Monster Adventure

An excellent read for all ages! Young and old alike love this book. However, the author, John Vandeventer wrote this book directed toward young adults, particularly those above age 13. It is full of action and adventure while teenagers explore their world around them and the shocking discoveries they make! Things seemed to have gone from bad to worse for twelve-year-old Finn Harper, having just moved from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Talihina, Oklahoma, a small town where everyone knows everyone. Finn had found little to like about his new hometown. Making friends was never easy for him. This had ...

Sherwood Forest is dying, strangled by a darkness far worse than greedy sheriffs. Lord Malakor, the Necromancer King, rules from the jagged horror of Castle Necrottingham, his shadow bleeding across the land. Sunlight falters, fear is the only currency, and the dead do not rest easy. Malakor demands more than taxes; he demands the Bone Tithe, ripping the recently deceased from their graves for his unholy armies. Robin Hood, no longer just an outlaw fighting for the poor, finds himself locked in a desperate struggle against unnatural horrors: skeletal warriors animated by cold magic, soul-...

Welcome to Port Fortune, a town full of secrets. In this quirky, often humorous paranormal adventure, Senta Stoll has abandoned her conventional life as a middle school teacher for a fresh start in the charming yet peculiar town of Port Fortune, Washington. Senta must navigate a budding romance with a Bigfoot hunter while unraveling dark mysteries lurking within the enigmatic Acme Building --- A coming-of-age story for a “woman of a certain age.” “A very interesting and engaging book. I loved the interplay between the various characters. The gift of painting a picture with words is a ...

Contains books 1 and 2 of Master of Monsters: Lord of Flesh and Baron of Hearts. The Isles are a brutal, nasty place and the capital city, Ansiri, is no exception. Its nobility is rife with infighting, nonhuman races are cruelly enslaved, and violence is the primary currency. It's those very things that Baron Leo VanOrden plans to exploit.

Welcome to the office dungeon. Promotions? Power-ups. HR? Bloodthirsty monsters. Failure? A one-way ticket to the paper shredder. Doug Kinney hated his life before the dungeon cracked open under his cubicle. Now? He’s dodging killer copiers, fighting HR golems, and grinding XP in an office hell where survival comes with a stapler — glowing, oversized, and very, very stabby. With his foul-mouthed cyber-raccoon sidekick and a survival instinct fueled by coffee, spite, and pure middle-manager rage, Doug’s ready to smash his way up the corporate ladder — one bloody memo at a time. If ...

In the deepest jungles of Sumatra, something ancient still walks. When Lux Branson receives a cryptic message from a missing anthropologist, she travels to Indonesia in search of the Wildman—a creature whispered about in local legend and feared by those who’ve encountered it. Known as Orang Pendek, the beast is said to be small, fast, and fiercely territorial. But what begins as a rescue mission quickly turns into a survival story. The jungle holds more than one secret, and Lux isn’t the only one seeking the truth. As competing teams close in and the body count rises, Lux must stay ...

Mistakes have been made, boundaries have been breached, and the dangerous results of a top-secret experiment are no longer contained. Conrad Bowen and his team have greedily welcomed the lab-manufactured dinosaurs to Dionysus Island, where high-grade security systems have been designed to keep the dinosaurs safely inside. The fences have been constructed to withstand ferocious impact and they should prevent any chance of an outbreak. Meanwhile, Dolly and The Exigency are poised to take a joyride to the island, where they plan to carry out their scheme to use the stolen dinosaurs as a ...

She’s cursed by beauty. Marked by the gods. And now, she’s breaking into hell to save the only person who ever saw her for who she really is. Penelope Callas is more than just a supermodel in a red carpet world—she’s the immortal daughter of Aphrodite, trapped in a glamorous prison by a divine curse. To the world, she’s flawless. To herself, she’s invisible. But when tragedy strikes and her mortal sister dies in a mysterious fire, Pen discovers that her sister’s soul has been stolen—taken by the god of war, Ares, and imprisoned in the deepest part of the Underworld. Defying ...

Ashley Morgan has been many things: a trainee spy for the House, a psychic superhero, a private detective, and a bounty hunter. However, she's lost all of those jobs because it turns out none of them are very easy in a city run by vampires. Now having her wounded sister recovering in her apartment, Ashley has to figure out who her latest enemies are. What she finds out are they may be closer to home than she ever imagined and targeting her old classmates at spy school for sale at an undead slave market.

Justin Trimble's fantasies come to life when a couple of sexy, middle-aged professors give his virtual world a try and are transformed both in-game and out. As an AI researcher, Justin Trimble already has access to some of the most advanced technology on the planet. On his nights and weekends, he explores the capabilities of the virtual systems to invent an immersive game. To make the game more appealing, he modifies the immersion rigs to stimulate pleasure as reward for achievements.

Rule #7 - Do not throw coins into the fountain at Umbra Park. The devil’s in the details, and he plans to explore every hot inch of hers… ~*~ Sweet and innocent good girl Desi Miller always aims to please. Even when her sister constantly ditches her to flirt with jerkface guys, her mom and dad ask her to take on extra shifts at the family burger grill, and last but not least… Well, she’s now babysitter for the day to a precocious four-year-old little angel, which should be the least of her problems. Spoilers: It’s not. When the little girl accidentally tosses a coin into the ...

If there's one thing Verity will consistently do, it's spontaneously make terrible decisions. Sometimes they work out well—so far, smuggling her rescue cat into the shadow realm has been a great success—but more often than not, she ends up with a bigger mess to clean up than she started with.

The winding streets and narrow alleys of Karolene hide many secrets, and Hitomi is one of them. Orphaned at a young age, Hitomi has learned to hide her magical aptitude and who her parents really were. Most of all, she must conceal her role in the Shadow League, an underground movement working to undermine the powerful and corrupt Arch Mage Wilhelm Blackflame.

Andrew was nearly a Priest, before the man calling himself Warrior flashed into his life. Now he was called Hunter. He didn’t know if Hunter was his name or his calling. Drakon, the warrior, introduced him to a world filled with monsters and demons never mentioned in the hard lines of the Word. Now, he was tasked with hunting down the creatures and working with the warrior to kill them and destroy their covens. As he hunts, he questions the righteousness of his actions. "Thou shalt not kill", one of the big ten. How many times will he break the commandment? Each life he takes, each ...

Percy Jackson has a lot on his plate. A powerful goddess has gone missing. The Greek gods are on the brink of war with the Titans. And there's the minor threat of a mystery beast that could destroy Mount Olympus forever. This time, Percy's going to need help and he's found two powerful demigods for the job. . . There's just the small problem of the prophecy. The one that has predicted not all of them will survive.

Pirates, mermaids, monsters, oh my! The depths of the ocean hold many untold secrets. Some are beautiful tales of mermaids who ride seahorses, and others are massive monsters bent on destroying every ship crossing its path. Featuring sixteen stories by the following authors: Stephen A. Roddewig, Robin Kelly, Robin Brown, Ed Teja, Paul Lonardo, Arlo Z. Graves, Christopher Pate, Kelly Barker, Sean E. Britten, Mae Thorn, J. VanZile, Laura Q. Jimenez, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Jared Thomason, and J.E. Feldman.

When the world was crumbling, seventeen-year-old Clara fought back. She escaped her abusive home and joined Team Seven, a monster fighting squad of runaways and misfits formed to combat the scrabs terrorizing the planet. And after nearly dying in Paris, Clara and Team Seven discovered the sinister truth behind the scrab invasion. Scrabs aren't just mindless monsters set on destruction. They're being trained and weaponized by MDG, a private security firm hired by the government.

From best-selling authors Maggie Stiefvater and Jackson Pearce comes the third installment in a series bursting with magical creatures and whimsical adventures. Pip and Tomas have dealt with magical creatures that burst into flames and runaway unicorns. Now they are headed with Tomas's family to Port Candor, a seaside showplace full of magical sea creatures. Soon they are surrounded by Slimekrakens and Tubafish and Spinnerseals and other dazzlers of the deep. And they are involved in a big mystery that involves a sea monster that might not be staying in its tank.

Mary Pope Osborne retells thrilling stories from Homer's Odyssey, one of the greatest epics of all time.

After escaping her kidnappers and destroying the black market where she was held captive, all Nita wants is to find a way to live her life without looking over her shoulder. But with a video of her ability to self-heal all over the dark web, Nita knows she's still a prime target on the black market. There's only one way to keep herself safe. Nita must make herself so feared that no one would ever dare come after her again. And the best way to start building her reputation? Take her revenge on Fabricio, the boy who sold Nita to her kidnappers.