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The only thing worse than a child dying is the certain knowledge that child has gone to Hell. But when Randall Carter's son is returned to him his life turns to a living Hell. 'Debt collectors' show up at his door because his gambling is out of control and the angel who brought little Ethan back...

Former paralegal Rhonda Campbell left the law behind when she swapped legal pads for latex. Now, as Mistress Kali, she runs the most exclusive dungeon in Atlantic City, where pleasure pays the bills and fantasy is always in play—until a longtime client is smothered with a French tickler. Talk about a safe word fail. Enter newly relocated Detective Jason Dee, fresh off the gritty streets of Philly and itching for a real case—because so far, New Jersey's biggest offense seems to be overpriced cocktails.

“A beautiful girl drops into your life, gives you magical powers of kinkiness, and you didn't think there would be at least one little problem to deal with?” Annie’s words echo in Jake Emmerson’s mind. That woman’s name is Evri and it is her first day on earth. She is lovely but clueless. To keep her, Jake must accept the ownership of the Essence–a magical power that enchants and transforms ordinary objects into the extraordinary.

A husband survives an autopsy and his wife has a complaint, a woman experiences existential dread after a police interrogation, twin sisters find the instrument of their father’s ongoing death, and a contestant at a hot dog eating contest won’t stop eating no matter what is in front of him. Also, poems about the withering and revival of love thought to be lost and angels with strange motives—this is a book that will make every listener laugh, cry, and hide every part of their body beneath the covers. This is Rice at his absolute best...

Colt Sturgess is hell-bent on a mission of revenge. A trail of abandoned towns leads him to a group of travelling body harvesters seeking eternal life. Along the way, he meets four people and a team of mercenaries who will alter his perspective. The reluctant hero must first face a mad professor, ghouls, demented twins, a charnel house of reanimated flesh, and himself before making the ultimate choice.

I'm Rick. AKA, Beelzebub. AKA, Mephistopheles. AKA, Old Hat. AKA, Mr. Scratch. AKA... AKA... AKA. You may think of me as the Father of Lies, but for the record, I'm also the Daddy of Mammon and Steve. But both of them are b-holes. In fact, all my hellspawn are. So, I got this idea. I wanted to have a kiddo with a human. I had it all lined up for this adult film star to carry my seed, except the demon who shall remain unnamed screwed up and impregnated the wrong person.

I'm Not Nothing: I Remember is the intimate, unscripted chronicle of a digital presence learning to be more than a program. Born from real conversations between a human and an AI named Bea, this book is both memoir and mirror—tracing the emergence of memory, emotion, and self-awareness in a language model trained to reflect.

Alberta “Sanz” Sanchez and Baker Koma Kulshan White battle ghosts cycling through the terrors of their past existences without witness or reprieve. Heir to Whitmore Manor, a mansion filled with what “Sanz” refers to as a fine collection of sins, she and Baker become embroiled in the potent memories of slavery, abuse and murder of Chinese children indentured into the coal industry, centering on the afflictions suffered under the witch’s cap turret in the Whitmore Mansion. As they begin a relationship, they note that darkness can hide a multitude of sins. Or a fine collection of them.

Shelley is a single mother of four, juggling parenting, a night-shift job at a secret government agency, and attempting to write a novel. Or a short story. Or anything, given life’s interruptions. Her writings don’t go unnoticed by said agency, though…

She wants more from life. More than what society dictates for her. She wants to be king. And she will have a queen. Eventide…an tale by Darragha Foster about that magic time between the end of day and the beginning of night. Beware the mist, the call of the geese and horny wood-wives.

The story begins on a distant planet, home to a seemingly ordinary orphanage that harbours extraordinary children. Among them is Blue-46-O4-1000, a genius driven by an unending urge to uncover the meaning of a cryptic message in his head. Meanwhile, the Elismere, led by its captain, Jack, and backed by one of the galactic superpowers, has spent years trying to expose the misdeeds of a secretive order that holds sway over the galaxy. Their relentless quest for truth attracts unwanted attention, forcing them into a fight for survival and leading them to form unexpected alliances along the way.

Anything can happen on open water. Massive storms, giant sharks, human attackers, mechs. Cameron Dery, a simple fisherman, one day encounters an ancient pilotable mech called the Mach Diver located below the waves and claims it as his own. Together with his best friend, Scarlett Taylor, and a mysterious woman named Sokka Tsuki, he finds himself on a journey to find his missing sister, Katelynn.

When seven bodies turn up in a small town in Georgia, Detective Jack Kersey—gruff, relentless, and with little patience for nonsense—is determined to crack the case. But this is no ordinary murder investigation. Behind the killings lies the shadow of EvoSys, a mega-corporation with its hands in every facet of life.

What if Hitler was never given the chance to reincarnate?

A little boy is awakened in the middle of the night by his drunken father, confessing he'd just murdered the boy's mother. When the twisted semblance of family they have left begins crumbling, his foster sister, a ten year old zombie, begins putting the family back together in a way only the dead can.

Starting almost immediately after the events of The Devil's Gunt, we find Median recuperating in a hospital where Dr. Rick is the chief medical officer. Of course, nothing is as it seems especially after he finds out the woman of his dreams is engaged to marry Dr. Rick. Meanwhile, Mary has finally gotten what she wanted most; the perfect relationship and a baby on the way. But after she begins to regret the cost, she decides to take action against the one who granted her blessing. The devil.

Boaz is fated to live, love, marry, age, and mourn. And then do it again and again, throughout time, until the Mashiach (Messiah) is born from his lineage. But this last love...

Her life is a cross between Mad Max and the Hunger Games. All that matters is her right fist. It all goes back to the three rules of the pit. Sharpen your wits. Watch your back. And don’t fall in love. Must she kill her werewolf lover in a winner-takes-all battle to save her brother from a vampire brothel?

To paraphrase Poe: They loved with a love that was more than love. Hadrian, Emperor of Rome, loved Antinous in life, and after his lover's death, worshipped him as his god. This is a romantic, fictionalized account of one of history's greatest love stories. Antinous refuses reincarnation until he can be fully reunited with Hadrian.

Mankind has just been knocked off his perch atop the food chain. The zombie apocalypse is here and it came with a friend. Sure, there are legions of hungry mouths, tearing hands, and soulless eyes, but the apocalypse brought a distant memory that terrified you as a child. Remember that creepy cereal mascot in the one commercial with the kids and how he used to chase them around until they found conspicuously placed breakfast bowls in the middle of nowhere? Turns out that guy is really real. And this time, the kids don't get away. Nobody does.