In this riveting retelling of the classic myth of Hades and Persephone....Lady Cora Winfield is captivated when she first meets Adam Douglas, Duke of Blackdale. Despite their attraction, Cora’s mother refuses to allow the duke to marry her. Taking matters into his own hands, the duke abducts his bride-to-be, and Cora is swept into the adventure of her lifetime. Amidst danger and thrilling uncertainty, Cora must face the reality that she is falling in love with her captor. Views: 626
Kadence Munroe heals her broken heart by painting, and she’s about to have her first big gallery show. The excitement is dampened by the fact that Sheva, the woman who destroyed her last relationship, is also showing at the gallery. Sheva’s bronze figures are amazing, so lifelike and enthralling, but something about them repels Kadence. Gallery director Mallory Tucker is still struggling to win her mother’s approval, and this new show might just be the key. Her rocky relationship with Sheva is the only aggravation. Mallory knows she should just end it, especially as the new artist, Kadence, has sparked her interest. Sheva knows she has a gift. It’s undeniable that her bronzes are captivating, imbued with soul. She’s found the perfect way to capture the essence of human emotion, and it’s a secret no one can ever know. Views: 626
The ultimatum has been set... Frances Ramsbury has exactly one month to find a husband. If she doesn't, her father will betroth her to her stepmother's vile nephew. Frances knows she'll never find a man equal to the fiance she'd lost in the war, but she's unwilling to tie herself to a man she loathes. Out of options, Frances does the unthinkable when she runs into a childhood friend, Nash Wolverton, and makes him a proposal of marriage in name only. Will the rogue accept the bargain she's offered? Views: 626
The galaxy is a big place and the Thousand Worlds, though less than a tithe of its vastness, is still enormous beyond imagining, full of wonders and horrors, as well as expressions of good and manifestations of evil that almost defy description. The berezi of planet Jasan, destined soul-mates of triplet male sets of that world, have encountered evil in many forms, and have been its target again and again. But, never in the two decades since Lariah Daniels became Jasan’s first berezi in a millennium, have any of these extraordinary women faced the kind of monstrous evil that threatens to overwhelm and destroy Rikki Bearen.
Rikki, an exuberantly sunny young woman studying art on a distant world, returns home unexpectedly and in obvious flight from some unknown and terrible threat, no one having heard from her for months. She is half-starved, exhausted, hunted, and carrying a tiny baby in her arms who is undoubtedly her child, yet who could not have been born and reached her present age in the time since Rikki was last seen by her parents. Once on Jasan, Rikki quickly encounters her Rami, the male set with whom she is fated to be joined.
Kyrus, Kash, and Kasper Bearen have longed for a family for well over a century. They are excited the moment they realize Rikki is their berezi, then immediately fly into a rage when they see the child. Jealous of the man who they are certain has been with the woman destined for them, they terrify Rikki who takes the baby and runs, resolved to leave Jasan and make a life for herself and the child on another world.
Why isn’t Rikki safely attending classes at art school instead of appearing on Jasan like a fugitive? How did the child even come into being? What happened to Rikki and her child? Why are they both so scared? From what evil does Rikki flee?
As answers to these question are slowly revealed, Rikki and the Bearens struggle with the powerful attraction that draws them irresistibly into each other’s arms in the face of the fear and anger that drive them asunder. Further, as Rikki begins to tell her story, the outlines of a deeply malevolent scheme begin to take shape: one that demonstrates the unspeakable evil that lives in the hearts of some human beings, and that shows the hand of the greatest enemies to the peoples of the Thousand Worlds--a hand seeking the destruction or enslavement of all of its people.
Rikki’s Star is a full-length 119,350 word reverse-harem novel--just what fans of Laura Jo Phillips ordered for the New Year. With a story as big as the galaxy and as intimate as a lover’s heart, Rikki’s Star delivers the goods that Laura Jo’s fans expect and, yes, even crave. It is the eighth installment of the “Hearts of Icarus” series and the first installment of a “trilogy within a series,” telling the story of the new generation of Bearen sisters, shifters from birth and each endowed with astonishing and unexpected psychic gifts, as well as profound gifts of courage, grit, and determination. Many readers will also be interested to know that, in this book Laura Jo cranks up the heat and turns on the kink, weaving into Rikki’s enthralling and compelling emotional journey a highly-charged eroticism that will get the heart pumping and blood flowing to all the right places, hearkening back to The Dracons’ Woman, Laura Jo’s first novel. Anyone who has enjoyed any of the works of Laura Jo Phillips, as well as any aficionado of reverse harem stories, will find Rikki’s Star to be an involving, exciting, heart-rending and--dare we say it--arousing read, fun and satisfying for long-time fans and readers who are new to Laura Jo’s work. Views: 626
The fascinating 35th century world of Rome’s Revolution is calling to you. Tales of the Vuduri: Year Four consists of 370 entries containing scientific tidbits, unrevealed secrets and back stories and more. Often amusing but always thought-provoking, these detailed articles should provide some entertaining insights into this brave new and amazing world.Ready to come back to the 35th century? We’re waiting for you. Tales of the Vuduri is a daily blog, to date over 1500 entries long, examining the amazing world of the 35th century first described in the novel Rome’s Revolution. The first three volumes of Tales of the Vuduri explored only a portion of the background and future history leading up to the Rome’s Revolution trilogy and its sequel, The Milk Run. Tales of the Vuduri: Year Four follows on the heels of those successful first three compilations with 370 brand new essays about our 21st century hero, Rei Bierak and his beautiful 35th century Vuduri wife, Rome and their children, Aason and Lupe. This volume finishes up a detailed breakdown of the latter part of the first novel and dives into the beginning of The Ark Lords. Interspersed between these sections are many articles highlighting today’s emerging breakthroughs in technology, physics, chemistry and science in general. Included in this collection are posts regarding Elon Musk’s expanding use of solar power, an examination of how robots see, free will versus predestination, gravity waves, zero point energy and much, much more. Also included are previews of The Vuduri Companion, a compilation of short stories and novelettes filling in more backstories of the Vuduri universe, the blackest substance on Earth and hexagons on Saturn. Like the first three years of Tales of the Vuduri, these essays should be amusing, thought-provoking and give you more insight into the fascinating world of Rome’s Revolution and The Milk Run. So come back to the 35th century and be amazed at what you find there. Views: 625
Born under the 13th sign, she dances as entrancingly as the serpent, he creates venomous potions.She becomes the citizens’ darling, he the elite’s secretive aid to wielding power.Her love is reserved for her art. His finest concoction poisons the mind against those you love.So, just how much will he give her to make her his?When one civilization ends, another one profits. The wealthiest and most prestigious races from the galaxy join together in an attempt to earn slice of the pie, but for Spanlet, profit means nothing compared to the survival of his people. Tasked with finding a new home for his people, Spanlet must withstand much more than he bargained for. Will he arrive home victorious, or let his people die? Faced with annoyances and problems on all sides, he needs to find the perfect home for his people before someone else does. Views: 625
Mister P. is the coolest friend a kid could wish for! Arthur is fed up with his younger brother Liam getting all the attention from their parents just because he's a little bit different from other kids. Arthur just wants a normal family and a normal life, where he can play soccer and hang out with friends — without Liam always being so embarrassing. Just when Arthur can't take it anymore, Mister P. — a polar bear with a suitcase — shows up. He doesn't talk, and Arthur is scared of him at first. (He is a polar bear, after all!) But he isn't dangerous. In fact, Mister P. is lots of fun, and even gets along with Liam. He comes with Arthur to school and soccer, and makes life an adventure! Still, Mister P. can't stay forever. But before he goes, he helps as only a polar bear can... leading Arthur to see his brother in a whole new way. Views: 625
Life and Death are at war in the newest dark fantasy novel by USA Today Bestselling Author Frost Kay.
Pirates. Sirens. Revenge.
Vengeance is Lilja's middle name. That wasn't always the case, but battling evil has a funny way of changing people.
Her instructions were clear: protect her people's secret at all costs and destroy anyone in her path. It was simple, really. You cross her, you die.
Life was black and white for the pirate captain until an innocent ruins everything by blundering into her life. She should've let the handsome stranger drown, he'd seen too much. But something stays her hand and she reluctantly saves the human, risking the one thing she's protected all her life.
A secret that could destroy an entire race.
*MERMAID lovers are ADDICTED to this pulse-pounding tale that fans of Sarah J. Maas are losing sleep over. One click now to dive into your next book obsession! *
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Raised in a lab (alongside a chimp) by a brilliant, but misguided scientist, a young boy is trained to be a killing machine. But the young boy, Jan, is clever enough to escape from the lab and make it out into the surrounding swamp with his chimp mentor at his side.
**About the Author
Otis Adelbert Kline was born in Chicago, Illinois on the 1st of July 1891 and died at the age of fifty-five at Short Beach, Connecticut on the 24th of October. During his adulthood, he led a varied career from vanilla extract salesman, to songwriter, to editor, to popular adventure and science fiction author to literary agent. He was also an amateur orientalist and studied Arabic, an interested that strongly influenced his fictional novels and short stories. However, his fame is due to the literary “feud” he had with Edgar Rice Burroughs. Like Burroughs he wrote science fiction romance he placed on Venus, Mars and the Moon and had adventures located in the most remote jungle of Earth. After the mid-thirties, Kline almost entirely abandoned writing to focus on his career as an international literary agent. Among others, he represented Robert Erwin Howard (Conan’s creator) between 1933 and 1936 and, after Howard’s death, he acted as the literary agent of the Howard’s Estate until his own death. He was also the American agent of H.G. Wells. Views: 625
The Sunday Times bestseller returns with his next unforgettable crime thriller. Fans of MJ Arlidge and Stuart MacBride won't be able to put this down. John Sagan is a forgettable man. You could pass him in the street and not realise he's there. But then, that's why he's so dangerous. A torturer for hire, Sagan has terrorised – and mutilated – countless victims. And now he's on the move. DS Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg must chase the trail, even when it leads him to his hometown of Bradburn – a place he never thought he'd set foot in again. But Sagan isn't the only problem. Bradburn is being terrorised by a lone killer who burns his victims to death. And with the victims chosen at random, no-one knows who will be next. Least of all Heck... Views: 625
Leon and his younger sister, Grace, have recently moved to London from New York and are struggling to settle into their new school when rumors of an unidentified plague in Africa begin to fill the news. Within a week, the virus hits London. The siblings witness people turning to liquid before their eyes, and they run for their lives. A month after touching Earth's atmosphere, the virus has wiped out most of the population. Desperate to stay alive, Leon and Grace are reluctantly taken in by a tight-knit group of survivors. But as they struggle to win their trust, the siblings realize that the virus isn't their only enemy, and survival is just the first step... Views: 625
