The opening chapter of USA Today bestselling author, David Chill's novel builds the tension of the business world, a man's family life, and an assassination plan, all before the story even kicks off.

Curse of the Afflicted by David Chill

​David Chill was born and raised in New York City. After receiving his undergraduate degree from SUNY-Oswego, he moved to Los Angeles where he earned a Masters degree from the University of Southern California. 

David Chill is the author of nine novels: Post Pattern, Fade Route, Bubble Screen, Safety Valve, Corner Blitz, Nickel Package, Double Pass, Tampa Two, and Curse Of The Afflicted. Post Pattern was a finalist in the St. Martin's Press contest for new writers. The Burnside series has received much critical acclaim. David Chill presently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

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WARNING: This episode contains language not suitable for children.

​When his friend is murdered on the streets in a way eerily familiar to him, a war vet and ne'er-do-well from the Frisco Streets decides to take matters into his own hands.

​Death in the Sunset by Guy Riessen

​Guy Riessen has been a devoted horror, sci-fi, and fantasy fan from day one…maybe it was year five, I dunno, those early years are a little hazy from this end. A game master and role-playing zealot who happily creates worlds for any system from D&D to Call of Cthulhu, Guy found the siren call to write impossible to ignore, so he loaded up his truck and he moved to Beverly… 

No wait, hold on, that’s jumping the gun … he was a phlebotomist--before it was even cool to be a phlebotomist. Then, not ready to give up the ‘ph,’ he spent several years working in a photolab back when cameras had to be filled with stuff called film, which despite the name, had almost nothing to do with soap scum. Oh, and there were a dozen years spent drawing pixels on a screen and calling it video game art … followed by another dozen years drawing pixels on a screen, but this time calling it visual effects for motion pictures. There was some other stuff mixed in there—construction, computer programming, game designing, a degree from UC Berkeley—but when there’s a siren call, you answer it, right? I mean, it ain’t Avon, it’s an effin’ siren, yeah?

So he decided to start creating high-octane thrill-rides, made of cool words and rad punctuation, about badass Miskatonic Researchers laying down the hurt on the minions of the Mythos, and other sweet dark fiction rides jacked up on nitrous, with a wide-open throttle. And that’s when you guys join the story, so buckle up, man. It’s time to fire up the e-reader and get ready to rock and roll.

Or you could do the tea thing, in a comfy chair, cuddled up with your paperback or your e-reader. There’s always that, and Guy won’t judge. He’s cool like that.

Visit his website at https://www.guyriessen.com

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800 years after a dark lord invaded their kingdom, planning to steal all that made the lands special the four fairy groups are fighting back. Fairy Tales are about magic, fantasy, good versus evil, and love conquering all.

Magic's Betrayal by Anna-Violetta Carsini

​Anna-Violetta Carsini is the pen name for author Lorri Moulton. Lorri Moulton lives on a farm in eastern Washington with her family and five horses. She has a Master’s degree in history. Under her pen name, Anna-Violetta Carsini, She writes steamy paranormal romantic suspense. Her book, "Moonlight, Roses & Murder" is the first in this series. To see the rest of her books, go to amazon.com/Lorri-Moulton/e/B01KYE7VNA/

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Having stumbled upon a ghostly farmhouse that isn't supposed to exist anymore, and finding items and vehicles of a bygone era, all new and seeming abandoned, our heroine begins to wonder if maybe she's passed through a portal that's less about time and more about the nature of existence itself.

A Meadow in Saanich (part 2) by Valerie Albemarle

​Born on the wrong side of the iron curtain in Soviet Russia, Valerie Albemarle discovered a different universe in England where she spent five years of her childhood. With a diplomat and writer father, and a professor of Farsi mother, both firm believers in the immersion method of learning a foreign language, at the age of five she found herself immersed in a Church of England primary school where she began to understand and speak English, and to keep down the dreadfully unfamiliar lunches, out of sheer need to survive. Growing up with two languages and two great literary traditions has shaped her stereoscopic vision of the world and her style as a writer: Russian lyricism blended with English refusal to take her characters too seriously. 

Upon graduating from the University of Guelph in 2008 Valerie settled in Squamish, BC to work as an associate veterinarian and later as a locum. In 2010 she launched a blog, Animal Doctor in Transition, reflecting on the practice of veterinary medicine and on what we can and should learn from animals. She made her literary debut in 2011 with the short story "How to Resuscitate Roses" published in the anthology Canadian Voices volume II, and went on to write two novella-length stories which don’t fit into journals and therefore ended up on Kindle. "Michael," a magical realism story on the nature of time and deadlines, earned five stars from Reader’s Favorite. In "Killer of a Mind" the instinct for survival leads to an unusual case of revenge: a man threatens his enemy's sanity rather than his life. Her first novel "Reticence" is a meditative and lighthearted story built around the Russian immigrant experience in Canada. She is currently working on two novels in the magical realism key, both drawing on her Russian roots and one also exploring the crippling effects of war on human nature. She writes a regular column in the West Coast Veterinarian magazine on issues affecting wildlife, and is working to bring public attention to the plight of moose trapped in abandoned telegraph wire in the wilderness of BC.

You can follow her blog at animaldoc-transitions.blogspot.com/ 

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