The Honey Witch
The Honey Witch - By Thayer BerlynThe ThreadThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,than are dreamt o...
The Holders
The Holders - By Julianna Scott1The moment I saw Ryland’s silhouette in the window of our old tree house, I knew something was wrong.Ry was – as he liked to put it – the world’s best hider. This was d...
The High-Wizard's Hunt
The High-Wizard's Hunt - By Ashley DelayChapter 1____________EscapeThom gingerly rubbed his sore, swollen jaw as he paced back and forth in the cell. He glared angrily at the other men who occupied the space. It had been a...
The Guidance
The Guidance - By Marley GibsonChapter OneOnly two months in to being a ghost huntress, and I do believe this current case takes the freakin' cake.I'm sitting in the living room of one Mrs. Millicent Lockhart of 859 C...
The Guest & The Change
The Guest & The Change - By M. D. BowdenCHAPTER 1Jo stepped out the front door. He found himself momentarily dazzled by a bright violet sky as the sun appeared from behind fuzzy clouds. Glimpsing a flash of dark, he turned...
The Godling Chronicles The Shadow of God
The Godling Chronicles The Shadow of God - By Brian D. AndersonPrologueTheopolou and Eftichis sat quietly by the small fire. Over the past three days the makeshift camp had become a divided scene. Theopolou had convinced more ...
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age - By Lisa Mason1Fortune Cookies at the Japanese Tea GardenOut of a tense and arid darkness she steps, her skirts sweeping across the macadam. Her button boot wobbles on the bridge over the brook in the Japanes...
The Ghoul Next Door
The Ghoul Next Door - By Rose PresseyChapter OneDo you believe in all that exorcism, possessed-by-the-devil stuff? ’Cause I got to tell you, Larue, the more I think about it, the more freaked out I get. I don’t wa...
The Gates
The Gates - By Rachael WadePROLOGUETHE UPRISING1890, AmaranthAriannaMy pure, sweet girl, Arianna. What has he done to you? Samira, my mother, asked this in a strained voice as she floated down the throne steps toward me; her e...
The Gate Thief
The Gate Thief - By Orson Scott Card1FLYING CHILDRENOn a certain day in November, in the early afternoon, if you had just parked your car at Kenney’s burger place in Buena Vista, Virginia, or maybe you were walking into...
The Garden of Stones
The Garden of Stones - By Mark T. BarnesCHAPTER ONEWhy do we invent the monster as a metaphor? Surely all we need do is witness our own cruelty to each other to see the real face of evil.—from The Darkness Without by Sed...
The Frozen Moon
The Frozen Moon - By J.D. SwinnCHAPTER ELEVEN: WAR AND RECOGNITIONHe was still shaken from the confrontation of sorts with Nameh. He ran as he had earlier, with his chest heaving and muscles in a blind fury. But now, they r...
The Fate of the Muse
The Fate of the Muse - By Derrolyn AndersonPROLOGUEThe sun descended into the sea, and when the truck dropped him off at the familiar sign, his heart leapt. He was finally back. After months of rough travel, evading authoriti...
The Fate of the Dwarves
The Fate of the Dwarves - By Markus HeitzPrologueThe Outer Lands,The Black Abyss,Winter, 6491st Solar CycleThe air was filled with the smell of bone dust, ice-cold stone and frosty damp. The thin-armed creature stepped cautiously...
The Exiled Blade (The Assassini)
The Exiled Blade (The Assassini) - By Jon Courtenay GrimwoodPART 1There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ’tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now . . .Hamlet, William Shake...
The Executioness
The Executioness - By Tobias S. BuckellPart OneLet me you tell about the first time I killed a man.On the morning of that day my father, Anto, lay on the simple, straw-stuffed mattress that I’d dragged out to the kitch...
The Evanescence (Fallen Soul Series)
The Evanescence (Fallen Soul Series) - By Jessica SorensenPrologueGemmaYou really think it’s that easy? I ask with my head tipped back and the sunlight shimmering across my skin. I’m standing in a field filled with b...
The Eternal War
The Eternal War - By Alex ScarrowPROLOGUE2051, New YorkJoseph Olivera looked out of the small round window at the flooded cityscape of New Jersey below. The Atlantic was gradually biting chunks out of the east coast of America...
The End of the World
The End of the World - By Andrew BissCHAPTER ONECuckoosI was in one of those perfect mental/physical states of not having anything to do and not wanting to do anything. It was heaven. Eden. As I lounged haphazardly across th...
The Emperors Knife
The Emperors Knife - By Mazarkis WilliamsPrologueHands found Sarmin through the confusion of his dreams and the t...
The Emperor of All Things
The Emperor of All Things - By Paul WitcoverPART ONEPrologueCLOCKS. CLOCKS EVERYWHERE, on the wooden shelves and tables, even upon the sawdust-covered floor of the attic room: clocks of all shapes and sizes limned in the light...
The Dress
The Dress - By Sophie NichollsPrologueIt all began with a dress.‘As so many things do, tesora,’ I can hear Mamma saying now in her rich, slow voice, stirring sugar into her cup. ‘As so many things do…’I...
The Door to Lost Pages
The Door to Lost Pages - By Claude LalumierePrologueFuel for the Dark Dreams of Yamesh-LotIt is said, in one version of the tale, that in those days humanity had taken to burying its dead in the ground. No longer did the p...
The Devil's Pay (Dogs of War)
The Devil's Pay (Dogs of War) - By Dave GrossPART ONEDawson pelted down Lantern Street yelling, Crawley! Harrow! Pamuk! Burns! Lieutenant Lister! Devil Dogs!He tripped over a legless beggar gripping a pair of wooden blocks t...
The Devil's Looking-Glass
The Devil's Looking-Glass - By Mark ChadbournPROLOGUETHE MERCILESS SUN boiled in a silver sky. Waves of heat shimmered across the seething main deck of the becalmed galleon where the seven sailors knelt, heads bowed. As bloo...
The Devil's Kiss
The Devil's Kiss - By Stacey KennedyChapter OneThe warm water wrapped around me in a total sense of relaxation as I leaned back into my antique claw-foot bathtub. I sighed in complete and utter surrender as every muscle i...
The Dead of Winter
The Dead of Winter - By Lee CollinsONEThe smell of blood was thick in the crisp morning air as Marshal Mart Duggan dismounted, his boots finding solid earth a few inches beneath the snow. Tossing the reins over a nearby bra...
The Dark Thorn
The Dark Thorn - By Shawn SpeakmanThe rat glared with beady black eyes at the broken man’s approach before scurrying away into the darkness, a lone vestige of life among the dusty bones of death.Richard McAllister ignored...
The Dark Rider
The Dark Rider - By Andrew CritchellChapter OneThe slow and heavy tick tock of an old grandfather clock sounded out across the still air, shutting out the sound of rain lashing against the window. The sky was a leaden grey ...
The Dark
The Dark - By Marianne CurleyPrologueShe screams. And her scream is heard from one end of the universe to the other. The words, ‘They will suffer,’ are wrenched from between purple lips. Lathenia, the Goddess of Cha...
The Cry of the Icemark
The Cry of the Icemark - By Stuart Hill1Thirrin Freer Strong-in-the-Arm Lindenshield carried her names with ease. She was thirteen years old, tall for her age, and could ride her horse as well as the best of her father’...
The Conduit The Gryphon Series
The Conduit The Gryphon Series - By Stacey RourkePrologueAt certain moments in life reflection is mandatory. I found being squeezed in the scaly claw of a three story dragon to be one of them. As he shook me like an uncoope...
The Concrete Grove
The Concrete Grove - By Gary McMahonPART ONEShades and ShadowsI don’t like it here. The closer you getto the centre, the weirder it feels.– Hailey FraserCHAPTER ONEHER NAME WAS Hailey. She was just fourteen years old...
The Claws of Evil
The Claws of Evil - By Andrew BeasleyLondon will soon be ours, ladies and gentlemen.Mr. Sweet spoke and his audience listened. His voice was as deep and dark as tar, rising up from the barrel of his chest.We shall pluck out...
The Circle (Hammer)
The Circle (Hammer) - By Elfgren, Sara B.,Strandberg, Mats1SHE’S WAITING FOR an answer but Elias doesn’t know what to say. No answer would satisfy her. Instead he stares at his hands. They are so pale that he can ...
The Cavalier
The Cavalier - By Jason McWhirterPrologueYear 5045 of the Kraawnian Calendar, One thousand years after the Great WarSnow crunched under the horse’s hooves as the lone rider moved slowly up the mountain pass, his vigilant e...
The Cadet of Tildor
The Cadet of Tildor - By Alex LidellCHAPTER 1Lady Renee de Winter turned her back to the parlor, where her fat...
The Breaking
The Breaking - By Marcus PelegrimasPrologueSmoky Hill River, KansasFifteen miles west of Cedar Bluff State ParkIt had been just over three weeks since the Nymar declared war on all Skinners. They’d targeted the hunters they...
The Book of Doom
The Book of Doom - By Barry HutchisonES, GABRIEL. WHAT is it?I bring news, sir.News? Of the book?Of the book. We have tracked it down.You have? Excellent. Where is it?It’s... well, it’s down below, sir.What? On Eart...
The Bone House
The Bone House - By Stephen R. LawheadFor Suzie The distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion—albeit a persistent one.ALBERT EINSTEIN, PHYSICISTImportant PeopleAnen – Friend of Arthur Flinders-Petrie, ...
The Blue Door
The Blue Door - By Christa Kinde1THE INVISIBLE BOYA shining column erupted from the ring of stones set into the floor of a circular room, carrying with it the figure of a young man wreathed by shifting tendrils of blue ligh...
The Black Prism
The Black Prism - By Brent WeeksChapter 1Kip crawled toward the battlefield in the darkness, the mist pressing d...
The Black Lung Captain
The Black Lung Captain - By Chris WoodingOneAn Escape — 'Orphans Don't Fight Back' —Pinn Flounders — Destination: UpDarian Frey was a man who understood the value of a tactical retreat. It was a gambler's inst...
The Bible Repairman and Other Stories
The Bible Repairman and Other Stories - By Tim PowersINTRODUCTIONWhen people ask me what it was that I was trying to say, in this-or-that story, I like to answer with a line from an old Dave Barry article: Nobody wins when...
The Beast Within (The Elite Series)
The Beast Within (The Elite Series) - By Jonathan YanezCHAPTER 1WITH EACH PASSING HEARTBEAT EVERYTHING faded away. The once bright lights of the lamps were dim and grey. The figures around him became fuzzy and blurred. Connor&r...
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf
The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf - By Molly Harper1Dante Hosts a Baby Shower in the Seventh CircleTHE BEST THING ABOUT being a werewolf was that you never needed a sports bra.It’s hard to explain to humans the abso...
The Apothecary
The Apothecary - By Maile MeloyCHAPTER 1FollowedI was seven and living in Los Angeles when Japan surrendered at the end of World War II, and my first vivid memories are of how happy and excited everyone was. My parents took...
The Anvil of the World
The Anvil of the World - By Kage BakerTo LINN PRENTISWithout whom my first novel would have been thrown offthe front porch into Pismo Creek, to the edification of nonebut a transient population of mallards.TROON, the golden ci...
The Ambassador's Mission
The Ambassador's Mission - By Trudi CanavanPART ONECHAPTER 1THE OLD AND THE NEWThe most successful and quoted piece by the poet Rewin, greatest of the rabble to come out of the New City, was called Citysong. It captured w...
The Alchemy of Stone
The Alchemy of Stone - By Ekaterina SediaChapter 1We scale the rough bricks of the building’s facade. Their crumbling edges soften under our claw-like fingers; they jut out of the flat, adenoid face of the wall to provid...
The Alchemaster's Apprentice
The Alchemaster's Apprentice - By Walter MoersEchoPicture to yourself the sickest place in the whole of Zamonia! A little town with winding streets and crooked houses, and looming over it a creepy-looking castle perched on a...
The Age Atomic
The Age Atomic - By Adam ChristopherPART ONETHE GIRL WHO FELLI don’t want anyone in or out of my family to see any part of me. Could you destroy my body by cremation? I beg of you and my family – don’t h...
The 13th Horseman
The 13th Horseman - By Barry HutchisonTHE VAST, LONELY wastelands of oblivion stretch out in all directions, infinite in their scale and in their emptiness. Darkness lies heavy over this most desolate of plains, like a burial ...
That Old Black Magic
That Old Black Magic - By Michelle RowenONEReady to hear your ultimate fate?Eden glanced warily at the shirtless demon sitting at the tiny dinette table in her tiny apartment with the daily newspaper’s Horoscope section in...
Tempest
Tempest - By Kelly MedingOneWest HollywoodGreens are such a pain in the ass.I hadn’t intended my comment to come out loud enough for anyone to overhear, especially my boss and partner for the night, Teresa West, but she...
Teacher's Pest
Teacher's Pest - By Charles GilmanONEDon’t move.What’s wrong?Something’s on your neck.Glenn Torkells touched the flesh around his throat. I don’t feel anyth—Careful! Robert Arthur warned. It’s a bug.Wh...
Tarnished Knight
Tarnished Knight - By Bec McMasterCHAPTER ONERight this way, guv.The boy hurried ahead of Rip, his roughened boots churning the snow and mud to sludge. He kept darting a glance over his shoulder, fully aware of exactly what s...
Talisman of El
Talisman of El - By Alecia StonePROLOGUEManhattan, New York January 25, 2013, 11:15 P.M.DERKEIN ODESSA SAUNTERED INTO a study lined with bookshelves and a high ceiling of gold leaf and bas-relief sculptures. He stopped when he ...
Taken by a Vampire (Vampire Queen)
Taken by a Vampire (Vampire Queen) - By Joey W. Hill1SHE’D betrayed her Master. In the vampire world, there was no greater crime a servant could commit. She should be overwhelmed by her failure, but she was numb. What ...
Tainted Night, Tainted Blood
Tainted Night, Tainted Blood - By E. S. Moore1The body lay crumpled in the driveway—a heap of cloth that could have been anything if not for the distinctive smell that drifted on the light breeze. If I had simply been driv...
Swords & Dark Magic
Swords & Dark Magic - By Jonathan Strahan; Lou AndersCHECK YOUR DARK LORD AT THE DOORSword and sorcery. The name says it all. Action meets magic. If high fantasy is about vast armies divided along the lines of obvious good ...
Sword of Darkness
Sword of Darkness - By Kinley MacGregorPrologueLong ago in a land that was lost in anarchy, there was an enchanted sword that had been forged by the hands of the fey. Imbued with their power and nurtured by the soul of the...
Sword of Caledor
Sword of Caledor - By William KingPROLOGUEMorathi, queen of the elves of Naggaroth, watched the tidal wave of flesh thunder towards her. Hundreds of thousands of feral warriors emerged out of the grim, grey wasteland, mounted o...
Summit at Sunset
Summit at Sunset - By Jaz PrimoChapter 1: House GuestOn a cool mid-April night, Caleb Taylor carefully maneuvered through the thick undergrowth of the forest. Despite the oppressive darkness from all sides, it was a beautiful m...
Sudden Independents
Sudden Independents - By Ted HillFor MichelleHunter shattered the minivan’s window with a broken chunk of as...
Succubus Revealed
Succubus Revealed - By Richelle MeadChapter 1This wasn’t the first time I’d worn a foil dress. It was, however, the first time I’d done so in a family-friendly setting.Vixen!Santa’s voice rang out above the...
Succubus_Blues
Succubus Blues - By Richelle MeadChapter 1Statistics show that most mortals sell their souls for five reasons: sex, money, power, revenge, and love. In that order.I suppose I should have been reassured, then, that I was out he...
Street Magic
Street Magic - By Tamora PierceChapter OneIn the city of Chammur, on the eastern border of Sotat:For centuries it had been called "fabled Chammur", "Chammur of the Flaming Heights," and "Mighty Chammur." For twelve hundred years...
Stone Cold Seduction
Stone Cold Seduction - By Jess MacallanChapter OneThe worst day of my life began with a double mocha, extra whipped cream. I burned my tongue, spilled whipped cream on my black top, and then dumped the whole thing when I tr...
Starcrossed
Starcrossed - By Josephine AngeliniChapter OneBut if you bought me a car now, it would be yours when I go away to school in two years. Still practically new, Helen said optimistically. Unfortunately, her father was no sucker.L...
Stands a Shadow
Stands a Shadow - By Col BuchananPROLOGUEThe Shining WayIt was like being at sea, this plain of grasses that stretched to the brink of the horizon and beyond; the eyes filled with sky wherever they looked. In the milky brigh...
Spirit and Dust
Spirit and Dust - By Rosemary Clement-Moore1THE LOCAL COPS kept staring at me. I couldn’t decide if it was the plaid miniskirt in subarctic temperatures, or the fact that they’d never seen anyone talk to the dead b...
Spellweaver
Spellweaver - By Lynn KurlandOneThe magic was a mighty wave that rose with terrifying swiftness toward the sky, hovered there for an eternal moment, then crashed down again to earth, washing over everything in its path.The lad...
Soulless The Girl in the Box
Soulless The Girl in the Box - By Robert J. CraneChapter 1Someone ElseI wondered how many cops were within a hundred miles of me as I slammed the convenience store clerk’s head into the counter. It made a satisfying th...
Song of Dragons The Complete Trilogy
Song of Dragons The Complete Trilogy - By Daniel ArensonPROLOGUEWar.War rolled over the world with fire and wings.The Vir Requis marched. Men. Women. Children. Their clothes were tattered, their faces ashy, their bellies tight. A...
Somewhere Over the Freaking Rainbow
Somewhere Over the Freaking Rainbow - By L.L. MuirCHAPTER ONEYou’re such an idiot. Jamison shook his head.Ray grinned as he watched his paper airplane glide out the glassless window and into the darkness. You love me.Jamis...
Smugglers of Gor
Smugglers of Gor - By John NormanChapter OneHow helpless one is, when one is tied!His foot turned me over. I was then on my back.A half tarsk, he said.I did not understand what he meant.I had been warned that I was not to...
Slow Dance in Purgatory
Slow Dance in Purgatory - By Amy HarmonPrologueThe halls had long since expelled the energetic swarm of youthful humanity, and the din of lockers and laughter had long since settled into stillness. It was his least favorite ti...
Sirenz
Sirenz - By Charlotte BennardoA Mismatched PairGod, you’re wearing those clunky things again? How stupid, wearing five-inch wedge heels on cracked and frozen New York City sidewalks. What if you break an ankle?Great shoes, ...
Sins of the Father
Sins of the Father - By J.L. McCoyChapter 1I stood in the stockroom downstairs, a box of unopened liquor bottles at my feet, as I replayed the events of the last thirty minutes over in my head. Greyson Mead, Archer’s ...
Sin of Fury
Sin of Fury - By Avery DuncanChapter 1Silence had become his lullaby. It was the soft call that brought him from the dead, that called to him and soothed him. With silence there was no pain. No past. No dreams. No cries o...
Simmer (Midnight Fire Series)
Simmer (Midnight Fire Series) - By Kaitlyn DavisChapter One"I hate packing," Kira whined and collapsed onto the heap of clothes piled high on her bed. She did not want to move another muscle."Just pick out some outfits," Trist...
Shotgun Sorceress
Shotgun Sorceress - By Lucy A. Snyderpart oneSuburban Outlawschapter oneA Kick in the HeadThe festering mob of me...
She Returns from War
She Returns from War - By Lee CollinsONETheir eyes appeared first, floating in the night like orbs of yellow flame. One minute, the Oxford countryside was cold and still beneath an early April moon; the next, canine shapes ra...
Shatterglass
Shatterglass - By Tamora PierceTharios, capital of the city-state of Tharios On the Ithocot SeaThe short, plump redhead walked out of the house that belonged to her hostess and looked around, her air that of someone about to ...
Shattered Magic (The Chronicles of Arand)
Shattered Magic (The Chronicles of Arand - By Rebecca YorkChapter OneIt wasn’t too late. If she went back now, nobody would know she’d ever been missing. She could put the boy’s leggings and loose shirt back i...
Shattered Grace
Shattered Grace - By K Anne RainesNow I lay me down to sleep,I pray the lord my soul to keep,If I shall die before I wake,I pray the lord my soul to take.-- The New England Primer --Gone. He was actually gone.Grace shook...
Shattered
Shattered - By Sophia SharpChapter One~An Ordinary Life~Laura Cubus lived an ordinary life, in a very ordinary school.She went to a public high school in Vancouver, Washington, located the outskirts of nearby Portland. She had b...
Shapeshifter
Shapeshifter - By Holly BennettPREFACEThose of you who have read The Warrior’s Daughter will already know about my love affair with Irish mythology. But for the newcomers among you, here’s a bit of background:Two thou...
Shadows of the Redwood
Shadows of the Redwood - By Gillian SummersAcknowledgmentsMuch of the research for this book was done online. However, huge thanks to Dexter Henry for walking the big woods and shaking the redbark dust from his hiking boots, g...
Shadows at Stonewylde
Shadows at Stonewylde - By Kit Berry1The girl slipped down the path, her cloak flaring behind her as she hurried on light feet. She clutched the wicker basket containing the precious fruits she’d gathered. Her eyes still...
Shadowrealm
Shadowrealm - By Paul S. KempCHAPTER ONE1 Nightal, The Year of Lightning Storms (1374 DR)For hours I pace the dark halls of the Wayrock’s temple. The anxious stomps of my boots on stone are the war drums of my battle ...
Shadowcry
Shadowcry - By Jenna BurtenshawPrologueAt the southern edge of a moonlit city, a woman stood over an open grave. The blue edge of a tower’s long shadow sliced across the ground beside her feet and the grave yawned like...
Shadowbridge
Shadowbridge - By Gregory FrostONEThe first time Leodora spoke to a god, she had climbed to the top of the bridge tower and she was masked.It was late in her third day on the span called Vijnagar, a broad segment on one o...
Shadow Magic
Shadow Magic - By Jaida JonesCHAPTER ONEMAMORUOn the seventh and final day of mourning for the loss of the war, my brother Iseul came to my chambers to tell me that our father was dead.I had been expecting the news for som...
Shadow Hunt
Shadow Hunt - By Erin KellisonPrologueMarcie rinsed her chef ’s knife in the kitchen sink of the Segue Institute, and in a flash of overhead light on the long triangle of steel, she caught the brief reflection of an un...
Serafina and the Virtual Man
Serafina and the Virtual Man - By Marie TreanorChapter OneThe house was a modern monstrosity, all sharp lines, glass, and concrete, like a city office block mysteriously teleported into otherwise pleasant countryside.Jilly wrinkled...
Serafina and the Silent Vampire
Serafina and the Silent Vampire - By Marie TreanorChapter OneSerafina was having a blast.Not only had she strung smelly garlic bulbs all over Ferdinand Bell’s large, beautiful house on the outskirts of Edinburgh and defaced...
Secrets of the Fire Sea
Secrets of the Fire Sea - By Stephen HuntCHAPTER ONEThe Isle of Jago. Hermetica CityWatching the underwater craft carrying the ambassador away from Jago’s shores was as good a way as any to pass the afternoon, if you co...
School Spirits
School Spirits - By Rachel HawkinsCHAPTER 1Killing a vampire is actually a lot easier than you’d think. I know movies and TV make it look really hard, like if you don’t hit the right spot, it won’t work. But...