Short Stories

This portal fantasy romance collection includes A Laird for All Time, A Time & Place for Every Laird, Taken, Love in the Time of a Highland Laird, and A Laird to Hold.

A group of cabinet ministers queries a supercomputer containing the minds of the country’s ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendant of a rain goddess inherits her grandmother’s ability to change her appearance—and perhaps the world. Created in the legacy of the seminal, award-winning anthology series Dark Matter, Africa Risen celebrates the vibrancy, diversity, and reach of African and AfroDiasporic science fiction and fantasy and reaffirms that Africa is not rising—it’s already here.

Mouse is rarely seen without one of his beloved pet mice. He is never far from his mystery solving best friend, Rebekah, and now he has started his very own secret club.

Join him, Rebekah and three other classmates as they set out to have a little fun creating practical jokes and magic tricks while hopefully staying out of trouble in the process.

To kill people for a living, you have to be ruthless… After an old ally calls and asks for my help with a situation he’s having with some local thugs, I don’t hesitate to step in and help. But the information I discover makes me want to do more than just shut down the operation of a few low-life scum, it makes me want to shut them down. For good. But during my mission, I cross paths with a woman hell bent on revenge and realize I might have just found someone more ruthless than I am. She is certainly crazier. And beautiful. And dangerous in more ways than one. If I could open up and ...

Meet the swooniest billionaire of all time in one awesome and hilarious romantic-comedy collection. This collection includes Tapping the Billionaire, Tapping Her, and the novella Be My Billionaire Valentine.

Stocking stuffers like handknit scarves make the coziest of Christmas gifts—unless they're used as accessories for murder! When grinchy thefts steal the good cheer at a local nursing home, Siobhan O'Sullivan manages to identify one missing item before the tractor parade—a hideous shamrock scarf wrapped around a very dead body. The festivities go cold at Pans 'N' Pancakes the instant a diner dies while knitting a brilliant green scarf. Suspects pile up when frosty-tempered Carys Walnutt is found strangled by a handmade scarf auctioned at Arborville's tree-lighting ceremony.

Two short stories about relationships, which will capture your heart. WHEELS is about desire, about when you yearn for something you believe deep inside, you truly cannot have. THE INEQUALITY OF LOVE is one woman's recollection of the deterioration of a thirteen year affair, of the heart, of the mind, of the soul. She is caught betwixt and between her feelings her reactions and the reality of what truly was. She rationalizes and theorizes and agonizes.Both of these are honest raw human emotion, and how it can take hold of your actions, your inactions, your thoughts, your intentions... The ...

A weary Chicago shop owner catches yet another kid breaking into her bakeshop. The rumor has gone around her inner-city neighborhood that she's keeping cash in a sugar jar and, however unlikely, local kids keep trying to confirm it. With the latest miscreant, she decides to take matters into her own hands.

🌟 Empower the Amazing Young Girl in Your Life to Believe in Herself with Just 5 Minutes a Day!🌟 What if 5 minutes a day could help her conquer fears, embrace her unique self, and chase her dreams? 🔥 Does she struggle with self-doubt, hesitate to take bold steps or fear failure? 🔥 Do you want to inspire her to see her potential and face challenges with confidence? Well, you're in the right place! 📖 INSPIRING STORIES FOR AMAZING GIRLS WHO BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES by inspirational author Sati Siroda is the perfect tool to help her discover her inner strength. This book features ...

Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." This volume presents nine of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories - history that lives forever.

In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.

New York Times best-selling author Nalini Singh delivers a smoldering story with Secrets at Midnight, as the scent of Bastien Smith's elusive lover ignites a possessiveness in him that's as feral as it is ecstatic. And now that he's found his mate, he'll do anything to keep her.

Myrna, Leonie, and Chrissy meet every Thursday to sample fine cheeses, to reminisce about their former lives as professors, and lately, to muse about murder. Decades ago, a vicious cabal of male poets contrived—quite publicly and successfully—to undermine the writing career, confidence, and health of their dear friend Fern. Now, after Fern has taken a turn for the worse, her three old friends decide that it’s finally time to strike back—in secret, of course, since Fern is far too gentle to approve of a vendetta.

Lovers Rock stars Jamaica: its language, its landscape, its vibe, its humor, its edge and its persistent, dogged beauty. These seven stories imagine strange, quirky, familiar and delicious encounters between people in search of romantic love in the twenty-first century. Featuring characters from of all walks of life, each story is connected by the unique vibe of Jamaican desire.

In this romantic-comedy novella, the sexiest player in the NFL and a small-town librarian prove that when opposites attract, their chemistry can be game changing.

A hero without peer or scruples, Sam Gunn has a nose for trouble, money, and women, though not necessarily in that order. A man with the ego (and stature) of a Napoleon, the business acumen of a P. T. Barnum, and the raging hormones of a teenage boy, Sam is the finest astronaut NASA ever trained and dumped. But more than money, more than women, Sam Gunn loves justice—and he really does love money and women.

A chilling anthology in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant, and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and listeners. This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, brings together today’s leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson.

Anne is barely keeping it together. A frazzled ghostwriter and aspiring novelist, she juggles nine-year-old twins and a listless marriage from an overcrowded Manhattan apartment, spreading herself thinner each day. Just as Anne is about to give up on her dreams, she lands her biggest client yet: Melody Wells. Melody paints a picture of serenity and empowerment in the lavender haze of her visualization workshops—however, the one thing she can’t manifest are the pages her publisher is demanding for her new motivational book. Enter Anne.

Award-winning author Jae penned 13 short stories that range from sweet and romantic to hot and erotic, and from humorous to heartfelt. Whatever you're in the mood for, you're sure to find it in this collection of lesbian short stories.

A chance encounter between high school rivals leads to a night in jail. The punishment leads to love… When Taylor tries to rescue a damsel in distress in a bar, it leads to a brawl. It figures that the woman who got her arrested is her old high school enemy – and crush – Aubrey. As a dominatrix at Seattle’s women only BDSM club, Taylor knows how to stay detached, but one night sharing a cell brings all her feelings rushing back. She’s been burned by baby lesbians before, but she can’t seem to stay away from the dark haired beauty who’s interested in experimenting... Aubrey’s...