Piper Blake is only home in Port Charlotte for a few days to sort out her grandmother's affairs. But when she runs into her old friend Jackson Crawford she realizes that there might be more treasures in her home town than she thought.When Piper Blake left New York for her hometown in Port Charlotte, Florida she only expected to be away for a few days - just long enough to sell her grandmother’s house and wrap up her affairs. She expected to find a lot of old junk and sad memories. What she didn’t expect was handsome childhood friend Jackson Crawford. But the moment he walked up the steps of her grandmother’s porch she knew that he was exactly what she needed to get her through the days ahead.But things are different now for both Piper and Jackson. And while their friendship wants to take a turn towards the romantic, there might be too much of the unknown standing in the way. Will the details of the missing years quench the flames of the present moment? Or will Piper find home in the place she least expected?

The war is over before it fully began and peace has settled across the northlands. Peace, however, breeds boredom for men trained to fight.A short trip to slake the thirst for adventure takes them to the deserted tropical isle of Britanly.Abandoned on the island, they soon learn that the fate of the people of Britanly is beyond their wildest imaginings. They must fight to avoid the same end.The war is over before it fully began and peace has settled across the northlands. The balance has shifted from destruction to growth. From hate to love. With a wedding in Alto's future, the time to relax and rejoice has come at last. Relaxation, however, breeds boredom for men trained to fight.A short trip to slake the thirst for adventure takes Alto, Patrina, and Namitus to the deserted tropical isle of Britanly. Ignoring the warnings of sailors, they hope to find out what happened to the once thriving population.Abandoned on the island, they soon learn that the fate of the people of Britanly is beyond their wildest imaginings. The companions must struggle to survive the hostile island and hope that help will arrive before they stuffer the same fate as those who came before them.

Two men during World War Two, one anxious to serve, the other just wants to stay alive. How can one man help another?Written by a veteran and released specifically for Armistice Day 2013.Remember our troops, both past and present. They give up their today so you might have a tomorrow.Erik Stenbock, the heir to a medieval castle in Sweden, is unwillingly dragged into a search for the missing half of an ancient Egyptian stone tablet. The tablet is thought to be a possible key to the decipherment of Linear A, the script of a mysterious and astonishing bronze age civilization. Despite his initial reluctance, Erik is soon engulfed in a roller-coaster ride of an adventure with unexpected events at every turn. Not only is his life turned up-side-down, he also finds himself submersed in an ancient long forgotten truth – with shocking repercussions for our understanding of ancient history.

A story that spans several decades and follows the life of a man in charge of designing state roads whose own life adjusts less smoothly to the pace of cultural and technological change. Humor, pathos. A novella - 27K words.Arianna Grace liked her boring, Midwestern, teenage life where she ignored the many unanswered questions of her childhood. Why were her parents dead? Why did she not have family? Where was she raised until she was five? When someone offers to explain it all, Arianna thinks she’s just getting answers. Instead, she is thrown into a world of night humans who drink blood.On Arianna's sixteenth birthday, her world is thrown upside down when she changes into a vampire. Night humans, or demons, as some call them, live in normal society. Learning all of the new rules of a world she didn’t know existed might be hard enough, but it's further complicated by two former-friends that now want to help her take her role as the successor to her grandfather. There is a war going on between the night humans. Sides have been taken and lines are not crossed. Four main clans of night humans are struggling for control of the night. Divided into two sides, clans Baku and Tengu have been at war for centuries with the clans Dearg-dul and Lycan. That is, until Arianna Grace finds out the truth; she’s the bridge of peace between the two sides. But not everyone wants peace. With the night humans divided, Arianna is now a pawn in the war between them. She must choose a side—her mother’s family or her father’s—and for once in her life, decide her own fate.---- Early Reviews ---- “The Legend of the Blue Eyes is overall a fantastic read with a new spin on the world of the Night Humans. The story feels natural, not forced, and I think that this series will really develop into something great.” -Bethany@Reading Vixens “Okay! WOW! This novel is amazing!! I’m surprised at just how much I enjoyed reading this novel! The Legend of the Blue Eyes is the first novel in the trilogy and let me tell you, its worth a read! B. Kristin McMichael has a new and original take on Vampires and the Vampire World.” -Ana @SoManyBooksSoLittleTime “Arianna finds herself embroiled in kidnappings, poisonings, and nefarious plotting to undermine current leadership. With little choice but to embrace this new life, Ms. McMichael keeps you interested in Arianna’s rise to glory and pursuit of adjustment and happiness. The story is far from done.” -Carmen@TheReadingCafe

Travis McGee has gone missing. His friend Murphy is called to rescue him. Along the way, he runs head long into white supremacists. But, that's OK. Murphy doesn't fight fair.John D. MacDonald wrote a series of novels based on the his character Travis McGee. Each book in the series had a color associated with it. MacDonald said that the last book in the series would use the color black. Unfortunately, he died before writing the book.This book was written as a tribute to Mr. MacDonald. It is in no way meant to equal his work. If you do enjoy it, I know you will love the original works.

Hawk, known many years ago as Trashcan Hochley, is the attendant at an aging hotel/bar establishment where his desk is safely enclosed at the front door in a cage with bars. When saleslady, Ashley Adams, lands in a new city without a reservation and is forced to take a room in what even he'd describe as a "dive," Hawk is drawn back through his own memories to contemplate his life and choices.Stories in the Tales of A Traveling Saleslady series take a voyage through the metamorphosis of an ex-farm wife into a woman of the world in 1985. From small towns on the Canadian prairies to the Los Angeles County Fair, Ashley Adams, the saleslady, finds herself in a perpetual state of limbo. On one hand her new lifestyle alienates her from the life she's always known, while on the other, she's still a naive country girl who often finds herself in unexpected predicaments as she does here in The Cage. Each of the stories is narrated, not by the saleslady, but by the people she encounters on her journey.In The Cage, Hawk, known many years ago as Trashcan Hochley, is the attendant at an aging hotel/bar establishment where his desk is safely enclosed at the front door in a cage with bars. When saleslady, Ashley Adams, lands in a new city without a reservation and is forced to take a room in what even he'd describe as a "dive," Hawk is drawn back through his own memories to contemplate his life and how he has ended up working the night shift in a cage.The Cage is about life--the choices we make and the ones we avoid.

Fifteen poems about canoeing (or at least thinking about it) in the middle of winter.Here are fifteen poems about canoeing, as seen from the canoeist in winter, a time when canoeing may not be possible, but dreaming about it is mandatory. This is part of the series, Canoeing Poems: A Year in Four Volumes.

Lady Mhysra Kilpapan was blessed from birth with a distinguished family, a glorious home and a giant eagle miryhl of her own. Fully aware of her luck, she wants for nothing in life – except a chance to become a Rift Rider. The elite force of the Overworld has been closed to women for over one hundred years and not even the legendary Wingborn are allowed to join. Until now.Lady Mhysra Kilpapan was blessed from birth with a distinguished family, a glorious home and a giant eagle miryhl of her own. Fully aware of her luck, she wants for nothing in life – except a chance to become a Rift Rider. The elite force of the Overworld has been closed to women for over one hundred years and not even the legendary Wingborn are allowed to join. Until now.Women are being admitted to the Riders again and Mhysra wants to be first in line. Except her parents have other ideas, and there are plenty of others who are less than pleased about the change. Yet if Mhysra can find a way to reach Aquila, she will let nothing stop her.But the Overworld is in trouble and the vicious kaz-naghkt are destroying Rift Rider bases one by one. The Riders need help. Can Mhysra and her friends really be the difference between survival and destruction? Or will they fail before their first year of training is through?

WARNING! This is a Zed Lab Experiment! "The house of the edge of time" description: An house that ripples on the Great River and a summer that it oscillates between the infancy and the adolescence.Zoe, eleven years and two separate parents, listen to the secret language of the things and try to interpret it...WARNING! This is a Zed Lab Experiment! "The house of the edge of time" description: An house that ripples on the Great River and a summer that it oscillates between the infancy and the adolescence.Zoe, eleven years and two separate parents, listen to the secret language of the things and try to interpret it. From some time she has the impression that the world is sending messages in bottle to her. It is sure that reality wants to put her to the alert one: something is about it to happen. But what? To discover it, Zoe will be forced to compare her with the world of the adults and to bring a dark past submerged by the water of the river to the light.An history on "to become great" that it makes to smile and to move together.

When Ella Haviland inherits a magic antique photo album that reveals the future of potential couples, she starts a part-time matchmaking business with the help of her three best friends. But finding love herself isn't in her plans — even when her best guy friend Ross confesses he's fallen for her. Friendship and love equals a recipe for disaster in her mind.When Ella Haviland inherits a magic antique photo album that reveals the future of potential couples, she starts a part-time matchmaking business with the help of her three best friends. It's always been her dream to help people find love. But finding true love herself isn't in her plans — even when her best guy friend Ross confesses he's fallen for her. Friendship and love equals a recipe for disaster in her mind. Ross Mitchell is devastated that Ella doesn't want more from their relationship. He withdraws ... but maybe he should play along when Ella tries to matchmake him with a friend, just to make her jealous. He will do anything to make her notice him. Through a series of adventures and happenings, Ella discovers that maybe The Album brings more than love and magic into the lives of the people it touches; it sprinkles its magic on hers. But can she find true love herself, or is there too much holding her back?

The boon allowed life to exist and when it ceased to function, illness, madness and darkness swept the village. Howitz set off to do what his grandfather had done, light the obelisk and restore the boon to working order. It was somewhere out there, in the forbidden, barren lands of the beyond.In the future Great Brighton, the administration has turned work into a luxury, which it doles out grudgingly. You take what you can of it, and outside of work, you take what you like. Madeleine takes Oratory. It sounds harmless, but in a society where mating is a duty but sex is a drug, can anything really be what it seems? Where will Madeleine’s addiction lead her once her only attempt at rebellion fails? Dark future, good reading from Bryan Murphy.

Poet and award-winning novelist, Qwantu Amaru's 5th volume of poetry deals with one man's awakening after divorce to find his path and higher power. Contains an excerpt of his award-winning novel, One Blood!Samuel Buckland is a young man who has it all and is planning for the future. Gregory Caitlin is a businessman and politician. He has designs to bring hope back to a world in need...and he'll be damned if anyone gets in his way! When the two cross paths, even the angels tremble. An ancient magic has been rediscovered. Sam must overcome his lack of faith and accept his destiny, or the world he knows will suffer the consequences. . A skeptic who must harness the powers of demons and genies. A zealot who has begun to walk a darker path. Bound together by a stolen secret. Can any of them escape the Chains of Prophecy?

In this magnificent return to the world of Evergreen, Henrietta Roth, an extraordinary woman, fights to control her destiny; and three turbulent generations come vividly to life against a background of immigrant struggle, war, and passion."A page-turner... Hard to put down." -- The Washington Post

Episode 5, Nanotroopers.Winger recovers but finds UNIFORCE has traitors in high places; surveillance leads Winger and ANAD to east Africa. An archeological dig has uncovered an alien artifact. Red Hammer’s using it to plunder an alien race’s archives.Winger and ANAD try to stop them but wind up entangled in strange quantum worlds generated by the artifact. Fifth episode in the Nanotroopers serial.Johnny Winger recovers at Table Top. But Sheila Reaves is acting strange. Turns out she’s been replicated and is an ‘angel’; the real one was kidnapped in Singapore. Not only that, but the nanotroopers find evidence that other Table Top personnel, even inanimate objects aren’t what they seem. Winger now has an ANAD embed. But they have to find Reaves…she knows a lot about Quantum Corps operations and tactics. It turns out that the kidnapping was bait, a sting operation by Quantum Corps to attract Red Hammer into making a move. The real Reaves is assigned as an undercover counter-intel agent at UNIFORCE Headquarters in Paris…and the Security Affairs Commissioner (UNSAC) himself is suspected of collaborating with the cartel. Surveillance reveals UNSAC is overseeing some kind of strange archeological dig in Kenya, a place called Engebbe. Winger and Reaves are assigned to follow and investigate. At Engebbe, they find the cartel’s operatives are intensely interested in excavating a strange sphere from the same site that ANAD’s processor originally came from. The nanotroopers join the dig posing as interns on summer study. They locate the sphere inside a cave, but the excavation walls collapse, trapping them inside the cave. Worse, ANAD itself is missing, after coming into contact with the sphere. They have no choice to but to try and locate ANAD. Winger touches the sphere himself and goes on a dizzying ride through multiple quantum states, to places and times far distant from Earth. It seems as if Red Hammer may be in contact with an extraterrestrial race, using their archives to help their criminal enterprises. Somehow, Winger and Reaves have to get out of the cave and away from the sphere and warn the Corps of what has happened. Fifth episode in the Nanotroopers serial.

Walter has been forgotten by his wife, and is forced to watch her from a distance. He starts to realize her memories are returning to her, and is convinced he must find a way to revive them. He will be forced to face many obstacles including her own memories, the guards/occupants of their retirement community, and even his own personal demons along the way.Margaret, and Walter are a married couple in a retirement home. Walter has been forced to watch his wife who he loves dearly from a distance.Her Alzheimer's disease has caused her to forget her husband, and her previous life. Walter is forced to only see his wife from afar, due to the unintentional abuse caused by his anger. He has accepted that he is no longer allowed to be in her life, for her own safety. That is until he notices all the signs that she is beginning to remember him.he knows he must get close to her, and help her remember. What cost will it take, Will she be able to remember her past life , and what demons will be unraveled along the way?

Tales from Parker Road (Death, Barbecues and a Toast Rack) consists of four short stories about the residents of Parker Road.There is a tiny bit of death, a couple of barbecues, and (unsurprisingly) a toast rack.Tales from Parker Road (Death, Barbecues and a Toast Rack) consists of four short stories loosely linking residents of Parker Road:Mike and Jenny need to find somewhere to bury a body.Greg and Kate have an argument about the useless stuff Greg insists on buying.Susan tries to keep Roger calm, which isn’t easy, as everything winds him up.Pete accidentally kills Linda's cat. He could confess, or try and cover it up. He decides on a cover-up.

Have you ever wondered how a dragon cleans its teeth? Now you can find out in this thrilling and imaginative short fantasy from the award-winning author of 'Moth Girl versus The Bats' and 'Blood on the Ground'.Have you ever wondered how a dragon cleans its teeth? Now you can find out in this thrilling and imaginative short fantasy from the award-winning author of 'Moth Girl versus The Bats' and 'Blood on the Ground'. Jena has been serving the dragons for years, yet is drawn into a murderous plot of rebellion, finding friends and enemies amongst dragonkind, and discovering the shocking origin of the creatures.