Death. Demons. Revealed secrets. Magic. Airiella tries to maintain sanity amid of a family tragedy with only Jax by her side. He's the only one left she needs to connect with, and things just took a giant turn for the worse. They've both come so far so quickly, and it's on shaky ground.Everything is changing so fast, and the odds keep stacking against them. Even an angel might not be enough to overcome it all.She has a lot more to lose now, and she's ready to hand over her heart. With the new threats they were facing, both paranormal and in the ...

  The empath Thane and his adopted telepathic daughter Ilaria are summoned to the Wald to investigate a dead body washed onto the shores of the densely forested planet; however, once it is discovered the deceased had been a renegade psychic, the body is destroyed before they can determine who she was or, more importantly, what she was doing on a forbidden planet. As psions are hated and mistrusted by the Citizens of the Janus Empire, there are few who care that the evidence showed the woman had been murdered. Their investigation is seemingly at ...

They came to Earth to eat us. Homo sapiens became the Tschaaa alien's main meat source. Some humans fought, some tried to hide, others just died. Director Adam Lloyd arose with a plan to save some at the expense of others. The Protocol of Selective Survival. Did it make Adam Lloyd a traitor or a savior of the human species? But some in the Free Area, the Unoccupied States, saw the aliens as an Infestation, not as an opportunity for the advancement of civilization by being a "client species." Heroes and heroines would arise to meet the threat to human dominance ...

They came to Earth to eat us. Homo sapiens became the Tschaaa alien's main meat source. Some humans fought, some tried to hide, others just died. Director Adam Lloyd arose with a plan to save some at the expense of others. The Protocol of Selective Survival. Did it make Adam Lloyd a traitor or a savior of the human species? But some in the Free Area, the Unoccupied States, saw the aliens as an Infestation, not as an opportunity for the advancement of civilization by being a "client species." Heroes and heroines would arise to meet the threat to human dominance ...

  The line is now boldly draw. Demons have made their intentions clear with Airiella, and she stands to lose everything. She's drawn a line, and now she has to figure out how to make it work. Jax longs to give Airiella the ordinary and quiet life she craves so much, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Together with the team, they set out to make changes happen and settle the roller coaster their life has become. Can they do it? Will their collective efforts pay off? More importantly, will they survive it? Published by Blue ...

  Life in Hell was never quite ordinary, anyway. But now, as Stolas uncovers another plot that threatens humanity's very existence, he finds himself caught between two forces that could take apart everything that matters to him. Stolas was in an impossible situation and didn't know how to find his way out of it. Airiella had gifted him with a vision that he didn't dare hope to believe in, yet he wanted. Stolas was living a prophecy he hadn't known about while juggling a new bond, his bond with Airiella, and a bond that existed before the others. ...

  Sheila Mengert's best stories of the year...   Starting with the title itself, transgender author and activist, Sheila Mengert, sets the tone for the collection's diverse set of characters, each balanced along the precarious edge where fate and personality combine to forge a destiny. With what now seems like uncanny foresight, Mengert conveys the mood of anxiety and perplexity that accompany the tremors that rumble just beneath the surface of daily life when great events are about to take place... like the unprecedented year that followed ...

What was found might be lost... Ronnie had only just begun to realize what the fears in his head meant. Airiella was the world to him and letting her go scared the hell out of him. He wanted to trust what had built with Chrissie, but fear held him rooted in place. Chrissie needed to learn to step out of her comfort zone and accept the truth of what was presented to her wholeheartedly. Glossing over scars became easy, tearing the scabs off to expose the wounds to healing air got ugly fast. She wanted to do it for the sake of her best friend but wasn't sure ...

The danger has passed... but now Onida feels lost. Her once semi-ordinary life has been turned upside down with the appearance of Airiella. Now that the immediate danger from Bael is over, Onida tries to find a semblance of normal life... but she can't. Her heart is still breaking from unrequited love. Degataga's hope for the future lies in the hands of a woman who no longer wants to be around him and finds herself forced to due to circumstances. It doesn't help that strange things are happening again, and they find themselves in another battle that threatens ...

Homo sapiens became the Tschaaa alien's primary meat source. Some humans fought, some tried to hide, and others just died. Will the human species survive as we know it? Or will humanity have to accept being a free-range item on an alien menu? Free Range Protocol is a collection of eighteen short stories in the Tschaaa Infestation series, featuring six never-before-seen tales of heroism and survival.