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Stolen, shipped and sold into slavery, Gelila escapes to the sea. As a feared captain of a pirate ship, she's continuously looking for a port to call home. She never expected to find it in the arms of an ancient powerful shaman.

Would you? With a couple of good intentions and a bit of witchy mischief, Kelly and Esmeralda find out first-hand what happens when perfectly good clones go naughty - err, bad. Unfortunately, their timing couldn't have been worse. The world of witchcraft seems to have gone haywire, and Karma Inc. might be to blame. Trouble is compounded when Barney runs away in search of a better witch to give him a new body, not to mention the twig and berries he had always dreamt of.

When dreams turn to nightmares, Colin Sinclair wonders who the woman in his dream is. Kali needs Colin’s help. A curse threatens her life and she cannot thwart it alone. Only delving into his family's past can he help her unlock the clue needed to prevent a horrible fate from unfolding.

An ancient Roman warrior. A modern-day antique dealer. One salacious bargain. After Lucy Brady inherits an ancient locket containing a mysterious crystal and an ominous warning, she ignores superstition and inadvertently calls forth a living, breathing ancient Roman, who demands his freedom from her tyrannous bloodline. Thinking his appearance an elaborate prank, Lucy agrees with one shocking condition - he becomes her sex slave. When General Hadrian Marias agrees to the saucy deal, Lucy soon realizes he just may be more than she bargained for.

Journey with 19-year-old Ki'leah Alrhiane Del'Sivahr, who flees an isolated life as High Princess of Si'vad to run away with her lover, the palace bard. When he fails to meet her on the road, fate sweeps Ki'leah into an alliance with a band of men and women known as the Fey-Velahr, a select company sworn to destroy Lyarra, the dormant sorceress - one of the legendary Rahar, thought to have been eradicated from Sildehna centuries earlier - before she wakes to seek a devastating claim to the Northern Kingdom.

In this horror short story, the world gets turned upside down on up and coming corporate executive, Marci Kendrick, when she visits an exclusive jeweler in Seattle for an engagement ring. Her nightmare begins and she realizes that the simple freedoms we take for granted can be someone else hell.

This short story follows two new mothers and their struggles between new and old traditions. Hilarity ensues as a slightly used MUB (Monster Under the Bed) helps their daughter in a rite of passage. Parenting will never be the same.

Hitcher needed a job. His old squad leader, Micky, had a job that involved stealing some data from the Mexican embassy. It should have been easy, but things got messy on the way out. Micky had a way out, but it would involve Burn and Karma. They would get him across the international border to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Hitcher could pick up some new skills in the cold war between the Southern States Union and the new United States. Easy job. Except the Holy Mexican Empire wants to make an example of Hitcher.

Surviving numerous attempts on their lives including the explosion that rocked Tropical Dreams, David Murphy and Tiana Alexander started to rebuild their lives. Living on the beautiful and tranquil island of St. Lucia, they tried not to let the ugliness of Robert Dubose invade every aspect of their lives. They knew he was coming and wouldn't stop until someone was dead.

After being blindsided with infidelity and financial devastation, recently widowed Linda has sworn off men forever. Nearing middle age, her dream of retiring early from the airlines is no longer within reach, so she retreats into the world of battery-operated boyfriends to deal with the stress. When the one purchase Linda counts on for a long haul flight to Paris backfires, she passes away suddenly...from a conniption fit, of all things!

Sir Galahad comes out of his shell when a fallen angel catches his attention.

When she shoots the wrong subject, Micki Vermillion, a free-spirited photographer runs to the arms of Oz Osmond, her ex-lover, an over protective alpha-male cop. She chose to carry on in her father's profession, rather than become the wife everyone expected her to be. Now, she has a second chance at happiness if she stays alive that long.

It's the apocalypse. Aphrodite has broken up with Ares and this time, she means it. While she claims to have meant it during the Trojan War, this time is different. This time is forever. While nursing his broken heart (like any legit God of War) with drink, battle, and wenching - he wenches the wrong wench. His best friend, Morrigan. This doesn't fit at all with his mantra, "All is fair in love and war." Because it's not fair that his ride or die bro isn't a bro at all, but a curvy, sexy, woman.

After leaving an abusive relationship behind, all Lynn wanted was a quiet summer in Miami - but her ex has other thoughts. "You really thought you could run away from me?"

As civilization begins to crumble from the pathological effects of Dark Matter, one woman, a drone engineer, cannot trust herself or others, yet must choose whether to use deadly technology against fellow human beings, or risk the destruction of all she cherishes.

Kerrigan Black is the hard drinking, hard partying and even harder working frontwoman for the riot grrrl band Sugar and Cyanide. She keeps her relationships simple - she doesn't have them. But she has sex and a lot of it. For Kerrigan, it's not about the orgasm; it's about the power she wields over her partners. Kerrigan doesn't do love. At least, she didn't until her bandmate and best friend-the one woman she can never have.

Love Is Blind is a story about Kelsey Roston finding love where she least expected it, all the while navigating high school as a senior. Finding friends and acceptance, she gets offers that happen to one in a million and proves that once knocked down, she shows her strength by getting right back up. And though life gives us scars, they are nothing to be ashamed of. It goes to show how strong we are and that we survived.

As a child, Lili Banta ignored her grandmother's cryptic warnings to avoid children outside their Filipino community in Houston. When many of those other children fell ill, Lili ignored the whispers in her community that a vampiric aswang walked among them. Years later, Lili returns to Houston to work for the Quarantine Station of the Center for Disease Control - but she is plagued by dark, bloody dreams that consume her nights and haunt her days.

Set in rural upstate New York along the Delaware River, the Wayward Son Diner is a pit stop for tourists and locals of Sullivan County. Waitress Alex Hanson has seen it all and has no interest in the daily gossip-mongering of the natives. Knowing full well what it feels like to be the grease on the wheel, Alex takes pity on new park ranger Sam Ruiz, when he’s accosted by several eligible females whose need to satisfy their biological clocks outweighs their ingrained trepidation of a government employee.

From the Catskill Mountains, to New York City and it's science research labs, 14 stories show the psychological horror of ordinary lives. The characters, young and old, explore the fine line drawn between sanity and insanity, reality and dream, life and death.