Zombies- as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily ever after. Reagan and crew are making their way through Oklahoma, still heading south and still trying to survive. They are low on food, without any firearms and fresh from a week of walking around in the midst of aggressive, intellectual Zombies. They are exhausted and more than a little bit nervous about their current situation. But that all seems to turn around when they not only find a van big enough to hold them all comfortably but a safe place to stay for the night. The girls take time to pamper themselves and bond and Reagan and Hendrix get close with some much needed alone time. When they decide to loot a gun emporium, they hope for the best but find the worst. They have to fight their way through hordes of Zombies, praying the reward is greater than the risk. And that they all make it out alive. Love and Decay, Episode Seven, is the seventh in a novella series in a Dystopian Romance about Zombies, the end of the world and finding someone to share it with. This story takes place over multiple episodes, with a release date every two weeks. Approximately 20,000 words.

Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits. And then she discovers something amazing - she is a "free agent," with latent magical power. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But will it be enough to help them when they are asked to catch a career criminal who knows magic too?

The award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Colleen Gleason's International Bestselling Gardella Vampire Hunter Series.“Sophisticated, sexy, surprising!” — J.R. Ward“Colleen Gleason’s irresistible…series is deliciously dark and delightfully entertaining.” —Chicago Tribune“Gleason’s publishing debut turns vampire stories—and romances—on their ear.” —Detroit Free PressBeneath the glitter of dazzling nineteenth century London Society lurks a bloodthirsty evil…Vampires have always lived among them, quietly attacking unsuspecting debutantes and dandified lords as well as hackney drivers and Bond Street milliners. If not for the vampire slayers of the Gardella family, these immortal creatures would have long ago taken control of the world.In every generation, a Gardella is called to accept the family legacy, and this time, Victoria Gardella Grantworth is chosen, on the eve of her debut, to carry the stake. But as she moves between the crush of ballrooms and dangerous moonlit streets, Victoria’s heart is torn between London’s most eligible bachelor, the Marquess of Rockley, and her dark, dangerous duty. And when she comes face-to-face with the most powerful vampire in history, Victoria must ultimately make a choice between duty and love.This is a five-book series about Victoria Gardella, Vampire Hunter. The series should be read in order to avoid spoilers. The series is:The Rest Falls AwayRises the NightThe Bleeding DuskWhen Twilight BurnsAs Shadows FadeAll five books are now available.______Praise for The Gardella Vampire Hunters Series"The Rest Falls Away, Gleason's publishing debut...turns vampire stories--and romances--on their ear with a decidedly dark, decidedly unsentimental Regency heroine who stakes the undead with the best of them." -- Detroit Free Press"The undead rise to great heights through Gleason's phenomenal storytelling. She creates a chilling world with the perfect atmosphere of fear and sexual tension." -- Romantic Times"Gleason keeps upping the ante with each novel, weaving the characters around her readers with each engaging conversation and narrative, every stage set of all the appropriate gothic gloom and melting beauty. -- Book Fetish"...Above all, the writing is what recommends this book most. Gleason's writing is sharp and taut, which makes for excellent action sequences, and a plot that travels quickly from the start. The writing strength alone gives me ample reassurance that this potentially plot-heavy series is in the right hands. I'm definitely looking forward to the next installment." – Smart Bitches Love Trashy Books"The undead rise to great heights through Gleason's phenomenal storytelling. She creates a chilling world with the perfect atmosphere of fear and sexual tension." -- Romantic Times"Gleason keeps upping the ante with each novel, weaving the characters around her readers with each engaging conversation and narrative, every stage set of all the appropriate gothic gloom and melting beauty. -- Book Fetish

Chance A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad

The Man in Lower Ten By Mary Roberts Rinehart

Fleeing to Australia to escape the repressive life of British-controlled Ireland, Tim Shea is alarmed by his new home's equally stifling social order and its inclination towards prejudice. By the author of Schindler's List.

This Fond Madness is a book length collection of fairy tale and fantasy stories. It contains the following previously published stories: "Awakened" (a selchie story), "Guns For the Dead" (a Graveminder story), "Corpse Eater" (a dystopian Norse myth), "The Strength Inside" (Romanian folklore). Also included is "The Maiden Thief" (on Bluebeard) which has never appeared in print.

A once great journalist, Cole Sage has finally hit rock bottom. When the daughter of his lost love goes missing, Cole sees a chance at redemption - but he'll have to navigate a treacherous maze of con men, and shady deals to find her. The Cole Sage series is a clean, character driven, mystery series with lots of twist, turns, and heart.Beaten, bloody but determined, Cole Sage conquers greed and hatred with a strength that only love, and a will as hard as diamond, can achieve.When Cole Sage receives a desperate message asking for help from Ellie, one that got away. The one that has haunted his life. Cole drops everything and flies to California. Fearing her estranged daughter Erin’s inheritance, won’t go to her, but to her abusive step-father, Cole vows to find the girl and right the situation.His path is blocked at every turn by the husband who abandoned her, his shady real estate deals, violent con men, street thugs and the lure of a fortune in diamonds that unite them. The anger, sorrow, and crippling guilt of twenty years fires Cole's drive to keep a promise, that in the end, will heal and return the soul to the great journalist.Micheal Maxwell has found a niche in the mystery genre with The Cole Sage Series that departs from the usual, heavily sexual, profanity laced norm, and gives readers a character driven stories, with twists, turns, and page turning plot lines, but most of all a hero they can relate to and root for with each new case he finds himself involved in.Diamonds and Cole is just the beginning for Cole Sage, and your introduction to a series you will love!

Montreal 1946. Jackie Robinson is playing for the Royals, the jazz clubs are hopping and the backrooms are full of people losing money at the barbotte tables.Nat Lawson is home from the war working for the phone company and moonlighting running 'silent' lines for bookies when Leah Aidelbaum asks him to play private eye.Vincent Valentine. A Turk for Shinra Corporation. Genetically engineered horror.Professor Natalie Long has fantasized the day she would find his resting place. A scientist who studied under Professor Gast, she believes she has found the means to cure him of the darker side to his nature.But when the cure could lead to his death, she isn't so certain she can live without him.*(this is a work of fan-fiction; events take place after those of Final Fantasy VII)

The Sword And The Dagger is written between the lines of historical fact following the torrid life of Irish pirate Fial McMurrin begging in the year 1796. An Irish lad armed with the love of a woman and his country learns the ways of the Royal Navy and their battle tactics. When the time is right he turns on tyranny. A chance meeting with British Politician William Wilberforce changes his life.In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century the British with an array of coalitions fought the Napoleonic wars, directly after the French revolutionary wars, when Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in France. Napoleon Bonaparte attempted to annex Europe, England and Russia with French sovereignty. This was a time of incredible history. In 1803 England became the United Kingdom with the amalgamation of Ireland after years of bitter bloodshed. The Spanish Inquisition was under democratic scrutiny and eventually abolished. By 1815 the United Kingdom defeated the French in the war of the seventh coalition with allies Russia, Prussia, Sweden, Austria and the Netherlands defining the borders that are now modern Europe. A major factor in this defeat of the French was the superior strength and experience of the Royal Navy. With huge forests of oak, seasoned ship builders and brilliant seaman Britannia ruled the waves.In 1807 British Member of Parliament William Wilberforce was successful in introducing a bill The Slave Trade Act outlawing the carrying of slaves on British ships. It would take until 1833 to have The Slavery Abolition Act passed in the House of Lords which abolished slavery in most of the British Empire just prior to the death of Wilberforce. This period in history also saw the formation of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the start of the industrial revolution. The Irish had struggled through years of war with England and those opposed to British rule as part of the United Kingdom formed the Society of United Irishmen collaborating with the French to bring down the British and regain Irish independence. This story begins in Bantry Bay Ireland in 1796 with the disastrous expedition d'Irelande by the French in an attempt to land French troops on Irish soil. A young farmer's son Fial McMurrin twelve years old witnesses the mayhem with much of the French fleet destroyed by savage storms in Bantry Bay and along the adjacent coastline of Ireland. His parents are killed by the British but Fial McMurrin survives hidden by his parents and found by friends, he is taken to Cork. He is a natural seaman and learns the ways of the Royal Navy. He becomes a notorious pirate when the time is right exploiting weakness he found in ships of the line and their battle tactics. A chance meeting with William Wilberforce changes his life.

Jada Stanton and several travelers are caught in a flash blizzard in Montana. Dr. Bretton Heathrow opens is home to the stranded motorists, and finds out that the weather isn't the only thing that comes in like a storm.Just because something can go wrong, that doesn’t mean it should. Jada Stanton and several other travelers are caught in the flash blizzard of the decade in the middle of Where, exactly? Montana. Dr. Bretton Heathrow left behind a few bad memories to make his dream come true. Stranded motorists are the last thing he expects at dark-thirty in the morning. But one bright shining star may make the near-disaster a worthwhile inconvenience.Like the blizzard, Jada Stanton is the one he never saw coming.(Christian Romance)**Friend and fellow writer, Jackie Zack, more or less issued a challenge, "wondered if you'd like to write a Christmas novella." With only four weeks on the calendar, what's a girl to do?

Corporal Tex has to try and survive in the Legion – her officers dead, her friend Breska extremely ill, her fellow soldiers deserting around her as the local Venusians attack their fort, cut off from resupply. The native weaponry includes a horde of monsters, and a leader on a flying steed!A Gender Switch AdventureIndia started hating Oliver just after Christian’s death. She humiliated him in front of the whole school in order to deal with what Christian had done to her. Then Oliver left town to go to University. Now it’s time for her to start a new life but she never expected to see Oliver again, especially during her first day of school. Many things have changed since they been apart. Now he is captain of the Rugby team and the most popular bloke on campus. Oliver took her place and he is making her life a living hell.This time it’s all about him and she is the one who suffers. She fed on her hatred for too long and she refuses to be that way anymore but this is only the beginning of her humiliation.

"The Dogs of Athens" by Kendare Blake is a dark story set before the events of the Goddess Wars series for young adults during the twilight of the gods. Greek goddess Artemis and her immortal companions have returned to modern-day Athens where a chance reunion with Actaeon, the mortal hero who fell prey to Artemis' fatal wrath thousands of years ago, turns violent once again.

A collection of short stories and excerpts from Michael Morpurgo's most famous children's novels.

I have experienced great sadness and loss in my life. In 2002 I had awoke to find that my wife had passed away. It seemed to me as if my life came to an end that day as time came to stop. After a few months I began awaken and artistry began to fill the void that was left within me.I have experienced great sadness and loss in my life. In 2002 I had awoke to find that my wife had passed away. It seemed to me as if my life came to an end that day as time came to stop. After a few months I began awaken and artistry began to fill the void that was left within me. It began to bring me to a new understanding of life as it enveloped my spirit and I became a new person. I hope that my journey into poetry and photography will speak to you on your own... ...Journey Into Renewal

Police Chief Ted Jasper needs to solve a crime and catch a murderer quickly. But the only man who can help is an old friend who has a unique way of viewing art.Police Chief Ted Jasper needs to solve a crime and catch a murderer quickly. Lives may be at stake, but the criminal won't talk about who might be hidden away, waiting to die. The only man who can help has a unique way of viewing art. Patrick Medford built a brilliant career as a renowned art historian, until he used the skill that gave him his insights to the point where madness lurked nearby. Jasper has to convince his old friend to dive into a dark mind using a method far from standard police procedure. Part art appreciation, part paranormal mystery, "Into His Art" is a thrilling short story that leaves readers wondering how much artists put of themselves into their work.

Thanks a lot! Karen wants her report on Thanksgiving to be extra special. She plans to show the class some great souvenirs from a family trip to Plimoth Plantation. But Karen's best enemy wants to ruin Karen's project. How will Karen ever make her report special now?

Booth and his adventuresome friends have the opportunity of a lifetime fall in their laps: a job that's way too easy for a payment that's way too large. But when killing's involved, nothing is ever all that simple.Four swords-for-hire are good at what they do, but they need work in order to eat. A great opportunity presents itself, but it's a job for the militaristic, unlikable Lothians. Still, it's just a matter of killing some goblins. If the payment for this simple task wasn't so large, Booth probably have had the feeling that they're being asked to do something much worse...

A fractured fairy tale about a fill-in evil woodland creature on the trail of Little Red Riding Hood.The Big Bad Wolf is hospitalized, so when Evil Fairy Tale Animals need his help, he has to outsource to his friend: the Big Bad Elephant.Unfortunately for the wolf, but fortunately for Little Red Riding Hood, the rules of the Enchanted Jungle are different than the rules of the Enchanted Forest. The elephant has to adapt to his new surroundings while dealing with Red's modern woods-wise ways.