Ficción

Look no further than "A Genocide (Desperate Times)," a haunting story about a young woman who wakes up in a container filled with corpses, forced to confront the brutal reality of human trafficking.As...

From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Hefner A woman determined to discover her past…Adelyn, daughter of Lila and Latimus, has never felt quite whole. Although she loves her parents immensely, the...

This ebook compiles Mark Twain's greatest writings, including novels and short stories such as "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s...

A tough-as-nails businesswoman. An arrogant Navy SEAL. A power struggle with no end in sight. Some people hook-up at weddings. Others break a hotel room bed (and a table, and a desk, and some complimentary...

This short story follows the life of a young widow named Joan as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her husband and the challenges of being a single mother in a small Karoo town.

Lukitt Bachmann is waiting in his Lanterne des Mortes, a Tower of the Dead, in the middle of a cemetery. He's had a complicated life: son of a Herrnhuter Brother thrown out of his sect; help-meet to a...

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome,...

Murder is always darkA private investigator finds the dead body of a man being investigated by another investigator. It's called a possible suicide but the man had a lot of reasons not to kill himself,...

John Gillum arrives in London from Australia apparently a wealthy man and then proceeds to cheerfully gamble his entire fortune away. During this period he cultivates the friendship of Mortimer, the bank...

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. Moren than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Pride And Prejudice, the story of Mrs. Bennet's attempts to marry off her five daughters is one of the best-loved and most enduring classics in English literature. Excitement fizzes through the Bennet...

THE languid quiet of midday lay upon the little road-house that stood guard by Verde Crossing. Old Crit and his wild Texas cowboys had left the corral at dawn, riding out mysteriously with their running...

What a cliché! Jane witnessed her fiancé and her best friend having an intimate coffee date. She flees to her late uncle's remote cabin in Alaska to start a fresh life. Within hours, she finds an unconscious,...

"Madame Bovary" is the debut novel of French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1856. The character lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Gustave...

Seven short stories, some shorter than others, written at different times: “Guardian”, “The Greystone Mystery”, “The Girl on the Swing”, “Memory of a Love Story”, “See Who I Am”, “A Summer Night's Dream”...

In the Penal Colony (In der Strafkolonie) (also translated as In the Penal Settlement) is a short story by Franz Kafka written in German in October 1914, revised in November 1918, and first published...

Giallo - novelette (22 pagine) - On a particularly cold and foggy Halloween, Doctor Watson is shaken to the core by the spectral sight of a women, long thought dead, hurrying anxiously along the murky...

Holbox, a small Mexican island, the perfect setting for a getaway. A European secret service agent, tired of dirty wars, decides to disappear with 2 million dollars of his agency’s money that was earmarked...

Leviathan is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651. Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and...

Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the...

"Among the few English novels which we can call indisputably great." —Virginia Woolf "Crusoe himself is a representative of humanity in general; neither his intellectual nor his moral qualities set him...

Sandra Baker thought her life was on the right track until she ended up pregnant. Her boyfriend, not wanting the baby, pushes her to have an abortion. After the procedure, Sandra's life falls apart, and...

"The Colour Out of Space" is a short story written by American horror author H. P. Lovecraft in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as...

“What country did you say, Prince?” “Baluchistan, my lord.” The great financier lay back in his chair and a slight smile flickered over his stern features. Then he removed his eye-glasses and twirled...

In That Station is a tale with five love stories, which are crossed by a whim of chance, through an unexpected and fatal event that will change the way of everyone forever, making us reflect: On the rails...

"Aesop's Fables" is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with...

The Captain's Doll is a short story or novella by the English author D. H. Lawrence. It was written in 1921 and first published by Martin Secker in March 1923 in a volume withThe Ladybird and The Fox....

Carla's life was turned upside down by love and blind trust that led her down a path of deceit. After nearly two decades in a relationship built on lies, she found herself facing tough choices and a whirlwind...

Megan Kolt has been trapped, a prisoner in her own body, for the past six years. Her husband, Turner Kolt, has watched her slowly waste away in a coma, but he's been assured her brain is functioning and...

Publius Vergilius Maro (70-19 B.C.), known in English as Virgil, was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire—a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons....