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Cottages can be tranquil, relaxing, invigorating...deadly.
Beneath the surface of every paradise is a secret needing told. Cottage Crimes includes eight new mystery and crime stories from an all-Canadian cast of authors, each unveiling some of those very secrets.
From the peculiar to the cunning to the brutal. Nothing is ever quite as it appears. Journey into the countryside where the lakes are smooth, the skies are blue, and the dangers can behind any old shadow.
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Back Woods Lodge has re-opened its doors. Thanks to The Anvil Group, hunting is off the table, so the proprietors have shifted direction, turning the old place into an artists' retreat.
Things aren't going great for Paul Webster, once an artist of some acclaim, so he accepts a job guiding the first group: skilled painters who have been through a divorce. The point of the retreat is art, but Paul still finds a fresh love interest in Carla Moore. Before their love has any chance to bloom, a monster creeps from the thick forest to feed on the artists.
...And you know what they say: if you see one monster, there's probably more hiding in the shadows. But maybe that's not such a bad thing.
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The morning Jessica Ramage has arranged to leave her unfaithful, conniving husband, she learns he's been in a terrible accident, putting her escape plan on hold. As the facts of the accident fully come to light, Jessica accepts her fate and moves to an old farmstead with a big house and laboring quarters, both in need of renovations to deal with her husband's disability.
What Jessica doesn't know, is that the original farmhouse and barn are haunted by a violent, electrifying figure. If she sticks to the smaller, newer house on the property, she's safe, but it's not as if she can warn her husband or adult daughters.
An impromptu coming home party, one unbeknownst to Jessica, puts her daughters, and possibly the entire world at risk. Finally, the truth of the farm is revealed to her and all that lies ahead of her. Jessica must face-off with the electrifying figure on his eternal turf to stop his plan and perform a rescue mission.
She's never been enough before, could she possibly be up to the task?
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Someone is killing girls in the small city of Delson. Local law enforcement is useless and the detective the RCMP sent is not much better.
Jaqi Bazinet isn't in town for long before the mystery of the missing girls (and why they are returned at vastly different intervals but always have their nails and makeup done) sinks into her soul, demanding that she follow what clues she and her boyfriend can drudge free.
But is she up for the fight she's been chasing?
Or will she become just another painted dead girl?
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Centuries after Earth has become uninhabitable, the planet has rejuvenated itself. The Union, the organization governing the diaspora, sends a team to the mother planet to inspect liveability.
For months, activity on Plantation Earth has been irregular, the results, unexpected. The Union had been receiving strange transmissions, until finally they lost contact altogether.
Lay Watt is a member of the second team. She's an outsider, being added to the mission along the way to Earth.
Lay follows the crew as they traverse humanity's ruins, eventually coming to trail after an undefinable signal.
As they explore, a figure from the periphery of their dreams stalks the edges of their reality, threatening to destroy all they know to be true.
A novella plus three bonus shorts of cosmic terror.
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The mysterious box opened…changing all who come into contact. Two janitors have escaped the research facility on Farley Island, carrying the mutation to the mainland.
The small, remote town of Winterstone, British Columbia is awakening to a curious sickness that leaves people confused and sleepy, very interested in kissing. It isn't until the second stage of the sickness is triggered that the true breadth of the situation comes clear. The neighbors are rabid freaks and sticking around is a death sentence.
To the citizens of Winterstone, survival means running. To the military presence racing to the scene, survival means battle, it means blocking that first invasion toehold on Earth's soil. It means survival as a species.
The Breach is a gruesome 250-page novella of one small town’s battle against a putrid, festering alien apocalypse.​
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Behind closed doors, down quiet streets, through the night fog rolling along the coasts, and deep within thick shadows the world over, criminals, opportunists, and maniacs roam; their hands, feet, and minds busy with Illicit Motions. Within these pages are fourteen crime stories; take a trip through the seedy side of the everyday world, the violence of professional hits, the chances to break away from the tedium of normalcy, and much more.
Illicit Motions includes stories from Charles Ardai (winner of the Shamus, Edgar Allan Poe, and Ellery Queen awards, and founder and editor of Hard Case Crime), Michael Bracken (winner of the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award), Nick Mamatas (author of I Am Providence and The Second Shooter), Deborah Sheldon, (winner of an Australian Shadows Award), as well as Joe Allegretti, Serena Jayne, Chris Kuriata, Justine Gardner, Armand Rosamilia, P.M. Raymond, M.E. Proctor, Robert Petyo, Tom Milani, and Eddie Generous (founder and editor of Unnerving).
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Ten unlucky passengers on a flight to Alaska are plucked from their seats by the power of a vortex lost to time and find themselves at the dated and empty, but fabulous Camp Summit.
As a group, they seek answers; all the while, one-by-one, Camp Summit begins to reveal its nefarious plot to corrupt minds and entrap its guests...forever. The only hope to escape is a ghostly train stopping by the hotel's dedicated station on the mountaintop, but that's not for a week.
Days pass in mayhem: séances, supernatural attacks, cannibalism, spilled blood, coming to an apex in a horrific ball.
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