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Andrew just wants to bring a little Pride Day joy to the Blue Star Diner. A rainbow flag, a splash of color, a moment of celebration — simple, right? Not when his father storms in, yanks the flag down, and turns a disagreement into a blowup that leaves Andrew shaken and Rafael stepping in to protect him. One ugly moment becomes the spark that lights a much bigger fire, and suddenly Andrew and Rafael are facing fallout they never saw coming.

Perfect vacations or last resorts? In this collection of short psychological thrillers, bestselling authors bring trouble to paradise. Today’s itinerary: surfing, sailing, hiking, facing your worst fears . . . Most dream vacations never live up to expectations—but few cause this many nightmares.

Time no longer exists. At least not to Silene. Serving under the God of Death as a Reaper, she finds herself stepping between life and death every day, collecting souls and guiding them towards the afterlife. When the brother of Death begins interfering in her duties, she begins to question her existence and purpose. And the closer she comes to finding her answers, the further her current reality sinks deeper.

Shortlisted for the 2018 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year. Follow the Dead is the thrilling twelfth book in Lin Anderson's forensic crime series featuring Rhona MacLeod. On holiday in the Scottish Highlands, forensic scientist Dr Rhona MacLeod joins a mountain rescue team on...

Live streams turn deadly. Vacations morph into ritualistic nightmares. Morning showers lead to paralysis and third-degree burns. This story collection from best-selling horror author Connor Phillips exposes the hidden fears that haunt our everyday lives. Phillips’ creepy and disturbing tales prey on fears you didn’t even know you had. From slipping in scalding showers to tumbling head-first into notorious zoo exhibits - these stories take our normal, everyday reality, twist it, and conjure scares that will haunt you long after you finish the last chapter.

Follow the Money is a collection of novellas that follows the lives of different bank notes on their respective journeys, as they pass from one person to the next through London and New York. In a twist of fate, both of these bank notes transform in the second installment of each story. It sends them on a completely new journey into the unknown.

Remember when you used to worry there was a monster in the basement that would chase you up the stairs? What if you were right all along? What if instead of killing you, the monster made you a strange offer that revealed a dark family secret?

Mary is a gas-station attendant with an epileptic son who can barely make ends meet, when she makes them meet at all. She has dreams of a forbidden love but can’t focus on those dreams when she can’t even buy her son’s medicine. She has a real knack for staying calm under pressure and steadfastly does what she needs to, in order to keep food on their table and a roof over their heads.

There has been an accident. A girl sits inside a car, her behavior seemingly indifferent to the chaos outside. Karle has been there for hours. Her eyes will not focus on what is happening outside. Instead she remembers the hours before she came to be there. She and her mother had been in the airport waiting for her brother Benjamin to come home. Karle’s brother was a soldier who had just come home for shore leave. They had always been close.

"Follow-Me" is a science fiction short story written by Lamees Alhassar. It is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring and creative-sophistication. By sending us to alternate universes and engaging with a wide spectrum of emotions from tenderness to fear, it challenges the way we see our place in the cosmos. It dazzles with ambition, striking style, and the promise of imagining the unimaginable.

Dane Stevens lives a well-curated existence as a body shop owner in a rural Maine town. He eats lunch at the same restaurant every day, sticks to routine, and dreads change. Of course, the more things change, the more they stay the same - and changes like having to hire new cashiers are proving more cyclical than would be assumed in his sleepy little Maine town. Every new hire is inexplicably followed in short order by the arrival of another 1965 Thunderbird, a car that has proven itself both his curse and possible savior.