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  Runaway - From Broken Hull to...

  Alfred Coppel

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  Runaway by Alfred Coppel - Ripped by an asteroid stray, the space-ship drifted helplessly ... until suddenly, across the shuddering deeps, a strange voice called to her. 
  I recall that when I was just a boy hanging around the old Mojave space yards, there was an old timer there who used to sing an old song. He learned it from his father and he from his grandfather who used to prospect for gold in the Death Valley country. 
  Oh, my darling, oh my darling, 
  Oh, my darling Clementine, 
  You are lost and gone forever, 
  Dreadful sorry, Clementine!... 
  The old timer was really ancient when I knew him, because he could remember the war with the Federal States that used to be called Germany and Japan. There was a strangeness about him, or so it seems to me now. Listening to him sing those pioneer ballads caught at the imagination and woke dreams. Of course, I was young then, and impressionable. But his tales were my gospel. There were some among the yard hands who claimed he was a survivor of the first crew back from Luna, but that was probably loose talk. In those days every yard had its "Selenite man." 
  It was from him, though, that I heard my first spaceman's yarns. Yarns about the ships that were built when Venus and Mars were the outposts of the system ... the frontier. 
  He used to tell of the strange ways in which those old ships took on personality ... character, if you like ... in the eyes of the men who crewed them. When he spoke I could almost feel the thrill of those punishing vertical takeoffs, and I could smell the stink of gasoline and feel the icy nimbus of liquid oxygen. I could feel too the throbbing of the first crotchety atomics under my feet and the quivering sense of aliveness it gave.... 
  Somehow, I don't believe the old man was embroidering fantasies for me. I think even then he knew.

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  The Grandfather Paradox

  Rachel Lawson

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  A magician disappears without a trace and must be found. Blake, also known as The King Of Death, mysteriously vanishes.  
  He is wanted dead or alive for a violent shocking crime, a frame-up, his family suspect. It is suspected he has gone on the run by the police. 
  Is he dead or alive, no one knows, no one has any clue where he is. he could be anywhere in time or space. How will they find him? Where do you find a man who could be anywhere? 
  Lance finds him again as a ghost from the past. As an anomaly, even time can't repress, he can't explain.

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  Lend Me Your Ears

  Rachel Lawson

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  When Fate's assassin Lance, the Necromancer, quits job his job when a ghost follows him home leaving actor Fate to do his job and his friend the Reaper king Blake to cover for him on the stage. 
  "The Necromancer was spooked apparently a ghost of a victim followed him home and terrorized his family, so he went on strike," said Blake. 
  "Terrorized his family, that's enough to make anyone break," said the Fox. 
  "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; 
  I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." said Argent Lumiere who was playing Marc Antony in a production of Julius Caesar. 
  A man walked from the auditorium on stage dropping a pile of ears out of an old wooden bucket at Argent's feet. 
  "Mind I'm only lending them," said the Necromancer obviously amused. 
  "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" said Juliet In a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. 
  Romeo had just dematerialised she was sticking to the script. 
  "Where did he go?" asked audience member Angela Alexander. 
  "To do Lance's job I think," said her husband Blake. 
  "He complained he's being run off his feet doing the Necromancer's killing and paperwork. He has to run off at odd hours," 
  Blake materialised on the stage in the Romeo costume. 
  "I am Blake Fire will be filling in for Argent as Romeo, He is on pressing business which he deserves" Blake announced. 
  "Hi all, I'm Marcus Brutus," said Blake. 
  "I'm Julius Caesar," an actor said, "I'm on, bye, Brutus!" 
  "Kill you later," said Blake smiling.

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  The Monster and the Last Blood...

  K. A. Linde

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  Before The Wren in the Holly Library, there was The Monster and the Last Blood Match―the enthralling beginning to a world of passion, power, and secrets. When a human ventures into the world of vampires, she discovers that not all is what it seems.For Reyna Carpenter, giving up her body isn't a choice―it's survival.In a world where humans are currency and vampires rule from the shadows, Reyna accepts a high-paying position among the wealthy and ruthless elite. Her new job: a live-in blood escort for the enigmatic and dangerously powerful Beckham Anderson. She expects cruelty. She expects hunger. She expects to become his next meal.But Beckham won't drink from her. 
   
  He keeps his distance, his unreadable gaze shadowed by something far more dangerous than just desire. As the nights pass, Reyna begins to sense it―an invisible war being waged around her, secrets that twist through the corridors of Visage, and whispers of something far more valuable than power.Because Reyna isn't just rare―she's the key to something bigger than she ever imagined. And the reason Beckham refuses to taste her blood?It might not just change them―it might destroy everything. 
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  One Last Breath

  S.C. Stokes

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  Death comes for us all, but right now it’s biting at my heels. 
  The Arcane Council have accused me of unspeakable crimes and now I’m being hunted by my own kind. 
  New York has gone straight to hell. Wizards are roaming the streets and I’m so busy trying to save my own skin, that I can’t do anything about it. 
  With every minute that passes, the Shinigami attack draws nearer. 
  How can I save my city when it, and everyone in it, want me dead?

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  Diplomatic Recruit

  Michael Anderle, S.E. Weir

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  What if you were given an offer you shouldn't refuse? 
   
   
   
  Seraphina Waters craves the opportunity to protect Bethany Anne's growing Etheric Empire. 
   
   
   
  Thrown a lifeline when she needs it most, she's given a chance to prove herself. 
   
   
   
  If she can. 
   
   
   
  Pulled into alien politics, and a life beyond her imagination, Phina might just have a chance to have the one thing she's always wanted. 
   
   
   
  Now, she just needs to pull it off without getting killed.

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