Metaphysical Mysteries

Big bugs, cloned cats, and feral star-children play leading roles in the seven stories that make up Fast’s unconventional and thought-provoking collection. The Edge of Tomorrow is a significant foray into science fiction by one of the 20th century’s most prolific novelists. In looking beyond our universe, Fast reveals much about the America of his time - where the Cold War and a nascent civil rights movement stoked unconscious fears and desires.

Michael James Lewis, a 44-year-old geophysicist, lives a life most would envy. Handsome, well-paid, and well-traveled, what could be the problem? First, he can't tell anyone about his psychic ability. He can't admit that he can see horrifying visions of disturbing future disasters through a kaleidoscope.

Goldilocks' latest case takes her to Big Sky Country, where war looms large atop the Crown of the Continent, and more than one fate may be decided. Goldilocks is no stranger to adversity. In fact, she’s made a career off of overcoming long odds. She’s faced Bloodhoofs, renegade shamans, and even survived betrayal from within her own agency. None of that, however, has prepared her for her most hated enemy to date: desk duty. Grounded from the forests after the events of the previous year, she’s convinced her career has hit rock bottom, but that all changes when a body is discovered ...

Ethan Pike hates wizards. By his sworn oath and the letter of the law, he hunts and prosecutes them with lethal efficiency. But, when a hot tip leads to a secret ritual, the unthinkable happens. Ethan discovers his sister using magic. Caught between his family and his country, Ethan fights to clear his sister’s name. After discovering his squad dead, he finds himself facing accusations of murder and treason. With his sister now missing and his life in shambles, Ethan runs. In ten short days, the moon will rise red and destroy everything Ethan holds dear. With nowhere to turn, he must ...

I'm Natasha. Friends call me Tash. The world calls me loser. No one knows I possess a deadly magic. It was supposed to be a simple surveillance job, just like the zillion others I had run for my tough-guy benefactor, Tobias. An hour into it, I'm sitting with a dead body after barely surviving a warlock's rampage. I thought things couldn't get any worse, but what did I know? Running point for Tobias or being witness to a murder was the least of my worries. Now I've been blackmailed into working with sexy paranormal cop Ian, and I must help him find what the warlock is up to before he ...

Goldilocks' latest case takes her to the golden west, where wildfires rages across the land, and a murderer stalks his prey under an ash-covered sky. Goldilocks has finally found her footing. As the war with the Cold Ones grinds to a halt, she’s settling into her role beneath her new commander and longtime friend, Francine Brewster. Peace can’t last though, and no sooner does she begin to relax than the call for aid goes out. California is burning. As the department struggles to contain the inferno, Goldilocks is assigned lead on the murder investigation of eight Smokejumpers, their ...

On the day of her mother's funeral, 23-year-old Grace Maxwell discovered the man who raised her was not her biological father. Instead, he was a best-selling self-help author and a world famous "Guru to the Stars." Known as Mr. MAJIC, for the miraculous impact his books and seminars had on millions of people, he had inexplicitly vanished around the time Grace's mother became pregnant with her. For over 20 years, the mystery of Mr. MAJIC’s sudden and unexpected disappearance, and the speculation of what might have become of him, was the stuff of Urban Legend.

One secret could destroy a family. One lie could save them. The brilliant prequel to The Boy Who Saw, a gripping thriller from Sunday Times best seller Simon Toyne, featuring the enigmatic Solomon Creed. Solomon Creed is an outsider with an unknown past, travelling through a remote part of Texas. He doesn’t look for trouble - but trouble finds him. At a roadside diner, he runs into a worn-down family whose ancestral land and home is about to be auctioned. But when Solomon suspects it’s worth a lot more than they think, he decides to take things into his own hands.

After witnessing a shooting at a convenience store, forensic artist Annie Kingston must draw a composite of the suspect. But before she can begin, she hears that Chelsea Adams wants to meet with her - now. Chelsea Adams - the woman who made national headlines with her visions of murder. And this vision is by far the most chilling. Chelsea and Annie soon find themselves snared in a terrifying battle against time, greed, and a deadly opponent.

Krygelski writes a compelling and startling story centered on the mysterious arrival of a man who claims to be the Creator. Clearly not a mortal, Elohim - as the stranger prefers to be known - astounds those he meets with unexplainable miracles and reality-altering answers. All of this is but a prelude to his announcement that he has come to do something...something which will affect every person on Earth...something which will occur in five days.

David, a college student, takes a summer job at a run-down family resort in a dying English resort town. This is against the wishes of his family because it was at this resort where David's biological father disappeared fifteen years earlier. But something undeniable has called David there. The characters have a suspicious edge to them.

With 15 color illustrations to help you visualize. In "The Conscious Cosmos: Unveiling the Mysteries of Panpsychism," embark on a transformative journey that challenges everything you thought you knew about consciousness. This revolutionary book takes you beyond the confines of conventional science and philosophy, introducing you to the groundbreaking idea that consciousness is not merely a human trait but a fundamental aspect of the universe itself. Dive deep into the captivating world of panpsychism, where every atom, every molecule, and every living being pulsates with a form of ...

What if your past came back to haunt you and stalked the present until it became your worst nightmare? J.J. Hughes explores the lengths to which we'll go to keep the past from overshadowing the present and destroying the future.

Addy Blackstone is the proud owner of a 1920's-themed bookshop and is borderline obsessive about the writers and American Ex-Pats who added to the rich artistic culture of Paris that time. When she falls through time and discovers that she is now an unlikely member of the society that she's only been able to admire from afar, she's certain it's only a dream. She encounters the remarkable Zelda Fitzgerald who is searching for a lost friend and Addy is pulled into a mystery that her unique perspective on this time period empowers her to solve. BOOK ONE in The Lost Generation Cozy Mystery ...

Egypt holds a vast amount of hidden treasures, and two prominent archeologists, Dr. Andrew Rogers and Dr. Kathleen Mcgregor have been successful in uncovering many of them. Now their former students are putting into action their skills. But, when compared to Dr. Rogers, they are still novices and prone to making mistakes. Dr. Julie Freeman leads an expedition of seven on a dangerous, mysterious journey in hopes of finding King Solomon's treasures. Believing those items have been purchased by the ancient Pharaoh of Egypt in hopes of bringing wealth and good fortune to his own empire, Julie ...

A city of shadows. A grimoire of secrets. And a power that could be her salvation—or her doom. After the mysterious death of her friend Selene, librarian Vesper Ainsley finds herself bound to a powerful grimoire that should never have been within her grasp. This book draws her into Nightreach—a shadow city of dangerous magic and hidden agendas, where every step reveals more secrets about Selene's fate and the forces now hunting Vesper. Facing ruthless magical factions, Vesper is thrust into the dark world of the Luminous Concordat, a secretive council of powerful witches who challenge ...

In Sleepers 2, Alex is left behind to take over and he soon discovers nothing is as it seems, including the "New Jerusalem". The origin of the virus comes to light and Alex and the group fight to find salvation in a dark dangerous world. A world that is far from ending. A world that thrives but not with human life. The Sleepers now mass and more than that, they have awakened into their next deadly phase.

In the year 1960, private eye John Nyquist arrives in Delirium, a city of a million borders, to pursue his strangest case yet: tracking down Oberon, the stolen, sentient image of faded film star Vince Craven. As Nyquist tracks Oberon through a series of ever-stranger and more surreal borders, he hears tantalising stories of the Yeald, a First Wall hidden at Delirium's heart. But to get the help he needs to find it, he'll have to journey into the fractured minds of the city's residents, and even into his own.

Neil Double is a 'conference surrogate', hired by his clients to attend industry conferences so that they don't have to. It's a life of budget travel, cheap suits, and out-of-town exhibition centers. But his latest job, at a conference of conference organizers, will radically transform him and everything he believes as it unexpectedly draws him into a bizarre and speculative mystery. In a brand-new Way Inn - a global chain of identikit mid-budget motels - he meets a woman he has seen before in strange and unsettling circumstances.

When Isaiah Choi, a holistic healer on the Big Island of Hawai’i, becomes afflicted with a mysterious illness, he suspects he may be suffering under the influence of malevolent, inter-dimensional beings.