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Slate: The moment I lay eyes on Shilo, I know she’s a one-of-a-kind. A priceless piece of art that needs to be saved. I’m just the man for the job. Twenty years on the force have taught me a lot. Twenty minutes with Shilo, and I know she’s the one. This girl has a heart of gold, an innocent body, and a wicked mind. I’ll protect her heart and serve her body, No matter what. Get those hands up, Readers!Slate is a hunky police officer who looks even better out of uniform. Get ready for a sizzling ride-along as he saves a curvy distressed damsel and finds his guaranteed HEA. No ...

Her husband lost a bet – but her boss gets the prize! After fifteen years of marriage, my husband and I are always looking for ways to keep things interesting. So when I suggest a risky bet for the biggest football game of the year, my hubby is all in. Fortunately for me, my team wins, which means I get a ‘hall pass’ to have one night of passion with my silver fox boss. I’m worried about how my husband will react to the idea of sharing me with another man, but it turns out, he’s into it. Totally into it. And after one incredible, scorching hot night with my billionaire boss, my ...

When the author was born, his mother did the unthinkable. She gave him a girl’s name—Stacey. But Stacey’s name was just the first hurdle he’d face in his uphill climb from birth to manhood. He also had to deal with an entitled older brother, the hodgepodge of different men his mother was involved with, and the nomadic lifestyle he was forced to endure for five years. And to top it all off, his mother couldn’t cook a decent meal to save her life. Trailer Trash, With a Girl’s Name is Stacey Roberts’ lighthearted, often hilarious account of growing up in an unstable household ...

It’s Halloween in Abbott Cove, and Grandma Grant is keen to win the pumpkin pie competition. In fact she’s so eager to win, Harper suspects her grandmother may have used magic to enhance her entry. Already concerned and on the lookout for odd signs of magic, Harper’s stress levels shoot through the roof when someone is poisoned during the competition. Fearing her grandmother may be the number one suspect, Harper gets to work, determined to solve the mystery of the poisoned pumpkin pie. Note: this is a 15,000 word short story.. This story was first published under the name D. S. Butler...

It's been a long, lonely month for me since my husband left on business trip one month ago. I've had to tend to my own needs this entire time, but I think I'm starting to go a bit steer crazy. Thankfully, my friend from the office invited me to her son's graduation party. Maybe a night out with good food and wine is just what I need to relax. But, really, I'm starting to think I might be hungry for a different kind of meat...

A DIRTY DOZEN PLUS! Dirty Sex Short Stories Mega Bundle: Stories of Heated, Rough Erotica! Includes: The Girl Next Door & Her Roommate My Husband & My Best Friend Fun With the Neighbors And Many Others! 15 Stories Plus Bonus Stories! Get your copy today! Read and en-Joy! ;) Threesomes, Groups, Backdoor, Female Bi-Curious Female, and More!

Edith and Ashley have been best friends for over forty-two years. They’ve shared the mundane and the momentous together: trick or treating and binge drinking; Gilligan’s Island reruns and REM concerts; hickeys and heartbreak; surprise Scottish wakes; marriages, infertility, and children. As Ash says, “Edi’s memory is like the back-up hard drive for mine.”

Never Expected He Would Be the One... but I Had Fantasized. Guess that's the same as wishing! My first time! It’s really going to happen. I want this so bad, but I know it’s too BIG. “It’ll be tight, sweetheart. But we’ll make it fit!” A hot erotic short read. Older Man, Young Woman, Taboo situation, M/F intimacy.

A writer's retreat becomes a harem fantasy turned real. Coming off a contentious divorce, author Sam Browning has left Chicago to seek peace in a forest cabin. With electricity, internet, and a healthy ten miles between him and the nearby town of Ashbury, he hopes this writer's retreat will help kickstart this new chapter of his life—and his next book. Things start off disastrous when a fallen tree blocks the trail to the cabin, but the blow is softened by the beautiful Parks employee Lily, who is there to help. And as they grow closer, Sam finds the harsh memories of his old life harder ...

Bestselling author Candace Ayers brings you SHORT "lunchtime quickie" reads—condensed romances intended to be read in under two hours! Dragon scales and bridal veils—billionaire shifters find their fiery mates! Monogamy? Not my style. I'm a master of the skies and a lover of women. My life's all about freedom, luxury, and keeping my city under my wing. But a dragons gotta do what a dragons gotta do. And this dragon needs to get with the program. The BfB arranged marriage program that is. Fate has a funny way of flipping a script. Because the moment I lay eyes on my new wife, I'm smitten...

In this dual collection of short stories, Alexander McCall Smith brings his trademark humor and warmth to inventive tales of spying and vengeance. In one story, a spy dropped deep into enemy territory manages to disguise himself—quite convincingly—as a nun. In another, an invitation to join the Vatican Secret Service sends a prospective operative down a rabbit hole of controversy and confusion. A third story finds an author, on the brink of public ruin, seeing the error of his ways after an act of kindness saves the day.

If you like kooky mysteries, you’ll love Mabel and Irma. Short Read for that airplane flight! A feisty 60-something woman and a spirited spirit solve a murder. After a cross-country trip driving an F-150 and hauling a vintage camper Mabel Gold has proven to herself—and her doubting kids—that she still has it in her. She’s not sure what, but it’s something. Brooklyn smarts? Or, perhaps, after transplanting herself to Florida, it’s just sheer wacky-ness. Florida is full of it. But that’s what she needed when she left her two-timing husband and his bimbo new wife back in Long ...

The “best short story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.

Here are a dozen stories to delight all Wodehouse addicts.... A crooning tenor is attempting to captivate the affections of the Rev. Rupert Bingham’s fiancée; Lord Emsworth is striving to remove a pumpkin-shaped blot on the family escutcheon; the Hon. Freddie Threepwood is making a last-ditch attempt to convert Lady Alcester to the beneficial quality of Donaldson’s Dog-Joy; and in the bar-parlor of the Anglers’ Rest, Mr. Mulliner fascinates everyone with the secret history of old Hollywood.

After two years of searching, Marvin has one last night to find proof of alien life. Instead he gets drunk with his clone Reggie. Marvin is such a failure as an archaeologist and has such a hangover that he can’t even see straight let alone crawl home. Will his parents fire up the spaceship and take off without him? And if they do wait for Marvin, does he have to take his clone back to earth? What are people going to think of Marvin when they find out Reggie is one atmosphere short of an ‘M’ class planet? Suddenly a little green man is pointing a ray gun at him. Marvin no longer gives...

It's all candy cane cupcakes and peppermint coffee until you find a dead elf on your doorstep. Only the elf wasn't a real elf, because elves don't actually exist - not even at Christmas time. A college student dressed like an elf decided taking a nap in sub-zero winter temps was a good idea. It wasn't. Anna, the pink-haired baker extraordinaire of Callie's Cakes, is convinced the student's death was not an accident. She drags Callie and Kristie along with her as she attempts to discover who killed the elf ... um... student. Will the gals of Callie's Cakes find the killer before Christmas is...

Jonathan Cecil, described as having “one of the best-loved voices in audiobooks” by the P. G. Wodehouse Society, narrates this collection of brilliantly entertaining stories featuring Jeeves and Wooster, including: "Jeeves and the Impending Doom", "Jeeves and the Kid Clementina", "The Inferiority Complex of Old Sippy", "The Love That Purifies", "Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit", "Jeeves and the Old School Chum", "Jeeves and the Song of Songs", "Indian Summer of an Uncle", "Episode of the Dog McIntosh", "The Ordeal of Young Tuppy", and "The Spot of Art."

Psst...hey kid...do you want to read some scary stories? You do? Well, that's just great, because I happen to have four beautifully wicked stories for you to check out late at night under your blankets when your parents have gone to sleep. Grab your flashlight and prepare yourself for a ghoulish treat. Includes these scary stories: Beware the Blue Hubbard Camp Chin-up Here, Boy! Night at the Nursing Home

Someone Has Been Watching Me… But who? And why? And what does this stranger - or strangers - want? Be the First to Read Lakelyn’s First Expanded Standalone Story: Excerpt: I needed to tell someone... "Lizzie, sometimes I think someone's out there, you know, watching me whenever I go out, when I leave home, even on my way to the grocery or work. I just feel like someone is looking at me, maybe even following me!" "Really?" I could see the disbelief in her narrowed eyes. "Have you told your dad?" My dad is a police officer. After my mom died, it was just the two of us. He finally let me ...

A couple awakens in a home in the woods to find themselves rapidly aging as their toddler remains unchanged. A work-worn employee navigates conspiracy theories and the threat of violence in an abandoned office. A tour guide leads a troublesome group to an ancient structure, apparently nonhuman in origin, discovering along the way that the most mysterious creatures of all are right beside him.