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An all-new collection of eight "Vampire for Hire" short stories featuring everyone's favorite vampire detective, Samantha Moon! It’s all inside, including: Vampire Requiem - Samantha Moon gets up close and personal with her dead ex-husband’s mistress, Nancy, who might be a woman who knows too much. Moon Love - Sam and Kingsley Fulcrum set their sights on a romantic weekend getaway to Big Bear, California, only to find themselves on the hunt for a runaway boy. Moon Musings - Sam is back and... blogging? Turns out the vampire mama has a lot to say on the subject of life, death, and ...

I just broke my biggest rule. Never fall in love with a patient Emerson Stone is the best forward in professional hockey. His speed and agility are legendary. His smile can melt the iciest hearts. He’s sweet both on and off the ice. And his career is in my hands. My new position with the Houston Snowhawks is a dream come true. But doing my job means keeping Emerson off the ice. Can I keep my job, my sanity, and my heart unbroken? Buckle in for book two in my new steamy sports series! Down To Puck is a fast-paced hockey romance featuring a no-nonsense team doctor and the injured hockey ...

A collection of the comic master's early stories of perpetually in-the-soup Bertie Wooster and his unflappable valet Jeeves, including their debut in "Extricating Young Gussie" and all 28 stories from "The Inimitable Jeeves" and "Carry On, Jeeves".

From the award-winning author of Hidden Talents, two remarkable short-story collections - Kidzilla and The Witch's Monkey - together for the first time. Plus several brand-new stories. Each hilarious and harrowing. A substitute teacher finds out she has some monsters for students. A group of kids attempts a levitation trick with hair-raising results. A neighborhood is so boring the grown-ups are turning into...well...you know. And dozens more.

The latest thrilling collection of “Vampire for Hire” stories featuring vampire private eye, Samantha Moon, including: Silver Hammer - When a silver hammer appears in the hands of one of Samantha Moon’s closest friends―along with a bloodthirsty need to use it―the vampire detective is about to discover just how clever the Universe can be... When Sam Met Santa - When Santa Claus shows up at Sam Moon's door, it's hardly the strangest thing that's ever happened to her. What happens next, however, is another story... One Swallow - A murdered wife. A desperate husband seeking revenge. ...

A collection of short stories from The Big Garage on Clear Shot chronicles the offbeat lives of the colorful inhabitants of The End of the Road, a small town in Alaska.

A writer's retreat becomes a harem fantasy turned real. Coming off a contentious divorce, author Sam Browning has left Chicago to seek peace in a forest cabin. With electricity, internet, and a healthy ten miles between him and the nearby town of Ashbury, he hopes this writer's retreat will help kickstart this new chapter of his life—and his next book. Things start off disastrous when a fallen tree blocks the trail to the cabin, but the blow is softened by the beautiful Parks employee Lily, who is there to help. And as they grow closer, Sam finds the harsh memories of his old life harder ...

Oopsie. The Gray-Haired Knitting Detectives accused the wrong person of murder. Poor Milly is furious after being hauled into the police station to be interrogated. She is not letting those knitters get away with pointing their fingers at her! Absolutely not. Instead, she insists they solve the murder and clear her name. Naturally, the knitters jump at the chance to solve another mystery. They don’t care if the victim was hated by one and all. They’ll find the murderer! Can the Gray-Haired Knitting Detectives wade through the suspects to find the actual killer? Each book in the Gray-...

As the new manager of the Perfect Passion Company, Katie’s mission is to help the lonely hearts of Edinburgh. With the assistance of her amiable and handsome office neighbor, William, she finds herself using a personal touch to find matches for the city’s lovelorn citizens. When an airline pilot comes to her looking for a woman to take care of him, Katie sends him to cooking school. The case of a hotelier with a particularly overbearing mother may require a delicate two-pronged approach.

The nine stories and one poem in this volume formed the basis for the astonishingly original film Short Cuts, directed by Robert Altman. Collected altogether in this volume, these stories form a searing and indelible portrait of American innocence and loss. With deadpan humor and enormous tenderness, this is the work of "one of the true contemporary masters" ( The New York Review of Books).

I head into my favorite diner for breakfast. What I find is a curvy, innocent snack in need of rescue. Saving her is not just my job, it’s now my purpose. She doesn’t know it yet, but Sage Hudson belongs with me. Protecting her is my future. I just have to convince her to give love a shot. License and Registration, Readers! Jax is a country cop with a Texas-sized heart and the GUN to match.This quick and steamy read packs major heat and a guaranteed HEA. No cliffhangers or resisting arrest here! Just keep your hands on the wheel and the cuffs handy.

Bestselling author Candace Ayers brings you SHORT "lunchtime quickie" reads—condensed romances intended to be read in under two hours! Dragon scales and bridal veils—billionaire shifters find their fiery mates! I’m not a fan of humans. As a major player in Big Pharma, I’ve encountered my share of swindlers, embezzlers and heartless sociopaths. I don’t expect my new wife to be any different, but duty calls. Imagine my surprise when I’m instantly smitten. But my trust issues run deep. And when I catch her in a lie, I'm determined to uncover the truth. What I find changes ...

Perfect for fans of Gervase Phinn, James Herriot and Alexander McCall Smith. Father Okoli dreams of owning a flock of hens and studying for a PhD, when his bishop saddles him with yet another parish to look after. But as Father moves to Moreton-on-the-Edge, a farming village in the English Cotswolds, he’s plugged into a community of warm-hearted characters, from the motherly parish secretary to her septuagenarian neighbour who’s become a cycling champion, and from teenagers requiring driving lessons to atheist publicans who believe in miracles. Between a wacky race and a scarecrow ...

Simon Rich is "one of the funniest writers in America" (The Daily Beast) - a humorist who draws comparisons to Douglas Adams (The New York Times Book Review) and James Thurber and P.G. Wodehouse (The Guardian). With Hits and Misses, he's back with a hilarious new collection of stories about dreaming big and falling flat, about ordinary people desperate for stardom and the stars who are bored by having it all.

In the collection's marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested when one of them develops a fear of flying. In "The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979", a dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left in a seagull's nest. "Proving Up" and "The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis" find Russell veering into more sinister territory.

Since its publication in 1996, George Saunders’ debut collection has grown in esteem from a cherished cult classic to a masterpiece of the form, inspiring an entire generation of writers along the way. In six stories and a novella, Saunders hatches an unforgettable cast of characters, each struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world.

Sam has gotten together with Lily and Jasmine. And he's worried he might have already blown it. Lily and Jasmine have just spent the night at the cabin, and the two women and Sam have decided to make this relationship real: a harem. But as days pass and life and work get in the way, Sam gets to missing Jasmine and Lily, out here alone in his cabin in the woods. So he leaps forward and asks them to move in. Sam just hopes he hasn't ruined everything in one fell swoop. But some lovely housewarming gifts may soon bring him the answer he's waiting for… ------ His Writer's Harem is a ...

From the author, whom the Times called "a comic genius" and "an old master of farce", are 11 further stories featuring such eccentric characters as Freddie Widgeon, Cyril (Barmy) Fotheringay Phipps, Percy Wimbolt, and Pongo. Young Men in Spats includes the following stories: "Fate", "Tried in the Furnace", "Trouble Down at Tudsleigh", "The Amazing Hat Mystery", "Good-bye to All Cats", "The Luck of the Stiffhams", "Noblesse Oblige", "Uncle Fred Flits By", "Archibald and the Masses", and more.

In this quirky ghost story, a woman endures jury duty by observing the many characters in the room, including a TV crew filming a paranormal presence in the courthouse, a service-dog-in-training, and a man with a "ghost box," a radio to try to communicate with the beyond. As humorous chaos ensues, our protagonist unexpectedly needs to confront the truth about the secret crush she’s been harboring.

Welcome to Crooked Creek, Alaska where you should expect the unexpected. Chloe should have read the fine print when her grandfather left her his old cabin. No bathroom, check. No fridge, check. Hot forest ranger to confuse everything she thought she knew, check. What the heck did she just do? This was supposed to give her some time to sort out her life. Figure out who she was and where she was going. The only thing she’s sorting out is that she needs hiking boots and a new car. Her plump little butt should start running, but that gaze from hot guy has her throwing common sense to the wind...