Action Comedy

Just another crazy day in paradise... Meredith Whitman isn’t in the sunny Caribbean looking for trouble, especially not in the form of the Russian Mafia. All she wants is to contemplate enough tropical sunsets to forget the tragedies of her past. Still, trouble is what she gets – along with a second chance at true love. Toussaint “Tuss” Anderson is a man on a mission that doesn't involve rescuing damsels in distress. But when bullets start to fly, he finds himself face to face with the one woman he can’t get out of his mind. Now he’s in the line of fire, too, and pitted against ...

Harry Flashman: the unrepentant bully of Tom Brown's schooldays, now with a Victoria Cross, has three main talents - horsemanship, facility with foreign languages, and fornication. A reluctant military hero, Flashman plays a key part in most of the defining military campaigns of the 19th century, despite trying his utmost to escape them all. If only Flashman had got on with his dinner and ignored the handkerchief dropped by a flirtatious hussy in a Calcutta hotel....

What’s stronger than magic itself? A Brownstone with a mission. Brownstone security continues cleansing Seattle’s magical mobster underbelly while Alison draws strength from her trusted circle as she fights off the virus draining her powers. She uncovers the smuggling of magical pets and the harmful side effects of testing savage spells on humans and still has time to chase down her enemies. It’s dirty, dangerous work and leaves her friends the targets of vicious attacks. Not smart, bad guys. Do you even know who you are messing with?

Echoing a narrative line that includes Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller, William Giraldi’s Busy Monsters has been hailed as one of the most exciting fiction debuts in years. Penned with a linguistic bravado that explores the diaphanous line between fiction and fact, this "very funny, very inventive dbut novel" ( The New Yorker) has at last revived the great American picaresque tradition.

It was an easy job—until the pirates showed up—but ultimately, Dahkal and Ryan completed their contract on the planet Ruul and ended up with the mining rights to the entire planet. But when their new Emerald Dragons mercenary company returned to the Salvage System, they found Dahkal’s sister, Reuan, waiting for them. As only the heir of Shein is ever allowed to leave the Sheinrah System, the question was…why was she there?

Learning to sing these scales could kill a girl. The RS is finally under control, thanks to a spell cast by the elemental Witch Leaders. But Elaria only survived that casting because King Verin of the Azure Court offered himself to fuel the RS. And Verin was only able to do that because of yet another spell that Vivian, the Leader of Water, cast upon Verin and Elaria—a love spell. That love spell should have faded but instead has grown in strength. As Elaria and Verin fall deeper under its thrall, it slowly becomes clear that there may be something more sinister than love magic at work. ...

A quest to find the treasure of all treasures launches this swashbuckling tale of romance and high adventure across three centuries and takes you on a hilarious and visionary journey that includes lovers, pirates, bank robbers, treasure maps, yoga cults, love potions, assassins, con artists, quicksand, smugglers, and rock-paper-scissors.

With an FBI sting on his misfit secessionist group closing in, Nat Cinder blasts from Flagstaff to Phoenix on his Triumph Rocket motorcycle. Soon he stumbles onto a packet of photos showing Governor Virginia Rentier lustily paired with three high-ranking women in state government. Though Cinder and the governor clashed 16 years before when his wife died in a car accident, Cinder prefers to keep his dislike of Rentier focused on her politics. But when the bullets fly, Nat asks questions, and learns his sudden war with the governor traces back 16 years.

Many have marvelled at General Napier's daring 1868 expedition through the treacherous peaks and bottomless chasms of Abyssinia to rescue a small group of British citizens held captive by the mad tyrant Emperor Theodore. But the vital role of Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., in the success of this campaign has hitherto gone unrecorded.

New year, new Finlay Donovan. She's got a list of resolutions and she's ready to bite the bullet. But first, she owes the Russian mob one last favour - tracking down a rogue hitman with her nanny Vero, before the cops do. The small complication? This killer might be cop himself. Enter distractingly hot Detective Nicholas Anthony, whose new citizens' police academy provides the perfect cover-up for Finlay to sleuth out the target - and some fresh ideas for her crime novel.

Pubblicato originariamente in venti puntate mensili, tra il 1836 e il 1837, il romanzo incontrò già all'epoca un grande successo popolare, soprattutto a partire dalla comparsa di Sam Weller (nel quinto capitolo), che portò le vendite a oltre quarantamila copie per numero. Oreste Del Buono sottolineava che la pubblicazione dei fascicoli rappresentava una sorta di evento: li leggevano nei cortili ad alta voce a tutta la famiglia.

Meet Tommy Martini, the monk with an anger management problem. His meditations are interrupted by a legacy from his uncle, a crooked priest. Arriving in a New Age Arizona town to claim his inheritance, Brother Tommy meets a charismatic, smoking-hot cult leader who claims that women are being impregnated by alien beings while they sleep. Tommy’s own sleep is disturbed - by cartel hitmen, Mafia bill collectors, and women intrigued by his vow of chastity.

Before the dungeons, before the dragons, there is the party.... Valeran is bored. Corbett is broke. Andreton and Donald are on the run and Dorian just wants to do what is right. Not the best recipe for a questing group but when you are driven by prophecy sometimes the mix is decided for you.

"I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "FIVE STARS!" ~ Multiple Fans "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ Author G. Taylor In this 5K-word swollen and throbbing erotic short story, a woman named Jeanine joins her husband on a swinger couple's cruise, only Jeanine is suddenly blamed for stealing an emerald necklace from the ship's most executive passenger. Now it's a race against time as Jeanine and a handsome PI named Bridge Hoffa must find the true culprit in the theft. As the evidence begins to mount, it now appears as if that priceless ...

A British copywriter stays for a week at his composer friend Oskar’s elegant, ultramodern apartment in a glum Eastern European city. The instructions are simple: feed the cats, don’t touch the piano, and make sure nothing harms the priceless wooden floors. Content for the first time in ages, he accidentally spills some wine. Over the course of a week, both the apartment and the narrator’s sanity fall apart in this original and “weirdly addictive” ( Daily Mail) novel.

New Yorker Jayne Boland has a problem. A BIG problem. Dumped hours after landing in Italy by her two-timing Italian boyfriend, Jayne faces the reality of launching Plan B instead shopping for an engagement ring. Knowing family and friends await her Manhattan return with I-told-you-so’s, the heartbroken fashionista flees to chic Milan to reassess her shattered life and resuscitate her anemic bank account. But the runway streets of the elegant fashion capital don’t roll out the red carpet for the newcomer.

Ruby Innes is under attack. Someone is attempting to sabotage her life, making it difficult to do her job and start a new relationship with her Kleptos Anonymous boyfriend, Henry. As the weeks tick down until an important trial Ruby is getting more and more desperate to solve this case before it all collapses on top of her. The Mall Cadet is a young adult short-read series where you follow Ruby Innis in her attempts to set things straight after being caught shoplifting. With quick wits and the desire to make up for her wrongdoings, Ruby takes on various cases inside the mall. Will she atone...

Navy Lieutenant G. Palmatier has a small problem: A polar bear. But he's not going to let a little thing like that come between him and the crazy redhead he loves. Especially since he's so drunk he won't feel a thing til after it is all over. Don't try what he tries at home.

Make friends,” the A.I. said. Gemini Fowler did. Now, the stakes have been raised, and Gemini is irate. Stripped of his gear and returned to the village where it all started, he must follow a long road filled with peril and quests to level up and recover the companion he lost. Soon, he’ll see Enora is much more than a dark forest, and his adventure has hardly begun. Can he reach Roshan before the mysterious governor’s men arrive at the tyrant’s stronghold and she is lost to him forever?

It has only been four days since Z-Day, and Charlotte and Will are over it. The death, the homicidal maniacs, the jealous ex-lovers, the blood... all they want to do is get across the smouldering city of Hillsborough and to The Lakes Estate in Banksia, an off-grid housing estate that they just know is going to be the perfect place to rest, recover and repress. And all they have to do get there, is cross one tiny town... On a river full of corpses In a boat that keeps breaking down In the middle of a gusty winter's night, while one companion lies dying And the other is yearning to die... ...