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Camp Hero continues the adventures of Christine and her friends as they delve deeper into the legacies of their grandfathers. On the day Christine's baby brother is born, Christine is given a vision of a young boy being taken into custody by the MHDA - Meta-Human Detection Agency. Obsessed with finding the boy before the MHDA can get to him, Christine and her friends go on a quest to rescue him.

Abby would be your typical teenager - that is, if she wasn't part of a secret organization tasked with tracking down meta-humans. She doesn't agree with what she's doing, but when Agent Smith tells her she will be infiltrating a school to find a dangerous meta, she knows she has no choice because disobeying means that her brother will end up in their special meta-human prison. When she meets her target, she realized that he is not as dangerous as she was led to believe.

Abby and her brother, Mike, are keeping a secret from their mother: Mike has super powers. At eight years old, Mike has the ability to make objects around him spontaneously combust. Abby, knows that his life would be in danger if anyone found out about this, so she has kept it hidden from everyone for over a year.

Still reeling from his wife's murder, Joel tries to escape the alien hunter and fulfill a promise he made to her. Years of searching for the fabled planet Aeprion have left the space-freighter captain torn between giving up the search or giving himself up to Kraxem, the alien hunter.

Their names are immortal: Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, The Mummy. Now, together for the first time, we hear these three classic monsters battling each other for their very existences. When Van Helsing gets reports of vampire attacks in Turin, he discovers that there is more going on their than he realizes. Soon he is not only after a vampire, but also a mummy hell-bent on resurrecting its lost queen. But the resurrection spell raises more than just a pharaoh of old; it brings life back to an old, familiar foe: Count Dracula.

Many years ago, Tom Stevenson was a soldier and became one of the founding members of a secret program called Project: Hercules. Now, he has returned to where it all started, an abandoned military base out on Long Island called Camp Hero. While exploring the old base, he discovers the base is not as abandoned as one would believe. Project: Hercules is still up and running with deadly results.

Eddie Eagan is your typical high schooler, with one minor exception. Eddie can make anything he imagines become a reality.

Unfortunately for Eddie, his ability has made him a target of a group called the M.H.D.A. They deem him too dangerous to run free. Eddie must make a choice: Does he run for the rest of his life? Or does he go quietly with the Agents who want to lock him away for life?

This is the first question Bobby Barnes asks himself as he stands over his dead body at the scene of the tragic car crash that ended his life. He is furious with his girlfriend Brittany, who was the driver and he follows the investigating officers to the hospital to confront her.

A brilliant scientist builds an AI capable of answering humanity’s greatest mysteries. It responds to every question—except one: What happens after death? Determined to break its silence, the scientist pushes harder… until the AI begins to reveal unsettling truths about reality, perception, and the very fabric of existence—truths that may have been better left unknown.

Imagine you had the ability to force your will onto others. Now imagine that those very same powers forced your parents to disown you when you were a young teen. This is Ryan's reality. He wanders the streets day in and out, wondering what he'd done to be so unlucky. On a cold, winter's day, he is confronted by a federal agent, intent on arresting him. Ryan has no intention of going quietly, and knows just how to make his escape. Unfortunately for him, the agent is one step ahead.

A late-night commuter notices a peculiar passenger—dressed in clothing from another era, always sitting in the same seat. Each night, the stranger whispers cryptic warnings about disasters that inexplicably come true the next day. As the warnings grow more dire, the commuter must unravel the mystery: Who—or what—is this passenger? And can they stop what’s coming before it’s too late?

When Athena wakes up in the morning, she has no idea that this will be the last day of her regular life. Everything had been going right for once in her life, but then she had been chosen in the lottery. The prize from winning the lottery is permanent exile from the planet Earth, a prize that it necessary for the survival of the humanity. Athena needs to cope with the fact that it is her civic duty to present herself for exile so that the planet's limited resources can be spread further.

In 1925, Evelyn was the life of the party—until the night she died in a tragic accident, forever bound to the grand ballroom where she took her last breath. Now, she lingers in the shadows, reliving the thrill of music, passion, and forbidden pleasures. When a mysterious man in black arrives, offering her a way out, Evelyn must face a terrible truth—she and the others are trapped in an endless waltz, reliving the same night, only to burn and forget it all before the cycle begins again. If she stays, she will remain lost in the ecstasy of the dance forever.

Three hundred and fifty years ago World War III started between the U.S. and China and eventually engulfed the rest of the world, left the planet devastated and humanity divided more than ever. The war lasted a decade, and left many regions of the planet uninhabitable. It also killed nearly 3 billion people. Another billion died in the decades following, due to lack of resources, disease, and radiation poisoning. Technology was almost non-existent after the war, putting an end to the so-called "computer age".

Brooke has endured more trauma in the past year than most could survive. She’s been possessed by an alien space worm, taken lives with her own hands, watched her cheerleading squad slaughtered, lost her best friend—twice—and kept it all buried beneath a mask of normalcy.

Orenis has been convicted of a crime he hasn't committed. His sentence is death in the gladiatorial games. But Orenis intends to go down fighting. If he can't prove his innocence, then he will take as many of his enemies down with him as possible. But his plans go awry when he realizes that some of his enemies are closer than he thinks, and he realizes the truth.

Evan stands at the very edge of the underground city he's lived in his entire life. It's the shadows that surround the city that keep the people prisoner. It's their fear of the darkness that keeps them in line.

Sometimes authors don't realize the power they wield. There are times when a series of words have been used to topple entire countries. It is up to the creator to use his or her words wisely. To many, one particular author is the greatest writer who ever lived, creating best-seller after best-seller. But to this author's characters, he is a mass murderer and needs to be taught a lesson.

The question is always asked, if you could go back in time and kill Hitler before the Holocaust, would you? But what if there was someone even worse climbing the political ladder? On the night he is elected President, Mr. Sinclair gets an unexpected visitor who claims to be from the future. She tells him the atrocities he is going to commit and gives him the choice to kill himself instead.

A monster has been walking among us, trying to find his place in the world. He didn't ask to be created. He didn't want to look how he does. He just wants to fit in and act like he matters. That is difficult when people see him as a threat. He feels as if he's finally found his place, but one night makes all that change once again.