Old Fantasy

Ho ho ho, it's that magical season again! Christmas isn't just about decking the halls anymore—it's when my wildest dreams come true. It all started back in college when a certain jolly fellow paid me a very special visit. Let's just say his sack was full of more than toys. Now, every year, I count down the days. The anticipation makes me tingle all over. I'm on the nice list, but our yearly meetup? Definitely naughty. My husband? He's got a front-row seat to the festivities. Talk about a Christmas miracle. This year, we're primed and ready for the big night. Because when the big guy ...

The traitors hiding under the roof of their family home were found and punished. But where do the threads woven into a sophisticated tangle of conspiracy lead? The young Prince Gorchakov will have to confront rogue guardsmen, outraged rebels, the people sent by the German Kaiser to aid the crisis, and one legendary general who went over to the dark side. Sometimes, all of them at once.

Some people say that it’s a demon-haunted world. That certainly is true in Gus’s county around Halloween, mostly due to the digital demons plaguing Gus this year that live inside the new Pakiman game. There’s also a fancy Halloween party to deal with, to which everyone who is someone is invited—and that includes Gus. If getting a costume for a party he doesn’t want to go to was his worst problem, it would be a fun holiday season. Unfortunately, someone keels over dead in the free-cheese section of Fit Foods, and that opens the door to murder. That open door leads Gus right into ...

Don Rucker has seen what Mordecai The Brown is capable of. Now the second in command of his father's syndicate wants Mort's help with an even bigger job: killing Theo Rucker. Initially roped in simply as Mort's handler, Chuck's people skills become invaluable in rooting out loyalists to the old regime when even Don's trusted lieutenants are too close to be objective. Mort trims the ranks quietly, become a boogeyman to any syndicate guys not in on the plot. When the coup takes place, they hope for a quick decisive action that swiftly puts Don on the throne.

Three stories of horror in the vein of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

After my husband rejects my desperate attempt to catch his eye and spurns my advances, I am left devastated and shamed. Little do I know that another set of eyes desires me instead! Rejected by my husband and, desperate to have my needs met, I am left in a whirlwind of confusion and need but then, the unlikeliest of all the men comes up to me offering me a chance for satisfaction that I know I should reject. Conflicted about what to do I don't know if I will be able to turn down such an offer even though he is my daughter's boyfriend!

The plan was to hop a train to Oslo, hang out at a coffee shop, and connect my personal archive, Infinity, to the Internet. Yes, completely disregarding the well-established fact that magic and technology didn’t mix. At all.

Eleven-year-old Wunder Ellis is a miracologist. In a journal he calls The Miraculous, he records stories of the inexplicable and the extraordinary. And he believes every single one. But then his newborn sister dies, at only eight days old. If that can happen, then miracles can’t exist. So Wunder gets rid of The Miraculous. He stops believing.

There's another holiday party to attend, and after a few weeks of not seeing each other, Willow and Mike are ready to make the most of the party. Willow Since that first freeuse party, where Mike dominated me in ways I never knew I craved, I've been hiding hiding the swirling chaos of my growing desire. He thrills me with his commanding ways, and I don't care about the age difference--I want more. I'm ready to take this to the next level. I'm just not sure he feels the same way. Maybe he needs some competition at the upcoming party to make him realize he doesn't like seeing me with someone ...

Lisa looked out across the yard at the neighbor’s deck. There she was again. Chloe. That college girl who was house-sitting for the Jarvis family while they took a nice long European vacation. Chloe loved to suntan in her tiny yellow bikini. She did at least seem to realize that it was unhealthy, because she wore sunscreen – a lot of it. And she always took her top off to apply it. Lisa’s husband, Matt, had begun to take a special interest in yard work that summer. He always seemed to find a reason to be in the backyard while Chloe was out tanning, and Lisa frequently saw them making ...

One thousand years into the future, Old Dark has awakened from his deadly curse in a world overrun with magic where he hardly recognizes the dragon race anymore. The old dragon lord's body is frail and broken, and he is locked away by Lucan Grimoire for the safety and security of the world. But his thirst for revenge has only grown stronger.

In the bleak future of West Angel City, Vanity Rose is having a great time. She has a loving robot caretaker and a fake elf for a sister, and she roams the walls of West Angel's endless skyscrapers every night, thanks to her precious gravity shoes. What Vanity doesn't have are money and adventure, but she has a plan to get both. She's going to walk the dark side, joining the thieves and mercenaries who get paid to do all the little jobs that make a corrupt city go around. Fourteen is old enough for that, right?

In this beautiful book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his 50 favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice.

Two old farts surviving a grid-down apocalypse by fate or chance, or could be rotten luck according to their bickering, find themselves bound by circumstance of survival to live out their days together. Bad luck seems to be a daily occurrence for all in this apocalypse of no food, no water, but add to it a hurricane, pandemic, and old age, and two grumpy old men, and you have a story of resilience and humor sure to entertain you in a quarantine.

In this exciting adventure, two girls must find a way of stopping a gang of evil crooks from spiriting away a vast treasure. But to do it, they must first solve the mystery of the glowing locket. With danger lurking around every corner, this is a thrilling story for 9 - 12 year olds.

Cuckqueans have to learn their place. And these younger, hotter cuckcakes are going to enjoy teaching them. This too-hot-to-handle collection is packed full of every cuckquean's fantasies, from chastity belts to clean up scenes. Click "Look Inside" to see the stories included in this bundle, and see your deepest fantasies come to life.

For Ted Riley the moral of the story is be careful what you wish for.Claire Riley is your average mild-mannered suburban housewife. Mother of two and wife to Ted. After years of marriage and a brand new case of empty nest syndrome, her life has settled into a gentle rocking hum of doldrums. Little does she know it but her world is about to be turned upside down and changed forever. When she catches her husband Ted watching interracial cuckold porn on the internet she realizes that the problem isn't with their marriage it's with their sex life in particular. She peels back the boring facade ...

Over a year and a half had passed since Jade Godfrey - aka the dowser - fixed my mother’s necklace. Since I’d thwarted the vision of the death of love. Since I’d made a deal with a devil and acquired a demigod for a mentor. I still didn’t understand or control my power or my magic, but it had been a great year. A year of rest. A year of love and light. But now the reprieve was over. Now it was time to see. Magic willed it so. This paranormal romance/urban fantasy is the second book in the Oracle Series by author Meghan Ciana Doidge.

Housewife Nicole is excited to redecorate her house. But she has no idea that hiring an interior designer will bring all her dark fantasies to life. Watching her husband flirt with sexy designer Stacy awakens urges Nicole never had before, and the bored housewife ends up locked in chastity. Irresistible Stacy is going to teach the eager, innocent cuckquean her place. Which means cleaning up the decorator and her husband's mess!

As a snowfall blankets 8th century Mosul, a Persian noblewoman arrives at the home of the scholar Dabir and his friend the swordsman Captain Asim. Najya has escaped from a dangerous cabal that has ensorcelled her to track down ancient magical tools of tremendous power, the bones of the old ones.