Dark Test

Would you be prepared to work for free? How would you like to bust your hump for a large corporation 60-plus hours a week without a wage or a single day off for the vague promise of some mysterious perks in the distant future? You'd refuse point blank, wouldn't you? But what if the job in question was playing a state-of-the-art fantasy MMORPG game? And what if this was the only thing you're really good at? Especially considering that your in-game partner is someone really special to you - and this person already lives a virtual life?

He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still...

⭐”Keeps the shocks coming right up to the climatic end…” Lisa Gardner⭐ The DNA results are back. And there’s a serial killer in her family tree… Liz Catalano is shocked when an ancestry kit reveals she’s adopted. But she could never have imagined connecting with her unknown...

From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune) comes a comic novel about a divorced Midwestern dad who takes a cutting-edge medical test and learns that he has a predisposition to murder. In this fresh take on love and trouble in America...

She has always hidden her dark hucow fantasies… until they are made oh so real by three dominant alien doctors. 21-year-old Elara’s boyfriend just broke up with her because she’s too vanilla. If he could see her now—strapped to the cold medical table of three towering alien doctors, begging for more—he wouldn’t recognize her. She doesn’t know how she got onto this alien ship, but she doesn’t want to leave anytime soon. Even when she discovers that her testing isn’t just for her pleasure, she is being trained for an alien monster. He wants himself a human pet, and Elara is ...

Charismatic and innovative, Oklas Sayve has risen to prominence in Apidecca, the moon's capital city. A politician and college director, he has the resources to effect the changes he envisions for the world. But the sovereigns he serves oppose him at every turn and his status cannot protect the low-strata students attending his college. After a young knyad is wrongly linked to insurgent activity, Oklas must find a way to smuggle her out of the city while hiding his involvement from the authorities.

He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still...

Questioning the Narrative: Exposing the Unsettling Truth of Energy Practices Energy is all around us...Right? Our bodies are electrical, but are energy and bioelectricity the same? Quantum mechanics explains energy-based practices...Right? Muscle testing just reveals what the body already knows...Right? Christian practitioners and friends may say energy medicine is safe, but questions remain—an unease that something just is not right. Marci Julin’s unique approach in addressing that “unease” brings an exceptional breadth of knowledge and a compassionate approach to the subject ...

He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still...

Love was once her salvation. Now it’s her deadliest enemy. Queen Sorrow has survived monsters, a coup, and defied the gods. Yet now she faces not just an army, but the man who holds her heart. Matthias was once Sorrow’s shelter, her strength–now he is a weapon in the cruel hands of the empress. Bound to the will of his enemy, Matthias is no longer the man Sorrow fell for, hunting her down without mercy: by day, by night, even in their dreams.

A detective and an FBI agent join forces on what seems like an open-and-shut case, but a new rash of killings sends them on a pulse-pounding race against time in this intense thriller from the world's #1 bestselling author. A police detective and an FBI agent race to stop a spree killer who...

“If you want her loyalty and her love, direct her, lead her, reward her, but first understand her and you will keep her attention and her dedication.” -The Minister Of Manhood Theres a solid explanation why she does what she does and why most women exhibit the same thoughts, actions and behaviors, but that reason “why” often is a secret to most men and even her. The obvious fact is men and women don’t think the same. These differences in thinking lead to men getting manipulated because they use logic to understand her behaviors, while she thinks and moves with sometimes ...

The full moon has risen. The real hunt has just begun. Walt Bearden thought the worst was behind him. He survived the corporate siege on his fortified cabin and rescued Eli from the ashes. Now they are pushing deep into the uncharted Montana high country. They need shelter and they need time because the full moon is hours away and Eli is about to experience his first complete transformation. But Gene-Syte Consolidated does not walk away from a highly valuable biological asset. Commander Elena Garcia has arrived with a heavily armed tactical squad. They have thermal optics. They have heavy ...

After months of training, Raven’s finally ready to compete in the angel trials. If she succeeds, she’ll earn the right to drink angel blood from the holy grail, which will give her Nephilim blood. No human has yet to drink angel blood from the grail and survive. But Raven’s gift of stubbornness makes her special. She survived countless times during the cross country demon hunt with her shifter soulmate Noah, even though she should have died. She doesn’t plan to stop surviving now. Because the greater demon Azazel is holding Raven’s mom and best friend Sage hostage.

1521, England: At Hampton Court, Thomas Tester tastes wine meant for kings—and for killers. Born to a bloodline of herbalists and poison detectors, Thomas risks everything to protect his family and the crown from betrayal cloaked in velvet and venom. 2025, Tennessee: Dr. Grace Blackwood uncovers a pattern of overdoses tied to falsified pharmaceutical trials. When whistleblowers start dying and her brake lines are cut, Grace must rely on ancestral knowledge, Appalachian resistance, and the long-buried Testers' ledgers to survive—and expose the truth.

2026 NEW EDITION FULL COLOR budget friendly includes exclusive Guide Turn Your Dark Aesthetic Into Real Crochet Projects—Without Confusion, Guesswork, or Giving Up Again Do you love gothic style but struggle to find crochet projects that actually match your aesthetic? Do beginner patterns feel unclear, rushed, or assume you already know what you’re doing? Have you started (and quit) crochet projects because instructions were confusing or results looked wrong? You’re not alone. Most crochet books are filled with pastel projects, vague directions, and “beginner” patterns that ...

Brie's transformation is nearly complete, but first she must prove herself worthy. Master X takes her to New York City where she is left alone in a dark alley, bound and helpless, to be tested on a supreme scale! Don't miss a moment as Brie must conquer her deepest fears and shed all of her inhibitions to pass her final test! Brie has changed a great deal over the summer. No longer the "innocent" housewife she once was, she has since been transformed into a sex toy for her husband, who will do anything to feed her insatiable hunger for sex at any time and with anyone he chooses. This was ...

What Hollywood Got Wrong About Viking Women The skeleton was buried with a full warrior’s arsenal: a sword, axe, spear, armor-piercing arrows, and two horses. For more than a century after its discovery in Birka, Sweden, historians cataloged this high-status military grave as male. Why? Because warriors were assumed to be men. But in 2017, DNA testing proved otherwise. The skeleton was female. For generations, the story of the Viking Age has been told almost exclusively through the lens of male raiders. Women were pushed to the margins—either romanticized as mythical shieldmaidens or ...

The Halls of Venn are the seat of both knowledge and power in the great continent of Luna Ruinam. Renia, a scribe with a tragic past, spends her days expertly copying books that do little to satiate her desire for knowledge. When a fateful commission lands on her desk, she finds herself tasked with transcribing a book coveted by assassins from the southern continent. Its theft throws the scribing halls into chaos and threatens to destroy the fragile peace that exists between their nations.

When a Mormon wife undergoes a new beauty procedure, the cost of perfection proves all too high, in this thriller from the reality TV star and bestselling author. Celeste built herself up from ridiculed outsider to pillar of the local Mormon mom group. Even among these perfectly polished and...