The Birth of a Superhero: A Poker Boy Short Story - format ePub

One of the most prolific writers in modern fiction writing shows you how he does it.Author of over one-hundred-and-fifty novels, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith gives an intimate day-to-day,...

More than fifty-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Introducing Card Sharp Silver, a novel in the new Cave Creek series, a shared world "Where...

Every day, J.C. Dunn comes home to his wonderful house on Bryant Street. He used to love the place, now he fears it. Every night it smells of spaghetti sauce and fresh garlic bread.He lives by himself...

Six really, really, really weird stories from the different worlds of USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith. In this volume, Dean presents varied stories that show the end of the world, or the...

Marble Grant and her partner Sim stumble on a beautiful, drop-dead sexy woman moments before she actually drops dead.That sort of kills all the fun in the moment.While the Fremont Street Experience swirls...

A giant round spaceship the size of Jupiter flashes in from outside the galaxy, clearly out of control, headed directly for the Earth system.Captain Friday "Disco" Franks and Captain Emma Dakota meet...

Gambling universe superhero Poker Boy loves saving dogs, even though that’s not part of his duty in the gambling universe. He sometimes thinks he saves more dogs than he does people. Now he and his team...

Sky Tate knows next to nothing about cars. She teleports everywhere.But now faced with a mystery about an expensive car, she must learn a little about cars. Just enough.The first Sky Tate story, "Center...

USA Today bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith presents thirty-four different short stories ranging across most of his different series.Sixty-six more stories await in the previous two volumes.Hours...

Poker Boy saved the world a number of times, but never from an alien. With the help of his sidekick, Front Desk Girl and Laverne, Lady Luck herself, Poker Boy must do battle with an alien snake across...

Poker Boy works as a superhero in the gambling side of the world. And he reports to Stan, the God of Poker.Very bothered, Stan comes to Poker Boy with a problem. Very personal and unusual.Another superhero...

USA TODAY BESTSELLING WRITER Dean Wesley Smith returns to his most popular series that features the superhero Poker Boy and all his sidekicks.Poker Boy once again finds himself facing the task of saving...

Superhero Marble Grant dies suddenly on a blind date, a bullet between her eyes. Maybe the worst ending of a blind date in recorded history.But instead of taking the white light to the next world, she...

What’s a girl to do when Daddy wants her dead? Mortuary Dan, otherwise known as Death himself, just happens to be her father. Poker Boy and his team must help the only daughter of Death understand that...

Poker Boy wants nothing more than to be left alone in a good game of poker. But a cherub circles overhead in the poker room wanting to talk. And Poker Boy knows this cherub and knows the little guy represents...

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith weaves a science fiction tale of love and survival of two modern professors dealing with the past.Offered a free trip into a remote Idaho wilderness that...

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to the world of Dust and Kisses with a new novel.Paleontologist Callie Sheridan spent a few days deep in the Oregon Caves on a dig with three students...

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith takes you into the world of his acclaimed novel Dead Money with a new series about a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives playing poker and solving...

Pakhet Jones is a superhero in the cat world. In the Poker Boy universe, every detail of life has superheroes and gods to watch out for their area of life. This story, it is Pakhet Jones that needs saving...

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith takes you into the world of his acclaimed novel Dead Money with a new series about a group of retired Las Vegas Police detectives playing poker and solving...

Brand new Ghost Agents, newly dead recruit Elliot and almost-dead Deanna, find themselves without real ghost training trying to save the world while at the same time falling deeply in love.  Along with...

Attorney Gail Kelly dies suddenly on her way to dinner and within minutes meets ghost Dan Carson, aka Sunset. A Ghost Agent for over a hundred years, Sunset offers to help train Gail. But somewhere in...

 Starting into a brand-new romantasy series, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith asks a simple question: What happens if ghosts can fight crime and bad people while falling in love?  Just fifteen...

Eve Bryson died and found herself a ghost and lusting after a cop. And not just any cop. Deputy McCall Cascade: Superhero.  Can a ghost and a very much alive superhero find true love, happiness, and sex...

Newly dead Ghost Agent recruits, Belle and Nancy, fall in love as they both learn their new skills as crime-stopping ghosts. Turns out they must learn quickly.  Poker Boy and his superhero team have already...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three - time Hugo Award-nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up ten fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern...

A single Seeder scout ship trapped on the edge of a distant, uncharted galaxy. Chairman Peter German holds the fate of the three thousand people on the Pale Light.Main drives mysteriously not working,...

Bryant Street, a standard subdivision street, haunts us all. To escape Bryant Street often takes real courage.Meet Neil Prendell. He made a mistake. He lost his job but avoided telling his wife. Instead,...

Most of humanity died one ugly day four years before. Now the survivors wanted to rebuild.Angie Park’s job consisted of telling survivors outside of Portland, Oregon, of the plans to rebuild. But some...

Over sixty-five thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.In this twenty-sixth monthly volume the full novel Star Rain: A Seeders Universe Novel, plus five...

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma...

"There it was, hanging in the sky above the school: the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building… wherever they had murdered…"...

"'Give me Harry Potter,' said Voldemort's voice, 'and none shall be harmed. Give me Harry Potter, and I shall leave the school untouched. Give me Harry Potter, and you will be rewarded.'"As he climbs...

"'There will be three tasks, spaced throughout the school year, and they will test the champions in many different ways … their magical prowess - their daring - their powers of deduction - and, of course,...

"'You are sharing the Dark Lord's thoughts and emotions. The Headmaster thinks it inadvisable for this to continue. He wishes me to teach you how to close your mind to the Dark Lord.'" Dark times have...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting Dune Messiah, the sequel to one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for...

'It does everything you'd expect of a masterpiece - and it is one' Sunday Express'Hums and crackles with delicious unease' Independent'Captivating' The Sunday Times'An absorbing thriller' Mail on SundayNO...

THE INSPIRATION FOR HBO AND SKY TV’S EMMY NOMINATED HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. Centuries before A Game of Thrones, an even greater game began, one that set the skies alight with dragon...

Five original science fiction & fantasy stories.Short Bits is an eclectic mix of short stories, from high fantasy to urban fantasy and LitRPG, each one exploring a new world. They're written for the...

Volume Seven of our ongoing series of paired New Weird Horror novelettes takes readers on nightmare excursions to lonely locales Íde Hennessy - Sequoia PointCalifornia's rugged "Lost Coast" has long been...

The spellbinding sequel to Kathryn Purdie's Sunday Times bestselling dark fairytale, where our main characters must return to the forest – and its monsters After surviving the Forest Grimm and...

What happens to loving each other forever when your soulmate decides living forever is more important?Yuki and Sam are soulmates.They are destined to spend the rest of their lives together.They are supposed...

‘This twisty, absorbing thriller is both a moving love story and fascinating speculative fiction exploring memory, time and reality’ GUARDIAN ‘An expertly crafted puzzle of a story’ NEW SCIENTIST...

The Fantastical Imaginings of a Survivor is a collection of short stories and poems with socially conscious undertones, a paranormal horror tale of survival, a poem about the loss of oneself, a few dystopian...

Some family secrets are better off hidden.I thought I was done with drama, but it turns out drama wasn't done with me. A coven has abducted Gramps, demanding I hand over our "super secret" family heirloom...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

"Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'."Harry Potter has never even heard...

A funny, emotional and uplifting novel from the French Marian Keyes. 'Heartwarming' Good Housekeeping'A gorgeous story, charming and funny and poignant' Nicola Cornick For fans of Ruth Hogan, Veronica...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

The instant number one Sunday Times bestseller and thrilling sequel to the global phenomenon, Fourth Wing! THE IRON FLAME PAPERBACK EDITION INCLUDES A BRAND NEW CHAPTER FROM XADEN'S POINT OF VIEW!'Yarros...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century,...

DON'T BE THE LAST TO DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT EVERYONE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT: 'Pure escapism - think Hunger Games meets Fifty Shades' The Sun'We weren't expecting to become obsessed . . . but we very...

"'There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year.'" Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy...

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the Number One New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive. Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future...

A heart-wrenching grim cozy pirate's tale with a little bit of romance. This is not 'Cozy' in the traditional sense, unless you find misery and betrayal to be as comforting as a cup of hot cocoa."This...

The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his...

"'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'"When the Knight Bus crashes...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire,...

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being...