"Razor Sharp Beyond the Edge. Harlan Ellison's stories and essays have been on the cutting edge of contemporary American Literature for over 40 years, but he stubbornly refuses to abandon the use of a manual typewriter. He's involved in every medium from television drama to comic books, and his works have been translated into 26 languages. Although he's won more awards for his writing than any living fantasist, Harlan still refuses to eat lima beans. In May 1996, White Wolf announced what is still its most ambitious publishing program for a single author: the first 20 volumes of the collected fiction, essays, teleplays and columns of the writer whom The Washington Post calls ""one of the great living American short story writers"." The first volume of this series, containing An Edge in My Voice and Over the Edge, is now available in trade paperback. Both books have been completely revised, updated and expanded for the hardcover publication, and this trade edition has been re-edited as well".

Nancy investigates a series of accidents at a high-risk sports resort.

In Sedona’s red rock canyons, a former reporter must piece together her shattered memories in time to stop a killer in this cat-and-mouse thriller, perfect for fans of CJ Box and Anne Hillerman.After a disastrous mistake ended her career as a crime reporter, Del Cooper returns to Sedona and takes a gig with a down-on-its-luck tour company while she rebuilds her life. Her peaceful small-town escape ends when, hiking in a remote red rock canyon, she finds the broken body of a murdered man.  At first, she believes the murder is connected to a proposed land trade that will pave the way for a luxury development on the edge of town, but it seems money isn’t the killer’s only motive. As she digs deeper, she uncovers the small town’s darkest secrets, all leading her to Lee Ranch, a former filming location for Western movies. Two women disappear after Del interviews them, and rumors begin to spin faster than Sedona’s famed energy...

"A provocative, smoldering small town romantic suspense thriller that fans of Big Little Lies will love." -BestThrillers Perfect for fans of Don't Lie To Me and The Night She Disappeared, award-winning author Quinn Avery's newest book, Woman Over the Edge follows Mia's decades-long search for her sister's killer. Mia Hughes is only sixteen years old when she loses her sister after a summer storm catapults their boat into the rocky shoreline. Only Ben, Mia's best friend along for the boat ride, is conscious after the crash. When he goes looking for help he discovers Mia covered in blood...and no sign of Bella. With no memory of what happened before she was found, Mia spends the next twenty-two years haunted by Bella's disappearance, only to encounter a series of tragedies that she knows have to be tied to her sister...and to Ben. Blending the non-stop action of Those That Wish Me Dead, the shocking revelations of The...

Here is a really outstanding new collection of tales of the macabre and the supernatural. And when we say “new” we mean precisely that: not one of the eighteen memorable stories in this collection has been published before, anywhere, in any form. The collection includes tales by many of the masters of the genre— H. P. Lovecraft (author of The Haunter in the Dark, At the Mountains of Madness), W. H. Hodgson (author of The House on the Borderland, The Ghost Pirates), John Metcalfe (author of The Smoking Leg, The Bad Lands), H. Russell Wakefield (author of They Return at Evening, Imagine a Man in a Box); and at the other end of the spectrum, there are several exciting newcomers, two of whom make their first appearance in print in this volume.The collection opens, most fittingly, with Hodgson’s The Crew of the Lancing, a tale of the days of the great sailing ships, and desperate encounter with a' lost ship which has been seized and manned by the demons of the sea. This is a story which might have been conceived by that greatest master of them all, Edgar Allan Poe; as indeed might the next in the volume, Wakefield’s The Last Meeting of Two Old Friends, a tale of a mass murderer, dead for a century', whose tomb is reopened in our own time.H. P. Lovecraft died in 1937, and left a draft of the story which we have here. It has now been completed by his old collaborator (and the book’s editor), August Derleth, and is in the authentic and spine-chilling vein: a possession. But there are benign ghosts in the collection too: the father who returns to keep a helpful eye on how his family are running his farm; the mother who returns to care for her sick child; and there’s a whole benign oasis, to save an Arab who is dying of thirst. Then, to redress the balance again, there are tales of monstrous evil, of the power of an Inca curse which spans the centuries, the powers of necromancy and of vampires.The collection ranges from the last prodigious adventure of Robert E. Howard’s splendidly old-fashioned hero, Solomon Kane, swashbuckling and indestructible, to the most sophisticated science fiction of Frank Belknap Long’s When the Rains Came. There is an element of science fiction in Carl Jacobi’s Kincaid’s Car too; but perhaps the remarkable range of the collection is most strikingly seen in J. Vernon Shea’s The Old Lady’s Room and Fritz Leiber’s The Black Gondolier. The former might fairly be described as a fine example of the classic ghost story, and the latter takes the macabre about as far as it can go. Its setting is a grim, broken-down Venice of cement-shell constructions, oil derricks and heavy wire barricades; and its ghost is no ordinary one, no demon or monster, no elemental or emanation; the consciously hostile power is quite simply, oil; the lifeblood of our modern technological culture. This is a book packed with good stories, all of them guaranteed to set the scalp tingling and the blood curdling.

As the sole witness to a murder, Lindsey Barnes is already on edge. Now she's being targeted by someone who wants to discredit her testimony. Or is she? Police detective Jack Tucker must determine if it's true, and if so, who's behind the campaign to destroy her credibility—and perhaps her life.

When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes to Jamey Cadmus, the patient he had failed five years before-and who now calls with a bizarre cry for help. But by the time Alex reaches Canyon Oaks Psychiatric Hospital, Jamey is gone, surfacing a day later in the hands of the police, who believe Jamey is the infamous Lavender Slasher, a psychotic serial killer. Wooed by a high-powered attorney to build a defense, Alex will get a chance to do what he couldn't five years ago. And when he peers into a family's troubled history and Jamey's brilliant, tormented mind, the psychologist puts himself at the heart of a high-profile case. Because Alex knows that in a realm of money, loss, and madness, something terrible pushed Jamie over the edge-or else someone is getting away with murder.

When Dr. Olivia Landon receives this anonymous e-mail shortly after broadcasting her controversial plan to save the condors, everyone thinks it's a crank threat except Dr. Landon's daughter Ashley. She's sure it's the handiwork of Morgan Rogers, self-proclaimed anarchist and computer geek. Suspicions mount when the death threat almost becomes a reality, and Morgan is the only witness. Is he innocent or guilty? Journey into the maze of Morgan's cyberworld and find out!

Product DescriptionAfter ten years of patient planning, Mallory Hunt finally has Jake Trinity right where she wants him. After their long ago first meeting-and its steamy kiss-changed her life, now it's time for a little sexy payback. But Mallory doesn't count on the intense heat between them or the fact she doesn't want this to end! From the AuthorDear Reader, Mallory Hunt lives life by her own rules and makes no apologies. She feels that Jake Trinity owes her big, and she plans to collect. The funny thing is Jake Trinity feels exactly the same way--about her. Mallory is in for a big surprise when she learns that Jake has grown up to be a man used to getting what he wants, and he wants her. Enjoy!

Torn from the front lines of medical debate and the author's own experience with Lyme Disease, Over the Edge is riveting fiction, full of twists and turns—and powerful truths about today's medical field.  Janessa McNeil’s husband, Dr. Brock McNeil, a researcher and professor at Stanford University's Department of Medicine, specializes in tick-borne diseases—especially Lyme. For years he has insisted that Chronic Lyme Disease doesn't exist. Even as patients across the country are getting sicker, the committee Brock chairs is about to announce its latest findings—which will further seal the door shut for Lyme treatment.  One embittered man sets out to prove Dr. McNeil wrong by giving him a close-up view of the very disease he denies. The man infects Janessa with Lyme, then states his demand: convince her husband to publicly reverse his stand on Lyme—or their young daughter will be next. But Janessa's marriage is already rocky. She's so sick she can hardly move or think. And her husband denies she has Lyme at all.   Welcome to the Lyme wars, Janessa.Endorsements/Reviews:" . . . a taut, heartbreaking thriller . . . Collins is a fine writer who knows how to both horrify readers and keep them turning pages. She'll gain new readers with this one . . ."Publishers Weekly"Over the Edge provides validation to any person who suffers from the long-term effects of Lyme Disease. While the story is based on Ms. Collins' own life experience, she builds a tense and dramatic novel that illustrates how a person can fall into the web of misdiagnosis and ineffective treatment."New York Journal of Books"This book stayed with me long after I put it down. Not only was it a page-turner, but the storyline about Lyme Disease was fascinating and eye-opening. I think Over the Edge will raise awareness about this horrible disease, and validate those who suffer with it."Terri Blackstock, author of Predator and Intervention"A frightening and all-too-real scenario. Very timely and meaningful book." (4 stars)RT Book Reviews"Over the Edge is an excellent mystery. [It] actively portrays the patient with the myriad symptoms seen in acute or chronic Lyme."Dr. Nick S. Harris, president/CEO, IGeneX, Inc.

When Abra Miller goes to New Orleans Cemetery No. 1 to search for the Tree of Life, she discovers a city teetering on the edge of chaos, people desperate for a way out, and an enemy intent on enslaving the human race.

Erotica/Romance. 44348 words long. First published in 2007, 2007

Joe Crozier, a businessman with a decidedly shady past, is enjoying a pleasant evening of being wined and dined in all the best places. But the congenial atmosphere is shattered when his host yet again tries to persuade him to sell his nightclub, the Painted Pony. Refusing this time, however, costs Joe more than he could ever have imagined - Bound and gagged, he takes a silent and deadly dip in the nearby river. Meanwhile, Charlie Priest is called to another murder scene - only to find that the victim is an old school friend of his, the famous mountaineer, Tony Krabbe. But what could this amiable lecturer have done to deserve being attacked with his own ice-pick? And could the two cases be linked? As girlfriends from Krabbe s past return to savage his carefully built reputation, Charlie s own love life takes a turn for the worse. Charlie is both desperate to help his girlfriend and to seek out the truth, but can work and love ever make comfortable bedfellows?Review"'Enough to satisfy the most ardent lover of crime fiction' Yorkshire Evening Post 'One of Yorkshire's best-kept secrets' Crime Time 'Pawson is a good writer, and has created a meaty, readable detective story. However, it is the humanity of his characters that really makes Over The Edge distinctive' Glasgow Herald" About the AuthorStuart Pawson had a career as a mining engineer, followed by a spell working for the probation service, before he became a full-time writer. He lives in Fairburn, Yorkshire, and when not hunched over the word processor, Stuart likes nothing more than tramping across the moors, which often feature in his stories.

Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, acclaimed author Laurence Bergreen, interweaving a variety of candid, first-person accounts, some previously unavailable in English, brings to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed many long-held views about the world and the way explorers would henceforth navigate its oceans. In 1519 Magellan and his fleet set sail from Seville, Spain, to find a water route to the Spice Islands in Indonesia, where the most sought-after commodities -- cloves, pepper, and nutmeg -- flourished. Most important, they were looking for a passageway, a strait, through the great landmass of the Americas that would lead them to these fabled islands. Laurence Bergreen takes readers on board with Magellan and his crew as they explore, navigate, mutiny, suffer, and die across the seas. He also recounts the many unusual sexual practices the crew experienced, from orgies in Brazil to bizarre customs in the South Pacific. With a fleet of five ships and more than two hundred men, they had set out in search of the Spice Islands. Three years later they returned with an abundance of spices from their intended destination, but with just one ship carrying eighteen emaciated men. They suffered starvation, disease, and torture, and many died, including Magellan, who was violently killed in a fierce battle. A man of great tenacity, cunning, and courage, Magellan was full of contradictions. He was both heroic and foolish, insightful yet blind, a visionary whose instincts outran his ideals. Ambitious to a fault and not above using torture and murder to maintain control of his ships and sailors, he survived innumerable natural hazards in addition to several violent mutinies aboard his own fleet -- and it took no less than the massed forces of fifteen hundred men to kill him. This is the first time in nearly half a century that anyone has attempted to narrate the complete story of Magellan's unprecedented circumnavigation of the globe -- to tell this truly gripping and profoundly important story of heroism, discovery, and disaster. A voyage into history, a tour of the world emerging from the Middle Ages into the Renaissance, an anthropological account of tribes, languages, and customs unknown to Europeans, and a chronicle of a desperate grab for commercial and political power, Over the Edge of the World is a captivating tale that rivals the most exciting thriller fiction.

Previously available as Wedding Survivor (Thrillseekers Anonymous series). When a wedding planner’s first gig teams her up with a sexy stuntman, will she crash and burn…or be airlifted to love? Tall, lithe ex-stuntman Eli McCain may speak with a Texas drawl, but this modern-day cowboy prefers hurricane windsurfing to herding cattle. Along with three friends, he cofounded Thrillseekers Anonymous, an extreme sports club that caters to the ultrarich and superfamous. But when the club agrees to stage a huge—and hugely profitable—extreme sports–themed celebrity wedding, Eli gets furious; he’s still bitter about getting jilted at the altar and wants nothing to do with veils or vows. Copper-haired chatterbox Marnie Banks dove headfirst into wedding planning after she was laid off from a dot-com start-up. The union of megawatt stars Olivia Dagwood and Vincent Vittorio may be her first solo wedding job, but it could make all her dreams come true: She’ll make Hollywood connections. She’ll finally move out of her parents’ house. And she’ll meet a decent guy, for once. But when the wedding turns from extreme to extremely disastrous, Eli and Marnie must work together against the elements, their bickering clients, and their own smoldering attraction to save the day. Will the sparks flying between them ignite into something real and passionate…or will they both end up burned? **

Over the Edge, a collection of twelve short stories and essays from Harlan Ellison, is a must-read for any fan of the wild abandon and laser focus of one of the century's most brilliant authors. Complex, alluring, audacious, sublime—it is not hyperbole when applied to the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author whom the Washington Post calls "one of the great living American short story writers."