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A magical collection of 17 original stories by an amazing list of contributors—including a Dune story by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson!

The completion of a new railroad line from Colorado to Texas is a dream come true for Smoke Jensen and the other ranchers of Big Rock. But this dream turns into their worst nightmare when the first herd they load onto the train is stolen by a vicious gang of kill-crazy rustlers. This is no ordinary train robbery. It’s an inferno of slaughter that includes the friendly rancher who volunteered to take Smoke’s place on the trip. Now Smoke is saddling up and riding out—to get the prairie rats who murdered his friend.

In this stranger than fiction story of the massive crime network that rigged the McDonald’s monopoly game for decades, unlock new, exclusive interviews and stories that couldn't make it into the HBO docuseries, McMillion$. Perfect for readers of Argo, The Wizard of Lies, and Enron: The...

A year after becoming sheriff, Quinn Colson is faced with the release of an infamous murderer from prison. Jamey Dixon comes back to Jericho preaching redemption, and some believe him; but for the victim’s family, the only thought is revenge. Another group who doesn’t believe him - the men in prison from Dixon’s last job, an armored car robbery. They’re sure he’s gone back to grab the hidden money, so they do the only thing they can: break out and head straight to Jericho themselves. Colson and his deputy, Lillie, know they’ve got their work cut out for them.

More than a year has passed since The Event, and the survivors who returned home are trying to stitch their lives back together. They think they are safe. But that is a lie. The Darkness has followed them, and this time It's amassing an army of allies. While key officials at Black Island fight to keep the secret, the survivors' lives converge again. Confused by terrifying visions and unpredictable rampages, they seek help wherever they can find it.

This is every omega’s dream…right? Waking up in a stranger's bed and discovering I’m married to one of the wealthiest men on the planet sounds like some crazy dream. Discovering that the man in question is also some holy hot alpha and we’re not only married but bonded, sounds like one of those dreams that turn pretty steamy–a dream many women would give their right arm to be living. But when the alpha whisks me back to his mansion in the city of Rockview, I also discover this alpha has a pack.

After the death of my uncle, I inherited his bookstore. It's in Marywill, a quaint little town that neighbors a women's college. The all-female students are my primary clientele, and they hold a secret. They're witches. Every last one of them. Turns out they want magical books for their lessons in the arcane. It's a good thing I'm a Bibliomancer, capable of reading people like books and finding exactly the tome they're seeking.

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After learning that the dead aren’t so dead, and that the bad guys might be a little more complicated than your average Saturday Morning cartoon, I’m traveling again. Back to Khartoum. Back to my Bibliomancy. I started this new phase of my life as a bookstore owner. I’m looking to end it as a family man, business magnate, and the most powerful bibliomancer in the world.

A fascinating insight into notable speeches that were never delivered, showing what could have been if history had gone down a different path. For almost every delivered speech, there exists an undelivered opposite. These "second speeches" provide alternative histories of what could have been if not for schedule changes, changes of heart, or momentous turns of events.

Ricard Hogarth is a respected professor at Durham specialising in the history of cartography, and in particular, early Turkish maps and the charts and portolans of Piri Reis. He has risen through the ranks from his working class roots to be an internationally renowned scholar. And yet, he is not really comfortable in the academic milieu he has landed in.

When a flash flood hits Marywill, the entire town is half-buried in water. My bookshop included. Thankfully, I managed to transport the occult tomes to a safe location at the local college for witches. The college, however, requires repairs that the witches don't have the money for.

When former first lady Gwen DeVere Queen is discovered to be hale and hearty - after falling victim to a successful (and very public) assassination - the jig is finally up. Arthur Penn, a.k.a. King Arthur, reveals his true identity, and the existence of the Holy Grail, to the world. Unable to cope with the sick and dying who desperately entreat him to heal them with the power of the Grail, Arthur accepts an offer from an entrepreneur with a new approach to health care: siphon water through the Grail, bottle it, and sell it as a curative.

After a Navy vessel receives an S.O.S. regarding a zombie attack on a Cargo Ship, a group of trained seamen find their way onboard. But neither expected to see the power the zombies possessed. They are faster and stronger than anything that the seamen had seen on the news reports aimed at Clifton Falls. And before they could react, a few of them are taken by the frightening monsters. It leaves a scary task for the remaining seamen after they enter the Cargo Ship, but can they rescue the survivors before the flesh-hungry dead rip them apart?

Maauro and Wrik face their greatest challenge. A new area of space is being devastated by an unknown force: colonies and ships are disappearing. They accept Shasti Rainhell’s commission to find out what has happened and search for a lost cruiser. The voyage reunites them with the deadly Olivia Croyzer of Confed Intelligence. No one can imagine what awaits them on the other end of the starjump.

With the magical ability to read people like books (and read books better than anyone else alive), I'm a bibliomancer. My powers make me the perfect bookstore owner in a college town filled with gorgeous witches. After an eventful opening to the college semester, business is booming in my bookstore. The students at the all-woman college are coming every day to purchase their magical book supplies.

Alex, Tilly, and Max never meant to step through an ancient portal. But with no choice, they're hurled into an otherworldly realm with alien skies and strange creatures. Days later, they're racing through underground catacombs beneath medieval Rome while a violent, dangerous and power-hungry giant of a man named Luigi Romano hunts them with ruthless ambition.

Maauro has played many roles in the fifty millennia of her existence, android war machine, friend and lover. Now she lies buried in grief from a role she never wanted – having outlived her friends and husband. But a seachange is coming in the most unlikely form, a fleeing teenage Thieves Guild trainee, Dassa Falkayan, granddaughter of Dusko. Maauro reawakens to engage in new adventures but bearing the legacy of all that has come before.

As a former sergeant in the Army, I’d like to think I’m very practical and level headed. But after I moved back to Louisiana and reconnected with my best friend and his wife, they somehow convinced me to join them in their new hobby: Ghost hunting. At first, I thought we would just have a little fun on the weekends, and I’d get to spend more time with my friends and the cute girls in the group, but then I witnessed things that have no logical explanation. People appearing and disappearing in the blink of an eye. Objects moving around in the old beach house I’m renting.

A BBC Radio 4 murder mystery set in India in 1709. 'Early Belt and the Present' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 6 April 2011. A young servant, Early Belt, accompanies a group of superstitious English merchants as they transport a vast wagon train of goods to Delhi. The wagon...