A nightmare takes control of her dark destiny in this thrilling new fantasy series from Sophia Slade. Wren is a nightmare, a deadly manifestation of the frightening dreams of humans, forever bound to the insidious Reverie king Para Warwick. When she fails to retrieve a weapon that could end Warwick’s reign and is severely punished, she makes a snap decision to aid the growing rebellion in finding it. With the help of another traitorous nightmare, a young human queen who can cross the boundary between the dream and waking worlds, and her liege’s naïve human son, Wren might finally gain the ability to take down Warwick once and for all—and prevent the very fabric of reality from unravelling. "WOW!! This was such a thrilling, immersive, entertaining, and dark ride!" @greenghost.reviews, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Obsessed is an understatement!!! I need alllll the editions please!" @laraonfire ,⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "It has been a while since a fantasy book has had me in their claws and Nightstrider dug them in deep! I flew through this novel." @bookish_and_baking, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Wow! This is the best book I have read in a long time. The kind of book that reminds a person why they love fantasy." Marly De Vos, reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Reluctant allies to lovers core with bisexual vibes!!! Everyone, say thank you to Sophia Slade!" Taylor Thies, reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "I AM IN AWE OF THIS BOOK!! I AM FIRST IN LINE FOR VEILWEAVER!!" @kelsiereads, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Helat rebels have broken the power of the demon lord and challenged the rule of their masters, the Sol-ket. But the Darkwing is merely in retreat, biding his time, and the Sol-ket will fight to their last breath to keep control of their golden cities. The power of the slaves is mounting as they rise to fulfil once-forbidden prophecies. When the Darkwing returns for his final onslaught, is anyone, soldier or slave, equipped to defeat him - especially as the cruel sun sets, beckoning a devastatingly relentless winter? A brilliant continuation of the journey begun in RISE OF THE BLOOD MOON, this novel also stands alone, with its own twists, turns and surprises for characters and readers alike. Be prepared for changes of allegiance, surprise new arrivals, and sudden deaths. Page-turning and unpredictable from start to finish.

Oh, no, an ancient evil has arisen from the depths of some terrible place. Again. How rude. Except this time it’s a five-alarm-brown-pants-panic-like-it’s-the-end-of-the-world situation. Because this guy is the real deal. He’s a burn-it-all-down kind of guy. He doesn’t want wealth, or power, or an all-access pass to the most popular theme parks. He wants everyone and everything deader than dead. And he has the mojo to make it happen. In other words, he’s the bad guy. The good guy… Is confused. No one will give him a straight answer. A strange woman kidnaps Zosimos and takes him to a creepy island. Where some even stranger sort of steampunk tunneling machine people kidnaps him from the kidnapper. Why? He’s a nobody. According to his brother and his sister and most everyone who knows him, anyway. Except… Maybe there’s a secret locked inside him. Something both terrible and awesome. Something that might stop the bad guy’s rampage. Or it might give the bad guy the key to unlock the ultimate weapon of destruction. Until Zosimos figures it out, everyone’s day is going from cloudy-with-a-chance-of-rain, to doom-with-a-certainty-of-fiery-death. An epic, unhinged chapter in the weird fantasy world of Realms Unseen.

It has always been this way. The Helati are slaves. Each month, at the full moon, they are expelled to face the demon host, the Lost Souls. But something has changed in the fabric of the times. The demons are controlled by a new master, the Darkwing. Now the danger is permanent, the horror incessant. In a southern port, however, a fourteen year old slave girl, oblivious of her destiny, holds the key to ending the nightmare of the Lost Souls. But will she ever understand the secret that is hidden deep in her memory, the secret of the Black Tower? Alan Gibbons' latest novel is an epic fantasy that takes you through a fabled land, reminiscent of a mythical ancient India. On a roller-coaster ride you will meet shape-shifters, demons, magic, tyrants, an evil lord who is the master of the living dead and countless fighters for evil...and for good.

It wasnÕt rockets or artillery that came through the skies one week during the war. It was the horrific force of nature that suddenly put both sides in awe. As an unofficial truce began, questions and emotions battled inside every air crewmanÕs mind as they faced masses of Vietnamese civilians outside their protective base perimeters for the first time. Could we trust them not to shoot? Could they trust us not to drop them off in a detention camp? Truces never last, but life changes a bit for all the people involved while they are happening. Sometimes wars are suspended and fighting stops for a while. A holiday that both sides recognize might do it, as happened in the Christmas truce during World War I. Weather might do it, too, as it did in Vietnam in October 1970. The Òtyphoon truceÓ was just as real, and the war stopped for three days in northern I Corps--that area bordering the demilitarized zone separating South Vietnam from the North. The unofficial Òtyphoon truceÓ came because first, Super Typhoon Joan arrived, devastating all the coastal lowlands in I Corps and further up into North Vietnam. Then, less than a week later came Super Typhoon Kate. Kate hit the same area with renewed fury, leaving the entire countryside under water and the people there faced with both war and natural disaster at the same time. No one but the Americans, the foreign warriors fighting throughout the country, had the resources to help the people who lived in the lowlands, and so they did. For the men who took their helicopters out into the unending rain it really made little difference. Perhaps no one would shoot at them for a while, but the everyday dangers they faced remained, magnified by the low clouds and poor visibility. The crews got just as tired, maybe more so, than on normal missions. None of that really mattered. The aircrews of the 101st Airborne went out to help anyway, because rescuing people was now their mission. In this book we see how for a brief period during an otherwise vicious war, saving life took precedence over bloody conflict.

"Great description shakes us. It fills our lungs with the life of its author." Painted Paragraphs, the second in a series of inspirational guides for writers and readers, is author Donald Newlove's witty, insightful, and very personal selection of the best descriptive passages in literature. Beginning with Ernest Hemingway's dinner of oysters and wine in A Moveable Feast, Newlove moves on to give us the contents of Mildred's cupboard in Terry McMillan's Mama, Robert Stone's description of a rat-infested tug dump in Outerbridge Reach, Richard Selzer's brilliant anatomy lesson in his memoir Down from Troy, and John Edgar Wideman's mood painting of a tree by his mother's house in the black section of Pittsburgh in "All Stories Are True." Also included are selections from Tolstoy, Proust, Shakespeare, Anais Nin, lots and lots of gorgeous Whitman, and dozens more. This idiosyncratic collection not only celebrates great authors, it explains how they use strokes of moral force and courage to paint the landscapes of their work.

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #8 includes 10 short stories and one graphic story: "The Light Comes" by TONY PEAK "Minor Disasters" by ELISE R. HOPKINS "White Horse" by KATE O'CONNOR "ReMemories" by NANCY S.M. WALDMAN "The Gunman on the Wall" by ALEKSANDER VOLKMAR "The Magister’s Clock" by SIMON KEWIN "From Mutsumi" by KJ KABZA "Making Ends Meet" by JAROD K. ANDERSON "Haze" by K.S. DEARSLEY "For the Heart I Never Had" by RALUCA BALASA "Shamrock – Part 3 – Fury Uncaged" by JOSH BROWN & ALBERTO HERNANDEZ In the non-fiction section, this issue features: Interview with Author Martin Millar Interview with Author Fran Wilde Artist Spotlight: Chris Drysdale Science Corner: A Whirlwind Tour of the Human Genome Book Review: The Goddess of Buttercups and Daisies (Martin Millar) Movie Review: Time Lapse (Bradley King) The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.