Life is full of challenges, and how we react to them determines who we really are. In these short stories, unlikely characters face unique challenges that are not always what they seem: A Native American ignores his culture, and his ancestors inflict a hallucination upon him. Two deer hunters find themselves scrambling after a hunting accident goes terribly wrong. A woman looking for love on the internet goes on the craziest date of her life. A father tries desperately to improve his spiritual relationship with his teenage son on the Las Vegas Strip-when someone unexpected shows up. "These,...

This special edition paperback contains all of the author's favorite decisions from the ebook Decision Select version, compiled in a traditional novel format. A teddy bear with a hero complex. A nightmare world filled evil toys. A race until midnight---or death. Theodorus Ursabrand's sole purpose as a teddy bear is to protect his owner, Grant. But when Stratus, a spirit of smoke and fog, kidnaps Grant, Theo must travel to the Stratusphere, a nightmare world filled with abandoned toys where nothing is what it seems. Just when all is lost, he meets a traveling caravan of wandering toys...

Are you frustrated with your poetry career? There's good news. The publishing landscape has changed, and there are more opportunities available for poets to sell their work than any time in history. But guess what? "Almost no one is pursuing these new opportunities." Indie poet & author Michael La Ronn walks you through what it really means to be a poet in today's market, and what you can do to create a career and portfolio of work that will make other poets jealous. In this book, you'll learn: * What the new publishing landscape looks like and why you should take advantage of it now * Myths...

When two equally intelligent androids face off against each other, who wins?
The year is 2300. Humans and androids live in peace after a devastating singularity and years of war. Xandifer "X" Crenshaw is a special agent android for the United Earth Alliance. His job is to track down rogue androids and destroy them to keep the world safe.
When another android agent goes maverick and starts a killing spree, the fallout could shatter the alliance between humans and androids forever. X hunts him down, but what seems like a simple operation turns weird fast when X discovers that he's up...

He wanted to bring his fiance back from the dead. If he's not careful, he'll join her. Rohan Evans's world was turned upside down when he lost his fiance Senna in a tragic accident. He misses her so desperately that he'll do anything to bring her back from the dead. Frank Altemus is a doctor with strange connections to the occult who promises to revive Senna from the afterlife in exchange for Rohan's help on a "special" expedition. To Russia. To rob an ancient temple with a dangerous secret. Rohan has no idea what he signed up for. But if he wants Senna back, he'll have to make a deadly...

Now that Old Dark has escaped into Magic Hope City, all hell has broken loose. Everyone fears the dragon lord, and everyone wants him dead. An old friend from the past helps Dark prepare for his rise to power and glory again. But there is always a price to pay for revenge. And Dark is ready to pay whatever it takes. The world is about to find out why the ancients called him Dark the Wicked... Old Wicked is the third and final book the epic fantasy series The Last Dragon Lord.

He thought he left the spirit world behind him. He was dead wrong. Rohan defeated the evil Frank Altemus, but now it's his ghost he has to worry about. To make matters worse, Altemus obtains a stone tablet with the magic needed to settle the score. Rohan's only hope is a woman named Nora, a reluctant necromancer who wants nothing to do with the journey. Rohan and Nora will have to work together to stop Altemus from using the tablet to rewrite the rules of the afterlife. If they don't, Altemus will turn the world of the living into the world of the dead. Death Bound is the second book in the...

It should have been just another routine spaceship boarding. For Petty Officer Grayson McCoy, it's his last mission in the Galactic Guard: board a suspicious spaceship with no registration, perform a safety check, and write up a citation or two. Then he can return home, pick up where he left off in his swimming career, maybe start dating. But there's something on that rogue ship more deadly than Grayson ever imagined. And it's taking over the galaxy. Honor's Reserve is the first book in the Galaxy Mavericks space opera series by Michael La Ronn. It's the story of six ordinary people from...