brief introduction:I don't want to take off my military uniform when I retire.I never expected to be a police officer and actually put on a police uniform.He was determined to take root in the border and stick to the country's gate, but was transferred back to his hometown.Fate is so wonderful, let's see Han Xin's wonderful life from olive green to navy blue!

Theirs is a love story that was only waiting to happen – and a future worth fighting for.By Your Side: Seven years ago Matthieu fell in love with a man fifteen years his junior. Roman swore he wanted nothing more than to settle down with Matthieu. Matthieu tried to do the right thing, hoping Roman would forgive and forget him. But Roman’s never been good at taking “no” for an answer -- especially when he knows his partner really wants say yes, yes, yes.

Shiva Mukti is a hardworking and conscientious psychiatrist, who, in the inauspicious surroundings of St Mungo's - a central London hospital of more than average decrepitude - does his level best to staunch the flow of mental illness. But Mukti is not a happy man, beset by thwarted ambition and sexual frustration, he now finds himself in thrall to the more successful and urbane Dr Zack Busner, consultant psychiatrist at Heath Hospital, and an originator of the once modish Quantity Theory o...

This collection contains 5 previously published stories from bestselling erotica author M Wills, including:First World ProblemsA rich, arrogant man is forcibly swapped into the body of a poor Afghan woman.Culture ShockAn American college student swaps bodies with a Chinese MILF.Crossed WiresA procedure to transfer simple skills from one person to another goes wrong and clones a man's mind in to ...

'Ten seconds, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one - fire! Down goes the firing switch. At first, nothing. Then from deep down there comes a low rumble, and it as if the world is spliting apart...'On 7th June 1917, nineteen massive mines exploded beneath Messines Ridge near Ypres. The largest man-made explosion in history up until that point shattered the landscape and smashed open the German lines. Ten thousand German soldiers died.Two of the mines...

From former US Congressman and CIA Officer Will Hurd, a “how-to guide with a prescription for getting the nation on the right footing” (Politico) and “a clarion call for a major political pivot” (San Antonio Report) rooted in the timeless ideals of bipartisanship, inclusivity, and democratic values.“Hurd has the biography and the charisma and the God-given political chops to put the Republican Party—and the rest of the country—on notice.” ...

A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur “Genius Award” winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed—and heal—broken communities.The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter & Gamble, Allen cashed in his retirement fund for a two-acre plot a half mile away from Milwaukee’s largest public housing proje...

First time experience. Hitch a ride. 18 years old. My folks were away for the weekend, and I had sports game, out of town. I managed to get there by bus, and a long walk, but the friend I usually rode home with wasn't there that day. I just figured I'd hitch a ride to get back. Walking along this busy road I am thinking how much easier it would be if someone would just give me a ride.I was wearing shorts and socks and a t-shirt. Long legs. This middle-aged, overweight man picks me u...

One crossed wire, three dead bodies and six bottles of bleach. Seth Beauman can't sleep. He stays up late, calling strangers from his phonebook, hoping to make a connection, while his wife, Maeve, sleeps upstairs. A crossed wire finds a suicidal Hadley Serf on the phone to Seth, thinking she is talking to The Samaritans. But a seemingly harmless, late-night hobby turns into something more for Seth and for Hadley, and soon their late-night talks are turning into day-time meet-ups. And then ...

Award-winning author and master of adventure Will Hobbsdelivers a breathless mystery that will have readers on the edge of theirseats!Aftera sailing ship breaks up on the rocks off Washington's storm-tossed CapeFlattery, Nathan McAllister, the fourteen-year-old son of the lighthousekeeper, refuses to believe the authorities, who say there were no survivors.Unexplained footprints on a desolate beach, a theft at the trading p...

'Haunting, heartbreaking, quietly terrifying. Unforgettable' CHRIS WHITAKERThree of them adrift on the narrowboat.Mother, son, and wickedness.Peggy Jenkins and her teenage son, Samson, live on a remote stretch of canal in the Midlands. She is a writer and he is a schoolboy. Together, they battle against the hardness and manipulation of the man they live with. To the outside world he is a husband and father. To them, ...

In The Limehouse Text, Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn discover a pawn ticket among the effects of Barker's late assistant, leading them to London's Chinese district, Limehouse. There they retrieve an innocent-looking book that proves to be a rare and secret text stolen from a Nanking monastery, containing lethal martial arts techniques forbidden to the West. With the political situation between the British Empire and Imperial China already unstable, the duo must not only track d...