Publisher: Perennial Press
The Paratime Police had a real headache this time! Tracing one man in a population of millions is easy—compared to finding one gang hiding out on one of billions of probability lines!
From the Dusty Great Depression to the far future, to the wild west, to the era of big fin automobiles, soda shops and double features, as well as dark journey on an icy ocean full of ravenous sharks and a fantastic shipwreck that leads its survivors into a nightmarish Lovecraftian world of monsters and mystery, Joe R. Lansdale returns with a pack of stories for your consumption and enjoyment. There's even killer machines, a big ole grizzly bear, and entertaining story notes. Joe R. Lansdale has been writing novels and stories, as well as screenplays and comics, for over forty-five years, and this is his latest concoction, encompassing stories informed by a variety of genres, but not quite comfortably fitting into any of them. The reason is simple. Joe R. Lansdale is his own genre.Show book
An assassin kills Lance in retaliation for the gangland godfather killing Lance committed for Fate, his boss. Sergeant Reynard Alexander discovers Lance is dead, he informs the Coroner he knows he is Mortimer and that the Necromancer was his son. Reynard is informed by Dante that the Angel of Death, which was Lance's soul, has been freed. The Angel is worse, a killer worse than Lance ever was, and he wants his body for some reason. Blake goes on the run with his son's remains, how far will he run? How will Reynard react? How will this end? Will the Angel catch up to Lance's body? How far will the Angel go to get what he wants?Show book
Everything comes to an end... Mel promised herself that she would get her vengeance on the witch who slaughtered her family, or die trying. Now a world-renowned thief, she's ready to make good. But things are complicated. That witch, Ava, hasn't just targeted Mel, she's coming for the only people on the planet that Mel cares about. Vengeance is best served hot... Luke could never have predicted the path that Mel would bring him down. But now he'll do anything to save his sister's life and capture his thief's heart. Ava threatens his pack, determined to steal a magic artifact of imense power that he never knew he possessed. Falling in love has never been so deadly... In the midst of all of this, Luke and Mel have found each other. But Mel doesn't know how to do relationships, and Luke's pack isn't keen on having a thief as their female alpha. When Mel and Luke are together, their relationship is explosive. But that fire will either cleanse... or destroy. In the Alpha's Bed is the conclusion to the Stealing the Alpha serial. Part one, The Alpha Heist, and part two, Entangled with the Thief, are available now.Show book
Sympathy with the sea, with the weird, and with monsters fills the stories of Imperfect Commentaries. Ruthanna Emrys's collection offers listeners feminist and #ownvoices Neo-Lovecraftian fiction, anthropological science fiction, and fantasies of belonging, plus miscellaneous deleted scenes, poems, and secret story origins. Listeners familiar with her novels (Winter Tide and Deep Roots) will see the first appearance of Aphra Marsh, an Innsmouth survivor, still recovering from her losses and making a life for herself in late-1940s San Francisco in "The Litany of Earth."Show book
My son just vanished into thin air… from a commercial jet cruising at 30,000 feet. The forces that took him aren't of this world. I've barely recovered from the revelations that my boss is a vampire and magic is real. Now my child has been kidnapped by Fae who want to rule humanity, and I've acquired powers I can't control. Blowing doors off their hinges and starting fires with the power of my mind won't help me find Jace. For that, I'll have to trust a man—a vampire—with emotional walls as tall and thick as Fort Knox. The answers I need won't be found on Earth—but to save my son, I'm ready to brave a realm that drives humans mad. I've been set adrift in a terrifying new world of monsters and magic. Adrift, but not alone. Somehow, I've gained a misfit family among the living and undead. Just as well, because at this rate, it looks like I'm going to need them. -o-o-o- Vampire Bound is a new urban fantasy romance series by R. A. Steffan, set in the same world as the bestselling series The Last Vampire. Download Book Two today, and enter a world shared by humans, fae, demons, and vampires. It’s a place where the supernatural threatens the mundane, nothing is as it seems, and love will either be the world’s downfall—or its salvation.Show book
Torn between two families and two lives, a troubled teen must come to terms with losing half their world.Two Worlds. Two Minds. One Life.There are two Earths. Perfectly ordinary and existing in parallel. There are no doorways between them, no way to cross from one world to another. Unless you’re a shifter.Canna and Lily are the same person, but they refuse to admit it. Their split psyche has forced them to shift randomly between worlds—between lives and between families—for far longer than they should. But one mind can’t bear this much life. It’ll break under the weight of it all. Soon they’ll experience their final shift and settle at last in one world, but how can they prepare both families for the likelihood of them disappearing forever?Twice Lived is a novel about family and friendships, and about loss and acceptance, and about the ways we learn to deal with the sheer randomness of life.Show book
