Fantasy

Scar Night

by Alan Campbell

Scar Night - By Alan CampbellSynopsisSuspended by chains over a seemingly bottomless abyss, the ancient city of Deepgate is home to a young angel, an assassin, and a psychotic murderer hungry for revenge—or redemption. But soon...

Satan's Stone

by H.M. Ward

Satan's Stone - By H.M. WardCHAPTER ONEThe weapon was gripped tightly in my fist, hanging by my side. The silvery lethal tines were extended. Moving forward, I took another step down the dark hall. Ornate frames lined the...

Satan Loves You

by Grady Hendrix

Satan Loves You - By Grady HendrixTerminal C of the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport at 8AM on a Monday morning was no one’s idea of a good time. And right now, with the fruits of a freak snowstorm clumping on t...

Sasha

by Joel Shepherd

Sasha - By Joel ShepherdSASHA CIRCLED, a light shift and slide of soft boots on compacted earth. The point of her wooden stanch marked the circle's centre, effortlessly extended from her two-fisted grip. Opposite, Teriyan th...

The Steel Remains

by Richard Morgan

The Steel Remains-by Richard MorganCHAPTER 1When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can...

Rose Blossom

by Renee Travis

Rose Blossom By Renee TravisDedication:This is book I for mom, from her Best and Brightest, without her I would...

Rogue Descendant (Nikki Glass)

by Jenna Black

Rogue Descendant (Nikki Glass) - By Jenna BlackONEIt’s time, Nikki, Anderson said.I made a very undignified squealing sound and almost dropped my towel.Goddammit, Anderson! I snapped, my heart pounding. The sun hadn’t r...

Rise An Eve Novel

by Anna Carey

Rise An Eve Novel - By Anna CareyoneCHARLES RESTED HIS HAND FIRMLY ON MY BACK AS WE SPUN once, then again around the conservatory, the guests watching. I kept my eyes over his shoulder, steeling myself against his short brea...

Reign of Beasts (Creature Court)

by Tansy Rayner Roberts

Reign of Beasts (Creature Court) - By Tansy Rayner RobertsPART IThe First Saturnalia1They called me Boy back then. The spruikers, the stagehands, the tumblers, the columbines, the songbirds, the masks. Even the other lambs of th...

Red Leaves and the Living Token

by Benjamin David Burrell

Red Leaves and the Living Token - By Benjamin David BurrellTo my wife and my children,You make everything worth while.Alone in his private study, the School Master leaned closer to a large, worn book laying open on his desk....

Reckoning

by Lili St Crow

Reckoning - By Lili St CrowCHAPTER ONEStealing a car was easy. The hard part was putting up with the whining.I can’t believe we’re doing this, Graves muttered for the fiftieth time. I kept the speed steady, an even...

Reaper (Soul Screamers)

by Rachel Vincent

Reaper (Soul Screamers) - By Rachel VincentTod Hudson was a typical teenager. He liked girls, sports, food and tolerated his younger brother, Nash. In fact, he had his whole life in front of him—and due to his bean sidhe he...

Queen's Hunt

by Beth Bernobich

Queen's Hunt - By Beth BernobichCHAPTER ONEONCE, WHEN HE was a young child, six years old, Gerek Hessler had asked his great-grandmother about her life dreams, those vivid imaginings of past lives that came like nightmares ...

Promises to Keep

by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Promises to Keep - By Amelia Atwater-RhodesWhose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo st...

Promise of Blood

by Brian McClellan

Promise of Blood - By Brian McClellanChapter 1Adamat wore his coat tight, top buttons fastened against a wet night air that seemed to want to drown him. He tugged at his sleeves, trying to coax more length, and picked at th...

Professor Gargoyle

by Charles Gilman

Professor Gargoyle - By Charles GilmanONERobert Arthur was surrounded by strangers.He stood outside the entrance to Lovecraft Middle School, watching the students pass by, searching for a familiar face. Everybody was talking to so...

Prince of Spies

by Bianca_D'Arc

Prince of Spies - By Bianca D'ArcDedicationAs always, I dedicate my work to my family and those who believed in me when I decided to make a break from the corporate world and try this writing thing. I couldn’t have...

Possessing the Grimstone

by John Grover

Possessing the Grimstone - By John GroverChapter 1The First People traded their wings so that we may fish in the rivers and farm in the fields. It is because of them that we now run across those same rivers and span the f...

Poison

by Bridget Zinn

Poison - By Bridget ZinnTHE MASTER TRIO POTIONERS’ flat didn’t look impregnable. From the outside it j...

Play with Fire

by Justin Gustainis

Play with Fire - By Justin Gustainischapter OneAuthor’s note: the events in this story take place shortly after those described in the most recent Morris and Chastain novel, Sympathy for the Devil.ON THE DAY that Quincey ...

The Alchemist in the Shadows

by Pierre Pevel

The Alchemist in the Shadows - By Pierre PevelJUNE 1633It was that uncertain hour just before dawn, when the wind dies down and the mist begins to rise, the morning still a pale promise at the edge of night. A veil of dew...

Perfect Shadows

by Siobhan Burke

Perfect Shadows - By Siobhan BurkePART ONE:SHADOWS IN THE SUNOR AN UNDEAD MAN IN DEPTFORDChapter 1Kit! You, Kit! Come here, I want you! Tommy, Sir Thomas Walsingham, called as I crossed the great hall in search of coals for ...

Once An Eve Novel

by Anna Carey

Once An Eve Novel - By Anna CareyoneI STARTED OVER THE ROCKS, CLUTCHING A KNIFE IN ONE hand. The beach was strewn with sun-battered boats, long since wrecked on shore. The ship before me had washed in just this morning. It...

On the Edge of Humanity

by S. B. Alexander

On the Edge of Humanity - By S. B. AlexanderCHAPTER 1I WAS TRAPPED IN A WORLD where I didn’t belong. A world where my dad had discarded me as if I were a piece of trash. A world where danger constantly surfaced, eve...

Omega The Girl in the Box

by Robert J. Crane

Omega The Girl in the Box - By Robert J. Crane1.They’re coming for me, he thought, as he hurried down the sidewalk. The wind cut straight through him like a razor as it whipped through the space between the buildings ...

Of Wings and Wolves

by SM Reine

Of Wings and Wolves - By SM ReineprologueGwyneth Gresham stood in the doorway of the new world with an infant cradled in each arm. She had expected something monumental to mark her passage into an entirely different universe—...

Of Gods and Elves

by Brian D. Anderson

Of Gods and Elves - By Brian D. AndersonPrologueGewey felt cold, smooth stone pressed against his face, and a terrible wind roared in his ears. He opened his eyes. Nothing but pitch-blackness surrounded him. He remembered his ...

Oberon's Dreams

by Aaron Pogue

Oberon's Dreams - By Aaron PogueCHAPTER ONEIn the high desert south of Jepta, where the sand and sheiks alike wore blinding white, the man at the edge of the market crowd stood out like a signal fire. He bore the fine,...

Oath Bound (Unbound)

by Rachel Vincent

Oath Bound (Unbound) - By Rachel VincentOneSeraI’ve never been very good with the word no. I have trouble saying it. I have more trouble hearing it. And accepting it...well, I find that damn near impossible. Always have....

Num8ers

by Rachel Ward

Num8ers - By Rachel WardCHAPTER ONEThere are places where kids like me go. Sad kids, bad kids, bored kids, and lonely kids, kids that are different. Any day of the week, if you know where to look, you’ll find us: behi...

Not What She Seems

by T. R. Raven

Not What She Seems - By T. R. RavenChapter 1That was the one. The man sitting at the end of the bar nursing a beer. Sylvia licked her lips in anticipation as she sauntered over to him, the sway of her slim hips commandin...

Not Magic Enough and Setting Boundaries

by Valerie Douglas

Not Magic Enough and Setting Boundaries - By Valerie DouglasChapter OneThe pounding on the heavy wood of the doors of the homestead sounded loudly above the shriek and howl of the storm raging outside. Pulling on her threadbar...

Nightingale (The Sensitives)

by Dawn Rae Miller

Nightingale (The Sensitives) - By Dawn Rae Miller1My name is Lark Greene.A white light flashes, blinding me. I can’t see beyond the small circle of darkness, but I know they’re out there, pressing in on all sides, ...

New Amsterdam

by Elizabeth Bear

New Amsterdam - By Elizabeth BearLucifugous(March, 1899)The zeppelin Hans Glücker left Calais at 9:15 in the evening on a cold night in March, 1899, bound for New Amsterdam, the jewel of British North America. Don Sebastien...

Neverwinter

by R.A. Salvatore

Neverwinter - By R.A. SalvatorePROLOGUEThe Year of the Reborn Hero (1463 DR)DAHLIA’S LIPS CURLED INTO A SMILE AS SHE WATCHED THE DARK elf dance. Stripped to the waist, Drizzt Do’Urden moved through his attack and def...

Never Slow Dance with a Zombie

by E. Van Lowe

Never Slow Dance with a Zombie - By E. Van LoweChapter One"Do you think I'm a failure?""Absolutely," replied Sybil Mulcahy, my best friend in the world since the eighth grade. Or should I say former best friend, considerin...

Neferata

by Josh Reynolds

Neferata - By Josh ReynoldsPROLOGUEThe Silver Pinnacle(–15 Imperial Reckoning)Bones rubbed softly together within tattered scraps of armour as the skeletal sentries shifted aside their spears. Eyes burning with witch-fire, Arkha...

Naamah's Blessing

by Jacqueline Carey

Naamah's Blessing - By Jacqueline CareyONEUnable to sleep, I stood in the stern of the ship, watching the past fall farther behind me. The moon was bright and full, turning the ship’s wake into a wide, silvery path ...

Mourning Cloak

by Rabia Gale

Mourning Cloak - By Rabia GaleTHE MOURNING CLOAK FLUTTERS AGAINST my shop window, eyes dark and wide, mouth open in soundless desire. Her pale hands scrabble against the glass that separates her from my bottles—the opaque gree...

Mind the Gap

by Christopher Golden

Mind the Gap - By Christopher GoldenChapter Onelittle birdsEven before she saw the house, Jazz knew that something was wrong. She could smell it in the air,ifting shadows of the trees lining the street, hear it in the expecta...

Michael (The Airel Saga, Book 2)

by Aaron Patterson

Michael (The Airel Saga, Book 2) - By Aaron PattersonCHAPTER ISawtooth mountains of Idaho, present dayALL I COULD FEEL was speed. Everything was racing along under me and my body was like an arrow shot at the speed of sound,...

Metro Winds

by Isobelle Carmody

Metro Winds - By Isobelle CarmodyMETRO WINDSSo there was a girl. Young but not too young. A face as unformed as an egg, so that one could not tell if she would turn out to be fair or astonishingly ugly. She was to be se...

Merlin's Blade

by Robert Treskillard

Merlin's Blade - By Robert TreskillardPROLOGUETHE DRAGON STARBOSVENNA MOORIN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 407The pine trees mocked his youth, their thin, green fingers fretting in the wind. If he didn’t move fast, they would b...

Melting Stones

by Tamora Pierce

Melting Stones - By Tamora PierceThis book is dedicated to Bruce Coville, Grace Kelly, Brett Hobin, Todd Hobin, David Baker, Dan Bostick, Moe Harrington, Timothy Liebe, Alice Morigi, and the rest of the wonderfully talented cast...

Mathieu (White Flame Trilogy)

by Paula Flumerfelt

Mathieu (White Flame Trilogy) - By Paula FlumerfeltPrologueTHE body in his arms was broken and shattered, left to decay on the side of the road. It had once been a she; a vibrant, loving, gentle she. But now it was just co...

Matched

by Ally Condie

Matched - By Ally CondieCHAPTER 1Now that I’ve found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night? My wings aren’t white or feathered; they’re green, made of green silk, which shudders in the wi...

Legacy

by Denise Tompkins

Legacy - By Denise TompkinsPrologueI once heard someone say it’s a good thing the world sucks or we’d all fall off. At the time, I laughed. Now I’m thinking of having it tattooed on my ass. Everything has ch...

Lullaby (A Watersong Novel)

by Amanda Hocking

Lullaby (A Watersong Novel) - By Amanda HockingONEAftermathHarper woke up when the sun was just beginning to set, and squinted at the dim orange light streaming in through her curtains. For one moment—one brief, glorious moment...

Lover Uncloaked (Stealth Guardians #1)

by Unknown

Lover Uncloaked (Stealth Guardians #1) - By UnknownONEAiden launched his dagger at the demon, aiming for his forehead, but the weapon missed its target as the bastard spun with superhuman speed. Whirling to the left, Aiden avoi...