Sylvia Trocadero, a junior-level corporate lawyer, is a rising star at Taylor & Hitch Investment Strategies.  She is a talented, intelligent young woman with superb debating skills, a brilliant academic background, and an uncanny intuition.  Success in both her career and personal life seems within reach until her bosses give her an unusual assignment.  She is tasked with getting a bestselling novelist to sign a multi-million dollar, ten-year contract.  She ...

"Kyle's pace slowed significantly as he drew near the group. His gaze was fixed on the girl wearing a mauve wool cap out of which fell feathery, light brown hair down past her shoulders. She was sitting on the bottom step off to the side and was looking away from the school, ignoring her boyfriend's silly behavior on the landing. Her arms were crossed in front of her, holding them close to her stylish, grey wool coat, trying to keep warm. The grimace on her face suggested she was bare...

An interstellar explorer investigating a mysterious emanation in deep space comes under attack by marauders and is severely injured. The explorer's vessel gradually loses power, stranding him helpless in a sector far from civilization. Unable to move and left for dead, all hope seems lost until an enigmatic figure suddenly appears on board... Part of the Psychological Adventure Series: stories that put the reader into the shoes of the character through their thoughts, feel...

What if you met a complete stranger only through the sense of touch? Disillusioned with his life in the town where he lives, a man resigns his job and determines to start again elsewhere.  With the bright prospect of a new job and a new home awaiting him in another city, he patiently bides his remaining time in the cold, empty town that has been such a lonely existence for him.  But on the seventh to last day of his job, he accidentally brushes up against a ...

Nebula-winning author of the Alex Benedict series: A woman steals a starship to find her long-lost clone-sister in a "masterly" novel of first contact ( Library Journal).We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence missions and space exploration. The only living things in the Universe are found on the Nine Worlds settled from Earth, and the starships that knit them together. Or so ...

Roxy just wants a good night's sleep, but Esur is determined to wear her down and make her come to him, even if she doesn't know what she is doing.Assigned as Inventory Master to the newest Sector Guard base on Teklan, Roxanne is sure only of one thing, if the seductive singing in her mind doesn’t stop, she is going to go nuts. With a little investigation, she finds the source of the nocturnal music.

A troubled gargoyle plays matchmaker in this paranormal romance short story by the author of Fear the Darkness.Gargoyles do not admire difference—and Levet is undeniably different. Of miniscule stature, rather beastly looks, and with fragile, delicate wings, even his family has shunned him, banished him from his beloved Paris. That he is the only gargoyle ever to help defeat the Dark Lord and his hordes of minions makes no impression. But now Levet has com...

Sebastian Steele was the kind of man women dreamed about. He was drop-dead gorgeous, wickedly charming and fabulously wealthy.So why wouldn't Jocelyn Mason accept his offer to help run her struggling company? It was his reputation. Sebastian was a corporate shark, and Jocelyn knew the big fish didn't swim with the little fish, they swallowed them whole.It had been Sebastian's intention to take over Mason Builders, whether Jocelyn liked it or not. But when he started to work...

The charming new bestseller from the No.1 bestselling author of The Canal Boat CafeRobin’s reinvention of her parent’s guesthouse is a hit. Bookings are up and the carefully themed rooms are hugely popular with the guests. Life in Campion Bay is turning out to be much more eventful than she ever imagined – it’s far from the sleepy seaside town that Robin remembers.She’s secretly thrilled to have a charismatic new guest in the shape of Will, the attractive ma...

A ship filled with colonists—and one murderous crew member—is headed for the Red Planet in this suspenseful tale by the bestselling author of the Pik Lando series.Aboard the Outward Bound, there are thousands of colonists headed towards Mars. But, one person on the ship is different. Inside that crew member's head, there are a half-dozen voices, a half-dozen personalities normally bickering and disagreeing. Today, though, just as the ship is about to leave Earth's o...

Having killed in a fit of passion, an unnamed narrator quickly hides the victim’s body only to be haunted by the victim’s relentless heartbeat.A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe’s stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”.HarperCollins bring...