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You only thought you knew the stories! Jack and the Beanstalk. Bluebeard. The Pied Piper. Experience them now like never before as you delve into worlds of arcane science, post-war depression, and killer cyborgs! This collection includes brand-new sci-fi retellings and twists, along with several of author Steven Heumann's previously published works that will keep you guessing despite what you think you know about the originals.

Justice, fairness, friendship, and curiosity. That's the motto of the Heroic Commission. Unfortunately, the heroes aren't coming to save the day, and it's up to Becky Blueshift and her friends to save them! Becky's parents are stuck between dimensions, her little brother has made a mess of their starship, and her best friend just wants to go home. Too bad in space, no one can hear you complain. Danger and death lie around every corner, but none of it is as scary as Becky's fear of failure.

When a terrorist organization sets their sights on annihilating Christmas, their first act is to take out Kris Kringle himself. But a slug to the chest can't keep a good Santa down. With the help of his North Pole crew and some mercenaries straight off the naughty list, Santa will save Christmas, even if it destroys him. And it just might.

The river is calling. Will the rats drown first...or the children? Seventeen-year-old Piper Kruger is a professional urban hunter. By night she stalks the genetically engineered rodents overrunning her city. When a colorful industrialists offers a technology that sounds too good to be true, Piper is pulled into a bleak world of political intrigue, betrayal, and death that makes her life as a brutal huntress seem tame by comparison. The city she hates needs her help, but will she be able to save herself and her family, let alone anyone else?

One sneak attack on the very heart of the galaxy turns a space station full of families into ground zero for war. Veteran-turned-lawyer Helaman must make a stand to save his wife and kids, along with everyone else on the station. Invading soldiers want him dead. Local politicians are out to undermine him. Can he hold things off long enough for the fleet to arrive, or will his efforts just get more people killed?

War closes in. Gavin isn't running away anymore. The search for Abraxas-Mon and his army gets cut off as the team finds themselves cornered on the oldest planet in the galaxy. What they discover there destroys their very understanding of the Commonwealth and the journey they've been on since taking Gavin from Earth. The Perennials are gone. Abraxas-Mon may already be dead. Someone has been pulling the strings and is 10 steps ahead. Now it's up to Gavin to stop them. A Hollywood actor verses the biggest threat in the universe? Yeah, this is going to end well.

Stewart Mitchell is a nobody, until he witnesses a terrorist attack that changes the world. Right place right time, or did someone want him in the heat of the explosions? Who's pulling his strings? Who wants retribution? Each choice Stewart makes leads him deeper into a world of fake heroes and villains. The road to hell? Stewart's paving it as fast as he can. Get ready for a super-hero thriller where the good guys don't stand a chance.

Nature is beautiful...until it tries to eat you. Jaxon is just your average janitor, but when he's caught in the crossfire between advanced science and terrorism, he ends up running for his life and watching the world around him get swallowed whole. Mother Nature takes revenge, and Jaxon has nowhere to go!

Gavin is in space...and it sucks. After a chase that started in the Hollywood Hills, everyone's favorite Academy Award-winning actor finds himself in the cold universe with nothing to do. All he wants is to rescue his best friend and the woman he loves from the clutches of evil aliens, but when the view outside the window never changes, it's hard to stay motivated. But when a new danger looms that threatens to put Gavin in an intergalactic zoo, he better find his courage fast!

As the most famous actor in Hollywood, he has ego to spare. Too bad Gavin's about to learn he's also the biggest disappointment in the universe. Add some sewage to the mix and he's having a very bad day. Aliens are on his tail, and Gavin might not survive long enough to sell the movie rights! With his estranged best friend and a beautiful protector in tow, Gavin has to become the hero he always pretended to be. Can he escape and return to his celebrity lifestyle? More importantly, will he even want to? What’s an egotistical actor to do?

What if you could get high on someone else's emotions? When Alice joins her boyfriend's university experiment in shared consciousness she discovers a world where thoughts are reality and concepts are smells. Her scientific brain, still trying to prove whether or not two people can exist in the same headspace, is soon overwhelmed by the presence of other people, some dreaming, others hunting.  

Hero. Villain. Stewart Mitchel thinks they’re opposites, but he’s about to be pulled into a conspiracy that will turn him into both. What would you do if your wealthy and reclusive boss offered you the chance to be the greatest modern hero, but you knew it was all a lie? It may seem like the ultimate acting job, but once the charade begins to crumble, Stewart discovers there are less destructive ways to weather a mid-life crisis. Can he salvage his life, or will his deception bring ruin down on everyone he cares about? 

Money. Muscle. Cancer. In the future, they all have one corporation in common. Build muscle by only lifting your wallet. Too bad it may cost you more than money. What if you could buy ripped pecks and rock-hard abs along with your gallon of ice cream and pack of Oreos? What if you could receive the benefits of someone else's workout? That's the promise of Transfusion Inc, a trillion dollar company who offers heath instead of health plans.

Gavin baller isn't a hero...but he plays one on tv. The aliens who just arrived to kidnap him don't seem to care. As Hollywood's number one A-Lister, Gavin has it all except one thing: a purpose. Now with extra terrestrials on his tail, an estranged best frien, and a beautiful protector by his side, this actor has to become the hero he's always pretended to be.

As an artist stuck in a dead-end design job, Abbie feels life is one unending series of disappointments. When a doctor arrives at her office with detailed sketches of her, alleging they were drawn by a catatonic man in his hospital, Abbie begins to discover there is more to consciousness than what we see and experience physically. After an attack in her apartment, Abbie is rescued by Vincent, an attractive enigma who claims she is a protector in humanity's shared dream space. Though she can't remember while awake, Abbie has knowledge in the dream that powerful men desperately want.