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The Nurse Mare's Tale is in a way the prequel to Dinky: The Nurse Mare's Foal, as it tells the story of Dinky's mother. This lovely story is told from the viewpoint of two aging nurse mares about to give birth, and the trials they go through. It tells us of Sadie and her friend Nellie and is accompanied with charming dialogue (both speaking and thinking). The plight of these animals is described in empathetic detail.

Isabel Simpson is living the good life. She has a big house in the old-money district, a luxury sedan, and a rich husband, the former best friend of her cheating ex-fiancé, Nicholas Maximus. Everything in her life is easy and makes perfect sense, until she receives a call about an unusual inheritance that sends her into a tailspin.

For 17 years, Ezra Newport and his parents were habitual immigrants, traveling from their Ottoman Empire home across 20th-century Europe. As the Newports migrate to Belfast, Ireland, Ezra wants nothing more to settle into a consistent life and lay the foundation of his architectural dreams. But after a strange, mechanical bounty hunter murders his mother and prompts the disappearance of his father, Ezra discovers that his parents had actually been on the run. Now, their enemies are targeting him, and they won’t stop until he is dead.

In book one of the e-Ternity series, Brian's life gets turned upside down when he encounters three strange women on three consecutive days, and a mysterious app that appears on his phone, but can't be opened.

Prepare to scream forever! Howie Payne and Nick Enlow work the midnight shift at Big Carl’s Video Transfer and Media Services. An odd AVI clip begins to appear in their public drive on a nightly basis. At first Howie and Nick think it’s a serialized art house horror film someone on the day shift is sending them in secret. As the clips progress, however, the now obsessed duo discover something deeper and darker in the videos. Horror author Terry M. West would like to introduce you to the Green Room and its primary occupant, The Screamer.

Sometimes the most ordinary people are faced with extraordinary circumstances and discover an inner greatness they didn’t know they had. When strange things start occurring around him, Brian knows everything is about to be turned upside down all over again. Soon he meets Destiny and Sage, two homeless people living on the streets of Philadelphia who are not what they seem to be. Brian learns that an updated version of the spiritual app called e-Ternity is destroying humanity’s higher potentials. To save the soul of the world, Brain must join forces with Destiny and Sage.

Might and magic. Legendary beasts and lost civilizations. Epic journeys and bloody brawls. Necromancers and dragon riders. Ancient evils and new saviors. Chronicles of Maradoum: Volume 2 is set in the same world as the epic fantasy Convent Series, beginning with A Dead Wizard’s Dream.

Clock the Chaos Mage. A stranger out of time, hidden in the folds of shadow. He is the guardian of Coney Island's supernatural borderlands, and the only thing standing between our reality and the demons that thirst to destroy it. Clock's Watch. An anthology of heroic dark fantasy and terror.

Raz's misadventures find him creating a film with the biggest misfits and rebels of the school, navigating his first kiss, and on a trip to Hollywood itself. During his journey he finds himself making new friends, facing his enemies, and even falling in love. But how far will Raz go to fit in? To shoot his shot at stardom, Raz will have to decide between being himself, or putting on a mask.

Detective Adam Potter can’t be happier having Patrick move in with him. But there is a downside. Adam had asked his aristocrat to unpack his bags and boxes, and Patrick is accustomed to having servants do everything for him. Patrick Valdez is truly on cloud nine when Adam asked him to move in with him. But he is finding the transition into Adam’s world taxing. He misses having other people at his beck and call when he needs something done.

Hair and Blood Machine is a noir, pulp thriller. It is a romance from the heart of hell. Johnny Brendan is a small town youth recovering from the loss of his parents. After suffering a psychotic breakdown, Johnny tries to rebuild his life and sanity. He goes to a carnival where he meets Cleadosia, The Gorilla Girl. Clea is a beautiful but hard and cold carnie with her own secrets. Clea sees the dark potential in Johnny, and she helps him unleash his violent inner demons on the town. This audio presentation features the polished and expanded version of the tale.

Devin Murphy wants to leave his violent past with Piper Monroe and find a happier, calmer life; he can only accomplish this by being a key witness in a court case against the man. When two undercover officers try to take him to a safe house before the trial, Devin finds both men dead in a restaurant’s restroom and runs for his life. Molly Basset, owner of adult shop The Pleasure Hole, finds Devin on a park bench, crying. She gives him a job and helps him start a new life.

Detectives A.J. Chance and Artie Cutter get assigned to investigate a murder in a familiar part of town. The detectives discover the victim had a connection to an old case they thought was closed, involving Patrick Valdez's and A.J.'s past relationships with Detective Adam Potter. A killer is out hunting people down who were involved with Patrick’s deceased abusive ex, and Patrick’s on the killer’s radar. Adam has to keep Patrick safe and watch his own back as the killer gets closer.

Chelsea's having a bad day. Her mom blew up (long story), her husband left her for another man (long story), she lost her job and apartment (another long story), and the long and short of it is - she is out of options. But her estranged dead mother left her a way out, a way out of all of it. All she has to do is do the one thing she refuses to do: take over the family business. What is the family business? Sex, sex, and more sex. So what's the big deal? Chelsea doesn't like sex. Or people. Or things. Or gooey things. And she trusts them even less.

Private investigator Leah Ryan is on a much-needed vacation. A week in Bass Bay, Maine. Nothing but sun, sand, and relaxation. No missing people. No murder. No stress. But an hour into her vacation, Leah almost swims into a dead girl. Shark bites on the victim indicate a horrific shark attack, but closer inspection of the remains suggest that sharks aren't the only predators in Bass Bay.

Out of the Light of Darkness is a compelling collection of short stories that deal with ephemeral moments, unforgettable relationships, and death. The longest story, a novella, tells the tale of a teen trying to understand and find the good in his father. Listeners will be pulled into the story as they see Matty struggle to see light in a man who is shrouded by darkness.

No Apologies is the inappropriate joke at dinner, the drunk uncle in the room shouting obscenities, and the ugly truth no one talks about in polite company. Part poetry, part fiction, part memoir, and all honesty, No Apologies is a compelling slice of human experience in all of its crass, hopeful, sincere, and tender glory. And it says it...with no apologies.

What would you do if you woke up one day and realized you were someone else? This is exactly what happens to Eve Spencer. Memories, like shards of glass, cut through her mind and begin to dismantle everything she knows to be real. As she fights to find out who she really is, her discovery threatens everything and everyone around her, including her family. With the help of a cantankerous attorney, she races to reveal who she is before it's too late.

The final chapter of The Director series begins with Nick Hudson barely maintaining his sanity. (What else is new?) Thinking his own team, The Asgarda, may have been compromised by The Director, Nick decides the only chance he has to remove his enemy is to do the unexpected.

Camp Cachibache has fallen. The Director has been disposed of by Nick Hudson and a team of Ukraine mercenaries known as the Asgarda. For the moment all is well, until a series of events half way around the world draw the team back into a desperate search for their interpreters kidnapped older sister Svetlana.