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Anna Bentley gets more than she bargains for when she inherits a haunted Victorian home on the Northern California coast. The ghost lures her back in time to the year 1880, and right into his lusty arms. She solves the mystery of her adoption and falls in love with the rugged man whose very essence holds her in the past. Sea Captain James Duncan is set on avenging his father's exile from Scotland, until Anna appears quite suddenly onboard his lumber...
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This is a fictional, short western story. The story begins in the current day of 2017 while at a cowboy competition shoot, dressed in an era custom representing 1860 to 1899 with two replica revolvers, a rifle, and shotgun representing the era. Then due to an event occurring during a competition shoot, the story's main character is flipped back in time to 1880.
Once in the past, now our main character must adapt to the era without injecting 2017...
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Jimmy and Steve are college freshmen in Nashville, Tennessee. Neither can afford to spend spring break in Florida with their friends. They looked for a less expensive way to spend a few days and found an ad in the newspaper for canoeing on the Red River in the next county north, about thirty miles away. This trip turns into an unbelievable adventure which changes them both forever. Do you believe in time travel? They did not. Do you believe in spirits?...
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In "Freehand 2173," reporter Dorothy Holiday is on assignment in a cold, rainy, dystopian Los Angeles with only a few weeks of breathable air left on Earth. The climate crisis of the 21st century has spiraled out of control, millions have died, millions more have been displaced, and everything is falling apart, including Dorothy. She drinks too much and not enough, and every day she wakes up grasping for just one reason to keep going. The end is near,...
5) Homecoming
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Hayley Newman, a college student graduating from journalism school, finds herself searching for answers--answers to questions that go back to a missing girl from high school have haunted her. She was the last one to see the girl before her disappearance. With the help of a college classmate and her lifelong friends from home, she discovers things she never dreamed could happen. From ghost stories, to a trip to a cemetery, to old police reports and...
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Kelly Brennan, a beautiful young widow, arrives at the door wearing a horrible lime green silk and organza bridesmaid's dress. She seems confused and talks about strange devices like "telephones" and "cabs"--things that don't yet exist in this post-Civil War New Orleans. You see, Kelly has traveled backward through time to an era of gentle southern manners and a calm pace of life she had only dreamed of in her modern, hectic world. Adding to Kelly's...
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A brave Viking…is her sworn enemy!
When Norman Lady Gisela strays into hostile Saxon territory, she doesn't expect to be rescued by a mysterious Viking. She has no delusions handsome Ragnar Svendsen would be interested in her with her war wounds, but she must make a deal with him to rescue her brother from his Saxon captors. Their journey results in unexpected passion, but surely there can be no future for Gisela with her enemy?
"Fuller captures...
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Join Quinn, her husband Aldric, and the people of Norsewood in an impoverished, war-torn, medieval-like world of magic and monsters as they continue to save lives, feed the populace delectable food, and build a kingdom in the process! Having saved the refugees from the mining dungeon and inviting them into Norsewood, Quinn and her hunky warrior husband Aldric now concentrate on the rebuilding of their community and land. Naturally, with Quinn, no...
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Barely married, Judith Ryan, young American college student, is whisked away to Ireland by her husband, Professor Peter Ryan. It isn't long before Judith realizes that she really does not know Peter, and what she does know sends her running in terror into the storm-ravaged night. She finds herself at the side of the druid well with nowhere else to run, and Peter is closing in on her. Leaning far out over the side of the ancient well, she prays to...
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Today she's a nanny… Tomorrow the billionaire will make her his bride! Tycoon Rafael Almirez heads to Argentina with one aim-to find Sofia Suarez, the woman due to inherit the company he's poised to take over. When he meets the spirited but innocent nanny, Rafael is astounded. As is Sofia when he reveals that she's an heiress! Rafael confidently proposes a mutually beneficial marriage-it's a practical business solution! But this Spaniard's potent...
11) Here and Now
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Suzanne McDermott is a strong, modern woman. She's fully prepared to face the world after her spoiled, philandering husband leaves her. But, as she awaits the arrival of her new baby, Fate brings her another unexpected guest…a guest from the past. The last thing Charles Garrity remembers was being shot and falling into the ocean off the New Jersey shore. That was in 1926. Now, he's being dragged into the present day-literally dragged out of the...
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The story starts at Bulia, a small town north of Mitelia, which is a planet that just finished its industrial revolution and is distant to Earth about one hundred light-years away. An excellent engineer, Chris meets Kerman, a captain of a spaceship, who invites Chris to help investigate an event for his colleague's daughter. During the travel to Ponlenia, they meet the extremely dangerous black hole incident. They struggle with the event and eventually...
14) New Amazonia
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In June 1889, Mrs Humphry Ward's open letter "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" was published with over a hundred other female signatories against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women. Inflamed by this "most despicable piece of treachery ever perpetrated towards women by women", Corbett wrote and published New Amazonia.In her novel, Corbett envisions a successful suffragette movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly evolved...
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With the final appearance of the golden apparition in the sky due to take place within hours, Gideon Pierce has one last opportunity to stave off disaster and save Messina Doyle, but with the forces aligned against him holed up on Eagle Heights, his chances of success are slim. To gain control of Eagle Heights Gideon will have to form an alliance with his former foe Lloyd Mitchell, a man who distrusts Gideon as much as Gideon distrusts him. Even if...
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"When The Sleeper Awakes" is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. The main character awakes to see his dreams realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities. "Time Machine" is a dystopian story of time traveller who witnesses...
17) Star Fire
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Romance/Urban FantasyStrong sexual content, violence, blood. Welcome to Areth where humans and otherworldly beings live together in somewhat harmony, and the gods reign supreme. Ever since Kyra learned that she is a Star of the Gods, nothing in her life has gone right. Now, she and her friend Ivan have been dropped into an unfamiliar time and place. Running from a death sentence was not high on her list of things to do before graduating university....
18) Dark Embrace
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Aidan, the Wolf of Awe, has abandoned the Brotherhood and forsaken his vows. Feared by all and trusted by none, he hunts alone, seeking vengeance against the evil that destroyed his son. He has not saved an Innocent in sixty-six years-;until he hears Brianna Rose's scream of terror across centuries, and leaps to modern-day Manhattan to rescue her...;.
Brie is a gifted empath who spends her time fighting evil from the safety of her laptop-;and fantasizing...
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This is the story about George and Janice Harrington and their three children--Kim, Kevin, and Ashley. It tells how they love one another and they take the time to do things together as a family. It also tells about how they help other people whom they see are in need of help.
They will try to help people who are down and out and are trying to make it back up to where they were before. Even though the family has their ups and downs, they always...
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When Braden MacDowell is reunited with Lana Donnoli, will their rivalry douse the last spark of their youthful infatuation-;or ignite embers that never stopped smoldering? Don't miss this new installment of Caro Carson's miniseries, The Doctors MacDowell!
She didn't want to imagine that the Braden MacDowell she had once loved could have turned so cold and calculating. But the billionaire CEO was taking away Dr. Lana Donnoli's funding. Just what...
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