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Steel Town
Two boys, the best of friends, come to age in the steamy jungle of a distant land, a place as foreign as a distant planet. The enemy more determined than believed, is more than willing to sacrifice his life. In the arena of war, the will to survive is tested in a chess match of life and death, where disfigurement becomes a reality…during a firestorm of battle a face becomes a half a face, a “pretty boy” is no longer the vision of a Greek god. Boyhood dreams are put to task and the bonds of friendship strained. In Steel Town, a city of immigrant workers, people struggle to understand the controversy of change. The old, traditional ways are challenged,but is the change for the better?
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The Stolen Tome; a World of Ethynia Novel
Morgan Glendennings, aristocrat wizard, is at a crossroads. She believes her family’s mysterious heirloom holds a secret. After much research, she learns of an ancient book that contains the information she needs.
When the book is lost during shipment, Morgan suspects it has been stolen. She hires a shadowy rogue named Axel to help get it back. Together, they pursue the book and the men who stole it.
Axel’s distrust of wizards and all things magical only complicates matters, especially when the chase takes longer and covers a greater distance than either expected. As the mystery unfolds, they end up caught in the intricate plots and schemes of the thieves who stole the book. Morgan and Axel press on, trying to find out who paid for the thieves’ services.
Why would anyone go to such lengths to steal the very book that Morgan needs?
Will they ever unravel the secrets and significance of the Stolen Tome?
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Loving Lynn Celia
Arriving in the British colony of Georgia in March, 1756, Lynn Celia Claxton soon finds herself widowed and on the run from the law. Slipping aboard a flatboat on the Savannah River, she is discovered by young Thomas Simpson, the son of the boat's owner. From that moment, their lives are forever intertwined. In this bittersweet prequel to A Lesser Form of Patriotism, author and historical researcher G.G. Stokes, Jr. brings the turbulent and bitter years of the French and Indian War to life. It is a tale of love and hope, danger and disappointment.
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Pathogen
Throughout history, medical wizards have hawked their wares, claiming to cure widely diverse maladies. Enter, Carlos Gonzales, a native of the rainforest, who sells a powder made from frog skins, lethal enough to cause “the bleeding death.” This medical mystery takes suspense to new heights when the impending peril reaches into the U.S. political scene, all the way to the President of the United States.
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A Village Shattered
The Valley Retirement Village is the scene of a serial killer’s revenge. Who is alphabetically killing Sew and So Club members, and why? When the newly-elected sheriff botches the investigation, Dana Logan and Sarah Cafferty, widows living in the village, decide to solve the murders themselves. Dana, a mystery novel buff, and Sarah, a private investigator’s widow, soon make a sobering discovery: they are also on the killer’s list. Dana’s beautiful daughter Kerrie, a news correspondent, arrives, complicating matters, but she quickly proves her value in the investigation. San Joaquin Valley fog hides the killer as well as hindering the murder case. The plot is sprinkled with romance as well as humor in this first novel of the Logan & Cafferty senior sleuth series.
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Switcheroo
Fired without warning from his analyst job in San Francisco, Nick Oliver retreats to the solitude of the coastal redwoods. While pondering his future at a cozy cafe, a stranger approaches and introduces herself. Erin Archer insists that Nick, or that place where he worked, is involved in the death of her father. Although Nick has never met Erin's father, he reluctantly makes queries at his former place of employment, which pulls Nick and Erin into a non-stop adventure involving fraudulent stock schemes and murder.
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Them's Fightin' Words! A Writer's Guide to Writing Fight Scenes
Join stuntman and author Teel James Glenn as he takes you on a literary journey through the process of creating believable and dramatically valid action scenes in every kind of fiction He takes the mystery out of writing action, but not the excitement! From Fantasy swordfights to martial arts knockabouts, he not only explains literary violence, he also explores techniques that allow you to create them yourself.
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Needle
Officers Ryan Matson and Sandy Rie meet on the Alpha Queen 9, furthermost outpost of the Alliance fleet. Sandy and Ryan establish a personal and professional relationship, which eventually develops into a first-class team flying updated Needle 2’s. The Kritsch, a race of sentient insects (‘bugs’), are inimical to all other sentient life and hinder the Alliance’s advance up the arm of the galaxy. Each mission Ryan and Sandy fly brings them closer to that last, fatal mistake that could be the end for them and would likely result in a pull-back of Alliance space exploration
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Hierath
The world stands on the edge of peace, the first peace for a thousand years. A fragile alliance has been formed between the New Kingdom and Telesia, and they have agreed in principle to set aside their centuries-old quarrel over land and culture. The deal has been forged by the efforts of Alex, the peace-loving newcomer to the throne. But things are about to change. Alex meets and falls in love with Lydia, a fisher's daughter from the east, to the displeasure of both his family and his friends. His aunt has already arranged for the alliance with Telesia to become a permanent and marital one, and the sudden arrival of Lydia throws all her carefully laid plans into jeopardy. And then an horrific act of betrayal drives the world once more to the brink of war.
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In Exile
Alone and in hiding, the young widowed Queen takes on a new identity as she grieves the death of her husband and the loss of her newborn son, abandoned to the care of strangers for his own protection. Hatred for the man who ripped away all she held dear tempers her grief and haunts her nightmares as she relives his brutality, his betrayal. The support of her cousin and a new love do little to ease the pain of her emotional scars, until a face from the past finds her in Cape Carey with a revelation that sends her on a journey across the Kingdom, from the high mountains of the north to the rolling hills of the Estmarch, her birthplace. It is a mission to restore hope.
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The Magic and the Mundane
The writer's world is both magical, the art of writing, and mundane, the craft.
Journey with your host and guide, Esumera, muse extraordinaire, and her feline companion, Mystique,
as they inspire you to explore the magic of writing and elevate the mundane.
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Pumping Your Muse
NON-FICTION. CRAFT OF WRITING.
Pumping Your Muse drives the imagination through a series of world-building drills. Each chapter extracts elements from the real world and uses them to construct a believable fictional realm. Characters and plots naturally emerge. This innovative process takes fresh scenes, turns them upside down and propels the imagination into new unchartered territories on the Flip Side. Here thought processes depart from the path of the obvious to discover fun and unique possibilities. Following the examples in this book, writer's scenes meld into a storyline complete with a beginning, middle and end. Maps complement the timeline while providing structure to flesh out details for a completed manuscript. Whether you're a seasoned author suffering from writer's block or a fledgling writer looking for inspiration and guidance, this book is for you. Get ready to pump your muse.
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Benning's War
"Benning's War" follows an American soldier from the Battle of the Waxhaws to Kings Mountain, and beyond. War, friendship, and love in the American Colonies.
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Absent the Soul
A body Absent the Soul is dead, but does it mean that if a person is alive, he or she automatically possesses a soul? Between the covers of this collection of short mysteries, you'll find both, the living and the dead, who are Absent the Soul.
You'll see the murder victims after the souls have been wrenched from their bodies. You'll step into the lives of the realistic detectives and everyday citizens who are tasked with bringing the killers to justice. You'll grow to love these characters and root for them as they sift through lies, suspects, and clues in their quest for the truth. Finally, you'll meet the killers themselves. You'll learn why they crossed over to the dark side and committed the ultimate crime of violence.
If you like mystery and suspense, you'll like what you find in this collection and -- after reading it -- you'll be happy that you are not Absent the Soul.
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Windwalker
Hundreds of years ago, the Stygian race welcomed disease-riddled Jonnick to their shores despite prophetic warnings. Concealed powers of darkness disembark with the refugees. Subsequent generations of conflict draw lines of division between the two cultures unaware that the spirit of the Mage lives within the queen. Paranoia and fear prompt the issuance of royal decrees designed to thwart the coming of the Stygian savior—the Arich. Midwives ordered to report the birth of any child born on a moonless night know it means death to the child. Effects of the law trickle to the present where Manelin, a social outcast, and Jalil, a lame Jonnick girl find themselves thrust into the midst of unfolding ancient prophecies and a world on the verge of annihilation.
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Tales of a Warrior Priest
Return to the world of Altiva, first visited in the novel Death at Dragonthroat, a world of crystal magic and cruel combat where young Lord Erique Shoutte becomes a master swordsman and a devoted priest of the Kova religion. Follow his adventures in a series of linked short stories as he quests for love, knowledge and martial perfection and fights serpents, dictators, demons and deadly damsels along the way. These tales that range from the heroic, to the mysterious to swashbuckling adventure. In the classic tradition of Conan, Zorro and Captain Blood!
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Death at dragonthroat
The strangest day in T.K. Mitchell's life began with a slight hangover and a woman beside him. By nightfall, he was on another world running for his life from an evil empire, an assassin and a mysterious shadowbeast that was stalking all the travellers trapped at the inn called Dragonthroat... This is where the adventure begins.
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Other People's Lives
CONTEMPORARY FICTION, SHORT STORY COLLECTION. Everyday life is full of joys and sorrows, triumphs and failures. In the thirty-four stories in this collection you will share in the laughter and tears of Other People's Lives.
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Return to Ukoo
FANTASY
Homicide cop Dale Hern has been very successful using a psychic gift to visualize crimes until his 40th birthday. Suddenly it stops working and he finds himself facing dragons and more in the Kingdom of Ukoo.
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The Lucifer Syndrome
“BETTER TO REIGN IN HELL THAN SERVE IN HEAVEN…”
Sacrilegious slaughter unleashes a reign of terror exposing a decadent underworld of vice and depravity lurking beneath the surface of metropolitan London.
Bizarre murders by a mysterious figure known as the Samaritan, driven by apocalyptic visions to fulfil his terrifying destiny.
Investigating the slayings with the help of Dr. Cassandra Stark, an enigmatic and brilliant psychiatrist, Detective Inspector James Verlaine is plunged into a world of snuff films, political corruption and a labyrinthine conspiracy dedicated to an totalitarian agenda. Closing in on this evil cabal Verlaine learns the truth about the power wielded by a secret elite that operates above the law…and the horrifying secret spawned in an asylum for the criminally insane.
Discovering the Samaritan’s identity Verlaine is forced into a confrontation with the forces of darkness, culminating in catastrophic violence as the killer’s dark odyssey reaches its bloody conclusion.
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The Vision Quest Factor
Vision Quest is a tale of three individuals who cross paths in their fight against evil.
Dave Gilbert hides a secret: he can read minds. Recruited into a government program called Project Hades, he is given a new name, and sent on a mission to save the society that spurned him.
James Morningeagle, one of four human children, is kidnapped by the Mensorsa aliens and raised on their world for the purpose of controlling mankind's destiny. Returned to earth as Christopher Monitor, he must learn to be human while fighting a sinister force that knows his secret.
Phillip Simon killed a man in a fit of jealously and is condemned to die. Moments before his execution, the Mensorsa appear and offer him a devil’s bargain: serve them and their Monitors and he can live. But he must agree to become a composite creature with a symbiotic alien. Together they are called the Symborg.
Each is on a journey of self-discovery that, even if successful, could end in the destruction of the planet…
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A Lesser Form of Patriotism, Stokes
It is said that during the American Revolution, more American's served in the British forces than in the Continental Army of the United States. This is the story of their fight to hold British positions across the South: Savannah, Augusta, Hammond's Store, Ninety-Six, and Long Swamp Village.
In this frontier war, there is no Valley Forge, no Saratoga, no Yorktown. It evolves into a struggle that pits brother against brother, and neighbor against neighbor. The heroes and heroines are simple people who believed in their cause as fervently as did those Americans who fought to free themselves from English rule.
A Lesser Form of Patriotism tells their story of love, death, courage, loyalty, and defeat as it chronicles the end of a way of life that began when the first English foot stepped ashore in the New World and ended with the closing shots of the American Revolution.
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Shanghaied Heart
Rachael, at fifteen, needs a good husband--in the worst possible way. Catholic and the lone Black teenager living on the fringes of a 1960s Pacific Northwest farming community, she is pregnant from a violent rape. As her only hope to protect her father, her unborn child, and herself from the rapist’s retaliatory death threats, she maneuvers an unwilling fellow student into a shotgun marriage to disguise the source of her pregnancy. But marriage to a White boy during this era highlighted by the US Civil Rights Movement carries its own share of challenges, which she and her conscripted husband struggle to overcome. Will this tenuous marriage develop the strength to rescue Rachael and her daughter when the rapist returns with revenge and murder on his mind? Or will her shanghaied White husband abandon her in the face of death?
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The Bratwurst Kidnapping
Karl Von Steppeon’s young wife, Liesel, has gone missing. Not certain if she ran away or was snatched, Karl keeps it out of the media and decides to hire the Connute Agency made up of two French Canadian PI’s, Roofy Contu and Pec LaNute. If not for their remarkable reputation for bagging the bad guys, they could be mistaken as the second coming of Laurel and Hardy.
Weaving through the tapestry of intrigue, attempted murders, and a double cross, Roofy and Pec come across some very colorful individuals. One such character, Sam, a transvestite who dances professionally at the My Oh My Club, sets Roofy off kilter, and from there things go progressively downhill.
Who snatched, Liesel? Who took shots at Roofy? Who the heck is Sam? Join the odd couple detectives as they wend their way down the bumpy road of clues in their mission to solve the puzzle.
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Beyond the Fifth Gate
Elita awakens from a nightmare in which she struggles as a 12-year-old against an insectoid race that carries her into captivity. Now twelve years later, her reality is one of forced labor. She lives in a hive complex where humans are forbidden to speak, write, or read. The promise of freedom swells when the prophetic conjunction of five planets marks the long-awaited Kamali's Cycle. But first, as the Chosen, she must travel through five mystical gates during the planets' conjunction and return to Haldis with items key to that freedom. Elita follows Kamali's light into a cave in the eastern foothills. The portal closes behind her, and the first gate opens to a one way quest into strange worlds and a race to collect what she needs from beyond each gate to free her people before time runs out. How will she know what to take from world to world?
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Escape [A Wyoming Historical Novel]
ESCAPE creates a vivid account of the days when posses pursued Wyoming bank robbers. Andrea Bordeaux lives with her grandparents. When outlaws arrive, her grandmother shears Andrea’s long hair, puts her in overalls, and calls her Andy, hoping to protect her. Unfortunately, the outlaws take Andy with them and leave her grandparents injured. Andy finds herself thrust into the midst of Wild Bunch members who take her to the Hole in the Wall, where they plan the Belle Fourche Bank robbery. Only Billy knows the truth about her gender and she’s sworn him to secrecy. Following an attack by a vicious outlaw intent on carving her face, Butch Cassidy himself promises she can return home after their planned bank job. Meanwhile, the Four-State Governor’s Pact is enacted to rid the country of outlaws. ESCAPE provides a fascinating glimpse into the legendary outlaws of Wyoming. Historical fans will thoroughly enjoy their visit with Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch.
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The Boy and the Warrior
The Brazilian slave boy, Bento, follows his cruel master into the mountains and witnesses his supernatural disappearance. Alone, he finds his way home. To his surprise his master's widow frees her slaves to become sharecroppers, and Bento helps build a cooperative farm. Two years later, he meets the ancient black King Zumbi in a vision. The warrior invites him to travel back in time to his 17th century kingdom. Hardship and adventure prepare Bento for life in past time where he lives among the ancients for two years.
This novel is a story of hope, inspired by the historical Palmares community before its tragic destruction by a mercenary army. Through the character Bento, this book opens a window in time to witness the glorious achievements of the escaped slaves who built this thriving community that survived 100 years with new vision and courage.
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Gold
The year is 1850. Rumors of gold in California turn out to be true. Thousands of people board ships or travel cross-country by wagon train, leaving their homes behind to head for the mines.
In New York City, young Marcus Gale, out-of-work bookkeeper, would like to join them, if only to escape from his gambling debts. He jumps at the chance for a berth as stoker on a sidewheel steamer headed for the gold fields, even though he's not sure what a stoker does. Fortunately, Marcus is a fast learner when it comes to shoveling coal and understanding steam engines. He finds it more difficult to understand people, especially the kind willing to risk everything to get to the gold. He wonders about Captain Cutter, who hates steam and lives in a state of paranoia, thinking people are plotting against him. He may be right. And then, there's the beautiful Alouette Thorndyke, the wealthy heiress who Marcus thinks is an angel. Then again, what is she, really—angel or swindler?
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Sister Warrior
Welcome to the sensual, savage and fantastic world of Altiva. It is a world of crystal-smiths and warp wizards, first visited in the novel Death at Dragonthroat where Ku'zn, blue furred warrior woman of the Z'n, gained her freedom from slavery. Now she begins a journey to free her brother, who along with her had been sold into contract bondage to save her tribe. She visits the strange, plague-wracked city of Orania only to encounter bigotry and deception in her search for him.
It is a quest that will separate her from those she loves and force her to confront her darkest fears, desires and deepest inner doubts.
She battles hideous monsters, duels skilled assassins, combats religious zealots and fights to save the warp orphan, Earthman T.K. Mitchell, from himself. Along the way she just might find love and discover the true meaning of family before it is too late...
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A Lesser Form of Patriotism
It is said that during the American Revolution, more American's served in the British forces than in the Continental Army of the United States. This is their story. In this frontier war, there is no Valley Forge, no Saratoga, no Yorktown. It evolves into a struggle that pits brother against brother, and neighbor against neighbor. The heroes and heroines are simple people who believed in their cause as fervently as did those Americans who fought to free themselves from English rule. A Lesser Form of Patriotism tells their story of love, death, courage, loyalty, and defeat as it chronicles the end of a way of life that began when the first English foot stepped ashore in the New World and ended with the closing shots of the American Revolution.
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Nola and the Goblin Mountain
Nola Goddard learns that her parents fled from a magical world to protect their unborn child. Now at age twelve, she inadvertently reveals their location to the dark wizard, Grimald, who kidnaps her parents.
Determined to rescue them, Nola finds her way to the magic world where she meets her sixteen-year-old elf cousin, Ryan. When Grimald starts taking over the country, the cousins escape and battle their way across the new and frightening land.
Along the way, they fight creatures who are determined to destroy them: snobbish elves, evil merpeople, trolls, hags and faeries, but this is only a precursor to the dangers awaiting at Grimald’s Castle on Goblin Mountain. Follow Nola and her cousin as they are captured by goblins and tortured by the Lady of Secrets. Against all these odds Nola and Ryan are the magic world’s only hope.
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Cadaver
A shortage of cadavers, necessary for medical school anatomy classes, creates a global market for bodies of the unfortunate dead. With no regulations to govern their acquisition and transport, the scene is ripe for disaster. The Miranda, an ocean-faring vessel, makes regular eight-week voyages. Traveling to the Far East, it loads up with electronics and heavy equipment, sweeps south into the Indian Ocean through the Straights of Sumatra, and then on to East Africa, where the vessel takes on several thousand barrels of F4 oil. Along the way, Captain Stenovich picks up a steady supply of cadavers, which harbor the seeds of disease and death. On another front, a diabolical plot--decades in the planning--swirls around Professor of Anatomy
Helene Astik. Test assassinations, using biological agents, allow the cause to fine-tune their ultimate campaign. Without a shot being fired or a device exploding within a crowd, she plans to take down the President of the United States.
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Word Castles
Tom Spencer is a master poet and prolific writer. As you open this edition of Spencer's Word Castles, you will be captivated at his first poem and unable to stop reading until the last page is turned. You will find yourself returning time and again to your favorites, which might be in the form of prose, sonnets, Haiku, villanelle or free verse. His poems are as diverse as the peoples of the world about which he writes. His brilliant, dramatic use of language as he builds his word castles will leave you with powerful images and often moved to tears. He has a passion for bringing to life, with the written word, ideas and themes that touch the heart. Spencer's Word Castles will take you down roads you never thought of taking before, much to your delight.
Patricia L. Burgess
Fellow Poet
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Eagle of the Kingdom
Escaping the dangerous schemes and plotting of the Telesian court, Lydia travels to the Endless Mountains, realm of the Northern Ghosts. United with these unexpected and unpredictable allies, she prepares once more for war. Aided by her loyal companions, she readies an army to take back Hierath Castle, longing to avenge her massacred kinfolk, and be reunited with her stolen son Rhodri. But the strength of the Old Ones is failing. She can no longer rely on their support. Will she find the courage to face Valery, her greatest enemy and the man who still haunts her nightmares?
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A Faerie Ring
Plunge into a breathless adventure riddled with medieval lays and puzzles, but beware, once lured into the faerie ring you might never escape. This tale, a romantic fantasy, awakens the ancient and eternal conflict between faeries, trolls, and humans. Elantra is born in the caul, a gift that connects her to the magical faerie realm. She must discover who she really is before chaos tears her family and loved ones apart. William is a changeling who desires nothing more than acceptance among the trolls … until he lays eyes on the most beautiful woman in the kingdom and is rewarded with a deadly curse. Torn between love and betrayal, he is hiding a secret that could destroy everything. Love and lies become entwined, hope challenges destitution, and time is warped as generations try to understand each other.
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The Daemonhold Curse
Erique Shoutte, warrior priest of the Kova, five years earlier failed to save Lady Caution Daemon from a horrible death. Now her younger sister, Fidelity, has come to him for protection from the same sinister threat. This ancient curse warns that each female of the line will die, drained of blood, before the morning of her twenty-first birthday. No Daemon female has survived in three hundred years. Now, the cycle has begun again with the deaths of three that always precede the murder of a Daemon family descendant. Lord Shoutte and his long-time friend, the fierce swordswoman Dame Arinna Cabal, undertake to save Fidelity, despite attacks of religious radicals and thugs. But can they solve the mystery and save the new Lady Daemon or will they also fall victim to The Daemonhold Curse?
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Dunbar's Station
Observe any modern high school at class break, and you'll see lots of kids moving down the halls in a more or less orderly fashion. Some are hiding the desperate secret of abuse. Suppose in that milling throng, we focus on three girls who happen to ride the same school bus. Because all of them live in their own private hell, each recognizes the signs of abuse in the others. Wary, they form a pact--not quite a friendship--and escape to another town where they are thrown into the uncertain, brutal life of the streets. They recognize that so long as they stay together, they survive. A string of near fatal events take them to an old mud-brick place in Dry Wells, Texas called Dunbar's Station run by a man who is the dregs of human life. There, they find the space and time to recover. But . . . what happens if the smartest one starts to unravel? What if they forget they must stick together to survive?
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