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Two brothers, their Momma, and their pot bellied pig turned into 500lb Iron Tusk Boar, Dozer, face the end of all they know as the Earth is absorbed into something called War World.

Growing stronger in War World is not for the faint of heart, and they have their first real dungeon to conquer, The Gray Depths. The undead patrol its boundaries, and they are hungry.

Two brothers face the end of all they know as the Earth is absorbed into something called War World. On Earth, they were up-and-coming duo competitors in ACS (Armored Combat Sports), and it is with those skills they just might survive.

They got through The Infernal Palisades, but not without a heavy cost. Half of their team is broken, soul-weary and mentally unhinged. Trust is shattered on the crumbling road behind them but not enough to stop the Brothers from tackling the quest that if they succeed, will give them a sliver of a chance to save their Momma and keep her from being a plaything to torture for eternity. It will also give them the opportunity for some payback and to punch the Spider Bitch in the jaw.

The vampires have been vanquished! Harry Keogh and the armies of the dead have destroyed the evil that once plagued the world. Nathan and Nestor, secret twin sons of the Necroscope and a proud gypsy woman, were children when their father, his humanity poisoned by his fearsome struggles, sacrificed himself to save mankind. Yet there are vampires still, vampires crueler and stranger than any the Necroscope had faced. When these new, merciless killers swoop out of the sky, Nathan and Nestor are men - but they have few of Harry Keogh's miraculous powers.

They've survived their first dungeon...kinda. Their party is complete. All six have been chosen. This is who goes forward to try to salvage the remnants of humanity and keep them safe from the predations of War World.

They've escaped the Tutorial with a heavy cost. Classes are chosen, destinies written, and the story unfolds in arterial threads of never ending fulcrums, slips of breath in chests heaving loss and hope. War World is now the sandbox, the arena, and they must grow stronger, much stronger if they want to save that which they treasure more than life itself.

A volume of short stories by the bestselling author of The Broken Empire series, Mark Lawrence. This is a collection of fourteen stories of murder, mayhem, pathos, and philosophy, all set in the world of the Broken Empire. Within these pages, you will find tales of men such as Red Kent, Sir...

As the sun sets over New Orleans, two brothers, John and Wayne Carter, find themselves standing in a French Quarter alleyway, their clothes stained with blood, and their minds foggy. They have no memory of how they got there or what they have done. All they can recall is a new friend, Jacques St. Germain offered them a deal-work for him, and he will give them a home, purpose, and power.

In 1978 Connecticut, 13-year-old Nicholas Parisi is an accomplished pianist and basketball player living in an upper-class neighborhood of Fairfield County with his socialite parents who consistently show him off as one of their trophies. Despite being immensely popular in school and among his circle of close friends, Nicholas secretly loathes the lifestyle he is forced to be a part of, and is haunted by the sudden death of his older brother, Gabriel, who died in a car crash six years earlier.

No one could have imagined Odd Thomas ever leaving the perfect quirky comfort of Pico Mundo, least of all Odd himself. The little desert town that nurtured Odd all his life is the locus of everything he holds dear–his loyal friends, his ghostly confidants, and the place where he loved and lost...

My life has become peaceful, routine. I have friends, I have a girlfriend, and all is right with the world. Or it was, anyway. One night is all it takes for things to go from perfect to perilous. One night in which my life is turned upside down, thrusting me into a war for my very survival. One night that was supposed to be fun and joyous. The night where I met my girlfriend's family.

When young Emily Brontë helps a wounded man she finds at the foot of an ancient pagan shrine in the remote Yorkshire moors, her life becomes contentiously entwined with his. He is Alcuin Curzon, embittered member of a sect working to eradicate the resurgent plague of lycanthropy in Europe and northern England. But Emily's father, curate of the Haworth village church, is responsible for having unwittingly brought a demonic werewolf god to Yorkshire forty years ago—and it is taking possession of Emily's beloved but foolish and dissolute brother. 

Hated. Distrusted. Needed. Richter von Dagentear, a witch hunter known in legend as the Wight, traverses a realm falling headfirst into war. To survive, he will have to betray his profession’s purpose and undertake a task that goes against everything he believes in. All that stands in his way are backstabbing nobles, cruel sellswords, terrible beasts, and a mysterious traveler from another world.

The most unexpected Dollanganger story of them all, new from the author of Flowers in the Attic and Petals on the Wind—both now major Lifetime movie events. A young boy suffers amnesia from a trauma he suffered in what feels like must have been another life. He’s adopted into a wealthy...

He's forbidden, off-limits, yet I'm irresistibly drawn to him. Niall Fitzpatrick, my brother's best friend, has always been there, from childhood on the streets. I never saw him as anything more than a loyal friend until one fateful night. In a haze of alcohol and desire, we crossed a line that should've remained untouched. Since then, everything has changed. Our insatiable need for each other knows no bounds.

Shy, overlooked, just wanting to protect the few people he cares about, Greg is given an impossible choice by a mysterious stranger who knows far too much about his past and his bloodline. If he agrees to steal a relic hidden in his local church, the people he loves will not suffer. Greg survived the choice.

Horst, the most affable vampire one is ever likely to meet, is resurrected by an occult conspiracy that wants him as a general in a monstrous army. Their plan is to create a country of horrors, a supernatural homeland. As Horst sees the lengths to which they are prepared to go and the evil they cultivate, he realizes that he cannot fight them alone. What he really needs on his side is a sarcastic, amoral, heavily armed necromancer.

The year is 1850 and Great Britain is flourishing, thanks to the Royal Society of the Esoteric Arts. When a new mage is discovered, Royal Society elites descend like buzzards to snatch up a new apprentice...But Benjamin Gunn isn't a talented mage. His sister Charlotte is, and to prevent her brother from being imprisoned for false reporting she combines her powers with his to make him seem a better prospect. When she discovers a nefarious plot by the sinister Doctor Ledbetter, Charlotte must use all her cunning and guile to protect her family, her secret and her city.

The Zee Brothers vs. the Undead Yeti?! Yetis? Zombies? Secret cults? Myths, right? Think again! In this wild Zee Brothers short story, Jonah and Judas take on their most chilling case yet—stopping the paranormal resurrection of a legendary beast before it turns the world into its icy hunting ground. Armed with wit, weapons, and a knack for exterminating the undead, The Zee Brothers are here to keep the apocalypse at bay—one job at a time. Don’t miss the action! Grab your copy today and join the adventure!