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May 1962. In the middle of San Francisco Bay looms Alcatraz, home to America's most infamous prisoners. Also home to Chip Carter and his dad, who works at the high security prison. Their neighbors are former mobsters, gangsters, and murderers, but Chip finds it to be a pretty boring place to live. After all, the inmates can't hurt him—they're locked up in an impenetrable fortress, surrounded by unforgiving waters. Or are they?

For Kale Goodwin it’s love at first sight when he sees Annie working at the county fair. Darkly beautiful, she’s unlike anyone he’s ever met. There’s an electricity to her-something dangerous and magnetic. Their love is fast and passionate. Kale is quickly swept away.

Elliott Harkness is finally living the superhero life. But after a not-so-heroic encounter with a time-traveling villain, Elliott wakes up one morning to discover that everyone he knows no longer exists—and he might be next! The time-trotting criminal has traveled into the past and changed everything. To fix it, Elliott must follow him. But if anyone in the past discovers his true identity, it could set off a chain reaction that erases Elliott from ever existing.

Harley "Ace" Winters is a professional golfer who has fallen on hard times. He hasn’t won a tournament in years, and a formerly trivial hobby has turned into a dangerous addiction that threatens to bring him to ruin.

Elliott Harkness is finally legit. He’s learned the superhero ropes and even saved the world a few times. But when he makes a major mistake during a do-or-die mission, his confidence is shattered and he decides to hang up his tights for good. Unfortunately, Elliott will need to put his early retirement plans on hold. Ravager, the Annihilator of Worlds, is heading for Earth! To stop it, Elliott needs the Orb of Oblivion.

Mason Lot's secluded sanctuary has been a haven for him and his group. They have survived the first two waves of the Great Tribulation, but the final assault, known as the Seven Bowl of God’s Wrath will bring about a level of death and destruction never before seen by mankind. Festering sores will break out on the bodies of unbelievers, water will turn to blood, and the planet will be scorched by the heat of the sun and plunged into utter darkness, heralding the end of days.

The US intelligence community assesses Dr. Oleg Karpinsky and his protectors are in mortal danger. The president orders the Pentagon to retrieve them before the Russians can attack. There’s only one problem. The most powerful nation in human history has been rendered near impotent by a vicious Arctic storm.

Most people would give anything to have a chance to relive their youth. But not Randall Turner. Randall happened to be reliving his youth every single day, trapped in a never-ending, Groundhog Day-style time loop. At least, that's what he told his classmate, Jack Robertson. Randall bumped into Jack one fateful night, seemingly by happenstance, then vanished without a trace.

Clinging to life underground after a cataclysmic nuclear war, the remains of the human race are desperate for a way to change the past. Harnessing the power of an artificial wormhole, their only hope to avert global annihilation is to travel back in time and alter the discovery of nuclear fission. Humanity's future rests on the unlikely shoulders of Proteus. Born with a unique genetic mutation, scientists discover that he is the only one capable of surviving the ravages of time-travel. Proteus is sent backward to early 20th-century London...but Time doesn't want the past to change.

Elliott Harkness still has lots to learn. After all, not everyone loves superheroes. And when Elliott accidentally damages public property while stopping a pair of villains, he’s labeled a menace to society! But before Elliott can defend himself on television, he’s arrested by an alien police force that believes he’s responsible for the escape of the dreaded Krule the Conqueror!

Elliott Harkness is always ready to answer the call of justice. But when the government outlaws all Metas, his entire family is captured and Elliott is their only hope! But as Elliott fights to get the law reversed, he uncovers a sinister secret. The shape-shifting Skelton have infiltrated the highest ranks of government—and they’re about to take over the world! But the danger doesn’t end there. Krule the Conqueror has captured the Skelton Homeworld, and Earth is his next target!

A mystery. In this clean time-travel whodunit, a middle-aged coffee-shop owner always wondered what his life would have been like if he had stayed in town the day his college fiancée disappeared, the victim of an unsolved crime.

Ghoul War veteran Zane Vrexon is struggling to make ends meet as a private detective when he gets a cryptic note from an old friend, Dennis, who says his wife is in danger. Then Dennis turns up dead in his own potion shop and his widow, Vana, is the main suspect.

1862 was the year that the US Civil War underwent a major ramping up. People on both sides of the fight were confused, angry, and hesitant. Most believed the 'war' would have already been over. Very few people realized to what extent the citizenry was being manipulated to participate in the country's most dividing event in its history. In Longshot in Missouri, we meet Rob Finn - an Irish immigrant farmer living in Wisconsin - and follow him through his introduction to the grueling realities of war within a nation.

Elliott Harkness finally has powers and is a full-fledged member of the Freedom Force, the greatest superhero team on Earth. He should be over the moon, but he quickly discovers that having powers doesn't mean you can control them. So, after another botched mission, he finds himself grounded.

Continue the journey as Daniel Fox, a simple IT guy, gets pulled into the dark underworld of Earth's magical secrets when an ancient artifact injects him with the original vampire's blood and forces him to survive at all costs. Given abilities and gifts beyond those of modern vampires, he must hide his capabilities if he wants to survive. Vampires will want to kill him for the powerful blood in his veins. Worse, the Mages would consider his abilities "blood magic," the greatest crime of all, the punishment for which would leave him begging for a quick death.

The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it's because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires. A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the Book Trade is a journey between the shelves—and then behind the counter, into the overstuffed basement, and up the spine-stacked attic stairs of your favorite neighborhood bookshop.

Former Hanover County Sheriff Buck Lawson leaves the mountains of North Carolina to take a job as the police chief of the small South Georgia town of Mercy, and soon finds himself in over his head. For one thing, his predecessor has been murdered...Buck has inherited an unsolved homicide, a house that may well be haunted, and a police department that is almost certainly corrupt. It falls to Buck to free an innocent man and bring the former police chief’s killer to justice while wading through the quagmire of incompetence and dishonesty that permeates his office.

After the brutal murder of his family, Gart’s voyage continues as he searches for the weapon that was promised him by the Mage Brunar. Once a peaceful farmer who only wanted to be left alone, Gart must now become something more.

There's never enough time to really enjoy life, not when you're Russian Weapons Engineer Vlad Nardoir. Vlad has done a number of things in his short time in Eldgard. He's helped capture an Imperial fortress, defeated a corrupted demigod, and created a Crafter's guild where all are welcome. But Vlad's greatest challenge is yet to come. With a timer counting down until the Vault of Souls changes locations, leaving him completely without a lead for its resting place, Vlad will need to battle against time, a powerful hidden evil, and his own internal darkness to destroy the vault in time.