The death toll was rising...and not all the symptoms tallied with the plague...
A deadly contagion may have sent many of Rome’s wealthier citizens fleeing to the country, but for Claudia Seferius a plague is the least of her worries.
For she has “temporarily borrowed” 3,000 sesterces from local millionaire Sabbio Tullus. OK, so she’d had to break into his depository to get at it, but did he really need to set the army after her? Desperate to escape arrest, she seeks refuge in the beautiful spa resort of Atlantis.
Once there she meets the charming Cal, and a little flirting in tranquil surroundings seems an ideal way to pass the time. Except, within hours, Cal is dead. And he’s not the only one.
Pretty soon Claudia begins to wonder whether Atlantis isn’t far more dangerous than the disease-ridden streets she left behind... Views: 43
A workaholic wedding planner meets a travel writer, and soon love is in the air at Bride Mountain, Virginia's most exciting venue for destination weddings, in the first book in Gina Wilkins's new miniseries! Kinley Carmichael is on her way to transforming her family's historic B and B into Virginia's most exciting vacation venue. Romance is the last thing on the once-burned wedding planner's mind...until footloose travel writer Dan Phelan shows up, throwing her schedule--and Kinley's guarded heart--into chaos. Dan is just passing through and has no intention of making Bride Mountain Inn his honeymoon destination. So why is Kinley suddenly making him long to take that fateful walk down the aisle? It will take a local legend and a passionate kiss under a bridal moon for two total opposites to realize they could be meant for each other.... Views: 43
Book #2 in the Allie Krycek series. Book #1 is currently FREE for a limited time at: amzn.to/14i9RqF THERE IS NO REST FOR THE WICKED. After spending ten years of her life hunting her sister's killer and barely surviving, Allie Krycek is ready to move on. She's got a new job, in a new city, with a new man in her life. Things are finally looking up. Too bad there are people determined to ruin Allie's second chance. Arriving at her boyfriend's isolated house in the countryside, masked gunmen interrupt what was supposed to be a romantic getaway. Forced into another life and death situation, Allie will have to battle throughout the night if she hopes to keep herself and those she loves alive. It's a good thing that fighting is something Allie Krycek knows how to do well...and this time, she's not alone. Views: 43
Fantasy Scroll Magazine publishes fantasy, science fiction, horror, and paranormal short stories, flash stories, and microfiction. Views: 43
I hate him... I hate that I fell in love with him, I hate that he didn't love me back, and I hate the fact that I just made a life-altering decision just so I could get the hell away from him. He'd always said that he was unchangeable, heartless, and cold... I really should've believed him... Views: 43
Eleven-year-old Malcolm Orange has grown up in the backseat of an ancient Volvo station wagon, crisscrossing America with a diminishing collection of grandparents, one good-for-nothing father, an increasingly absent mother, and an unfortunately ordinary brother. Their journey ends abruptly in a pay-by-the-week motel in Portland, Oregon when his father finally abandons the family. Impoverished and alone, the remaining Oranges find themselves living in Chalet 13 of the Baptist Retirement Village. While his mother develops her own strange means of coping with the loss, Malcolm Orange begins to disappear, becoming more perforated each morning – until there is little of the original Malcolm left. Desperate for a cure, he enlists the help of Soren James Blue, her talking cat, Mr Fluff, and the very elderly members of the People's Committee for Remembering Songs. Malcolm and his friends set off on a hilarious and heartbreaking adventure to discover a cure for disappearing. On... Views: 43
The championship game pits Max the Golden Boot and his team against the Wild Soccer Bunch. Max is so hooked by their attacking game that he dreams of being one of them. Although he is an amazing player, Danny and Kevin don't want him on the team. A power struggle ensues and threatens to break up and destroy the Wild Soccer Bunch, who are on the top of their game. Views: 43
Fate kicks Sno into action. She has to rescue a sleeping man of uncommon beauty, and he returns the favour.
Sno has been waiting for her chance to become a monitor, but it appears she is of more value as a medic. When a medical emergency renders a monitor unfit, Sno steps in and rigs herself up to plunge into his mind.
Once inside his mind, she meets the man who has caught her imagination and her heart without even speaking a word.
Kyron was not expecting the woman who crashed into his blizzard but warming her takes priority and his heart is not the only thing heating up when he takes her into his arms. Views: 43
When I lost him, I lost myself.
Tessa Benson is lost.The most important person in her life is dead.And everyone she loves left with him.She’s doing everything she can to mask her pain.Even if it means traveling down the road of destruction.
Dawson Thomas has loved her for years.But she's his dead best friend’s sister.He made a promise to stay away from her.He also promised to always protect her. She’s destroying herself and time is running out. Will he hurt her by keeping his word or break it to save her? Views: 43
How many parents does it take to make a baby? In the case of Rosalind Melrose Smithson it took four: one birth mother; one legal father; one interfering neighbour and one turkey baster filled with the defrosted essence of an anonymous donor. Or not so anonymous as it turned out. For donor no. 116349, '6ft 1in, blue eyes, blond hair, BA (Oxon), action man...' is the 9th Earl of Dilberne, who gave his seed back in 1979 as a stripling of twenty-two, and has now conceived a daughter – unknowingly – at the riper age of forty-two. As they say, the truth will out. And what will our Rozzie do when she finds out about her patrimony? All we know is that as a true Millennial, she will not take it lying down... Views: 43
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Let the dead stay dead… Despite a traumatic childhood in Cold Creek, Ohio,
the Lockwood sisters have reunited there for the wedding of youngest sister Tess to the
town’s sheriff. Maid of honor Kate Lockwood is determined to break through best man
Grant Mason’s defences. An anthropologist, Kate makes her living studying the dead. She
is particularly interested in the prehistoric Adena civilization that once called the
area home. A large burial mound sits on Mason family land, and Kate wants permission to
excavate. But Grant refuses and tells Kate to stay away from the mound. Kate respects
Grant’s desire to honor his grandfather’s belief that the dead should not be disturbed.
However, the more she researches the more it becomes clear that Grant is hiding
something. When one of Grant’s friends is killed—and the sheriff is away on his
honeymoon—the couple joins forces to assist the deputy in the investigation. When Kate
comes under attack she is certain it is connected to the burial mound. Grant seems
concerned for Kate’s safety, but despite their explosive attraction she can’t help but
be suspicious of his motives. Can Kate trust the man she’s come to love, or will the
wrong decision be her final act? Views: 43
