There's a banshee in the basement, leprechauns in the kitchen, and a handsome man at her door. Guess which one scares her the most.Tiffany Chiffon survived a battle with a demon but now has a new proliferation of problems, including her suppressed magical ability that's threatening to come out whether she likes it or not. After being tasked by a banshee to find a magical relic called a witch stone, she again finds herself in big trouble. Worse, she's disco...

Capitalism's rulers are not abstract entities or shadowy operators. Amazon, Microsoft and Google are the cloud hegemons that subsume the world through the exercise of their intellectual monopolies. Giants like Disney, McDonalds, Nike or Walmart depend on them to use AI for knowledge and value extraction and for disciplining workers. States see some of their core functions sequestered. Innovation is not a free and neutral game, but a hierarchy topped by the rulers.Rikap's new theore...

'Cecilia Knapp is a great writer. I love her' KAE TEMPESTIn her devastatingly powerful debut collection, Cecilia Knapp examines the experience of motherlessness and its lasting impact, as well as the lessons passed between generations of women.These poems explore women's complicated relationship with their bodies, with sex, and with shame as she traverses the violence of romantic love, but also employs humour and mischief, a wry reclaiming of power....

Dive into worlds as captivating as Tolkien's Middle-earth, with 'The Ill-Made Mute'. Experience the same immersive awe you felt reading 'The Lord of the Rings', through tales rich in wonder and adventure. Embrace the journey into extraordinary realms. Feel the magic anew. Your escape begins on page 1.The stormriders land their winged stallions on the airy battlements of Isse Tower. Far below, the superstitious servants who dwell in the fortress's lower depths tell tales of wicked cr...

A cute but lazy saint and an overprotective, oblivious priest who is a good cook live together in a small, out of the way church. Please warmly watch over their relationship that never gets too close or too distant. The curtain has been raised on this unaware romantic comedy in a fantasy-tinged world!! Lawrence realizes it's perfectly fine if he and the saint have their own definition of “family,” but his troubles aren't over yet!! Volume Eleven features “That Time They Got Trapped,” “The ...

Blue was ready to start her new life, but unfinished business could just be the death of her...For Blue and Forrest, making it back to Karran was the easy part. They were prepared to learn a new language, new customs and tackle a new kind of relationship.When Blue's reunion with Mo'ata is marred by unfinished business, she has a decision to make: proceed with her original plan and attend classes at the Ministry's Academy, or set herself up as bait for a mad...

She unknowingly holds the secret to his immortality. When airship pirates attack, will their budding love go down in flames?Alternate France, 1871. Art historian Veronica Devine dreams of putting her late husband’s betrayal behind her, so she’s grateful for the somewhat distracting mission to transport a valuable collection from a French chateau across the Atlantic. But before her voyage even begins, she’s attacked by thieves and saved by a mysterious stranger.Luc, the Marq...

Cecilia Cosgrove’s beauty opens doors and hearts everywhere she goes. With a marquess courting her, the status and wealth her family is counting on her to obtain is finally within her reach—until she meets Jacques Levesque, the French nobleman who immediately pegs her as affected and superficial. While piqued and offended, Cecilia secretly begins to wonder whether he might not have a point.Poor French émigré Jacques Levesque has been disguised as a French nobleman for almost as lon...

A Cross - Dressing CaperStill attending school as her male alter ego, Cecil (reincarnated villainess Cecilia Sylvie) dedicates herself to averting a brutal fate with the help of her brother, Gilbert. For a moment, it seems like her everyday life is under control…until an enigmatic murderer known as “the Killer” starts targeting people close to her. As if that weren’t bad enough, it seems Prince Oscar has clued in to the fact that Cecil is actually his fiancée in disguise?! No matter where ...

This collection includes the title novella, A Little Too Fond of Cake, and a handful of short stories of various lengths and genres. A Little Too Fond of Cake, a dark comedy of novella length (in 13 chapters), tells the separate but somehow inextricably connected stories of Claire and Jennifer, who both happen to be fond of cake, and of Claire's husband George's mysterious disappearance.By the author of the Pitkirtly Mysteries, Adventurous Quests and Max Falconer Mysteries.

Reunited in Death is a sequel to the quirky Crime in the Community, which is already available from Smashwords.Reunited in Death was a quarter finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for 2011 and received the following comments in a review by Publisher's Weekly:'An unlikely cast of endearingly eccentric characters distinguish this offbeat mystery set in Pitkirtly, an appropriately quirky town on the Scottish coast....Memorable characters, delightful word pictures -- a...

Two sisters. A surprising inheritance. A summer that changes everything.As children, half-sisters Cassie and Julie were nearly inseparable, bonded through happy, lazy summers playing barefoot in the surf and sleeping out on the porch of their grandmother’s Hamptons beach house. Though from wildly different backgrounds, each magical summer the girls were as close as only best friends, accomplices, sisters can be. But they haven’t spoken in nearly fifteen years—not since ...