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Maximo Strident, war veteran and member of local law enforcement, never wanted to enter the dungeon. With promises of wealth beyond his imagination, his squad mates managed to convince him. Max isn’t a Knight, so he has no magical equipment or spells that could help him against monsters. What he does have, however, are the sword forms he learnt at the Blade Academy. These forms are formidable martial arts that make him the match of Level 0 monsters. But Level 99 monsters? He doesn’t stand a chance.

The apocalypse is on the horizon, and only one man can stop it. Joined by his Apocalypse Knights, Maximo Strident will face dungeons and monsters at levels never before seen. The worst of all, though, are those deranged parodies of Knights-Errant known as Harbingers. It's a good thing Max can steal spells, because the world depends on him ascending to heights of power once thought impossible.

Those granted fates from the gods can become so much more than human…they are the fated. Alastair is one such fated. Gifted with the crafter class after his village is decimated, he can now create priceless enchanted gear. Damon is another fated: the hunter. With the items crafted by Alastair, Damon’s martial prowess is second to none. And the hunter class provides the perfect balance to the crafter. Together, the pair set out into the world, hunting monsters and gathering rare materials to craft the greatest items the world has ever seen.

Summoners are born, not made. For Bran of Ealdor, this is the one thing stopping him from becoming a member of the legendary warriors known as summoners. They are gods among men who can call monsters into battle to fight alongside them. Mages, Rangers, Beastmasters, Protectors, Hunters, and Lancers. These are the six classes of summoners. None of which Bran can become.

The first metal dragon in an age has come. One hero must harness its power to defeat the darkness. Garrick Vilfort is a recruit for a mercenary company. During his final examination, he bonds with a dragon thought extinct: an iron dragon. With this startling discovery comes a terrible promise. The age of the metal dragons has returned, along with the coming doom of the entire world. To hold the forces of darkness at bay, Garrick and his fellow summoners must unlock the true powers of their dragons, beyond anything that has been seen since the dawn of magic.

The story of John B. King Jr.’s inspiring path to President Obama’s Cabinet begins the day that his mother died. He insisted on going to school that day, knowing he would find comfort in his classroom. As he navigated living alone with a father dying from undiagnosed Alzheimer’s, it was public school teachers who saved his life. King’s teachers believed in him and saw his potential. They made school a safe, supportive, and engaging place where King could be a kid despite the challenges at home.

After his wife loses interest in him, 50-year-old Dave Barndon turns to the dark side of the internet and sex chat rooms. There, he finds willing partners who are happy to fulfill his needs with no strings attached. But they aren't the only ones looking to play. When a woman he had an affair with is murdered, he becomes the prime suspect. He thinks his alibi is solid, until a second woman is murdered, and then, a third.

Timothy Bergendorf suffers from so many potentially fatal allergies, he’s forced to live in a self-contained bubble. Protected from everything and loved by his parents, Timothy endures a lonely childhood. Yet, as nature compensates, he develops extraordinary telekinetic and psychic powers. As he reaches puberty, his secret talents increase in power so he can travel the world in his mind. Using his power while juggling numerous cars in the air, Timothy suffers a ruptured hernia and is rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. But the operation goes wrong, Tim awakens in agony, and the ...

As a mercenary with no Divine Core, Xin Sang is resigned to a life of grunt work, fighting the lesser fiends like wyrmspawn that are far beneath the notice of the mighty Ascendants. But when an Archfiend—an Ebon Wyrm—appears and threatens to annihilate his mercenary crew, Xin must rise above his limitations and show them why he's the best. And why he's been running and hiding for so long.

For all his 21 years, Zephyr has been a cultivator of the Carefree Path and a martial artist. He always assumed he would take the vows and become a monk, but his plans are thrown to the wind when he receives a letter from the Grand Sage to attend the Schools of Elemental Magic. Gifted with the system known as the "Codex of Ascension", Zephyr intends to master the various elements in record-breaking time. Alongside two other students who bear mysteriously similar origins, his school year promises to be more than he could have ever imagined.

Dazed and confused, Michael wanders the streets in the rain, depressed to the point of suicide. He found his wife in his brother's arms when he arrived home earlier. Michael has always had issues of paranoia, much to his wife’s annoyance, but this time, he knows what he saw. Waiting for the next bus, a stranger appears, offering him a raincoat and somewhere to spend the night where he will be safe. Gabriel eventually leads Michael to a door in a concrete wall under the Interstate, and they enter a hidden village. He is introduced to Peter, the gatekeeper, who demands to know what Michael ...

Alyn is a successful businessman with no time for any supernatural twaddle so when his friend Marty claims to have met a ‘witch girl’ it is just another story. By chance he meets the same girl and is drawn to her in spite of her reputation. But there is another that would keep her from any that seek get close. Ignoring all the warning signs he seeks to get closer still, dismissing as imagination the strange events that happen until at last he is brought face to face with the awesome might of the Guardian. Only then does he realise that he is powerless in the face of the nightmare from ...

Zoe Forbes is a professional photographer who has recently escaped from a personal relationship and engaged upon trying to rebuild her life when a chance assignment takes her to the small town of Withramstowe and a mystery that challenged the very basis of her beliefs. Who us the mysterious teenager who appears to be trying to contact her? What is the secret of Enderby Hall and the Bartchester family? Intrigued, and with the help of an old friend from many years back, Greg Hollister she gets drawn ever deeper into the mystery of what may have happened somewhere in that house until finally ...

Seven women have disappeared from bars only to be found murdered after asking for an angel shot. Detective Rick McCoy is handed the case after returning from leave following his wife's horrific ordeal at the hands of the serial killer PPP. Criminal psychologist Patricia Holmes lost her husband to the same killer and when her current partner makes her life miserable she jumps at the chance to work with Rick again. When they determine a man currently jailed for the crimes could not have committed them the mystery deepens.

Neil Carson, a lifelong sceptic inherits his late uncle’s Victorian house where, in spite of life-long scepticism, he starts to experience increasingly weird events and seeing spectral figures all seemingly reliving a long forgotten tragedy. His scepticism is stretched still further when he meets the living counterpart of one of the spectres he has seen and then matters take a horrifying turn as those long-ago events start to play themselves out once more. Extract I suppose I must have been working sporadically for maybe an hour when suddenly I once again had that feeling that I wasn’t ...

Whilst at the point of leaping to his death from a motorway bridge, Stephen Cheney meets a mysterious young woman who suddenly vanishes. He is intrigued, and following an unexplained impulse he goes to a sleepy little village ticked away in a forgotten corner of Sussex where he meets her again, yet once again she vanishes, leaving him wondering about his sanity. He feels compelled to find her, and in the process he recovers the memories of a forgotten childhood and realises that the mysterious girl is a part of that forgotten period. All the evidence points to her being the ghost of a ...

Paul Williams is an ex-SAS soldier who suffered physical and psychological injuries during an Afghanistan battle. After his wife Amanda leaves him, Williams begins a search to find and murder her. The army has trained him never to fail, never give up, and survive at all costs, and he is determined to succeed on his final, sacred mission. Using disguises, Williams passes for "normal" but he strikes ruthlessly when he finds any woman who resembles Amanda because he is incapable of mercy.

Neil Hammond is by profession a design engineer, and by his own admission a bit of a square, and destined to be one of life's failures. Becoming a victim of the economic recession he very reluctantly accepts a temporary cash-in-hand job of looking after a friend's detective agency for a week while the proprietor, a friend of his from school-days is away on a case. The work seems to consist in the main of such exciting cases as looking for lost cats or watching erring husbands, but matters take an unexpected twist when he rescues a young woman from a car that has been washed away in flood ...

Lesley Jameson believes that she has everything in life that one could desire, loving parents, a great career, respect, money. But with the death of her parents she is shocked to discover that she is not their daughter, but an adopted child. She becomes obsessed with discovering her roots, even though she is warned that no good can come of delving into the past. Who is Marion? What did she fear to the point where death itself was preferable to facing it? Who is the shadowy figure that could be her father? What terrible secrets lay hidden by the unknown Mrs X who lived just long enough to ...

Yargon Anolius Cromanty is a mild-mannered researcher into comparative history living many thousands of years in the future. On a routine visit to another planet he is unexpected stranded on an unknown world where, due to violent natural disaster, the inhabitants have been pitchforked from a high pinnacle of civilisation in the very depths of ignorance and faced with extinction at the hands of an alternative life form . Allying himself with these people, Yargon has to face many dangers in his efforts to save the last survivors of this disaster, and in this he becomes involved with saving ...