HE WENT FROM HOPING FOR A LITTLE R 'N' R TO PUTTING HIS LIFE ON THE LINE FOR A READY-MADE FAMILY...FBI profiler Sam Connelly had come to Daniella Butler's remote Louisiana bed-and-breakfast to escape the consuming horrors of his job -- and the dark demons he fears lurk in his own soul. But finding a dead body on her property changes everything. There's no room in his life -- in his heart -- for a family. Or so he thinks, until a killer's threat places his irresistible innkeeper and her young daughter under his protection. Now, as the obsessed psychopath inches closer to possessing Daniella, Sam must call upon his elite skills to track his target and keep the beautiful blonde and her child safe. Defending them becomes his greatest challenge. Losing them is not even an option. Views: 528
Daisi Malone lives in the Presidio Building in Newtown, Sydney Australia. Strange things happen in this building.Spirits, vampires and howling Glee Clubs haunt its halls. In this, the third book of the series, Daisi's curiosity leads her to a dangerous secret.Vengeful and determined, Emily Stout and Adelpha have chased Heliena through the Forest of Angor, across the Great Plains, and all the way to the city of Lucifan. Their journey seems nearly complete, yet it has only just begun. In Lucifan, Heliena will reunite with her husband, a shogun from Juatwa, and all the allies her dark pact has acquired. Bringing her to justice will take everything they have, and perhaps more.However, it isn’t a simple matter of cornering Heliena and taking her down. While they have traveled, Lucifan has come under assault—an attack not from an invading army, but from the corruption and greed grown within its own streets in spite of the best intentions of its guardians, the angels. A reckoning has come, and the battle for Lucifan’s soul is underway.And Emily did not travel all this way to sit this one out. Views: 528
The Kabuliwala is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1892. The story is of a merchant from Kabul, who comes to Calcutta (present day Kolkata), India each year for selling dry-fruits and while living in India he becomes friends with a five-year-old girl Mini from a middle-class aristocratic family.The main theme of this story is filial love—the deep love that fathers have for their children.It is counted amongst the all-time greatest children books of India. The story of Kabuliwala has been adapted many times for the television and movies screen in the past. Views: 527
HEROES come in a thousand guises, and so do stories about them.The only survivor of a war struggles to return to a home that doesn’t exist anymore. A rebel leader loses everything she fought for and must start from scratch. A hero who has fought for her village her whole life must retire into obscurity without ever being known for her deeds. A starship returns to an Earth that is much changed, yet too much the same. A soldier is haunted by the very thing that saved his life. And King Arthur returns in Albion’s hour of need.Dark fantasy. Urban fantasy. Political intrigue. Science fiction. From the horrific to the heartwarming. Introducing 19 pulse-pounding tales, by luminaries and great new voices. Co-edited by Gabrielle Harbowy and Ed Greenwood. Featuring an introduction by Susan J. Morris. Views: 527
During the course of a long afternoon, Elgin Brick remembers his life and the people he loved.WARNING: This book contains descriptions of a sexual nature and might not be suitable for all readers.(This selection is also available in: The Empty House, assorted stories)excerpt: She would come by once or twice a week to look in on him, though he was nothing to her but a neighbor. Yesterday, her excuse for doing so amounted to no more than the fact she’d just, an hour before, baked up a big batch of cookies. She and Kevin would never eat them all, or at least they shouldn’t, she said; handing over a paper bag tied up with a big blue ribbon bow, she added, to quell any remaining objection, he’d be doing her a favor by accepting the cookies, removing the temptation. Back inside the house, opening the bag, he’d marveled at the treasure of a dozen saucer-size sugar molasses cookies, each one individually wrapped in a square of cellophane pulled smooth across the top and folded neatly together under the bottom. As he turned over and removed the cellophane wrap from one of the cookies, using the same slow age-worn deliberation and care with which he had untied the paper bag’s ribbon the day before, Elgin again wondered why he couldn’t have found at some point, for his own, someone like this neighbor gal Anne. He told himself if he were half a century younger and she were still looking, he’d be all after her—and factually, he’d said as much—directly to her—more than once. But it had gotten to be such an old and familiar joke she no longer even blushed. Instead, she’d learned to just laugh the words off, fluttering her eyes towards the heavens while sighing, “Oh Elgin, if only…” Views: 527
Presenting a new original science fiction story, “The Rotten Beast,” by author Mary E. Pearson, which takes place in the same near-future world of The Jenna Fox Chronicles.
In “The Rotten Beast,” a sixteen-year-old girl named Allys, living in a near future version of the U.S., is vehemently opposed to the way scientists are meddling with human and artificial life. In fact, she blames such scientific overreaching for the illness which is killing her. When she awakens one day to find that her parents have gone against her wishes and had an illegal operation performed to save her life and restore her body, she is furious and must come to terms with this new chance at life, which she didn’t ask for and didn’t think she wanted. Views: 527
Julian scratches metal flamenco in a dive where humans and synthetics intermix. A man invites him to play a song for his disabled neighbor. Although he plays he is uncomfortable around her and never sees Lee again. Lee, on the other hand, has her own ideas.Julian scratches metal flamenco in a dive where humans and synthetics intermix. A man invites him to play a song for his disabled neighbor. Although he plays he is uncomfortable around her and never sees Lee again. Lee, nearing death, finds in Julian a new reason to complete her synthetic research. The song he wrote for her becomes a hit, and Julian learns Lee thinks his public performance of the song reciprocates her feelings for him. Views: 527
Harvard Professor Jonathan Weber is finally enjoying a season of peace when a shocking discovery thrusts him into the national spotlight once again. While touring monasteries in Greece, Jon and his wife Shannon—a seasoned archaeologist—uncover an ancient biblical manuscript containing the lost ending of Mark and an additional book of the Bible. If proven authentic, the codex could forever change the way the world views the holy Word of God. As Jon and Shannon work to validate their find, it soon becomes clear that there are powerful forces who don’t want the codex to go public. When it’s stolen en route to America, Jon and Shannon are swept into a deadly race to find the manuscript and confirm its authenticity before it’s lost forever. Views: 527
This is a short story to showcase my writing. It's a kind of fairy story...An implacable family of criminals. A detective at the bottom of his career. An investigation that will lead him to unpredictable consequences. Silvana, the mistress of the mafia’s big boss, went to Vico pleading for help, but now she is dead. The most evident explanation is suicide, but detective Vico is not convinced. In the course of the investigation, Vico will end up in the grip of the Italian mafia, in a war against Chinese drug smugglers for the control of the power in the city. In a corrupted and violent world, where Vico can trust no one, will he be able to solve Silvana’s death? Will he survive in this fight against ruthless criminal organizations? Views: 527
Following from Jo Nesbø's electrifying international best-sellers The Snowman and The Leopard, now comes Phantom, which plunges the brilliant, deeply troubled, now former police officer Harry Hole into a full-tilt investigation on which his own tenuous future will come to depend.
When Harry left Oslo again for Hong Kong—fleeing the traumas of life as a cop—he thought he was there for good. But then the unthinkable happened. The son of the woman he loved, lost, and still loves is arrested for murder: Oleg, the boy Harry helped raise but couldn't help deserting when he fled. Harry has come back to prove that Oleg is not a killer. Barred from rejoining the police force, he sets out on a solitary, increasingly dangerous investigation that takes him deep into the world of the most virulent drug to ever hit the streets of Oslo (and the careers of some of the city's highest officials), and into the maze of his own past, where he will find the wrenching truth that finally matters to Oleg, and to himself.
BONUS: This ebook edition includes an excerpt from Jo Nesbø's Police. Views: 527
Zombies.Nasty. Scary. Hungry.Never thought I'd become one.But, somehow, my brain didn't rot away and I maintained my human mind and will.Hi. I'm Alex Henry. And this is my story of how I went from being a human with no life to a zombie battling against the rising zombie onslaught. This is how it all began.THIS IS THE PREQUEL TO "THE HUMAN SIDE OF A ZOMBIE - THE STORY OF ALEX HENRY" AND "ONCE A ZOMBIE, ALWAYS A ZOMBIE - THE STORY OF ALEX HENRY."Zombies.Nasty. Scary. Hungry.Never thought I'd become one.But, somehow, my brain didn't rot away and I maintained my human mind and will.Hi. I'm Alex Henry. And this is my story of how I went from being a human with no life to a zombie battling against the rising zombie onslaught. This is how it all began.2014: Hey - writing this was a lot easier than living it. Let me know what you think. - Alex Views: 526
