As Daniel watched, Ramona crept closer to her former burden, telling herself she only wanted to see if the chains were broken and unusable. She didn't want to admit that it was talking to her again. "Nieta," it hissed. The snake head moved its dead jaws with the greeting. "Mu muero de hambre. Hungry," it said. She stood hypnotized. "There it is " Narendra galloped right up beside her, breathing heavily from his run. He broke the spell. Ramona quickly reared back in horror. It had nearly taken her again, she realized. The Rajput used his sword and ran it gingerly through the reptile's mouth to...

TALKING TO THE DEAD GUYS This is a Texas mystery about a dog, strong women, and small town living (or is it dying?), sort of a Texas cozy. Cue in the theme music from "Dallas." Shoot I'll cut right to the chase. This is about how me and my sister's mastiff Boo Radley dragged me off my feet during the damned cemetery tour in Lockhart right onto a dead corpse. And that's just chapter one. Welcome to Lockhart, The Barbecue Capital of Texas, where there is more than indigestion brewing. This is the newest novel from Gretchen Rix, the author of THE COWBOY'S BABY, ARROYO and several quirky short...

What do ten randomly selected words from the dictionary and a writer's imagination get you? TWISTED RIXTER-- Six devilishly twisted and surprising short stories. Take the words oryx, gymkhana, and thirty-two and you get a horror tale about a predatory family stalking the Southern coast. Take expiate, thimblerig, and nitwit and all of a sudden you've got a cat eats mouse story about heroism. Put loess, compliant and tick-tack-toe together and the cruise ship from hell you hope you'll miss comes alive before your very eyes. Rounding it out are a screwball comedy (macadamia, waggly, and...

Cannibals. Man-eating lions. Crocodiles. Pygmies. Monkeys. Lost Cities. Lots of naked people. Mr. Bryce, the best Great White Hunter of them all, rues the day he ever met one Miss Gafford from Texas. Darkest Africa may never be the same. Little does he know, but Miss Gafford's safari trip spells his doom. And that of his men. Set in the end of the nineteenth century, when men were men and women tended to like it that way. A steamy adventure romance from the author of The Cowboy's Baby. Did I mention all the naked men?

All the normal sounds usually reaching the lower decks of the USS Goodall during routine subspace flight have just been cut off. As if someone at the controls suddenly wants the crew isolated. No loudly arguing male voices, no deliberately mishandled supplies tumbling down the corridor, no nothing. Has the impossible happened? Is this the Goodall mutiny everyone expected? Or is it something even worse? Marooned, with failing systems and inexperienced officers, the dangerously dysfunctional crew must fight to survive. Could surviving be a fate worse than death? The Goodall Mutiny. First in the...

The adventure continues for Lieutenant Joan Chikage of the USS Goodall. Surely, after all she'd gone through, he couldn't mean to put her back in the same boring assignment. Even if it was important in some way, she was done with that job. And ready for something else. She'd commanded a small troop of men since then. Led the survivors to safety. Quelled the mutiny. Discovered the murderer. She'd even brought in Van der Ryn so he could pay for his crimes. Accidently or not, it didn't matter. The captain must know all of this by now. She'd kept everyone alive when they probably should have...

Walking death, they're called. And those horrible macadamia trees. But their real names are Whig, Mary Jane, and Quetzalcoatl, just to name three of them. Trees don't walk. But here they do. In ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT they walk, they kill, they eat people, and then they- Nope. Telling you more would spoil the fun. Welcome to this horror collection about the walking macadamia nut trees of Hawaii. Believe it or not, you're going to laugh. A new addition to the humorous horror genre. Enjoy.