Baby it's cold outside, so stay warm with three sexy and sizzling-hot holiday stories... Tuscan Nights by Farrah Rochon It's not the breathtaking scenery that brings Aiden Williams to Italy for Christmas--it's gorgeous pastry chef Nyla Thompson. Five years ago Aiden's older brother was fool enough to let Nyla go. Now a mature and sexy Aiden is determined to turn their Italian fling into everlasting amore.... Vegas Affair by Terra Little Professional dancer Wendy Kincaid thinks she knows her best friend, Frazier Abernathy, inside out. But he's got a season of surprises in store for the woman he's always desired, leading to a Las Vegas rendezvous, where he'll raise the stakes in an all-out merry seduction.... Tied Up In Tinsel by Velvet Carter Entertainment agent Landis Keates is stunned to learn that his old college classmate is now an international singing sensation! Back then, he was too clueless to notice Brooke Lynn Samuels. Now... Views: 9
The art of storytelling and the power of a mother's love imbue this feminist fantasy novel—a contemporary riff on the tale of the frog prince Once upon a time there was a middle-aged woman whose husband dumped her the month after their twentieth anniversary . . . Divorced, overweight Buffy Murphy is not a happy camper. One April afternoon, she walks into the woods . . . and meets a talking bullfrog. He asks her to kiss him so he can transform back into his princely self. This being modern-day Pennsylvania, Buffy figures she's better off with a talking amphibian than a cheating husband, so she takes him home. The fun really starts when her rebellious teenage daughter, Emily, kisses him. Suddenly, Emily and her handsome prince have vanished into the land of Fair Peril, an enchanted realm that can only be accessed through a portal in the local mall. Aided by a gay librarian named LeeVon and hindered by her fairy-godmother-in-law, Fay,... Views: 9
Liam Hoffen and Nick James are back in the next, exciting installment of Jamie McFarlane's Privateer Tales.
After fighting space pirates and rescuing a damsel in distress, nothing sounds better than shore leave at Puskar Stellar on Mars where Liam can reconnect with his girlfriend. But neither their newest crew member, Marny, nor the Mars Protectorate Navy is ready for them to spend much time relaxing.
Their old nemesis, Harry Flark, found a new mining station to pillage and the crew of Sterra's Gift has been hired to transport a covert operative into Flark's lair. This is the perfect opportunity for them to set things right if it helps to bring him down. The big problem comes when Liam and Nick discover Flark is expecting them and has no intention of letting them get away with their lives.
Like white knights on silver steeds, Liam, Nick, Marny and a passel of new friends fight their way across the solar system, making a name for themselves and their mission.
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They could make beautiful music together...Hoping to dodge a scandal that could destroy her personal life and her career, Alex fled grad school for a summer job in tiny Potterville, West Virginia. She didn't expect the town cupids to orchestrate a "chance" meeting with Marc - a sexy, brooding rock star who appreciates her love of poetry. But Alex doubts he'll want anything more if he discovers the indiscretion she can't forgive herself for...Marc came to Potterville to get some space from his band and clear his head. But before he knows it, he's intrigued with the waitress at the local diner. Alex is not only smart and beautiful, she's inspiring his songwriting and taking it to the next level. Soon he's falling for her - and then she runs away. For the first time, Marc is chasing after a woman - and giving both himself and Alex a chance to heal past hurts and take a chance on the future...
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"Hanns Heinz Ewers was born in Dusseldorf in 1871. He gained notoriety at an early age with a volume of satiric poetry and held onto it by forming a controversial itinerant theater company He produced several volumes of short stories and a series of remarkable novels, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice " "Alraune" (filmed in the 1920's) and "Vampire," between 1907 and 1922. He went on to achieve limited prominence as a Nazi, dying in Berlin in 1943." "Ewers rejected the literary conventions of his day, and is regarded as a minor literary figure in Germany today. His stories and novels are often regarded as works of fantasy, though there is really very little of the supernatural in them. They are more properly horror stories with an emphasis on the extremes of human experience, displaying an unhealthy, but fascinating, interest in pain, madness, and perversity. Ewers never forgot entirely the folk tales at the base of all Germanic fiction, and many of his stories resemble evil fables. The brief example that follows is typical." — William Wallace Views: 9
Needless to say, the world is at war. And beneath the sweeping winds of a winter storm, a Major sits at his window, dwindling a cigarette between his nervous fingers, pondering, thinking. A problem has presented itself, somewhere within the heat of the night and it remained with him, still now. Milo Haas is dead, murdered by a German gun. His involvement is not entirely important, but serves merely as a catalyst for the events that would shortly follow. An operation is quickly conceived... But, before I get ahead of myself, I must declare, with a heavy heart of course, that Gestapo Major Heinrich Anaheim did not keep his operation secret, even though he would have liked to. No, Stile Maus would come to entertain an orchestra of operatives and bystanders, some innocent, and some not so much. Allow me to introduce a few of them. The perplexed Private, the French dragon tamer, the haunted Uncle, the boy in love, the man with two faces, the pilot, the Colonel, the singer, the saboteur and the stallers, the master of disguise, the director, the dearly departed, the doctor and his daughter and… Well, thats just about it. With all that said, hidden amongst the smoking rubble and the mounds of red brick and blackened stone, operation Stile Maus remains a mystery, for now that is. Views: 9
With over 130,000 copies sold, the world's most thrilling and best-loved military zombie-apocalypse series returns, powering toward its epic and cataclysmic conclusion. Views: 9
The life of a private investigator is seldom plain sailing, and it certainly doesn't help when someone unknown is trying to cancel your licence. Cliff Hardy needs to find out why, and he also needs to get to the bottom of the case of missing schoolteacher Brian Madden.Finding answers to both questions takes all Hardy's resourcefulness and contacts - police, underworld and press. Dangers - and bodies - appear all over Sydney and Hardy is lucky to keep both his life and his licence. Views: 9
From ghosts to pink dolphins to a fight club of young women who practice beneath Alaska's aurora borealis, By Light We Knew Our Names examines the beauty and heartbreak of the world we live in. Across thirteen stories, this collection explores the thin border between magic and grief. Views: 9
