Not all heroes are blessed with understanding or even control of their powers. And not all heroes, given powers to rival the Greek gods, are given Olympus' blessing. So it's no wonder that former legal assistant and current hero-in-training Camelot is having a bad day, only it's about to get worse! His rent is late, the gods are gunning for him, and to top it all off, the nefarious Captain Steel is creating havoc of epic proportions. What's a hero to do? The Odyssey returns...
A cancer is eating away at the Pantheon's influence over the mortal world. Far from their glory days 3000 years in the past, a new struggle for dominance erupts between the older gods and their offspring … and Orion is caught in the middle. Orion needs to find the missing Eye of the Oracle before it falls into the wrong hands and he must look into his painful past to find it … a journey that will lead him directly to the mouth of Hades. Second of the four-part series.
Once Olympia's greatest hunter, Orion sits as the centuries turn to millennia. Torn between his resentment of the Pantheon, his crumbling faith and his need to serve them, Orion seeks the ultimate purpose of his immortal life and is thrust in the middle of a conspiracy that can destroy Olympus. Orion delves into the dark underbelly of Greek mythos – the rumblings of a massive war between the Olympians and the lesser gods sits on the shoulders of a long ignored demi-god whom both sides see...
To tempt the Fates is one thing. To out and out steal from them is sheer lunacy. Yet Orion must pit his destiny against some of the fiercest and most dangerous forces Olympus has to offer. As he peels away another veil of the gods' deceit, Orion is forced to walk the precipice between myth and mystery only to find himself at the very mouth of Hades.
To the naked eye, Venus is a bright pinpoint of light in the morning sky. Twenty million miles closer, the enigmatic planet is hidden beneath a thick cloud layer obscuring deadly secrets shrouded in mystery for millennia. In this final chapter of the Ray Harryhausen-inspired epic, man returns to Venus for the first time in 50 years. What awaits them is something as deadly as it is astonishing. What they find will change the future of humanity as they pierce the veil of secrecy that blankets the...
Is LeBron James the greatest basketball player of all time? The Akron, Ohio native grew up in an impoverished home. His mother, sensing LeBron would thrive in a stable family environment, allowed him to live with a local youth basketball coach when he was just nine years old. Now the holder of three NBA championships, four MVP awards, two Olympic gold medals, and much more, LeBron’s fame has afforded him the ability to use his numerous endorsements to start companies, participate in social...
The beast is loose in the City of Angels. It rampages from street to street, destroying some of L.A.'s most treasured landmarks that lay in its path. But as it smashes through the city many questions arise. What does it want? Where does it come from? Can anything stop it? But the biggest question of all: Is the world ready to learn the secrets of the Ymir? The highly classified scientific cabal of the military stands ready to catch the monster and prevent its most precious secret from...
The classicn sci-fi epic re-imagines it for a new generation. It's been 50 years since the strange being from Venus rampaged through Italy. So it has been 50 years of secrets, misinformation, and outright lying. Once the world was convinced that the Ymir was a giant hoax and the mission to Venus never happened, it was lulled back to sleep, ignorant of the truth. But no one counted on genetics. Years of secret testing and breakthroughs in many of the gray areas of science created unintended...
With the Ymir recaptured after its citywide rampage, the depths of Project Five's murky tendrils are revealed, and the answers go back more than five decades. Fifty years of doubt, guilt, and anguish weigh heavy on former astronaut Bob Calder, as he is forced to confront ghosts from the past and enemies of the present. And, as bizarre as his life has become since his granddaughter's horrid transformation into a Ymir monster, it's about to take another dark twist. This third...
Anne Rice's uniquely gothic, sensuous, and existential approach redefined the modern vampire mythology. Shaped by personal tragedies, critical successes and failures, and a fervent rediscovery of her Catholic roots, Rice has penned over 27 novels from supernatural to historical tomes, erotica and religious themes. But Anne Rice's life is just as interesting as the tales she spins. This expanded collector's version includes several special extras including a pictorial tour of...
Casey Morrow never thought he'd be driving a cab for a living. The one-time rising star of the literary world, Casey is haunted by the ghosts of success and can't seem to recapture his ever-elusive muse. And driving the streets of New York in search of inspiration, all he found was the lethargy of routine…until a deadly accident changed his life forever. Casey Morrow: cab driver has found more than he ever bargained for. He has found his purpose. In the tradition of great anthology...
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