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When the magical WoodRock is stolen from the Land of Elyk, a wizard must find six volunteers to go with him on a dangerous journey to the Land of Nodnarb in the hope of retrieving the stone before something evil can take over the world. Along the way, these adventurers will face many obstacles, as well as their own mistrust of one another. On the Ocean Road, teens will be forced to become adults as they battle goblins, wicked trolls, and the fiercest creature of them all - the Gothmur.

When a young man inherits his grandfather's palatial mansion and movie studio, he learns of a mystery surrounding a film that was never finished because the leading actress vanished 75 years before. As he finds clues left by his grandfather, he is able to piece together what may have happened.

A collection of short stories that has various genres mixed together for an eclectic listening experience. If you like a bit of the supernatural, horror, adventure, slice of life, then you will enjoy this group of stories told as if around a campfire on a cool night.

When 10 people enter a little known Tennessee cave for a fashion shoot, they encounter something sinister beneath the surface and find themselves in a desperate quest to get out alive.

A fast moving tale of terror that takes place on Halloween night when a bunch of teens, thinking they are at a radio station's haunted house, find themselves taking a hayride to the real thing. It is the 20th anniversary of the McConnell farm slaughter, and several of the teens start to realize the special effects are a bit too realistic. How many will survive the night?

A small, isolated mountain town is thrown into fear as teens begin to turn up dead, completely drained of blood, but with no apparent puncture wounds. Fearing a serial killer walks among them, the local sheriff sets his eye on a young man who has had past trouble with the law and foretold the disaster on his radio program. Also showing up in town is a well-known newscaster looking for a big story that she can spin into national news. There is also an old legend about a blood demon....

This novelette is a spoof of all those Hallmark movies that women love and men love to hate. There are nine different stories tied together by a challenge from an aging movie star to her daughter's friends: that they find love within a year. A fast-moving parody that should leave the reader entertained and with a smile on their face.

A heartwarming tale of a young man who woke up after an auto crash with no memory of who he is or where he came from. The people of the small Colorado town where his accident occurred make him welcomed. A farm couple who gives him a place to live later gives him their last name as well by adopting him. Then he meets the girl who will eventually become his wife. As the years pass, they have two sons and later a granddaughter as life prospers. But what happens when he suddenly finds out about his past after living this peaceful life for more than 30 years?

A romantic and fun little novelette about what happens when Venus and Cupid bet on who can make someone fall in love first. To make it fair, their grandfather, Zeus, decides to forbid them the use of magic and then goes a step further by sending them both to Earth as neighbors to a teenage girl and her widowed father - who are also his chosen mortals for this little experiment.

A tale set during the start of World War II that involves the passengers of a cruise ship on its maiden voyage from New Brunswick to Iceland to pick up some European refugees. Once the new passengers are on board a group of Nazis take over the ship with the hope of finding the inventor of a doomsday bomb. The noble captain uses a snowstorm to head the ship straight into an ice-field at the Arctic Circle, thus leaving them snowbound. Decisions have to be made as to staying with the ship or making a dangerous trek across the snow and ice to a remote village.

Henry is a man ready to spend Spring Break with his best friends and their kids in Aspen, Colorado when he gets left with the five-year-old on the plane while the others do some last minute shopping. Delayed by the weather, his friends insist Henry and the boy go on and they will catch up later. A snowstorm is brewing as the plane takes off with 44 passengers and crew headed for the ski resort. When the plane crashes at the top of a 10,000 foot mountain, Henry realizes it is a miracle that almost everyone is alive and unhurt.

The tale of a 1928 excursion up the Amazon River to the Black Trench, a dangerous waterway through the jungle which leads to another mysterious river. The group of adventurers include a rich playboy and his two party girls, two priests with their own agenda, a famous hunter, and the man who brought them all together on this venture. With an experienced captain and crew, the steamboat will take them all to one of the most dangerous places on Earth as they discover a lost city, hostile natives, and more.

Four friends on vacation have to deal with the fact that one of them is seeing the ghost of her dead brother. This leaves them wondering if it is the intense heat of a summer drought or something supernatural? As the story unfolds they also come to realize that a wild pack of coyotes may present more danger than they originally anticipated. A fast paced little mystery that should leave the reader satisfied.

When Broadway diva Veronica Cagney is caught with the smoking gun over her dead husband, the private eye she hired pulls out all the stops to protect her in this 1940s noir inspired novelette. The fun really begins when the detective starts to piece together a puzzle of intrigue and murder as he finds himself involved with a gangster, the local sheriff, and the beautiful mistress of the victim. A fun little who-dunnit for a cold winter's night.

When you bring together a preacher, an outlaw, a teenage boy, and the Klan - you know trouble is bound to happen in the small Oklahoma town of Meeker. Add to that the mystery of who is a legendary gunfighter, and you have a rip-roaring Western in the classic tradition of Shane and The Sea of Grass.

While on vacation in Sedona, Arizona, retiree Darren Stevens starts to have strange dreams of murder. When the young couple next door begin to fight, he realizes the man is the person in his dreams. After telling the local police chief, newly appointed Margo Stanton, he is at first met with skepticism, but then as a series of murders in Sedona begin to happen, she starts to come around. Then the FBI is brought in on the case as they try to connect the recent murders with those of the past.

A collection of short stories with something for everyone - from horror to sci-fi, romance to adventure, and a little bit of everything in between.

A novelette about three young people who find themselves living at the lake cabins their parents took them to as children - the reason - a plague has swept across the country leaving 90 percent of the population as zombies.

This is the fourth and final book in the Zombie Bat series. When the zombie bats once again find a way to escape from their cave, all havoc breaks loose in the small Utah town that had been terrorized previously by the deadly creatures. And once again a group of teenage boys must come to the rescue in order to save those they love.

This is the third book in the Zombie Bats series, which once again finds a group of teens battling the zombie bats and trying to save their small Utah town from total destruction. Of course, matters become more complicated when gold is discovered in the old mine where the bats have made their home after the openings to the Lugosi Bat Cave have been closed off. Some new characters appear, as well as some of the old favorites. Come along for the adventure and enjoy the ride. Totally suitable for the entire family.