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The well-dressed Chinese factory representative confidently escorts a group of financiers into a very modern-looking building in northern China. Among the attendees is one who is less smiling and more alert. His name is not the one on the lapel card, for he is there in place of the person who formerly...

The most famous killer of Victorian England was someone’s son, he was born, just like the rest of us and he grew up... He just happened to grow into the Whitechapel murderer.With his own words, Jack describes his life. How his idyllic childhood was torn from him. How he learned to survive under...

Maud goes into an isolated village to look for her missing sister. Dina. Who was there researching on the missing tourists. She meets up with the last person who saw her alive, Rosetta, who tells her she participated in a voodoo ritual. Maud at first doesn’t believe in that mumbo jumbo but decides...

Gold Winner in Foreword Reviews' 2014 Book of the Year Award for Best Fantasy. Finalist in 2015 Indie Excellence Awards for Best Fantasy   Silver Medalist, 2015 Benjamin Franklin Book Awards; best cover design   Junya’s grandfather is a billionaire...

Past and present merge in this suspense thriller. Chase Wolf escapes an abusive father and lives with his stoic grandfather in the northern forests of Arizona. He learns about his native American ancestry as he learns to hunt, trap and survive in this harsh environment. When his grandfather dies,...

Gideon, a half-breed mutant with a surly temper and rotten luck, struggles to scrape a living as a tracker in the desolate territory near the gateway to the human world. Business seems to be picking up when Gideon is approached by a powerful dark elf with deep pockets and a serious problem. Human...

Toby’s idyllic life shatters while he’s on a hunting trip with his friends in the Utah wilderness. A supernatural storm rolls through his hunting site, kicking off an apocalypse filled with terrible monsters and dark magic. Toby needs to get back to his family, but standing in his way is a forest...

When talented concert pianist Caleb Montgomery returns to his hometown of Chicago for a concert series, his life is upended by a vibrant, beautiful cellist named Rylen. Faced with confronting his physical and emotional demons or allowing the woman of his dreams into his heart, Caleb struggles with...

Sherrif Ajana Povich arrives at a gruesome crime scene in an abandoned house where a pile of body parts is erected in the hall. A young girl suddenly emerges from underneath the pile and that’s when things get weird. Who is this girl? Why is everyone hearing her speak a foreign language except for...

  Ripples in the Mist is the journey of four warriors chosen by the mists of the Plane of Dread, a world of death and darkness. Once there, the four find themselves pitted against a deadly wraith and the destructive powers of a spell-wielding female vampire sent by Lord Strand to test and collect...

After a warlock agent helps Shade escape from prison, Shade travels to the future to seek revenge against those who put him behind bars. He soon discovers, however, that he is just a game piece in the agent's fatal game, playing for survival alongside his enemies he wanted to destroy.

The past 25 years has seen the emergence of a wealth of data suggesting that novel biological functions of known proteins play important roles in biology and medicine. This ability of proteins to exhibit more than one unique biological activity is known as protein moonlighting. Moonlighting proteins...

Through an analysis of recently discovered Ptolemaic pottery from Mut al-Kharab, as well as a reexamination of pottery collected by the Dakhleh Oasis Project during the survey of the oasis from 1978–1987, this book challenges the common perception that Dakhleh Oasis experienced a sudden increase...

Most people take the process of coping for granted as they go about their daily activities. In many ways, coping is like breathing, an automatic process requiring no apparent effort. However, when people face truly threatening events--what psychologists call stressors--they become acutely aware of...