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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...

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...

From H.L. Crowe comes their blasphemous debut, DELIVER US TO EVIL.Woodheart, North Carolina is home to a Catholic Church like no other; it runs and operates like Vatican City with the eponymous Father...

One look was all it took to set this heart of stone ablaze. HeatI'm the president of the Kings of Anarchy MC: Virginia Charter. My reputation for being who I am and taking no shit from anyone all while...

He's a man who has never seen his reflection, she's a woman who has never needed anything other than a good book. Join Joseph and Moira as they travel Europe through intrigue, suspense, and the people...

They say the lake answers when the moon burns blue.In the shadowed water of Llyn Du, hydrologist Talise Calder comes searching for scientific truth—and finds a man shaped from water, memory, and an ancient...

The night they ran, the world went quiet in a way that felt unforgiving.By morning, sixteen-year-old Eli Moreno and his sisters—Maria and little Lila—are standing in the wreckage of one desperate choice:...

When the Crown fell silent, the world did not end.It began to listen.In the aftermath of a fracture that reshaped continents and tore open living dungeons across the land, the city of Vael'Tir stands...

When a mysterious spacecraft crashes off the Florida coast, blocked novelist Kirk Hunter expects headlines—not the injured young woman he and his golden retriever discover hiding in the woods. Renie doesn't...

Tucked in the lucrative Silicon Hills of Austin, Texas, Olivia St. George thrives as a master of illusions—charming wealthy men who pay handsomely for her company, all while safeguarding her heart against...

For a year, she has been a ghost haunting the mud of the Lowlands. They whisper her name in the taverns and the market squares: Cheveux-Sang. The Girl with the Blood-Hair. A reaper with a bone-grip falchion...

Evanna's mundane life is abruptly shattered when her childhood home burns down, taking her mother with it. Left to survive on her own, she is sent to an orphanage in a neighboring town, forced to navigate...

The most dangerous threat to a retired Dungeon Boss wasn't a hero wielding a sword. It was the infuriatingly optimistic apothecary elf next door who believed her bakery needed a little more chaos.Hazel...

I was supposed to let the beast die.Instead, I saved him.The creature I drag from the snow isn't human. He's a dragon shifter — an Alpha — and when he opens his eyes, he doesn't thank me. He looks at...

ATLASI once had her on her knees.Gun to her head. Finger on the trigger.And I let her live.That mistake carved itself into me—followed me all the way to the throne.Because now I'm the Don. And mercy like...

Journey through the sprawling, philosophical, and deeply personal musings of a literary titan observing a nation in profound transition. From intimate reflections on nature and devastating firsthand accounts...

"What else could I do to settle my turbulent feelings for Jay and Lily, in the wake of their star-crossed dreams, but write it all down?"After a friend's mother dies, one last party is thrown to celebrate...

Moments in Time — a stirring anthology that proves that even the smallest moments can change the course of an entire life. This collection of four evocative short stories blends drama, fantasy, adventure,...

A love cursed by fate…A bond that refuses to break.After the heartbreaking events of Season One, everything changes.Love is no longer just a feeling—it becomes a sacrifice written in destiny.Secrets begin...

MIKAYLAMost brides walk down the aisle. I ran.Straight out of the church, barefoot, dress in my fists, freedom in sight...And directly into the bumper of a very expensive car.The man behind the wheel...

The Sovereign Republic of Beatrice has one citizen too many.Alistair is the "Scullery Sage"—a man capable of solving differential equations but deemed unqualified to operate a toaster by his own mother....

Zalea and Milla Wood know little about the world outside their tribe's land-hold. In school they learned about the troubled Old Times, when bad leaders wreaked havoc on the nation, but that was before...

Wren is a very small bird with a very big dream: to sing her own special aria for the Queen and the Royal Court. But to achieve it, she must travel a long way, across a vast ocean, through a dense jungle,...

A man spends his life searching for truth — only to discover something within himself he cannot accept.

In a parallel universe, under the hammer fist of evil colonialism, a native people are uprooted from their homelands, taken into captivity, and relocated to a life of submission and cruelty.  Separated...

Eliza Bell can face down a requisition officer, deliver a foal at three in the morning, and run an estate stripped bare by war without once raising her voice. She cannot, for the life of her, tell a man...

The Salt Between Us is a coastal novel about love, ambition, and moral fracture set in a village threatened by both rising tides.

They killed her family to break her…but a woman like her is not easily broken. A borrowed badge. A hidden identity.And a man she should never trust. Lainee James should be mourning. Instead, she rides...

Dallas is drowning.A hurricane has flooded the streets. A casino runs on soul-debt. A platform called TRAGIX lets citizens bet on real crimes in real time, payouts cascading as bodies drop. The city's...

A glorious vision is Gloucester harbor, whether seen under the radiant sun of a clear June morning or through the haze and smoke of a mellow October afternoon. Gloucester town lies on a range of hills...

Some years ago I, the editor, was stopping with a friend, "vir doctissimus et amicus neus," at a certain University, which for the purposes of this history we will call Cambridge, and was one day much...

In old times, when voyages were longer than in these days of steam, a nautical frolic on crossing "the Line" helped to break the monotony of many a tedious passage. This time-honoured custom is slowly...