Sometimes it feels like Fix's entire life can be summed up with two simple words: wanting and waiting. Wanting a family. Wanting to belong. Wanting to protect. Wanting to love. And waiting endlessly to find it.When a beautiful cam boy with a flurry of curses hanging over his head and a mysterious past asks for his help, Fix thinks all of the wanting and the waiting has come to an end.Except Liam's entire life can be summed up in just one word. Running.Running from h...

Right, so . . . let's see how he got himself in this mess.An estranged family member left him a house. Which is great. The house looks like it's a soft breeze away from crumbling. Less great. The house is cursed and now Morgan is trapped inside it. Anything BUT great. Cursebreaker, please! And make him hot. Morgan's been through a lot.Herbs? Check. Fire? Check. Being the best at his job and knowing it? Double effing check.Ash had everything he needed to get his clie...

They call me Emo Barbie. And they're not far off, though I consider myself a little more alternative than that. I just so happen to do everything in six-inch heels and blood-red lipstick.I like it when people stare. I like the attention.I've never been drawn to the meek or mild. At least, not until I met Hannah Kate, the journalist hired by Dallin to do a story on Twisted Ink and feature me as its best artist.Even her name screams good girl...

Whitney thought she was safe from her toxic marriage the day her husband died . . .From the moment I return to my hometown for a fresh start, my plans begin to crumble. The rental house that looked perfect is actually a health hazard. My new job postpones my start date. And a historic blizzard is about to dump three feet of snow across the state, making doing just about anything impossible.When my infant son screams down the motel into the early morning hou...

Franchesca "Frankie" Blake's life is a carefully balanced chaos: single mom, rink-side bartender, and secret late-night skater with two left feet.Romance? Not on the schedule. Especially not with the cocky, dominant, too-hot-for-their-own-good beer league boys who practically live at the rink.At least, that's what she tells herself—right up until a babysitter emergency drops her kids in the laps of Travis and Elliot.Travis is a rugged carpenter who ...

The next instalment in the riveting HARRIET GORDON MYSTERIES.The chance to pursue a new opportunity takes Harriet and her brother Julian, to Kuala Lumpur, but death is waiting…Singapore 1910: Harriet Gordon has been dismissed from the job she loved and finds herself cast adrift. When her brother receives an invitation to visit a prestigious school in Kuala Lumpur, she and Julian decide to leave Singapore behind for a few days, but their pleasant vi...

Sixteen more short stories of literary adventure fantasy from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, the six-time Hugo Award and nine-time World Fantasy Award finalist online magazine that Locus online calls "a premiere venue for fantastic fiction, not just online but for all media."Authors include A.M. Dellamonica, Gregory Norman Bossert, Rose Lemberg, Richard Parks, Margaret Killjoy, and Charles Payseur. Stories include "The Orangery" by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, a finalist for the Nebula Awards,...

And they lived happily ever after... or did they?In every life, there is darkness, but there is also a choice. Does the hero break, or are they fueled for the fight? Are they compelled to follow the light, or will the demons that plague them plunge them into shadow forever?What begins as a fairy tale shifts into grim reality as life moves beyond the moment of true love's first kiss and the villain's defeat. For these princesses, surviving that fight is only the first chapte...

Nuns. With Guns.Nuns. With Guns.I challenged folks to give me a story with that as their theme. Here are nearly twenty authors who answered that crazy call, ranging from fantasy to science fiction. Modern. Historic. Urban fantasy and gritty realism.Come with us now on an amazing journey into other lands and other minds, as we explore what it means to first become a nun, and then to take up the sword.Or the gun.----Part of the Blaze Ward Prese...

Critical Plant Studies in Taiwan presents a historical overview of vegetal ecocriticism in Taiwan. Divided into 12 chapters, it examines the human-plant entanglements on the island. Covering a wide spectrum of topics, such as the imperial plant explorations, the military casuarina afforestation, the mangrove conservation movement, the ecofeminist rooftop garden, the Indigenous millet restoration, the underground mycorrhizal network in urban Taipei, etc., it discloses the phyto-pol...

The perfect family… The perfect murders…A family massacred. A village in mourning. Can anyone sleep safely while a killer is on the loose?Laura Percival, owner of The Stables, notices something wrong at her friend’s house when out on her morning ride. Further investigation reveals scenes she’ll never forget.While the police are quick to accuse, Laura is less so, defending those around her as she struggles to make sense of the deaths...

She's given up on love. He's given up on life. But they can't seem to give up on each other.Of course, my brother went and got himself hurt on this last deployment.I don't know what I expect at the hospital but I don't expect Noah, the man who saved my brother's life.I don't expect him to also save me... or that I will have to save him.This is a Steamy, Small Town, Scarred Hero, Military Romance. No Cliffhangers.This is Book 1 in the ...