Best-selling author, DiAnn Mills, has crafted a poignant historical romance set in Texas during the late 1800s. In this third book of the Texas Legacy series, Bonnie Kahler doesn’t think she will survive widowhood or raising three children alone. Then the new preacher, Travis Whitworth, arrives in town. Lightning strikes her heart even as she struggles with her wayward son, Zack. But what are the secrets everyone seems to be hiding? Views: 30
Compelling short fiction from Christos Tsiolkas, Australia's master of dark suburbia and bestselling author of 'The Slap'.My God,' she thought, a coldness settling in her, 'do I hate him?'After witnessing her teenage son insult a disabled girl, a mother struggles with contempt for her child. Views: 30
Issue Three of the Review of Australian Fiction contains new writing from David Foster and Zoe Foster. Views: 30
Book Two, The Collapse , picks up where The Preparation ends. Society begins to break down in this second book of the 299 Days series. The government stops functioning, guns and ammunition are in high demand, and a trip to the gas station has become more of a mission than an errand. Grant and the Team know this is only the beginning, so they start taking steps to protect themselves and their loved ones. After a deadly incident in Grant's neighborhood, they being preparing to get out of dodge where they will soon learn whether the steps they took in The Preparation will be enough to survive the new reality. The chaos and fear that begins to envelop the country will strip all the characters of what they know as normal. The will question what they stand for, what they will stand against, and, most importantly, who they will stand with. For more about this series, free chapters, and to be notified about future releases, please visit www.299days.com . Views: 30
A scorching short story from the Eerie Trysts series.Sandy, Mel and Brenda wake up in a shack in the middle of nowhere and don't know how they got there. When they try to leave, they come face to face with a wolf-man. But Sandy doesn't want to run. She wants to get closer.This short story is roughly 3,000 words long and is not intended for readers under eighteen.A scorching short story from the Eerie Trysts series.Sandy, Mel and Brenda have been drugged and taken to a shack in the middle of nowhere. There's no sign of their kidnapper, but when they try to leave, they're confronted by a beast that's half-wolf half-man. Mel and Brenda run for safety, but Sandy stands her ground. The wolf takes her deep into the woods and shows her that there's more to him than sharp teeth and claws.This short story is roughly 3,000 words long and is not intended for readers under eighteen. Views: 30
Hacked off after being stood up, Fern Morgan doesn't much fancy hanging around when local Rugby team, the Strathstow Sharks crash the bar, so makes rapid plans to leave. One look at the cute brunette trying to make a break for it and Sharks player, Tom Sexton, has plans all of his own. Plans that involve getting her out of the bar and into his bed... Views: 30
Randy, a Harvard student who was ahead of his time in the field of science, set out to prove to his professor that alternate realities were more than science fiction nonsense, and while doing so, he had inadvertently caused himself and six of his friends to switch bodies with their alternate selves of another reality. To make matters worse for Randy's six friends, Randy, the only one of the seven who could correct the crossed reality, wasn't attending Harvard nor was he in his hometown. Views: 30
Compelling, poignant, enlightening stories from former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell about growing up in Maine, his years in the Senate, working to bring peace to Northern Ireland and the Middle East, and what he's learned about the art of negotiation during every stage of his life.It's a classic story of the American Dream. George Mitchell grew up in a working class family in Maine, experiencing firsthand the demoralizing effects of unemployment when his father was laid off from a lifelong job. But education was always a household priority, and Mitchell embraced every opportunity that came his way, eventually becoming the ranking Democrat in the Senate during the administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Told with wit, frankness, and a style all his own, Senator Mitchell's memoir reveals many insights into the art of negotiation. Mitchell looks back at his adventures in law and politics—including instrumental work on clean air and water... Views: 30
James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, has a new job, but being the new Lucifer in town gives fresh meaning to the word "Hell." Especially when he hears of hideous massacres near a haunted fortress out on Hell's frontier.As far as Stark's concerned, the more dead Hellions, the better, but he still has to prove that no one screws with Sandman Slim. And facing creatures so terrible even Hell does not want them is no cakewalk, even for Lucifer. Views: 30
