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Secrets Gnaw at the Flesh

A historically malevolent haunted house threatens to end a line of paranormal guardians. Will the family’s latest addition tip the scales in their favor or hurtle them toward their demise?
Garrett Mueller proposes to his girlfriend, Marie Renault. She rejects him, distressing him until he learns why. Her family watches over a haunted house, where every several years a Breach opens to the world of the dead. Everyone related by blood or oath must return, or the Breach widens, endangering the family and world at large.
To marry Marie, he must also bind himself to that house.
The Renaults estimate a week until the Breach opens, offering Garrett a short trial period. Despite the risks, he will try it for the woman he loves. The Renaults are professionals when it comes to the supernatural, and they’ve always prevailed.
Only, as the week progresses, the family discovers this Breach is shaping up to be one of historically dangerous proportions. Risks mount higher as secrets leak out, threatening to divide the family. And even if Garrett changes his mind, it might be too late to leave.

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The Ghost Ninja of Hong Kong Island, Part III

For the past seven months, Brandon has done all he can to help Sadie manage her frightening gift, combining it with a distinct style of combat so she can live a normal life. Unfortunately, when the gifted child begins experiencing nightmarish visions of stranded explorers in the remote reaches of Hokkaido, he is forced to devise a rescue mission.
Brandon leads a team of highly trained rescue personnel, each equipped with superior firepower into the rugged Hokkaido wilderness to locate and save the stranded explorers. But when a devastating typhoon barrels through Northern Japan the team is forced to seek refuge inside the remnants of ‘The Kinjo Temple Gateway’, an impossible maze of tunnels that’s demanding and deadly.
Trapped beneath the earth, Brandon and his team must rely on Sadie’s power to battle unfathomable forces and find the stranded explorers. But it will be a hard road. For this is an underground labyrinth like no other—a complex web of paths twisting and turning in every direction, making for a treacherous, taxing, and life-threatening journey—the most dangerous place Brandon has encountered in all his many adventures.

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The Ghost Ninja of Hong Kong Island, Part II

Yuma Shibiaski has been lost to the shadows from which he emerged. Whether to exile or to death no one knows…
Nevertheless, it would be foolish to underestimate his cunning abilities and supernatural talents. Could he be lurking in the depths of darkness, biding his time until the perfect moment to reappear?
Three years after evading the clutches of a merciless killer, Brandon has nearly put the shattered pieces of his life back together. But when his friend is gunned down and left for dead, Brandon embarks on a quest for bloody payback, forging an unlikely alliance with Government operative, Alannah.
Brandon and Alannah’s search for the gunman leads them to Sadie, a young girl with strange abilities that might hold the answer to an AI weapon plot created by Ryberg Industries. As they uncover the truth about the girl’s remarkable talents, Brandon and Alannah take her in as their own, forming an unbreakable alliance to evade Ryberg Industries and combat-ready killing machine, Reyah-One!
For Brandon and Alannah to keep their bond alive they must bravely confront the difficulties of their relationship head-on, aid Sadie in harnessing her mysterious power, and make sure she doesn’t fall prey to Ryberg Industries’ high-tech weapons scheme.
Brace yourself for yet another adventure that’s a mélange of action, sci-fi, romance, fantasy, and everything else that screams epic danger.

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The Ghost Ninja of Hong Kong Island, Part I

Yuma Shibiaski has kept to the shadows for far too log…
Exiled to a hidden temple in Hokkado, Japan, this conquer of dark illusions and supernatural abilities bides his time, patiently awaiting his chance to make a return to Hong Kong Island. Has his moment finally arrived?
Brandon is in for a wild ride when he reaches the shores of Asia World City. He had hoped Hong Kong would offer a new beginning, but when he witnesses a gang-related murder, Shibiaski is unleashed upon the streets, vowing to rip Hong Kong apart brick by brick until Brandon is taken out.
Brandon soon discovers his only ally is Inspector Kaiden—a drunken, cigarette-loving Cop with a complicated history. When his shady past intertwines with Brandon’s case, they must set aside their differences to uncover a dangerous military secret worth million’s.
With a global conflict looming, Brandon and Kaiden find themselves in an increasingly dangerous predicament. Not only do they have to rescue a city from total devastation but evade the powerful clutches of a seasoned killer who can alter reality itself.
Brace yourself for an adventure that’s a melange of, drama, action, fantasy, martial arts and everything else that screams epic danger.

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Into the BeanStalk: Book One of the Jack: Cyberpunk Series

A corrupt megacity. A broken world. A girl who can no longer afford to hide from her past.
Jack is a techie and long-time shut-in, driven to save her father from corporate servitude. That means getting her hands on scrip, and lots of it. Going into debt with the most violent bikers in Hope Megacity will get her the cybernetic limbs she needs to overcome her disabilities, but that’s only the beginning.
A vicious betrayal, a lethal cyberattack, and some broken neural hardware has Jack seeing things — namely a huge column of light climbing all the way to the Global Corporations’ city in the clouds. She’ll need to join up with the city’s most notorious hacker to find out what the elite are hiding from the millions of people living under their feet.

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The Eye of Ksera: Tales from Ondiran, Book One

It’s hard to hide from a sorceress—as Colmar, a reluctant soldier of fortune, discovers after crossing the distinctly dangerous Valdira over a powerful magical artifact, the Eye of Ksera. To add to his troubles, a sinister necromancer, a grasping abbess, and an undead sorceress-queen all have this tantalizing treasure in their sights, as well!
Indeed, the Eye is an ill-fated gem that has cost the lives of many who have sought to possess it over the centuries. Who will survive this briskly paced adventure in a quirky world with two moons and five different systems of magic? Who will emerge from it with the Eye?
And, nearly as important, who will end up with custody of Angvar, the necromancer’s crested green lizard?