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In the midst of the Great Depression, Cassandra Scheimer is trying to keep the family farm afloat in the Big Woods of Wisconsin...alone. As a local midwife and struggling backwoods doctor, she certainly doesn't need more mouths to feed. Stephanie Evans is a widow enceinte with her third child. She accepts a kind stranger’s offer of marriage in exchange for keeping house for him...but he never shows up to claim her. While dealing with unrequited guilt and the desperation of impoverished motherhood, moving in and consequentially falling in love with Cass is the least of her worries.

They stalk their prey from deep in the menacing shadows, poised and ready to strike at the penultimate moment. Their victims unexpectant, unaware, until they wake in dark rooms, dank basements, or on chilly floors stained with the rotting blood of other hapless victims. The stench fills their nostrils and permeates their pores, the bile rising up in their burning throats. They scream and try to escape, but all attempts are futile. Fear dances like spiders down their spines as they hear ominous footsteps approaching - their eyes spread wide in horror as they realize the end is near.

T.S. Eliot tells us in his poem “The Hollow Men” that the world will end not with a bang, but with a whimper. Well, he was wrong. Dead wrong. When death and destruction come, the screams of terror, horror, and excruciating pain will rend the blood-red sky and be heard across the world. When your number is up, there’s nowhere to run and no place to hide. You can't cheat death; death will find you. It always does.

It has been two years, thirteen days, and twelve hours since the freaks came out of hiding. Now they are a part of everyday life; so vanilla that some people don't see the subtle shades of difference between them and the normal humans. But there are differences, and some humans will stop at nothing to make sure these freaks are never considered normal. Nowhere is this clearer than where very human Lilah Wright goes to school, JWB High school. Lilah was once a champion for the downtrodden and bullied, her former best friend, Oliver Payne, would attest to that.

On her way to a weekend ski vacation, Natalie Locke is involved in a head-on collision on a snowy highway and finds herself traveling through the space between life and death, where she sees a Native American man who visited her rock shop earlier that day. Lone Eagle went to Locke’s Rocks in Albuquerque to find an important tribal artifact and return it to his father, Chief Looking Elk. Before the elderly chief passes away, he makes Lone Eagle promise one thing – to teach Natalie the ways of their tribe.

Horror master Annette Shelley, author of Frankenstein's Brother, shares several chilling short horror stories including: Nibblers—tasty body horror.

Dr. Shelley Kaehr explores the Biblical divination tool Urim and Thummim from the Book of Exodus, explores their origins, and suggests materials the reader can use to create the oracle themselves.

In Spirals: Pythagorean Healing Level Five, mind-body expert Dr. Shelley Kaehr shows you how to use simple spirals as healing symbols to bring greater peace to body, mind and spirit. Dr. Kaehr is known throughout the world as one of the world’s leading authorities on energy healing and mind-body medicine.

"Nova: The Courage to Rise" is a captivating journey of self-discovery and resilience, where two extraordinary teenage girls, Aurora and Stella, embark on an inner-city camping adventure that reveals the power within themselves and the universe.

Since her transformational journey to Egypt and subsequent near-death experience back in 2000, Shelley Kaehr developed several cutting-edge healing methods which are the subject of her many books. She is also a renowned past life regressionist and world traveler who believes the soul longs to return to familiar places from prior lifetimes.

In the ancient city of Thebes, the Priests of Amun determined to make Amun superior to all other gods in Egypt. Amun, Mut, and Khonsu formed the Theban Triad, and enjoyed a cult following throughout the Middle and New Kingdoms. Meet with this power trio to gain wisdom and insight into your soul's journey, awaken memories of past lives, and learn a healing method.

Mind-body expert Shelley A. Kaehr, PhD brings you The Eight of Hermopolis, part of a new series on Egyptian Energy Healing. In the ancient Egyptian nome of Hermopolis, eight deities formed the Ogdoad, a sacred grouping, who embodied all of creation.

Chloe Anderson just moved to a new city with her parents and sister, and is just starting out at a new school. She's having a rough start, until Ethan comes along and saves the day. Chloe and Ethan share a special moment, and Chloe thinks they are forming a relationship. After a while, things go wrong, and a mistake on Ethan's part turns deadly.

After her boyfriend dumps her, archeologist Kelley Jones Smith travels to Istanbul, Turkey, to conduct a groundbreaking dig and reconnect with her best friend from college, who introduces Kelley to her fiancé, a sexy Sheikh. Kelley can't ignore the chemistry between her and the Sheikh. When she is betrayed by her most trusted advisors, she finds herself in an impossible situation. The Sheikh offers her the use of his home so she can continue her project, but she soon realizes he has other things in mind besides work. Can she resist the Sheikh's seductive ways?

When scholarship recipient Sarah Taylor arrived in Turkey, the last person she expected to see was her old high school flame, foreign exchange student Ghazi Deniz.

Invalided out of the police force after a shootout that almost killed her, antique dealer Rebecca Cloudwebb is delivering a pair of earrings to Flora Melkiot, elderly resident of the exclusive Olympus House condominiums. At Flora’s request, she brings them to the so-called Jewel exercise class—the better for her to show them off to the other women—where the newest member of the class, a suburban transplant named Laura Tyler, is horribly murdered by a dose of drain cleaner in her health water.

Foxmeadow and Maria go on a quest to find the missing Scepter of Imagination. They become lost in time and must find their way home. When the quest turns into another, Maria is faced with a decision only she can make that will impact the rest of her life and the people she loves. Will she make the right choice? Follow these two on an adventure that will bring them closer as they make new friends along the way.

After struggling on a trip to Key West, Florida, past life expert Dr. Shelley Kaehr wondered if a past life influence was to blame. She healed after a transformational past life regression and began wondering—do these kinds of situations happen to others? After conducting in-depth research, she concluded that spontaneous past life memories happen to everybody, whether they’re consciously aware of it or not.

World renowned past life regression expert Shelley A. Kaehr, Ph.D. launched her career with Lifestream: Journeys into Past & Future Lives.

From the two-time Splatterpunk Award-nominated author of the breakout collection A Bouquet of Viscera comes three grisly new tales—one sweet, one sour, and one spicy.