Dark Test

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 ...

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?

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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 Untold Story of the Darkest Wizard of All Step beyond the legend and into the shadows. Voldemort: The Definitive Study of Tom Riddle reveals the truth behind the wizarding world's most feared name. Author Grace Candido-Beecher explores how a brilliant, isolated orphan became a symbol of...

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 ...

⭐”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...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Some things refuse to stay buried. From a fog-choked mountain valley to the crushing depths of an uncharted ocean trench, the world's most remote corners are hiding a deadly secret. In this pulse-pounding collection, ordinary people are thrust into terrifying, isolated encounters with apex predators that history claimed were extinct. A search-and-rescue team is stalked by a colossal nightmare after a plane crash. A biological containment breach unleashes pack-hunting raptors into a midwestern corn maze. A deep-sea submersible is battered in the abyss by a massive, ancient marine reptile. ...

The Blood Test – A Psychological Thriller That Will Keep You Guessing When Olivia takes her son Henry for a routine checkup, the last thing she expects is a blood test result that doesn’t make sense. She and her husband, Noah, conceived Henry through IVF—but the numbers don’t add up. With a nagging suspicion that won’t let her go, Olivia digs deeper, uncovering a series of unsettling coincidences. Then she meets Margo, another mother at Henry’s preschool, whose daughter looks eerily like him. The two women bond over their shared experience with the same fertility doctor—Dr. ...

They Came for Healing. They Found Something Else. Dr. Vivienne Hale is a celebrated therapist with a flawless reputation and a gift for transforming lives. But when a woman’s body is pulled from the lake on the retreat’s opening day, her perfect façade begins to crack. Phones are collected. Guests vanish. And as Jade and Leo dig deeper, they uncover a chilling truth: this retreat runs on silence, manipulation, and carefully buried secrets Everyone is Hiding Something Someone is Always Watching Is Vivienne a savior, a master manipulator -- or something far worse? And when the Truth ...