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The explosion at the International Space Station (ISS) forever changed the direction of inventor Tamarind Chase's life. His life mission was to mine asteroids, but when the accident triggers an expanding debris field ,it strands the scientists at Moonbase Verity, including the friend that once saved his life. He must find a way to rescue them and empower the secret they have discovered.

Arizona started a new life when his birth daddy, Gaston Bondurant, found him living with a foster family and facing criminal charges for assaulting his abusive stepfather. Plucked from the squalor of rural Acadiana, Arizona was thrust into New Orleans high society and an elite New England boarding school. Home for the summer, Arizona sets out to find his younger brothers and sister, who were scattered to different places when their family was torn apart. Along the way, he reunites with his 10th grade sweetheart, Preston Montclair, who still holds a torch for him.

Drake’s a very angry and (quite literally) heartless orphan obsessed with avenging his parents. Balt is a sometimes-thief from another world who’s trying to get home and maybe make some friends along the way. Cammie is an agent who just wants to retire. And then there are the hand hats. Together, they confront an evil greater than any of them have imagined.

Three short horror stories and one piece of nonfiction by Mark Tullius, one of the hardest-hitting authors around. The tales are bound to leave you more than a touch unsettled. Find yourself an overweight father ignored by his family, a gang member breaking into a neighborhood church, a cameraman who finds himself in a hopeless situation, and an aging author who’s paying the price for a reckless past, doing all he can to repair his brain. These shocking stories will leave you wanting more.

It’s 1984, and 15-year-old Arizona is doing his best to take care of his younger brothers and sister while their daddy drives a truck cross-country and spends his paycheck on booze and gambling. In small-town Southwestern Louisiana, his family is known as the lowest of the low, and they say it’s on account of a family curse that’s so ugly, no one would dare speak of it. Then Arizona’s daddy loses his job, and things go from bad to worse. He baits Arizona into a fight, and their brawl results in him and his brothers and sister being split up by Social Services.

The author that brought you Veritas the first in the Neil Baggio Suspense series brings you a day in the life of the Golden Family told through the eye of Travis Golden on his wedding day. As he reflects through the years of his life with his twin sister Terra, growing up in a stressful household, overcoming the odds to reach his goal and meeting the woman of his dreams. From the outside people see Travis as a successful professional basketball player marrying his college sweetheart, from a perfect family, what they don’t see is we all go through trials, tribulations and strife.

A girl asks her best friend to pretend to be her fiancé and falls for him hard. That wasn’t Louise’s plan. Her plan was to prove that everything her parents ever said about her was wrong. And since that included that no one would ever love her, when the hottest guy ever asked her to marry him after two dates, she said yes. Lou’s plan might have worked if the hot guy didn’t ghost her after she told her parents to expect him at their next family get-together. So, what choice did she have but to instead ask her way too sexy best friend to pretend to be her fiancé?

An unlikely group embarks on a journey through a system controlled by the iron fist of a robotic army, the Marcks. Their primary directive is to recover the power source of the once heroic Tolagons, the lost orbs of Cyos. However, the Oro system is dangerous where citizens disappear, and towns slowly transform into cold, soulless shadows of their former selves. Generations of war have left everything torn between the control of a cybernetic sociopath named Zearic and the killer AI known as the Queen of the Marcks.

After graduating from Columbia with plans to start a writing career in New York City, Arizona is called back to bayou country by tragic news. His youngest brother Douglas is dead. The circumstances are unthinkable, and Arizona is thrust into the struggles of a family he left behind.

It was supposed to be a myth. A tale told to frighten and stir innate superstitions, but most never thought, Cyos, the living nebula, was real until now… Fear slowly grips a vulnerable UMO as their Marck protectors, under Crix’s control, randomly fail. Kerriah knows that the young Tolagon that stole her heart is dying alone in the Central Core, and she now has the support she needs to stage his rescue.

n the darkest days of the Civil War, Neville Goldsmith set the world on fire. As Captain for the Union Army, he marched with General Sherman through Georgia, setting homes and cities ablaze with sadistic glee. For Goldsmith, starting fires was a lifelong obsession. And when the war ended, he set his sights on the great American West—to burn it all to the ground. Years later, Luke Jensen learns about a series of fires wreaking havoc from the Dakota Territory to Kansas.