Small town librarian Edwina Blair found herself stranded and alone In Edinburgh, Scotland. When the hotel clerk told her she no longer had a room, she fainted - right into the arms of a tall Scot standing behind her. Anxious to meet his fiance, Alex Dunneginm whisked Edwina off to his castle and that's when the trouble began.Small town librarian Edwina Blair found herself stranded and alone In Edinburgh, Scotland. When the hotel clerk told her she no longer had a room, she fainted - right into the arms of a tall Scot standing behind her. Anxious to meet his fiance, Alex Dunneginm whisked Edwina off to his castle and that's when the trouble began.The handsome Laird became the hero for the novel Edwina was writing. And Cecelia, her beautiful, entrepreneurial sister, the heroine. Could it be any other way?Edwina would find out that the stubborn Scot did not always play the part she wrote for him.

After over-hearing news from some fellow pack members, werewolf Roxy makes a life changing decision. What will the repercussions of her actions be? Will she accept her fate or will she try and create her own?Who would ever have imagined that being a bicycle courier could be so exciting, dangerous and demanding? Ziggy Two Step is oblivious to most of what is happening around him even though he is often the cause of it. Follow Ziggy Two Step, courier extraordinaire, as he delivers urgent packages throughout Riverton.(NOTE: There may be a problem with the Oct 31/2012 revision ... for a more readable version, pick the version before that one. Sorry for the inconvenience)Please check out my other FREE stories as well.

*@*@* New Version! *@*@*In the footsteps of Poe and Montague James, this is an unusual and heart warming ghost story set in the late 1800's.Percy's misery knows no bounds, until an old friend offers to do him a favour.This is an example of the stories contained in my book, 'The Ghostly Victorians (Author's Edition).*@*@*Note To Readers*@*@*‘The Favour’ was first published in August, 2014. Thank you to the thousands who have downloaded it. This, the 2017 version, has been re-written with ‘a little something extra’ at the end. If you read the original, comments comparing the two would be welcome.

Marry the girl I’ve had a crush on my whole life? Check. Inherit a hundred-billion-dollar company? Check. Produce an heir… Wait, what? I have ninety days to knock up my brand-new fake wife. There’s only one problem—she hates my guts. And in the fine print of the contract? The requirement that we produce an heir. She can’t stand to be in the same room with me. Says she’ll never be in my bed. But I’ve never backed down from a challenge and I’m not about to start now. Mark my words—I’ll have her begging for me, and it won’t take ninety days. On the heels of her smash hit and New York Times bestselling SCREWED series, Kendall Ryan brings you HITCHED, a romantic comedy that delivers heart and heat. A NYC playboy turned business mogul has ninety days to win over the woman he's always desired in order to save his father's company. One tiny problem: She hates his guts.

Enter a decadent sensual world where gorgeous alpha males are committed to fulfilling a woman's every desire...Olivier isn't sure what he's gotten himself into when he joins the Honey Club, only that a dark part of him hungers for the lifestyle offered by this exclusive club. Here, no boundary will be left untested...and one's deepest fantasies will become an exquisite reality.When Amélie invites Olivier to surrender, she gives the alpha submissive what he craves. Soon they both find themselves falling harder than they ever anticipated—but as their connection deepens, the truth about Olivier's past could destroy everything...Gripping and seductive, The Deep End is the first book in a sensational new series from bestselling author Kristen Ashley.

Gerald Faust knows exactly when he started feeling angry: the day his mother invited a reality television crew into his five-year-old life. Twelve years later, he’s still haunted by his rage-filled youth—which the entire world got to watch from every imaginable angle—and his anger issues have resulted in violent outbursts, zero friends, and clueless adults dumping him in the special education room at school. Nothing is ever going to change. No one cares that he’s tried to learn to control himself, and the girl he likes has no idea who he really is. Everyone’s just waiting for him to snap…and he’s starting to feel dangerously close to doing just that. In this fearless portrayal of a boy on the edge, highly acclaimed Printz Honor author A.S. King explores the desperate reality of a former child “star” who finally breaks free of his anger by creating possibilities he never knew he deserved.

Forgetting the past isn’t always a choice. Jo Hayes is desperate for answers. After waking from a coma, she faces a harsh reality. Amnesia has stolen six years of her life. The only thing keeping her sane is her brother, Brighton, who vows to protect her at all cost. As fear and confusion dominate Jo, she struggles to regain her memories. Pieces slowly emerge once she meets the mysterious Adam Hart. Something about him strikes a nerve she can’t ignore, and the more she’s with him, the harder she fights to remember. While the flashbacks bring Jo closer to the truth, they leave her physically drained. If her memories don’t return naturally, the truth may destroy more than her mind. It may be the one thing that kills her. Heartstrings is the first installment in the Heart & Soul Series. If you like riveting romances blended with love, loss, and hope, then you’ll enjoy Kelli McCracken’s gripping look at one woman’s struggle to overcome the odds.

We Five tells the story of five young female friends and co-workers through the voices of five different authors, the story unfolding against five distinct historic backdrops. The driving conceit is that an anonymously authored manuscript from the mid-1860s (perhaps the work of Dickens contemporary Elizabeth Gaskell) was discovered and later published. Over the succeeding decades four other authors choose to retell this story in their own time and in their own way. The last author has now gone a step further: she has assembled all five versions into a literary pastiche which cycles chapter-by-chapter through the different versions as the central narrative progresses. The result is a novel about five young women pursued by five young men of predatory purpose, which takes place alternatively in a small mill town outside of Manchester, England in 1859; in San Francisco on the eve of the 1906 earthquake and fire; in Sinclair Lewis’s fictional Zenith, Winnemac in 1923; in London during the Blitz of autumn, 1940; and in a small town in northern Mississippi in 1997. In the first book “We Five” are seamstresses; in the next they are department store sales clerks; in the next, they sing in the choir of a popular female evangelist; in the next, they work in an ordinance factory outside of London; and in the final version, they are cocktail waitresses in a Mississippi River casino. The book’s climax is a dramatic collision of all five incarnations of the story: an incident of mass hysteria arising from a solar storm in 1859, the 1906 San Francisco quake, a fire in the evangelist’s newly built “temple” in 1923, the 1940 Balham Underground station bombing and flooding, and a tornado in rural 1997 Mississippi.

Months after a bad breakup, Jacob Pierce is still more than a little fragile. With the encouragement of his friends he agrees to sign up for a film based photography class.Elijah Fall, a widowed photography teacher, is exactly the man to bring Jacob back to life. But, while Jacob has found the man of his dreams, will Elijah, someone who has lost everything once, risk his heart again?Short North - Book 1A simple story about moving past the terrible things that life throws at you and finding happiness on the other side.Months after his breakup with a long-term boyfriend, Jacob Pierce is still more than a little fragile, he has withdrawn from life, his friends are concerned and even he knows that something needs to change. With the encouragement of his friends and a nudge from the newest member of Jacob's small circle, he agrees to sign up for a film based photography class.Elijah Fall, a widowed photography teacher, is exactly the man to bring Jacob back to life. But, while Jacob may have found the man of his dreams, will Elijah, someone who has lost everything once, be willing to risk his heart again?

A man with a shattered soul becomes total temptation for a girl with a marshmallow heart.Fitness center entrepreneur Nick Sharpe is under siege. His business is going ballistic and his PA has left without giving notice. Worse, he's just discovered he was adopted. Reeling from shock, Nick has no patience left for his new temp, Samantha – however much she attracts him and rubs him up the wrong way.A man with a shattered soul becomes total temptation for a girl with a marshmallow heart.Fitness center entrepreneur Nick Sharpe is under siege. His business is going ballistic and his PA has left without giving notice. He’s offered to donate bone marrow to his desperately ill niece and been told he’s not genetically compatible. Not related. Reeling from the shock of finding he was adopted, Nick has no patience left for his new temp, Samantha – however much she attracts him or rubs him up the wrong way. Sammie Sherbourne’s sure she can cope with her demanding new boss for the next week or two. Finally free to spread her very cramped wings after a long family crisis, she wants a short-term job until her passport arrives so she can follow her travel dreams. But the possibility that she might hold the key to unlock Nick’s true identity eats at her – far more than his money or spectacular body do. WARNING: Contains sexy games in beds, bathrooms, and on balconies.RESISTING NICK is part of The Wellington Series.If this is the first time you have read a Wellington story, you can easily read each book as a standalone. If you would like to know when my next book is published, please go to my website krispearson.com and sign up for my newsletter. Thank you for your wonderful support!Contemporary romances by Kris Pearson:Currently being written – The Scarlet Bay Series1. Published: HARD TO REGRET (Anna and Jason)2. On the way :HARD TO RESIST (Jossy and Cameron)The Wellington Series:1. THE BOAT BUILDER’S BED (Sophie and Rafe)2. SEDUCTION ON THE CARDS (Kerri and Alex)3. RESISTING NICK (Sammie and Nick)4. OUT OF BOUNDS (Jetta and Anton)5. THE WRONG SISTER (Fiona and Christian)6. RAVISHING ROSE (Francesca and Jake)7. HOT FOR YOU (Melanie and Cody)The Heartlands Series:1. MELTING HIS HEART (Kate and Matthew)2. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY HEARTS (Ellie and Tony)3. COWBOY WANTS HER HEART (Alfie and Rory)Sheikhs of Al Sounam Series:1. TAKEN BY THE SHEIKH (Laurel and Rafiq)2. DESIRED BY THE SHEIKH (Stacy and Akil)

Summer Storms is a story of love, loss and renovation of home and heart.Summer Storms is a story of love, loss and renovation. Thanks to the love and support of friends and a renewed commitment to her faith Elizabeth Reynolds has moved past the hurt and anger of her parents death. Her job as concierge at Hotel Lago, a boutique hotel in downtown Orlando is challenging and fills her need to be successful but one thing is missing. She loves the historic homes in the downtown area but fears she will never be able to afford one. When a once in a lifetime opportunity to renovate a broken down home comes along she snaps it up. Sparks and clashes with her handsome, but deeply troubled contractor, Jeffrey Robbins threaten to slow the renovation but they fade as Orlando becomes the target of three summer storms, hurricanes Charlie, Frances and Jeanne. In the aftermath of the storms what be the fate of Lizzie’s home and heart?

Kiethara, a descendant from a long line of powerful guardians who have been charged to protect a magical forest, is forced to face her mother’s killer and the greatest threat magic has ever faced: Gandador. As she fights to hone her skill and control her emotions, the fate of the forest—and the world—faces the most peril it has since the dawn of time.Are you ready? Kiethara considered chiding the voice for breaking her concentration, but the annoyance that should have been there was missing. Then, pausing in her climb, she considered the question.It seemed…so familiar. She felt that someone had asked her this before. Was she ready? Prepared? Kiethara pursed her lips at the wave of déjà vu. Well? she demanded.Kiethara shrugged and pulled herself up another foot. She did not remember what she was supposed to be ready for.The voice's anger at her ignorance and lack of interest was so strong that it shook Kiethara. The potent emotion was like a slap in the face, sparking her own emotion and memory.Are you ready…Ready for Gandador? Ready for the fight? Ready for…This.At the sound of the voice, Kiethara was thrown off the cliff face. She had been right. As she fell, the images around her shattered like glass, breaking into rugged pieces.Right before she hit the ground, she heard the voice whisper:Are you ready for the end? ***Kiethara, a descendant from a long line of powerful guardians who have been charged to protect a magical forest, is forced to face her mother’s killer and the greatest threat magic has ever faced: Gandador. As she fights to hone her skill and control her emotions, the fate of the forest—and the world—faces the most peril it has since the dawn of time.

How much time does Jess have to live? That's what Jess should have been thinking, but instead she was wondering where she put her keys. Ashley, on the other hand, was possessed by something beyond anything she had ever experienced in her life. Derek was on a suicide mission until an angel appeared before his eyes, changing his life forever! Book 1 in the Bagel Chalet Series.An adult fictional, short story about a man's journey of self-empowerment and discovering life. When he experiences a life changing event he re-evaluates his life and pushes himself to the limits. Throughout his journey he finds himself through past, present, and future events. The story provokes an emotional roller coaster, only to conclude that the ending is the beginning and beginning the end.After you have enjoyed this free ebook, the author would love your feedback!

Former cowboy Lester falls for more than his horse in New in the Neighbourhood - Volume 1, part of the Neighbours Series 1, a contemporary Christian romance.Lester Tibbett has to leave his farm in Southern Alberta for the big city. It means starting over in an unfamiliar environment - a heavy burden for the guardian of a teenage sister full of angst. The apartment complex to which they relocate is a far cry from their spacious farmhouse and offers little anonymity for a man used to doing things his own way. During the process, he pushes his own loneliness aside in favour of looking after his sister. As Lester struggles to find a church that will meet both their spiritual needs, he quickly learns that neighbours come in many forms, some of them quite meddlesome. Still, he is happy to accept help from an overtly friendly neighbour named Jed who also happens to work for the same construction company. The two soon become friends, despite Jed’s habit of trying to set Lester up with every available single female, and end up frequenting a local pub where Lester is surprised to discover an ‘old school’ mechanical bull just waiting to be ridden. The former rodeo cowboy in him rises up, but not before he meets a mysterious woman who is out of his reach.

I never knew what the consequences would be. I say that like it’s a defense, an excuse. It’s not. It’s simply the truth. I never knew what he would become to me. Through everything, he’s become everything. My rock, my air, my love. My everything. And then…. Things changed. Because it was wrong. Because sometimes, our sons must pay for the sins of their fathers. Or their mothers. I’m afraid that I’m lost, that I’m damned. After you read this, you’ll probably agree. Really, it doesn’t matter. All that matters is that I save him. Because he shouldn’t pay for my sin. Judge me if you like. But keep reading. This is our beginning. This is where the darkness truly starts. This is a NOCTE Trilogy novella, with a preview of LUX at the end. Series reading order: Nocte Verum Initium Lux