Triptych of Couples - format ePub

Drew Singleton is tall, dark, handsome and well-groomed. In his mid-30s he is singularly independent with inherited wealth and a heathy social life with no emotional ties. However he has tired of casual...

John Jolly is divorced, homeless and depressingly unemployable. Doing voluntary work  has opened up possibilities, a roof over his head where he can have his 9yo daughter stay with him. It's Friday night,...

Nigel thought he was happily married until a fire at work sent him home early. He discovered that he appeared to know nothing about what extra-marital games his wife Pat plays while he's out of the way....

Jim was fine with his new life, having left his family behind almost five years earlier. It wasn't his fault, he tells himself but he was better off away from them. Now an accident brings his childhood...

Three short interconnected stories. Eve and Adam are starting something new and exciting and perhaps a little naughty; Carol and Rob haven't started anything yet; while Alan and Natalie were finished...

Hardly anyone has a bad word to say about family man Timothy Smith. He is a nice man, kind, generous, loving as well as successful, loyal, hard working, handsome and absolutely grounded in everything...

If Father Christmas fails to deliver, the magic of Christmas could be lost forever, so drastic measures are called for. There is heartache, confusion and pain, everything looks lost. The cause and solution...

Harry's a creature of habit and an observer rather than one who interacts, until an attractive woman introduces a little sparkle into his loneliness. Set in an Olde English tea-shop.

Bobby is at the end of his tether, he has lost the love of his life, his job and now even his parents have given up on him. If only he could rewind his life back to when it all started to go wrong and...

Love bites us all at some time in our lives. And love bites always leave a mark on soft tissue, branding your skin, showing the world that you belong to your lover. Even when that visible mark fades from...

After her father's funeral, Caroline sits in his "Dream Car" a classic wreck that has sat rusting in his front garden for over 30 years. Recently impoverished by divorce and disappointed by her family...

"No blurb or tags?" my wife said, not really sure what a tag is exactly, "Honey, you can't publish your 13th story without a blurb. How'll readers know what it's all about? Oh! Really? A relationship...

When it rains, they say, it rains. So when it snows ... well, it's a cold day in Barry's personal hell. He is full of barely-repressed anger. Six years after his divorce, he is frozen out from his children...

Set in the English Middle Ages, Will the longbow maker and fletcher sells his wares in the shire market towns, taking part in the archery competitions to publicise his craft, earning more from wagers...

All that sad, lonely Aussie truckie Mark Cornwall wants for Chrissie Day is a trouble-free road-train drive through the Australian Outback, coast to coast, south to north. He's delivering 60 tonnes of...

Jennifer Webster dreams of Santa coming into her bedroom every Christmas for most of her 29 years, not the fat bearded Santa of Christmas cards, but young and handsome, and comforting. But this year is...

When their worst nightmare is haunting them again Touka Kimizuki and her twin brother, Yuuto, were just high school students until they were recruited by the Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA)...

NIKOLAIIt was supposed to be only a distraction. One anonymous night in Paris. One taste of her innocence. One angel claimed my heart.Still, I walked away before she saw the monster lurking inside me.Now...

When you play with fire, you're bound to get burned.Pyro I can't resist the allure of the flames. Fire is in my blood. The heat and the smoke raised me. Now, I wield them for my club. You want to get...

A spine-tingling special you won’t want to miss! From the vaults of our acclaimed horror anthology Hello Darkness comes a special one-shot issue! Get ready for a curated collection overflowing with grimy,...

He was the one man she could never have.She was the only woman he would ever love.Gordon and Beauty live by the rules their worlds have set—his filled with scandal, hers with vows of faith.But one chance...

Cycle of Love is an evocative collection of four short stories that delves into the complex emotions surrounding love, loneliness, heartbreak and self-realization. Each tale represents a unique perspective...

Their storybook romance didn't have a happily ever after… but he's back to rewrite their ending.When Assistant Chief of Police Elaine Potter's book club picks a steamy rockstar romance, she doesn't expect...

Vander, with his alluring charm and shady intentions, has sunk his claws into Lee's mind, twisting his thoughts until they churn with sickness. Wyatt and the others turn to an unlikely ally: Nova, Vander's...

The disappearance of Rayna sets off a chain of events that tests the limits of obsession, love and loyalty. Her boyfriend, Wyatt, along with her friends, embarks on a desperate search to find her. Rayna...

SophiaThe mafia world was never for me, but fate enveloped me in its darkness, and I fell in love with the dark-hearted devil. His father may have tried to use me as a pawn, but Massimo never did.He thinks...

An impossible signal. A discovery that shouldn't exist. And a future that may already be in motion.Astrophysicist Logan "LJ" James is searching for anomalies—faint signatures buried in deep-space data...

Cologne, 1942. Seventeen-year-old Karin Blik breaks curfew on the night of the thousand-bomber raid and stumbles into a web that reaches back to Luxembourg and the father whose death was never truly explained....

In a world where disaster is prevented before it begins, the most dangerous act is arriving too late.Orison does not demand obedience. It offers relief, clarity, and timing so precise that human judgment...

Snow brings Harper Lane to Cedar Hollow.Love convinces her to stay.Everything changes in the hush of falling snow.Burnt-out novelist Harper Lane flees the noise of New York for a tiny winter retreat in...

An epic collection of mind-shattering stories that vault across the cosmos.A woman looking for her father. A crew trapped on a bizarre planet. A researcher stuck inside her models.And More.Seven blistering...

Maya is fiercely independent, but her life changes forever when she is sold to the mysterious Damian Blackwood. She doesn't understand why he wants her or why he's so adamant that she stay by his side....

Step into the shadows of Tales of Three Tree Hollows a chilling collection of suspense, mystery, horror, and science fiction where survival is never guaranteed, and the unknown lurks just beyond the edge...

The Cycle failed. There was no warning.No prophecy.No one left in charge to explain what came next. The Anomaly is not an origin story. It is what remains after one. In a world that feels normal enough...

The realms of passion and duty collide to push boundaries. Dirge, an incubus condemned to sing sorrowful hymns at funerals, finds himself inexplicably drawn to Dr. Xolani Coleman. She captivates him,...

Courage illuminates the path when fear stands in the way.The Adventures of Luna the Brave centers on Luna, an inquisitive and compassionate young hero who learns that true bravery isn't the absence of...

How far would you go to uncover a deadly truth?When a brilliant young doctor notices strange patterns in patient deaths at a top hospital, suspicion turns into a terrifying discovery. Behind the polished...

In 1819, Captain John Smith discovered the Ajanta Caves… but the Bhil tribes say he missed the most important one: Cave 31, the 'Star Library.'Now, adventurers Ishaan Deshmukh and Meera Kulkarni must...

Waking up 21 has never been so deadly.Harley Sterling expected a hangover after her milestone birthday; she didn't expect to wake up in a pool of blood. Trapped in the apartment of her ex, Johnny Blackthorne,...

Welcome back to Lupine Meadow, where love is unexpected, and the werewolves are mostly domesticated. Glory Guidry, a rougarou from southeast Louisiana, is happy with her work, friends, and community....

In the shadows of a bustling city, Nawaz's life is orderly, controlled, and predictable—until Laila enters it. A quiet office employee, she stirs something deep within him, awakening desires he thought...

In the sultry nights of Buenos Aires, where tango pulses through dimly lit streets and whispered secrets, a retired private detective recounts a story that refuses to remain buried.Drawn into a labyrinth...

Pinky Promise:The LoveThat Found Its WayBack"The Invisible String Theory"What does it mean?The Invisible String Theory posits that every person is connected to another by an unseen, intangible string—an...

He's the noise she can't stand. She's the quiet he didn't know he needed.Clara Vance lives for order. As the head librarian of the Sterling Athenaeum, she ensures that every book, every archive, and every...

This captivating story explores the journey of Jack and Alicia, two individuals living far apart who are brought together by a single, unexpected message. As their connection deepens through conversations,...

When seventeen-year-old Maria stumbles upon a portal to faerie and discovers she is their long-lost faerie princess, she must make a decision: stay with her people or escape and find her human family...