Prisoner on an alien planet, I have only one role - to birth their spawn.Sent in a worldwide asteroid strike, the alien race, the Trads, sneaked onto Earth to steal women away to repopulate their own planet.I, Tara Chase, am one of those women.I believed my lover to be a gorgeous human man, only to be shown the most terrible of truths...He's anything but.Now I'm on his planet of Tradrych, and after a three month stint in cryostasis, I've woken to find myself a prisoner on the verge of birthing his child.And I'm not the only one.I share the facility with numerous other women, all close to giving birth. The aliens who tend to us look like handsome demons, with scales, horns and even a tail. There are multiple Trads to every human woman, and I know once this baby is out of me, I'll be handed back to them to impregnate again. I see the way the Trad males working at the facility look at me—with hunger in their flame-filled eyes.When the time comes for us women to give birth to the aliens inside us, we're taken away and never seen again.My time is close now, but I won't give up without a fight.This is a dark sci-fi romance and is reverse harem. It is also part of the Planet Athion multi-author reverse harem sci-fi world. Views: 577
Newly widowed after a shockingly brief marriage to an elderly British lord, Jocelyn Fleming still aches with the pain of unexplored desire. And now her restless heart is leading her far from the protective bosom of polite London society to the perilous beauty of the American West . . . and to Colt Thunder. Breathlessly exciting but dangerously unpredictable, Colt is a loner whose Cheyenne blood burns hotter than the blistering Arizona sun. Jocelyn's wealth and title mean nothing to this stranger whose passion rules his actions and his heart. But neither the wild desert stallion nor the untouched English rose can deny their irresistible attraction . . . or prevent the firestorm of emotion that erupts when their vastly different worlds collide. Views: 577
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My name is Evalee, and I have a secret. I’m a witch.
Okay, maybe it’s not that big of a secret. At least not in Mystic Willow Bay where practically every paranormal creature lives.
Still, I have plenty of secrets. Like the fact that I suck at casting spells, which is a huge problem, considering I’m a witch. But I can talk to dead bodies and am secretly working on a spell that will hopefully revive my sister from the dead. Until I perfect the spell, I’ve hidden her body in the basement, something my parents are completely clueless about.
I’m also in love with my best friend, Hunter, one of the most popular wizards in school and who’s completely out of my league in the dating department.
But I’m not the only person in Mystic Willow Bay that has secrets. And some are way worse than mine. Like whoever has been stealing dead bodies from the morgue and the graveyard. For what reason, I don’t know, but I’m about to find out because they’ve stolen my sister’s body, and I need to get it back before I miss out on my chance at bringing her back from the dead. Views: 577
Remi has always lived a seemingly perfect life. But at exactly midnight on the day she turns eighteen, she discovers nothing about her life is what it seems, and beneath her perfection resides a deadly darkness tied to a paranormal bloodline.
Remi is now cursed with reaper powers and struggles daily not to steal souls. And it doesn't help that she's drawn to Cameron, a sexy, charming, yet dangerous Grim Reaper.
Will she give into the evil? Or will she manage to find good in her curse?
Volume 1 in the Cursed Superheroes, Grim's Series. Views: 577
English thespian Sir Garrett Harrison harbors no qualms with utilizing the power his name holds, especially in regard to the wooing of his leading ladies. Yet his ambition on total domination both on and off the screen is squelched when he chooses an unknown for the role of heroine. Her resistance sweetens the chase, but when she finally surrenders to his charm, will he admit his own defeat?The Reunion - The epic film critics repute to be on par with the most memorable and grandiose productions of past generations.English thespian Sir Garrett Harrison harbors no qualms with utilizing the power his name holds, especially in regard to the wooing of his leading ladies. Yet his ambition on total domination both on and off the screen is squelched when he chooses an unknown for the role of heroine. While he is confidant the conquest will be short and sweet, Amy Burke, shows herself as anything but a paper doll susceptible to his flair of style.To Garrett's surprise, her resistance sweetens the chase. But when she finally surrenders to his charm, will he admit to his own defeat? Views: 577
In the ancient world of Glenryth, Fey creatures stalk the wilderness outside the reach of human settlements and the protection of their religious and technocratic cults, unable to comprehend the nature of the young race of Man.Dwarves wreak a curse upon the town of High Peaks and murder pilgrims, and the discovery of the dead body of a local ignites a devastating war between Humanity and Fey.In the ancient and wild world of Glenryth, Fey creatures and a nascent humanity have come into conflict, the motives of each other mutually unfathomable and alien.Technological cults and Monotheistic religions are worshipped, any suspicion of pagan or Fey magickal taint is reviled. Prophets spread far and wide, offering hope and comfort to the beleaguered masses. Mankind is not totally separate from the energies that suffuse Glenryth, as an unfortunate few are born as Touched.When local dwarves put a curse upon the town of High Peaks, Remus, the aloof and irritable woodcutter and sage, must try and ebb the tide of xenophobic anger that could engulf himself and any other folk that are labelled as outcasts. But when a caravan of technocrat pilgrims fails to arrive, and the body of a local child is found in the woodlands, Remus, along with the capricious Touched Elaina, must try to understand the nature of morality in a world cloaked in suspicion and fear, and, ultimately, to prevent a brewing war that could send the region spiraling into chaos and destruction.The Remus Rothwyn Chronicles is a dark, epic fantasy series with mythological elements and a nuanced world with complex perspectives. Views: 577
By the time this present group of stories was written I had passed through the cultural turbulence that engulfed nearly everyone’s life in the wild, stormy period we know as “the Sixties,” which for me had actually lasted from 1968 to 1974 or 1975. I had come through my own angry four-year-long retirement from writing in the middle 1970s, and was working again at a steady pace, though not with the frenetic prolificacy of the pre-retirement years. At the beginning of this period my personal life was still pretty chaotic, a carryover from all that Sixties madness, and plenty of new chaos was going to descend on me while some of these stories were written, but I was tiptoeing toward an escape from the various messes that were complicating my life, and by the time the last five stories of this volume were being written I was heading into the stability of my second marriage.
—Robert Silverberg, from his Introduction
Table of Contents
Introduction
Tourist Trade
Multiples
Against Babylon
Symbiont
Sailing to Byzantium
Sunrise on Pluto
Hardware
Hannibal’s Elephants
Blindsight
Gilgamesh in the Outback
The Pardoner’s Tale
The Iron Star
The Secret Sharer
House of Bones Views: 576
Why run from death when you can make a deal? A short story about a woman who's looking to make an exit on her own terms.Riley is a workaholic veterinarian. She's approaching her 30th birthday and her loneliness is becoming more apparent and painful. She wants to start dating, but doesn't have any free time or knowledge on how to start. The subjectGarrett is a 32 year old widower. Even though he's a pack oriented wolf shifter, he hasn't been involved with the pack since his mate died three years earlier. But when he meets Riley, he realizes they are meant to be together. The only thing standing in their way is the Wolf Shifter Elder Council. Garrett needs to receive their permission to break the first law and tell Riley, a human, about the existence of the supernatural. If not, it could mean both of their lives.Will the council grant his request? Views: 576
Amelia's life is about to crumble into the Dreamscape, where Seth is her captor and anything is possible, except escape. Seth needs Amelia to break the curse that keeps him bound to the Dreamscape. He must convince her to join him for if Seth fails Earth will be lost to the Netherworld where the evil Erobos wait to consume human life force. If he fails, Seth will lose Amelia.When Amelia Blake falls asleep on the eve of the darkest day of her life, she hardly expects to be kidnapped. Much less whisked away to the underworld where Seth and his brothers oversee dreams. Seth says Amelia not only agreed to go willingly, he claims she has a power he needs to fight the Erobos, dream-givers possessed by the dark remains of a primordial god. Even though Seth ignites a fire within her, Amelia doesn’t trust him, and she certainly doesn’t remember making any kind of compact with her immortal captor.Amelia soon learns Seth is telling the truth. She’s trapped in an alternate dimension where dreams are real and darkness lurks around every corner, eager to claim her very soul. With no other option to gain her freedom, Amelia sets out to help Seth find the key that will unlock his realm and potentially save the world. But when Amelia secretly crosses the barrier between Seth’s realm and the Dreamscape, her power draws the dark leader of the Erobos, who wants her for his own designs. And now, Amelia is truly being hunted. Can she learn to trust Seth soon enough to find the key and gain her freedom? Or will her hesitation unleash the Erobos on Earth? Views: 576
Trapped by MagicStuck in the form of the knight who supposedly slew him, the dragon Tzavalantsaval is forced to live as a man. Surrounded by humanity his only ally is a loathsome goblin steward. Trapped by Politics As he struggles to navigate the Kirresci royal court, and humanity itself, he finds himself ensnared by the games being played by those around him. Trapped by DestinyTzavalantsava tries to navigate the Kirresci royal court, and the politics and intrigues he scarcely understands, even as the southern kingdoms push nearer to war. Views: 576
