Day time detective and night time monster hunter Tam Paradiso is trying to keep everyone alive. And then the super hot 17th century, time traveling English playwrite Christopher Marlowe shows up. Can Tam and Kit Marlowe track down the beast before time runs out? Will Tam face her feelings for Kit before it's too late?

Understanding Italo Calvino's love of storytelling is pivotal to understanding the cultural and literary matrix of his lush fictional universe. A rich and vibrant critical portrait of Calvino's work.

A former undercover cop turned homicide detective, Damien Cobb grapples with the demands of a desk job, a grieving 13-year-old daughter, and the enigmatic world of supernatural crime investigation. When a felon from his past resurfaces, Cobb's instincts kick in. He embarks on a perilous journey to uncover the truth, accompanied by the captivating forensic scientist, Jane "Ziggy" Zigfield. But their pursuit takes a dark turn when Ziggy is captured by the malevolent criminal—an incubus working for a ruthless crime boss. As Cobb races to solve a murder and rescue Ziggy, he must face his growing romantic feelings for her, up his game in the parenting department and find a sliver of holiday spirit.

To live is to die. To die.. Death is the only absolute. Death is this worlds one and only inescapable truth. To live is to wander thru life, feeling the icy breath of the Grim Reaper as he holds his deadly scythe against the skin of your throat. Any moment could be the dreaded moment that the darkness of death takes the final breath from your lungs, the final beat of your heart, and the final movement of your body. Darkness; the enemy of the light that shines down upon all living things. Darkness; the eventual consumer of all things. But the deeper the darkness, the stronger the light. One year has passed since the fall of the Empire and the presumed death of the man known as X the Thousand Man Slayer. In secret X and Valary, the love of his life, have been in hiding. Over the last year they have tried to build a new life for themselves away from the police and the mysterious organization known as The Society. With Valarys sudden disappearance and an attempt on Xs life from a man from his past, X is forced into a game that not only involves the lives of X and Valary but people from Xs past. As each trial is brought before him, he becomes closer and closer to death but at the same time he slowly returning to being the monster he once was. Thru unimaginable pain and pools of blood, X fights the demons of his past and the demons beside him.

Karn is from another planet very similar to Earth which is about to be destroyed by an Asteroid colliding with it. He along with 2000 others hunt and find Aqua, a planet very much like theirs but inhabited by many strange and different beings who...

Chimera Chronicles: Undead Arms Race By: M.T. Murray Chimera Chronicles: Undead Arms Race is a wild mix of genres that wouldn’t normally go together—sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and comedy. The author’s favorite storytelling style is the epic, and this book is an attempt at a modernized version. The intention is for the story to sound sexy when read out loud. Majority of the jokes are written for veterans, but there are several dark pop-culture references too. The goal of this crusade is to help reduce the veteran suicide rate. Hopefully, it’ll shed a little light on what to watch out for so you don’t walk in on your homie slicing his wrists in a bathtub.