Being cooped up indoors has never suited Liddy. But with the threat of harm from the Kingdom of Sahaja still lingering, she has had no choice but to stick close to Freed--in more ways than one. When he suggests they go on a clandestine date in the city, Liddy jumps at the opportunity for some fresh air and fun! The details of their outing remain a secret, yet the closer they get to their final destination, the more strangely her princely fiance begins to act. Just what kind of surprise doe...

Enter the brilliantly mischievous world of Saki, where elegance, wit, and dark humor meet. Stories and Novels of Saki brings together the celebrated fiction of Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), renowned for his razor-sharp wit, sophisticated humor, and satirical observations of Edwardian society. Saki's stories are populated by eccentric aristocrats, mischievous children, clever outsiders, socialites, eccentric animals, and unsuspecting victims. Behind the polished manners of his characters lies a...

“This is a contractual marriage,” the duke said.“Nice!” the young lady replied. “I’ll take it!”“What…?”Despite Avril’s unique ability, her family has always treated her like a bumbling waste of space. Eventually, her parents force her into a marriage of convenience in her wicked half-sister’s stead. Contrary to the rumors, however, the decrepit, lecherous Duke Lanchester turns out to be a gorgeous young man. Of all ...

In this dark, gothic fantasy, a boy is summoned to another world where he meets a beautiful and terrifying girl who offers him a choice-to be her servant and help her slay demons, or to suffer at her hands!

Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such la...

What ingredients do you need to cure a broken heart? This soul-nourishing comfort read is for anyone who has loved and lost—and wants to love again.Twenty-nine-year-old Momoko has been tragically dumped. She thought her boyfriend was her soulmate. She believed he was going to propose. Instead, he broke things off at a love hotel.So Momoko does what many broken-hearted people do—she gets incredibly drunk. So drunk that she passes out in a nearly empty café. ...

What ingredients do you need to cure a broken heart? This soul-nourishing comfort read is for anyone who has loved and lost—and wants to love again.Twenty-nine-year-old Momoko has been tragically dumped. She thought her boyfriend was her soulmate. She believed he was going to propose. Instead, he broke things off at a love hotel.So Momoko does what many broken-hearted people do—she gets incredibly drunk. So drunk that she passes out in a nearly empty café. ...

“‘Family’ should be a place where you and I can feel at ease.”Finally settled under one roof, the gentle-hearted Alpha Haruto and his Omega mate Miyabi are living a sweet and peaceful life side by side. Haruto, smitten with his live-in lover, contemplates their future together, and one word comes to mind: marriage. However, the once-wounded Miyabi—who was abandoned by his family—wonders if that’s the right way to go. Perhaps it’s time to finally put Miyabi’s fears to rest so they c...

Lucianus is a noble who believes that love is nothing more than a waste of time and energy. That is, until the day he's saved by the handsome and powerful gladiator, Dominatus. Suddenly, wasting time doesn't seem like such a bad idea--with the right company. Unable to confess the overwhelming feelings he has for his savior, Lucianus pays for a night of pleasure with Dominatus, triggering a series of sexy trysts between them. Lucianus craves the other man yet fears that, if their relationsh...

The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries — from Dickens, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy to Willa Cather, Damon Runyon and Beatrix Potter. As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully engaging anthology.

"When William Came" is not a work by Saki (the pen name of H.H. Munro). Saki was a British writer known for his short stories and works of humor. "When William Came" is a novel written by H.H. Munro's contemporary, Saki wrote under the pseudonym Saki, and his works include witty and often satirical short stories."When William Came" was written by British author Hector Hugh Munro, who is better known by his pen name, Saki. Saki's short stories often featured humor, satire, and a touch of th...

Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number.Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best.In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both ri...