Monica and the Unbeatable Bet

Monica was already nervous about riding in her first horse show. Then she hears Rory making a bet that she'll do well. If she doesn't, will she let him down?
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The Final Moment

Jack is as a High School Football player trying to achieve his dream. Someone that normally would not is holding him back from this. Pain, frustration, and the need to impress are taken out on his girlfriend. Broken down Riley feels like she can do nothing to help Jack. When his football coach gets in the mix his future hangs in the balance. He will need all the support he can get.SEATTLE TRILOGY – PREQUEL: It’s the 1980s. The decade that launched the grunge movement. The era when weird became cool. In 1983, Howard aspires to be the next king of rock, and doesn’t mind bending a few rules to get there. Then he meets “Luna Tunes,” who sells limericks for a living. Sure, she’s cute, but who does that? And why is she with that goon Brian?Before Howard can even get her number, disaster strikes. Not once, but twice. Now how’s he ever gonna win the girl of his dreams?Prequel to Sapphire Secrets, When Lyric met Limerick is a light-hearted, fun romance.
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The Necromancer's Great Adventure

Meet Sebastian Grimm; funeral director, private detective, and part time necromancer. He isn't like most funeral directors. When he's not giving peace of mind to the dead, he's out solving murders. One day, Sebastian consoles a woman who recently committed suicide only to find that not all is as it seems, and foul play is most definitely afoot.Meet Sebastian Grimm; funeral director, private detective, and part time necromancer. He gives what most funeral directors don't normally offer. Peace to those who need it most; the dead. One final wish to depart unto those they've left behind. One day, when Sebastian consoles a woman who recently committed suicide, Sebastian finds that not all is as it seems, and foul play is definitely afoot. Adventure and hilarity ensue in the first short story by author Mortimer Jackson.
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Star Tales - Steve Cole

‘ Even though they’re gone from the world, they’re never gone from me.’ ****The Doctor is many things – curious, funny, brave, protective of her friends...and a shameless namedropper. While she and her companions battled aliens and travelled across the universe, the Doctor hinted at a host of previous, untold adventures with the great and the good: we discovered she got her sunglasses from Pythagoras (or was it Audrey Hepburn?); lent a mobile phone to Elvis; had an encounter with Amelia Earhart where she discovered that a pencil-thick spider web can stop a plane; had a 'wet weekend' with Harry Houdini, learning how to escape from chains underwater; and more. In this collection of new stories, Star Tales takes you on a rip-roaring ride through history, from 500BC to the swinging 60s, going deeper into the Doctor's notorious name-dropping and revealing the truth behind these anecdotes.
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Alex Frost Meets The Killer

Alex Frost, sixteen years old, is a girl without a soul, who has no emotion, and can't feel pain. One day, when her parents are brutally murdered at the hands of a serial killer, she sets off to find out why, and learns that they might have more in common than she thinks.Meet Alex Frost, a seemingly normal girl living in a seemingly normal town. But not all is as it seems, and some secrets are better left in the dark. In this tale of murder and mayhem, we follow Alex Frost, a girl without a soul. A girl who can't feel emotion. One day, when her parents are brutally murdered at the hands of a serial killer, she sets off to find out why, and learns that they might have more in common than she thinks.
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The Winning Side - Lance Parkin

Emily is dead! Killed by an unknown assailant. Honoré Lechasseur is called to identify the body, but who should arrive there as well, but Emily! Honoré and Emily find themselves caught up in a plot reaching from the future to their past, and with their very existence, not to mention the future of the entire world, at stake, can they unravel the mystery before it's too late?
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Echoes - Iain McLaughlin

Echoes of the past...echoes of the future. Honoré Lechasseur can see the threads that bind the two together, however when he and Emily Blandish find themselves outside the imposing tower-block headquarters of Dragon Industry, both can sense something is wrong. There are ghosts in the building, and images and echoes of all times pervade the structure. But what is behind this massive contradiction in time, and can Honoré and Emily figure it out before they become trapped themselves? Part mystery, part detective story, part dark fantasy, part science fiction...original adventures in time and space.
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The Jackal's Trick - John Jackson Miller

Continuing the milestone 50th anniversary celebration of Star Trek—an epic new trilogy that stretches from the events of The Original Series movie The Search for Spock to The Next Generation!The Klingon-Federation alliance is in peril as never before. Lord Korgh has seized control of the House of Kruge, executing a plot one hundred years in the making. The Klingon cult known as the Unsung rampages across the stars, striking from the shadows in their cloaked Birds-of-Prey. And the mysterious figure known as Buxtus Cross launches a scheme that will transform the Klingon Empire forever. Into danger flies Admiral William T. Riker and the USS Titan, charged with protecting the peace forged nearly a century before during the Khitomer Accords. Aided by Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the USS Enterprise, Riker and his officers scour the stars, seeking to find the Unsung and uncover the truth behind the conspiracy before time runs out. ...
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The Clockwork Woman - Claire Bott

Featuring Honoré Lechasseur and Emily Blandish. Honoré and Emily find themselves imprisoned in the 19th Century by a celebrated inventor...but help comes from an unexpected source – a humanoid automaton created by, and to give pleasure to, its owner. As the trio escape to London, they are unprepared for what awaits them, and at every turn it seems impossible to avert what fate may have in store for the Clockwork Woman. Part mystery, part detective story, part dark fantasy, part science fiction...original adventures in time and space.
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Desire of the Soul

Jessica is an amazing talent, but when the lights of fame turn on will she sparkle or melt?Jessica Hall is a young music sensation and a rising star. After landing a deal with Diamond Records, she quickly comes under fire from a rival producer. But that is the least of her problems. She quickly becomes enveloped in fame, money, and glory which slowly drag her down. Alcohol quickly becomes a part of Jessica’s life. Can her friend, admirer, and songwriter Jimmy King help her out of her despair? Or will he too make the wrong decision?
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Star Trek

An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series!The U.S.S. Discovery's specialty is using its spore-based hub drive to jump great distances faster than any warp-faring vessel in Starfleet. To do this, Lieutenant Paul Stamets navigates the ship through the recently revealed mycelial network, a subspace domain Discovery can briefly transit but in which it cannot remain. After responding to a startling distress call originating from within the network, the Discovery crew find themselves trapped in an inescapable realm where they will surely perish unless their missing mycelial fuel is found or restored. Is the seemingly human man found alone and alive inside the network the Starfleet officer he claims to be, or an impostor created by alien intruders who hope to extract themselves from the mycelial plane at the expense of all lives aboard Discovery?
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The Severed Man - George Mann

What links a clutch of sinister murders in Victorian London, an angel appearing in a Staffordshire village in the 1920s and a small boy running loose around the capital in 1950? When Honoré and Emily encounter a man who appears to have been cut out of time, they think they have the answer. But soon enough they discover that the mystery is only just beginning and that nightmares can turn into reality. Part mystery, part detective story, part dark fantasy, part science fiction...original adventures in time and space.
Views: 302