Minology II the Disquisitive Saga of Filbert Monkston
by Mark Murphy
Bodies drained of blood. A serial killer on the loose in New York.Determined to forget the events that unraveled my pack a year ago, I dive into my work with the SIU to solve the case. But as I close in on the truth, I find myself a target for the killer’s twisted agenda. One far more sinister than I imagined.Ghosts from my past resurface.The drums of war sound.With no other options, I must seek the help of old allies.Unease crackles through the supernatural community at the battle looming befor...
Xeres Meticula is a failure. A casualty of the dot-com bust, he now lives in his parents' basement and spends all day on one pursuit, winning The Realm. Fortunately, he's not alone. Joining him in his world are Gek-Lin, an orphan in Thailand who spends her nights in an internet cafe; Dietrich Bjornson, a welder working in Antarctica; and Tres Rawling, a former Olympic skier for England whose career was cut short when an accident left him a quadriplegic; and many more. Together they communicate a...
Ignorance nearly killed Lillian once.That time, she’d known nothing of magic until Gregory, her Gargoyle Protector, awoke from his stone sleep and saved her from demons escaped from the Magic Realm. They defeated the demonic Riven at great personal cost, one which forced them both to hibernate for months while they mended.Healed, Lillian wakes to a world greatly changed, one where her sleepy northern town has been overrun by military, scientists, and paparazzi. Apparently, her battle with the Ri...
Gena and Don seemed an ideal couple. Young. In love. Playful and imaginative. They often pretended to be cats, purring and playing and taking on pretend roles in their made-up cat-world of "Cat"-alonia! When they move into their first house and money becomes tight, management of household finances -- what the shared Household account pays for versus what share goes to personal expenses -- becomes a contention point. And their imaginary world takes a darker turn, with Household becoming an evi...
Employing a wild mix of tall tale, rich metaphor, and contemporary science fiction, this darkly hilarious novel explores a young man's attraction and ultimate addiction to skunk musk and the social difficulties he encounters as a result. He longs to find an isolated utopia where he can indulge his addiction in peace but is continually thwarted, even by a young woman with a unique understanding of his fetish because of her own fetish for fish. Exaggerating the traits that attract and repel lovers...
Glass Barriers (Large) (Lodging for the Rose, #7)
by Rolf A F Witzsche
Do you want to live forever? Ben Ferguson-Cripps is a struggling writer with a surname that gets more comments than his waning blog. In desperation Ben sets aside his literary ambitions to join the newly established and enigmatic Life Assistance Agency. The agency's first case is to trace a missing person with links to the Elizabethan angel-caller Dr John Dee. Pursued by a shadowy organisation - and the ghosts of Ben's past - the trail leads them on a white-knuckle ride through Europe into the h...