A trio of friends from New York City find themselves trapped inside a mechanical board game that they must dismantle in order to save themselves and generations of other children in this action-packed debut that’s a steampunk Jumanji with a Middle Eastern flair. Nothing can prepare you for The Gauntlet… It didn’t look dangerous, exactly. When twelve-year-old Farah first laid eyes on the old-fashioned board game, she thought it looked…elegant. It is made of wood, etched with exquisite images—a palace with domes and turrets, lattice-work windows that cast eerie shadows, a large spider—and at the very center of its cover, in broad letters, is written: The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand. The Gauntlet is more than a game, though. It is the most ancient, the most dangerous kind of magic. It holds worlds inside worlds. And it takes players as prisoners.

Tony Stark is known throughout the world as many things:billionaire, inventor, Avenger. But mainly for being the Invincible Iron Man. Just when Tony is about to add his pizzazz to an international eco-summit in Ireland, someone close to him forces him to question his role in making the world a more dangerous place with his high-techweaponry. But Stark doesn't have much time to reflect before an old enemy presents him with an even greater challenge: the assassination of all the eco-ministers, and Iron Man himself. Just how invincible Iron Man is when he is stripped of everything remains to be seen in this breathless adventure by the best-selling author of Artemis Fowl.

Jim Ward tells the detailed story of discovering his own fascination with body piercing, his founding of Gauntlet (the first body piercing studio), and the beginning of the modern body piercing industry.

Concealing, my psychic 'Gifts' is exhausting.I'll be happy when my brother Dusty grows up and finds a girlfriend. I'd be grateful for Dusty's offer to help me move if we weren't trading favors. Traipsing around a Renaissance fair is an agonizing price to pay. Epic fail, Mama and I miscommunicated on the dress size, and it leaves me a little...exposed. But at least I'm not naked. Right? There's nothing left for me to do but own my curvy sensual side as if I meant to tease the tantalizing knights and wizards at the event. A lunatic poisons the crowd, and a nasty epidemic of Montezuma's revenge wreaks havoc. Sneaky cowards make me madder than a wet hen. If that's not enough to knock the shine off the trip for me, it turns out a little known secret about a ghost in the castle is true. How do I know? Because I'm sleeping in the tortured spirit's room and she wakes me each night with a bloodcurdling scream. Assuming we survive this nightmare, Dusty best not give me any lip about my furniture being heavy. 'Throw the Gauntlet' is the 6th installment in the April May Snow Psychic Mystery Shorts. The stories are stand-alone, but the current, complete list is below. If you enjoy Colleen Helme, Erin Huss, JB Lynn, Jana DeLeon, Angie Fox, Elizabeth Hunter, or Amanda M. Lee, 'Throw the Gauntlet' will keep you turning pages to the end! #1 Throw the Bouquet #2 Throw the Cap #3 Throw the Dice #4 Throw the Elbow #5 Throw the Fastball #6 Throw the Gauntlet If you enjoy April's story, please sign up for the mail list at https: //www.mscottswanson.com/ (New release notifications only.)

Plug back into the dangerous world of virtual gaming, in the next thrilling novel from the author of Arena. Kali Ling has faced down death hundreds of times for the entertainment of millions. She knows fear—and she knows what’s truly terrifying... There’s a new game in town. A brutal, winner-takes-all, international video game tournament showcasing the world’s most elite players, promising fame, prestige, and unbelievable fortune. But there’s a catch. The game uses new VR pods guaranteed to push digital warriors to their physical and psychological brink—adapting every time a gamer makes a move. As the first female captain and youngest team owner in VGL history, Kali is used to defying the odds. But as the all-star tournament heats up, her determination begins to waver and the pressures of media, sponsors, and the game itself begin to put cracks in her hard-set convictions—and strain on her relationship with the one person who matters most. If Kali and her teammates are to survive, they’ll have to find a way to be stronger than ever before. But battling the system may prove too difficult for even the most hardened of fighters...

Morgan the Wizard, Layla the Valkyrie, Korb the elven archer, Orlando the Warrior, and Phineas, Knight of the Order of Skye-adventurers all-must seek out and destroy the evil that is haunting the land of Viridus. In order to accomplish that, they need to gather up the four shards of the Gryphon Window, a mystical portal to the ethereal realm between the physical and the spirit worlds-that is where the great dark lord behind all their problems is hiding. But finding the shards won't be an easy task-not when the dark lord's minions are waiting in every shadow, behind every tree and stone, waiting to kill at their master's bidding!

A young boy living in England is transported back to Medieval Wales, where he learns all about life there as the supposed son of a prominent Norman knight.

On 3 October 1953, five young men crossed the border from Czechoslovakia into East Germany. Their mission was to deliver a secret message from a Czech general to US authorities before joining US troops and returning to liberate their country. What ensured was the largest manhunt of the Cold War.