When a handsome stranger brings unexpected romance to her charmed life, will a sheltered Christian girl fight the odds for a chance at true love?Blessed from the moment of her birth, Faith Davenport is adored by everyone and has led a life guided by her charitable, Christian parents. At ease with her family's expectations and her own strength of belief, she finds joy in exploring the creative aspects of her Uncle Will's architecture business as his assistant.

Can a newly Christian young man convince his mother's maid that his love for her is worth more than his inherited life of luxury?Josie is content as a maid in a rich cottager's mansion along the Cliff Walk of beautiful Newport, Rhode Island, but the arrival of her employer's handsome, pensive son tempts her into a relationship that while chaste, is forbidden between their social classes in the Gilded Age of 1893.After travels abroad have led Arthur in searc...

The rules for law and order create boundaries for civil co-existence.Ideally, the rule of law provides the backdrops for individuals, families, and companies to grow and thrive. Breaking these rules puts civil order at risk. And while murder is the Big Daddy of crimes, codified ordinances across municipal divisions, counties, states, and countries show the nearly endless ways there are to create mayhem.For your puzzle solving pleasure, Mysteries to Die For presents: Anythin...

A mysterious boy with no memory. A bookish girl, with dreams beyond her sheltered life. Can love overcome the secrets that threaten to separate them?Catherine has never wanted for anything. Raised in opulence in Manhattan and the beautiful shores of Newport, Rhode Island, she feels threatened by her parents' desire to arrange her marriage. She would much rather stay home and read than socialize or, worse, select a husband who might not approve of her reading habit....

In the English language, there are a few, very special words that can function as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. One word goes further, creating new words from old. That word is Jack. For your puzzle solving pleasure, Mysteries to Die For presents: Things that Go Jack in the Night. Twelve stories arranged for you to beat the detective to the solution. Twelve "jacks" that should definitely not be taken at face value. It's a race between you and the detective to find the killer amid ...

Vehicles define eras and are a means for advancing economies from traditional to high mass-consumption. They can also play diverse roles within amazing stories.A train was the setting for Agatha Christie's famed Murder on the Orient Express. A river boat then took center stage on Death on the Nile. Stephan King's Christine showed us a blood thirsty side, while in real life, the disappearance of Emelia Earhart and her plane continues to tease imaginations. Cars have been prominently...

The last word has been a common element of mysteries going back to the emergence of the genre. In Hercule Poirot's first case, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Mrs. Emily Cavendish Inglethorpe's last word was "Alfred." But was her husband's name said for comfort or as an accusation? In Nayland Smith's first engagement on British soil with The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu, Sir Creighton Davey's last words were "the red hand." Was there meaning to the puzzling phrase or was it a symptom of a dyin...

Unleash your creativity with the Monster Graffiti Bundle—a high-energy collection packed with bold, street-style graffiti photos! Whether you're a designer, digital artist, crafter, or sticker creator, this bundle delivers a vivid mix of quirky, creepy, cute, and downright chaotic characters, tags and letters. you will enjoy vibrant graffiti aesthetic, bursting with personality and attitude. Perfect for posters, coloring books, apparel, merch, social media graphics, or any project that nee...

A follow-up to the original groundbreaking collection, Again, Dangerous Visions features forty-six short stories from giants of the science fiction genre.Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and winner of countless awards—including the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker—Harlan Ellison proved once more that he was both unpredictable and irrepressible in this second collection of innovative science fiction. Again, Dangerous ...

A series of provocative essays on how the fantastic genres evolve and growIn this wide-ranging series of essays, an award-winning science fiction critic explores how the related genres of science fiction, fantasy, and horror evolve, merge, and finally "evaporate" into new and more dynamic forms. Beginning with a discussion of how literary readers "unlearned" how to read the fantastic during the heyday of realistic fiction, Gary K. Wolfe goes on to show how the fant...

Three short novels by some of science fiction's greatest writers -- Ursula K. Le Guin, James Tiptree, Jr., and Gene Wolfe, edited by Robert Silverberg._The New Atlantis_, by Ursula K. Le Guin: In a dark near-future, global warming and a ruined ecology is causing the continents to sink into the oceans just as the towers of Atlantis re-emerge above the sea. Locus award winner and Hugo finalist._Silhouette_, by Gene Wolfe, and _A Momentary Taste of Being_, by James Tiptree, Jr.,...

"Who'd want to kill a dumb cartoon bunny?"That's what Eddie Valiant wants to know. He's the toughest private eye in Los Angeles, and he'll handle anything – if you're human. If you're a Toon, that's another story.Eddie doesn't like Toons – those cartoon characters who live side-by-side with humans. Not the way they look, and especially not the way they talk: word-filled balloons come out of their mouths and then disintegrate, leaving dust all over his rug.Eddie will wo...