Bjorn Hasseler

Get ready for a wild ride of ongoing adventures in this issue Four familiar faces return while two new ones make their debut in these six thrilling tales. Once we finish a story, our characters lives continue. Four stories bring back old friends while two are new ones you'll see again. In the romantic "How Lovely Are Thy Branches" (Garrett W. Vance), we find a Christmas tree on The Wonderland Isles, while ripples from prom lead to a new business in "Stilettos, Part 2" (Bethanne Kim). For Reed and Kathy Sue Burroughs, their romantic escapades continue in "A Week Together" (Bjorn Hasseler) as they savor time together between wars. But not all adventures are loving ones, as seen in "Rites of Passage" (Edith Wild) where Amalia von Herbert and Maggie Vogel face the aftermath of a cliffhanger from Issue 4. In "Emancipation and Education," Terry Howard tells the unexpected and heart-wrenching tale of a boy fighting to stay in school against his father's wishes. Finally, in Aaron Jamieson Greso's first 1632 story, "The Diablo Is In The Details," a simple task of buying compasses and selling a donkey turns into a bigger challenge than expected for a Portuguese merchant and a knight. Don't miss out on these gripping tales of ongoing adventures. If you enjoyed similar books like "The Hunger Games" and "Divergent," you won't be able to put this one down. Buy your copy now

There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend. They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific community. These creatures, long thought gone, have somehow survived; creatures from our nightmares haunting the dark places. They swim in our lakes and bays, they soar the night skies, they hunt in the woods. Some are from our past, some from other worlds, and others have always been with us-watching us, fearing us, hunting us. These are the cryptids, and Systema Paradoxa tells their tales.***Trouble's brewing in Bowie. When a decapitated body turns up at a Little Library, there's more than a story to tell. Special Agent Tiffany Watson of the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit catches the case when the local PD reaches out for assistance. But all is not as it seems as evidence unbelievably points toward a supernatural culprit. Subterfuge or cold, hard facts? The mystery goes much deeper than two clearly related deaths. Can Watson solve the case before the body count grows?