Dave had hit bottom. His wife was gone for good, and now he had to start from scratch.
Then Marissa the barista took pity on him, and decided that she'd set Dave up with some of her friends. Dave was willing to give it a shot, but he had no idea what he was getting into.
Because Marissa's friends were wild, they knew how to party, and to keep up with them Dave would do things he would never have imagined.
"Making the Grade" is an erotic short story of 11,700 words. It contains explicit sex scenes between tattooed women and a consenting male adult who's in way over his head. Views: 610
When Chief Auditor, Paul Reynolds, uncovers a massive embezzlement scam involving thousands of disappearing high end cyborg units he discovers a trail of evidence leading straight to himself and must quickly uncover the truth before he is implicated for a crime he did not commit.Recovered from the long forgotten archive deep beneath the ruins of the golden temple, the lost legend takes the reader on a whistle stop tour of the creation of the world in ‘Vallen and the Void’. The long and often bloody battle between the forces of good and evil in ‘The First Age Men’ culminating in the founding of the first empire. Before mans fall from grace and the promise of redemption in ‘The Second Age of Men’. Who knows what other stories lie hidden in the ruins? Views: 610
Cameron Peralt returns to his boyhood home long after his mother's death and finds that a heavy metal band is now living there. He attempts to get them to leave and the battle begins. Light humor.After the interest created by his recently published ebook The Onion Peeler,as promised is the first of two volumes of what the author describes as street poetry,after the style of that great Australian Poet Banjo Paterson. Most of these poems are in a humerous vein and a number are love letters to his beloved City of Nottingham and its people,the remaining poems are a reflection of the darker side of life,human nature,and various events. Views: 610
In this companion novella to The Girl with the Iron Touch, American cowboy Jasper Renn finds himself in a situation his lightning-fast skills cannot rescue him from…
After surviving a triumph-turned-tragedy in New York City, Jasper is determined to secure a happier future with his gifted band of friends. So when the group's mechanical genius Emily is abducted, he'll plunge into England's darkest places to rescue her….
But his old flame Wildcat is turning London town upside down to find her missing sister, and Jasper finds the attraction between himself and the fierce beauty as tempting and dangerous as ever. Their trail leads deep into the city's most unusual circus. Soon, Jasper will find his loyalties—and future—tested more than he could ever imagine….
And don't miss Jasper's continuing exploits in The Girl with the Iron Touch by Kady Cross, available now from Harlequin TEEN. Views: 610
Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame.
Alice is a young woman living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe. When Giancarlo, an Italian anarchist at the prisoner-of-war camp down the road, is assigned to work on the farm, she hopes that being kind to him will somehow influence her husband's treatment. What she doesn't anticipate is how dramatically Giancarlo will expand her outlook and self-knowledge.
But what most challenges Alice and her fellow townspeople is the utter foreignness of the thousand-plus Japanese inmates and their culture, which the camp commanders fatally misread. Mortified by being taken alive in battle and preferring a violent death to the shame of living, they plan an outbreak, to shattering and far-reaching effects on all the citizens around them.
In a career spanning half a century, Thomas Keneally has proved a master at exploring ordinary lives caught up in extraordinary events. With this profoundly gripping and thought-provoking novel, inspired by a notorious incident in New South Wales in 1944, he once again shows why he is celebrated as a writer who looks into the heart of the human condition with a piercing intelligence that few can match. - Sunday Telegraph Views: 610
Luke Miller just wanted to go to college, but can he? No money, no job, and many hopes for life. So many opportunities, hopes and dreams, so little cash. After all the banks closed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s rule, money has come even harder to come by. If growing up in the thirties wasn't hard enough, a freak accident rattles through the tough times.Victorian Melodrama currently being written as a serialisation in weekly parts. Think Sherlock Holmes meet Charles Dickens. This is the second serialisation in our serieshttps://www.5minutefiction.co.uk/penny-dreadful---weekly-serialisations/ Views: 610
Nightmare Planet By Murray Leinster Views: 610
Game of Thrones meets Jack Reacher. Retired Imperial Investigator Bander spends his days wandering the Empire of Harion and trying to avoid trouble. But when he is contacted to help solve the particularly gruesome murder of his oldest friend, Bander gets drawn into a deadly mystery that involves the highest powers in the realm.When retired Imperial Investigator Bander reaches into a hollow to retrieve his cache of gold, he finds it gone and something else left in its place: a scrying stone with a message from a mysterious young sorceress asking his help in solving the murder of Tobin Leroth, one of Bander's oldest friends. Tobin Leroth was flung to his death from a catapult during a city festival and only the secretive Mage Guild knows why. But as Bander gets drawn deeper into a deadly mystery that involves the highest powers in the realm, he finds himself on the run from the same dark forces he suspects killed his friend. But this time they are hunting him... A KILLING IN THE AIR is a brawling, hardboiled fantasy that combines the fast pace of thrillers like "24" and Jack Reacher with a brutal fantasy world like "Game of Thrones."Look for The Donden Cage: the full-length Bander novel - available now. Views: 610
Claire finds herself travelling through East Anglia with her six-year-old niece in tow. For someone who has no experience with children - and no desire to learn - travelling with the highly-strung Sky is a new and not entirely pleasant experience. Claire has never had to take care of another human being before: how will she cope?Claire's life revolves around Starbucks, stilettos and her career as an Advertising Account Director for AJC. That is until her boss Carl decides to send her on a mission to visit every one of the 200 YHA hostel in England and Wales as part of a marketing campaign. More used to five-star spa resorts than 'flea-infested hostels' Claire only takes the assignment to save face. It becomes clear to her the 'mission' is a ruse to make her resign.Claire has faced high-wires and heart-break, has abseiled down a waterfall and kayaked across turbulent waters, but nothing has prepared her for life with a six-year-old. Discovering that a child needs entertainment as well as food and board, Claire has to delve deep within to survive the first week of the Easter Holidays. Views: 610
Edward Stuckey was as normal as any other boy, except for one thing: his head was shaped exactly like a plain old ordinary bucket. Nobody's fault, he was born that way. When he was eight years old, the bully of the school, Willie O'Ray, gave him the nickname "Johnny Buckethead." Find out what happens to Edward through the years as he deals with having a buckethead.Edward Stuckey was as normal as any other boy, except for one thing: his head was shaped exactly like a plain old ordinary bucket. Nobody's fault, he was born that way. When he was eight years old, the bully of the school, Willie O'Ray, gave him the nickname "Johnny Buckethead." Find out what happens to Edward through the years as he deals with having a buckethead, and how he deals with being constantly taunted by Willie. Views: 609
