Urban Myths

Hey, did you hear the one about the man who dropped a lit cigarette into the toilet with some gasoline-soaked rags? Of course you did, it happened to your gym teacher's cousin. Or was it your cousin's gym teacher?

Conryu returns home after an eventful first year at school, eager for a quiet summer vacation with his best friends. Unfortunately, it is not to be. Just days after he arrives home, the Le Fay Society broadcasts its demands and his life is at the top of the list. Conryu soon finds himself on the run from the police, and the only way to save himself is to hunt down those threatening the city himself.

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND HIS GOOD FRIENDS ARE DRAWN INTO AN INTERCONTINENTAL MYSTERY WHEN A SERIES OF BIZARRE DEATHS LEAD THEM TO EGYPT AND THE SOURCE OF THE MURDERS: A SOURCE AS ANCIENT AS TIME. AND A THIEF...ALADDIN, WHO HAS UNWITTNGLY UNLEASHED INTO OUR WORLD A TERRIBLE JINN, WHO WILL STOP AT NOTHING TO WIN BACK THE LAMP OF TERRIBLE POWERS ALADDIN HAS STOLEN. SHERLOCK HOLMES, WATSON AND THEIR COMPANIONS UNKNOWINGLY RESCUE ALADDIN, BUT IN DOING SO, THEY BECOME DRAWN INTO AN ANCIENT MYSTERY OF POWERFUL MAGICAL FORCES. MAGICAL POWER THAT WAS NOT MEANT FOR OUR WORLD TO HAVE. LONG FORGOTTEN AND ...

There is an attack on the Dark Dimension! Lacey and her friends discover giant black “birds” flying over the kingdom. They were the source of radiation that sickened the villagers and killed the Voice. Lacey and Alex cross the dark dimension once more with Matt's help. This time, they must find out who these invaders are and what they want. Will they be able to defeat this new enemy without the Voice's help? Will they make it in time to save the kingdom? This is the second series of the "Voice of the Mountain" Saga. The first series is "The Voice of the Dark World".

Attorney Merlyn Adams was a rising star on the Seattle legal scene until she saved a child from drowning in the sea. During the rescue, she is magically transformed and learns quickly that life as a mermaid is dangerous. And there’s something else—she is a different kind of creature, a throwback in the evolutionary scale—even the Australian mermaids want her dead, and they aren’t the only ones. The US Navy didn’t appreciate that incident with their nuclear submarine. But she didn’t mean to hurt anyone; it was all a mistake. Alone, disgraced, and unemployed, Merlyn has to flee. ...

Ancient witches. Duplicitous vampires. Blood feuds and curses don’t stand a chance against her… Zachary Degaud was twenty-three when he died. The problem was, he didn't stay that way. Present day, he's just another vampire with another unremarkable story... until he manages to get on the bad side of a two thousand year old witch. His only chance for survival is to summon the ancient and unpredictable vampire known as the Witch Hunter. When Aya is awoken from a century long slumber, she finds the witch she’s been hunting for thousands of years has resurfaced and marked a young, ...

Be careful who you upset. Tom, Julie, Marc, and Chris head out for a weekend escape to Cape Cod to do some holiday shopping and check out Marc’s new condo. Julie keeps everyone entertained by reading a book of local urban legends. The stories seem humorous until events begin to spiral out of control. As a blizzard approaches, Julie tries to convince everyone that they’re wrapped up in one of the stories from her book. Is the legend real? Or is everything happening to them just a coincidence? Will anyone make it out alive? A slow burn-thriller that builds tension until a terrifying climax.

Becoming Los Angeles, a new collection by the author of the acclaimed memoir Holy Land, blends history, memory, and critical analysis to illuminate how Angelenos have seen themselves and their city. Waldie’s particular concern is commonplace Los Angeles, whose rhythms of daily life are set against the gaudy backdrop of historical myth and Hollywood illusion. It’s through sacred ordinariness that Waldie experiences the city’s seasons.

Markas hears news about dead people with weird symbols on their bodies. He decides to investigate symbols at the library to see if he can find anything. Shortly after he starts having dreams about the people and the rituals done on them. In one of such dreams, Markas sees visions of his own dad… Markas learns more data about the killer from his visions. A police investigation is also underway. As soon as possible, Marcus wants to bring his father the artifact that he found. As the sword gets closer, he suspects the visions will last longer.This is the forth book of "The Demon King’s ...

What if magic helped Elizabeth I defeat her enemies? Josh Winter is a tech savvy modern day teenager. Molly Watson is a nineteenth-century mill worker with plenty of common sense. When they travel back in time to Tudor England, they face an apparently insurmountable challenge: theft of a magic object from Queen Elizabeth 1. But there are unexpected allies on the streets of London – Balthazar, a Fae cat with attitude, and Lady Catherine, an inconvenient girl who wants the freedom of a boy. Yet the sixteenth century is dangerous and bloody. As the friends scheme their way into Elizabeth’s...

A plague of immortality. An encounter with an urban legend. A drive that never ends. In The Creeps, you'll experience these frights and more! Erik Handy, the author of The Mummy Kills The Brides and Macabre, brings you 37 stories that continue the genre-bending short fiction legacies of H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King.

Book one of this fascinating blood-sucking, claw-gripping, Vampire + human-fated mate series about invisible Vampires. Books should be read in order but each couple gets their hea at the end of each book. ELFINA Apart from hearing her missing, presumed dead sister singing and also in hiding from her very own deranged date-turned-stalker, Elfina`s life is quite normal. Days spent working at her new tattoo shop in Norwich, which she brought with her shady parent's inheritance. Nights spent bitching with friends in or out about her disastrous dates, or curled up with her annoying but lovable ...

They've shared our planet with us since the dawn of History, but they want us out. To reclaim lordship over the Earth, they mean to steer us into self-annihilation. As the secret War of the Shadows unravels under our very noses, we who are mere flesh and blood cannot fathom the real causes behind our many wars and the economic powers that would senselessly lead the world into an environmental apocalypse. Nevertheless, we’re here, and we have our part to play in this multi-millennial conflict that began before recorded History. Understand me when I say that every time you’ve heard of ...

Trapped in the clutches of a Zombie apocalypse, the City of Chicago, the murder capital of the U.S., unleashes the ultimate weapon, capitalism, by paying $1,000 for every Re-Killed Zombie brought to city hall, ushering in "The Great Zombie Gold Rush". Zombies never have a chance in a world where people realize 75 Zombies pays off their student loans, 40 Zombies buys them a Tesla, 5 Zombies wipes out their Visa debt...

Real life mermaids don’t live in a fairy tale. They are terrified young women, scared to death of being found out. They learn from harsh experience that people who are different get treated like prey. To survive, mermaids have to grow up tough, or die. SOMETIMES, EVEN WHEN YOU LAY LOW, TROUBLE COMES LOOKING When a government agent shows up at her door, Bobbi’s claws come out. Once again, she is forced to prove that a mermaid can kill. The problem is there are other creatures in the sea who are just as deadly. IF YOU CAN’T STAY OUT OF SIGHT, MAYBE A BIG SPLASH IS BETTER In a flash of ...

Biology major Emma Jean believes there is no such thing as magic. Even after being magically transformed into a mermaid, she insists that the change is the result of science and that it simply needs more study. But when she discovers a Mermaid’s Kiss can heal, even the Australian mermaids turn on her. That’s when she finds out there is another secret. One that is even more deadly and much more personal. Dragons do exist, and Emma Jean is the reason they've come back. ENJOY THE ENTIRE DEEP MERMAID SAGA Three standalone novels in the Aussie mermaid universe. Each of these novels ...

Markas hear news about dead people with weird symbols on their bodies. He decides to investigate symbols at the library to see if he can find anything. Shortly after he starts having dreams about the people and the rituals done to them. In one of such dreams Markas seeing visions of his own dad…

Mercy Reynolds is a reporter in the San Francisco Bay area, but she's also more - and less - than human. Half woman, half air dragon, she’s a "draman" - unable to shift shape but still able to unleash fiery energy. Now something will put her powers to the test. Mercy's friend Rainey has enlisted her help to solve her sister's murder. Then a horrible accident claims Rainey's life, leaving Mercy only five days to find the killer: If Mercy fails, according to dragon law, Rainey's soul will be doomed to roam the earth for eternity.

Samuel Light and Jimbo are so different from each other in many ways, But they have formed a lifelong bond that few brothers do. On a whim the two decide to solve the puzzle of the Shasta Mountain, rumored to have secret entrances, One of which opens to a path inside our planet. What starts off as a whim, a fancy, becomes yet another Do or die adventure that if they don’t get it together And fast…they could die a horrible death…. In a world where nature and fantasy have run wild! In this, the concluding book of the trilogy, the two Men are finally facing a predator worse than any ...

A triumph of the imagination, The Raven Tower is the first fantasy novel by Ann Leckie, New York Times best-selling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.