Mark Stone

The capacity for everyday heroics is in each of us. Sometimes the most ordinary accomplishment can be the height of inspiration, if only we knew the journey that person traveled to reach that accomplishment. These stories are all around us, if only we stop, look, and listen. This is one story. Perhaps it starts lying in the back of an ambulance, wondering if I would walk again, and thinking, with a strange sense of relief, "This is the bottom. It...

When the priest he's known his entire life is run down on the streets of Naples, Detective Dillon Storm sets out to get to the bottom of who was behind the horrible hit and run. The deeper he gets, though, the more he realizes it might not have been an accident, and that the truth might lead him down a rabbit hole he'll never escape from. In the end, Dillon Storm will have to travel away from the home he loves to a whole new Floridian terrain if he...

Detective Dillon Storm is headed back to Naples for the first time in a dozen years, and the occasion is not a happy one. The illegitimate son of the richest man in America's richest city, Dillon spent his entire life in the shadow of a family that would never accept him. Now he's come to bury the man who neglected him and in doing so, put that part of his life behind him forever. But the past has a way of sticking around, and things don't stay forgotten...

Kalevi Hakala is tired. Weary down to the bone, his life an empty one since the death of his wife Jeanie and complicated by his son's growing emotional distance. He's at least somewhat content in his home in Silver Bay, Minnesota, but when a dead man tries to kill him for no reason, he can fathom it sets him on a quest through the multiverse in an attempt to keep reality from being destroyed. Foul-mouthed, slave, warrior, wizard and savior, Kalevi...

Niendra Goisien is a special investigator for the Gyllethian Queen, Betelial Tim-Amre. As a Witch, she has magics that aid her in her endeavors, but the murder of the magnate Soro Divver draws her into a mystery that leads to her death. Five-hundred years later she returns as a revenant to find out not only who killed her, but the very reason the capital of Gylleth, Ramashur, reduced to an undead infested necropolis. Can she solve this mystery before...

Kal Hakala is the Bureau of Supernatural Investigation's best agent, but even he needs a break after his last case, which brought him a hair's breadth from death and killed the fiancée of his best friend, a Mescalero Apache agent named Canton Asate. Kal's temporary desk-job is nothing less than leadership of the entire BSI. Now it is on his head to assemble teams of agents to fight the latest Supernatural incursions and man up if they fail. Windigo...

Agent Kal Hakala, who has been running the Bureau of Supernatural Investigation as its temporary director, has his hands full. First there was the windigo crisis that threatened humanity with extinction. Now he has received an anonymous challenge from a creature calling himself Maydock: "Come to Omaha within the next five days, or every day thereafter I shall kill 10 humans in many inventive and disturbing ways." Maydock has infiltrated BSI Security...

For ten years Kal Hakala has been the Bureau of Supernatural Investigation's top man, the longest surviving agent in its blood-soaked history. The World At Large has no idea that The World Under exists. And its vampires, demons, zombies, and mythic monsters are growing increasingly restless. In all Kal's time with the Bureau, there has been no case he couldn't crack, no monster he couldn't kill. Then a plague of zombies comes to Denver, along with...

"Freely available source code, with contributions from thousands of programmers around the world: this is the spirit of the software revolution known as Open Source. Open Source has grabbed the computer industry's attention. Netscape has opened the source code to Mozilla; IBM supports Apache; major database vendors haved ported their products to Linux. As enterprises realize the power of the open-source development model, Open Source is becoming a...