"I became completely immersed in this story and it had me at page one." – Fresh Fiction -a Where Dreams romance- This "Sweet Version" is the exact same story as the original, with no foul language and the bedroom door—even when there isn't one—tastefully closed. One calendar. Twelve lighthouses. Two hearts. Cassidy Knowles, the nation's fastest rising food-and-wine critic. Her father, a small-scale vintner, leaves a final gift: a calendar of Pacific Northwest lighthouses, a dozen thin letters, and a deathbed promise to visit one each month. She can handle that. Russell Morgan, #28 on the latest "most eligible" list and the last guy on the planet Cassidy wants. Fine with him. She's an over-privileged little twit. He sets his own course by a friend's calendar of lighthouses. A sailing voyage that guides him to the one woman in all Seattle who irritates him the most. Where can two hearts... Views: 333
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APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEPTIVE - as Paul Jarvis of the National Football Intelligence Unit is only too well aware. He knows that Billy Evans is no ordinary East End lad made good. He's also a thug, a villain and a cop killer. Jarvis just hasn't been able to prove it... Yet.
So when Jarvis discovers that Evans is putting together a hooligan 'Super Crew' to follow England to Italy, he feels sure he can finally put Evans behind bars - if only someone can infiltrate the Crew and get him the proof he needs.
But nothing is ever that simple. The Crew believe Evans is just out for a full-on riot. Jarvis thinks he's trafficking drugs. But Billy Evans is always one step ahead. He has another plan. And it will be catastrophic for everyone concerned.
EXCEPT HIM. Views: 332
The man without a face. Without fingerprints. Who was he? Who murdered him so viciously, so unspeakably? And why, suddenly, is there a rash of patient deaths at the prestigious Los Angeles hospital - mysterious deaths for which there is no explicable cause? These are questions confounding Dr. Joanna Blalock, a leading forensic pathologist, as she tries to piece together the faceless man's identity through computer technology and her own desperate guesswork. When Joanna finally identifies the man, she is stunned to discover a connection between his brutal murder and the other dead patients. Something is wrong. Terribly wrong. And little by little, with the help of her former lover, homicide detective Jake Sinclair, Joanna begins to collect horrifying clues to this nightmare. But as they pile up, each points in a different direction. The great hospital she always respected has been shot through with suspicion and scandal, and everyone seems to have something to hide. But most chilling of all, Joanna is being drawn into a game of deceit and death with an unseen enemy who knows that she has already discovered too much. Views: 332
This short story introduces Ax Weller, a space miner who has collected strange tales from his decades spent in the remote regions of deep space."The Companion" is the tale of an explorer left for dead on a desolate moon and the unlikely relationship that helps him survive.Lola, the spider lady, came to the club to introduce the women to the world of spiders. She knew she would have to win them over by telling them about some of the interesting techniques that spiders used to catch their prey but it threw her a bit when one woman screamed at the sight of a big hairy spider and another person got up and ran from the room. Trying harder now, she showed them some slides and soon a few of the women came over to view Goldie, the big hairy spider that had initially scared them.The woman who had run from the room returned and soon asked a few questions and in no time at all she became Lola's biggest fan and even started a spider diary of her own. Here she recorded the activities of the spiders in her own garden and also introduced her family to the world of spiders.So if you have a fear of spiders, this short story might help you to overcome it. Views: 332
Say hello to Cecil McGee and Turner "Bubba" Teague. These two Southern slackers go and get themselves cursed by a drunk gypsy, and then they hire onto a paranormal investigation to make the rent. Soon they are haunted by a seductive demon and all hell breaks loose!Gun Games is the fourth book in the "Freedom Files" series, a collection of novelettes about ongoing civil liberty issues.Guns have been outlawed in the United States for two years, yet gun violence has not stopped. The black market is being hunted down and eliminated by the government. Students from Hawai‘i explore the issue in history class and the local school board decides the teacher has gone too far. The first arrest of a teacher for the content of a lesson may lead to the final blow for academic freedom. Why were guns made illegal? Who profits the most from the new gun laws? Follow the money and the power into the darkness that hides behind good intentions. Included at the beginning and the end is the Freedom Files that correlate with this story. Views: 332
Todd Williams’ retirement is cut short when he discovers a mutilated corpse near his beachside home in Myrtle Beach. In a note left on the body, the killer vows to strike again each day. As the bodies pile up and body parts go missing, Todd teams up with a local detective to put together the pieces of a puzzle that will lead them to a shocking discovery about the killer’s true intentions.Sid Sharp is a lonely guy. If only the beautiful Miss Emma Lavender from the post office with whom Sid has secretly been in love with for months, would notice him, he would be a happy man. One busy morning at the post office, a funny kind of fate intervenes for Sid and Emma in this quirky, Roald Dahl inspired frog prince retelling. Views: 332
This volume contains the first three “TISH” books, one of the most popular characters by Mary Roberts Rinehart. -THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF LETITIA CARBERRY (including the short stories THREE PIRATES OF PENZANCE & THAT AWFUL NIGHT -TISH -MORE TISH With spine tingling attention to detail and atmosphere, Rinehart is often called "the American Agatha Christie". She wrote over sixty popular mysteries and is attributed with the phrase "the butler did it". TISH, however, is not a mystery, but a series of wonderfully funny stories about three women friends in their fifties-sixties, and the adventures that Tish leads them on (including, capturing German soldiers in WWI). The book was written in the 1900s and reflects the social mores of the time. The humor and quality of the writing is wonderful. Views: 331
A six-pack of Science and Speculative fiction stories. Meet aliens from other worlds and other dimensions. Some are friendly, and some... Well, just imagine how many dark alleys there might be in outer space.Ever wonder why that one game you hoped to watch on ESPN didn't show up *when* and exactly *as* promised? There could be a host of reasons. One in particular stands out in "Channel Zero," just one of the six attention-grabbing tales in this collection by award winning tale spinner, Josh Langston.Tired of the same-old, same-old bug-eyed monsters? Take a gander at "Symbiote," one possible answer to the eternal question of what goes bump (Slither? Slurp?) in the night. (With apologies to Marvel Comics. It's a whole new ballgame, folks!)Or maybe you're looking for something a little more Earth-centric. Perhaps something with an heroic theme. Try "Hardguys" which gives an entirely new meaning to what it means to be brought back from the dead...."Dancing Among the Stars" is a collection with a little something for everyone: at the very least, six never-before-published short stories from a master writer you're going to love. Views: 330
'Opens with a bang and continues with a thrill-a-minute adventure . . . A. A. Dhand knows how to keep me up into the early hours.' Vaseem Khan, author of MIDNIGHT AT MALABAR HOUSEThe last thing Jack Baxi expected when a detective rang his doorbell in the middle of the night was that he'd be tortured and left for dead, with a young woman he's never met before.Now, running for their lives, Jack and Aisha frantically try to discover why the detective was so convinced they both have information on a missing person. Jack is a Sikh corner shopkeeper with a criminal record. Aisha is a Muslim medical student from a wealthy family. What could possibly connect them?Their desperate hunt for answers will take them on a perilous journey, from the sprawling underground markets and dangerous red-light district of Delhi all the way to the most militarized zone in India.But little do they know, a dangerous organisation is watching their every move - and they'll do... Views: 330
