NOWHERE TO RUN, NOWHERE TO HIDE Dr. Alastair Stone, Occult Studies professor and powerful mage, is walking off a breakup in San Francisco when he encounters a desperate woman preparing to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. She can't stop hearing voices and seeing her stalker ex-boyfriend--a man she's certain hasn't left his home in the Midwest. She's sure she's going crazy. Stone doesn't believe it. Convinced something supernatural is behind the manifestations, he's compelled to investigate--which marks him as a target as well. Before he knows what's going on, he's drawn into a web of murder, illusion, and jealousy that threatens not only the woman's life, but his own. When he finally discovers the truth about the stalker, the only way to stop the attacks is to take the fight to its source--knowing full well that if they do that, he and the stalker's victim could be walking into a deathtrap. TURN TO STONE is a standalone novella in the Alastair Stone Chronicles urban fantasy series. Don't miss the rest of the series: Stone and a Hard Place The Forgotten The Threshold The Source Core of Stone Blood and Stone Heart of Stone Flesh and Stone The Infernal Heart The Other Side Path of Stone Necessary Sacrifices and two standalone novellas: Turn to Stone Shadows and Stone **

Split from: The Works Of Alexandre Dumas

As a teenager from Sri Lanka, Sunny is living the typical life of an expatriate in 1970s Manila—a privileged, carefree existence—until one day when the secret behind his mother's tragic death years earlier is accidentally revealed to him, turning Sunny's world upside down. His life takes a series of unexpected turns—first in England, where he falls in love with the luminous Clara, and later in Sri Lanka, where he returns during a brief lull in the country's brutal ethnic war.Reminiscent of V.S. Naipaul in his nuanced treatment of the melancholy of exile, Gunesekera takes the reader on an utterly absorbing journey across the late twentieth-century postcolonial world. Spanning three continents and thirty years, The Match is a "beautiful and atmospheric" (Irish Times) exploration of the nature of loss and displacement, the search for identity and love, and the possibility, in the end, of redemption and renewal.

Thrust into an unknown, unwanted situation, most would feel panic, fear anger and fall into chaos. Erik and Rugrat are not immune to those feelings, but they have stepped into chaos so many times, it is simply a different challenge. Two weeks ago, Erik lost his legs and his arm. Today he got a message. "You have been randomly selected to join the Ten Realms. One may choose to ascend the Ten Realms, thereupon making a request to the Gods of the Realms. Only those who are Level 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90 may ascend to the next realm. Fortune favors the strong!" For a retired combat medic and Marine Recon sniper, the Ten Realms offer a clear challenge and sense of purpose that they had only found on the battlefield. How much trouble can you get into in a new realm?

A culprit under the Christmas treeThe McCall Adventure Ranch miniseries concludes! Undercover private investigator Erin Palmer is tantalizingly close to discovering who wants to destroy the McCall family. And as she creeps closer to the truth—and straight into danger—she's burrowing deep into Zane McCall's heart. For Zane, though, trust is everything. So when he discovers Erin isn't who she seems, can he forgive her...before it's too late for them both?