When a young vampire picks up a first time prostitute, both get more than they were expecting.Alex knew it was wrong, something about the young man told him to stay away. But he couldn't. What was the harm in one sip?Ryan was at the end of his ropes. Homeless, starving, he was desperate to make enough for his next meal. When he climbed into Alex's car he never expected to be a meal himself.Enthralled is a story of romance, betrayal and sacrifice.

Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

While visiting the Bahamas, a vacationing couple goes off the beaten path to explore a blue hole and find the experience anything but serene.What lies deep below the surface of a blue hole? While few have uncovered the answer firsthand many have experienced the unsettling feeling of something lurking in its depths, just beyond view. This short story follows a vacationing couple as they explore the surface of this natural oddity.

Ruthless hitman confronts his destiny in a startling tale of redemption.Avery Clavens is an average, somewhat socially awkward woman who works as a research assistant in a New York library. At least that's what everyone who knows her believes. In actuality, Avery was caught doing something wrong in her youth by a secret government agency, and when faced with either jail time or being recruited by the agency, she found orange really wasn't her color.After seven years of nothing too exciting happening in the office, she is forced to go undercover with an agent she's pretty sure speaks the English language as interpreted by Martians. It doesn't help that she feel drawn to said agent, or that there is a weird spark anytime the two of them touch.Can the two of them stop arguing long enough to get their man? Avery doesn't know, but dealing with Agent Barnes definitely isn't in her job description.

A young muse searches to discover who is draining energy from her new found home, the whimsical land of Helicon, and begins to suspect her childhood sweetheart.If Hogwarts was more like Woodstock, and Voldemort was your childhood sweetheart turned abusive boyfriend... As long as Nora Sparrow can remember, Owen has protected her. He’s been there through years of miserable foster homes and snobby mean girls, always whispering to her that she doesn’t belong here. Telling her that this is the mundane world, and someday, he’ll get them back to Helicon, the world of the muses. The world where they belong.But Nora’s fifteen years old, and she isn’t sure she quite believes it anymore. When he begs her to try another ritual to open the dimensions, she agrees mostly to humor him. Owen’s rituals never work.But this one does, and Nora is flung into the whimsical, bohemian land of Helicon, where she’s expected to do nothing more than create and inspire. With the help of her new muse friends, Nora sets out to discover who is creating holes in the fabric of Helicon and draining away the muses’ energy.Everything would be perfect, if only Owen’s protectiveness wasn’t starting to seem so...obsessive.

When Maggie Lucas (mail order bride) leaves Boston for Virginia City, Nevada, she's anticipating a marriage of convenience and life in a new home with a man she's never met. That's more than enough change, in her view. What she doesn't expect, is to find that home threatened as both the market for silver and the Comstock Lode mines themselves dry up and her new husband faces foreclosure.When Maggie Lucas (mail order bride) leaves Boston for Virginia City, Nevada, she's anticipating a marriage of convenience and life in a new home with a man she's never met. That's more than enough change, in her view. What she doesn't expect, is to find that home threatened as both the market for silver and the Comstock Lode mines themselves dry up and her new husband faces foreclosure. She also doesn't expect to fall in love with the new state, the people in it – and her new husband.

The group around dan's brother had been held together by a mutual taste for liquor and endless arguments. Now, high in the mountains on a quest to see who could bag the biggest deer, old jealousies and hatreds were being dusted off and revived. Everyone knew an explosion was coming. No one knew who would survive. And none of them were willing to turn back. Reissue.

Fifteen-year-old Elena hides her magical abilities from everyone, except her best friend, Karl. Inseparable since very young, they've always shared everything, including the darkest parts of their lives. Elena's beginning to realise her feelings for Karl are growing into something more. But her mother's about to drop a bombshell – one that will change the course of her life, and heart, forever.A short story prequel to The Witching Pen Novellas. (This story takes place ten years before the events of The Witching Pen Novellas.) Fifteen-year-old Elena hides her magical abilities from everyone, except her best friend, Karl. Inseparable since they were very young, they've always shared everything together, including the darkest parts of their lives. Elena's beginning to realise that her feelings for Karl are growing into something more. But her mother's about to drop a bombshell on her – one that will change the course of her life, and heart, forever. PUBLISHER'S NOTES: This UK-based story is suitable for YA readers, but it should be noted that The Witching Pen Novellas series is aimed at adult readers. For fans of the series, this story includes two parts of Elena's past that were made reference to in The Witching Pen: 1) The moment that Karl turns up on Elena's doorstep having been beaten and 'jumped on' by his father and 2) "The Sex Talk" between Elena and her mother.Book length: short story (over 5500 words)

Slow traffic on the way home from work is never any fun. Or is it? When the good-looking guy in another car starts flirting with Mia, she ends up enjoying the commute and the surprise it brings."Claire's life revolves around Starbucks, stilettos and her career as an Advertising Account Director for AJC. That is until her boss Carl decides to send her on a mission to visit every one of the 200 YHA hostel in England and Wales as part of a marketing campaign. More used to five-star spa resorts than 'flea-infested hostels' Claire only takes the assignment to save face. It becomes clear to her the 'mission' is a ruse to make her resign.Together with her hated 1980s Skoda Estelle - another part of the assignment - Claire sets off for Berwick-Upon-Tweed and a new way of life. Will Claire get used to sharing a room, going without skinny lattes and travelling in an Eastern European rust bucket. More importantly, will travelling the length and breadth of her home country enable Claire to forget her lost love Michael?"Volume 1 of 'Two-Hundred Steps Home' contains the first 31 instalments of Amanda Martin's daily challenge on her WriterMummy blog. February's instalments will be published as Volume 2 in March 2013.

James is a secret agent who is about to retire but before his bosses allow this he must complete one last mission: Get rid of his team members.DeeDee Jackson lives and works aboard a space station which orbits Saturn, and sometimes he writes about it.This is the raw and unedited text from a fictional blog (called Fort Falling) that I worked on from June 2005 to May 2008. I took the blog, added an intro, did some basic formatting, and published a book. No professional editors or designers were involved at any time, so please don't be surprised if it's a good example of why you should never publish a book which hasn't been edited by a professional.

Happily Ever After is a love story about friends, faith, and finding out who you are.Cammie Evans was a girl with a plan from the moment God called her to be a foreign missionary. After several years spent all over the world, though, she finds herself with a new assignment that leaves her questioning all that she once thought to be true about life, love, and calling.David Connor was always the weird kid in the youth group, never destined to live up to his father's expectations. After several years of working to find his own significance in Christ and his calling as a foreign missionary, he finds himself asking hard questions about who he is and what God wants from him.As their lives change and the past becomes part of the present, can Cammie and David help one another find their own happily ever after?

In a world where the human race is withering to extinction, an alternative has to be found - But at what cost?In The Sphere, the line between A.R.T and Nature is blurring and the consequences are terrifying. This is the future and love is dead. Trust no one and what ever you do...don't believe your eyes.Evil water elementals threaten a college when they begin abducting women for use in a sacrifical offering to their overlord. They don't have long - a fire elemental is on their trail.Evie Galloway feels life passing around her in the same boring, monotonous fashon every day. Nothing happens and she already sees her dull future. It changes once she witnesses a fight between two supernatural creatures in the school's library.She finds herself thrust into saving the world along with a fire elemental named Uriz. Together, they have to stop water elementals known as Reachers before they summon their master onto our plane.

Based on the book of Ecclesiastes, "A Time for Poncey — And other Stories out of Skullbone" traces the misadventures of Poncey S. Muldoon in an updated Southern Gothic style. The short stories draw a picture of life non-sequentially, but still lead to a crushing climax. The book gives a new look to modern Christian literature.“Fears and ambitions tangled together in his mind until he no longer knew what to desire, what there was in the world – good or ill, or that born of whatever twisted conspiracy is struck between the two – worth the price of his heart.” Life follows a mysterious path for Poncey S. Muldoon, as he finds a treasure buried since the Civil War … as his dog Judas helps teach town bully Bobby Roach a lesson … as his best friend Marlin MacLenoly adopts a stray peacock that barely escaped becoming an entrée at a failing restaurant. For residents of the small Southern town of Skullbone, the days unfold in always fascinating and always pointless ways through these entertaining and insightful stories. Based on the book of Ecclesiastes, “A Time for Poncey” brings the tradition of great Southern writing into the present, a New Southern Gothic, spiced with humor, salted with truth.

Caroline thought she had everything figured out. As a member of an elusive cyber-terrorist organization, she believed the root of all mankind's problems lay in modern technology. All that changes when she meets a complex Artificial Intelligence who offers to help her accomplish her goal. As she grows fond of the A.I., she begins to wonder: What does it take to be considered a life form?Caroline thought she had everything figured out. As a member of an elusive cyber-terrorist organization, she believed the root of all mankind's problems lay in the progression modern technology. However, all that changes when she meets a complex Artificial Intelligence named Fillin who offers to help her accomplish her final goal: Humanity's complete disuse of modern technology. As she interacts with Fillin she begins to become attached to it, and she begins to wonder: What does it take to be considered a life form? What line must an intelligent being cross to be truly considered alive? With her own beliefs about technology being brought into question, she continues to fight for her cause. But will she follow through with her final goal and rob Fillin of its own existence, or will she find a new meaning to life at the end of the road?

Evelyn Dae has a secret she wishes she could run away from. Evelyn Dae has a past she cannot remember. Evelyn Dae has a boy she wants to avoid, but can't resist. Who Is Evelyn Dae? Find out in this illustrated tale that mixes her diary sketchbook entries with traditional storytelling.After successfully crossing the Sahara to Khartoum, Emily is sold to Abdullah, a dodgy wheeler-dealer and slave trader. As the elevator jerks its way up to his seedy, thirteenth floor penthouse apartment she has a strong feeling of impending doom.She should have run away when she had the chance...This is a short book covering a brief, but dark period in Emily's childhood.Suitable for readers 14 years to Adult

Ron and Katie think their innocent adventure into the woods will end at a scenic stream, but they are almost swallowed by the forest instead!Ron and Katie think their innocent adventure into the woods will end at a scenic stream, but they are almost swallowed by the forest instead!Ron disappears below the earth, having saved Katie from a similar fate. There he meets some odd creatures whose manners are suspiciously too perfect.Meanwhile, Katie finds herself talking with sprites who seem to put her in more danger, rather than help.Will the two ever be reunited?

It starts in her chest. The change Calliope doesn't see coming. It pulses like a second heartbeat, urging her to give in to the need to be in the depths of the forest. She's compelled to fight the pull, but the more she denies it the stronger it becomes until she finally surrenders and is pulled into a secret world of enchantment.Was I still a human? Gosh, I still wanted to be human. Even just to keep a sliver of whom I thought I was. But as I thought about being human, standing in the shade of the forest, I felt less human than ever. The trees fought for my allegiance."It starts in her chest. The change Calliope doesn't see coming. It pulses like a second heartbeat, urging her to give in to the need to be in the depths of the forest. She's compelled to fight the pull, but the more she denies it the stronger it becomes until she finally surrenders and is pulled into a secret world of enchantment.Kai and Declan need her to accept what she is, but with everything left unsaid, acceptance may be the least of their worries. Knowing their fate lies in her hands, they’ll stop at nothing to protect and prepare her for what lies ahead.Will Calliope be able to accept what Kai and Declan reveal or will her desire to be normal keep her from acknowledging her true destiny?(

Mrs Tall Small lives in Fizzy Wizzy Land with her best friend Fairy Flutter. They spend their time saving fairies and elves from the wicked antics of Evil Witch Green. In this story Mrs Tall Small helps Fairy Flutter in a daring rescue mission to find Fairy Flutter's cat, Violette, who has been captured by Evil Witch Green. Great for children aged 3 - 8 years.Mrs Tall Small lives in Fizzy Wizzy land with her best friend Fairy Flutter. They spend their time saving fairies and elves from the wicked antics of Evil Witch Green. This is the first book in the Mrs Tall Small series. In 'The Day of the Crystal Raindrops' Mrs Tall Small is busy feeding Rupert her pet giraffe and becomes concerned that she has not seen her best friend Fairy Flutter. A visit to Fairy Flutter's cottage leads Mrs Tall Small, Fairy Flutter and their friends on a daring rescue mission to find Violette who has been captured by Evil Witch Green.Suitable for children from 3 - 8 years.

Time is running out for the people of Aazronia. Besieged by abominations, Magistrate Marcus flees to the druid homeworld to seek the help of the Druid Mother. He must battle his way past the rabid infestation that blocks his path to safety. As he prepares to retake his home, his only thoughts lie with the thousands of Aazronians that lay dying in their homes.With Magistrate Marcus leading his men as they tried to repel the attackers of his beloved Aazronians, their exhaustion was apparent. Their magic diminished as they weakened through fatigue – the abomination army was strong, but the Aazronians needed to be stronger. As the Magistrate called on the Medallion of Justice around his neck to intensify, it lit up – his Storm Wizard magic was now at its strongest; the arc of electricity which raced through the air headed in the several directions it was needed, doing the necessary eliminations amongst gratifying explosions.As the Wizard Legion rallied around one another, they fought on – they were desperate to protect the portal for as long as they were able. Suddenly Marcus received a mind message from Gwin – they were to return; the portal was to be opened. Marcus led his Legion toward the safety of the Druids – but would they be successful? Would there be more lives lost on their journey?Reviewed by Goodreads. 4 stars."This short story was very enjoyable – a fast paced, action packed piece of writing with lots of creatures, wizards and magic interspersed – a quick and easy read. I have no hesitation in recommending it to lovers of scifi and fantasy." -Brenda

Here are five stories ranging from a mouse's confrontation with a nurse to a chance meeting between former lovers."In that rare subgenre of Christian literature concerning cats that take human form and enter championship wrestling tournaments, OUT OF TEXAS 4 definitely rates in the top 10." – Merry Baker, The Kitchen Science MonitorEaster weekend sees the gaunt-faced grappler and Josie battle the forces of evil, while both wrestle with questions of unrequited love.1. Strawberry Feels Forever -- J enters “Weird Tales” territory as Good Friday finds Josie captured by the evil Justin Time, a man who has perpetuated his centuries-long existence by taking over the bodies of others. Using Josie as bait, he targets J as his next victim, only to be “bowled” over in the end. 2. Vengeance Is Mein -- It’s Easter Sunday and our heroes take a trip to Hell. In a newly discovered cave system on the grounds of the Hitchcock Dildo Factory, J and Jo encounter a rabbit-like creature who seeks to control the weather via his Tornado Watch. Josie attempts to express her love for J, only he is too smitten with the Philippine Princess to get the message. Music courtesy of the Doors.3. Embarrass the Wind -- A “Perry Mason” story in which J stands accused of murder. With Jo as his defense attorney, and the returning turkey-god, Melagris, as her private investigator, they search for a timely clue to break the air-tight case against him.