETTER SLIM by Tyne Everett is 8,000 words of gold, containing 4 Fantastic Benefits of Walking, 5 Myths About Exercise That Prevent Exercise, 5 Rules About Your Outfit, The Magic Mirror exercise that can change your life, and more.
“Short and sweet. Sensible and well-researched. Wild horses couldn’t drag me away from Tyne Everett’s sage advice.” —Mara Kallum (Writing.com)
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Wipers, The Watch and Christmas
“Just when he thought he would finally get at his consolation amongst all the misery, two foreign voices rose out of the stony quiet…”
All looked hopeless in the cruel trenches of World War One. The British part of the line had saved a town called Ypres (which they pronounced “Wipers”) and there they dug in and stayed. Soldiers didn’t even dare think of the holidays; they’d been warned not to. War was no place for Christmas. Or was it? The true story of a Scottish World War One soldier and the Christmas Truce of 1914 gathered from numerous accounts and research of one man’s witness to a miracle.