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Unimaginable creatures are rising and mankind’s only hope is run...or die. Join the adventure of this three book series featuring vengeful gods, ravenous monsters, and murderous beasts from the depths.

Eighteen-year-old recent high school graduate Ivy Lancaster now has some negatives to add to her blonde hair, suede blue eyes, alabaster skin, and svelte body. She's recently started rapid-cycling through manic and depressive episodes that leave her with guilt, embarrassment, and shame. Ivy now wakes up, looks around, and doesn't recognize evidence of what she's been up to for the last 24 hours. Add to that the fact that she's obsessed with a recent, local murder of one of her classmates.

Noxious peers. Worse high school. Embarrassing moments. Danger lurks. Young love. Reality? What happens to one on an unraveling journey? And what is it like to question one's own sanity? Adria is a high school junior with a penchant for painting and a clear goal: hide the changes from anyone and everyone lest being called mad by noxious peers at the travesty known as high school (post-secondary classes).

She knew the moment she met him that he was a dangerous man; an undeniable edge lurked just beneath the surface. Back then, she thought the worst thing about being attracted to him was that he had denied her visa to join her fiancé in the UK. Now, she realizes that should have been the least of her worries. Because, Darien Mitchell isn’t just a visa officer, he is something far more lethal, far darker.

Free-spirited innocence meets the dark and mysterious in this interracial romance. When Rain Handa's visa to join her fiancé in the UK is denied, she accidentally bumps into the visa officer, Darien Mitchell, who denied it. He is cocky and unapologetic. Her angry reaction to him is expected. What she doesn't see coming is the chemistry that surges between them. He is dangerous, and not just because falling in love with him would be stupid on a good day. He is dangerous because she is a good girl, trying to follow all the laws of life and he is the complete opposite.

Prologue to an Epitaph is an exciting, moving account in which the author relays a compelling narrative from four different viewpoints - the diametrically opposing perspectives of a neonatal intensive care unit nurse, the teen mother, her younger brother, and the preemie herself.

Desperate to escape her home world of Thuria, Flor crash-lands on a planet she’s never heard of before. One called...Earth. To hide amongst the population, she must kill and consume a human to take their form. One taste, and she finds herself ravenous for more. Consumed by her hunger, she launches into a frenzied hunt for her next victims.

Spirit Pass tackles an all-too-real issue that gets all-too-little attention - the disappearances of young women on Native American reservations. This concept alone ensures plenty of emotion for the piece and the novel does a good job of showing the full scope of those affected. This is especially poignant when we see old friends Agnes and Bernice, who find themselves possible rivals following Claudia’s murder. That there are so many suspects for this killing is also a nice touch - this keeps us on our toes and guessing until the reveal in the climax.

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is relevant in the news today, rightfully so with the staggering statistics of racism, indifference, and the lack of historical pursuit for justice. This novella is fictionalized accounts of what our Native American women and girls lived through and died by the hands of assailants of all backgrounds that think indigenous women are invisible.

The subject of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls fails to get the attention it deserves. Facts show that Native American women and girls are twice as likely to be assaulted than any other race, and their third leading cause of death is injury. And out of nearly 6,000 missing and murdered cases, just shy of 200 are in the national law enforcement databases. We need to do something about this epidemic.

Something lurks in the waters off the South Carolina coastline. The local newspapers are riddled with stories of washed up sharks and whales, but are quickly debunked as nothing more than boating accidents. Until the attack on the Tiernan Blue Shipping Company vessel.... Dispatched for marine repairs, the crew thinks this will be a job like any other until their boat is struck by something below. Automatically, a distress signal is sent out. Upon hearing the distress signal, a team of Navy seals rush to the vessel’s aid.

Willie and Babette have long long been shielded from their own culture and heritage by their mother. When circumstances change, the girls are thrown into what they were once shielded from - only to find it is nothing like they once believed. While Babette adjusts easily, Willie finds herself much more hesitant. While she struggles to find her true self, Willie is forced to learn she is not the only one suffering from Less Than Humble Beginnings.

Can Jaxon Hampton love the Moon Queen enough? If Zeth, the servant of her enemies the Shadow Giants, defeats Jaxon in battle, the Shadow Giants unleash chaos on Earth and destroy humanity. Every night Jaxon experiences vivid recurring dreams in which, 10,000 years ago, he escorts a beautiful woman through many dangers to the top of a cliff overlooking the Nile River. How come his boss's daughter dreams the same story? And why does a strange man hypnotize Jaxon to take the young woman to a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River during the next full moon?

William J. Harper was one of many who had their lives ripped apart when the bombs were dropped. A happy family man, William is torn from the life he loves by the demands of war. Flanked by his platoon, William embarks on a mission into the heart of the jungle to retrieve a beacon that could lead the enemy straight to them. Yet, what they find instead unleashes an unworldly entity torn straight from their nightmares. Can the band of soldiers reverse what’s been done? Or will the consequences of their actions be fatal?