Out of the Cage: While out hunting with family in the woods, a wolf shifter finds something he never expected.
Castrose Zukan returns to the hideaway his brother, Clayton, had been using, only to find it destroyed. After checking the escape route they’d created, he discovers Clayton didn’t leave alone. While it takes a few days, Castrose figures out who took him... and where. He sneaks into the United States and heads to a little mountain town called Stone Ridge. What he doesn’t expect is to become the hunted.
When Eion MacDougal watched his two eldest brothers and dozens of others in their wolf shifter pack find their mates, he never lost hope that he would find his own someday. Out hunting with family in wolf form, that day comes when he runs across a guy with a sniper rifle. Revealing himself has unexpected consequences. The big, blond human faints.
With help from his family, Eion takes him home. Help from his pack tells him who the human is... and why he’s there. When Castrose wakes, can he win the man’s trust? Or will his mate flee from Eion when he learns he’s part of the group that kidnapped the human’s only family? Views: 409
Undercover sheriff's deputy Evan and web designer Wes are living together as Evan works to bring down a gang and Wes raises his deadbeat brother's son. Will the possibility of a future together crash and burn when the case takes an unexpected turn? Views: 408
When Greg offers to help with a bachelorette party, he comes face to face with the man who got away—baker Rhys. Working on the party food together might be a chance to reconnect. Views: 400
Someone — or something — is causing magical blizzards at Fairleigh Hall. The estate is suffering, and the Earl has requested assistance.Constable Kit Thompson, of Bow Street's Preternatural Division, isn't especially thrilled to be sent out to the country. At least the assignment gets him away from fashionable London society and his own unwanted celebrity after successfully solving a notorious case. Of course, he's now trapped at a country estate due to closed roads, snowstorms, and magic, but Kit's always liked solving puzzles. He's good at using empathic skills for investigations, and this is definitely a challenge. Besides, the Earl's younger brother is an irritating and delicious temptation, all blue eyes and muscles and boundless enthusiastic optimism. Kit wants to either shake sense into him or kiss him senseless — and can't trust him, either, because if someone's genuinely sabotaging the weather, everyone's a suspect.Harry Arden, younger brother of the Earl of... Views: 395
Computer whizkid Edward’s adopted father taught him that his biological family rejected him at birth. After Edward’s biological brother, Andrew, reaches out to befriend him, the men forge a friendship based on a shared computer system dream. When Edward arrives at the ancestral home of the family he believes abandoned him, he learns the whole story he'd been told about his history is a lieComputer whizkid Edward’s adopted father taught him that his biological family rejected him at birth. After Edward’s own brother Andrew reaches out to befriend him, the two men forge a friendship based on a shared dream – a sentient computer system that promises to greatly improve the world. When Edward arrives at the ancestral home of the family he believes abandoned him, he soon discovers that reality is very different from his adopted father’s paranoid delusion. And his family learns that Edward is far more damaged than they could ever have known. Views: 394
The Last Human is a Post-Post-Apocalyptic short fiction story following the life of the last human survivor of the second robot apocalypse. Jay has been wandering aimlessly for ages and passes the time by reflecting on the better days which, sadly, were his days spent in servitude to the robot overlords. This is the story of Jay's struggle to survive with only himself to rely on.Alaric and Everet have begun their journey across the desolate Oresian plains back to the border, where they'll continue on to the Vasque Capitole to meet with Veld Martiale Hadryan. But issues more personal and pressing than a stalled treaty and the Holds' futures must first be addressed, and as the fury of a coming storm begins to mount, so too do the tension and uncertainty between the pair. Views: 392
Rowen Smithe doesn't do friends. They are too much trouble and he'd prefer to focus his attentions elsewhere, like the unusual lights in the west or smoke patterns in the east. Mick Rutger is a happy-go-lucky type that in fascinated by Rowen's interesting personality, and would very much like to be his friend...Rowen Smithe doesn't do friends. They require time and effort, both better spent protecting the woods surrounding his Mountain Shadows home. Lights in the west, smoke patterns in the east, and now a shiny glint deep in the forest. Someone needed to do something.Mick Rutger rarely met a challenge he wouldn't chase, but the drop-dead gorgeous man next door gives a whole new meaning to crazy when he spends hours in a tree just...watching? When his charming words have no effect, Mick has no choice if he wants to crack this nut. He follows the mysterious Rowe on a middle of the night hike, only to be caught before the chase can even begin. Views: 386
Matthew Carlsen, Captain USN, survived a shipwreck with several friends. Now on another ship, he's heading home with his civilian crew. But getting there might be difficult. Branded as terrorists, with a naval attack sub ordered to sink them on sight, it doesn't look good for him and his crew. But Matthew still has a few tricks up his sleeve, and the submarine captain is in for a few surprises.Things were looking up for Matthew Carlsen, Captain, USN. He survived a shipwreck, and made it to an island off the coast of Africa with 17 other people. After several weeks on the island, they found a vessel hidden in a cavern on the island, and they set course for the US and home. With all that going on, he even had time to fall in love with an enchanting Asian woman.But now he's having a bad day. He's been shot; his ship has been fired upon, and he and his friends are fleeing from an Aswadán warship. They've been branded as terrorists, and a US submarine is after them with a sink-on-sight order. With fuel running low, he's wandering around the ocean trying to figure out what to do before the submarine finds them. At the moment, getting his friends home doesn't look good.But Captain Matthew Carlsen hasn't given up yet. He still has a few tricks up his sleeve. Views: 385
Teancum Leon is pretty sure that if he plays his cards right, he can have it all: his childhood friend and former lover, Ammon Young; his best friend (although Tean is loath to admit it), Jem Berger; and his family. A boyfriend might even be in his future, although he's having a heck of a time getting a second date with the guys he meets on Prowler.Then the key suspect in a murder investigation asks to speak with Jem, overturning the precarious balance Tean has worked to maintain. A girl Jem knew in childhood is dead, and the man believed to have killed her was one of Jem's tormentors at Decker Lake Juvenile Detention Center. Antonio Hidalgo insists he is innocent, and he begs Jem to find the real killer, a man Jem knows very well, the man who masterminded his torture at Decker: Tanner Kimball.When Jem decides to check out Antonio's story, Tean insists on helping. Their search takes them into Utah's high desert, a land of redrock cliffs and hoodoo stones. But... Views: 377
An itty-bitty short fantasy about an unexpected early morning encounter of companionship under a Harvest Moon.The year is 2043, the life has come to the point where the animal instincts of survival often came into play. The human race is in danger of already taking control “Company.” After the implementing of the microchips and brain waves scan, the things went out of control... Alan is a member of a underground society, working for the good of the human society, preparing and educating the people of the important and forgotten ideals, protecting them from silent enslavement. Courage, honesty, bravery, qualities long gone. No one knows whether Alan and his group will be able to save what has left from the true vibration of the universe, pulsating in each and every one of us. Hope is non existent if action is not present... Views: 376
It is for Humanity sake. to raise the awareness.It is for me and youfor every one you knowSo may you tell a friendwhether they weremale or femaleWe shall we are all parts of this universe!For the sake of you of me of every one you know!never hesitate to tellit is for the sake of you You every one on this universei could use my poetic language to expressto raise the awareness to tell you my brothersplease wake upit is the time to clean the sleeping dustthat has been on your shoulders for ages.Here our start dear brothersHere will be the end of fight Should not we avoid ifwe could by a smile we You all offerA good word is the curefor what might cause warTo heal the woundedand to recover the sick to kick the diseaseso Smile if you pleasehave a deep look on my bookJudge it never by the coverbut by the thoughts i you offerMay God Bless this universe!Remember it is a call to wake upto put the swords downTo let the words be onLove is neededit does completesfills the heart draw smilebeautify the lifeit is peacewhere no victims shall beit is peace where no strongno rich shall we haveequals to ourselvesthe hearts are scalesIn Such word a Smile overweight your side! Views: 371
