Life is composed of moments whose importance we tend to underestimate. Within these moments, however, lifelong impressions are formed, unkind words are spoken and people fall in love. In this collection of stories and novellas, Eleanore E. Smith examines the dark side of the human psyche and shines her light upon the hidden regions that lie beneath the surface of consciousness. The author reveals places we may not know exist, and she writes of disappointment, unrealistic expectation and of...

The Yard Sale Caper and Other Stories is a charming collection of stories featuring the adventures and exploits of an older couple, Henry and Lola. Both are retired schoolteachers who are also aspiring authors, always in search of new material for the stories they write.

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and Greg is desperate for a date.Book seven of Jeff Kinney’s #1 international bestselling series delivers a hilarious mix of love, friendship, and an awkward school dance that leads to one unforgettable night.Ideal for readers age 8-12 and fans of laugh-out-loud comedy and middle school romance gone wrong.Collect all the books in the #1 bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Diary of...

Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief and transcend loss and, following her own remarriage, forms a group with five other young widows to test these unconventional ideas. Together, these fr...

Originally appeared in the print anthology The Christmas Cookie Collection.New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde returns to Twilight, Texas, for another delightful holiday love story.There's a legend in Twilight, Texas. It says that if on Christmas you sleep with kismet cookies under your pillow and dream of your one true love, he will be your destiny …It's Christmas Eve, and Flynn and Jesse Calloway are thrilled to be expecting a new baby. Jesse believes he'...

A free short story taken straight from the pages of THE MONSTER'S CORNER, an all original anthology from some of today's hottest supernatural writers, featuring stories from the monster's point of view.SPECIMEN 313 is the story of a meat-eating plant named Max, surviving in the greenhouse with his mad doctor keeper when he gets a new female neighbor.

#3 in the Women of Strength DiariesAfter the death of her father, Dana Morrison noticed that her mother’s house was becoming cluttered. First she saved grocery bags, then newspapers, and empty boxes. In no time flat, her house was filled with junk, junk, and more junk! Dana made the mistake of cleaning house, but that just made matters worse when her mother decided that her trash was more valuable to her than her daughter.Tonya Thomas writes gripping storie...

UNSAFE TERRITORYWhen a mysterious toxin threatens lives and livelihoods near the border between the U.S. and Canada, Dr. Tessa Cleary is called to trace the source. But when the no-nonsense doctor is forced to work with border patrol agent Jeff Steele, she finds the lone wolf's dedication to his job-and country-chipping away at the walls around her heart. Just as Tessa and Jeff are about to uncover the toxin's deadly source, armed thugs kidnap them in the forest. Now they must trus...

These twenty superbly crafted linked stories navigate the difficult realm of friendship, charting its beginnings and ends, its intimacies and betrayals, its joys and humiliations. A mother learns something of the nature of love from watching her young daughter as she falls in and out of favour with a neighbourhood girl. An intricate story of two women reveals a friendship held together by the steely bonds of passivity. A chance sighting in a library prompts a woman to recall the “unconsumm...

Hunter St. John wants Gillian Cassidy.In his bed…fulfilling his fantasies. For thirty nights, that's the deal. He's going to make her scream with wild, wanton pleasure. Enjoy a little sweet revenge in the process. The perfect way to get her out of his system, right? Maybe. Gillian is shocked by his proposition – and aroused.She's never forgotten Hunter and the way he can make her feel. But it's emotional blackmail. It could also be the best sex of her life…...

The definitive story collection “by one of the most celebrated American short-story writers…. Powerful, important, compassionate, and full of dark humor. This is a book that will be reread with admiration and love many times over” (Vanity Fair).Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. At long last th...

A When Honey Got Married... NovellaThe sister of the bride needed a date of convenience and who better than her hazel-eyed, mysterious co-worker? If only Nina could keep her hands off his perfect body until she learned his true identity…