Kent Holloway

A Haunted House... Missing Children... A Dead Man Walking... The Grand Avenue Detectives are on the case. Every small town has its secrets... Places you never go, except on a dare... People who, when you see them coming, you cross the street and go the other way... When a young girl in Burnside, Kentucky goes missing during an afternoon thunderstorm and the 'zombie' of the richest man in town is seen shambling the streets, inventor and 12-year-old sleuth 'Lucky' Lee Aker enlists his friends, Shane Morrow and '8-Bit' Grant to solve the case. Naturally the trail leads them to the town's most haunted place-Southwood Manor. But this mysterious house, its enigmatic occupant, and others in town with sinister purpose do not easily give up their secrets.

A Grand Avenue Detectives Mystery-Adventure

The Mystery of the Undying Man

The sleepy beach town of Summer Haven is waking up to a new nightmare--reality TV! Lance Avery, host of 'Mysterious Expedition'--a popular adventure documentary show--is in town to investigate a sunken shipwreck rumored to be the flagship of the infamous pirate Baron Tombstone, allegedly the last known possessor of a mystical artifact known as the Hand of Cain. Summer Haven Police Chief Becca Cole knows all about the Hand of Cain. For the last year, she's been investigating mysterious deaths tied to the artifact, with a little help from the unlikeliest of partners--the Grim Reaper...Death himself, incarnate in the flesh of one Silas Mot, who has temporarily relocated to Summer Haven to discover why people are dying before their time. When an inexplicable tragedy strikes the TV production, rumors abound that the death can only be attributed to "supernatural causes", but Becca is determined to find an all-too human killer. Meanwhile, Silas is facing a different sort of crisis. With each bizarre death, he's losing his powers, inexplicably transforming into a mere mortal. If Becca and Silas can't solve this latest mystery, it will mean the end of his job as harvester of souls, to say nothing of his very existence.

Dead in the Water

Jonathan Maberry

Neil Gaiman

Andrew Mayne

Alan Dean Foster

Seanan McGuire

John Skipp

Scott Sigler

Bryan Thomas Schmidt

A. C. Crispin

Orson Scott Card

Cory Doctorow

Martin L. Shoemaker

Beth Cato

Livia Blackburne

Mercedes M. Yardley

Raymund Eich

Ken Scholes

Peter J. Wacks

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Jody Lynn Nye

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Brenda Cooper

Claire Ashgrove

Tori Eldridge

Kathleen O'Malley

Julie Frost

Robert` Silverberg

Jay Werkheiser

C. Stuart Hardwick

K. C. McEntire

Roshni "Rush" Bhatia

Surviving Tomorrow contains twenty-nine stories about survivors, over half of them original and published here for the first time. Struck by a desire to help people as the pandemic unfolded, editor Bryan Thomas Schmidt decided to try and use his skills as an anthologist to raise funding for COVID-19 support by creating an anthology with two purposes-fundraising and provide readers with stories that would speak to them as they manage the stress of our changing social landscape. Bryan took the idea to a friend he knew was at that time suffering from the novel coronavirus who also happened to be a medical publisher-Peter J. Wacks-and asked if he'd be willing to build the project. Peter spoke to Isabel Penraeth-who was in the process of launching a new specialty edition publishing house-about the project? and the anthology was in incubation. People from four different publishing enterprises joined forces to bring this book to life. After conversations with the authors you see below, all of whom are allowing their work to be published without remuneration, the anthology became a living, breathing reality. The stories in Surviving Tomorrow focus on the impacts of extraordinary circumstances on the people they depict and how they respond, and though a few are longer, most of the stories are short enough to be read in a few minutes' time-designed to provide a brief escape from the worries of the moment into another world and renew your spirit and mind. All profits from Surviving Tomorrow go to providing COVID-19 tests directly to the front lines of this crisis, or your portion can be earmarked for one of the charities you can select on the checkout page. As we start to achieve distributing to the front lines, we will post a thermometer here to show how many (and where) the tests are landing. Available in a limited, numbered, gold-leaf embossed collector's edition as well as hardcover, trade paperback, and ebook, Surviving Tomorrow will provide hours of enjoyment even as it saves lives.

A Charity Anthology to Fight COVID-19

Surviving Tomorrow

DEATH TAKES A (WORKING) HOLIDAY!Becca Cole is a big fish in a small pond. The former big-city homicide detective is now the Chief of Police in Summer Haven, a sleepy Florida beach town where nothing ever happens. But all that changes when she is summoned to the scene of a grisly murder. A naked young woman lies dead on the beach, a knife sticking out of her back, and the supposed killer stands over the body. It looks like an open-and-shut case, but not all is as it seems.The victim, who was tangled up in Santeria and drug-trafficking, didn't die from a stab wound. In fact, an autopsy can't determine what killed her. The chief suspect turns out to be Silas Mot, an enigma in his own right. In fact, as Becca digs deeper into Silas's identity, she discovers the startling truth. He's the Grim Reaper. The personification of Death. The guy who decides who dies and when. It seems he's in town in order to determine why unsanctioned deaths have been occurring in and around Summer Haven, and he can't leave until he's cracked the case.Becca and Silas will have to team up to discover who killed the young woman if they are to put a stop to the unscheduled departures, but for Silas, confined to a body of flesh and blood for the first time in his existence, the distractions of the world of the living may be the Death of him!

Death Warmed Over

Death takes a (working) holiday to solve a bizarre murder in a small Florida beach town.

Kent Holloway

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