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A secret, mystical diamond, warring supernatural clans, and a chance to change the world's fate—all this on the shoulders of a sixteen-year-old science-geek girl who doesn't believe in the paranormal."J.K. Rowling meets Stephen King." -BookBubFans of Veronica Roth and Marie Lu will enjoy this series.A #1 bestseller in eleven countries. Currently being optioned for film and television.After inexplicably breaking the 100m world record, Calli is whisked away to a secret facility where she's placed with other teens who possess superhuman speed. She soon finds herself in a deadly situation involving other superpowers, a mystical diamond, and a centuries-old clan vying for world domination. Calli will have to rely on her quick wit and gut instinct to navigate her new world which includes secretly carrying a power-infusing diamond, all the while steering clear of the young man who mistakenly believes she's his soulmate. Book one of The Unaltered series introduces a secret universe existing within our own. In this world, cosmic energy grants superhuman abilities, and people of like ability band together in clans for both safety and community. Governments spy on clans, clans spy on governments, and trusting the wrong person may carry a terrible price.

A Diamond in My Heart, book two in The Unaltered series, follows teen-aged Calli Courtnae as she learns how to control her new cosmic superpowers. She's afraid she's no match for some of the other people who are showing up with different paranormal powers, including a time-rewinding teen who apparently has some romantic fantasy about her going on in his head. She faces more challenges with him as he attempts to save the day.Maetha, her paranormal guide, assigns Calli to investigate the young man and teach him what a real superhero looks like. Before that can happen, she'll have to determine what his power actually is--and that takes her into an action-packed adventure in itself. All the while, someone is systematically kidnapping the clan leaders who wear the near-magical diamond amulets.Calli feels overwhelmed with trying to figure everything out and keep balance in the world. All her powers--the ability to read minds, view the future, heal people, and locate other Sanguine Diamond Bearers--should be a good thing. They turn sour, however, when she learns of traitors who've sided with the U.S. government, threatening her new world and the lives of those she loves.Even with all her superpowers, she feels alone and up against insurmountable odds. She begins to question the loyalty and friendship of others. She has no one to turn to when, ultimately, she is faced with the inevitable--the reuniting of the diamond shards.Who can she trust, or who just wants her dead and has everything in place to make that happen?A #1 bestseller in eleven countries, with over 225,000 downloads, the Unaltered series' readers have shown their love with over 1,200 5-star reviews. The tale woven is one that feels ensconced in today's world alongside a huge dose of superpowers. Currently being optioned for film and television, so don't miss your chance to read this exciting series before it hits the screen.

A Diamond in My Heart, book two in The Unaltered series, follows teen-aged Calli Courtnae as she learns how to control her new cosmic superpowers. She's afraid she's no match for some of the other people who are showing up with different paranormal powers, including a time-rewinding teen who apparently has some romantic fantasy about her going on in his head. She faces more challenges with him as he attempts to save the day.Maetha, her paranormal guide, assigns Calli to investigate the young man and teach him what a real superhero looks like. Before that can happen, she'll have to determine what his power actually is--and that takes her into an action-packed adventure in itself. All the while, someone is systematically kidnapping the clan leaders who wear the near-magical diamond amulets.Calli feels overwhelmed with trying to figure everything out and keep balance in the world. All her powers--the ability to read minds, view the future, heal people, and locate other Sanguine Diamond Bearers--should be a good thing. They turn sour, however, when she learns of traitors who've sided with the U.S. government, threatening her new world and the lives of those she loves.Even with all her superpowers, she feels alone and up against insurmountable odds. She begins to question the loyalty and friendship of others. She has no one to turn to when, ultimately, she is faced with the inevitable--the reuniting of the diamond shards.Who can she trust, or who just wants her dead and has everything in place to make that happen?

Welcome to the light-hearted coloring book Vintage Easter Children Grayscale Adult Coloring Book. This book is filled with vintage children playing outside and spending time with each other. This book is joyful, delightful, and fun to color. The images in this book are made lighter so they're easy to color. Let your coloring imagination go free and color this cute children's grayscale coloring book. Color over all of the varying shades of gray and make the children come to life. Use different colors to highlight, shade, and shadow your coloring pages. This grayscale coloring book includes - 1. 30 high-quality grayscale coloring pages. 2. 8.5" x 11" pages. 3. Each page is one-sided. 4. Each page has a vintage Easter child to color. Feel free to review the coloring book and let me know how you enjoyed your coloring. Please contact Renee at joyfulcoloringbooks@gmail.com More coloring books to come! Enjoy your coloring journey!

"Think of what late greats James Herbert and Richard Laymon may have given birth to had they ever collaborated" (Richard Chizmar). Welcome to the long-awaited collection from the writer of horror novels Pede and Tenebrion; a foreword by Richard Chizmar (coauthor of Gwendy's Button Box and author of A Long December), 18 short stories, five flash fiction, and even a poem - all skin-crawling, soul-shredding tales of terror, of the darkest things that skulk among the night's inky shadows, and of the everyday gone horribly awry. Discover the alternative implication of technology becoming self-aware, enjoy the acquaintance of a charismatic new pastor who promises his flock a brand-new place in which to worship his God, and spend a little time in the company of a nice young man who is inexorably caught up in his hometown's terrible secret. Then there is Cupid's revelation that personally he has never experienced love, yet we discover that very emotion alive and not so well among the ruins of a post-zombie-apocalypse world, and we bear witness to childhood innocence forever destroyed in a war-torn city. Observe, too, a particularly unsavory individual's obsession with the ever-elusive snuff movie, and then join an elderly bunch of forgetful sleuths out to solve the mystery of the brutal deaths that seem to occur with alarming regularity at their memory care facility. Now, have you ever considered what may happen should you have the misfortune to bump into your family's doppelgangers on a long, tedious road trip? And can you even begin to imagine being the doting father who eventually realizes the apple of his eye's true identity, or the parents who spend what is left of their crumbling lives waiting by the all too silent telephone for news of their addict son? There is more, Dear Listener, much, much more; for within this audiobook we have devils, demons and ghosts, lycanthropes and demigods, all rubbing nefarious shoulders with vilest of hell's offspring who have slithered from the netherworld to doff their caps and wish us all the sweetest of dreams.

"Move over Slenderman, there's a whole new reason to be afraid of the dark!" There are some places that lie where the barrier between worlds is thin and growing thinner. These corridors are as old as the Earth itself, hidden in dark and forgotten places, waiting to be found. There is a being who stalks these places and travels between those worlds. He was given the name Mr. Shift by generations of children and madmen. Just as Hickory Grimble hits rock bottom, he inherits his grandparents' farm and believes his luck is changing. He soon finds he inherited more than money and land. Haunted by his own inner demons, now he has new problems. He begins to see strange creatures on the dark, sprawling acreage, animals that have no business living in middle Tennessee. He also discovers a decrepit, abandoned house in the forest that never seems to be in the same place twice. Balanced on a razor's edge between, addiction and fate, Hick is now face to face with an ancient evil that has returned once more to claim more of the town's children.

A true homage to the creature feature genre!. The once luxurious Mountainview Spa Hotel in the heart of California's Coachella valley lies decaying, abandoned and heavily boarded up. Its secret; it is the site of a radioactive, "dirty" bomb explosion five years' previous. Zoology Professor Jane Lucas has a lifelong phobia of Scolopendra gigantea, the Giant Centipede, despite being the world's leading authority on it. Following the savage deaths of two young lovers who broke into the hotel for its natural underground spa, and the discovery of centipede remains almost three times its natural size, the professor teams up with four of her students to investigate. But their expedition becomes a fight for survival when they are trapped in the hotel with a gang of violent thugs - including the boyfriend of one of the female students with whom the professor has been having an illicit affair. They soon discover a voracious swarm of the oversized centipedes that has spawned within the hotel, but are horrified to learn that another creature even more terrifying hunts in the Mountainview's deserted hallways - a centipede of seemingly impossibly monstrous proportions; and it is ravenous and desperate to feed.

Book six in The Unaltered series. Calli is assigned to help rescue imprisoned scientists from a facility eerily similar to General Harding’s. Even with Brand’s help, this will prove to be difficult at best. The task reveals a new, man-made, power-removing substance. Another threat still hanging in the balance is Max Corvus and the obsidian bullets he now possesses. Calli’s first major failure as a Bearer will ignite a bidding war for the information Max has about her and the others. If these two new powerful weapons weren’t enough to worry about, Calli also discovers a plot among her own group once Chris decides to become a full diamond bearer. With her own future at stake, Calli must change the rules that have always been laid out for her. Sometimes, discovering one’s purpose in life can be a letdown. Or, it can cause one to rise up and fight back.

The Diamond of Freedom, book three in The Unaltered, melds together history, geology, metaphysics, science, and fantasy in this non-stop nail biter. Calli and Chris race against the clock to identify the power-neutralizing stone that prevents Calli from healing her life-threatening injuries. She must also learn how to counter its effects before she can fight against the rogue Diamond Bearer named Freedom to save the boy she loves and the world of her friends.In the epic battle between extreme cosmic-power holders, weaknesses are exploited and lifetime relationships shattered to gain the upper-hand. Sometimes having no special abilities is what makes someone the most powerful. General Harding, Chris's father, has made it his life's mission to eradicate all people with powers. Believing the lies fed to him, and misusing his status with the U.S. government, General Harding nears completion of a weapon designed to destroy cosmic-energy individuals.Calli meets Brand Safferson's half-sister, self-named Deus Ex, and proclaimed mercenary. Her repeating abilities are necessary to rescue Brand from General Harding's compound, but the risks of recruiting her to abandon Freedom's side and join Maetha's may be deadly.Maetha provides proof that she's figured out how to heal the DNA of an altered human, creating an Unaltered individual.A #1 bestseller in eleven countries, with over 225,000 downloads, the Unaltered series' readers have shown their love with over 1,200 5-star reviews. The tale woven is one that feels ensconced in today's world alongside a huge dose of superpowers. Currently being optioned for film and television, so don't miss your chance to read this exciting series before it hits the screen.

The Diamond Bearer's Secret, book five of The Unaltered. Calli learns that everything she's been through since receiving a diamond has been in preparation for a much larger purpose. An event looms in the future that could end life as she knows it and her assistance is crucial. The problem is, the Diamond Bearers are dividing at a time they should be uniting and she is viewed as a young upstart by centuries-old comrades. They're not about to let her upset their ranks or move forward with plans that go against their thinking. They're unaware Calli can hear their grumblings and, through her, Crimson. Neither Calli nor Crimson back down. The ultimatum still stands: support nature's will or surrender your diamond.Problems arise over an anonymous blog revealing critical information about people with powers. The blog must be stopped before the secrets of the Diamond Bearers are released. Unfortunately, the powers contained within the Sanguine Diamond don't include the ability to shut down a blog--nor do Diamond Bearers rooted in antiquated practices have a clue about how to address this life-threatening issue. Only those who understand how the virtual world works can fight against a virtual enemy.With everything escalating around them, Chris and Calli still find time to get to know each other better. Will they like what they find? What other information will be found within the files from General Harding's compound? The more pressing question is, are Crimson and Maetha still keeping secrets from Calli?A #1 bestseller in eleven countries, with over 225,000 downloads, the Unaltered series' readers have shown their love with over 1,200 5-star reviews. The tale woven is one that feels ensconced in today's world alongside a huge dose of superpowers. Currently being optioned for film and television, so don't miss your chance to read this exciting series before it hits the screen.