It was the ultimate cold case. The murders occurred on Mars twenty years ago, so how can Detective Inspector Richardson, a local policeman from Melbourne, Australia, track down the murderer – and why is he being asked to?It was the ultimate cold case. The murders occurred on Mars twenty years ago, so how can Detective Inspector Richardson, a local policeman from Melbourne, Australia, track down the murderer – and why is he being asked to?Twenty years ago, the Prometheus landed in the Hellas Basin on Mars and all the crew died from unknown causes. When an historic site survey crew arrive, they find that the circumstances of the deaths weird and inexplicable. Yet secret coded instructions from the UN space agency HQ on Earth indicates that these circumstances were somehow known in advance. This is murder and Detective Inspector Richardson, a local detective from Melbourne, is called in to solve the case. There are only four people with means and opportunity, all of them are highly focused, very intelligent and none of them, apparently, has a convincing motive. Richardson must sort out their stories to find the guilty, all the time wondering why he was given this job at all.Joseph H.J. Liaigh started out studying the polar ice caps on Mars. Since then he has worked as a government scientist, an Air Force intelligence officer and an academic. He has studied everything from the methane streams on Titan to the flat topped volcanoes of Venus. Through all this, he has been an avid devotee of detective fiction. In The Prometheus Incident, he brings these two worlds together in a unique way to create an unusual and intriguing mystery.

Hannah and her mother Marla moved to a new place : a new house, in Melbourne. Neither of the two had slightest idea how soon the things would start changing!Hannah and her mother Marla moved to a new place : a new house, in Melbourne. Neither of the two had slightest idea how soon the things would start changing! Marla not only found a new place to work at but also a new place to live in! Twists and turns in place on such a short notice that things totally slipped out of their hands!.........Thank you for downloading this free ebook. You are welcome to share it with your friends butplease do not post or archive without asking me first. If you like the story, please tell yourfriends, add the title to reading lists etc but direct people back to my official distribution sites.Please keep this book in its complete original form, with the exception of quotes used inreviews. No alteration of the content is allowed.Your support and respect for the property of this author is appreciated.This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, eventsor locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author’s imagination andused fictitiously.

Jesse Ellsworth is just another girl who's mission was lost in translation. Her story isn't a complicated one, but that doesn't make it happy. We've all known of a girl like Jesse Ellsworth..“The Snake Riders of Spacemark Four” is the second thrilling adventure of the “Jenny In Space” series. This episode continues the heroic efforts of a 13-year-old named Jenny Thompson. In episode one, a mysterious housekeeper named Relli is hired to bring order to a household in chaos. Relli quickly becomes Jenny’s devoted friend, plus one more complication; she is able to predict the future. Relli reveals visions that change Jenny's life forever. "I see the name 'Jenny of Earth' emblazoned across the cosmos,” Relli tells Jenny. The Snake Riders of Spacemark Four is the first step in fulfilling Relli’s outlandish prophesy. While delivering water from Earth, Jenny and Born are kidnapped and held for a ransom of water, the most precious commodity in our area of the galaxy. While a hostage, Jenny forms a special bond with a creature that initially terrifies her. Naming him 'Grakar', Jenny and her battle snake fight ravenous Rachars on their way to saving the Treech race from extinction. Share in the laughter and friendships Jenny forms and the bond of respect she unconsciously forges between her and a worthy race of beings that live in the depths of Spacemark Four.

Time is running out. A rogue agent is on the run, and a bomb is ticking. If only they knew where to find it.Tom Blake lives among the shadows, a Special Forces veteran whose identity is officially denied. His covert Deep Sleepers programme was supposed to flush out the terrorists. But something’s gone badly wrong. An undercover agent is missing, feared to be planning a devastating bomb attack.Time is running out. A rogue agent is on the run, and a bomb is ticking. If only they knew where to find it.“Awesome read full of twists and turns. Once you pick it up you can't put it down.”Tom Blake lives among the shadows, a Special Forces veteran whose identity is officially denied. His covert Deep Sleepers programme was supposed to flush out the terrorists. But something’s gone badly wrong. An undercover agent is missing, and feared to be behind plans for a devastating bomb attack designed to kill and maim hundreds of people. And so Blake is thrown into a desperate race against time - not only to stop the bombers - but to save his own reputation. Deep Sleepers is a frighteningly plausible and topical, lightning-paced read. If you’re a fan of compulsive, gripping thrillers from authors such as Lee Child, Vince Flynn, JB Turner, Stephen Leather, Chris Ryan and Mark Dawson, you won’t be disappointed by the Tom Blake thriller series. REVIEWS“This book had me hooked right from the beginning.”“The best book I've read for some time.”“This book grabs you by the collar and drags you into a fast paced, exciting world...the action is relentless and keeps you absorbed right to the end”“Very hard to put down”“The multiple layers of the tale open out like a flower but keep you guessing until almost the end.”ABOUT THE AUTHORAdrian is a journalist with more than twenty years experience working in television and newspapers - experience which continues to shape his fiction. Influenced from an early age by writers such as Frederick Forsyth, Alistair MacLean, Colin Forbes and Clive Cussler, it was with a certain inevitability that he started writing thrillers.Deep Sleepers is his debut novel featuring his maverick hero, Tom Blake, a former Special Forces psychologist working on a covert Government programme to tackle terrorism. Adrian is married to fellow indie author, Amanda Wills. They live in Kent, with their two boys, Oliver and Thomas, and their two cats. Find out how to keep up to date with all Adrian's offers and latest news at www.adrianwills.co.uk

A new collection of electrifying horror tales by the author of Zombie Drug Run.Let author C.G. Banks take you in his skeletal hand and lead you off into the darkness where an infamous hurricane, three seemingly innocuous photos, and a demonic professor lay in wait to claim you.

People have been pouring into the city for months. Now it's surrounded by invading armies. Cadiz is the last holdout of an inevitable invasion. As queen, Sarah suspects the end is near, but then as all hope seems lost she encounters someone. Someone whose survival is more important than her city. Who is this person and how could they possibly get out of Cadiz?This is a short story, roughly 10 pages. It was created as an assignment for a college level creative writing course. Tris Caldwell, mother of three and a full time nurse, works in the Emergency room of the local hospital. A city in which the crimes are normally petty, at least those that the citizens know about. When the unthinkable happens, a shooting at one of the local elementary schools, Tris and her co-workers prepare for the worst. As the death toll rises, only one child is brought in along with the man responsible for killing several children.

A stressed out ER nurse faces her worst fear when the suspect of a school shooting is brought in on her shift... alive.This is a short story, roughly 10 pages. It was created as an assignment for a college level creative writing course. Tris Caldwell, mother of three and a full time nurse, works in the Emergency room of the local hospital. A city in which the crimes are normally petty, at least those that the citizens know about. When the unthinkable happens, a shooting at one of the local elementary schools, Tris and her co-workers prepare for the worst. As the death toll rises, only one child is brought in along with the man responsible for killing several children.

Ellie Doyle gets involved. It's not all it's cracked up to be, especially when there's a twelve-year-old vampire, a roomful of maniacs, and an unsympathetic roommate.This is the very short story of the time Ellie Doyle joins the Anti-Vampire League and the disaster that quickly follows. When Katie, roommate and crusader alike, insists that Ellie get involved in something, neither of them fully expects that it would go like this.

2012 Anderbo Self-Published Book Award Entry of Note Honorable Mention at the 2012 Paris Book FestivalYou'll be entranced by these twenty-four stories as Nath Jones finds her way into this fun and biting life. She does not shy away from mortality but conducts you from the kaleidoscopic moment when a toddler loses her innocence to the last breath an old man takes in a rowboat at sunrise.About the On Impulse eBook Series:If you read the tag on a shirt and think, "Man. That's pretty manipulative," these books are for you. The On Impulse series plays with the storytelling impulse: how we create our worlds, mold our minds, set our sights, and shape our legacies. In such a fast-paced culture each of us must be conscious of how words can operate for and against us. The series invites the reader to contemplate how we use language now: online, in full-length books, and with each other.

This is a Study Guide for Jolly Time Books: Chasing Kelly’s Shadow, book 2 of an exciting children’s trilogy. You are encouraged to order a copy of the book before using this study guide. Most readers use this guide by first reading a chapter from the book, and then reviewing the corresponding section from this guide. The questions will facilitate meaningful conversations with readers.This is the story of John Lincoln as he travels from the suburbs of Macon Georgia to New York City and finally to the Roger’s farm in Howard County Missouri. It’s on this farm a wayward spirit discovers a life he couldn’t have ever imagined, a place to heal and have his faith in mankind restored.With intense highs and crushing lows this is the story of the enduring nature of the human spirit caught in the grip of addiction, internalized homophobia, prostitution, confusion, loss and adversity.From the ashes, a modern day family is forged from the fires of fate in this most unlikely of places, a cattle farm in Missouri, The Pride of Howard County.From the cotton country of Texas to the battle fields of World War I and finally a farm in God’s country sets the story of Gus and Grace Rogers. Through the floods and droughts with pure determination rises from the rich black dirt the two thousand nine hundred and sixty acre, Pride of Howard County.Now an aging farmer, Gus had never forgiven himself after losing his beloved young son in a tragic accident then followed by his daughter’s mysterious disappearance. And finally, with the death of his wife, he couldn’t imagine ever finding happiness again until he hires a young farm hand. This sets in motion a series of events that spiritually repairs the painful past. Gus’s beautiful daughter, Abigail, nearly loses everything in order to find herself and finally after many years returns to her parent’s farm to regain her father, her lost childhood and find in a stranger, her lost brother.And there’s Lucky, the fearless half starved Collie/Sheppard mix from nowhere that befriends the easy going Chocolate Lab, Muncie. And it would be this Muncie’s destiny to save the man that saved him and make it possible for this new age family to mend.

This is the story of John Lincoln as he travels from the suburbs of Macon Georgia to New York City and finally to the Roger’s farm in Howard County Missouri. It’s on this farm a wayward spirit discovers a life he couldn’t have ever imagined, a place to heal and have his faith in mankind restored.With intense highs and crushing lows this is the story of the enduring nature of the human spirit caugThis is the story of John Lincoln as he travels from the suburbs of Macon Georgia to New York City and finally to the Roger’s farm in Howard County Missouri. It’s on this farm a wayward spirit discovers a life he couldn’t have ever imagined, a place to heal and have his faith in mankind restored.With intense highs and crushing lows this is the story of the enduring nature of the human spirit caught in the grip of addiction, internalized homophobia, prostitution, confusion, loss and adversity.From the ashes, a modern day family is forged from the fires of fate in this most unlikely of places, a cattle farm in Missouri, The Pride of Howard County.From the cotton country of Texas to the battle fields of World War I and finally a farm in God’s country sets the story of Gus and Grace Rogers. Through the floods and droughts with pure determination rises from the rich black dirt the two thousand nine hundred and sixty acre, Pride of Howard County.Now an aging farmer, Gus had never forgiven himself after losing his beloved young son in a tragic accident then followed by his daughter’s mysterious disappearance. And finally, with the death of his wife, he couldn’t imagine ever finding happiness again until he hires a young farm hand. This sets in motion a series of events that spiritually repairs the painful past. Gus’s beautiful daughter, Abigail, nearly loses everything in order to find herself and finally after many years returns to her parent’s farm to regain her father, her lost childhood and find in a stranger, her lost brother.And there’s Lucky, the fearless half starved Collie/Sheppard mix from nowhere that befriends the easy going Chocolate Lab, Muncie. And it would be this Muncie’s destiny to save the man that saved him and make it possible for this new age family to mend.

This is a story of a young man who finds that he has to make his way in life as a transgendered youth fighting for an education and learning that he is not alone in his fight.Dennis loses his Grandfather and learns that he has become the coinheriter of his Grandfathers farm. He soon starts a journey that involves many unpleasant things. He is abandoned by his mother and father and winds up killing two men when they try to kill him. His teacher learns of his gender identity and helps him over come the many obstacles that he must face to achieve an education and remain on his beloved farm. Others learn of it and he gains new friends that he had never had before. He must make the dicision to either live his life as Diane or return to the life of misery that he existed in. Read and find out.

Retold in poetic form, this is a short tale of the Grox people forced to sail across the seas in search of new land, after having their homes being taken over by the evil "Heedless" and the "Fearful".Retold in poetic form, this is a short tale of the Grox people forced to sail across the high seas in search of new land, after having their homes being taken over by the evil "Heedless" and the "Fearful". Guided by the Sun and chasing after sightings of the sacred "Object", the Grox sails across the seas, being pursuit by the heedless and the fearful who are bent on corrupting and destroying them.

After his son is killed in an accident, a writer tries to pull it together. He flees to his mountain cabin to write. After he finishes a great novel he heads back to New York. Or did he?Two researchers descend deep into the underground facility to feed the zombies and give them their weekly dose of Serum. Thanks to stringent security protocols, nothing can go wrong!THE 'ZOMBIES VS VAMPIRES VS DEMONS' WORLD:In a post-apocalyptic world, humans are a just valuable resource: zombies want their brains, vampires want their blood, and demons want their souls. Pure humans are difficult to come by, and the factions scrape what they need from each other, either through brute force or fragile alliances.SUPERNATURAL FANTASY STORY [1250 words]

A short guide to an e-book: formats, readers. Description of Amazon Kindle: devices, applications, publishing.Two researchers descend deep into the underground facility to feed the zombies and give them their weekly dose of Serum. Thanks to stringent security protocols, nothing can go wrong!THE 'ZOMBIES VS VAMPIRES VS DEMONS' WORLD:In a post-apocalyptic world, humans are a just valuable resource: zombies want their brains, vampires want their blood, and demons want their souls. Pure humans are difficult to come by, and the factions scrape what they need from each other, either through brute force or fragile alliances.SUPERNATURAL FANTASY STORY [1250 words]