Private Detective Max Speed is on the routine case of a missing person in New York City. Digging deep, he discovers the missing girl is a member of a mysterious, sinister cult in south west England. Speed travels across the Atlantic in an attempt to uncover the girl's whereabouts.In the small town of Glastonbury in Somerset, England, Speed meets up with Maria Marino, an Italian Private Investigator searching for her brother who also disappeared after joining the cult. Max Speed and ...

When the lights go out and you pull the covers up to your neck, do you lie there listening to something that sounds like footsteps in the hall? Do you glimpse a mist out of the corner of your eye, but when you turn your head to look, nothing is there? Are those strange noises you hear, the knocks and bangs, just the house settling, or is it something more sinister?Some might say you're crazy, but many of us believe.Within these pages are true ghost stories. Many of the circ...

A cycle of violence and retribution is set in motion as two haunted men are engulfed by the emotions surrounding an unexpected and horrendous death.Ethan, a respected professor at a small New England college, is wracked by an obsession for revenge that threatens to tear his family apart. Dwight, fleeing his crime yet hoping to get caught, wrestles with overwhelming guilt and his sense of obligation to his son. As these two men's lives unravel, Reservation Road moves to its startli...

Part One of a poignant young adult romance capturing the ups and downs of a long-distance relationship and learning the true meaning of commitment.Once a cheater, always a cheater?From the moment Will and Sarah first set eyes upon each other, they know that what they have is special.There’s just one little problem . . . each of them already has a significant other.After flirting with danger, it becomes clear their passion is too str...

A passerby on London’s Tower Bridge happens upon a distraught man and decides to help him.When he discovers the man’s intentions, he is left in quandary.What should he do?Left with little choice, the man decides to make the ultimate sacrifice . . . for a total stranger. How far would you go to help a complete stranger?

Part Three of a poignant young adult romance capturing the ups and downs of a long-distance relationship and learning the true meaning of commitment.Once a cheater, always a cheater?From the moment Will and Sarah first set eyes upon each other, they know that what they have is special.There’s just one little problem . . . each of them already has a significant other.After flirting with danger, it becomes clear their passion is too s...

The 2009 edition of Wilde Stories, edited by Steve Berman, promises readers a range of imaginative gay-themed fiction culled from the prior year. These are tales that range from the horrorific (Lee Thomas' "I'm Your Violence") to the surreal (Sven Davisson's "Dim Star Descried") to the fantastical ("Firooz and His Brother" by Alex Jeffers). Many of the authors included have won awards for their fiction, and their stories seek to press new boundaries of loneliness, loss and love between men...

In a post-apocalyptic world, humanity huddles under protective domes, seeking safety from the poison that awaits outside. Inside, people long for the old days, clinging to reminders of days gone by. What's left of the past is prized above all else and buying a piece of that past can be expensive and ownership is a status symbol. But is it enough to buy you love?

When you have death staring you in the face, what else can you do but build a coffin?This simple question transforms a life, revealing an unexpected blessing.Winner of 2010 Canis Latran Editor's Choice Award.

Have you ever heard footsteps coming toward you but no sign of a body?Or waking in the night knowing if you turn over, a face will be staring at you?Have you ever heard the sound of bare-knuckles tapping on your door, knowing full well there was no-one else in the house?Forget scientific explanations, logical assumptions, and coincidence.There are things both you and I cannot explain!Have you accepted the unacceptable, realised there are things you cannot...

Surviving a headline grabbing decade as the wife of a founding member of one of the 80's biggest bands, Culture Club, equipped Alison Hay with a unique take on what happens behind the curtains of Oz. Whether it's rescuing her cat from Ray Charles's bathroom sink, hiding from naked French policemen, groping Donny Osmond, Christmas dinner in a crack house, comforting Boy George in the back of a transit van, haggling with Arab car salesmen or stuffing Christina Aguilera into a rubber corset, ...

In the third Belle Palmer mystery, Belle takes her friend and employee on a snowshoe trek. Miriam MacDonald brings her spoiled mini-poodle, a gift from investment broker boyfriend, who promises huge returns on her life savings. Later that week, Miriam discovers Elphinstone bludgeoned to death in his condo. Although Miriam's fingerprints alone are found on the Inuit sculpture murder weapon, the collapse of Elphinstone's empire has ruined hundreds of people and made him many dangerous enemie...