Six Shiny Silver Coins and the Ridiculous Ruckus They Caused
"The Fates see all and hear all. The king will perform a great act of generosity before the sun sets this day." The king is horrified to hear this, and immediately throws six silver coins out into the crowd to get the prophecy over with before something worse happens. Naturally, Henina catches one. And, naturally, pandemonium ensues.
A stolen artifact. An imminent deadline. A tenacious investigator. JB runs a private detective agency, but if business doesn’t pick up soon, he’ll have to close the doors for good. When someone steals Hekate’s chalice, JB and his maverick team jump at the chance to track down the supernatural object. They’re resourceful and determined, but can they outsmart wizards, witches, and daemons before the client’s deadline expires? If you like gripping mysteries interwoven with generous doses of magic and humor, then you’re going to love Teagan Kearney’s book, 'Hekate’s Chalice', the first volume of the 'Adept Solutions' series. Download now to enter this imaginatively creative world today!
When a demon threatens her still-living twin, Sovvan is determined to help him until the guardians of Gray Between life and death take her memories. Sovvan can’t save her brother if she can’t remember he exists. But the bond between them is strong, and it prods her to get her memories back. Things only worsen when Sovvan uncovers a dangerous secret an angel killed to protect instead of the memories she lost, and that secret is changing her. A ghost can’t die again. But Sovvan’s not a just ghost anymore. She might cease to exist if she doesn’t unravel the dark conspiracy that took her life and end it once and for all. But she’d better hurry. Her magical twin is fighting for his life against a powerful demon bent on taking his soul, and he could use some help. His Angelic Keeper is the first book in a humorous, action-packed sword-and-sorcery series starring Sovvan from the Curse Breaker series. Get His Angelic Keeper now!
Pendomus: Book 1 of the Pendomus Chronicles (Chapters 1-3 Sample)
There are a lot of things I wish I’d known earlier—but three top my “wow, she was naïve” list. First—there are others on Pendomus. Second—a prophecy is in motion & I hold the key to the survival of literally everything. Third—I'm being hunted by a madman who is desperately trying to wipe me from existence. So yeah, no pressure.
'A comedy about a time travelling gardener, guaranteed to make you wet your plants!' Barry's been patient, but after twenty-seven years of trimming hedges for people he hates, he's had enough. All he wants to do is to find his missing father and to discover his inner ninja. But life’s not done with throwing him curveballs. A fatal mistake catapults Barry into the adventure of a lifetime. With talking hedges, samurai ghosts, meddling psychotherapists, and an inexplicably non-linear time pattern conspiring against him, Barry must do battle to save his hide, unleash the ninja within, and rescue his father from an ancient army, a dark sorcerer and a raging inferno. What the reviews are saying : 'I read it in one night. Quite a few times I laughed out loud and my husband had to ask me what was going on.' 'It's very rare to find a book that relates to my humor, this author got it spot on.' 'I've read a lot of first books since I got my Kindle and I have to say this is up there with the best.' 'The story oozes with a dark humour.' 'Very funny laugh out loud lines along with scenarios that make you cringe on behalf of poor Barry.' 'I was cracking up from the first line.' 'This book was roaring fun.' 'A Confederacy of Dunces across the pond with ninjas. And it totally works. The book was enjoyable and flat out hilarious.' '
This short story brings the reader into the Corvus Universe. The first in series, Corvus Ascending , is coming soon. CWO4 Bosun Gus Johansson was looking forward to an easy ship delivery job. Until his old friend, Gunner Nan Stanski, finds her own routine escort mission under attack. The only problem? Gus's ship is out of bullets and higher-ups want him sidelined. So much for a relaxing day off the ship. About Corvus Ascending : Wisecracking star-sailor CWO Gus Johansson is involuntarily retired from the Governance Navy and bored. He’s just another broke beach bum on the sleepy outer system planet Terne. But when Gus hauls a 1400-year-old accident-prone robot out of the sea and boards a long-lost sentient spaceship, things get exciting fast. His old enemy, Captain Harrison “Hazy” Grey, still wants revenge for a wild weekend years ago. Grey is convinced that this time he can finally best Gus and get an Admiral’s flag, if only he can capture that ship; and he doesn’t care who he has to kill to get it. Gus must assemble a team of old friends and add some new ones to escape. Maybe he should have stayed on the beach. CWO4 Bosun Gus Johansson was looking forward to an easy ship delivery job. Until his old friend, Gunner Nan Stanski, finds her own routine escort mission under attack. The only problem? Gus's ship is out of bullets and higher-ups want him sidelined. So much for a relaxing day off the ship.
After several years of unstable peace throughout Sol, mankind is confronted with the arrival of an unknown alien force. Everyone deals with the unexpected arrivals differently. Military forces guarding the front lines of a century old conflict struggle to comprehend the alien arrival. Unhealed wounds from past battles stress Inner and Outer Ring soldiers, as a rogue among them takes matters into her own hands. Hours into the alien arrival, the president endeavors to contain a centuries old subterfuge. She never imagined she’d be the one responsible for guiding mankind in its darkest hour. A washed up vid-sim sports star turned messiah predicted the alien arrival with uncanny accuracy. How does a world react when his prophesies come true? Dark Nebula: Contact, is a free Novella in a sci-fi series that features unusual aliens, galactic action, surprising plot twists, complex characters, and bad-ass protagonists. Join my newsletter to receive Dark Nebula: Contact absolutely free!
Bartholomew Roberts is retiring, leaving his son in command of the Queen Anne’s Revenge. It is his first command, and it may be his last. The Alliance will do everything in their power to ensure that he fails. Failure in the Alliance is not tolerated. If Doc Roberts is lucky, they will hang him. If not, he will be sent to a reeducation center, mind-wiped, and a control collar will be placed around his neck, then he will be paraded in the streets of Avalon’s capital city, as an example of what happens to people who fail in their missions. He can’t afford to fail!
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Stephanie thought she was headed to college, her family's enemies had other ideas. With her uncle's game development offices destroyed or under siege by sinister troops, her family's location known to the enemy, there seemed to be only one escape… into her uncle's game of Glory and Swords Online. However, there were two problems. First, Stephanie has never played an MMORPG. Second, the game is PVP. Can Stephanie master the mechanics of the game and stay alive, before her enemies find her?
Shadows in the Key of Fear and Roland the Headless Mech Driver are both part of the history of the Gurkha Rifles, Nepal’s first mercenary company in the Four Horsemen Universe. The first story, Shadows in the Key of Fear, takes place more or less simultaneously with the events in High Mountain Hunters, my first novel of the Gurkhas. Roland the Headless Mech Driver takes place sometime after that book and its forthcoming sequel, No Cowards Allowed. If you like these tales keep an eye out for Oogars, Guns and Credits coming in late 2021. High Mountain Hunters is available on Amazon, where it is free to read with Kindle Unlimited
Honors student, Emma Edgin, never thought she’d be a superhero, but she never thought she’d fail a class or be diagnosed autistic either. After a strange craft flies over the West Coast, Emma sneezes a fireball and starts flying. Emma doesn't want to be a hero. She's got to focus on passing English and keeping the new Super Commission agent from noticing her. Too bad so many people need saving. Geek Fire is the first novel in the Dragon Girl Series. If you like nerdy heroes and conspiracies, then you'll love this series!
His human flock had run wild for over a thousand years, their numbers increasing with each generation. Their racial memory, their true purpose, only seeped out through the dreams of the few. Deep beneath the earth, his stirring body, slowly woke, he craved sustenance. His thoughts focussed on just one goal, to quench his deep yearning for the sweet taste of hot human blood. The time of the next cull had finally arrived.
DARK DEPENDENCE Series - PREQUEL, The New World...a Must Read! THRILLS, CHILLS, ADVENTURE & Suspense...Find out what REALLY happened From The Beginning... 1587 Roanoke Island On April 22, 1587, three flotillas left England with settlers looking for wealth and religious freedom in the New World. Their intended destination was the Chesapeake Bay. After three months at sea, they never made it that far. Blown off course, the three ships navigated to a previously selected outpost for replenishing their supplies before continuing north. On August 8, the colonists arrived at a desolate and abandoned fortification. It was the end of their journey. The ship captain refused the voyage northward along the coastline, fearing the coming winter, and demanded the return trip to England. On August 18, 1587, the first English settler born in America was Virginia Dare, granddaughter of John White. As a concerned father to Elyoner Dare, the newborn’s mother, he needed to return to England and plead with Sir Walter Raleigh personally for the trapped colonists’ sake. One hundred and seventeen colonists remained on Roanoke Island while the Colonial Governor, John White, returned to England to gather more supplies and colonists with the departing ships. They weren’t meant to remain at the abandoned garrison permanently. White would never see his daughter, granddaughter, or the other colonists again. It took another three years before John White returned to Roanoke Island. By then, the colonists had disappeared.
Captain Mitchell Bruce, a Federation drone pilot, gives the order to destroy an independent colony, but the drone AI, Jinn, disobeys the order based on secrets it found hidden in the military network. Mitch and Jinn go rogue to uncover Federation corruption, and they soon realize it goes deeper than they realized. And it will cost everything to expose the lies.
For a century, the Grays hid beneath the Earth's crust, arriving by what appeared to be meteorite impacts, in remote parts of the globe, or water too deep to investigate. For Warrant Officer Ash Wulfe, the war for Terra kicked off when the aliens' floating cities tore free from their hiding points - Tunguska, Chelyabinsk, Lake Michigan, Rio Curuca, and more. For more than a year, Earth's defenders fought and bled and died to slow, and sometimes destroy, the giant city-stations that hovered over the planet and pulverized anything in range. Now, in the Hailest-Mary of Hail Mary efforts, Wulfe and a group of NATO soldiers are boarding the biggest city of all in hastily bodged-together mecha that is just as much life-support as it is a weapons platform. Their goal, to take out the life support module at the center of the city, and end the threat once and for all.
"H2LiftShips, a tech manual for a future” -Imagine a world, exactly like ours, but different- It's cold, rocky and a little dark. Solar Sail cargo ships ply the commercial space from Earth to the distant Asteroids. Trading foodstuffs, coal, and nuclear engines for pure steel alloys, ZeroG Wool, and bioGel computers. Anti-Dystopian SciFi, because we have too much Dystopia right now. Just regular sentients making a living in the void around our Sun: Earth, Luna, Mars/Phobos, and Asteroid belt. Gig work is the norm, jumping from job to job, trying to earn enough for air, food, shelter, and waste treatment. The ships' crew; Captain Graciela, Jack, Tang, and an Octopus work with a boost crew to cross the empty divide before getting the laser boost at the Lagrangian station. Meet, barter or run from multiple sentient societies on the asteroids, many a variation on Earth's history. Gambling at the Luna Casino and in Las Vegas and a trip across the desert for tasty carne asada burritos round out the journeys. Gigging the Void, is this our Asteroid Future? No: Aliens, Monsters, blasters, pyrotechnic computers, Anti-Grav powered rockets. Yes: Solar Sail ships, nuclear-powered boost lasers, coal to smelt steel and the only alien is the Octopus First Mate.
Mo Kane is a friendly tour guide in the city of Grahwood, Wessing Territory, who finds out that her personal history is much more complicated than she ever knew. In this first story of the series, Mo discovers what she thinks is a clue to finding the people responsible for her father’s recent death. As she tries to puzzle out what it means, she meets an unusual traveler named Kyle Greenhand, who reveals to her that the territory boundaries, called World Rims, are failing. That means neighbors from the magical realms in Semweisse, the middle territory, could make their way into mundane Wessing, where magic is distrusted and magic users even more so. She and Kyle are almost killed by a group of assassins who have passed through the World Rim, and they seek help first from Mo’s sister, Janika, who is Captain of the city guard, and then from an old friend of their father’s, Sorcha. Mo discovers, however, that her friends — new and old — are not exactly who she thinks they are. And the clue that may have given her answers about her father’s death has left a mark on her that leads a dangerous demon’s familiar directly to Mo and her friends.
War on Nibiru has caused environmental damage resulting in climate disaster. The cities on the surface have moved underground, and a search for the means to restore the climate is beginning. Two brothers have entirely different ideas of how to rule the planet and save the people. Only one of them can be right. Anu wants to use the planet’s resources to further develop the infrastructure of the underground cities, whereas Alalu wants to search for the legendary planet, Tiamat. The legends tell of it having deep veins of gold. If he can find it, the gold can be used to create an atmospheric shield, and life can return to the surface.
After gaining five awards at the 2020 Los Angeles Science Fiction Film Festival (Audiodrama category) The Martian Diaries sequel to The War Of The Worlds is now available as ebooks and audiobooks. If you're a fan of H.G. Wells' classic book you won't want to miss volume 1 of this continuation. The terror of the coming of the Martians is all but a distant memory, a bad dream that has faded with time.... All George wants is a quiet suburban life but at breakfast one morning his newspaper reports the shocking discovery of a Martian cylinder, found intact and unopened, and carefully transported to London. Could it be from the first alien invasion, and after more than seven years are there Martians still inside – alive? By teatime George learns even worse news – vengeance seeking Martians and their tripod fighting machines are already on their way back to Earth. The countless numbers of their projectiles have formed a huge green comet and invasion day will be just before Christmas. The first attack by aliens was enough for any lifetime, but who would expect to be involved with two? How can our planet survive this new invasion and will George and his wife escape a second Martian apocalypse? The Day Of The Martians continues the iconic Mars novel by H.G. Wells, in this exciting, unmissable action adventure – the first volume of The Martian Diaries science fiction series. If you're a fan of The War Of The Worlds don't miss this award-winning 3 part continuation. Start the ebook today or check out the action-packed audio version featuring original music and sound effects. WHAT PEOPLE SAID ABOUT THE AUDIO VERSION “...a wonderfully executed tribute to H.G. Wells.” Readers Favorite Reviews “ ... sometimes in life, amongst all the boring stuff, something comes along to shake up your life and make you grateful for other people’s creations.” Breakaway Reviews “A splendid sequel.” C.A.Powell, science fiction author of The Last Days Of Thunder Child “The Day of the Martians is a nostalgic trip back to bygone days spent reading science fiction classics, and that’s quite a compliment indeed.” Brandon Scott - SciFi Bloggers “A little diamond from Mars!” Goodreads reviewer Winner of 5 awards in the 2020 Los Angeles Science Fiction Film Awards, Audio Drama category, together with volume 2 Lake On The Moon .
Click play on the playlist, and check your dimension tables. Track One , in the construction site behind the building where data analyst Vanessa works, a door frame was discovered buried a few feet below the ground. Track Two , after a catastrophic job interview for an entry-level position, Noah stumbles out of the bathroom pantsless and into Vanessa. Track Three , An unknown dormant connection is re-shared. Error in track order. Track Number Unknown , Neither of their lives are what they believed them to be. Track Number Error , In an attempt to understand themselves, a night of drinking leads to the two of them stumbling through the door frame behind Vanessa’s work. The next day Noah is Vanessa's boss, and the world as they know it isn't the same. Error in dimension table…
In the tradition of Robert E. Howard, three friends cast on the shores of a distant island discover that not all the minions of capricious gods are human.
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