By day, she's overweight & klutzy Internet psychic Lisa Loy… By night, she becomes sleek & sexy martial arts crime-fighting superheroine Anna Fung… In her action/comedy debut adventure, superheroine Anna Fung spouts wisecracks and kicks ass when the big city of Urbana is hit by a crime wave: Robbery. Assault. Shakedowns. Children kidnapped off the streets and held for an outrageous ransom. Despite the warnings of handsome Detective Rocco DiGiovanni to let the cops do their own jobs, Anna attempts to locate and rescue the missing kids before the local crime boss makes good on his ultimatum: Pay up or the kids get killed! Anna Fung, Asian Bitch features classic pop culture references, dialogue cheesier than a plate of nachos and double entendres so obvious they make your head ache. It's filled with campy, over the top fun from beginning to end.
When the Powers of Darkness infest a small New England town... Rick Williams is the dependable, boy next door type. As his eighteenth birthday approaches, he suddenly experiences violent, unexplainable headaches. Enter Terrence, a mysterious substitute teacher at the local high school in scenic Maplecrest, Vermont. With Terrence’s encouragement and influence, a group of seemingly normal students turns a routine science lab experiment into a frenzy of sadistic mutilation. Now the tortured young man, a powerful psychic, and a desperate mother with a hidden past must fight for their lives and their souls against the evil that binds them together and threatens to destroy them all. Those who live to see the unholy ritual will discover that the Devil always collects his due.
Ten little girls sat at their computers Wondering who they’d find on line One entered a chat room with a killer And then there were nine. . . On the eve of the new millennium, thousands of people logged on to the Internet for the first time every day. Some were looking for love. Some were looking for victims. In The Killer Net, courageous police department secretary, Jennifer Warren, matches wits against a computer genius who lures women in under the pretense of looking for a relationship. He boldly taunts the police with e-mail poems about their murders sent from the crime scenes. The cops continue to arrive only to discover another dead body and no way to find a killer who has disappeared without a trace. Can Jennifer figure out the psychopath's true identity before she becomes the next victim?
Welcome to sex, sin, scandal, and secrets on a small New England college campus. Spoiler warning! The description of Episodes Seven To Twelve in the next paragraph will give away plot points if you haven't read the first six episodes yet! Skip down to the General Northbridge Description section below to discover what Northbridge is all about. Then start at the beginning reading Episodes One To Six before continuing with Episodes Seven To Twelve. Northbridge Fans – The wait is over! Pauline fights for dear life. Sarah tempts Scott. Elise comes home to an empty house and discovers it's not so empty after all. Diana discovers the campus killer's identity! And that's all just in episode seven... you won't believe what happens next! General Northbridge Description Northbridge – a town right out of a classic nighttime soap opera. Hot sex? Good, old-fashioned romance? Campus-wide scandal? Dirty secrets? Killer cliffhangers? Yeah, it's got all that! Newlywed Pauline Rondell gets more than she bargained for when her husband Scott convinces her to move to the small college town of Northbridge. She loved the glossy university brochure: The smiling football player and cheerleader crossing the quad. Ivy growing on the side of the building. Students reading under a tree ablaze with fall foliage. Pauline soon discovers the brochure left out a few important details: Sarah, her husband's old girlfriend who won't let go of the past. The professor whose desktop sees more action than a mattress salesman. The stalker lurking in the shadows. Not to mention what the rest of Pauline's new friends and neighbors in Northbridge are up to...
Slashers, stalkers, and supernatural threats await you in this eclectic horror collection from Breakthrough Novel Award Semifinalist author Matthew W. Grant. Perfect for Halloween or any time of the year you want a fun scare to make you scream. The Killer Net - On the eve of the new millennium, courageous police department secretary Jennifer Warren matches wits against a computer genius who lures women in under the pretense of looking for a relationship. He boldly taunts the police with e-mail poems about their murders sent from the crime scenes. Cops continually arrive to discover another dead body and a killer who has disappeared without a trace. Twisted Holiday Plans - Loner Mark Rossi hates the holidays. He's surprised to finally meet a woman who might change his outlook. Suspicion and secrets soon fester beneath the surface of this fragile new relationship. How long will it be before Mark harbors revenge in his heart and murder on his mind? Dark Secrets - When the Powers of Darkness infest a small New England town, a tortured young man, a powerful psychic, and a desperate mother with a hidden past fight for their lives and their souls against the evil that binds them together and threatens to destroy them all. Those who live to see the unholy ritual will discover that the Devil always collects his due. Lust for the Vampire - Colleen Dawson has waited a long time for the special night when she enters Club Fangtasy, nervous about her first time. Especially with a man who happens to be a vampire. Will the dark desires and forbidden attraction lead to eternal love or the final nail in the coffin? Night Before Christmas - FBI Agent Ross Benson just wants to have a normal Christmas. Instead, the determined and mysterious murderer known as the Christmas Eve Killer taunts the agent with gruesome twists on classic Christmas carols describing his bloody holiday crimes.
Witness his descent into madness when writer James Walek, suffering from a failing marriage and a stalled writing career, gets pushed over the edge by one too many of those insulting "Dear Author" rejection letters from publishers.
Eternal love or the final nail in the coffin... Colleen Dawson doesn't know how beautiful she really is. She's waited a long time for the special night when she enters Club Fangtasy, nervous about her first time. Especially with a man who happens to be a vampire. Ben Wilhelm won't reveal his age. (Isn't it rude to ask a vampire how old he is?) Ben's not looking for love; he's just looking for a warm place to sink his fangs for the night. When he sees the young woman across the dance floor, feelings are awakened deep within him that he hasn't experienced in over a century. The revelation of a shocking secret organization raises the stakes, putting both their lives in jeopardy. What do you do when your survival depends on someone you don't really trust? Will the dark desires and forbidden attraction between a vampire and a human lead to eternal love or the final nail in the coffin? This standalone paranormal romantic suspense novella contains romance, action, and adventure as well as an HEA ending.
Sex, Sin, and Scandal in a Small New England Town... Interweaving the humor and mystery of Desperate Housewives with the drama and romance of Days of Our Lives throughout the novel, Matthew W. Grant breathes new life into the genre of small town potboilers. From heiress Nancy Harrison fighting the manipulations and objections of her powerful family as she pursues a romance with mechanic Roy Trembley to Melinda Rollins, the minister's daughter who is cheating on her millionaire fiance... From the crazy old lady harboring a deadly grudge, to the young girl who finds herself pregnant, single, and stuck with a playboy boyfriend afraid of commitment... You're invited into the hearts, souls, and bedrooms of the residents of Slaters Falls where families of varying wealth and stature find their lives intertwined by sex, sin, scandal, and secrets. Among the ensemble cast of spiteful busybodies, ambitious social climbers, sleazy hunks, conniving bitches, dirty cops, and scheming murderers, several achieve meaningful change. Secrets of Slaters Falls is classic soap opera that tackles controversial topics such as abortion, racism, and drug abuse. Not since best-selling classic Peyton Place has a novel so thoroughly exposed the secrets and lies that fester beneath the picture-perfect surface of every small town.
Northbridge – a town right out of a classic nighttime soap opera. Hot sex? Good, old-fashioned romance? Campus-wide scandal? Dirty secrets? Killer cliffhangers? Yeah, it's got all that! Newlywed Pauline Rondell gets more than she bargained for when her husband Scott convinces her to move to the small college town of Northbridge. She loved the glossy university brochure: The smiling football player and cheerleader crossing the quad. Ivy growing on the side of the building. Students reading under a tree ablaze with fall foliage. Pauline soon discovers the brochure left out a few important details: Sarah, her husband's old girlfriend who won't let go of the past. The professor whose desktop sees more action than a mattress salesman. The stalker lurking in the shadows. Not to mention what the rest of Pauline's new friends and neighbors in Northbridge are up to...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems. “Grand and dizzying in how thoroughly it recalibrates our understanding of the natural world.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Time, BBC Science Focus, The Daily Mail, Geographical, The Times, The Telegraph, New Statesman, London Evening Standard, Science Friday When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight, yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In the first edition of this mind-bending book, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This exquisitely designed volume, abridged from the original, features more than one hundred full-color images that bring the spectacular variety, strangeness, and beauty of fungi to life as never before. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. By examining fungi on their own terms, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works. Winner of the Wainwright Prize, the Royal Society Science Book Prize, and the Guild of Food Writers Award • Shortlisted for the British Book Award • Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize
