Early Fiction

With a blizzard bearing down on Colorado's Sun Ridge Ski Resort, Nick Gaffney went to work with the search and rescue team. What should have been a standard rescue, evacuating the mountainside cabins, turns into something much more when he encounters the injured Colby Hansen off the side of a ski trail. Colby is a city girl, hating the cold and snowy elements any mountain offers – until she stumbles upon Nick, making her feel safe for the first time in years.

Set in the hardscrabble landscape of early 1900s Oklahoma, but timeless in its sensibility, Prairie Fever traces the dynamic between two sisters: the pragmatic Lorena and the chimerical Elise. Their connection to each other supersedes all else, until the arrival of a schoolteacher sunders the sisters' relationship as they both begin to fall for him. Expansive and intimate, with poetic intensity and deadpan humor, Prairie Fever tells the story of characters tested as much by life on the prairie as they are by their own churning hearts.

Under the guise of saving her best friend's marriage, Annie Harper catches the red-eye out of LAX to Oahu. Less than 24 hours after hearing Marissa wanted to kiss their old high school crush, Annie sails away with the handsome owner of the Erika Rose excursion boat. She only meant to keep Terence Javier from locking lips with Marissa, but the moment she learns his little girl needs an advocate, Annie brings her friend back into the fray and destroys the remnants of Marissa's anniversary vacation.

It's a well known fact that H.P. Lovecraft was a horribly racist man, and that some of his earliest stories reflect that particular worldview. This can make it awkward for those who would like to listen to his work and see what all the fuss is about but don't want to have to wade through the putrid swamp of his views on people of color and immigrants. In response to this issue, I have put together this collection of the H.P. Lovecraft short stories written between 1917 and 1923, but with the omission of the really racist ones.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was born in Dublin, Ireland and is acknowledged as an influential writer in the genre of gothic and supernatural fiction of the 19th century. Many of his short stories were originally published in various magazines. Here are six of them: “The White Cat of Drumgonnial”, “Dickon the Devil”, “The Drunkard's Dream”, “The Secret of the Two Plaster Casts”, “The Vision of Tom Chuff”, and “An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House”.

From phenomenally successful fantasy author Robert Jordan (The Wheel of Time), writing as Reagan O'Neal, comes The Fallon Blood, a splendid story of the American Revolution, now for the first time in audiobook format. In 1765, Michael Fallon, an Irishman on the run from brutal English overlords...

Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Ólafsdóttir, one of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist, Karitas has a powerful calling and is determined to never let go of her true being, one unsuited for the conventional. But she is powerless against the fateful turns of real life and all its expectations of women. Pulled back time and again by design and by chance to the Icelandic countryside - as dutiful daughter, loving mother, and fisherman’s wife - she struggles to thrive, to be what she was meant to be.

Copius embarks on a spiritual journey as he tries to escape the sadness and shame that result from the loss of his family and kingdom. He befriends John as a young boy, who he encounters fishing on the beach, and helps him to develop his talents and grow into a prosperous young man.

Dave Brandstetter's afternoon does not begin well: His ex-boyfriend picks him up at the airport, and the ride home - in bumper-to-bumper Los Angeles traffic - is one long argument between them. The insurance investigator's day gets worse when he finds a man - bloody, rain-soaked, and ice cold - lying on his porch, killed by a stab wound while Dave was out of town. There is a serial killer loose in Los Angeles, and this man is his sixth victim. Like the others, he had already been marked for death - by the unforgiving plague known as AIDS.

When Rolling Stone journalist Kayla McCray is assigned a cover story on pop icon Lexi Mayhem, Kayla stumbles across a startling new angle to the exposé. Years ago, another rising star from Lexi’s past mysteriously leaped to her death. Some things are better off forgotten, Lexi says. Kayla disagrees. It’s 2005 and Ava Petrova moves to New York with a notebook full of songs and a dream. Then she meets Lexi, an up-and-coming singer who brands Ava with an enigmatic new stage name and introduces her to an intoxicating city alive with possibilities.

Ein Austauschjahr in London – ihr Leben könnte nicht besser sein, denkt Zoe. Doch dann wacht sie nach einer Party auf und ist plötzlich im Jahr 1816 gelandet, als Dienstmädchen der schüchternen Miss Lucie! Die hat eine Heidenangst vor ihrem Debüt bei der Ballsaison. Aber keine Sorge, Zoe weiß Rat. Der erste Ball rückt näher, Zoe lässt Miss Lucie erstrahlen und trifft dort auf den jungen Lord Falcon-Smith. Wie sich herausstellt, ist er ebenfalls ein Zeitreisender. Um wieder in ihre Zeit zurückzukehren, müssen Zoe und der gutaussehende Lord zusammenarbeiten und das Geheimnis des Zeitenspiegels ergründen.

The Capulets and the Montagues had nothing on the Ryders and the Morgans! But despite the fact that each one was from one of the rival ranching families, Jenny Ryder and Win Morgan had a passionate summer affair four years ago - one that resulted in pregnancy. They got married and promptly lost the baby. Heartbroken, Jenny let herself be talked into divorcing Win…without ever having revealed the marriage to her family - or his. Now Jenny's back, and one impulsive night means that Jenny and Win are about to be parents again! This time, they have to fess up.

Gabriela Sanchez had everything within her reach. She was a star student with an IQ she didn't know the extent of. Though jaded from her upbringing, her need for a better life outweighed the pain. She continued forward, the wounds of her past hidden beneath her flesh. When the opportunity to pave a better path arose, she leaped, knowing her brilliance would be her key. Yet, her IQ could never have prepared her for what came with her new freedom. Maximo De La Cruz. What starts as a chase buds into something new. A cat and mouse, excited for the chase. Does he catch her, or will she get away?

Elias erfährt von Polizisten, dass sie einen Koffer voller Briefe gefunden haben, alle an ihn gerichtet. Geschrieben jeden Tag seit dreißig Jahren von einer Frau, die ihn liebte. Und die gestorben ist, ohne ihn je wiedergesehen zu haben, nachdem er sie als Achtzehnjähriger nach einer kurzen Beziehung verlassen hatte. Elias begibt sich auf die Suche nach dem Leben dieser Frau, und damit auch auf die Suche nach sich selbst.

"Nimm eine und tue es!", steht in großen Lettern auf den Kisten, die frei zugänglich auf dem Times Square herumstehen. Sofort bekriegen sich zwei Streetgangs um den Inhalt: Waffen! Mit dieser Provokation läuten Islamisten den Straßenterror in New York ein. Es folgt ein Anschlag auf den US-Präsidenten. Auch die Vatikanstadt wird von Anschlägen heimgesucht: Der Nachfolger Osama bin Ladens will die christliche Welt zerstören. Doch damit nicht genug! Der Papst riskiert ­seinerseits, den Weltfrieden zu gefährden: Er ruft zum Heiligen Krieg gegen den Islam auf – und wird bald darauf entführt.

Arjun Singh is one of the most famous and rich businessmen of Mumbai. He lives in a big bungalow in Malabar Hills and looks very handsome too. His real business is the black money of the underworld, he is the boss of the Mumbai mafia but he has maintained the image of a businessman in front of the whole world. Arjun has been searching for a girl named Ahana Rathod for years, he wanted to take revenge from her. Ahana is a very beautiful girl who is a doctor by profession and loves her parents very much.

Este libro aborda 10 lecciones obligatorias que debemos enseñar a la nueva generación respecto al manejo del dinero. Cada lección, contiene una reflexión práctica y está desarrollada para la discusión grupal sirviendo como un excelente material para escuela dominical, grupos pequeños...

A delightful and salacious debut novel about the frightful world of high school, SATs, the college essay, and the Common Application—and how getting in is getting in the way of growing up. Tiger mothers, eat your hearts out. Anne the ""application whisperer"" is the golden ticket to success...

"Love and Friendship" is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, written in 1790, when Austen was just 14 years old. The story is told through a series of letters between the characters, primarily the protagonist, Laura, and her close friend, Isabel. The novel is a satirical take on the romantic fiction of the time, with Laura's escapades and misadventures serving as a critique of the societal norms of the day. The story follows Laura's attempts to navigate the social scene and find a suitable husband, which leads to a series of humorous and ridiculous situations.

First published serially in Gilman's magazine The Forerunner from 1909-1910, What Diantha Did is the story of Diantha Bell, a young woman who leaves her home and her fiancé to start a housecleaning business. A resourceful heroine, Diantha quickly expands her business into an enterprise that includes a maid service, cooked food delivery service, a restaurant, and a hotel.