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Having fought in a dozen wars across three continents, John James is trying and failing to incorporate himself back into the American way of life. His time in the Malaysian jail almost broke him. To find his inner peace, John drives his old Willy's Jeep through the mountains of Colorado’s Routt National Forest for an elk hunt. Lost and frustrated, he encounters a little old lady in a hospital gown—eighty miles from the closest town. Without thinking, he stupidly opens his mouth and offers to help. As usual, the universe hears his promise to protect, and trouble ensues.

In this gripping continuation of Cameron's story, the world has drastically changed in the four days since her transformation into the first walking dead. She now leads a tribe of her own, comprised of others who have risen from the dead. Retribution, hunger, and even love guide Cameron's actions as she navigates this new existence. Twin Falls, once a bustling town, now lies in ruins, its streets filled with zombies. Cameron and her band of Undead stop at nothing, except for a occasional snack of human flesh, to establish their vision of a new order in the world—an Undead World.

In the harsh desert realm of Ashtown, the Emperor reigns with an iron fist, guarding against the relentless hostility of Wiley City. Scales, a skilled mechanic and fierce warrior, is the Emperor's trusted confidante. When a mysterious murder shatters the fragile peace, Scales, with an unlikely team, must uncover the killer plaguing both Ashtown and Wiley City. As she delves into the secrets hidden beneath the city's pristine exterior, Scales unravels startling truths, forcing her to confront a past she'd rather forget.

Es läuft alles darauf hinaus: Töten oder getötet werden. Clyde Hatchett weiß schon seit einiger Zeit, dass ein Lichkönig in ihm steckt, der langsam versucht, seinen Körper zu übernehmen und eine Armee von Untoten aufzustellen. Und obwohl das eine ziemlich dringende Angelegenheit zu sein scheint, ist er erst jetzt in der Lage, sich damit zu befassen, nachdem er von seinen besten Freunden aus Glaton vertrieben wurde und die Schwester eines anderen vor einer schlechten Ehe retten musste.

Supers are spreading across the globe with no rhyme or reason. The governments declare war to keep the SuperVillains suppressed, but they don't stop there, fearing even those with good souls. Devon is a dentist with some quirks who saves a mother and her daughters, only to have the military betray him. He awakes in the future, confined to Vault 12 with nineteen of his peers. The mysteries confound those around him, but Devon is not an ordinary Super. No, he's special and with Olivia—a lovely Super with a troubled past—at his side, they'll figure out their true purpose.

Life as an orphan was quiet, if not exciting, but that existence was turned upside-down in a life-changing instant. Abruptly snatched up and whisked away light years from home, young Bawb found himself thrust into an entirely new life. One that would see his days filled with brutal training of both mind and body, and where failure could have extreme consequences. It would be a difficult existence of sweat, pain, and struggle, where injury and even death were on the line.

Vic follows a simple code of life—when stuck between certain death and certain death, always chose a third option. Ready to renounce his criminal ways, Vic needs to pull one last heist—transporting a rare and valuable albino friklar across a short section of space without detection. Easy money. However, when the animal escapes on a primitive planet called Earth, Vic must either settle accounts with his boss—ruthless Axle Prim—or endure his wrath.

Terminator 1+: The Future Is Not Set, bridges the timespan between Terminator and Terminator 2: The Rise of the Machines. It answers the questions left hanging and introduces us to characters that ultimately populate the Terminator Universe.

Wesoła Banda Piratów ocaliła świat już kilkukrotnie, teraz jednak musi pogodzić się z tym, co nieuniknione. Ziemię czeka zagłada. Piratom pozostaje jedynie przetransportowanie kilku tysięcy Ziemian w bezpieczne miejsce, zanim kosmiczni najeźdźcy zniszczą ojczystą planetę ludzi. Choć to niezupełnie prawda. Pułkownik Joe Bishop i jego załoga mogą zrobić coś jeszcze. Zadać nieprzyjacielowi tak druzgocący cios, by pożałował, że kiedykolwiek usłyszał o Ziemi i jej mieszkańcach.

Apocalypse stories, fairie changlings, deals with sexy demons, court intrigue, steamy consummations, and deadly merfolk appear in this book (along with sexy aliens, deadly aliens, and indifferent aliens). From bite size flash to full course short stories, enjoy these standalone science fiction and fantasy stories from Geneva Oleander's collection of musings. Bonus Content: Two excerpts from The Promised Queen, Book 1 of the Moons Over Avalon fantasy series.

Waking up in a cloning facility Jason Branner finds out that his is wanted for piracy, has bounties on his head from the industrial alliances, and is unemployed. He would probably stand a chance at surviving if his last body had remembered to upload a memory file to this clone, but they didn't. Join Jason through open space as he struggles to lose his past and figure out what happened to his stellar life as a premier military pilot.

In a near-future dystopia, Dr. Aisling Ramsey, a distinguished scientist, is racing against time. Diagnosed with only months to live, she is close to a breakthrough in curing cancer, including her own. Her revolutionary technologies catch the attention of a dictator, who sees them as key to his sinister ambitions.

Alors que la nouvelle de la forfaiture d'Horus se répand dans la galaxie, la Grande Croisade cesse à présent que les Primarques et leurs Légions choisissent leur camp‚ soit avec l'Empereur, soit avec le Maître de Guerre rebelle. Les Dark Angels sont eux aussi mis à l'épreuve, tant parmi les étoiles que sur leur monde, Caliban. Luther, jadis bras droit de Lion El Jonson, se languit d'être de facto mis à l'écart pendant que son maître s'efforce de déjouer la progression des traîtres vers le monde-forge de Diamat.

In 2074 New York City, Regal Manager Leona has taken advantage of the devastated country and claimed the city for her own kingdom. She controls her people by threat of the portal—a gateway to a black hole created in a project to deflect its pull on Earth. Roxy and a bunker full of kids were hidden below the streets of Manhattan when their parents fought and died in the Resistance sixteen years earlier.

Joe is a physician's assistant living in New Orleans. His life is good but not good enough to reach his dreams. He's gifted and can sense things most people cannot. His faith saves him when death is imminent. Joe's true love is found in the jungle, but trouble is there as well. Just when his hometown, New Orleans, appears safe and comfortable for his family, he encounters greed, heartlessness, and murder.

Held captive by Dark Horse Company, Captain Axel Finn is faced with a mission to humanity’s ancestral home after all contact with the planet is lost. Learning his mother might be hiding there, Axel agrees to help his adversaries, and deploy on Vengeance, the last Steward ship. But his decision might lead to his downfall if the Wrath have already arrived on Earth. On the treacherous Wooly planet of Dari, bounty hunter Rangnar Soki becomes the prey, finding himself the target in a deadly game of survival. His path to rejoin Axel’s crew hinges on passing a test of Dari’s most revered guardian.

Awash with loss and surrounded by enemies, Van and his crew are faced with the same challenge Mark Tudor dealt with decades earlier. Does Van accept the crown and become a Master?

The world's population is soaring, creating overcrowded cities and an economic crisis. And in the UK, the breaking point has arrived. A growing number of people can no longer afford to start families, let alone raise them. But for those desperate to experience parenthood, there is an alternative. For a monthly subscription fee, clients can create a virtual child from scratch who they can access via the metaverse and a VR headset. To launch this new initiative, the company behind Virtual Children has created a reality TV show called The Substitute.

Matt's in the prime of his life. So when his doctor tells him he only has months to live, he figures it's just really bad luck. But it's about to get a whole lot worse. When Matt's Earthly form finally expires, a truck-avatar system gives him the opportunity to become a hero on the paradise world of Gaia, a supposedly verdant, rich land teeming with plants and potential. What he finds instead is a place completely bereft of life. A literal dead planet. Thanks a lot, truck.

Trapped in a new world. Targeted by everyone. He can either run, or embrace the mayhem! Ben finds himself stuck in the beta of Mayhem, forced to be an evil elf character by the system AI. Their race is universally hated due to their lust for destruction, bloodshed, and world domination, so, he’s understandably a bit irritated. His buddy Chip and his Rainbow Unicow Bessie, on the other hand, couldn’t be happier. Extreme violence is right up Chip’s alley and seeing as Bessie has gotten a taste for human flesh, she’s totally up for the bloodshed bit.