Pushing for change can be dangerous when change starts pushing back.Video game writer Niles River loves the work he does at Third Wave Studios: creating games with mass appeal that feature women, people of color, and LGBTQ players. To make his job even better, his best friend is his boss, and his twin brother works beside him. And they mostly agree that being on the forefront of social change is worth dealing with trollish vitriol—Niles is more worried about his clingy ex and their closeted intern's crush on his brother than he is about internet harassment.But now the bodies on the ground are no longer virtual, and someone's started hand-delivering threats to Niles's door. The vendetta against Third Wave has escalated, and to make matters worse, the investigating detective is an old flame who left Niles heartbroken for a life in the closet.No change happens without pain, but can Niles justify continuing on with Third Wave when the cost is the blood of... Views: 24
Something's brewing between friends…
Rachel Miller knows opening a café with coffee and pastries will make her struggling bookstore the place to hang out. But when the bank turns her down and her best friend Shane steps in, she vows business will never ruin their friendship.
Gourmet ice-cream maker Shane O’Hare knows food, not women. To sweep Rachel off her feet, he secretly sells his beloved ’67 Shelby Mustang and becomes a partner in her café. And then she sets him up with a friend.
As they build the café together and Rachel learns what Shane has sacrificed for her, she finds herself falling for him. Now way too much is riding on the success of this business venture—her career, her best friend, and her heart. Views: 24
When Arthur Blessing discovered he was the reincarnation of King Arthur at age 10, destined to reclaim his throne and begin a new golden age, people started trying to kill him. Now eight years later, the teenager is still on the run.Arthur and his friends are stationed in the American Midwest, armed with plenty of protection. After all, a team of resurrected Knights knows a thing or two about combat. But nothing can prepare Arthur for what lies ahead. From descendants of evil magicians determined to spread terror, to those addicted to murder, Arthur's enemies can destroy far more than he might be able to repair.As terror strikes and the omen of death crawls closer, Arthur knows this ultimate battle will be no cakewalk. And as he starts to understand more of the importance of becoming High King, he realizes it won't be long before he has to take on an even bigger task: For a chance at love, and for the sake of the greater good, he must determine his own destiny. Views: 24
Ellie Dare Lancaster is only eight years old, but the secret she carries stretches back four hundred years, to the doomed pioneer colony of Roanoke Island — and the dark pact made by her ancestor, Ananias Dare. Though her father has told Ellie of her heritage, and she knows she will one day become a Curse Keeper, she never dreamed how soon that day would come... or how dear a sacrifice her grim duty will demand.After impulsively sharing the truth about her destiny with her best friend, Ellie fears she has summoned something dreadful, something that cannot be denied. But it’s her parents’ discovery of an eighteenth-century artifact — linked to the mystery of the vanished North Carolina settlers — that brings fear, and murder, into their once safe and happy home. Now, the unholy forces unleashed at the dawn of a new nation stir once more, to challenge another generation fated to wage the war between gods of good and evil.A short story, This Changes Everything delves deeper into the world of Ellie Lancaster and the Curse Keeper series! Views: 24
Each of us has a place to return to in our minds, a place of clarity and peace, a place to think, to create, to dream. For Bryce Courtenay this place was a waterhole in Africa where he used to escape to as a boy, in search of solitude. One evening, while lingering there, he witnessed the tallest of the great beasts drinking from the waterhole in the moonlight, and was spellbound. Ever since, he drew inspiration from this moment.The Silver Moon gathers together some of the most personal and sustaining life-lessons from Australia's favourite storyteller. In short stories and insights, many written in his final months, Bryce reflects on living and dying, and how through determination, respect for others and taking pleasure in small moments of joy, he lived life to the fullest.From practical advice on how to write a bestseller to general inspiration on how to realise your dreams, The Silver Moon celebrates Bryce Courtenay's lifelong passion for... Views: 24
Cassie Winters doesn’t like going out. Well she does, but not clubbing. That’s is until her best friend Tate asked her to go to Pulse with him. A popular nightclub, full of drunkards and people that dance badly. But what she doesn’t expect is for a handsome stranger to literally bump into her. That’s when everything changes for her. Tyler Connor just wanted to forget. Forget the messed up situation he’s in. For one night take the weight of the world off his shoulders and feel normal. Go to a club and have a couple of drinks, maybe some innocent flirting. Not expecting to bump into a brown haired, brown eyed, spitfire. She isn’t like the other girls, trying to get his attention. Her witty comebacks and sarcastic attitude shock him. Finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. Can he make some decisions to make sure everything changes for the better? But everything isn’t as straight forward as Cassie originally thought. Can they get through Tyler’s troubles together? Views: 24
A doctor for the White River Wolves, Josie Bennett is devoted to her pack and her calling to heal those in need. Then one fateful night changes everything.As an enforcer for the Shifter Council, Ryker Kain has pledged himself to the council and dedicated his life to serving and protecting its members.Ryker and Josie cross paths when Ryker is sent to track down a rogue wolf pack that has kidnapped and terrorized a young female fox shifter. Unable to fight the mate bond, they surrender to the undeniable desire between them.When Ryker must leave to complete his mission, will the passion that brought them together be enough to fight the ties that threaten to tear them apart? Views: 24
The Transdyne Corporation are creators of highly intelligent synthetic beings. 'Trans' have become so sophisticated that they have begun to develop the capacity for independent thought. The 'highbreeds' are companions to the privileged while lesser 'droneclones' are employed in manufacturing or in the brutal Polibro force. Their search for a meaning beyond their programmed function leads many to the self-destructive act of 'Toxout'. In a time of ruthless Global Dominion where faith is a crime, can Adam-son, the foremost of the enlightened Trans help Clay, the black market courier, discover the spiritual reality that men seem to have lost? Views: 24
In eleven years time, a million members of an alien race will arrive at Earth. Years before they enter orbit, their approach will be announced by the flare of a thousand flames in the sky, their ships’ huge engines burning hard to slow them from the vast speeds needed to cross interstellar space.These foreboding lights will shine in our night sky like new stars, getting ever brighter until they outshine even the sun, casting ominous shadows and banishing the night until they suddenly blink out. Their technology is vastly superior to ours, and they know they cannot possibly lose the coming conflict. But they, like us, have found no answer to the destructive force of the atom, and they have no intention of facing the onslaught of our primitive nuclear arsenal, or the devastation it would wreak on the planet they crave. So they have flung out an advanced party in front of them, hidden within one of the countless asteroids randomly roaming the void. They do not want us, they want our planet. Their Agents are arriving. Views: 24
