Shy librarian Catena likes her quiet life…until a huge naked man muscles his way into her house, insisting he's been woken from his centuries-long sleep to be her personal protector.Catena's life is turned upside down when she's saved by a creature she's only heard about in books. If only her hero's rock-hard abs weren't actually made out of stone.Tor has no memory of his past. All he knows is that he must protect Catena at all costs.Can they unlock the dark secrets...

Broom Mates is a 10,000 words novella. The other books in this series are full length novels.Goldie Bloom has four problems: her boss, her boyfriend, the fact they are the same person, and the fact that person is cheating on her.After discovering she has inherited an old home on the Gold Coast waterfront, this murder-solving Aussie sea witch packs up her collection of 5 inch stilettos, and moves.She's not expecting to move in with a room mate named Persnickle, just ...

A B&B that doesn’t serve breakfast, a dead body, and something strange in the room at the end of the corridor... Pepper knew moving back home wasn’t going to be easy*.*Pepper Jasper moves from Sydney to the cozy town of Lighthouse Bay, answering a desperate plea from her aunts to help with their failing Bed and Breakfast business.She discovers her aunts are more eccentric than she remembered, the Bed and Breakfast does not serve breakfast, and the cottages for lease have st...

The Garden Party and Other Stories was published in 1922. A collection of fifteen short stories, it explores themes including life and death, gender and family roles, relationships and duty.CONTENTS:Introduction to Katherine Mansfield, written and read by Susannah Fullerton**“At the Bay”“The Garden Party”“The Daughters of the Late Colonel”“Mr. and Mrs. Dove”“The Young Girl”“Life of Ma Parker”“Marriage à la Mode”“The Voyage”“Miss Brill”“Her First Ba...

Two goblins, a snarky treasure map and the hilarious quest for a lost gem. Magic never caused so many problems.Two goblins, a snarky treasure map and a quest for a lost gem.Sounds straightforward enough. But Sneath and Clutter aren't your usual goblins, and the map has plans of its own.Join the brothers on their hilarious adventure, as they bumble through caves, almost drown in an icy lake and are chased by nasty, magical villains. And all for the love of gold and j...

In the summer of 1839, 26-year-old Louisa Anne Meredith, in the company of her husband, Charles Meredith, sailed from England to the British colony of New South Wales, in what was then New Holland.Four years later, she published a detailed account of theyears since she had left England. A fascinating window into the past, Louisa's impressions and experiences cover the four-month ocean voyage; life within the fledgling city of Sydney; travels across the Blue Mountains to Bathurst; a...

On the outside, Pamela is the perfect lady, spending her days sketching landscapes while waiting for her father to find her a husband, until she meets Ben, the stonemason building her father's new castle, she knows she's found a kindred spirit, with a heart as artistic as her own.But when family secrets come to light and the supernatural steps in, fate has other plans, and their very lives hang in the balance...

It’s an all or nothing fight for the kingdom.When a mysterious sickness spreads throughout the land and monsters terrorize Alveria, tamer trainee Mari Asadottier and Prince Kai Afkarr-Younger might be the only ones who can stop it. But after three unsuccessful terms at Alveria’s Dragon Akademy, seventeen-year-old Mari only has one last chance to bond with a dragon. And after two years stuck in his dragon form, Prince Kai’s draconian instincts are growing a...

This collection of sixteen stories contains a mixture of stories about ghosts and contacts from spirits, some by celebrated authors, together with essays on psychical research.As Joseph French notes in the preface, even for the skeptic, tales of ghostly activity retain a distinct fascination. The widespread interest in psychic phenomena in the early twentieth century proved to be a significant stimulus to literary production.CONTENTS“When the ...

Emily Dickinson was one of the most reclusive of all poets. She spent much of her life in seclusion in her father’s house in Amherst, and only a handful of her 1800 poems were published in her lifetime. Credit for the posthumous publication of her work must be given to her editor and friend Thomas W. Higginson, who reported that, in spite of the voluminous correspondence which passed between himself and Dickinson, he only met her twice in person.Dickinson’s poems are all short; few...

Few of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published in her lifetime. Her posthumous fame is largely due to the efforts of her editors and supporters Thomas W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd.In the foreword to this second collection, published in 1891, Mabel Loomis Todd wrote: “The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson’s poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness...

This collection of 35 short poems was first published in 1927, and is a sequel to When We Were Very Young, which was the first anthology of verse dealing with the domestic adventures of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh.As the author explains in the introduction: “We have been nearly three years writing this book. We began it when we were very young … and now we are six. So, of course, bits of it seem rather baby-ish to us, almost as if they had slipped out of some other book b...