When Mayor Max Mueller is murdered at the Christmas tree lighting ceremony, Agatha Larsen and her granddaughters get involved with the investigation. They discover secrets that some of the townsfolk want kept quiet. The story is set against a backdrop of the annual Christmas carnival in 1946, a time of peace interrupted by murder.Farther Than We Dreamed Episode One: ClayThe Universe is impossibly vast.Even with warp drive, teleportation, & worm holes,There are places you could never go.But you could broadcast a signal out across forever,You could tell the distant molecules and atoms to create new people on the other sideAnd send them off exploring…..Charlie Daemon was a late 21st century rock n roll star.One day he was ripped out of his life, away from the woman he loved, and woke up in the far future, the captain of a spaceship/moon on the other side of the cosmos. His crew is made up of twelve of the greatest artists, scientists, and leaders of the next eight hundred years: The doctor who invented the Martian race, the Queen of the British Corporation, a Chinese cyborg-warlord, an eight foot tall Australian Aborigine, a post-human physicist covered in white fur.Together they must understand why they are there, explore the galaxies, explore reality, and come to grips with the results of lives they don’t even remember living.Read this book and ride a radio wave out past the other side of forever.Read this book and The Secrets of the Universe will be revealed to you. Views: 591
Once Upon a Time... As Ezmira's troupe travels from world to world, she enjoys dancing for citizens and royalty alike. Soothed by the spell of her grace, Quasim knows she's the key to forgetting his past, so he takes her. Morals as mangled as his flesh, he sees no wrong in capturing the precious Ezmira in hopes of finding peace. Will this Nomad ever find joy in dancing for her Hunchback, or will they forever be at odds? From two International Bestselling authors comes an exciting blend of traditional tales with the wonders of science fiction, taking the stories you love and twisting them to fit brand new worlds. Although darkness lurks within the pages of our Sci-Fi Fairytale Fusions, each one boasts a Happily Ever After for our hero and his mate. These steamy romances feature the ABO dynamic, thrilling action, and intense situations. Are you ready to find your next alien addiction? Views: 591
Fitz and Leni are investigating the strange happenings in their city. The authorities say it's a superbug but these young amateur sleuths team up to find that it's much more than that and that tragedy awaits.A group of men on a mission in the far reaches of space crash land on a savage planet, Earth. The only way their kind can survive here is to drink the blood of humans, which they take no pleasure in. On Earth they are known as "vampires". The youngest member of the group, Shae, encounters a teenage girl named Abigail, who challenges the group's loyalties to each other, endangers their survival, and steals Shae's heart. Views: 591
Visions of another dimension usher a young woman through an adventure of immorality, virtue, and self-discovery.Seventeen-year-old Alexis has visionary dreams that take her to Avalon, the realm of faeries.She discovers this other world is real, and it is where she was created. Switched at birth, Alexis is a changeling, simply disguised well to fit in with humans. Through a vision, she learns of her derailed heritage and about the day she was born, when the worst kind of evil killed her mother.This evil is now after Alexis, and a prophecy insists she is the only one who can stop it. As she plans the creature's demise, it spends its time terrorizing both humans and faeries. To complicate matters, Alexis falls dangerously in love with a depraved faery. One who is close to the evil she is trying to stop. She feels connected to both worlds, and also to both dark and light. Struggling with who she is while deciding how to fulfill the prophetic claims, Alexis must choose a sacrifice to stop this abomination -- be it human, fae ... or even herself. Views: 591
Have you ever wondered about your neighbors? A teen learns the terrible truth about the house next door in this comically chilling Halloween frightfest.Have you ever wondered about your neighbors? A teen learns the terrible truth about the house next door in this comically chilling Halloween frightfest.Home alone on All Hallows Eve, Kat Mandu is being creeped out by the family that lives next to him. Why is a child often screaming over there? And what's with those crazy signs in their front yard? Feeling alienated from peers and parents, intimidated by his new pet, he decides to get to the bottom of the weirdness of his neighbors. What he discovers will haunt him. A fun short story that proves you never can tell what might lurk in the house "Next Door". From THE MACABRE MIND OF LORI R. LOPEZ, a collection of thirteen bizarre tales. Views: 591
Gathering her courage and the four thousand dollars she has in savings, college co-ed Cassie bravely enters the bar where Hagen, Houston's most feared loan shark, operates his criminal empire. Her brother, Ronnie, is in deep trouble and she's his last hope. She just prays her payment will be enough to keep the knee-breakers at bay for a little while longer.
Hagen shatters her hope when he informs her Ronnie owes far, far more than the four grand she's scraped together. Feeling rather generous, Hagen presents her with an offer Cassie knows she can't refuse: her body to settle the debt.
Though she expects a degrading, miserable experience, Cassie is shocked by Hagen's seduction. Left breathless with pleasure after their encounter, Cassie discovers she can't walk away from Hagen. But she's flirting with danger now—and someone is bound to get hurt. Views: 591
This book will teach you how to get your own Quality Web Site for little to no cost at all. You don't need to hire expensive web and graphic designers for something you can do on your own. Get started now and get your web site working for you. You know what a web site could mean for your business or hobby, why wait? Grab this ebook now and have your website up and running in a matter of minutes!The wizard's tower is falling down, falling down, falling down! The Wizard's tower is falling down, my fair lady.This is the second short story in the Evenings with Rory series. It is only tied in with Harriet's Mystery in that the inspiration came from Rory's Story Cubes, which are fun and awesome.Should you like to appear as part of Evenings with Rory, please email the author. Views: 591
Mole, Ratty, Toad, and Badger are back for more rollicking adventures in this sequel to The Wind in the Willows. With lavish illustrations by Clint Young, Jacqueline Kelly masterfully evokes the magic of Kenneth Grahame's beloved children's classic and brings it to life for a whole new generation. Views: 591
When humans discover Quantinium, a material to move matter into another dimension, they figured it was a done deal to get rich. Strange things start to happen and suddenly human-kind is faced with utter chaos, as nature tries to fix itself.The discovery of a material called Quantinium, which moves matter between dimensions, launches human-kind into high gear to exploit the riches of the solar system, but nature has other ideas. When discarding garbage into another dimension, the forces holding the universe together don't get mad, they get even.As chaos begins to show and threatens life as we know it, the saviour in one dimension is the rogue trader of another. All are players in a game of equilibrium and the solution is right back where the Quantinium discovery started. Views: 591
Miles gets the worst feeling from his neighbor's kid, Seven. When he spies on him and his family, he finds they like to consume a strange gold liquid.Miles gets the worst feeling from his neighbor's kid, Seven. When he spies on him and his family, he finds they like to consume a strange gold liquid.At the same time, a dark hole has appeared under his bed. From it, invisible things come in and out. After his neighbors have had enough of Miles' suspicion, they plan to get rid of him. But Miles has already allied with their enemies whom he thinks are good folk, until they betray him.When Seven and his clan surprise attack Miles in his room, he has no choice but to go down the shrinking hole.Down the Shrinking Holes is the first in a new series of short stories for kids. Views: 590
Two boys like to play in the woods, pretending they are miners working at the nearby mine that has been closed for decades. They pretend to mine for gold or diamonds, but one of the boys has lost a loved one recently. So when they go into the woods this time, the grieving boy no longer wants to mine for gold, he wants to mine for ghosts, and he wants to do it in the mine, instead of outside it.Two young boys spend their summer days playing in the woods, pretending they are miners working in the nearby mine that has been closed for decades. They pretend to be mining diamonds, gold and sometimes even rubies. Recently one of them has lost a loved one. So this time when the boys go into the woods to play the miner game, the grieving boy no longer wants to mine for gold, he wants to mine for ghosts, and this time he wants to go in the mine instead of simply near the entrance to play. Views: 590
