Chocolatier Tristan Savant is a half-incubus demon who needs sex in order to survive. With an unlimited supply of women available to him because of his chocolate shop, Dark Heaven, Tristan doesn't intend to change his philandering ways anytime soon. However, things slowly begin to change when he meets, Issy Sweet, a patissiere specializing in novelty cakes. Will friendship turn into true love?Beware this demonic cupid’s arrows…Young, beautiful women are being mysteriously drawn to a chocolate shop named Dark Heaven. One bite of the shop’s chocolates can stir lust and desire in any woman. The owner of the shop, Chocolatier Tristan Savant, has a dark secret - he’s half-incubus and needs sex in order to survive. With an unlimited supply of women in his clutches thanks to his shop, Tristan doesn’t intend to change his philandering lifestyle anytime soon. A stalker as sweet as her name…When Tristan’s stalker, Isolde ‘Issy’ Sweet, decides to work at Dark Heaven, she creates an alter ego for herself as a Living Doll so that she can pretend to be a fifteen-year-old runaway with the dream of being a patissiere who specializes in novelty cakes. Dressed up like a Victorian porcelain doll, Issy manages to stay under the incubus’ radar and protect herself from being seduced. A guardian angel with a plan…Tristan’s assistant chocolatier, Michael, is actually his guardian angel. Michael wants to save Tristan’s soul by helping the incubus find true love. Knowing that the only woman who can truly redeem Tristan is Issy Sweet, Michael convinces Tristan to stop having one-night stands, and to start wooing his conquests for one week before he can sleep with them. Author’s note: Swearwords and graphic sexual content have been removed to make this book more appropriate for my Teen readers. Please understand that due to the fact that the main character is a sex demon there will be unavoidable references to sex and sexual activities. I have censored this book to the best of my abilities. Thank you for your understanding and enjoy the book.

In 'Shooting Star', a famous movie star is found dead on the set of his latest picture - drugs hastily disposed of at the scene of the crime. In 'Spiderweb', Eddie Haines is collecting secrets from his wealthy clients in order to blackmail them.

Tomat is a gambler who would be a degenerate if he didn't have a figurative ace up his sleeve - he can read minds. He finds himself talked into joining a tournament where he has to hide his ability or suffer the consequences. Read it for free at https://stories.osterin.comAn epic WWII saga, for fans of The Bronze Horseman and Outlander. Outcast and despised as a Roma (gypsy) in World War II Romania, all Tsura longs for is a sense of safety and a place to belong. Just when she believes she’s found home in the arms of her lover, for both their safety, she’s forced to leave him and marry another. Against the sweeping backdrop of war-torn Romania, Tsura fights one day at a time to survive the fall of fascism, the unrest of civil war, and the rise of Communism. Yet in spite of all she’s forced to endure, the biggest surprise of all? Home might be found in the last place she ever expected it—with her own husband.Excerpt:“It won’t be a real marriage.” Tsura put her hands to Andrei’s shirt and pulled him in close. “I’ll never share a bed with him. I love you. I only do what I must to keep us all safe. Once the war ends, it’ll be as if it never was.” She caught his face in her hands. “I am only yours, Andrei.” “Yes, you’re only mine,” Andrei bent over and growled in her ear. “When you put on that dress for him and walk down the aisle in that ugly goy church,” he kissed her hard before putting a strong hand to the back of her neck, pulling her forehead to his, “you think of me, here. When you say your vows to that man, you remember that it’s me who has owned your body tonight.” He again pressed his lips to hers. It was a claiming.Book I of II.

'Solatium!' is the continuation of the novel 'The Child of Events!'.This book tells what happened to the child after he has lost the train which was moving to the destination of his parents homeland and after he decided to take a ship to reach his parents.He got through a time-crack into a new dimension where he found himself in another 'world'.He had to learn lot of things .Without the power of the world's five elemental crystals, the world of Vida will fall into darkness. Only the prophecy of the Light Bringer can restore peace to Vida.In this first novelette of a five part series, Regina Lepue finds herself taken hostage by a nameless vandal, who claims the world's Crystals of Balance are in peril. Can she believe this ruthless killer, or is there something deeper to his story?

What makes a man super?What makes him think he is a superman?What makes him think he IS Superman?Find out along with Clark Kent.THE ZOMBIE KILLERS: ORIGINSBearAugust 4thWe were down along the river checking over some of the old buildings that are perched on the cliffs there, high above the water. Fall was not far away, and we knew we had to get moving, get out of this dead city. We had half the country to cross and find a place before winter came back around again. We had left the others in our place off the park - an abandoned factory building I had found after I had lost Donita - and struck out looking for food earlier that morning. With the park and its crowds so near to us, the shops and small stores for blocks around us were stripped clean. Another reason to get out of the city. It was time. I remember thinking that as I walked along.I was thinking back to March as I walked. Not really paying attention to the walk, where I was going... March... Just a few months ago, but the world was still the world then. And for the next little while there, we didn't even know about the dead. Dead was still dead. When you closed your eyes for the long eternal sleep you didn't wake up a short minute later as something else. No. We were ignorant up until they decided to come after us. Ignorant. Stupid. Didn't know a thing. Didn't have a clue. I had been in Central Park a few days after the first earthquakes hit. I had left Donita alone and went down on my own to see what the deal was. I found out nothing. No one knew any more than any one else. There was a lot of speculation, but that was it. There had been earthquakes. It had rained hard for nearly twenty four hours straight. The really freaky stuff hadn't happened yet. We were just starting down our new path, but what was clear was that thousands of people had died in the city, maybe more than thousands, maybe a million or more. And certainly millions if the damage here was the same across the country... or worldwide. And my initial estimate turned out to be a kind. In the city alone: collapsed buildings, fires, exposure to the elements because there was no shelter. There were millions of bodies. It was not so bad in those first few days, but a few days later, when the smell of the dead rotting under the rubble began, it was horrible. The diseases started then too. And the diseases took thousands more, and we thought that was the end of it, but it was not. The dead came next. The same dead, newly risen to some other sort of life. But that day in Central Park I did not know about the dead yet. I had no idea what was ahead; what was before me was bad enough...The Zombie Killers are the men and women who keep the new settlements safe for the other Earth's Survivors. Those in the Nation and those in the Fold, and the many independent colonies that would not be able to exist without their help and intervention. They are the ones who search out supplies, fight the Zombie Plagues and live in the constant danger of the real world so that the others can live in the safety of their settlements.In this first book they come into their own as a team and set themselves on the true course that they will follow from then on, with one mission only: To wipe out the Zombie Plagues infesting the world and make it a safe place to live and die once more. Whether through fighting them or finding the reason and the cure for the Zombie Plagues that have infested the world.

Dawn was born into the world of Heaven and Hell. After learning of her father's lineage she runs away to join her mother in a search for answers. After the disappearance of her step-father, Dawn and her mother move to a small town in the Midwest. This is when her world begins to unravel and the constant lies are unveiled. There is far more to this world than Angels and Demons.Dawn was born into the world of Heaven and Hell. After learning of her father's lineage she runs away to join her mother in a search for answers. After the disappearance of her step-father, Dawn and her mother move to a small town in the Midwest. This is where her world begins to unravel and the constant lies are unveiled. There is far more to this world than Angels and Demons, everything that was thought to be fiction turns out to be real.In an effort to not only saver herself but the first boy she has ever loved Dawn travels down a dark road. Tormented by Demons and Vampires, her sanity is questioned, her heart broken, and in the end a deadly determination comes to light. With the help of her new friend Adam will Dawn be able to save the world from utter destruction?

Opening in 1936, the Zion Covenant series tells the courageous and compelling stories of those who risk everything to stand against the growing tide of Nazi terrorism that is sweeping through central Europe under the dangerous and deceitful guise of Hitler's Third Reich. A new study guide is included in each book.

The execution of a drug dealer haunts a man.The Kingdom of Heaven has been downsized to a single city. And to save overcrowding, God has a new chosen race and set of entry qualifications. In the modern hereafter only good Americans go to Paris when they die. But not even a divinely ordered bureaucracy is infallible and five not-so-good Americans find themselves thrown together and trapped in a surreal limbo while awaiting official ruling on their fate: return to the void of death or return outside to the Paris of their twenty-fifth year.They are an ill-assorted lot: randy 1900s marine Louis Forster; Maggie Thompson, an over-sexed 1930s fan dancer; neurotic 1940s New York intellectual Seymour Stein;modern-day foul-mouthed truck-driver, Max Pilsudski; Helen Ricchi, the mysterious and bookish wallflower suspected of murder after her husband's disappearance in the Paris of the 1950s. And these desperate departed will stop at nothing to return to the land of the living and repair flawed lives and fractured loves.

“The Towering Inferno Versus the Mighty Quinn” is about a woman working in a sleazy strip-joint who has to use her guile and wit if she’s to overcome a mysterious lust filled fire demon type thingy (thingy being the optimum word here) that is intent on consuming her within its burning hellish flames.This is a story that will certainly get you hot under the collar. Please read and review.“The Towering Inferno Versus the Mighty Quinn” is about a woman working in a sleazy strip-joint who has to use her guile and wit if she’s to overcome a mysterious lust filled fire demon type thingy (thingy being the optimum word here) that is intent on consuming her within its burning hellish flames.This is a story that will certainly get you hot under the collar.If you have read this story then any feed back from a review (be it good or bad) would be most gratefully appreciated.

What happens when the line between human and machine is crossed? What happens when the machines are implanted into humans? When does a human become a machine and a machine a human? Where is the line drawn? This short story explores this.This is a collection of over 250 poems that altogether seeks to reflect man as both the poet and the actor who handles the helm of his own affairs, on a timed cruise, down his very own banked personal river. Using his abilities to compose and steer his poetic story, faring only as suitably as his capabilities and fate enables him.The essence of poetry is in its use of eloquent apt words to convey the poet’s exact thoughts, as they are felt or experienced by him. Like it is the actor’s ability to apply specific skills to portray a scripted character reveals a story, it is likewise the poet's grant to create the content and set the beauty of the words.If the soul is scripted, if the mind can think, if the heart does feel and the body is specific; then every individual distinctively roams on a course throughout their lives that can be manipulated to fit their own different experience, but not actually change it. For the poet mans the helm, and the cruise is his composed poem.

This is a short discussion paper listing possible solutions to the question, "Why haven't alien civilizations contacted us?"This is a short discussion paper listing possible solutions to the question, "Why haven't alien civilizations contacted us?" It tosses up a range of possibilities, from the idea that there is no other life to the idea that predator aliens roam the galaxy.

Kathryn Blake, injured in her attempt to contact her embedded colleague Daniel Thwaite, seems only to have added to his problems, and he finds less reassurance than perhaps he should in her reminder that she is more sinister than she looks . . .This self-contained story can be read as an introduction to the world of Kathryn Blake or as an opportunity to catch up with Daniel Thwaite on his first job since Vienna. We find him in more trouble than he expected, for Kate has come, uncharacteristically, to grief, and Thwaite, always better under pressure than he believes, must carry the day himself, unless there is any substance at all in the one puzzling reassurance that she offers him.

Nicholas thought he had lost all he had until he has to loose yet more: in return he is given purpose to his life, and that means he’ll probably die.Granny Which Witch's original whopper as related to the author by the groom who certainly should know better than any.Some people are more than they seem. Some are much worse. Some people are exactly as they appear, and they're often the worst sort.The groomsman is convinced by Lady Who the Enchantress to lead a rabble in arms for the purpose of throwing off the shackles of vampiric tyranny. All goes better than could have been expected until he is appointed to find new royalty to replace them.If you read Flat Fax and the Book of Doors and wondered whatever happened to the little piggies, read about the Hampires. But don't look in the mirror.

The 9th issue of Successful Startup 101, a magazine for budding entrepreneurs, startup founders and small business owners that covers business planning, strategy, management, accounting, finance, sales and marketing.The 9th issue of Successful Startup 101, a magazine for budding entrepreneurs, startup founders and small business owners that covers business planning, strategy, management, accounting, finance, sales and marketing. In this month's issue: * What Fuels A Startups Success: The Drive to Win or Fear of Failure? by George Deeb* Failure is Good, but Here Are 10 Mistakes Your Startup Should NEVER Make, by Tom Hogan* The Right Way to Quit Your Job and Launch a Startup, by Marco Terry* SHIFTing Gears: Steve Sax Trades Home Runs For Start-Ups* Life Lessons Successful Leaders Wish They Had Learned Earlier, by Brigette Hyacinth* What Is Your Business Worth?, by Natalie Green* 20 Signs You are Succeeding In Life Even If You Do not Feel You Are, by Carol Morgan* 5 Benefits of Collaboration, by Michael Hyatt and Michele Cushatt* Octobers Must See Movie for Entrepreneurs: October Sky* The Positive Impacts of Outsourcing* 7 Tools to Hack Your Growth (That Means Get Big, Fast), by Murray Newlands* How to Close a Sale: The Only Thing You Need to Know, by Jill Konrath* Cash Today, Losses Tomorrow!, by Richard Weinberger* Getting Clients from Social Media: 4 Things You Need to Fix, by Michelle Nickolaisen* Building Company Culture (On A Budget), by David Donner Chait* Insider Tip: How to Give Away FREE Stuff and Make Money in the Process, by Assia Salikhova* 4 Programs Every Startup Founder Should Know About, by Tabitha Jean Naylor* 8 Simple Ways to Reward Employees on a Budget, by Rhett Power* 3 Key Factors to Creating Your Customer Experience Strategy, by Alan See* How to Avoid Common Startup Blunders* The 10 Most Reliable Ways to Fund a Startup, by Martin Zwilling* 5 Lessons the Special Forces Taught Me about Business, by Michael I. Kaplan* Editorial Focus: Content Marketing Institute* Motivational Boosters.

Fate is on the line in this steampunk-esque, fantasy novella. Michael Bandolier, a simple bookbinder from Wind Quarry, accepts a paying job to hunt down the mayor’s stolen watch, but instead, finds himself fulfilling a secret family destiny.Fate is on the line in this steampunk-esque, fantasy novella. Michael Bandolier, a simple bookbinder from Wind Quarry, accepts a paying job to hunt down the mayor’s stolen watch, but instead, finds himself fulfilling a secret family destiny.With the help of Debora, his highly underestimated secretary, Michael is wound into the ultimate struggle between good and evil, trying to save a world that is nothing like he imagined.The enemy has acquired a map that leads to the complicator, a legendary device said to contain the power to reshape the earth. But even with fate, and a newly discovered family history at his back, Michael learns he can't succeed without the help of his unassuming office assistant. Debora proves to be more than just the quiet office help, and Michael can never look at her the same again.The first in a series of fantasy novellas, this story is set in an alternate world of steampunk-esque qualities, such as airships, paddle-wheel boats and secret machines buried deep in the earth. Michael and Debora's mission takes them from the Great City to the canyons of Wind Quarry where they face the stark question- Is fate a friend or a foe?

The End of the Universe: Or, Universal Verses1:Stellation: in three-parts:1.Between nothing, and the start of everything else: without so much of a Big Bang, as a sumping deep dull thumping thud, unseen, unheard, but felt enough to know, that something tremendous had occurred. By the smallest scalar sizing, by any minimal metric measure, by which anything can be measured, or known, somThe End of the Universe: Or, Universal Verses1:Stellation: in three-parts:1.Between nothing, and the start of everything else: without so much of a Big Bang, as a sumping deep dull thumping thud, unseen, unheard, but felt enough to know, that something tremendous had occurred. By the smallest scalar sizing, by any minimal metric measure, by which anything can be measured, or known, something incredibly wonderful: a point of inflection pierced, zero-point arrowing,false-vacuum framing, booming energy wave force field vector, the universal transcendental: continuous circumferential, inconclusive, in magnitude unresolving, indeterminate terminal;being a point in, and of nothingness, the shortest distance between two-points, immediately, seemingly unendingly, approaching infinitude, forever becoming, anti-Quark dropped, radius rationing ratio squared area, dropped-in, voiding blank centring, hollow surfacing 2-dimensional, shadowing immediately drawn, a Quark, for each of us;Dedicated to Stephen Hawking

Time-travelling ex-postman Harley Byrne's ongoing mission is to capture and make available for download “all the world’s music, ever.” In this newly rediscovered chapter from his lost memoirs, Byrne describes in full his mission to Manchester, 1952, to record the secret computer music of Alan Turing - war hero, mathematician, inventor of hands-free umbrella.Matilda thought she had gotten away with breaking the rules. But when her name appears in blood on a rock, her village elders send her out as the monthly sacrifice. Armed with a steak knife and a flash light, Matilda's not sure she's ready to die. Supposedly the scarecrows will eat her, but she's pretty certain the mayor has something to do with it. Scaring Fields is a stand-alone short story of approximately 4,900 words.

Join Captain Charlie Crumble and his elite squadron of soldiers as they battle their way through the Alpha-Omega missions. Blood is everywhere, the death toll is high, and things couldn’t get much worse. That is until the sky rips open and Billy Random appears…Join Captain Charlie Crumble and his elite squadron of soldiers as they battle their way through the Alpha-Omega missions. As the Second World War rages all around them, the men separate themselves as they pursue their classified assignment. Their target? A madman of incredible intelligence, with an appetite for the strange and unusual, and pure hatred for the human race. His twisted projects thwart the team as they endeavour to track him down, and right now a pack of savage, mutated Nazi-werewolves are hot on their heels. Blood is everywhere, the death toll is high, and things couldn’t get much worse. That is until the sky rips open and Billy Random appears…