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Ashonn is a bad man who does good deeds for the wrong reasons. As a slayer, he travels to the edges of civilization killing monsters that the world of magic creates. Countless minions of darkness have fallen by his hand. Yet Ashonn is capable of mercy. Encountering a death priest by the name of Zair, he spares his life despite the knowledge that the priest is there to collect his soul if he's slain.

Dr. Rachel Bisette is drawn to the Four Corners area in the American Southwest to lead the search for a vaccine against a lethal pandemic. One elusive indigenous woman, Eva Yellow Horn, carries the gift of immunity. In her search for Eva, Rachel discovers power beyond science, the secret of an environmental disaster, and the truth of her parents' death.

Sheriff Barley made a career out of wrongfully convicting innocent people. But just as he's about to retire, his last victim comes back to haunt him and is determined to make things right. Karma it turns out - can be deadly.

Cordelia Grace watched Bernard Howard, the love of her young life, go off to fight for our country in WWII. And she has spent the last three years creating the Pine Cone quilt that will grace their marriage bed when he comes home. Each row of triangles signifies a layer in her life, sets of memories, hopes, dreams, and prayers for her future, enough spoken words to cover them forever.

After her mother dies from a heart attack, Sloane Templeton goes from Cyber Crimes Unit to bookstore owner before she can blink. She also "inherits" a half-batty store manager; a strange bunch of little old people from the neighborhood who meet at the store once a week but never read books, called the Granny Oakleys Book Club; and Aunt Verline, who fancies herself an Iron Chef when in reality you need a cast-iron stomach to partake of her culinary disasters.

When is a suicide not a suicide? You Can Leave, a novel by Laurie Calhoun, portrays a dark, disturbing, dystopic world where dissenters are permanently silenced whenever perceived of as threats by ruthless sociopaths occupying the highest corridors of power. The narrator relays her experiences at the hands of “the new mob”, a coordinated network of operatives enlisted from all walks of life on a “need to know” basis to carry out what appear to be trivial tasks for enticing sums of money. Lost in the labyrinth of an insane bureaucracy run amok, the heroine charts her path to survival using the only available means: her capacity to think. But will that be taken away from her as well?

History continues to get political as Zunvect dictates his second autobiographical volume, with questions asked in the Senate and nobody delaying their press conferences to hear the answers. Volume two follows Zunvect as he travels deserts, seas, forests, and cities in search of justice or at least a place where he can get something to eat other than ravioli. A Wizard-Lord has been accused of selling his entire collection of alien artifacts and another Wizard-Lord may have eaten his own apprentice.

He journeys to the farthest reaches of civilization to vanquish the monstrous creatures conjured by the world of magic. With each strike of his blade, countless minions of darkness fall before him. But even as he becomes a legend in his own right, he is never alone. The death priest Zair and his clever raven Aye Not follow in his wake, tasked with collecting his soul when his inevitable downfall comes, for the evil he has wrought.

She’s happy and settled and productive and content in her full life—a child, a career, an admirable marriage, deep friendships, happy parents, and a spouse she still loves. But when her husband urges her to address what the narrow labels of “husband” and “wife” force them to edit out of their lives, the very best kind of hell breaks loose. Using the author’s personal experiences as a jumping-off point, Crush is about the danger and liberation of chasing desire, the havoc it can wreak, and most of all the clear sense of self one finds when the storm passes.

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Liam Carter, an engineer working for an industrial and tech conglomerate, invents a fully automated factory capable of ending the age of human labor. Will his invention be the savior of mankind or the tool of its destruction?