Historic Heroines is pleased to release the fourth installment in its first original fiction series: Daughter of Sparta by Kristen LePine. In Chapter Four, Gorgo, the daughter of King Cleomenes I, and her family attend a dinner party and meet two foreigners who have traveled across the Aegean Sea to ask for Sparta's help.Historic Heroines is pleased to release the fourth installment in its first original fiction series: Daughter of Sparta by Kristen LePine. In Chapter Four, Gorgo, the daughter of King Cleomenes I, and her family attend a dinner party and meet two foreigners who have traveled across the Aegean Sea to ask for Sparta's help. Historic Heroines is an independent publisher of historical fiction and nonfiction that champions the female perspective. Views: 628
The war is coming… We've been losing drones for over a year now. There was a cyber attack. A major cyber attack. We've been hacked and then hacked again. We don’t know who is responsible. We can’t stop them.The war is coming. A drone war. And it’s all our fault. World War Drone is a Post-Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi Thriller. It is approximately 12,000 words long.The war is coming… We've been losing drones for over a year now. There was a cyber attack. A major cyber attack. We've been hacked and then hacked again. We don’t know who is responsible. We can’t stop them. There are drone attacks happening all over the Middle East, and Asia, and Africa. They are all coordinated and planned and executed to perfection. These attacks are practice. A curtain raiser. We are next. Western civilization. The United States of America. We are in big trouble. The war is coming. A drone war. And it’s all our fault. World War Drone is a Post-Apocalyptic, Sci-Fi Thriller. It is approximately 12,000 words long. Views: 628
First Series from Bestselling Author Julie Klassen!
The lifeblood of the Wiltshire village of Ivy Hill is its coaching inn, The Bell. But when the innkeeper dies suddenly, his genteel wife, Jane Bell, becomes the reluctant owner. Jane has no notion of how to run a business. However, with the town's livelihood at stake and a large loan due, she must find a way to bring new life to the inn.
Despite their strained relationship, Jane turns to her resentful mother-in-law, Thora, for help. Formerly mistress of The Bell, Thora is struggling to find her place in the world. As she and Jane work together, they form a measure of trust, and Thora's wounded heart begins to heal. When she encounters two men from her past, she sees them--and her future--in a different light.
With pressure mounting from the bank, Jane employs innovative methods to turn the inn around, and puzzles over the intentions of several men who seem to have a vested interest in the place. Will her efforts be enough to save The Bell? And will Thora embrace the possibility of a second chance at love? Views: 628
Josephine Danforth arrives at Miss Sally Pinkerton's Ladies Boarding House and Matchmaking Service in St. Louis with the hope of finding a job out west. When she learns that governesses aren't much in demand on the plains, the eponymous Miss Pinkerton suggests another option: marriage. Reassured by a potential suitor's letters, Josephine reluctantly accepts and heads west. Completely out of her element, Josephine struggles to find her place as the wife of Montana rancher Eb Higginbotham and mother to his orphaned nephew, Clem. With Eb's seeming indifference, Josephine worries she may have made the wrong choice. Is it too late for her to find love?
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He needs a woman to rescue him from his past. She needs a man to save her from the horrible things she’s done. Together, they might save each other...or get themselves killed.
Billionaire Tavish MacCraig survived Afghanistan as a POW. Despite being back home and working at his family’s worldwide renowned art gallery, Tavish feels shattered. Wracked by PTSD, Tavish’s days are bleak; his nights, living nightmares: and his heart, an empty shell. And no one can understand the torture and pain eating at his soul.
No one but painter Laetitia Galen.
Laetitia fled hell on earth when she was sixteen…at a very high price. She’s recently found peace and doesn’t want to disturb the false safety her small world gives her by falling for Tavish or accepting his gallery offer of an exclusive contract. Yet, she can’t resist the powerful and sizzling attraction that ignites between them.
But there is a man plotting a long-awaited revenge against Laetitia, and he will do whatever it takes to make her—and, incidentally, Tavish—pay for what she’s done. Before he kills them.
Tavish and Laetitia will discover falling in love is life's greatest risk!
Suspenseful and steamy, UNPREDICTABLE LOVE by USA Today bestselling author Cristiane Serruya is a thrilling contemporary romance novel in the tradition of Nora Roberts, Barbara Freethy, and Maya Banks! Views: 628
Chuck Dutton built Music City Salvage with patience and expertise, stripping historic properties and reselling their bones. Inventory is running low, so he's thrilled when Augusta Withrow appears in his office offering salvage rights to her entire property. This could be a gold mine, so he assigns his daughter Dahlia to personally oversee the project.
The crew finds a handful of surprises right away. Firstly, the place is in unexpectedly good shape. And then there's the cemetery, about thirty fallen and overgrown graves dating to the early 1900s, Augusta insists that the cemetery is just a fake, a Halloween prank, so the city gives the go-ahead, the bulldozer revs up, and it turns up human remains. Augusta says she doesn't know whose body it is or how many others might be present and refuses to answer any more questions. Then she stops answering the phone.
But Dahlia's concerns about the corpse and Augusta's disappearance are overshadowed when she begins to realize that she and her crew are not alone, and they're not welcome at the Withrow estate. They have no idea how much danger they're in, but they're starting to get an idea. On the crew's third night in the house, a storm shuts down the only road to the property. The power goes out. Cell signals are iffy. There's nowhere to go and no one Dahlia can call for help, even if anyone would believe that she and her crew are being stalked by a murderous phantom. Something at the Withrow mansion is angry and lost, and this is its last chance to raise hell before the house is gone forever. And it seems to be seeking permanent company.
The Family Plot is a haunted house story for the ages-atmospheric, scary, and strange, with a modern gothic sensibility to keep it fresh and interesting-from Cherie Priest, a modern master of supernatural fiction. Views: 628
A dwarf blacksmith is given the task of creating an amazing weapon meant for a future warrior. In the process, he discovers what life has hidden from him when he was part of the world. These revelations are as melancholy as they are enlightening.A dwarf blacksmith is given the task of creating an amazing weapon meant for a future warrior. In the process, he discovers what life has hidden from him when he was part of the world. These revelations are as melancholy as they are enlightening.This short story is the first of the Songs of Derisma series. Look for more coming soon! Views: 628
Rick emerged victorious from The Realm twice. Is his luck about to run out?
After multiple trips in and out of The Realm, Rick is becoming a part of it—a direct connection point has formed in his brain. He’s now slipping back and forth in his dreams and has become linked to The Realm and its creator in ways no one anticipated.
That link is an asset in terms of what Kurodar is planning . . . but it’s absolutely detrimental to Rick personally. If he doesn’t destroy Kurodar and The Realm quickly, he’ll be completely absorbed by them. But destroying The Realm will mean destroying Mariel, and Rick is still torn by his love for her and his love for Molly. How can he lose either of them?
Meanwhile, there’s still a traitor in their midst. So even if Rick figures out what he needs to do, actually doing it will be exponentially more difficult. Views: 628
In Cameroon in 1931, Sara is taken from her family and brought to Mount Pleasant as a gift for Sultan Njoya, the Bamum leader cast into exile by French colonialists. Just nine years old and on the verge of becoming one of the sultan's hundreds of wives, Sara's story takes an unexpected turn when she is recognized by Bertha, the slave in charge of training Njoya's brides, as Nebu, the son she lost tragically years before. In Sara's new life as a boy she bears witness to the world of Sultan Njoya-a magical, yet declining place of artistic and intellectual minds-and hears the story of the sultan's last days in the Palace of All Dreams and of the sad fate of Nebu, the greatest artist their culture had seen. Seven decades later, a student returns home to Cameroon to research the place it once was, and she finds Sara, silent for decades, ready to tell her story. In her serpentine tale, a lost kingdom lives again in the compromised intersection between flawed memory, tangled fiction, and faintly discernible truth. In this telling, history is invented anew and transformed-a man awakens from a coma to find the animal kingdom dancing a waltz, a spirit haunts a cocoa plantation, and a sculptor recreates his lost love in a work of art that challenges the boundary between truth and the ideal. Award-winning novelist Patrice Nganang's lyrical and majestic Mount Pleasant is a resurrection of the world of early twentieth century Cameroon and an elegy for the men and women swept up in the forces of colonization. Views: 628
Baron Munchausen's tales of his extraordinary adventures are legendary: riding cannonballs through the air, sailing to the Moon, meeting gods, escaping from the Turkish Army on half a horse, and many others.
Can you outdo the Baron? You can try!
Challenge your friends to tell the most extraordinary tale, interrupt to correct their boasts, and share your own amazing exploits in this renowned game of wit, riposte, and repartee, written in high style by the Baron himself. Expect no dice, counters, or pencils while playing, just fine wine and great merriment. Time to charge your glass and begin your tale!
This third edition of The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen is massively expanded with new and revised material. Contained within is the original game along with Arabian style rules from Sinbad the Sailor, a simpler version for younger (or inebriated) players, and rules for online games. One of the Baron's own descendants has also added twelve new variants of the game, allowing for stories where villains concoct dastardly schemes, ancient gods return from watery depths, heroic adventurers fight evil empires in outer space, and more! Views: 628
She had secrets to hide. His past haunted him. Together they had a chance. If they were brave enough to take it. Jacqueline Bedel fled from her home and all she'd ever known. Escape. She couldn't let Sebastian find her. Ever. With a last look at New Orleans, she clutched the letter in her hand and prayed she was running to a better man.Dr. Blake Morgan wrestled with his past, the hold whiskey held over him, and loneliness. He needed a wife. He thought a good woman would save him. He didn't know he needed more, Views: 627
Ashton comes across a 1975 Smith Corona Electra in the storage room which his mother uses for her bestselling books. Little does he know that there is spirit inhabiting it, informing him about the gruesome murders the poet Gertrude D. Mackabellow commit...in poetry form.While Ashton was finding a manuscript for his Mom's next bestselling novel, he comes upon an old typewriter. A 1975 Smith-Corona Electra to be exact. He thought that his mother was going to type on it all night, but soon he notices that this isn't any of his mom's work. In fact, it belongs to a poet named Gertrude D. Mackabellow who had committed suicide with her typewriter after she did gruesome murders.Every night her poems appear typed on the typewriter and each one includes one of her murders. Soon, the murders reenact near Ashton and he sees that her presence might be nearby, wherever he goes.Will Ashton be able to find out what the deceased poet wants dearly for her wish? Or will be continuously tortured by this crazy lady? Find out in Type. Views: 627
