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![]() Hold on. Not so fast. Just when you think it's just another day . An assassin with a unique technique, an almost-was soccer star and a bitter long-forgotten one-hit-wonder pop star are just a few of the random characters who turn up within the stories in this book. Each are loveable in their own different ways and are doing their very best to dodge Lady Luck's sadistic target practice. Heroes [...] |
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![]() This is a collection of stories whose endings you can try to predict, but you will almost always get it wrong. From the lottery-winner who inspires enmity in his neighbour, to the fraudulent fortune-teller discovering that she has a psychic gift after all, to the down-trodden schoolboy whose 'daydreams' reveal a crime which he then uses all his ingenuity to expose, a huge range of characters walk [...] |
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Book: Arranged by Arlene Valle My first venture into the tsunami writing world of Romance Erotica is called ARRANGED. After watching an interview of Stephenie Meyer, and how she got started, I thought to myself, I can do this, at least try. I knew the genre of vampires and werewolves wasn't for me but a good romance was more what I felt I could relay. The novel started for me, long before I had heard of Fifty Shades of Grey, [...] |
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![]() Ida Moreno had a good life. Head Curator of the New York Public Library, lots of friends and acquaintances among her co-workers, a nice, cozy apartment close to her work and the simple company of her cat, Tansy. All that changes in one horrifying moment. Raped and murdered by someone in the middle of the night, Ida's soul discorporates from her body at the time of death and witnesses the final [...] |
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![]() From the collection Dreamin' Dreams; A short love story in 14,000 words. You promise to love and cherish her forever. Then you believe you've lost her and you find someone else. One day it all comes back to haunt you and the question is - were your promises just a pack of lies? Were your actions a cowardly betrayal? |
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![]() Tilly wakes up in the dark, alone and very frightened. She finds she is in a strange room inexplicably furnished in 1940s style. However did she get here? Has she somehow slipped into the past? Has she been kidnapped? Of one thing she is absolutely certain, she has never seen this place in her life before. All in the Mind is a fascinating tale exploring the human capacity to overcome any [...] |
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![]() 2013 Finalst ~ IDA OKRWA - Genna Lyndsey is not a people person. A short, too-skinny, wild haired waif with sturdy nerdy glasses lives through books. So it's lucky she and her best friend own their own bookstore. Her college days taught her that dating was too unreliable to depend on others. It was then that she started resorting to obscure quotes to shield herself from others who ventured too [...] |
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![]() TAKE ONE AT BEDTIME - Nobody ever goes upstairs in Margaret's house. So what is making the strange thumping noises up there? And why is there a toy rabbit under the kitchen table? Margaret's Ghost is just one of a collection of short stories consisting mainly of horror and science fiction, ranging from a classic gothic tale - Jack Trevellyn - to the Wyndhamesque Victim of Fortune, and the modern [...] |
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![]() Readers asked and Sophronia listened! Be sure to check out the updated editions of this Christian Steam Pulp series! Unified point of view and softened dialect should make for a superior steam and gear experience! Tea and mechanicals all around! Florizel repairs pipes and runs the Bohemian Club until his adventuring past hurtles headlong into his dull, respectable present. A gypsy beauty with a [...] |
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![]() When Angela turns up in a remote Spanish mountain village, she is so tall and so thin and so pale that everyone thinks she is a ghost or a fairy or the dreadful mantequero that comes in the night and sucks the fat from your bones. But Domingo knows better. "Soy Angela," she said to him when they met - "I am an angel." Only later did he realise that she was telling him her name and by then it was [...] |
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![]() Lucy likes to stare at the wall. Her mother thinks she is suffering from petit mal but Granny McCurdle says, " Och, she's away wi' the fairies again." Nobody takes this literally until Lucy disappears. Her sister knows where she's gone, but who would believe her? Can she really be away with the fairies? |
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![]() How do you solve a murder case when you're the speculated culprit? Lieutenant J. Derricks is a great homicide detective in the Culver City Police Department. He transferred to the suburbs after his partner was shot and killed in a tragic robbery attempt in L.A. Derricks was bitter after that fiasco. He went through so many rookie detectives vying to be his partner that he hazed into a transfer. [...] |
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![]() Josey has the perfect life, and a perfect family, but after the loss of her sister it seems as if everything is falling apart. Her death was ruled as suicide, but did Holly kill herself or was it something more? Josey wants answers, but with every answer comes more questions. Will Josey be able to handle what she finds? Or will her life too be in danger? |
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![]() Sabrina Wentworth's life ran like a fine tuned clock, precise, calculated, and completely predictable. With shrewd instincts, gifted intellect and an inquisitive nature, she landed a prime position in the Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange, where the pulse of the stock market endlessly spins billions of dollars through cyberspace. Her fast-paced profession left little time for superfluous [...] |
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![]() College freshman Leesa Nyland has been fascinated by vampires since she was 3 years old. That's when her mom started acting weird, insisting sunlight hurt her skin because she'd been bitten by a one-fanged vampire. Fascinated doesn't mean Leesa believes, though. Any more than she believes in blue fire, people who live for centuries, or kisses that can kill. But when her beloved older brother [...] |
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Book: Burnt Toast and Bent Noses by Ed Halliday Julian Renard desperately needs a new job, and hopefully one he will get paid for, with real money! When he suddenly finds himself being interviewed for a position he hasn't even applied for, he assumes his luck has changed. Or has it? This darkly humorous tale Follows our unfortunate job seeker as he finds himself with little choice but to accept a new career, working for some very dubious [...] |
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![]() Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award - Gold Medal Winner, Illumination Book Awards Enjoy this real-life, roller-coaster ride of laughter, tears, and stomach-churning truths by a Southern professional speaker, humorist, and singer who, as Miss South Carolina, represented her state in the Miss America pageant and has been singing, speaking, and writing ever since. Incorporating the [...] |
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![]() Curl up and enter the eclectic world of S. R. Mallery, where sad meets bizarre and deception meets humor; where history meets revenge and magic meets gothic. Whether it's 500 words or 5,000, these TALES TO COUNT ON, which include a battered women's shelter, childhood memories, Venetian love, magic photographs, PTDS fallout, sisters' tricks, WWII spies, the French Revolution, evil vaudevillians, [...] |
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![]() "Basham weaves a unique tale sure to please the romantic at heart."Denise Hunter, bestselling author of Married 'til Monday Dr. Adelina Roseland has worked ten years in research as an accent reduction specialist to attain her dream job. But a secret wager to transform Appalachian cattle farmer Reese Mitchell into corporate material challenges Adelina in ways she never expected, threatening her [...] |
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![]() Prominent heart surgeon, Sierra Norton, performed minor miracles on a daily basis, but never in her wildest dreams had she imagined she would live one. From the first moment she opened the tiny chest of three-year-old Brooklyn MacArthur, she'd felt an inexplicable connection. So when the child's father called three years later, panicked about his daughter's infection, it took a little persuasion [...] |
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![]() Reeling from her boyfriend's indiscretions at a party, Lacey Montgomery escapes into the throes of a torrential storm. Her car spins out of control and hurtles into the depths of an icy, black lake. She awakens in the arms of a handsome stranger, in a place she's never heard of thirty-four years before she was born. Bobby Reynolds is smitten the moment the storm-ravaged woman opens her eyes. [...] |
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![]() Love can be quite a trip! Whether it's that first magnetic encounter with a fascinating stranger, the desperate wait for a call that never comes, or even the lies and deceptions of an illicit affair, there's nothing like the power of attraction to have us acting like crazy fools. Many of these twenty funny, twisty or thoughtful short tales by bestselling novelist Ellie Campbell, (aka sisters Pam [...] |
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![]() Velda Brotherton returns to the scene of the crime with her second thrilling Twist of Poe mystery The Tell-Tale Stone. A long-dead body unearthed from a shallow grave sets idyllic Grace County, Arkansas on edge, but nobody seems to be able to explain exactly why. When small town reporter Jessie West connects the victim to an unsolved diamond heist from decades ago, though, what first appears to [...] |
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![]() The Gift, book two in the Destiny Series, is the second of five novelettes. Savanna Bradford's impulsive reaction to her boyfriend Ryan's proposal spirals her into a rendezvous with fate. How could she choose between her dreams and the love of her life? Savannah panicked, took off to the solace of the lake despite the impending snow storm. She had to think, but her brief sabbatical didn't include [...] |
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![]() What happens when life doesn't turn out as planned? This collection of two evocative, dark love stories explores the choices and compromises we make in life and in love, and how they can trap or liberate us, depending on our mindset. Each story comes with an unexpected twist that makes reading all the way to the end imperative. In "Cage Life," first published by [untitled] in 2010 as "Still [...] |
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![]() Professional football players, corporate tobacco advertisers, volatile gasoline prices, and the Cold War all share an undetected commonality each is an intrinsic part of economics. Though not obvious to the naked eye, each entity shares a pattern with the others. This book helps to shed light on these mutual characteristics. It is an extensive compilation of theories interpreted using supportive [...] |
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![]() Psychological sharpshooters, fickle football fans and prodigious people who choose to use and misuse their incredible talents invite you into this collection of their jumbled-up worlds. During dark days at work when people reflect both on what could have been and on what could still be, things are never quite what they seem, and never turn out as expected. Crafted to be short and snappy enough [...] |
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![]() What if fairy tales were real? The scary monster you thought was lurking under your bed with the dust bunnies has got his feet up on your desk and is drinking coffee with your boss. Cassandra 'Red' Rose is a war-worn cop with way more scars than most. A senior detective in The Metropolitan Police, she fights the mean streets - cleansing them of their sins - all the while, fending off demons of [...] |
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Book: Darkness Within - A Psychological Thriller With A Supernatural Twist (Obsession Times Five Book 1) by Kitty Margo No cell phone signal, a dead car battery, and a failed GPS system have left Cate Cooper stranded in the middle of nowhere. Forced to make her way through a maze of cornfields, she happens upon a rundown cabin by the river. At first glance, the occupant of the cabin appears to be the stuff that female dreams are made of until disturbing revelations come to light. Cate soon discovers that for the [...] |
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![]() "A Modern Twist on Pride and Prejudice" All My Tomorrows is losing the ratings war. For headwriter Alice McGillicutty, the past year has had enough drama. Her mother passed away, her last relationship ended in disaster, and now poor ratings are catapulting her long-running soap opera toward cancellation. For comfort and creative inspiration, she begins reading 'The Edge of Darkness,' an old [...] |
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