The story of Mei Lian. A beautiful girl born in a remote Chinese village, her feet bound from an early age and sold into servitude bound for America a midst the growth pains and civil injustices of a burgeoning new land early in the nineteenth century.

Those Cajun folk know the ins and outs of the swamp like the back of their hand. They love the swamp almost as much as a good practical joke. When a group of Yankee birdwatchers, Yankee being defined as anyone from anywhere North of Baton Rouge, show up looking for a guide, will they experience the trip of their lives or just end up with egg on all their faces?

This is not a happy tale. Be forewarned, if you want a happy ending, do not read; if you are looking for a feel-good story, pass this one up; if you seek a heart warming tale, move along move along, there is nothing here for you to see. This is a tale of woe, unadulterated, unwavering anguish. Enter at your own risk and do not forget gentle reader; you have been warned. If anyone ever tells you that what you read does not affect the way that you think, they are dead wrong. The story that l...

Alas that mankind's fundamental question, are we alone, was ever answered at all. To think that such a simple answer to such a seemingly simple, yet in reality unimaginably complex, question could bring complete catastrophe for the children of Earth could not have been foretold. Sometimes, in the most direst of circumstances, the fix can be as devastating as the very problem itself.

College is a time of coming together to learn many things. The most obvious is increased knowledge for life and profession, but not to be lost is the art of learning to live with roommates. Share and share alike, as the saying goes, ends at the door of the refrigerator. This is a short tale of typical college guys who are determined to see an end to the filching of their most prized possessions...their food. The roomies want it to stop and stop now. They have a plan, a nuclear option, and ...

New York Times bestselling author Sharon Page introduces readers to Nigel Hazelton, the future Duke of Langford, as he leaves his home, Brideswell Abbey, and faces the dangers and horror of WW1 in this prequel novella...Beginning with the battle of the Somme, Nigel Hazelton is thrown into the dangers of trench warfare. Memories of his home of Brideswell Abbey and the fiancee he left behind keep him alive. He has vowed to protect his sister Julia's fiance from the dangers of battle-...

Nate and Stacey love their great grandmother, but lately all they've done is worry about her health. Stacey decides a story is what her Nana needs to pep up her spirits.Stacey sees an old tattered book on top of the bookcase. "This should be interesting. I don't think you've read this story in ages. I barely remember it."Stacey begins to reads but her great grandmother takes over the story and the two siblings listen. Just before the old woman finishes the story she falls a...

The Civil War has ended, but in Katie Calloway's Georgia home conflict still rages. To protect herself and her young brother from her violent and unstable husband, she flees north, finding anonymity and sanctuary as the cook in a Northwoods lumber camp. The camp owner, Robert Foster, wonders if the lovely woman he's hired has the grit to survive the never-ending work and harsh conditions of a remote pine forest in winter. Katie wonders if she can keep her past a secret from a man she is sl...

Book 1 of Heirs of Montana from bestselling author Tracie Peterson. Adventurers, families, outlaws...all driven west in the 1860s by a longing for endless blue sky along with wild and wide-open spaces. Tracie Peterson, from her own Montana home, paints an unforgettable portrait of this rich, rugged landscape, populated by strong and spirited characters. When Dianne Chadwick urges her family to move west to her uncle's ranch in the Montana Territory, she has no idea that her new life in the...

An Amish settlement in Ohio has run afoul of a law requiring their children to attend public school. Caleb Bender and his neighbors are arrested for neglect, with the state ordering the children be placed in an institution. Among them are Caleb's teenage daughter, Rachel, and the boy she has her eye on, Jake Weaver. Romance blooms between the two when Rachel helps Jake escape the children's home. Searching for a place to relocate his family where no such laws apply, Caleb learns there's in...

Brusenna is the last.All the other witches have been captured, their songs stolen and twisted from harmony and growth into chaos and death. She alone must stand against an evil much older and darker than anything she could ever imagine—an evil every witch before her has failed to vanquish.In that, Brusenna must be the first.Reviews:In WITCH SONG, Amber Argyle makes a riveting debut, creating a fresh new world full of wonder, peril, an...