Kristin Jacques

Jesse Sprague

K. J. Gillenwater

Steven R. Brandt

Chayton Avalerias

Amber Boyd

Nancy S. Brandt

David Cardwell

Holly Gonzalez

Jinn Tiole

Have you ever met a necromancer with dreams of being a mariachi player? Have you ever mixed a potion with dragonfly tears, or made a deadly wish on a cake and had it come true? Did you ever visit a voodoo shop that only opens after midnight or kissed a corpse to life? Come and join ten specially selected authors for a sweet combination of paranormal and horror stories--tales which have both the undead and chocolate as their special ingredients.

Undeath by Chocolate

Werewolves are roaming Northeast High, and Savannah Black is determined to hunt them down. When Savannah's academic rival mysteriously disappears, she enlists the aid of her two best friends, Dina and Nick, to solve the mystery. Football players with glowing eyes and razor sharp canine teeth may have fooled the faculty, but not Savannah and her friends. These brave students are determined to eradicate a clan of deadly werewolves who threaten to take over their school. When Dina disappears right before the big Homecoming Dance, Savannah and Nick must act quickly to save her from the werewolf's curse. But will a straight-A student be able to master knives and silver bullets as easily as chemistry and calculus? Warning! This book contains pentagrams, bonfires in the woods, and 1000 SAT words and their definitions to challenge you.

Blood Moon

Alone, desperate, and beautiful. When bullets fly, she must rely on a handsome stranger or face death. Together, they will risk it all for love. Her whole life was a lie… After discovering she was brought to the United States illegally as a young child, Selena Hernandez decides to do the responsible thing and return to Mexico, her country of origin. Selena vows to become a legal immigrant. When she asks for help with a visa at the US Embassy, she meets attractive Wyatt Demko, a helpful embassy employee. But they are surprised to discover shocking details about her past and connections to a notorious drug cartel. Wyatt escaped a painful upbringing in a Wisconsin trailer park for a stable career with the State Department. A chance meeting with Selena reveals an instinctual desire to help. But falling for a beautiful girl with dangerous enemies on her trail complicates his meticulous plans. Wyatt knows he can't afford to trust Selena. Still, he'll do whatever it takes to keep her safe and win her heart before time runs out. But Wyatt and Selena only have a few days to accomplish the impossible: hide from the brutal drug cartels and corrupt law enforcement to make a daring getaway that will take them from the streets of Mexico City to the sandy beaches of the Yucatan Peninsula.

Illegal

A science fiction short story collection of three flash fiction works, which contains both a WattPad #SciFriday First Place Winner as well as a WattPad #SciFriday Honorable Mention Winner. Skyfall. A miner confronts a devastating future related to colonization. (#SciFriday Honorable Mention Award) Time Travel. A failed engineer tinkers with a matter-energy transporter, which he plans to step into for a metaphysical experiment. (#SciFriday First Place Award) Torch. A man attempts to escape from a futuristic starship prison.

A short collection of flash fiction

Skyfall

This book contains 1000 SAT words to build vocabulary as your child reads. Werewolves are roaming Northeast High, and Savannah Black is determined to hunt them down.

An SAT Vocab Novel

Nine curses. Nine weeks to live. "I find this story absorbing for several reasons. This story is very creepy and the plot is very well thought out. ...THE NINTH CURSE by K.J. Gillenwater is a gripping and spine-tingling paranormal romance." - Christina, Romance Junkies Joel Hatcher has inherited more than a family legacy. It's a time bomb that's ticking down to the inevitable: his own death. But the curse won't die with him. Unless he can find a way to break the cycle, his younger brother becomes the next victim. In the throes of the third curse, the Painful Pox, Joel makes a last-ditch decision to seek the help of a young spiritualist with expertise in the paranormal. One look into Joel's suffering eyes, and "Madame Eugenie" finds herself torn between doing the right thing and fulfilling her most secret wish—bring her husband Adam back from the dead. Joel's cursed blood is the missing ingredient in her resurrection rituals, and Adam's vengeful spirit whispers seductively that there's only one way to get it: steal it. As Gen and Joel unearth his family's past to track down a cure, they come closer to each other, and to a horrible truth. To live, Joel must lose everything. Including the woman he has grown to love. *Previously published by Samhain Publishing. MORE REVIEWS: "The plot progresses at breakneck speed. Gillenwater gives and then removes hope amping up the tension as the plot hurtles to the seemingly tragic conclusion." – Water Lily, Long and Short Reviews, 4 books out of 5. "A romantic paranormal thriller, this one is unlike any other paranormal romances I've come across…I find the story intriguing and as a result, I keep turning the pages to find out what will happen next." – Mrs. Giggles, mrsgiggles.com

The Ninth Curse

Zane Zago's famous and mysterious chocolate factory is opening at last! But only five lucky chocolate sales experts will be allowed inside to compete for Chocolate Salesman of the Year. And the competitors are: Jacqueline, an incredibly attractive blonde who knows how to use her assets to land big sales contracts; Devon Miles, a golf fanatic who uses his family connections to further his career; Agnes Ackerby, a cut-throat two-faced witch who'd step over her own mother's dead body for a sale; Harold Washington, a former high school football star who'd ridden on his teenage fame for the last thirty years; and Charlie, Our Hero, a person who is wily and clever, brave and true, and finds himself in the most unexpected—and bloody—competition of his life.

Charlie and the Zombie Factory

This book is the second in a series of science fiction short story collections. Encounter. Two crew members must deal with a hull breach on a hauling vessel bound for a distant earth colony. Alone and desperate, they make a choice that might alter their lives forever. Lucinda. A tv star in a dystopian America reveals her downfall from highly paid news anchor to a low-life host of a television reality show featuring everyday people being evicted from their homes during the worst financial crisis in U.S. history. The Man in 14C. A cancer patient on a flight back from Tokyo passes through a wormhole and experiences a that transports him 20 years into the future. His life destroyed, he must reconnect with family and discover how he fits into an unfamiliar world.

A collection of science fiction short stories

The Man in 14C

When thoughts can kill. After the suspicious suicides of several student test subjects, Paula Crenshaw, research assistant in Paranormal Sciences at Blackridge University and budding telekinetic, suspects they may be connected to a little black box designed to read auras. Professor Jonas Pritchard, the head of the department and renowned paranormal expert, doesn't believe his precious experiment could be causing students to drop like flies. Haunted by memories of a childhood accident, which she believes she caused with her untamed psychic abilities, Paula finds herself lured to the black box and its mysteries. But when her best friend, Lark, comes close to death after her encounter with the black box, Paula realizes her investigation might endanger the people she loves most. As the suicides stack up, she convinces her fellow researcher, Will Littlejohn, to help her solve the conspiracy. The closer they get to the truth behind who might be financially backing the project and why, the more dangerous—and deadly—it becomes.

The Little Black Box

ACAPULCO NIGHTS was a Write Affair finalist (Kensington Books) on Wattpad as an "Editor's Pick." 4 stars and 20 reviews on GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26302615-acapulco-nights Suzie's fiancé, James, is pressuring her to pick a day for their wedding. She's cancelled three dates, and he's starting to wonder if she really wants to get married. But how does she go about telling her fiancé that she's already married to a man in Mexico? She needs a divorce, and she needs one fast. Her marriage has been a secret from her best friend, Janice, her fiancé, even her own mother, and she wants to keep it that way. When Janice asks her to come along on an all-girl international vacation to Acapulco, Suzie leaps at the chance. A search on the Internet gives Suzie all the information she needs to track down her husband, Joaquin, while out of the country and finally get that divorce. Unfortunately, Joaquin sees this as a second chance and won't give her up so easily. When James appears in Acapulco unexpectedly, all hell breaks loose, and Suzie stands to lose everything she's ever loved.

Acapulco Nights

This Paranormal Suspense Box Set contains two of K.J. Gillenwater's best-selling books. THE NINTH CURSE Nine curses. Nine weeks to live. Joel Hatcher has inherited more than a family legacy. It's a time bomb that's ticking down to the inevitable: his own death. But the curse won't die with him. Unless he can find a way to break the cycle, his younger brother becomes the next victim. In the throes of the third curse, the Painful Pox, Joel makes a last-ditch decision to seek the help of a young spiritualist. One look into Joel's suffering eyes, and "Madame Eugenie" finds herself torn between doing the right thing and fulfilling her most secret wish—bring her husband Adam back from the dead. Joel's cursed blood is the missing ingredient in her resurrection rituals, and Adam's spirit whispers seductively that there's only one way to get it: steal it. As Gen and Joel unearth his family's past to track down a cure, they come closer to each other, and to a horrible truth. To live, Joel must lose everything. Including the woman he has grown to love. THE LITTLE BLACK BOX When thoughts can kill. After the suspicious suicides of several student test subjects, Paula Crenshaw, research assistant in Paranormal Sciences at Blackridge University and budding telekinetic, suspects they may be connected to a little black box designed to read auras. Professor Jonas Pritchard, the head of the department and renowned paranormal expert, doesn't believe his precious experiment could be causing students to drop like flies. Haunted by memories of a childhood accident, which she believes she caused with her untamed psychic abilities, Paula finds herself lured to the black box and its mysteries. But when her best friend, Lark, comes close to death after her encounter with the black box, Paula realizes her investigation might endanger the people she loves most. As the suicides stack up, she convinces her fellow researcher, Will Littlejohn, to help her solve the mystery. The closer they get to the truth behind who might be financially backing the project and why, the more dangerous—and deadly—it becomes.

The Ninth Curse & The Little Black Box

Paranormal Suspense Box Set

5-star review from Readers' Favorite: "Aurora's Gold will have you reading late into the night and forgetting to do your chores. This is an action story that offers so many twists, turns, and adventures with characters that you would like for friends. Aurora's Gold felt like a real-life look into the Alaska gold dredging life. K.J. Gillenwater has written a book embracing so many genres and hitting all of them right on the head...I highly recommend Aurora's Gold to everyone." - Reviewed by Trudi LoPreto for Readers' Favorite Fans of Bering Sea Gold, Gold Rush, Life Below Zero, and other Alaska reality TV shows would love this 5-star action-adventure romance. Aurora “Rory” Darling is the only female dredge owner in town. She’s got money problems, a disgruntled former employee, a complicated family, and an ex who won’t let go. After her father has a horrible accident, Rory must find a way to save the family dredging operation from financial disaster. Enter Ben Abel, a former Navy diver with a mysterious past. He may be just the ticket to pull her butt out of the fire. She finds herself falling for him, but then discovers the truth: he’s on the run from the law. With time running out to get the gold, however, she has no choice but to work with him. As competition intensifies and the danger ratchets up, Rory realizes it’s hard to trust anyone in a town full of liars and vengeful cheats who will do anything to make their fortune. And those she trusts the most might just be the ones she should watch out for.

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