Every man has a little beast inside...every woman longs to tame him. Where will you be when the beast roars for you? The quintisential geek, Vana had never had a lover. The ultimte warrior, Dagon had never had a wife. Thanks to a rift in space, she's about to become both. Views: 19
When Jeb McCabe gave Laramie, Texas, the scandal of the century by leaving his bride at the altar, he garnered the reputation of the most notorious bachelor in town. So what's the handsome heartbreaker doing playing nanny to Cady Keilor's young nephews?Cady desperately wants a baby of her own.But before she adopts, she's practicing for motherhood by babysitting her sister's rambunctious brood for two weeks. The cowboy she's always been sweet on is just along for the ride—after Cady bets him he can't last a week!It turns out Jeb's a natural at parenting, and Cady badly needs his help. The question is: Does playing house make Jeb yearn for the real thing? He is a McCabe, after all—and the name is synonymous with family! Views: 19
For several hundred years the Ingram family has lived under a curse—the taint of homicidal madness which manifests itself in the females every 80 or 90 years—and it appears the madness has struck again in the beautiful Imogen. But Dan Tudor, a writer commissioned to produce a feature on the family, is not convinced. His investigations are about to lead him to a horror beyond imagining. Views: 19
Sector Guard 22 – Ashlin wants to save the beast marked for the hunt, but when intelligence sparks in his eyes, the idea becomes the gateway to a new life.
Ashlin has spent her life trying to move beyond her status as a throwback. Unlike all of the population around her, she has to fight for respect on a daily basis. When being Hunt Master is taken from her once again, she resolves to avoid the hunt, but looking into the eyes of the beast to be hunted, she knows she cannot ignore the intelligence in those silver eyes. Leaving her home before dawn, she waits for the beast to catch up to her and manages to help him transform back into Rumble of the Sector Guard. In that moment her fate is sealed and her life in the stars begins. Views: 19
A straightforward cargo delivery takes a left turn when Hal Spacejock gets sidetracked. But with 200 shares in a worthless company on offer, who wouldn't step into a makeshift teleporter which has already claimed one victim?Hal and Clunk, stars of the Hal Spacejock comedy series, feature in this brand new 8000-word short story. 'Framed' slots into the series any time after Hal Spacejock Second Course, but can be read and enjoyed as a stand-alone. Views: 19
Philip Gould is an unfettered scholar of New York City. These essays comprise spontaneous details of Gould’s encounters with his old friend and confident—the wise and talented city of New York. When he travels outside New York, the city travels within him, extending and further informing his considerable passion and knowledge for art and the art of collecting. Views: 19
After a series of events which have involved Arthur Dent being alternately blown up and insulted in more bizarre regions of the Galaxy that he has ever dreamt existed, he finds himself stranded on Prehistoric Earth. Luckily an amazing rescue by Ford Prefect and a time eddy, cleverly disguised as a sofa, lands them in the middle of Lords two days before the world is due to end. It’s just not cricket... Volume Three in the Trilogy of Five Views: 19
The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the throne of
England was characterised by treachery, deceit and at St Albans, Blore
Hill and Towton, some of the bloodiest and most dramatic battles on
England's soil. Between 1455 and 1487 the royal coffers were bankrupted
and the conflict resulted in the downfall of the houses of Lancaster and
York and the emergence of the illustrious Tudor dynasty. Alison Weir's
lucid and gripping account focuses on the human side of history, on the
people and personalities involved in the conflict. At the centre of the
book stands Henry VI, the pious king whose mental instability led to
political chaos, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York and Henry`s rival,
and most important of all, Margaretof Anjou, Henry's wife who took up
her arms in her husband`s cause and battled for many years ina violent
man's world. Views: 19
