About the Book "I had no choice. They were going to torture you the same way but worse." Owen’s voice broke. "But not as worse as Ephraim, the screaming, the pleading, every time I tried to talk to him he gave no response, just gave me a blank stare. His skin was pale, his head was cold and clammy, hair was untamed and greasy, stubbles, and underweight. I secretly followed them to the woods. I hid behind a tree where I saw Ephraim pleading with father that he didn't want to keep doing this. Father slapped him across the face, blood splattered on the cold, damp ground. He grabbed hold of his chin and forcefully made him look into the eyes of a very angry and very abusive father. I couldn't hear what they were whispering, but in the end, Ephraim held his head down. Just think of it this way, Ephraim," laughed Father. "When I mean “we” succeed, our legacy will be known through every generation. I saw that Ephraim wanted to cry, but crying in front of Father would get us a bloody beatdown and no dinner. And I can tell Ephraim wants to eat. I heard Father telling Ephraim that once this is over, all four of us will be unstoppable!" About the Author Samantha R. Hume is twenty-four years old and lives with her parents in Amsterdam, New York. She is the youngest of seven children and has struggled with autism and learning disabilities all her life. However, she is determined not to let that bring her down. Just because she is different doesn't mean she cannot make something of herself. She wants to be a role model for all. Besides writing, she enjoys reading fantasy books.

A blacksmith strikes a deal with a dangerous deal with a dragon…

The Dragon Tamers, a techno-thriller based on the historical events of WWII that led to the first atomic bomb, is a spell-binding story of espionage and romance. When physicist Michael Eriksson returns from his OSS mission in Nazi occupied Norway, he joins the Manhattan Project’s frantic effort to beat the Germans in the race to develop an atomic bomb. At Los Alamos he’s on another secret mission. But the hunter becomes the hunted. Nazi, Klaus Kriegmann, has successfully infiltrated Los Alamos. He’s determined to sabotage the test of America’s first atomic bomb and he has sworn to make Eriksson die a slow and painful death. Eriksson and his lover Kathleen O’Connell, are trapped near the shot tower. The countdown is in progress and time is running out. A blinding flash lights up the night. A giant, angry, boiling, red hemisphere erupts on the horizon, sending a powerful shock wave racing across the desert floor. Eriksson knows there’s only one chance for them to survive.

Carol was one of the millions of people who played the Dragon Tamers virtual reality computer game. Along with her partner, a dragon called Sam, she managed to become the strongest player in the game.

A kingdom divided cannot stand. For those caught in the middle, it means death. For centuries humans and dragons existed side by side in Alveria, bonded by their care of one another. But no longer. After decades with no viable eggs, humans far outnumber dragons, and the survival of the species appears bleak. The outlook for everyday humans is little better as rogue dragons raid and torment villages. Yet it's far worse for the tamers, beaten and killed simply for serving the noble dragons. But eking by at the bottom of Alverian society isn't any easier for seventeen-year-old Kaelan Younger. Harder still when her loyalty to the dragon crown is no secret. But when her dying mother reveals a horrifying truth about her identity, Kaelan is thrust into a world for which she is ill prepared. Faced with a new life at the proving grounds for humans and dragons alike, Kaelan must reconcile not just her past but embrace the future laid out before her. When her responsibilities as an Akademy tamer collide with her feelings for a powerful dragon shifter, it will take everything she has to prepare for the danger threatening them both. The fate of the dragons she has sworn to serve rests in her hands. Now Kaelan is no longer an outsider. She's the enemy.

Varla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of The Book of the Bizarre and Beyond Bizarre, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. Magical Creatures is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic. The mythical beast of extraordinary proportions, the dragon has snarled and slithered its way across the centuries where it remains both feared and loved. Join Clint Marsh and Varla Ventura as they explore a few of the stories that should thrill and chill dragon lovers and dragon slayers alike.