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BIG SISTER CARES FOR YOU Fritz returns from his rehabilitation to find his life destroyed: his family shuns him, he's assigned a menial job, stuck in a unit for single workers, weekly counseling sessions to be sure he doesn't backslide. His crime? He made a video years before of his elderly mother telling about the 10-year pandemic and the lawless decades that followed. It was well received - then banned, removed from every stream, even his personal copy taken. Then someone in the government decided the pandemic and the lawlessness never happened. His video was inconvenient. But who would want to ruin his life? Could it be the Big Sister who stares down from posters all over the city? Fritz (born in Book 3) blames his mother, Isla (narrator of Book 3), for his troubles. He never wanted this existential angst. He never asked to be born. Maybe his troubles began with that damn tuba.

For Stefan Sz kely it is a fate worse than death: To be dead yet stuck with his dead parents. After 13 years Stefan can endure it no longer. He wants a castle of his own. First he must visit his family's bank in Budapest. But with endless strife across Europe, Stefan hardly recognizes Budapest, capital of the new Hungarian Federation. Nevertheless, he embarks on his reign as a vampire playboy - until he gets a stern warning from the local vampire gang. Will Stefan fight for his right to party like it's 2027? Or will an encounter with a stranger change everything? As clashes between vampire gangs and State Security escalate, Stefan discovers he might be the key to changing the fate of Europe forever. If he can survive three bloody nights in Budapest. This sequel to A DRY PATCH of SKIN (2014) continues the trials and tribulations of Stefan Sz kely, Vampire.

What a Post-Apocalyptic World needs is Music It is 100 years since the end of the great pandemic. Decades after lawlessness and civil war, society has rebuilt as a repressive regime. Unwilling to accept the new ways, some people have fled west and started new towns. Maggie's mother takes her and her brothers to live with their aunt in Skinner Canyon. Yet Maggie grows up haunted by her father's death in the capital city, and her family's entire pandemic legacy. To counter that, Maggie, now the town's school teacher, decides that what the town needs is a band - also she can play the family tuba But there are plenty of obstacles, from suspicious townsfolk to a conniving salesman, her lack of knowledge about music, a vengeful stranger, and threats by tribal bands asserting their land claims. Thankfully, Maggie has the support of her quirky cousin Eve in this post-apocalyptic world - as well as a few music colleagues - but mostly her own determined will. As Isla's granddaughter, she has a lot of responsibility. Can she save herself, her family, and perhaps the entire nation?

An Unspeakable Crime.High school teacher Bill Masters and his family have a comfortable life in suburban Oklahoma City - until his wife and teen daughter are killed in a mass shooting. Overwhelmed with grief, Bill struggles to put his life back together - or construct a new life from what remains - even as he must combat continuing crime that threatens him and his home.A Second Chance.When exchange student Wu Ting "Wendy" Wang arrives from China for her year at an American high school, she has no idea what has just happened to her host family. She's a constant reminder to Bill of why his family is gone. Yet he is determined to protect her at any cost - ready to use his father's gun. And he will not fail this time.

Legend says they come in the night and carry away the bad ones....One night Toog is captured and taken away by the mysterious race known as the Masters.First left in a cold, dark cell, Toog is tormented by questions: Why me? What did I do wrong?With beings from worlds across the galaxy around him he learns the Masters' ways and plots his escape.However, even if he can get out of the prison how can he hope to find the way home again when home is on another world?Perhaps his capture serves another purpose, one which Toog will only understand by solving the Masters' riddle.Only then will his life have meaning and his world be saved."...an empowering tale of survival, revenge, and what it means to not be human."

Everything changes when you lose your mother, even more if you lose her during a pandemic when everyone is fighting for survival and it is your responsibility to protect her and you fail.Now you have a wife and baby to protect in the savage outerlands - where danger lurks in every shadow, and it's every man for himself.I call it the Way of the Son - definitely not the way Mom would've gone."The road is finite, and well-marked, so you only need to go along it, following the path that's already set before you.Yet sometimes it will lead you in the wrong direction. Sometimes you will end up in the wrong place."You have to find your way back home again, wherever that may be - even through a deadly pandemic.

Alex Parris has been fascinated by the Trojan War all his life, but when he meets the seductive El na on a cruise to Turkey, he cannot help but see the two of them as a modern Helen and Paris. However, following seduction in Istanbul and their tour to the ruins of Ilium, Alex is forced to fight his way back to his lover-if he can find her, and if the rugged Turkish coast doesn't kill him first.

SAVE THE ONE OR THE MANY? OR BOTH...IF YOU ARE AN INTERDIMENSIONAL VOYAGER After his adventures in Book I, Sebastian Talbot (a.k.a. Set-d'Elous, legendary warrior and Sekuatean cavalry captain) has exiled himself to a desolate island, content to laze away the days writing his memoir. Until the emissary from Queen Tammy arrives with a mission he cannot refuse. Tammy, the IRS clerk he took to Ghoupallesz along with Michael in Book I, wants him to go fetch her son who she left on Earth. How could she return for him? She married the King of Aivana. That mission raises desperate questions for Sebastian: If he can go back and forth through these interdimensional doorways and arrive in different time periods, perhaps he can do something to prevent the big war he fought through, the war that destroyed his family and millions of others. So he returns to his Ghoupalle wife Zaura. While on patrol duty, he comes upon a young poetess he knows will become the rebel leader who helps overthrow the monarchy and causes the wars. What would you do? Meanwhile, back on Earth in another timeline, Sebastian awakens from a coma and is helped in his recovery by Dr. Toni Franck. An affair develops-just as his opportunity for escape comes along. Later, as Sebastian/Set escorts teams of mercenaries back and forth to conduct their history-changing business, he tries to meet up with Toni again only to realize the police are still in pursuit. Desperate to see her, he arranges a meeting only to have a SWAT team show up, cornering him. Can he escape through an interdimensional doorway this time? THE DREAM LAND trilogy continues in Book II with parallel time lines, world domination and world destruction, and as always the minuti of heroic minds playing god without a rule book.

ris is a refugee from an abusive youth in Iceland, further abused on the streets of Toronto - until she sees Art as an escape. With a scholarship, she drifts from depression to nightmare to Wiccan rituals to the next exhibit. There's a lot she must forget to succeed in a life she refuses to take responsibility for. Eric is settling in at Fairmont College, starting a new life after betrayal and heartbreak. Divorced and hitting forty, he has a lot to prove - to his father, his colleagues, and mostly to himself. The last thing he needs is a distraction - and there's nothing more distracting than Iris. A BEAUTIFUL CHILL is a contemporary romance set in the duplicitous world of academic rules and artistic license.

The truth about being a vampire: It is not cool, not sexy. It's a painful, miserable existence. Good reason to avoid that situation, thinks medical technician Stefan Sz kely. He's too busy falling in love with TV reporter Penny Park. Until one day when she notices a dry patch of skin on his face. At first it's just annoying, nothing to worry about, some weird skin disease he can treat with lotions. However, as his affliction worsens, Stefan fears that his unsightly problem will ruin his relationship with Penny. If only that was all Stefan has to worry about He soon realizes there is a lot more at stake than his handsome face. To save himself, Stefan must go in search of a cure for the disease which is literally destroying him inch by inch. If only his parents had told him of the family legacy.