Augustus Purce is a man who has hidden behind a construct for so long, he's no longer sure who he is. But events in his little village of Dunverton, Massachusetts soon make it impossible for him to hid any longer. The year is 1876, and in New England, everyone is looking forward to the coming Centennial celebrations. Everyone except Mary Whitegate's visiting cousins, whose forebears fled back to England during the early days of the Revolution.Soon, her cousin's opinion doesn't matte...

Augustus Purce knows that nothing is ever what it seems. He's a pretty fair of example of that old saw, but now he has to take the village constable into his confidence. They have a rather nasty crime to unravel, and though it means Augustus will be dodging in and out of character, he's happy for the mental stimulation.Meanwhile, the rest of the villagers have their own secrets to tend to.

For a moment, I thought I had everything, only to have my happiness snatched away from me by more betrayals and lies.Ares, Rafe, Killian, and Nox abandoned me four years ago, and now their final secret has come out: They've been working with the institute who hurt my friends and tried to sell me to the highest bidder; a deranged alpha who tried to leave me bred and broken.This time, the pack's gone too far. I'm done hearing their excuses. I'm done handing out second chances...

There are the invisible members of society; they exist all around us. Most of the time, we walk by them, seeing but not seeing. Augustus Purce learned long ago that the best means of avoiding unwanted attention was to become one of the invisible. He does it so well that even in his tiny village, everyone runs to the other side of Main Street to avoid him. For if they bothered to look more closely, which Augustus emphatically does NOT want, they might see him.Everyone knows that Augu...

Constable Wright and Augustus are engaged in the delicate dance of interviewing witnesses, with only the most minor of distractions besetting them. Foremost among these is Prudence Whitegate herself, who seems to see herself as a basilisk in the hallway, with her own purposes firmly in hand.Meanwhile, Doctor Poole is having a long, hard think about his motivations where Mary is concerned when Augustus springs a little surprise on him. And Mary is trying to sort out how to slip away ...

Augustus and Bill Wright set about searching for clues, all of which point to Charlotte having been a rather shady character. Ian tells his recollection of events to a wary Julia, who isn't sure what to make of him. Celia takes in a lodger at an unexpected moment, made worse by her distraction at having found the girls are gone.And behind the strangeness of the day's events, a question must be asked: do we know our neighbors as well as we ought?

"A Country Doctor" is a short story written in 1919 by Franz Kafka. The plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom in a pig shed. (Excerpt from Wikipedia) This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.

A woman from an upper class English family decides to become a mail order bride to an Arizona rancher, but is shocked when she realizes the potentially harsh life ahead on the days-long journey to his remote ranch by oxcart; and it's a lonely one – accompanied by his silent Native American ranch hand.

THE ART OF HORSEMANSHIP"When your horse shies at an object and is unwilling to go up to it,he should to be shown that there is nothing fearful in it,least of all to a courageous horse like him;but if this fails,touch the object yourself that seems so dreadful to him,and lead him up to it with gentleness.""Compulsion and blows inspire only the more fear;for when horses are at all hurt at such a time,they think that what they s...

The New York Times bestselling author of A Certain Age transports readers to sunny Florida in this lush and enthralling historical novel—an enchanting blend of love, suspense, betrayal, and redemption set among the rumrunners and scoundrels of Prohibition-era Cocoa Beach.Burdened by a dark family secret, Virginia Fortescue flees her oppressive home in New York City for the battlefields of World War I France. While an ambulance driver for the Red Cross, she meets a...

Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships. Here, fourteen masters of speculative fictio...

A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile of an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world.