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Living on Borobo Reef is tough, especially if you're a spud who's down on his luck. Ex-detective Tedrick Gritswell just wants to be left alone like any decent octopus deserves, but a visit from a drop-dead gorgeous dame coupled with a whole lot of pestering from an annoying cuttlefish sees him take up the case of a missing VIP.

After a thousand years in exile, the goddess Nott learned to live without interaction with the other Norse gods. Hidden away amidst the devastation of a dead heaven, and working to aid the besieged mortals of Midgaard, Nott found peace. The night is her realm, and darkness her best friend. But war finds her. And her grandfather, Loki, wants her at his side, when he conquers Asgaard.

It began with injustice - Stalin murdered Ana Cortez's parents, idealists caught up in his purges, and assumed Ana, a mysterious Mexican woman who had a curious fascination with Russia and was 36 years his junior, would marry him to produce a communist dynasty to rule the world. When she flees Moscow, his secret police relentlessly pursue her. In a desperate game of hide-and-seek that stretches over decades and continents, she eludes them. She is up against a brutal dictator, the international resources of Soviet Russia, and loneliness.

More scary stories from a master of psychological horror. This collection of horror has a giant, a time traveler, a very bad babysitter, a man who's looking for the fountain of youth, and a bunch of other characters who get the surprise of their lives. You'll see just about all of the seven deadly sins here, and plenty of punishment for the unfortunate sinners. With a style that combines horror and humor, John McDonnell has built an audience of listeners who like chills, thrills, and a laugh or two along the way.

Thirteen bone-chilling stories about ghosts, vengeful lovers, scary parents, and spooky basements. In these stories time and space are no barriers to horror. Each story is short enough to be listened to in a few minutes, but they're guaranteed to haunt your thoughts for a lot longer than that. Whether it's subtle horror or downright blood-curdling primal fear, you'll find it here. This collection is a good introduction to the horror writing of John McDonnell.

Climate fiction author Richard Friedman takes the listener on a journey from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean to the edges of the universe with his collection of short stories. A narcissistic east coast billionaire receives a visit from three ghosts in a contemporary spin on a timeless classic. Judgment Day asks, is humanity worth saving? A family takes a tour through the Grand Museum of the Universe in The Docent and the crew of the space shuttle witnesses a nuclear holocaust in The World Burns Below.

Forced to undergo experimental procedures that grafted wolf DNA into his own and then given super healing powers, Jonathan Wylde wants nothing to do with civilization, preferring instead to run with his wolf pack. A reluctant member of the Xi Force super team, he keeps to himself unless his talents are needed. Dove Locklear returns home after spending exciting and adventurous weeks with the Xi Force super team, and reconnecting with her childhood friend, John Wylde. But danger lurks in her father’s genetics lab.

When Kayla Armstrong is attacked in her lab, she falls into a chemical stew. Now she’s walking through walls and falling through floors. As the leader of Xi Force, Joel Weisberg is always looking for new superheroes for his team. What he wasn’t looking for was sexy Kayla Armstrong falling through the ceiling of his apartment right into his bed. Still he isn’t complaining when the event finds him a new Xi Force member and a new love.

Do you like to feel afraid? Do you like that feeling in the pit of your stomach when you hear an unknown sound in the dark? When you hear footsteps in an empty house? When you get a sudden shock? Then, listen to Bone Chillers, a collection of nine scary stories. Here, you'll meet shape-shifters, transformers, monsters, water spirits, the undead, and the unclean.

The detective business is going swell for Tedrick "Stumpy" Gritswell. With more cases than he can shake a keel-stick at, he and his assist-kicks Bill and Reginald are up to their noggins in work. That changes when he is hired by Barnes to investigate the bizarre death of a powerful and influential figure.

Stavros, the son of Zeus and Hera, inherited the throne of Olympus, but does that really matter? Mount Olympus lays in ruins, and the Greek gods are few and scattered. Still, Stavros has pledged to help end the war that took everything from his people. Working with the Asgaardian gods, Stavros meets the powerful sorceress, Hilde. When the alliance of evil gods kidnaps Odin in an attempt to steal the Odin Force, Stavros and Hilde are thrown into the midst of a conflict that threatens to bring the mortal realm to the edge of Armageddon.

When the fertility goddess, Astrid, performs the Dance of Revelation for King Magni, he encounters something he doesn’t understand and refuses to accept. Now haunted by the vision and feelings that overpower him, he fights an internal battle while dark elves threaten the gates of Asgaard.
By the time Astrid understands what happened during the dance, the King’s wrath has already rained down on her. How can she explain what happened to him, if he won’t let her near?

As war rumbled through the heavens, the seas also boiled with battle. Poseidon was one of the first to succumb. Now, the alliance of evil gods turn their sights on the Inuit pantheon. Barely surviving the initial strike, the goddess Sedna seeks the sanctuary of the oceans and her old friend Jormungandr. She knows the Norse world serpent isn’t the evil people believe him to be.

For most of her life Maggie O’Donnell dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Instead, she ended up flying the Xi Force super jet. Not a bad trade-off. And when she inherits the powers of the Irish goddess Morrigan, she steps into an even bigger role with the super team. But an ancient enemy rises with the inheritance of her new superpowers, one who’s out to destroy her and anyone close to her.

Crime doesn't take a holiday, even during the worst of storms. As a favor to Captain Barnes, Tedrick "Stumpy" Gritswell takes on a case regarding a barren stretch of land. Sounds simple enough and the clams are decent. What could possibly go wrong? Well, apart from a senseless murder, there's that. And vicious barracudas. And crazy dames, psychopathic upstarts, corrupt police, vengeful Old Salts, and a dangerous algae that could spell the end of civilization. All things considered, it's just another tide on Borobo Reef.

True friends stick with you through the hard times, even if you've gone and kidnapped the son of a psychopathic monster. With Ava in the clutches of Syd Carbone, what else was Tedrick supposed to do? Now, he must race to get to the source of the Emerald Algae before every other spud in the ocean gets their filthy mitts on it.