Peyton Manning won the Super Bowl, hosted Saturday Night Live and threw 399 touchdown passes during 14 amazing years as an NFL quarterback.Then he got fired.Indianapolis no longer valued Manning, a four-time winner of the league's Most Valuable Player award.Get this: The Colts cut the most-liked athlete in America."And I'm glad they did," Denver Broncos executive John Elway said.The Broncos made the most buzz-worthy signing in the history of NFL free agency during March of 2012. Despite missing a season with a neck injury that threatened to end his brilliant career, Manning was acquired to lead the Broncos back to Super Bowl glory."We don't have a Plan B," Elway declared, as he presented Manning with an orange No. 18 jersey. "We're going [with] Plan A!"Even for a quarterback as decorated as Manning, his task in Denver was daunting.At age 36, Manning had to relearn to throw the football with a right arm that had suffered extensive nerve damage. The new... Views: 33
Lights, camera, murder: who wrote dying into Hannah Ives's script? It doesn't take much arm-twisting to persuade Hannah to join the twelve-strong cast of Patriot House, 1774, a reality show recreating eighteen-century colonial life during the turbulent days leading up to the American Revolution. But when Hannah befriends Amy Cornell, a maid on set and the young widow of a Navy SEAL off it, and the crew's dance master is found murdered, events away from the camera become just as dramatic as those on it.About the AuthorMarcia Talley is the author of five previous books featuring Hannah Ives. A winner of the Malice Domestic writing grant and an Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel, Ms. Talley won an Agatha and an Anthony Award for her short story "Too Many Cooks" and an Agatha Award for her short story "Driven to Distraction." She is the editor of two mystery collaborations, and her short stories have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies. She lives with her husband in Annapolis, Maryland. Views: 33
"I'm not aware that I am restricted in my actions by anyone or anything." Arrogant, rich and devastatingly attractive, Marius van Houben was the sort of man who was used to getting his own way.He certainly wasn't prepared for Caroline's plainspoken, commonsense approach. After all, as a student nurse, both qualities were an asset...if only Marius thought the same! Views: 33
Just why would Mary go back to David and his bizarre bathroom? Whatcould be crazier than designing and equipping a luxurious bathroom for the soapy, slippery domination of women? Yet she has returned to submit to watery domination, while dressed in fetish garments of plasticand rubber. And having seen the bathroom, can her friends - Jack, Carol and Faye - resist plunging into slippery submission? Views: 33
These stories represent decades of collaboration between author David Niall Wilson and a wide array of talented authors. All have been professionally published - some have been reprinted and collected. All are the result of two muses meeting on paper. Meet a modern day Don Quixote, fighting Y2K bug nightmares, and striving to save the woman of his dreams. Learn how Edgar Allen Poe might have found his tales. Face off on a lonely mountaintop with Lovecraftian nightmares. Join a young man in a ghostly race to save a relative from cancer. Follow a cross-wired detective in his hunt for a lycanthropic killer bent on ending every serial killer she encounters. See what might happen when two minds fall into 'balance'. What if Dr. Watson was the client … and someone who was dead – was not quite there? Visit a science fiction future where artists capture images in crystals. What if government control over sex and reproduction got out of control? Read along as a piano man drops back into the nightmares of his past. Finally – a sailor on his way home finds a place even farther away than he ever dreamed. These are the tales of Intermusings – previously published as "Joined at the Muse". This new edition includes links to the Kindle books of all the authors included, an Introduction by David Niall Wilson on the art of collaboration, and a sneak preview of the first chapter of the collaborative novel HALLOWED GROUND by Steven Savile & David Niall Wilson. Contents include: Introduction by David Niall Wilson
A Poem of Adrian, Gray – With Brian A. Hopkins
The Purloined Prose – With Patricia Lee Macomber
A Wreath of Clouds – With Stephen Mark Rainey
Moon Like a Gambler's Face – With Ricard Rowand
La Belle Dame, Sans Merci – With Brian A. Hopkins
La Belle Dame, Sans Regret – With Brian A. Hopkins
Ribbons of Darkness Over Me – With Brett A. Savory
Death Did Not Become Him – With Patricia Lee Macomber
Within an Image, Dancing – With John B. Rosenman
Virtue's Mask – With Brian A. Hopkins
Sing a Song of Sixth Sense – With Patricia Lee Macomber
Deliver Us From Meeble – With Brian Keene
Special Sneak Peek at HALLOWED GROUND by Steven Savile & David Niall Wilson
Find more collections and novels by a wide range of authors through Crossroad Press, including mysteries, horror, fantasy, westerns, biographies and much more from such authors as Irving Wallace, William Bayer, Tom Piccirilli, John Farris, Joe R. Lansdale, Bill Crider, Ronald Kelly, Bill Pronzini, Loren D. Estelman, and many, many more. Don't miss our original series O.C.L.T. or our Space Opera series Tales of the Scattered Earth. Just search CROSSROAD PRESS in the Kindle Store for more titles! Views: 33
Yeomen of England were called to bring their own horses to form England's first Home Guard when a dictator assembled his army across the Channel in 1794. They went on to become one of the most famous mounted regiments of the British Army. During the First World War they served on the frontline in the battles of Ypres, Neuve Chapelle and Artois. In the Second World War they found fame as one of the great tank regiments to be found on the frontline during the Normandy Landings, Battle of the Bulge and the Rhine Crossings. This book weaves together military history and personal anecdotes to follow the regiment from its horsed days, parading under the Earl Spencer who promoted Nelson to fleet command, through moments of repressing civil rioters, on to the bloodiest of cavalry charges in World War One and exceptional achievement with tanks in World War Two, only eventually to suffer what Napoleon, Kruger, the Kaiser and Hitler could not do - be wiped out by government cuts in the... Views: 33
Journalist Mark Manning has been successfully running his family's newspaper, The Dumont Daily Register, for several years now, and he sits on the board of two local companies, Quatro Press and Ashton Mills. So when the respective CEOs of these companies discuss a merger, it is only natural that Manning be interested in the proceedings. What's more, Manning's lover Neil, an architect, is designing a new house for Ashton's CEO, Gillian Reece. Reece is a business friend of Manning but not a friend to many else; she is generally considered overly aggressive and fastidious. When Manning assigns Glee Savage, the newspaper's society reporter, to cover Reece's new home, the subsequent meeting between the two does not end well: Savage huffs off in a fury but not before ferociously bitch slapping Reece in front of everyone. With Reece's cheek still smarting, more bad news comes as the accountant performing due diligence for the merger reports some very questionable... Views: 33
When Laney Varner's pastor assigns his congregation to rid themselves of all regrets, Laney doesn't have to think about it; she knows what her regrets are. In the midst of this, God gives her another person with regrets to help - unfortunately it's her father's opponent in the sheriff's race. Ty Steele wants an escape from the guilt he feels from his brother's death, and running for sheriff seems the perfect distraction. But when his opponent's daughter mysteriously enters his life, he can't help but wonder if it's a setup. Will the pastor's assignment lead to more than letting go of the past? Views: 33
'This book is the first collection of Simon Bestwick's tales of supernatural horror,' writes Joel lane, in his introduction to A HAZY SHADE OF WINTER. 'I don't think it will be the last. These stories . . . are disturbing, emotionally frank, thematically diverse, and rich in descriptive skill. Bestwick allies traditional story-structures with an uncompromising modernity of outlook.' Like his contemporaries Terry Lamsley, Paul Finch, and Tim Lebbon, Simon Bestwick combines a respect for, and a knowledge of, the classic ghost story with a voice which is concerned with the way we live now. The characters in his stories find themselves in landscapes—both physical and mental—that are immediately and recognizably modern, but which contain terrors which are universal and timeless. In Bestwick's world, an innocent walk in unfamiliar surroundings becomes a journey into a nightmare; a stranded tourist faces a bizarre challenge; a harassed employee takes a desperate revenge on her employer; and a secondhand book of ghost stories becomes the instrument of a malevolent, restless spirit. Nothing is quite what it seems; and the line which separates us from something much worse often vanishes altogether. Views: 33
