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Chaz Scalise controls a vast crime organization. He's vicious and calculating. His whims decide who lives, who dies and who gets sold. Getting an agent of the law close to him is next to impossible. Little does he know that a reluctant bride will serve him his downfall with a cup of gourmet coffee.

A top model has become obsessed with retaining her youthful look to prolong her career. After overhearing a conversation involving a photographer who has just done a shoot with her commenting on air brushing small lines around her eyes she goes off the deep end. She spending days researching anti-aging products and procedures. A story about Countess Elizabeth Báthory, the Blood Countess, plants the seed of using blood to hold back age. A short while later her friend has an accident that gives her the opportunity to try applying blood to her face as an anti-aging treatment.

Some fight for faith. Some fight for power. Some seek a new wold while others seek to uphold the old traditions. Can vampires find the grace of God or are they truly damned souls? It comes down to new beliefs verses old authority. But does one side really have God on their side?

The Muffin Man is widely regarded as the first documented serial killer. He prowled the streets of the Seven Dials neighborhood of London just three and a half miles from White Chapel and possibly the most famous of all killers. When a prostitute witnesses the Muffin Man take a life and decides blackmail is a better option than going to the police, the Muffin Man seeks out help to deal with her.

Jacob Marley is not trying to save his friend from beyond the grave. The three ghosts Marley sends to Scrooge are not benevolent beings come to save a lost human soul. The real story is as dark as a winter’s night. Sinister beings summoned by a dark heart are sent on a mission of murder and death. Ebenezer must fight for his life against monsters whom Marley controls by the possession of their names.

Puziel is a demon who has gotten bored with his job and he desperately wants another one. He’s tried several times to prove that he is capable of doing more than paperwork, assigning punishments to damned souls. He wants to cause mayhem and chaos. He wants recognition of his abilities and to show all of Hell that he can be just as intimidating as the others. He has tried several times before, but his new plan is far more diabolical than anything else he’s tried and he’ll defy the devil himself to prove his worth.

The sacred texts of Cabathiel and the religion of faith of the blood.

When a psychopath became a therapist no one is safe, especially his patients with weak wills. Eighteen of Dr. Winston Shelby’s have patients have fallen on hard times. Or, more to the fact, were pushed over the edge. Their vulnerabilities made them the playthings for his personal amusement. Nothing mattered more than his pleasure; not their bodies, minds, hearts or even ... their lives.

Mafia Don, Santino Carpelli, has come up with the mob's biggest money make since prohibition... Big oil. Not only is he taking over the entire gasoline production industry, he's figured out how to get the U.S. government to pay for it. It's the most extreme crime wave in history. Can a team of hand-picked federal agents with special presidentially granted authority stop it? Will they survive trying? How far is too far in the war against crime?

Keeping the Faith revolves around a group of young girls. The call their gang the Circle. In the beginning there are twelve members of the Circle and their only trusted male friend, Larry. They try their best to deal with school, life as an American teenager, and the streets of a less than friendly neighborhood.

Children who died before being born return to earth to seek vengeance for the lives they were denied.

Iovah and Eryki are both Celestians, creatures that influenced the creation of all things as the human species know them to be. But Iovah was never the one god and Eryki is not the devil as have been described. Iovah performed an immoral experiment on the human species. Eryki seeks to rectify the damage the experiment created. Their fight over human kind shook the heavens over Earth. Now the human species has a choice to make. Accept the truth and heal the damage or continue to embrace the great mistake and plunge head long into oblivion.

When one woman returns from college to find a bloody house and her family dead, it is her duty to strike back. Her family has honed their killing skills for nearly 1,400 years, and their influence has been felt through some of the biggest events in history. Kings, popes, generals, and presidents have all fallen at their hands. How one man and a team of hired mercenaries hopes to stand up against the deadliest family the world has ever known is anyone’s guess. The attempt to wipe them out was unsuccessful.

If you die in your nightmare, will you die in real life? What if there was some kind of entity, not of this world, who could enter your nightmare and take your life? Imagine that your nightmare is an intrusion into another dimension and your presence causes physical harm to that dimension’s natural resident. If that entity fought back to defend its home from the intruders, would you say it was wrong? Everyone has the right to defend their home. Using the intruders’ nightmares as weapons against them is smart and effective. Sometimes killing is the only way to protect yourself and your home.

Little has been known about the Oompa Loompas who work in Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Until now! This is the story of the Oompa Loompas, how they lived before they met Willy Wonka, and how they convinced him to take them to his factory.

A place that was once the site of the United States of America’s greatest shame. A man who worships the dollar as an all mighty god. A building that should not have been built standing on land that should not have been sold. A family looking for a home. The ghosts of those who never went home. An investigator who finds more than he bargained for. A Shinto priest tasked to find a way to make peace between the past and the present.

Hi. My name is Linda Johnson. I’m a foodie. I’m also a vampire. What? Don’t you think a vampire can be excited about eating? There is a multitude of tastes in the world to be enjoyed. Just because I drink blood it doesn’t mean I can’t have an appreciation for the finer culinary palates from around the world. Haven’t you ever heard of ‘season to taste’?

It started as an innocent game among friends. Then the changes of teenage years pushed the game beyond boundaries of childish fun. Girls and boys notice each other’s changes. Infatuations become crushes. Crushes lead to physical curiosities. The game becomes a catalyst of desire. When a tall, dark, handsome man moves in next door, the girls take more than a passing notice. One girl more than the others. A crush becomes an obsession and unrequited love leads to drastic actions. Only those who dare shall succeed.

Forced to marry a traitor to the Realm, Bridget helps her fiancé face the music.

She was a blue blood socialite. He was an organized crime kingpin. His business never spilled over into her restaurant, until her best friend and one of his henchmen caused a problem. How do you get rid of a dead body when the police have cameras watching all the exits? Through the kitchen, of course.