Summer. What a great time for romance! Beach holidays. Vacations to faraway places. Even a simple weekend getaway can lead to the kind of romance that will last long after that first breathless kiss in the summer sun or beneath a starry midnight sky.Romance for All Seasons is proud to present a terrific lineup of stories sure to leave you with that wonderful ah! feeling romance readers live for! Fall in love with these all too human heroines and heroes who meet cu...

Money, business, sports, love: All involve risk—and skill. The skilled authors in this volume masterfully exhibit both. Buckle in while a locomotive engineer uses magic in a race to avoid extinction, a game developer must outmaneuver an alien for Earth’s fate, and an exterminator risks everything to go after some really big rats. Crossing genre lines through science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical, and mainstream, these adrenaline-pumping stories about taking risks offer nothing but ...

It might be that one case that never closed, that always haunted you.Or perhaps one that someone dumped in your lap, because new evidence has brought it back to life.Anything.The case remains cold. The clues molding, or non-existent.But you still move forward, trying to find the answer.Those who are gone deserve no less.Cold Cases. Issue number 12 of Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem.So Criminal, It's Good.Be sure to pick up all the ...

Welcome to Keyhole Bay, Florida, an idyllic small tourist town in the Florida Panhandle, where vacation just might be murder!Murder Stacks the Shelves brings together the first four books in the Haunted Souvenir Shop Mystery series in a single volume. This omnibus edition includes:Murder Buys a T-ShirtMurder Hooks a MermaidMurder Sends a PostcardMurder Ties the Knot

Before they were mothers and grandmothers, the women of the Greatest Generation were many other things.Including spies.Meet Violet and Claire.Violet, the faithful suburban wife and mother, PTA president and Girl Scout leader. The perfect image of post-war blue-collar domesticity.Claire, the privileged daughter of a diplomat. A spinster, dedicated to bettering the lives of others as a civil servant, a woman in a man's world.Two women with nothing in c...

Davey's Life RulesLove the ocean with all its beauty and dangerIf your high school sweetheart leaves you no choice, see Rule #1When the going gets tough, see Rule #1Don't ever ask for helpWhen he's injured, Davey still can't break his own rules, especially #1.Even for the woman he loves.Penny's Life RulesNever fall for a fishermanIf he's your high school sweet...

The old becomes new again as fifteen talented authors go back to the lurid pulp titles of yesteryear through today’s rich, nuanced storytelling. Enjoy original tales featuring rebel angels fighting a heavenly enforcement squad, a cop whose life might depend on ordering the right deli sandwich, and a wizard who has just three days to pay off the loan on his tower or lose his very soul. Whatever your taste in stories, Recycled Pulp is sure to have something that will amaze, surprise...

The Dame. The Femme Fatal. The Gold Digger.Did she do it? Or is she as innocent as she seems?Come explore what might be considered the darker side of the fairer sex.If you dare...Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem, Issue 10. So Criminal, It's Good!

When an accident in the repair bay at Fowler's Auto Sales leaves a corpse under a vintage automobile, police and workplace safety investigators begin a painstaking investigation. But something doesn't seem right, and Bluebeard the foul-mouthed parrot is determined to see the truth brought to light.

Imagine paying a fine for walking across town. Or hiding an illegal marriage. Or losing your life for playing the harp. Strange crimes, dangerous activities, some from the not-so-distant past, return to life in Hidden in Crime. See why Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine says Fiction River’s crime volumes have “high quality throughout,” and why Publishers Weekly states “… fans of the unconventional will be well satisfied.” Join some of the best authors in the ...

Future wars will be fought with new technologies and even on new planets, but one military constant will remain: the need for human valor.Eleven skilled authors explore science fiction’s military dimension as they rocket toward a doomed interplanetary invasion, grapple with cold-hearted aliens on the galaxy’s lonely rim, and outwit space conquerors with nothing but their wits and two strong fists.This latest volume of Fiction River celebrates the bravery and courag...

Between the earth and the sky, between the past and the present, between the musical notes and the silence exist universes. Millions of them. The eighth volume of Fiction River presents fourteen universes, all different, all powerful. From a planetary survey ship moored in an alien ocean to a comic book convention near a strange Louisiana town, each of these universes go somewhere familiar and strange at the same time. Come visit the universe of Fiction River, which Amazing Stories called ...