A Christmas Eve ball.A light-hearted beauty.An earl who needs to come in from the cold. All year long, Chloe Garland's been trading witty remarks and heated glances with her nemesis, the arrogant Lord Cheverell. But when Chloe tricks him into wearing a hideous waistcoat—complete with sequins, pompoms, and jingle bells—to her family's Christmas Eve party, she may have gone too far. Her penalty? A single, scorching kiss—and a Christmas gift she never expected. Love. A warm, funny, Regency short story to celebrate a few cherished traditions: ugly Christmas sweaters, family togetherness, and the true spirit of the holidays—love. Length: approximately 50 pages. Views: 224
A "beautiful and terrifying" novel about family and faith, set inside the secret world of UFO cultists (San Francisco Chronicle) Dash and Dot are the world's most in-demand lecturers on the topic of UFOs and alien abduction. Convinced that we are all descended from M31, the nearest galaxy to ours, they live on the road, on late-night radio call-in shows, and occasionally with their family in a decommissioned church in the Midwest. A radar dish on its steeple and a spaceship in its sanctuary complete the modern nuclear-family setting.A couple of UFO groupies arrive at the church and everything changes, brought to a head by the combined pressure of their strange beliefs and the ordinary difficulties of modern life. Dash and Dot set out on their ultimate journey, with a destination that cannot be foretold.This "devastatingly forceful" novel is a masterwork from the author of Going Native and Meditations in Green that "reestablishes its... Views: 224
Thirty thousand Japanese gamers awake one day to discover that the fantasy world of Elder Tales, an MMORPG that was formerly their collective hobby, has become their cold hard reality. Severed from their everyday lives, they confront a new horizon filled with ravenous monsters, flavorless food, and the inability to die! Amid the chaos, veteran gamer Shiroe gathers his friends, the guardian Naotsugu and the assassin Akatsuki, and together they embark on an adventure to change the world as they know it! Views: 224
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Rain Born takes place many years in the future. After a natural apocalypse, the world is drowned in water and people live on the ships and islands. They have constructed a new religion and a set of rules and have based their political, cultural and economical structure on these beliefs. But these beliefs do not bring prosperity for people. Instead they have made them into victims of the vicious religious leaders who always seek more power and more wealth. It is the people who have to pay for the greed of their leaders by fighting in a war that is based on a lie.Although people are struggling between their faith and survival, drowned in the complexities of their self-constructed and controlling rules and values, nature is taking its course. Evolution is seeking to select the new, evolved babies that seem to be more compatible with the new water world.TIRAD is one of the disciples that teach the religious NARRATIVES OF THE SAVIOUR—the man who was the founding symbol of the... Views: 224
Throughout the years, fans of the International Bestselling On Dublin Street Series have received behind the scenes bonus material as part of series promotions. Finally, all of those bonus scenes are now available in one novella. On Dublin Street: The Bonus Material includes: Joss and Braden Two shorts - An On Dublin Street Christmas and An On Dublin Street Halloween. Five fan-favorite scenes from On Dublin Street re-written from Braden's perspective, two of which have never before been published. A never before published Braden "Before Jocelyn" scene. Jo and Cam A fan-favorite scene from Down London Road re-written from Cam's perspective. The never before published cut prologue. Olivia and Nate Two fan-favorite scenes from Before Jamaica Lane re-written from Nate's perspective. Hannah and Marco A... Views: 224
