Carol is on a mission: to deliver a special package to her sweet, but forgetful husband. And no amount of snowy tundra will stand in her way...A short story of approx 1800 words.Choices is the story of Melissa and Jake. Melissa is suffering from a debilitating addiction to prescription pills. She has broken down every relationship to the point of fray. Now her husband Jake must decide what is next does he given up or give her another chance. Jake seeks the support of friends and family to make this hard decision.

Entangled Affair is a collection of six short stories. Love, pain, betrayal, and revenge are some of the driving forces behind the characters in this book. In this book, the writer takes the reader into the minds of the characters, unveiling their motivation for good or evil.Entangled Affair is a collection of six short stories. Love, pain, betrayal, and revenge are some of the driving forces behind the characters in this book.In Entangled Affair; we encounter the twisted nature of a friend, bent on destroying the happiness of others. Blackmail and deception were her tools as she held two people captive, denying them peace and happiness.To The Third Generation tells an interesting tale about three generations of women from the same family and how history repeated itself in each of their lives.Hunted is the story of a guy whose past returns to haunt him.The Consequences relays a young lady’s rise to the top before one mistake causes her to give it all up. The Passengers is a regular Lagos story about the interwoven lives of people whose paths cross on a daily bases and how one influences another into action.The painful story of An Abomination, rounds up the collection when a daughter discovers an unbelievable truth bound to change the rest of her life.

Reason Simon, a Photographer, meets a handsome architect, Didier Gauthier one morning at a bagel shop, he invites him to his gallery & falls for him. They start a whirlwind romance & soon a photograph he took 3 years earlier becomes the center of a mysterious winery and mansion that has no heir. Can he solve the mystery & keep the romance going? Set in 1999.Reason Simon, a Photographer, meets a handsome architect, Didier Gauthier one morning at the bagel shop, he invites him to his gallery and falls for him. They start a whirlwind romance, wining and dining and soon a photograph he took three years earlier becomes the center of a mysterious winery and mansion that has no heir. Can Reason solve the mystery and keep the romance going. Can he keep it together? Set in 1999 this fast paced novel will make you hungry and thirsty for more. First of three novels.

Neelie Nelson fears the worst. Her husband has been gone over a year on a dangerous assignment to infiltrate a powerful drug cartel in Mexico. Her hands shake uncontrollably when she unwraps the crystal ball. What will she do if she sees his death?Do you believe fortune-tellers can really see into the future in their crystal balls?Neelie Nelson finds her grandmother irritating beyond belief. She's always going on about being a true Gypsy. Whatever.Everything changes the day she brings out the crystal ball, with its hypnotic sparkling and the strange magnetic pull.After her grandmother's death, Neelie packs the crystal ball away, and doesn't look at it again until she is desperate to find out what has happened to her husband. Instinctively she knows something is terribly wrong, and her hands shake uncontrollably when she unwraps it and feels its vibration once more.What will it reveal in its deep, swirling core?

The forth book of poetry by Paul Chapman. The poems writen over a period of one year when living in a small town on the coast of Spain. many of the poems are funny some philosophical about life. laugh at my uncle Fred the Pirate and the Seagull or be moved by the Beggars Mass and Small Change.Other poetry books by Paul include Poems of the Seaand A taste of Junk Foodcollection of 14 stories, perfect for the Holiday, along with bonus material. Collection includes, The Bainbridge Witch, The Vampire Bureau, Ol’ Jack, Witch’s Brew, The Dress’s Curse, Retribution, Trapped, The Dragon’s Claw, Hide and Seek, A Prank Gone Too Far, Temptations, Dare, Ageless and Reverie, A Graystone Manor Short.Bonus Material gives you free sample reads of Progeny, The Second Wave: A Post-Apocalyptic Tale, Blood Lust and Undead Ahead, a collaboration of stories by Lisa McCourt Hollar and Jeffrey Hollar.

I Become One is a collection of confessional, lyric, free verse and concrete poetry exploring ecological, social and personal experiences and issues that we face as individuals and as a global community in our world today. These poems call us to remember our individual connection to the Earth and to join in personally to create change that moves towards a more sustainable and peaceful planet.Dirty Little Deeds in Love and Marriage tells the story of the narrator’s ill-fated relationship with Sahar, a Persian expatriate who fled the hostility of Iran with her husband, daughter and the dreams of a new life in America. Single and 26, he is eager to come to the rescue of the eye-catching motorist who needs assistance with her car. What begins with a pleasant conversation and a cup of coffee at the local diner soon emerges as one desperate woman’s effort to end her marriage and the deadly scheme into which she attempts to drag her new American boyfriend. Dirty Little Deeds in Love and Marriage takes readers into the world of a regular guy caught up in the makings of a murder for hire. But as his grandmother always said, “If you dance, sooner or later, you’re gonna’ pay.”

It's been centuries since the Earth was struck by a comet known as Denizen. In the aftermath, an immortal named Merkinder has taken upon himself the task of teaching small groups of ragged children the arts of survival and civility in their new world. Willow LeBlanc is one of his apprentices - but as Merkinder is rapidly discovering, this wayward orphan may very well break his immortal heart.It's been centuries since the Earth was struck by a comet known as Denizen. In the aftermath, an immortal named Merkinder has taken upon himself the task of teaching small groups of ragged children the arts of survival and civility in their new world. Willow LeBlanc is one of his apprentices - but as Merkinder is rapidly discovering, this wayward orphan may very well break his immortal heart. Told is a poetic and literary voice, DANGEROUS PLAYTHINGS is a story that will haunt you for centuries to come.~If you enjoy this book, I hope you will check out my other works, both fiction and non-fiction. Thanks for looking.

Short story. 2,300 words, 10 pages approx. When Charles Lawson, formerly the notorious heroin dealer known as 'God' is released from jail, he lives quietly with his cats until old age forces him into a home for the elderly. There, he reflects on his life and, as he dies peacefully, imagines he is reunited with his wife Angela, who passed over some years before him. Short story, 2,300 wds 10 pages.Short story. 2,300 words, 10 pages approximately. When Charles Lawson, the notorious heroin dealer known as 'God' is released from jail, he lives quietly with his cats until old age forces him into a home for the elderly. There, he reflects on his life and, as he dies peacefully, imagines he is reunited with his wife Angela, who passed over some years before him. Short story, ten 2,300 words, 10 pages approximately.

This is the continuation of the FBI Serial Killer expert Agent Margaret Crawford. A horrific murder of a group of High Society people attending a charity Gala throws her into the mist of a brutal and apparently senseless killing spree. The introduction of a nosy reporter turned novelist adds to her frustrations. Join us as we pursue the brutal and wild set of homicides. Over 500 downloadsThe FBI’s best who had specialized in serial killers is back for another investigation. Her work in the past on the “Cross State Cross Dress Killer” case and her involvement in the “Twin Killer” serial sprees brought her to national attention and fame. The marriage of her and the small town Deputy who joined the force just so he could follow her, made them the sweethearts of law enforcement. Lean back and see how she handles personal tragedy and the new frustrations of a wile and dangerous new criminal. Don’t howl at the moon but it does start with a party for the “Grey Wolf”.

Yifan, like many eleven-year-old girls, wishes she was a Princess. Then she meets Vicky and becomes part of an adventure that began over two thousand years before. But who is Vicky? Is she Yifan from the future - or is she something even more mysterious? And even with Vicky's help, Yifan can't avoid the threats to herself and her family that the revelations of the past can bring.Most young girls like to think that they are really Princesses. For Yifan, the dreams become a reality when she meets her future self, Vicky, who tells her about a mysterious pot which has been handed down through her family for years.When she finds the pot, Yifan is propelled into an adventure that imperils her whole family; and even with Vicky's help there is no guarantee that any of them might survive the clash between the old Empire and the new.But Vicky is growing up faster than Yifan, and her work as an archaeologist takes her deeper into danger than even she can deal with. It's up to Yifan to save her kidnapped family in one world, and Vicky in the other as she pursues grave robbers into the tomb of the First Emperor of China...

Hodge Podge touches on the deeper movements of our time. It is sprinkled with insightful poetry and playful looks at creation and life amid suffering.Hodge Podge is a mix of poems and writings on various spiritual topics and movements in our time. There is a section on Fundies and poems about homelessness. There is a section on God's wise path of creation and on why we live in a messed up world. Deep insights echo throughout this Hodge Podge of thought.

"a warm place to self-destruct" is a collection of poems about suffering. The poems follow the narrator through rough times of being broke, sexual encounters, losing identity, losing family, and everything in between. The narrator is an asshole and smokes...a lot.I devoured the quite satisfying "warm place to self-destruct" in mere hours, and it is time well spent in the theatre of imagination. Weasel’s poems transport you into this hypnotic, darkly erotic, elegiac, fatalistic netherworld; an invitation to his private purgatory of fears and desires. Do yourself a favor and curl up with this passionate monster of a book. It will resonate with you long after you've turned the last page.—Brian Kehinde, author of Synchronicity In Violence.Weasel is like Charles Bukowski with a twist – he focuses on the sensuality of experience but also manages to reveal decadent natures of sexuality and the self. "a warm place to self-destruct" has an affinity for the cosmic and the devastating. It is the gateway between worlds through its meditative style of poetic exploration. This collection has its roots firmly planted in an environment which Weasel interprets as sensuous, raw and terrifying. It acts as a warning against the comfort of familiarity which can eventually push a man into the depths of despair. These poems read as a yearning for excitement and adventure and ponder the possibility of reaching beyond the boundaries we set ourselves, to overcome our inner lethargy to discover a more fulfilling existence.—Nathan Hassall, author of The Flesh and Mortar Prophecy

Installments one through five in the occult erotic romance series Unnatural Lovers available here in one single package. Follow Amanda Stenser as she finds herself the focus of a demonic and possessive creature intent on making her its own. **All titles are available separately and in discounted box sets.** Cabin Fever #1: She was barren. Lifeless. That's how Amanda Stenser felt when she was told the news that she couldn't have children. It was a blow to everything she'd dreamed of, everything she'd hoped. Now she felt lost, and her boyfriend suggests she get away from everything for a few days. That's why she heads up to the cabin deep in the woods, but she never could have expected what changes awaited her up on that lonely mountain. Old Stories #2: Amanda thought she'd never have to see that twisted, possessed cabin ever again. She was wrong. Her boyfriend Tony insists on her facing her fears and investigating the area. Every fiber in her body demands she stay far away from the barren mountaintop, but with Tony by her side she figures maybe she can overcome the fear. Then they can find the source of her terror, the source of that creature. Stalking Sensation #3: Amanda's ordeal with the unknown creature is over, or is it? Returning to Tony's apartment, Amanda finds herself scared of every shadow and noise. The storm outside doesn't help her shaken mood, so she decides to stay over at Tony's place for the night. Her fear is tolerable until she goes to bed, where she finds that nightmare mixes with reality and both strain the limits of her sanity. Research Questions #4: Amanda fears she is losing her mind when she becomes haunted by dark visions and stalked by clinging shadows. She hopes research into these strange happenings will calm her nerves and offer her explanation, but she only digs deeper into the true horror which has chosen her as its next victim. Delicious Nightmares #5: The long afternoon grows longer and Amanda finds her life growing more nightmarish. Truth and fiction intertwine, creating a tapestry of veiled threats and lustful promises. She can't figure out which to follow, her heart furiously beating in her chest or her head screaming at her to break free from the nightmare. Yet even in the dimmest light there is yet some light, and she finds little pleasures in the darkness that embraces her.

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied housekeeper. Her thoughts are taken up with the costumes she is making for the church school play, by the hopelessness of preaching to the poor and by debts she cannot pay in 1930s Depression England. Suddenly her routine shatters and Dorothy finds herself down and out in London. She is wearing silk stockings, has money in her pocket and cannot remember her name. Orwell leads us through a landscape of unemployment, poverty and hunger, where Dorothy's faith is challenged by a social reality that changes her life.

A World to Win is the seventh book of the epic historical narrative in Upton Sinclair's World's End Lanny Budd series. This spellbinding book covers the period or 1940-1942 following the Nazi partial occupation of France and the formation of the Vichy government. Lanny Budd, the protagonist in this classic series is the debonair, suave and wealthy American peace lover. He is intimately connected to every powerful political and military figure on the European continent and the corridors of power in the United States. As a renowned art expert as his camouflage, he is secretly Presidential Agent 103 for President Roosevelt. The story opens with Lanny meeting with the French leaders, politically and militarily, following the German occupation of Paris. He flies to London and meets with his closest friend Rick, a left wing journalist, and finds himself in the middle of the horrendous bombing of London by the German Luftwaffe. Winston Churchill is now the undisputed leader of the British Empire and determined to defeat the Nazi's, after years of appeasement by the ruling aristocrats and politicians in Britain. Lanny is "in the loop" as Rudolph Hess is tricked by British intelligence services into descending into Scotland in a misguided attempt to prevent an all out German-British war. Lanny is captured by French underground patriots who believe he is a Nazi agent and has a harrowing escape. Ironically, he is attempting to give money to this underground resistance movement when he is captured. By itself this part of the story is compelling and clearly illustrates Lanny's cleverness, ingenuity and persuasiveness in the face of grave personal danger. In his most dangerous mission as a presidential agent, Lanny is briefed on the development of the Atomic Bomb project headed by Albert Einstein himself. On his mission to Germany to ferret out German advancements in developing the bomb, Lanny's plane crashes in the arctic waters off the coast of Newfoundland and he is severely injured. A long recuperation follows. A fabulous around the world cruise follows Lanny's long hospitalization. The cruise aboard the yacht Oriole is owned by a wealthy Baltimore man who wants Lanny to marry his daughter Lizbeth. Lizbeth, her father and Lanny are startled to learn at the last minute before the yacht sails that her cousin, Laurel Creston will be joining the cruise. The reader will remember Laurel as the anti-Nazi journalist whom Lanny ingeniously help to escape the Gestapo in Dragon's Harvest. On December 7, 1941 the Oriole is anchored off the coast of Hong Kong as the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. As I mentioned in my review of Dragon's Harvest, you the reader were going to meet the future Mrs. Lanny Budd. Read how the astrological warning by a Rumanian living in Germany predicted several years earlier that Lanny would die in Hong Kong almost comes about. It almost comes true but Lanny and Laurel narrowly escape a besieged Hong Kong with a laborious journey through China, war-torn Yenan to find themselves guests of Stalin in friendly Russia. This book concludes with a lengthy interview between Stalin and Lanny. Follow all of the characters that make for Lanny's extended families. From Beauty Budd and her wonderful husband, Parsifal Dingle, Robbie Budd, Rick and Nina, Rosemary, Irma and "Ceddy" and the rest of the rich cast of wonderful characters we have grown to love from the very beginning with World's End. A World to Win captures that period in world's history that is must reading. No one can describe the times like Upton Sinclair has done with these classics. The best is yet to come with Presidential Mission, One Clear Call, O' Shepherd Speak! and The Return of Lanny Budd. Please visit our website coming soon at: www.uptonsinclair-lannybudd-completeh.... There you can order any or all of the Lanny Budd series books at 20%, 25% and 30% off with free shipping.

No one ever said love is easy. In the third installment of an eBook original serial from the New York Times bestselling author of Ruined and Addicted, Aria and Sebastian discover that building trust might be harder than they ever imagined. My name is Aria Winston. I’ve fought desperately to escape the seedy underbelly of Las Vegas. Now I’m on my own, in control of my own life and my own destiny . . . just the way I like it. Until Sebastian Caine changes everything. Ever since taking Aria under his wing and into his seductive domain, Sebastian hasn’t been able to think straight. Their chemistry is intoxicating. Their power exchange is exhilarating. And the sex leaves them both absolutely exhausted. But if there’s one thing Sebastian does know, it’s that he needs to protect this strong yet vulnerable woman. Because she has depths that are unknown—even to her. Aria has worked hard to establish herself as anything but submissive. That isn’t who she is, or who she wants to be. So why does it feel so sweet to give up control . . . and so intense when Sebastian takes care of needs she doesn’t even realize she has? But he has needs of his own—and secrets that run just as dark and deep as Aria’s. Play Me is an erotic serial intended for mature audiences. Aria and Sebastian’s story continues in Play Me: Real.

Lights. Camera. Inaction. Ivy Wilde, the laziest witch in the West, is still entangled with the Hallowed Order of Magical Enlightenment. That's not a bad thing, however, because it gives her plenty of excuses to spend more time with sapphire eyed Raphael Winter, her supposed nemesis. And when he comes knocking because he needs her to spy on the latest series of Enchantment, she jumps at the chance. Hanging around a film set can't be hard ... or dangerous ... right?

Events that began in "Jarka Ruus," Book One of High Druid of Shannara, come swiftly to a head in this second thrilling volume. Alliances are made, trusts are betrayed, and prices are paid. Throughit all, Terry Brooks orchestrates the action with the flawless hand of a master mythmaker- fashioning another exquisite link in his chain of bestselling epics. Loyal to none but herself andlethal even to those closest to her, Shadea a'Ru now holds sway as High Druid of Paranor-her ascension to power all but unchallenged in the wake of Grianne Ohmsford's sudden, mysteriousvanishing. Only Shadea and her catspaw-the treacherous Prime Minister Sen Dunsidan-know the secret fate of the true Ard Rhys . . . for it was they who engineered it, by means of dark magic. And nowGrianne languishes in the fearsome and inescapable netherworld called the Forbidding. Their bloodless coup a success, the corrupt pair, and their confederates within the Druid Council, seeks to maketheir dominion over the Four Lands absolute-with the aid of a devastating new weapon. But it could all be undone if Grianne's young nephew, Penderrin, succeeds in his frantic quest to rescue her.Shadea's airship-borne minions and the relentless assassin under her command continue their fierce pursuit of Pen and his comrades. Eluding death is only half the battle for Pen. To breach theForbidding and bring Grianne back to the natural world means finding the fabled Tanequil . . . and the talisman it alone can provide. That means journeying into the Inkrim-a dreaded region thick with shadows andhaunted by harrowing legends. It also means striking a bargain more dire than Pen could ever imagine. But there can be no turning back. For in her unearthly prison, the Ard Rhys faces a demonic plight too hideous tocountenance. . . .

Two young orphans, Finbarr and Manus, are taken into the household of the eccentric Mr Collopy where they grew up surrounded by the smells of good whiskey and bad cooking. Manus proves to be a business genius, and this talent takes him from teaching people to walk the tightrope by correspondence course to the Vatican. The greatest satirical Irish writer of the twentieth-century turns his attention to the garrulous Irish and vividly captures the wit, extravagance and glory of their talk.

Arranged marriage, hidden agendas, deep secrets, and heart-pounding romance come together to tell Bruiser’s story in the 5th installment of T. S. Joyce’s bestselling Saw Bears series. Diem Daye has led a sheltered life. As the only breeding female of her kind, her father has kept her tucked away and heavily guarded. But when he makes a deal behind her back, and marries her off to a local lumberjack werebear, she fights everything that is expected of her. As the dust settles and she begins to realize just how special her arranged union to Bruiser Keller is, she’ll have to decide to make the ultimate sacrifice for her kind, or live and love in the safety of her new mate’s protection. Bruiser made a deal with a legendary shifter to save his family, but the consequences run deep when he returns home to the Asheland Mobile Park. Now he must marry a woman he’s never met, and if Diem’s pissed off countenance is anything to go by, she doesn’t want this pairing any more than he does. Bruiser vows to soften her hardened heart, but her secrets could bring danger to his beloved Ashe Crew, and could alter the course of his life forever. Love comes at a cost for shifters like Bruiser and Diem. If they want a real shot at happiness, they’ll have to learn how to survive each other. Content Warning: explicit love scenes, naughty language, and piles of sexy shifter secrets. Adult only bear shifter romance.

Museums and Women gathers twenty-nine short stories from the 1960s and early 1970s. It is John Updike’s most various collection, a book as full of departures and surprises as the historical period that produced them. Some stories, such as the title piece, have the tone and personality of essays. Others objectify the chimeras of middle-class life, especially life in a fictional New England enclave called Tarbox. The illustrated jeux d’esprit in the section called “Other Modes” place Updike somewhere between Robert Benchley and Donald Barthelme as a toymaker in prose. Crowning the collection are five scenes from the marriage of Richard and Joan Maple, a story sequence with the narrative interest and cumulative power of a novel.