Short Days

Brianna hates Valentine's Day because every year her husband, Professor Landon Richards, seems to forget the special day. That all changes when Brianna receives a delivery of a dozen roses and a box of bespoke chocolates. She's loving how much her husband is spoiling her, and then she receives a different kind of delivery: the services of the incredibly gorgeous and scandalously young masseuse Ayla Saint. Ayla is Landon's student and assistant researcher, and she wants to test a theory: she believes that Brianna is a secretly submissive cuckquean, and she intends to test that theory by ...

Making Wishes is the successor to Smile Anyway―another collection of original quotes and poems written by American author and novelist, Richelle E. Goodrich. Making Wishes also includes a small number of mini-stories. Enjoy a profound thought for every day of the year, including the popular following: "Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful." “Temptations don't appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down.” “Don't seek to be happy; let everyone else chase after that rainbow. Seek to be kind, and you'll find the rainbow follows you...

A mysterious book on your doorstep, a man trying to outrun an otherworldly horror, an elderly woman who creates strange concrete creatures, a computer that isn’t what it seems, an enigmatic nothingness closing in on someone’s house.... The Last Book You’ll Ever Read is a collection of five macabre tales that you won’t soon forget.

You can’t fight love. Darcy knows he is falling for Elizabeth Bennet, but he doesn’t want to be connected to her ill-bred family, so he struggles to put her out of his mind. Until he receives an anonymous valentine. Caroline Bingley sent the valentine, but Darcy thinks it is from Elizabeth Bennet. Elizabeth thinks Mr. Darcy is an arrogant, disagreeable man, until he shows up on her doorstep, declaring his undying love for her. She is astonished. He is only half as obnoxious as he was before. What could have made the difference? A Valentine for Darcy is a Pride and Prejudice Variation ...

È stato consegnato alla storia semplicemente con il nome di D-Day: giorno D, cioè, nelle intenzioni di chi lo concepì, giorno decisivo. Per le sorti della guerra, e del mondo, l'operazione militare di quel giorno avrebbe segnato una svolta, imprimendo al secondo conflitto mondiale un nuovo corso, per arrivare in tempi brevi alla sconfitta militare della Germania, e alla liquidazione del regime instaurato da Hitler in tutta Europa con la forza delle armi.

Nobody needs (or likes) a spanking more than Rachel Kramer Bussel. And, nobody can spot a good spanking story better than Rachel Kramer Bussel, who has achieved mastery of the genre. Ranging from naughty and nice to fabulously kinky, this set of superb spanking stories will please aficionados as well as readers new to the pleasures of paddle, crop or whip.

This is a book for entrepreneurs and aspiring authors who want to write a book, or have been thinking about writing one, but have not yet found the time, the courage or the inclination to do so. I wrote this short book for you. Writing a book is not hard. In fact, it's one of the single most important thing you can do in your lifetime. Establish your authority, leave a legacy, create an impact and yes - boost your business with a book. I have kept this book deliberately short and easy to read. The information is structured so that anyone can follow the steps to write and publish their book ...

Cupid is visiting Bluewater Bay, and he's leaving chaos in his wake. Nothing's been the same in this sleepy little logging town since Hollywood came to shoot the hit TV show Wolf's Landing - especially Valentine's Day.

A criminal wakes up locked in a walk-in freezer.

Joseph isn't a painter. He's a junkie. Well...he was getting clean. Was clean, for a while. But then he started seeing it.... An abomination that threatens all life on Earth. And only he can stop it, by painting.

Abhorrent abominations. Murderous miscreations. Desperate desires, familial bonds, and soul-clenching will to survive contend with mythic malevolence and esoteric evils in 16 tales of disturbing, thought-provoking horror. Challenge both your imagination and courage with grotesque and bizarre stories published in small press across the world, collected and combined with never-before released material.

More tales from Davon Montgomery.

Rebecca, an ambitious and stubborn 16-year-old has a stomach flu on the day of her big math exam. Hell-bent on getting a better grade than Susie, her nemesis and bully, she ignores her parents’ advice to stay at home. Things are about to get messy!

When the Luck of the Irish Runs Out... This St. Patrick's Day, the city of Chicago will be painted green, but in the Celtic Spirits pub, a sinister presence is brewing. Black Annis, the malevolent spirit from ancient Celtic lore, has found an unlikely entry point into our world, and she's got her sights set on chaos. As the revelry reaches its peak, the bartender finds himself ensnared in her evil grasp, forced to aid in her dark plan to open a portal to her twisted realm. Will anyone survive the night, or will the luck of the Irish be consumed by an ancient evil?

This collection of classic science-fiction stories from the 1950s and 1960s features three imaginative novellas from some of the pioneers of the genre.

Denver Moon is Mars’ top private eye. She works the tunnels of Mars City, a struggling colony ravaged by the mysterious red fever. Her latest client, Jard Calder, is demanding results. Someone is dismembering the pimp’s prostitutes and salvaging their body parts. But since the victims are robots instead of humans, is it really murder?

Buckle up and enjoy a thrilling ride through the twisted mind of author Kevin M. Moehring. Seven days in Hell is a collection of short stories that will leave you questioning your sanity and begging for more. All of your favorite horror stories are retold in the author's unique voice, as well as several new stories that you are sure to find both creepy and exciting. From the haunted house to the slasher in the woods, these stories will not only give you chills, but they will leave you afraid to leave your house alone.

Ranging from the hilarious to the horrifying, this acclaimed collection of nine short stories - five of them read by full casts - showcases the remarkable variety of Bruce Coville's work. Listeners will meet a ghost who haunts a kitchen after a tragic baking accident, visit the goblin world with an unconventional princess, and fly with Justin Jones to an enchanted island that requires a heartbreaking decision. A rich, varied, and dazzling set of listening experiences!

Welcome to the Sweetwater Cafe in the small town of Sweetwater, Kansas, where EVERYBODY knows your name!For Shelby Smith, enough is enough. After six years of working the BBQ Lunch Special under the overbearing eye of grumpy, Great Aunt Beula, Shelby is ready to get out of Dodge... until a handsome, young, newcomer walks into the cafe one frosty February morning.Can Chase Tanner change the direction this city wannabe is heading, and help to heal a family at the same time?C'mon in for a BBQ Sweetwater Burger and find out!

It’s one single steamy July day at the West 4th Street Court in New York City, otherwise known as the Cage. Hotshot baller ESPN is wooing the scouts, Boo is struggling to guard the weird new guy named Waco, a Spike Lee wannabe has video rolling, and virgin Irene is sizing up six-foot-eight-and-a-half-inch-tall Chester. Nine of young-adult literature’s top writers reveal how it all goes down in this searing novel in short stories that each ingeniously pick up where the last one ends.