"Don't look back."His father's last words still echo in Laurent's head as the cardrives away from Oldwick. Alone before the castle's high gates,he understands this summer won't be ordinary.His father knows this place. He fears it. And refuses to talk about it.Soon, four others arrive. Lydia and her three pink suitcases.Carl, who dreams of becoming a true paladin. Matthew the silent archer.And Melanie, who hides her unease behind a col...

A collection of articles on the study of Japanese Swords (Nihonto)and Sword Fittings(Tosogu) published in volume 46 of the Japanese Sword Society of the United States Newsletters.

After succumbing to guilt an eccentric decides to become a man of action. Abandoning his career as a medical assistant Warson begins the path of a vigilante. With his new pursuit as a vigilante he is met with a rising tyrant. It is a battle of philosophy and cunning as the two contrasting views collide."What gives me right as adjudicator is that I do not simply look at what good will come from their deaths. I weigh the contents of their souls and chose the life that has more to liv...

When fantasy becomes reality…The last thing nanny Alice Sommers needs is to be caught skinny-dipping by her sexy, cranky-pants boss—in his pool. Her sister owes a crap-load of money to a slimy loan shark and Alice really needs this job if she has any hope of saving her family. Fortunately, her boss is richer than sin and needs her just as much.Art dealer Lorenzo Baldi will lose his prestigious career if his anarchist father’s paintings are reveale...

For fans of Kathy Reichs and Linda Fairstein, Richard Hilary Weber’s new Brooklyn Crimes short novel follows police detective Flo Ott as she crisscrosses the borough’s mean streets and lands in the crosshairs of a highly skilled assassin.NYPD detective Flo Ott has rotten luck. First she’s put on bodyguard duty for U.S. Senator-elect Cecil King after a ultra-right-wing terror cell announces plans to assassinate him. Then she’s saddled with investigating the homicide...

Resisting Alexandre (Knight Security 0.5) is the introductory novella to USA Today Bestselling author, Carole Mortimer's, new Knight Security series. (This novella was previously published as Alexandre (Knight Security 0.5) in Royals and Rogues, a 5 bestselling author anthology.)Author's Note: The stories in the Knight Security, Alpha, and Regency Unlaced Series, are more explicit in their language and sexual content than my other books.Billionaire ruler of a Mediterranean ...

Part 3 of Summer Flings – a fun, flirty and laugh out loud rom com series of short stories.Ciara would rather be anywhere else in the world than Paris. All the gooey eyed couples and handholding are making her miserable.But Elle doesn’t have time for moping – not when she’s got the three of them on the guest list of an exclusive club. So Ciara tries her best to enjoy the free champagne, the loft party looking over the Seine and a little harmless sexting – until they realize...

"A carnivalesque romp through middle age, addressing the menace of mortality while lampooning comic stereotypes . . . Pulses with life" ( The Globe and Mail, Toronto).In this sharp-witted tale of desperation and decadence, a middle-aged man tries to escape the anxieties of failure and grueling reality of everyday existence with a wide range of distractions—from an opulent home renovation to torrents of pornography to alcohol and pills and fast cars. He's b...

Shambolic demon-hunting hitman Don Drake is teetering on the edge of madness in this smart, witty novel that is “urban fantasy at its best” (San Francisco Book Review)Don Drake is living rough in a sink estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh, doing cheap spells for even cheaper customers while fending off the local lowlifes. Six months ago, Don fled from London to Glasgow to track down his old girlfriend Debbie the alchemist.With the Burned Man gradu...

Richard Hugh, aka Triple-O Five of the unsung British agency nicknamed MI5 1/2, is happily making life miserable for bad guys and, when he has time, cultivating a reputation as a lady's man. But then the Americans get the notion that he's been marked for death by a notorious spy killer who has been bumping off spies belonging to an odd mix of nations. This would almost be business as usual, except that the Americans send Emma Chapman over to keep an eye on Hugh, in the hopes of catching th...

Part two of Elle & J's story. J speaks on how he met, fell in love with, and lost Elle. He's not giving up, though. He's had a taste of the sun, and refuses to live in the dark again. J has a plan. It may kill him, but he'd rather be dead than live a life without Elle."I know I'm a monster, but Elle made me feel like a man. If she knew what I did, about my life with MM, she'd never love me. So I lied. Well, I starfished, and in the end, it brought my world crashing down around me.

Cassiel has had a good four years since the events of fallen Angel: Penance. But all good things must come to and end, as they say. Stuck in a foreign country. Out of friends, out of luck and out of time, his past comes back to haunt him. And there will be Hell to pay.