Follow an intriguing journey of piracy, adventure and perilous conspiracy. Set in a fictional world of Ion Continents where political ambitions of several powers collide grinding down the secret agents involved... and some of them are on their first mission.Join the self-proclaimed captain of a very special smuggling vessel on a cruise that might just be his last, fall in love with a not-so-beautiful merchant's daughter seeking fortune on her mysterious voyage, enter an ancient cit...

A weary traveller helps a lady in distress. On the brink of the next morning, the lady is still unconscious, the luggage is missing and a few well-armed gentlemen lay siege to the roadhouse where the couple spent the night.In the heat of the morning, the roadhouse becomes an arena upon which the interests of some very important people concentrate...Rain falls, smoke clears and the lady awakes...

In an ancient keep, on a desolate mountain pass, two dozen men keep guard through a severe winter. The cold numbs all, the snow quiets everything. One by one they die...Join a veteran general in his investigation to disclose a conspiracy against himself. His men die horribly, the killer massacres the bodies, and mutiny is close at hand.This story takes you to the eastern part of Kaesary, where two dozen men are cut off from civilization in the Nestahl Keep. With the killer o...

In the ballroom of the Kaesarian palace, a great celebration takes place, but not all of the invited guests are who they seem to be. A spy takes advantage of this special occasion to infiltrate the palace and reach the most hidden secrets of the Northern Kaesary. She is the best of the best and has a meticulous plan. The only thing lacking is good luck…Dive into a thrilling adventure of secret passages, espionage and deadly pitfalls to discover the boundaries of human endurance in ...

A young woman captured by a demon must get herself and her son to safety. Fantasy short story retelling the traditional Masai tale of Konyek.

The award-winning author of Lens of the World "concludes what may be one of the best fantasy series of the decade" with her now elderly hero Nazhuret ( Publishers Weekly).Nazhuret, the reluctant philosopher-hero of R. A. MacAvoy's award-winning bestseller Lens of the World, is embarking on his final adventure. He must unwillingly end a long period of exile and once again take up the sword in defense of freedom. His old friend the King is ...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Mocking-Bird (A Short Story From The American Civil War)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This story, first published in 1891, forms one of the great antiwar statements in American literature.Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842 – 1914?) was an American satirist, critic, poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. He spoke out ...

The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma. Because the locals expect him to do the job, he does so against his better judgment, his anguish increased by the elephant's slow and painful death. After all, as he writes, he kills the animal 'solely to avoid looking a fool'.The story is regarded as a metaphor for British imperialism, and for Orwell's view that...

Kaglia, the King's daughter and self-confessed sex addict, travels to Rothmir. She hopes to examine the art collection and also has designs on Darsin Caslon. Unfortunately for her, there are schemes afoot. This is the prologue to The Danserite Horsemen, an adult fantasy.

Kutune Shirka, The Ainu Epictranslated by Arthur Waley"Ainu (also called Ezo in historical texts) are an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands, and much of Sakhalin. It has been speculated that parts of northern Honshu and the southernmost third of the Kamchatka peninsula also may have been inhabited by Ainu people in pre-modern times. Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word aynu, which means "human" (particularly as opposed ...