Old Fantasy

This is a tale of witches and wishes, tales and trees, stepmothers, spells and a girl who sleeps in the ashes by the fire.... But it's not the one you know.

A married couple face eight years of separation as the husband goes off on a deep space mission. They knew it would be difficult, but they weren't prepared for the cruelty of the unknown. Coming to terms with new equations and ways of looking at the future is difficult enough, but can any relationship prevail when the only tie to the present starts to break down?

“Why did they kidnap me? I'm not rich. I don't have a lot of family to extort. I have certainly not been a police officer long enough to make any enemies. But instead of waking to the incessant ringing of my alarm clock back in my small city apartment, I awoke in the dirt. In the jungle. Naked. What is happening? Where are their demands? Then I found her; beautiful and graceful, without a mark to show for her life trapped here. How did she survive in this jungle? And how is she keeping me alive? 14 days now, she has hunted, caught, cooked and provided without saying a word."

Secret of the Old Ones is a deep dive VR game the likes of which the world had never seen. Trent Noguero, a hardcore gamer, has been playing for a year and is about to get his big break. He is about to catapult himself into the ranks of the most powerful players in the world. However, power comes with a price, and celebrity creates enemies. Trent has the keys to massive success, but he also accidentally painted a target on his back...both in, and out of the game.

These captivating stories are not only an excellent source of entertainment, but also a valuable tool for children to improve their creative writing skills and develop a love of books. And for younger children, they make perfect bedtime listening, sure to ignite their imagination and spark their curiosity.

Ada and Miry didn’t mean to start a city-wide catastrophe. Really, they didn’t. But when a family trip goes awry, the two Mexican-American cousins from opposite sides of the border accidentally unleash an evil spirit from centuries past. The incident unlocks latent magical powers within the girls, who now have to figure out what’s going on.

It's Angel's birthday and she can't wait to celebrate with her purrmaid and mermicorn best friends! But the girls don't seem very excited to celebrate with her. They keep sneaking off to be alone. Angry and hurt, Angel swims out in the ocean by herself and finds Minnie—a manatee who needs help! Can the girls all work together to save Minnie? Or are Angel's friends too busy with their secret plans?

Hilly Creighton never expected to find a man when she peered into a cave near Tombstone, Arizona. Clint Woodrow had no idea how he was pulled forward in time from 1881, and he has been trying to get back home ever since. He doesn’t realize that the cave is the answer - the cave and Hilly.

Sir Callan Clanmor of Glenarchy has lost himself in war to forget a wife he does not love and douse the pain of love for another who can never be his. But as events unfold around him he is forced to confront both his memories and pain... The Old Woman of the Stones is a romantic fantasy novelette set in a fictional world comparable to fifteenth-century Scotland with mythic elements based in Scottish folklore.

Intimacy is an important part of every relationship. Getting to know your partner and connecting with them on a deeper level through communication and affection can go a long way to ensure a relationship grows into a strong and resilient love that can last for decades. While this book primarily focuses on intimacy in new couples, anyone in any type of relationship can apply the principles and suggestions offered here.

The information in this book on various aspects of train sets and related subjects is organized into 15 chapters of about 500-600 words each. I hope that it will interest those who have a young family or who are interested in trains and model train sets.

Remember the stories your grandfather used to tell you about way back when? Remember laughing out loud as the stories got deeper? If you like to LOL, then this really is a book for you. Here you'll find some observations on life in general and people in particular, as seen through a collection of newspaper columns, presenting skewed, offbeat, semiserious, and sometimes amusing views of the world.

Возвращение на Родину состоялось, награды нашли героя, и свадьба вот-вот—но отчего так неспокойно на сердце? Может быть, дело в том самом юноше со взором светлым, который стал названным младшим братом? На его плечах—ответственность за судьбы миллионов людей, он—один из самых могущественных людей Старого Света, но это не отменяет одного простого факта: ему нет еще и двадцати, а в таком возрасте променять полцарства на прекрасную принцессу—это только вопрос времени.

This is a book of short stories and poetry of medieval themes, especially the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons. There is a delightful story called "The Owl, the Witch, and the Wizard" featuring the wizard Merlin. There is also a major new Arthurian poem concerning Excalibur, with a very surprising new twist upon the old story that brings Guinevere into the forefront as an equal of King Arthur. There are poems of heroes and knights, warriors and kings in the heroic age, a lot of it based upon the viking sagas, as well as new poems about King Alfred the Great.

I never got involved in the dirt and the details of an investigation. I never let my preconceptions muddy a reconstruction. And I steadfastly refrained from ever allowing my past to dictate my future. At least until the one person I couldn’t lose went missing. Because then I’d relive every dark moment of my childhood, confront every heartbreak, and even sell my soul if that was what it took to get her back. Because I couldn’t accept a future - not even a promised one of immortality and unbridled power - that didn’t include one of the only two people I’d ever truly loved.

Three days. That was all the reprieve we got before one of the five showed up, injured and on the run. The snowstorm that had encased the property, as well as stifled the town, hadn’t even melted away. That wounded prey led our newest adversary directly to me. To Christopher. Inconvenient timing, but not unexpected. It was the betrayal forcing me to stay my hand against that adversary that shocked me. Betrayal from the least likely of sources. Or so I would have thought.

The day I turned 19, I expected to gain what little freedom I could within the restrictions of my bank account and the hallucinations that had haunted me for the last six years. I expected to drive away from a life that had been dictated by the tragedy of others and shaped by the care of strangers. I expected to be alone. Actually, I relished the idea of being alone. Instead, I found fear I thought I'd overcome and terror that was more real than anything I'd ever hallucinated before. I'd seen terrible, fantastical, and utterly impossible things...but not love. Not until I saw him.

In 1866, a young Mark Twain went on his first international trip, crossing Central America through Nicaragua. His travelogues included a mysterious companion named Mr. Brown. But what Clemens didn't describe was Brown's satanic purpose in taking them on a journey back in time, meeting other travelers on the Rio San Juan, including Cornelius Vanderbilt, future Lord Nelson, pirate Henry Morgan, and Christopher Columbus. Will Sammy trade his soul for fame and fortune? Or will he rewrite history forever?

Greig is the bastard son of the town healer. His father has gone to war, and his mother has fallen into the arms of an enemy soldier that he pulled from the river. It's his fault. It's no wonder his own father wouldn't give him a name. He's just the whoreson. But then the Hand marched into their valley and everything changed.

From Stonewall Honoree Cory McCarthy, a heartbreaking, joyful, read-it-in-one-sitting YA novel about the last of us. “I’m not sure the how-pocalypse changes anything. I don’t think about it; this is hard enough.” This is a depopulated archipelago off the coast of Massachusetts...