Modern Fiction

En el verano de 1816, el poeta Percy B. Shelley y su esposa Mary se reunieron con Lord Byron y su médico en una villa a orillas del lago Leman. A instancias de Lord Byron y para animar una velada tormentosa, decidieron que cada uno inventaría una historia de fantasmas. La más callada y reservada, Mary Shelley, dio vida así a quien sería su personaje más famoso: el doctor Frankenstein. Al cabo de un año completaría la novela.

Billy Phelan, small-time bookie, pool hustler, and poker player, becomes an unlikely go-between in the 1938 kidnapping of an Albany, New York, political boss' son.

One druid against the apocalypse. Hell on earth doesn’t stand a chance. Now that I’ve dealt with Badb and proven to the Celtic gods that I’m a force to be reckoned with, it’s time to address some unfinished business....

This collection includes all three novels in The Shadow Changeling Series, a Colin McCool Junkyard Druid spin-off series set in M.D. Massey's Druidverse® urban fantasy setting. If you enjoy dark urban fantasy books featuring haunted antiheroes in the tradition of Snape, Walker Boh, and Constantine, you'll love this story about a shadow wizard who's searching for his long lost human family.

In this new novel, beloved best-selling author Elizabeth Berg weaves a beautifully written and richly resonant story of a mother and daughter in emotional transit. Helen Ames - recently widowed, coping with loss and grief, unable to do the work that has always sustained her - is beginning to depend far too much on her 27-year-old daughter, Tessa, and is meddling in her life, offering unsolicited and unwelcome advice. Helen’s problems are compounded by her shocking discovery that her mild-mannered and loyal husband was apparently leading a double life.

Exit Wounds is a thrilling anthology of crime stories written by masters of the genre, including Dean Koontz, Val McDermid, Lee Child, Jeffery Deaver, Elly Griffiths, Dennis Lehane, Joe R. Lansdale, and others.

Three mountain men with one goal in mind: finding a wife! Includes The Mountain Man’s Muse, The Mountain Man’s Cure, and The Mountain Man’s North Star.

When you’re not looking for love, love has a way of finding you anyway... Jazz Colton wants nothing more than a boring life. Escaping from a tumultuous past in California, she moves to Oakview seeking tranquility. She’s done with love, done with excitement, all she needs is a little calm and quiet, and her independence. Lucy Ford has finally achieved her dream of becoming a police officer. Now that she has what she wants, she needs to deal with what she doesn’t want. And with a house full of stray cats, the one thing that Lucy doesn’t want is yet someone else to look after. But when...

Beat the game. Get the girls. Stop the bad guy. My name's Ethan Riley. Just your typical dude with a bartending gig and an outdated Subaru, and if that wasn't boring enough...I'm from Ohio. Or at least I was boring...until I died. No, seriously. I died. But thanks to the magic of unethical medical practices, I was kitted out with a microchip in my head and some hush money in my pocket. Now, I’m suddenly seeing everything like a dating simulator, including some of the hottest gamer girls in the industry.

★★★★★ “Powerful, timely thrillers with sharp commentary on wealth, power, and justice.” For readers who love Women Sleuths, Crime Fiction, Murder thrillers, Psychological thrillers and more—Tom Ford is your man! TWO BOOKS, TWO FLAWED WOMEN SLEUTHS, TWO CRIMES TO SOLVE THE SILENT WITNESS Will facing her own past destroy her? Detective Evelyn Cross is a brilliant yet haunted investigator, her career plagued by whispers of instability and a scandalous past she’s tried to bury. When she takes on the unsolved 15-year-old case of Ivy Laurent—a catatonic survivor of a brutal ...

Drifters in search of work, George and simple-minded friend Lennie have nothing in the world except each other - and a dream. A dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch, but their hopes are doomed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstanding and jealousy - becomes a victim of his own strength.

I'm finally going to Madagascar, and I'm so very excited about it. This has been a dream since I was very small. A dream I didn't think was possible for the longest time. But it is, and I was about to make it happen. This is going to be so incredible, I just know it. The only problem, we're getting a new member in our group. I'm worried, how will it affect the group dynamic? I hate that we'll have to split up during meals now, but I can't let anyone get hurt. This is the best way to ensure that doesn't happen, so it's what we're going to do. It'll be fine, right? I'm sure it will. But ...

An epic magical tale of destinies, battles, talking trees, Quests and an incredible secret! Gatekeepers protect and prepare .. humans chosen from conception to guard the precious Hubs around the world so they can play their part on Judgement Day as the Prophecies state. There were 197 Hub Forests, one in each country worldwide, but now there were only 102 and most of these are endangered by ignorant humans who do not recognise their crucial worth. Ayliah is the Last Gatekeeper ... she is special and protects the Hub Forest of the United of Kingdoms. Eliah is the Last Warrior King ... tough,...

Time is running short. The men-turned-mercenaries from the now-defunct Integral Solutions Consulting are short on options. While Alex Foaly continues his search for information that will clear their names of the crimes he and his teammates didn’t commit, Morgan Tyron is still healing from the wounds he sustained during his one-man mission in the African Bush. But their efforts have come to a grinding halt thanks to a single text message.

Scratch Sullivan just wanted to survive the apocalypse in peace...but when the undead bring their war right to his doorstep, it's time to ranger up and rain hell down on his enemies! It's been eight years since the bombs fell and the dead rose, and the world has become a very dangerous place. But unlike most folks, former Army Ranger Scratch Sullivan is getting by just fine. Sure, it's hell on earth, but Scratch seems to fit in. He makes his living by hunting the dead, vampires and zombies alike, with the odd revenant thrown in for good measure.

Do you enter Flash Fiction competitions? Would you like a peak at your competition? Then this collection of winning and longlisted flash fiction from the Farnham Flash Fiction competition is for you. Read and benchmark your work against your peers. Understand what makes a competition winning story. Be inspired and take your writing to the next level.This is a collection of short fiction from the Farnham Flash Fiction competition 2021. The Farnham Flash Festival was held from January 2021 to June 2021, and these 25 flash fiction stories were the very best of the 152 entries. With entries ...

At exactly midnight on December 31, every electronic device made in China for the last 30 years stops working! From the U.S. electrical grid and all its back-ups, engine control-management systems, early warning systems on U.S. satellites, every motor vehicle, aircraft and ship made after 1985, to even simple memory chips inside children’s teddy bears—every electronic fuse, resistor, or connector that was “Made in China” becomes dormant… forever. At one minute past midnight on January 1st, every modern television broadcast of the U.S. New Year’s Eve festivities on the East Coast...

Short Stories in Arabic for Intermediate Learners has been written especially for students from low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement, a feeling of progress and most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1 on the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories are designed to give you a sense of achievement and a feeling of progress when listening.

When a popular uprising, dubbed as the Social Media Revolution, topples her husband’s regime, Siham Abdul Qader, the former first lady of a Middle Eastern country — which will remain unnamed but we will refer to it as Hayran— is forced to leave her home country and live in exile. In an attempt to defend her legacy, Siham decides to take on social media herself. Under a fake account, Siham starts tweeting and reconnecting with the people of Hayran. She starts seeing the people in her home country in a different light as she learns about their dreams, fears, and hopes. But will she be ...