Kirjahaku

New town. Old demons. The Unseen continues...Karen Kimura thought she was well-hidden. Running her small dojo in the corrupt city of Santa Fausta, she's spent her life in the shadows, guarding the secret of her Unseen heritage- but no secret stays hidden forever.When a young girl with her own dark past comes seeking help, Karen decides to step out into the light. It's a decision that doesn't sit well with the girl's step-father, a corrupt businessman who runs Santa Fausta. With his own plans for the darkness living inside the young girl, he takes the fight to Karen's doorstep, plunging her back into a world she ran from years ago.He's about to discover he messed with the wrong woman. Because Karen Kimura is part ninja, part spider, and all kinds of pissed off.The Unseen is a bold new take on familiar myths, from doppelgangers to vampires, demons, monsters and more. This is a series that can't be missed. But be careful- once seen, this world can't be unseen...

He drinks too much. He can't hold a marriage together. And he's our only hope against the monster that just came to town.Franklin Butcher is a young cop with a few rough years behind him. Freshly divorced, he decides to make a new start in the small town of Shallow Creek. What better place to coast until retirement than a town where nothing happens?His plan doesn't work. Soon people start disappearing, and Butcher is the only one who seems to want to solve the case. He believes a new couple in town are to blame for the vanishings, but the truth is even darker than he thinks.Before he knows it, Butcher is drawn into an unseen world of supernatural creatures that has existed in secret for centuries. It's also a world he has more connection to than he ever imagined. Because, like Shallow Creek, Franklin Butcher has a few secrets of his own.The Unseen is a bold new take on familiar myths, from doppelgangers to vampires, to demons, monsters and more. This is a series that can't be missed. But be careful- once seen, this world can't be unseen...Note: A version of this story was originally published under the title Shallow Veins. This version has been heavily edited and expanded by the author.

The debut novel from Brian Martinez, A Chemical Fire is a minimalist, noir vision of the apocalypse. The story unfolds through the eyes of John Cotard, a science teacher who drugs his life away. After a car accident turns him onto prescription painkillers he allows first his job, then his marriage to crumble, doing nothing to stop it, lost in a haze of chemicals.Then, one night, the world ends. When a great fire sweeps through the land, wiping out most humans and leaving behind a scattering of zombie-like burn victims, he carries on, breaking into houses to steal drugs and hide away. For John the end of the world actually seems to make sense- it's the next logical step in his self-destruction.One-by-one he meets the few remaining survivors including a woman starving herself thin, a combat-obsessed survivalist and a dangerous face from the past he hoped to never see again. As the group travels across the country to seek safety, they face not only the dangers of the dead world around them but of each other, discovering the strange connections they share along the way.

The virus wiped out mankind in a matter of days. Now the survivors are being hunted by what it left behind. Years after global extinction, a young woman with no name hides in a mountain above a dead city. She lives her life with the door and windows taped shut, because survival comes down to two, simple rules: stay quiet, and protect the air. Anything less means death, or worse: becoming one of them. But one day a curious, little monster comes up the mountain. It's a meeting that leads to a fateful decision, and a sacrifice that will change everything. Collected here for the first time, The Mountain and The City is a post-apocalyptic serial that has kept its faithful readers on the edge of their seats time and time again.

"Thoroughly impressed. I think fans of WJ Lundy, Shawn Chesser, and Bobby Adair will love this one." -James Cook, author of the Surviving the Dead seriesIf it doesn't kill you, someone infected with it will.All the news channels can talk about is the Red Flu, a nasty strain that came out of nowhere to wreak havoc on the population. There's also something the government isn't telling the public about the Red Flu- both the secret of its true effects, and exactly how it spreads.Brody Tate doesn't care. He's a young smart-ass living in New York City, locked in a dead-end job. His only concern is telling his boss where he can shove it. Besides, the news only exists to scare people, right?But something is wrong. There's blood in his boss's office. A woman is dead on the floor.His boss is eating the cleaning lady.He kills the man in self-defense- not that the cops believe him- and gets carted away for murder. As if his day wasn't bad enough, his boss managed to bite him during the struggle.With the Red Flu tearing up his insides, Brody finds himself in a self-destructing New York, lost in the horrors of a crumbling city while fighting to stay alive. The question now is, if the Red Flu doesn't kill him, and someone with it doesn't, what will be left of him? What will he become?