The free short story preludes the events of the novel "The Prometheus Cycle: the Star, the Sword, and the Mirror" and focuses on the eastern duchy of Stormdrang, and an agent of the Crimson Captain (alluded to in Prometheus' First Steps) as she searches for evidence to bring a traitor to justice.Margaret Baker is a 20th Century Woman trying to make it in the 21st Century. She's trying to live a Christian life in an unchristian world, and she is constantly surprised by all of the modern problems confounding her. Together with her friend Donna, she's trying to make it in a brave new world.The collection features three stories:Margaret Baker Takes a StandMargaret Baker and the Trip to VerizonMargaret Baker and the GPSMore stories to follow! Views: 201
This moving short story is part of a YA series telling the tales of so-called “military brats.”What readers are saying about OUT OF THE BLUE…“This is amazing!”AditiDankar“I’m dead. Literally dead. I love your writing so much. Please continue.”ebails32This moving short story is part of a YA series telling the tales of so-called “military brats.”What readers are saying about OUT OF THE BLUE…“This is amazing!”AditiDankar“I’m dead. Literally dead. I love your writing so much. Please continue.”ebails32“Fabulous story - so much left to be said and discovered in that small longing voice. Families are always a puzzle. You've given delicate fragile threads of beauty here.”tamojaOverview of Spy Boy…The year is 1984, and Meredith’s family moves to an Air Force base.It’s enough that she has to adjust to the weirdness of duck-and-cover and air raid sirens. But now there’s something else: Meredith thinks she’s discovered a spy.More praise…“This story is beautifully written! I absolutely love it!”alexthymix“Very distinct and well thought out characters.”austinlugo“What a lovely story. You've captured all the interesting dynamics between the characters and I loved the way you've told the story. Short and sweet!”Jing_JingAn award-winning storyteller…WINNER of the Miami Fiction PrizeWINNER of the Associated Writing Programs Intro Journals Project AwardFINALIST for the Faulkner/Wisdom AwardA Wattpad FEATURED AUTHOR Recipient of a MAJOR GRANT from the Tacoma Arts CommissionYou might also like…Lisa Brunette’s powerful poetry collection, Broom of Anger.“I want to binge on every word.”Lisa HickeyCEO, The Good Men Project Views: 201
The most extensive collection of Henry James's autobiographical writings ever published offers a revelatory self-portrait from one of America's supreme novelists and his famous family. In 1911, deeply affected by the death of his brother William the year before, Henry James began working on a book about his early life. As was customary for James in his later years, he dictated his recollections to his secretary Theodora Bosanquet, who recalled how "a straight dive into the past brought to the surface treasure after treasure." A Small Boy and Others (1913) and the two autobiographical books that followed--Notes of a Son and Brother (1914) and the incomplete, posthumously published The Middle Years--stand with his later novels as one of the enduring triumphs of his final years. Not only did James create one of the singular self-portraits in American literature, he also fashioned a richly detailed account of his renowned family, especially his father, the... Views: 201
What happens when…
…there are no royal families because they were all wiped out?
…there are no presidents because democracy failed?
…everything’s controlled by one man; one man who doesn’t have the support of the people?
I’ll tell you, it’s the least I can do, but it won’t be pleasant. A story like this never is. Welcome to the world I live in, it’s cutthroat. Literally. If you have a weapon, keep it at hand. You never know when my story might become yours. You must prepare like I have.
I am Izabel, The Boss’s daughter, and I am a murderer.
By day, Izabel is the dutiful and much-feared daughter of The Boss; but when darkness falls, she becomes the Girl of Shadow; the savior of her people. Seeking revenge for the death of her mother, Izabel will stop at nothing to see her father's empire crumble.
Darick is the Enforcer for The Boss. As a part of the inner circle, he has access to everything he requires to bring his employer down. All he wants is a little more time and the chance to save the girl he loves before he loses her.
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This story focuses on the monsters that aid in the hunt as Kothrec, a minotaur, and Megyn, a siren, face off against a flaming being from beyond.A Story of a young girl who came out of all odds to walk in the path she wants to go. Domestic violence, Rape, Child abuse - If you are the one who is going through any kind of abuse or struggle, know that sometimes, the "right someone" could be you to help you. Find your strength, you have the power to end it. Stay strong you will make it through. Much love to you. Best wishes. Views: 201
From the New York Times bestselling author of Where Sea Meets Sky comes a new adult novel about a young woman who becomes a nanny in Capri and falls for her charges’ bad-boy brother.
It’s time for twenty-four-year-old Amber MacLean to face the music. After a frivolous six months of backpacking through New Zealand, Australia, and Southeast Asia, she finds herself broke on the Mediterranean without enough money for a plane ticket home to California. There are worse places to be stuck than the gorgeous coastline of southern Italy, but the only job she manages to secure involves teaching English to two of the brattiest children she’s ever met.
It doesn’t help that the children are under the care of their brooding older brother, Italian ex-motorcycle racer Desiderio Larosa. Darkly handsome and oh-so-mysterious, Derio tests Amber’s patience and will at every turn—not to mention her hormones.
But when her position as teacher turns into one as full-time nanny at the crumbling old villa, Amber finds herself growing closer to the enigmatic recluse and soon has to choose between the safety of her life back in the States and the uncertainty of Derio’s closely guarded heart. Views: 201
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey into the mind of this legendary artist, told through the prism of cafés and haunts she has visited and worked in around the world.
M Train is a journey through eighteen "stations." It begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. We then travel, through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations: from Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico, to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; from the ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith buys just before Hurricane Sandy hits, to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation, alongside signature memories including her life in Michigan with her husband, guitarist Fred Sonic Smith, whose untimely death was an irremediable loss. For it is loss, as well as the consolation we might salvage from it, that lies at the heart of this exquisitely told memoir, one augmented by stunning black-and-white Polaroids taken by Smith herself. M Train is a meditation on endings and on beginnings: a poetic tour de force by one of the most brilliant multiplatform artists at work today. Views: 201
Daisi Malone lives in the Presidio in Newtown, Sydney, Australia. The building is full of vampires, faerie psychologists, ghosts, jugglers and other strange beings. They are opposed by a silly, but sometimes nasty group, called the exspellers.In this, the fifth installment of the saga, Daisi falls in love with a new resident of the Presidio,but will love be enough to prevent the coming storm?Jadine resides in the third house of the angelic realm, and holds the elevated position of Chief of Power. The position once held by Lucifer himself.The acts of terror that have taken place on earth, if not resolved, could prevent the prophesies of John, and the promise of peace on earth to mankind.Jadine's battle begins when she is assigned as a global investigative reporter with great intelligence, assigned by the BBC to cover the crimes both in Liverpool England and New York. Her profile as the Chief of Powers is so great within the angelic communities, that she is to walk as a human without memory of her angelic reality. This is vital if the dark ones are not to discover who she is.Jadine's battle as a human, uncovers truths that reside around string theory and around the intervention of demons; who stalk humans and influence the free will of people.With the knowledge of string theory and the possible existence of other dimensions in reality; Jadine discovers facts so incredible, that only her bravery can resolve the events taking place, and events to come.From the highest form of angel, to a human who is capable of murder, Jadine's battle with the darkness is taken in blind faith; a faith that holds the potential for either peace on earth or terrorism like mankind has never seen. Views: 200
'All Property, I Bequeath To Andre Duchard…'As the final words of Virginia Mason's stepfather's will are read, the silence in the room is deafening. Suddenly, innocent Ginny's life has shattered. With no inheritance, her future–and her family's–is entirely in the hands of enigmatic Frenchman Andre Duchard.Andre is outrageously attractive and everything that Ginny despises in a man–arrogant and cynical. But one devastatingly sensual kiss later, virgin Ginny is already in over her head! How can she convince Andre she's not part of his inheritance when she so desperately yearns for his complete possession? Views: 200
In marriage-minded Regency England, one simple word can ruin your life. Compromise! can bring down a virtuous maiden, like Miss Elizabeth Bennet, and her entire family along with her.
When Elizabeth finds Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy outside Netherfield, alone and at his most vulnerable, she must make a quick decision to bend the rules of propriety to help him or turn her back on someone in need. Her tender heart reaches out to him and his wounded one grabs hold of her well-intentioned support. Discovery changes the course of their lives as Elizabeth is forced to accept a reluctant proposal of marriage from this man whom she has just barely begun to respect. Can Jane Austen’s most beloved couple reach a compromise that might turn a tenuous friendship into a loving marriage? Will it survive as desperate, unscrupulous, and foolish people alike set compromising machinations into motion for their own greedy ends?
Follow Elizabeth and Darcy in this novel-length Regency romance as J. Dawn King takes them through a sweet variation of Pride and Prejudice where compromises abound and outcomes will surprise you.
By the author of Amazon bestsellers A Father’s Sins and One Love, Two Hearts, Three Stories.
BONUS PREVIEW INCLUDED: The Trouble With Horses by Elizabeth Ann West
**From the Author
For me, there is something about Elizabeth Bennet that intrigues me. In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, she learns she is not as smart and perceptive as she had always assumed she was. I took this as my setting for her as I wrote Compromised! I love how Elizabeth's imperfections make her enjoyable to read and to write.
Darcy? How can I not appreciate the power true love has over him. He becomes willing to change fundamentals of his character to win the woman he feels is worthy to become Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Mistress of Pemberley.
I hope you enjoy reading this story as much as I enjoyed writing it.
About the Author
Joy Dawn King fell in love with Jane Austen's writings in 2012 and discovered the world of fan fiction shortly after. Intrigued with the many possibilities, she began developing her own story for Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet.
At the time she wrote her first novel, "A Father's Sins", she was living high in the Andes Mountains of South America. Joy loved to take an occasional break from the Latin culture and bury herself in reading English literature about her favorite English characters. Joy, and her husband of 35 years, lived next door to their only child, Jennifer, her husband, and twin grandchildren and is a native Oregonian.
In late 2014 the Kings relocated to Oregon where other stories popped into her head. She is typing as fast as she can to keep up.
The author is currently writing about Mr. Bingley's and Jane Bennet's struggles with happily ever after and will follow with the tale of what happens when Colonel Fitzwilliam immediately falls in love with Constance Wickham, who hates him bitterly. Views: 200
In the first novel, Stay, Cassidy and Cole fell in love and bonded over their shared love of hockey. With his gorgeous whiskey colored eyes, dark shaggy hair, and dimples to die for (and let's forget about those washboard abs), Cole is everything Cassidy never expected to find. And he just so happens to be one of the nicest guys she's ever met. It wasn't difficult falling in love with Cole even though telling him about her past was. But they've worked through all that and are stronger for it.Just when their relationship couldn't feel more perfect, someone from Cassidy's past unexpectedly shows up at Western shaking her to the very core. Luke Wellington is the guy who saw her at her very worst last year. And he's the one person who can completely ruin all the painstaking progress she's made this semester.But Cassidy isn't the only one who has someone from the past all but crashing into their future. Cole's ex-girlfriend, Jackie, is back in town and she's here to stay. Once upon a... Views: 199
