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Set in 1991 against the prelude to war in Croatia, Apok is a dystopian view of an imperfect world on the brink, as seen through the eyes of the equally imperfect hero sent to save it. For he is the ultimate psychopath, a formidable, soon-to-be-invincible, death machine, an anomaly which science thought impossible yet which religion had always prophesied. Who said the next messiah would be from heaven and that the second coming hasn't already happened?...
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Feel The Pull. Answer The Call.
Anya, a young woman who keeps to the shadows, is drawn out into the light and learns the hard way that magic can never really die. Her days of thieving turns into a fight for survival.
James, an older man with a bad leg, passes the time tending to the sick and wounded. Some people see him as a saint, others whisper about darker secrets he holds.
Runa is haunted by her past with Anya. One choice Runa made drove them...
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Stories are their trials. Poetry is their woes.
They cry to our world, begging for their voices to be heard.
What can save them from their heinous fate?
These tales of harrowing sorrows are words of the tribulations thrusted upon them by cruel creatures of darkness. The wickedly fiendish entities haunting them, dragging them into an endless wretched despair. Monsters fester and boil as they find new ways to corrupt one's spirits, filling doubts...
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The first blow has fallen in the war against the Notandi. As the fragile peace in the Kingdom of Meridius begins to fracture, the demons' counterattack could shatter it.
Yecats Ratiug, also known as the Creator's Vassal, has committed his life to ridding his homeland of the demon scourge. One man alone is not enough in such a crusade, and he finds assistance from an unlikely ally – a group that has been considered a myth for generations.
To the...
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Hiro Sheuri lives a semi-comfortable life in the middle of a forest inhabited by territorial Jinns, except for the minor annoyance of being possessed by a Vampire Spirit. He has an easy job, cleaning up after the creatures of the Secret World run riot in human cities. He must hide the existence of demons but they have started obliterating whole cities. His life becomes unwelcomingly interesting when he is attacked on what was supposed to be a straightforward...
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Finding true love, mastering angelic genes, enjoying vampire life - pure bliss. Or so Jade thought until vampire high council member Lobelia Glasston upturns Jade and Shane's happy ending, sending it crashing down around them. Shane is forbidden by vampire law to love Jade. Lobelia knows Jade is different, a supernatural weapon; however, she is missing a few crucial details, like the fact that she is a vampire-angel hybrid. Will she break them down...
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Life; an endless mingling and mixing of light and darkness.
A mystery to most, but we demons know all of it. Every world, every rule, every wonder of the worlduniverse. We have descended onto the world "Earth" once more, to share our wisdom with you. The time has come to amaze you humans once more with the wonders of the worlduniverse.
Prepare yourself, as your mind takes flight, ready to find adventure, wonder, bafflement and strangeness at every...
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In the quaint town where silence whispers secrets, young Caleb's life is rooted in ordinary days, until the new girl of the village steps into his world. Her presence is a mystery, her past a shadow, yet the allure of love draws Caleb into the unknown, unravelling his existence in ways unimaginable.
As sinister forces emerge from the gloom, their tranquil town morphs into a playground of unseen malevolence. With an evil unknown chasing their shadows,...
9) The Source
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Secrets …. DCI Teddy Cartwright has immersed himself into the darkness of Newcastle's criminal underworld, where money is the root of all evil. Teddy is keeping a secret close to his chest and one that he is willing to take to the grave. How will it end?
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"In the 237th year of the Grand Empress Bo'sel, the Windell Empire changed its laws on magic. It allowed mages to teach and train others in war magic within the Windell army for the first time outside of the blackened-spired towers of Immalaris. Within two years the Empire spread from the East of the Dunna to the West coast of the Westlands, conquering the Myststep's kingdom including the cities of Barrow Haven and Simerlin. With this, all peoples...
11) The Anemone Bowl
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The tale of an afterlife.
"If the inability to see other than that which you wish to see can be considered a kind of heaven, then presumably the inability to escape self-knowledge must be one version of hell."
The ill-fated consequences of happenstance: Born into an English country village community in the 1950s, a young boy is led, through a series of events over which he in effect has little or no control, to take the life of a neighbour's...
12) The Spaceman
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Older than all the known stars, June watched the universe turn. He watched too as the old gods failed. Now he is tired and beset with doubt, his effort wasted, his strength to hold back the tide of indifference diminished. But with allies and enemies gathering and those with loyalties beyond his understanding he commits to change.
Against the old order change will be hard. There will be pain before the fruit of his sacrifice is known. But into the...
13) 13 Lives
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Still reeling from her family's execution during the Salem Witch Trails and her own unnatural extended lifeline, in the present day, Margaret Baker is a twenty-two-year-old witch. She finds herself falling in love in the big apple while also trying to come to terms with and overcome her survivors' guilt. A ghost from her past re-emerges and shakes up her world. In a story of love, loss, betrayal, and grief, Margaret must rise above all her demons...
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Lord Theodore Olden counts it a blessing when his old friend Bjorn the Brave arrives at the celebration of his eldest son's betrothal. Soon after his arrival, demons from Bjorn's past come back to haunt him. To this day, he knows not of who murdered his family, with only his daughter spared from the attacks on his house and a son who is seemingly back from the dead. Both houses encounter a plague of demons that were thought long gone in their quest...
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In the year A.D. 390, magic is both omnipresent and feared in newly Christian Rome. In an effort to revive their faith, three witches cast a curse on local leaders of the Empire's new religion, subjecting them to demonic hauntings, possessions, and eventual death. Will the Iracundus family be able to survive the witches' curse? Can the witches succeed in their quest for revenge?Medea has always cherished her witch heritage, despite her family's mistreatment...
16) Satan's Guitar
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Right or wrong, left or right, should I, or shouldn't I? Every minute of every day, people make decisions that will change the course of their lives. Usually, the course change is small and insignificant. Sometimes it is profound. Not only does it affect the person making the decision, but it also alters the path of everyone around them.
Satan's Guitar offers the most crucial decision ever, Good or Evil? When a number of players decide to take advantage...
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In a world full of magic and supernatural beings, what would you do if you were the only non-magical being in your family?
Bracken Carmichael is that very girl. Classed as an outcast amongst her people, her life has been a roller coaster of emotions in a normally dull little village.
But life is about to get very interesting when the Vampire Lord visits. Danger is around every corner and it seems that her family know more than they are letting...
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Two families, one secret that will tear them apart. Evelyn loves Bryce, but Bryce is not who he says he is. Unbeknownst to Evelyn, neither is she. In a place where many worlds exist, Keepers guard the gates between them, and Watchers command the Keepers. However, an archaic war between Watchers and Keepers ensues, which threatens to destroy Evelyn and Bryce's happiness if Evelyn's best friend, Sylvia, does not come in between them first.
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When Aya moves away from the city to the remote English countryside, she and her stepbrother, Joe, discover a mysterious world where dark forces exist. What begins as a dream becomes an astonishing adventure where myths and legends come alive. The Night Catchers must not only navigate an ancient and mysterious world, but one in which the levels of a computer game force them through dangerous landscapes. Challenged by evil deities, giants, unicorns...
20) Roy Ringtail
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Fur. Cat-like ears. A long tail. A strange sight for the amnesic to see reflected in the water, to be sure.
But in the realm of Uncharted Waters, that's only the start of strange, for pirates, witches, vampires and aliens are your friends, rivals, neighbors and even your roommates! And then there's the little matter of magic being a real thing...
People are strange. Life is stranger. Sorcery and sci-fi tech take the cake! But altogether, it equals...
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