Qwantu Amaru's first chapbook is a peak into one man's interpretations of everything from healthcare, to dreamscapes, to life.An embalmer with sticky fingers gets a tip that he'll never forget.Firelight reveals the ghosts of conscience past.Film noir femmes fatales take on their craziest caper yet in a trip beyond the stars.Horrors crawl from the kitchen sink, only to find itself a monster among monsters.And six other stories full of twisting, turning hidden horrors await in Days of Madness 4.Featuring new stories by Absolutely*Kate, Chris Allinotte, R.S. Bohn, Erin Cole, Park Cooper & Barb Lien, William Davoll, Richard Godwin, Mav Skye, Benjamin Sobieck, Angel Zapata. Views: 702
The Man Within tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he takes refuge in the house of a young woman, also alone in the world. She persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices in court, but neither she nor Andrews is aware that to both criminals and authority treachery is as great a crime as smuggling. Views: 702
Jane gets to taste for the first time when she and Remi go to dinner with Allison and Mark! There are after dinner antics at a nearby nightclub as well when a bunch of guys end up hitting on Jane! Will Jane enjoy the food? Will Remi have enough money for the bill? Will the shadowy strangers finally reveal themselves? Find out in Jane 8086 Part Four!In "Toby's Big Surprise" Toby learns that it is not what you have that makes people like you but who you are..Toby receives a new bell and as a result thinks that people will like him more because of it..Maggie the motor yacht feels hurt when Toby says that his bell is far better than her shiny foghorns..The two set off to ask Mr. Brightly the lighthouse which is better, Toby's new bell or Maggie's foghorns..In this they both learn a very important lesson about life.. Views: 702
Vyder Ironstone is an assassin with a troubled past. At the order of his king, Vyder must undertake his most dangerous mission yet. A mission from which he may never return.Vyder Ironstone is an assassin with a troubled past. At the order of his king, Vyder must undertake his most dangerous mission yet. A mission from which he may never return.If he is successful, it might just be enough to alleviate war tearing the kingdom apart.The prospect of failure is not worth considering. Views: 702
Relentlessly pursued by crooked marshals, idiot bounty hunters, and a psychotic pastor, infamous gunfighter Henri Ville takes the first steps in her epic journey to return home.On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into a forest. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never featured in any nature documentary, Cass is only sure of one thing: alone, she will be lucky to survive. The sprawl of abandoned blockish buildings Cass discovers offers her only more puzzles. Where are the people? What is the intoxicating mist which drifts off the buildings in the moonlight? And why does she feel like she's being watched? Increasingly unnerved, Cass is overjoyed at the arrival of the formidable Setari. Whisked to a world as technologically advanced as the first was primitive, where nanotech computers are grown inside people's skulls, and few have any interest in venturing outside the enormous whitestone cities, Cass finds herself processed as a 'stray', a refugee displaced by the gates torn between worlds. Struggling with an unfamiliar language and culture, she must adapt to virtual classrooms, friends who can teleport, and the ingrained attitude that strays are backward and slow. Can Cass ever find her way home? And after the people of her new world discover her unexpected value, will they be willing to let her leave? Views: 700
Winston Constantine is no prince charming... I crave him so badly I think I might be losing my mind. He's right in front of me, but he's just as remote as my dreams of getting away from my stepbrothers. I keep playing his twisted games, and I want to stay just as distant as he is. But I can't. I never could. I've fallen for him. Hopelessly. Irrevocably. But Winston isn't a lover, he's a business venture. A way for me to pay for college. A ticket out. He's never pretended to be anything other than that. I can't blame him for making me fall in love. There can be no happily ever after between a maid and a prince, no matter what the stories say. Views: 700
"Fresh and funny..." —Publishers WeeklyIngredients for A Glass of Crazy: Take one famous dad who gets caught with his pants down. Add a best friend who becomes a traitor. Toss in a boyfriend who thinks he's not gay. Stir and drink.Between public humiliation and the betrayal of a friend, Abby is losing it. And why Rafa picks this moment to give Abby a ring? This is why God invented vodka."They haunt humanity with two sets of unchanging eyes, confident that one day there will be no more left with the courage to stand up to them, no more left without the fear of sounding mad. One day, no one will say that the majority is a lie or dare call their culture’s progress an illusion. No one will suspect that the ensuing holy war is the work of a two-pronged insanity bent on total destruction.When that day comes, it will be the beginning of the end. Until then, they work and wait with the patience of undying things: a family, a movement, a cult of two." Views: 700
"Former FBI agent Brigid Quinn, with her trademark toughness, raw humor, and human frailty, is back and better than ever in Masterman's latest novel. As Quinn is drawn into an infamous cold case with a possible link to the two killers immortalized by Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, she finds danger closing in. A gripping premise, brilliantly executed—you won't be able to put this one down!"—Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOORIn 1959, a family of four were brutally murdered in Holcomb, Kansas. Perry Smith and Dick Hickok were convicted and executed for the crime, and the murders and their investigation and solution became the subject of Truman Capote's masterpiece, IN COLD BLOOD. But what if there was a third killer, who remained unknown? What if there was another family, also murdered, who crossed paths with this band of killers, though their murder remains unsolved? And what if Dick Hickok left a... Views: 700
You may have noticed I'm using a plain green cover. I lost my cover designer. However, I think that the story is more important than the flashy cover. The short stories are about four families that prepare for the worse. Some deliberately, some just fell into preparing. Enjoy!When a mysterious creature targets a young boy, only paranormal investigator Soren Chase can stop it. But can Soren save the boy in time? For Soren, the case is personal. The boy's father was John Townes, Soren's best friend who died in a supernatural attack several years earlier. Soren will do anything to save John's son, but he must act fast. Because the kidnapper has a mission of his own, and he's willing to destroy anyone who gets in his way...A prequel to the full-length novel The Forest of Forever, Closed at Dark is a self-contained novella that can be enjoyed by anyone who loves urban fantasy, mystery and suspense. Views: 700
Includes the entire four book series about Penny and Professor Hunter!
Temptation (Book 1)
Only once in my life have I lost my words at the sight of perfection – on a rainy autumn morning when I first met James Hunter. Or rather, when I literally ran into him. I had never seen anyone so handsome in my entire life. The stubble along his jaw line. The way he caught me in his strong arms. The way he stared at me so intently with his dark brown eyes that swirled with secrets.
I felt it in a rush. That I wanted him. That I needed him in my life. I’m not naïve. I could tell in two seconds that he was out of my league. And not just because it looked like he had stepped out of the pages of a magazine. Well, that and the fact that he’s my professor.
Trust me, I know I need to forget about him. But how could I possibly when every time I see him in class it feels like he’s daring me to cross the line?
I don’t know how much longer I can resist the temptation.
Addiction(Book 2)
I fell hard for my mysterious professor, but our scandalous affair went down in flames.
Now I can’t get my best friend's advice out of my mind - the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.
I want to be able to move on. I need to be able to move on. But what if Professor Hunter has no intention of letting me do that?
Eruption (Book 3)
New York was supposed to be our fresh start. Our happily ever after. But James is hiding something from me.
Secrets from James' past, his scheming ex, and unsupportive parents make it hard to breathe in this city that barely feels like my home.
I thought I wanted to marry him. I thought he was the man of my dreams. I thought we'd be happy as soon as we got away from all the rumors. But now? I don't think I ever really knew Professor Hunter. And I can't walk down the aisle until I know the truth.
Devotion (Book 4)
One day before the wedding of my dreams, and I'm stuck in a city that is no longer my home. Alone. Heartbroken. Lost.
Could the past few years really mean so little to James? I'd do anything to protect him. He's my whole future. My whole life. I don't know if there's a me without him.
But there's only 24 hours until our wedding. There's no time to repair the damage. And even if we could, Isabella is still out there plotting. The world is still against us.
I was just a student. And he was my professor. We were never meant to be forever. I thought it was everlasting love, but it was doomed from the very start. Views: 700
The economy is in freefall. Inflation skyrockets. Crime and violence are out of control. Countless millions of illegal immigrants, representing votes for the entrenched administration and cheap labor for its ally, Big Business, flow unimpeded across the southern border. America's enemies gleefully watch and plan as what was once the world's only superpower descends to Third World status.The American government fears China soon will achieve its four-thousand-year-old goal of world dominion. In its naivety, it adopts the philosophy, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," and secretly agrees to share global governance with Beijing. That requires the transformation of a capitalist democracy into a totalitarian Marxist state. To avoid insurrection and eliminate a dissident citizenry, the US administration asks China to develop a much more virulent and deadly pathogen than COVID-19. It trusts China to provide a vaccine so the administration can inoculate its supporters.Seven... Views: 700
She didn't see her own beauty...Then he unmasked it!Royal assistant Hester knows playboy Prince Alek is totally out of her league. Shockingly, out of the blue, he proposes a marriage of convenience! In return, she'll have millions to help disadvantaged women. Warily, Hester agrees...To retain the throne he's sacrificed everything for, Alek must choose a bride. It's Hester's quiet discretion that catches his attention...until their unstoppable chemistry reveals her startling beauty and inner fire. Alek sees the queen that Hester could truly become—but the real question is, can she?USA TODAY Bestselling Author Views: 700
Jack the Ripper, Sitting Bull, Arthur Conan Doyle, Buffalo Bill and the Peaky Blinders all star in this, the second season of the hit time travel historical fantasy saga."Inventively brilliant alternative history."In the fallout from Touchstone Season 1's epic finale, villains Danny Pearce and Kath Bright are trapped in very different hostile worlds, blind to their true identities and struggling to atone for sins they can't remember. " As gripping as ever! Couldn't put it down."From the streets of Birmingham to the sidewalks of New York, from the slums of Victorian England to the Great Plains of the American West, the Touchstone world expands to an epic scale. "Ripping yarns, meticulously researched and genuinely shocking when they need to be."This eBook Box Set (comprising a quarter of a million words and 1000 pages in the original paperback editions) collects the first three novels of Touchstone Season 2 and the prequel short story Buffalo Bill and the Peaky Blinders, previously only available in the anthology, New Street Stories."Touchstone saga at its best. Absolutely brilliant and highly recommended."Contains the following titles:1. Buried in Time [1888]2. Bright Star Falling [1874-1887]3. Buffalo Bill and the Peaky Blinders [1887]4. Bright Star Rising [1887] Views: 699
