Drift through ghost-lit towns, forest thrones, crumbling cities, and midnight diners. Blending surrealism and emotional depth, Sun Come Back follows a wandering narrator who moves like a shadow at the edge of other people’s lives, providing dispatches from the outskirts of humanity. This is a book of love stories without names, letters from the trash, hallucinated towns, wolves with meat bouquets, and the ghosts who remain with us. Stories that are both absurd and intimately human...

Short Story Press Presents Along The Prairie Winds by Daniel NewcomerTyler and Caroline live an almost perfect life of love and marriage after buying a farm and taking on the many challenges that farm life provides. Everything was going well for more than ten years, until one night at the end of another terrible harvest brought on by drought when the entire foundation of Tyler and Caroline's relationship was tested after a sudden accident in the field. Their prized and most beloved...

Tyler and Caroline live an almost perfect life of love and marriage after buying a farm and taking on the many challenges that farm life provides. Everything was going well for more than ten years, until one night at the end of another terrible harvest brought on by drought when the entire foundation of Tyler and Caroline’s relationship was tested after a sudden accident in the field.Their prized and most beloved horse, Marquis de Sade, collapsed without any explanation, and upon b...

Tyler Hard has wanted Eliza for a long time. But taking over his father's business, building his home, and most of all not knowing what she wanted, meant he never acted on his feelings for her. When she accidentally leaves her diary after dropping her car off to be repaired, he has no intention of reading it—but the temptation is too much, and now at last he has the key to her desires.Eliza has always had a crush on the town mechanic. He'd been the star guy in high school, and feat...

2022 Maggie Award of Excellence FinalistIf Darcy had been a shape-shifting lion who thought about frisking—a lot…Lady Francine Montfort may have led a sheltered life till her parents’ untimely demise but that doesn’t mean she’s ignorant. Neither is she blind to the conniving ways of her persistent aunt, who’s determined to marry Francine off for her own selfish gain. Forced to drastic measures to avoid the wretched woman’s scheming...

At the ancient, doddering age of thirty, it's long past time Prince Amador married, at least according to his domineering family. Determined to see the matter attended at last, they have issued an ultimatum: find a betrothed before the year is out, or he'll be sent off to marry Prince Ottokar, Crown Prince of their oldest enemy, a man Amador has hated and feared for nearly all his life.Desperate to avoid that fate, he has one last chance: to win the affections of Prince Nazaire, wh...

Dukes and their demands are nothing new for Marena Baine-Torres. Her newfound success has her little apothecary teeming with ill-mannered aristocrats. But as tiresome as they are, she needs the business. When the unflappable Duke of Linley storms into her shop and makes her an offer she'd be a fool to refuse, Marena soon finds herself on the adventure of a lifetime with a man who is as infuriating as he is intriguing.*******Note: The Duke Makes Me Feel... was origin...

A frothy, witty and romantic short story starring a heroine who may happen to fit Cinderella's glass slipper...but has no interest in being chosen by anyone for her shoe-size!From the author of Snowspelled, Spellswept, and Courting Magic.First published in Daily Science Fiction.

At the ancient, doddering age of thirty, it's long past time Prince Amador married, at least according to his domineering family. Determined to see the matter attended at last, they have issued an ultimatum: find a betrothed before the year is out, or he'll be sent off to marry Prince Ottokar, Crown Prince of their oldest enemy, a man Amador has hated and feared for nearly all his life.Desperate to avoid that fate, he has one last chance: to win the affections of Prince Nazaire, wh...

Daphne Maddox passed up a plum corporate job in Boston to follow the love of her life to Miami. Three years later—the girl and her dreams long gone—Daphne is eking out a living as a coordinator for a nonprofit home builder. Heaven help the next woman who dangles empty promises. \r\nMaribel Tirado Leóns “anger issues” have earned her community service on Daphnes jobsite, and their mutual misery draws them together. Daphne cant help her fascination with the exotic Mari, who moves in th...

This is not Octavia’s war.In the deserts of northern Mexico, Octavia has been fighting her own sneaky war against the cartels, while ignoring her growing feelings for Ángel, the son of the cartel’s leader.Ángel Garcia hates his family and the family business with a passion. Until he can find a way out of the life he hides how he feels about anything or anyone.When Bear Dawson, an American businessman, is executed by Ángel’s crazy brother, Á...

What happens when a brand new Fairy Godmother, a witch, and a troll, are caught up in a twist of Beauty and the Beast…Magic!Ever since the day a bedraggled fairy walked into his casino and turned him into a troll, Tanner Scott has been in a bad mood. Now, the casino is losing money, the dwarves in the family mine are on strike, and he can't keep a housekeeper to save his life. When one of their clients nearly drains the casino's bank, Tanner loses it and decrees th...