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1872. Life in the orphanage is hard for Emma, and she turns to life on the streets, where she pickpockets to stay alive, until she pickpockets a wealthy gentleman who wants her punished. As a frightened Emma fears for her life, handsome Lucas repays the money she stole and offers her a maid’s job in his townhome. Thankful for a second chance, Emma accepts, believing her life is finally turning around. But soon after she arrives, she is forced back on the streets.

Scipio lives the charmed life of a Roman playboy, but his indolence masks the pain of a past he refuses to face, and the bitter rejection of his estranged father, the consul Cornelius. Women and wine quench Scipio’s thirst for life, until the day he hungers for something more. Driven by staunch principles and fiery debate, Aemelia is unlike any woman Scipio’s desired and he longs to make her his wife. But Aemelia and her father know that he is a lover, not a husband.

Bodies are piling up in once peaceful Edelleen, Colorado since Deric met Lana. Now in the grasp of a darkness that he cannot subdue or escape, he seeks vengeance on the residents of the sleepy mountain town. As Deric descends into madness, the creature demands blood. It watches. It waits. With a failing marriage and exposed affair sending his personal life and career spiraling, will Sheriff Haines be able to put his personal conflicts aside in time to catch a killer? Or will Deric lose the battle between conscience and terror, unleashing unabated evil onto Edelleen?

Grief and nightmares haunt us all in the wake of a parent's passing. For one man, the nightmares begin to invade his everyday life after his father dies suddenly. His father's neighbor offers their help to alleviate the emotional pain, but the cost may be worse than the dreams and visions. Memories are worth holding on to, no matter how painful.

In my past life, I heeded the Blood Code: I rescued people, slaying monsters from the inner plane. For my trouble the Inquisition condemned me for blood lust and burned me at the stake. And in my current life my family is dishonored in the eyes of the emperor, there's a bounty on my head, and I'm the subject of a divine dispute. Well then, no better time than now to surprise them all. Give me but a drop of blood—and the hunter will become the prey.

When Millie Hudson is introduced to Dr. Winston Felton, it’s love at first sight. She can hardly wait to become his wife and eagerly makes plans for their new life together. However, days before their wedding, her new mother-in-law, Mother Nola, announces she’s moving in. And everything changes.

Charlotte Harrison dreams of being part of the winter festival, where romance fills the air and new starts are made. Penniless and after her family was swindled, she's always stayed home, unwilling to be looked at with pity. But this year Charlotte is desperate and willing to do whatever it takes to be there when she hears the most eligible man in town has his eye on her.

Evie Brown would do anything for her uncle, the only family she's ever known. So when he comes to her with a desperate plea to help save his home and business, she takes the only job she can find—housemaid for a rancher she knows nothing about. Making friends with a ranch hand who literally sweeps her off her feet is just a bonus.

A mysterious crack appears in the sky. Anyone who looks directly at it goes blind. What's worse, they also turn insane, with a vicious urge to kill. As the crack grows bigger, more people are transformed into "blinders". The authorities struggle to keep things from spiraling.

A mysterious crack appears in the sky. Anyone who looks directly at it goes blind. What's worse, they also turn insane with a vicious urge to kill.

They Hide: Short Stories to Tell in the Dark collects 13 chilling tales that weave through the shadows, exploring the nature of fear, powerlessness, and control.

Jim, Mercedes, Andrew, and Feline have their hands full. New supernatural threats keep hitting the city, and the Tempus Team are the only ones who can stop them!

Where do we go when we dream? Since the beginning of time, people have argued the meaning of dreams. Are they symbolic visions that hold great meaning and personal significance? Are they portals into other worlds? Or are they just a series of random events our mind shows us when we fall asleep? Whatever the case, this much is true—the mind can be a scary place to venture, even for a few hours. Never Wake is an anthology of dream horror, bringing you several mind-bending tales of nightmares, hallucinations, and phantasmagoria from some of the hottest talent in horror fiction.

Cheyenne’s goals were simple - start her nursing career helping under privileged people, especially Indians living on the reservations, and find her long-lost father who’s last known whereabouts was the northwest wilderness. With all the nursing applications being denied because the west was too dangerous for an unmarried woman, she answered a mail-order bride advertisement, finding the perfect man…almost.

The vampires of San Francisco have long had a no-kill policy, but when mad-artist vampire Maurice arrives and shatters the peace, Jim Corrigan and the rest of the Tempus Investigations team must act quickly to protect their city. While people are being drained of blood and turned into works of art, Jim must face a choice that might very well decide the fate of the city ... and provide the answer to a question he’s been asking since 1933: Why was he made immortal?

Jerry got caught up in a war he wanted no part of; one that left him paralyzed from the waist down on the day of Lee’s surrender. Now he stood the risk of losing his ranch if he wasn’t married by the deadline. But what woman wanted a man who may never walk again? Leanne was left destitute as the war raged. Her hometown was now taken over by a wealthy criminal…and he had his sights set on her.

Free spirited Rose Alden is her father’s youngest child, and his disappointment. Her sharp mind and wit are matched only by her sarcastic tongue and disobedience in finding a suitable husband like her older sisters did. She’s desperate to live her own life, make her own rules, and marriage is not something she is interested in.

A victim of misplaced affections, Leah Dearing dreams of starting over in Oregon where she can own land and put her past behind her. But as a single woman, she is refused a place in the wagon train, no matter that she’s more than capable of doing all she needs. Desperate to build a new life for herself, she is willing to do anything—including a marriage in name only. Stanley Keith has no intention of heading out West with a bride until he overhears Leah’s plight.

Grace just can’t do it alone anymore. When her husband died, he left her with a store to run and two children to take care of. Now, her son is friends with the wrong crowd and her daughter keeps sneaking out. When a string of vandalisms hit her store and the sheriff does nothing, she’s more than desperate for help and puts an ad in the newspaper.

Sheriff Asher Steele doesn’t plan to settle down. Not ever. In fact, he avoids the ladies all together. And he doesn’t plan to explain why that is. No one’s been able to break through the walls of his emotions and that’s just the way he likes it. But when Isabelle Bowman comes to town with a secret of her own, and a heap of trouble following her, he might be the only one who can help her. What he’s not counting on is falling in love along the way and considering opening the walls of his heart to protect her.