Cadman’s Gambit (SHADER) von D.P. Prior

Dr Ernst Cadman has led a quiet life, but that’s how he’s wanted it all these hundreds of years. With a secret like his, anonymity and caution are the best friends a man can have. Nothing could tempt him from the safety of his parasitic existence at the heart of the city of Sarum—at least nothing this side of the Abyss.

Cadman stakes everything on obtaining the artefact that once destroyed an entire civilization, but in so doing he draws the gaze of a sinister presence from beyond the stars.

Meanwhile, Deacon Shader, veteran of the war against the undead armies of the Liche Lord, has one last fight in him. This time it’s just a tournament, with the prize a sword steeped in myth. Win or lose, Shader intends to defy his Templum master and retire to the Abbey of Pardes.

When a horror from the past wrecks Shader’s monastic dream and leads him to plague torn Sarum, he finds an ancient power unleashed that imperils more than he could possibly imagine—a power now in the hands of Dr Cadman.

Gods tremble, and worlds will fall unless Shader can conquer his personal demons and accept the fate he’s been prepared for since birth.

“Cadman’s Gambit” is the first book of the six part SHADER series by D.P. Prior. An excerpt of Book 2, “Best Laid Plans”, is at the end of the Kindle version of this book. There are also excerpts from three other great fantasy books.

The Kindle version also includes the stunning cover art of Mike Nash, two beautifully rendered maps, and a clickable table of contents.

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Sword Bearer (Return of the Dragons) von Teddy Jacobs

You swing a staff until you’re ready to swing a sword. Then you go on all kinds of adventures — fighting monsters, casting spells and saving damsels in distress. At least that’s how it’s supposed to work, but I didn’t believe a word of it.

Two forms of power — natural and chemical – divide the world. Dragons, who keep the chemical power in check, have long retreated from human sight; few still believe in them. Inside a castle surrounded by Tuscan hills more and more threatened by chemical forces, sixteen-year-old Anders lives a sheltered life. But much as his parents try, Anders can’t avoid the forces that threaten…

The Sixth Age of Man von W. Mark Jones

To the Mayan people, the earth has been almost destroyed four times. We are in the fifth age of man. Each time, the world begins anew with a small group of survivors.

On 12 December 2012, the end of the fifth age commences. Will this time be different? Or will the Mayan concept of the circle of creation doom all but a handful? The key is in the hands of two young people who have been chosen to decide the fate of our planet as they usher in the Sixth Age of Man.

Welcome To The Underworld von I. F. Rowan

Dao Shi is not a bad man. Granted, he is a liar and a charlatan and a con-man, but aside from that he’s not a bad man. He earns his living with mumbo-jumbo and magic tricks, convincing the gullible and superstitious that he is a master exorcist who can rid them of the demons and hungry ancestor-spirits that they blame for their bad luck, even though the closest Dao Shi has come to a ghost has been in his bad dreams after over-indulging at Mama Shen’s.

One day though, Dao Shi runs into much more than he bargained for, and this sets in train events which result in him being caught up in the treacherous politics of empire and war, and a series of life and death battles with demons, bandits, traitors and lawyers, in cities and boats and the dark sewers of the Underworld. Usually a firm believer that the best form of defence is cowardice, Dao Shi becomes a reluctant hero as he learns that the death of his son and his fellow-soldiers of the Mountain Eagles may hide a terrible secret that is connected with the fate of the Empire itself.

Welcome To The Underworld brings together all four Dao Shi stories originally published in Black Gate magazine to much acclaim – one short story and three novellas/novelettes, totalling 40,000 words.

Geeks Rule – A Collection of Five Action Packed Short Stories von Basil Sands

Five action packed short stories, like the Twilight Zone…with guns.

Geeks Rule:
Computer nerd Lewis Puller seemed like an easy target, but when a gang of skinheads come after him they get more than they bargained for…much more.

For Mommy:
A father and his young son heading to the forest, trying to recover from the loss of the beloved wife and mother killed in a DUI accident, stumble across a chance to set things right

Maggie Rose:
Maggie Rose had a boring life, and that’s just the way she liked it. She knew her husband craved more though, when she decides to give it to him things get out of hand.

Harold Blake, Deceased:
A case of decades old infidelity leads to a chain of events in which one man dies and another survives, neither aware of the others existence

Parallel:
Eight friends enter a cave in the remote Alaskan wilderness, a seemingly typical adventure like what they enjoy every weekend, but a shadow of the unknown is waiting

The Model Universe And Other Stories von Christopher Bunn

This is a 22,000 word collection of six stories of varying science fiction flavor. From the mild and musing, to the odd and macabre, these tales run the gamut from space opera to post-apocalyptic. The collection includes the following.

The Model Universe: in which a boy finds the edge of the universe and what waits on the other side.

Nothing Disappears: in which a detective discovers there’s much less to a health clinic than meets the eye.

The Satisfactory Completion of Mr. Janklow: in which a planetary assassin completes his last job.

The Boy In The Garden: in which the question of murder is decidedly blurred by evolution. West: in which a chance encounter with a fox sets a boy and girl free.

The Ocean Won’t Burn: in which we realize it’s sometimes safer below the surface than above.

One Day in 2056 & Other Stories von K. L. Dillon

“People just can’t die. There has to be consequences,” a grief-stricken Alex Pine says to Dr. Hailey Madison in “Come What May,” the first of six short stories. After his mother’s suicide, Alex’s life starts to spin out of control. Alone and desperate for answers, Alex pays his mother’s psychiatrist a visit, gun in hand.

The collection’s title story, “One Day in 2056”, revolves around 14 year old Harold George Wells. In 2050, five billion people were mysteriously abducted and it may have something to do with the “UFO-looking ships” occupying the earth’s skies. However, out of the five billion that were taken, Harold only cares about two: his parents.

In “Nineteen”, aspiring writer and Hemingway enthusiast Jacob Fisher drops out of college to pursue his dream of becoming a novelist. But, after he’s disowned by his parents and kidnapped by a group of scientists, whose sole intention is to send him back in time to make a different choice, he begins to question his fate and destiny and whether or not everything’s not already written in stone.

Running from Solace von Nakia R. Laushaul

2011 USA BOOK NEWS BEST BOOKS AWARD WINNER

“She passed a hard candy over her shoulder as though whatever was in the tiny wrapper was supposed to make it all better. I clutched the peppermint in my hand and buried my face in the hard leather seat while she explained what was going to happen to me. She promised that I’d be safe from then on.”

And so begins the journey of Naomi, whose amazing story picks up where the past and future intersect. As Naomi struggles to hide the ugly physical and emotional reminders of yesterday that insist on haunting her dreams, she crosses paths with a young boy, Xavier and his quick-tempered mother, Mona, who both share an interesting story much like her own.

Running from Solace is an emotional tale which will send you catapulting on a breathless journey beyond breaking points and will finally lead you to believe in the power of accepting what is to be.

T-Rex Virus von Tom Forrest

A small hunk of ferrous rock from an ancient asteroid which has roamed the cosmos for eons falls to earth. Discovered by a university paleontologist, a long dormant enzyme impregnated within the galactic stone is revitalized by accident in a university laboratory. A deadly virus erupts from the small boulder, taking the lives of the laboratory team within days. Members of the U.S. Army biological warfare operations staff from Fort Detrick, Maryland seize the extra-terrestrial ore.

During transportation to a U.S. Government weapons research facility, the rock and its escorts disappear. Now, an off shore megalomanic pharmaceutical giant, possess the deadly diseased rock, and the only known antidote. Driven by greed of billions in profit, he won’t give up the cure until the virus becomes widespread.

FBI agent Dale Fox hits the ground running in pursuit to recover the geode, and the medicinal remedy for the viral infection that now affects hundreds of thousands of people. Battling an elite team of killers within the pharmaceutical company, he has very little time to succeed, since he too has contracted the terminal virus!

Bengali Girls Don’t: Based on a True Story (Memoirs of a Muslim Daughter) von L.A. Sherman

L.A. Sherman grew up in Bradford, England in a strict Muslim family where she learned how to sneak out of the house without making the door creak. At the age of fifteen, she was tricked into going to Bangladesh by her parents and forced to marry a man as old as her father. After four years there with a wicked mother-in-law, she won the visa lottery for America and moved to the Big Apple. Now hard at work on her second book, she lives in Tampa, Florida with her family near a pond full of gators and spends her time doing all the things that Bengali girls don’t.


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