After graduating college, Holly Ferguson embarks on a much needed vacation to Paradise Island, Bahamas. Holly meets Mateo, the young villa grounds keeper, who gifts her with a captivating ruby pendant he found on a dive. However, when Holly sleeps with the pendant, she descends into a disturbing sequence of dreams where she finds herself trapped in the body of Jamayla, a Spanish girl who has been captured by Blackbeard and is despised by his witch, Sylvia. Holly and Mateo procure the help ...

A wonderful and wide variety of short stories for talented authors.Nicole Givens KurtzRod A. WhiteMike RusetskyBrenda CarreJohn A. TuresDarin KennedyH.K. SladeAaron DaMommioShane PorteousBrian MacDonaldKelly ZimmerSierra JacksonLarina WarnockAna CordobaRosemary Williams

What if the key you're searching for isn't what you expect?Or was never meant to be found?Inspired by the familiar command to "press any key," this anthology gathers stories of quests where the treasure is uncertain, the rules are unclear, and the outcome is never guaranteed.Across genres and worlds, writers explore searches for power, truth, survival, compassion, and meaning. Sometimes on Earth, sometimes far beyond it.In Se...

When it comes to race in America, we must face one uncomfortable but undeniable fact. Almost 50 years after the birth of the civil rights movement, inequality still reigns supreme in our classrooms. At a time when African-American students trail their white peers on academic tests and experience high dropout rates, low college completion rates, and a tendency to shy away from majors in hard sciences and mathematics, the Black-White achievement gap in our schools has become the major barrie...

Everything we know about the power system, whether for control, or planning, or billing, is the result of a measurement, so the measurements ought to be good. The authors of Measuring the Electric Grid: Mysteries Explained pull no punches in showing how bad today’s measurements are, and how to make them better.Misunderstandings about important power system quantities, especially reactive power, apparent power, and phasors, are pervasive. The first four cha...

"Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the hottest and the queerest of them all?"Sexy and muscular Joe White barely survives a jealous wizard's wrath by trading his sexual talents for his life. Later, it's up to the seven dudes to work Joe over (as a team) in order to break a terrible curse.This gay version of Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs turns the classic story into a true erotic "fairy tale."

How could have the faithful Aurelia ever foreseen the significant consequences of such a loving act. As she valiantly offered her pure untainted blood to what was possibly the last of the Master Vampires remaining after the plague? Again, I am compelled to question how could such a simple act, born solely of a pure heart result in the ultimate demise of so many powerful entities of the secretive night world!Teased and tormented over a number of decades the rare solitary creature th...

Delightful tales of hunting and fishing, family, friends, dogs, and precious time well spent.Nationally recognized and award-winning writer Jim Mize captures the true essence of sport and living life to the fullest in this collection of stories about his outdoor escapades. In tales spanning more than five decades, Mize invites readers into carefree days hiking through the Colorado Rockies with a fly rod and leisurely casting poppers to bluegill on small southern po...

MIRACLES HAPPEN - but it starts with faith, followed by prayer, then standing on the promises of God. Everyone who reads this book will be entertained and inspired. Its is a "must-read" for all ages 5 to 105. Children will love to read this book over and over again, parents will love to read it to their infants and toddlers, grandparents will enjoy their reading time with grandkids.

BOOKSHOTS: Böcker du faktiskt hinner läsa.En terroristcell har siktet på en av världens mest trafikerade flygplatser – London Churchill International Airport.Matt Bates och Chaz Shoeman, tidigare kaptener i brittiska specialförbandet SAS och Delta Force, hamnar mitt i attacken och de blir Londons enda hopp om att stoppa en grymhet som skulle kunna döda tusentals.

This is a unique volume because it was set to examine the calendar date 8/16 of 2014 for the singer Madonna. It was set with religious themes. This is also a unique volume that looks at why the Psychic Field is useful in Criminal proceedings and where Psychic Forensics can be used to extract number tags. In this case, it's regarding the incident on 8/9 of 2014 regarding a shooting Ferguson, MIssouri where you can align the calendar dates with "Hunger Games" and an arrangement of numbers in...

White Crest is a work of fiction that is in essence, a love story that involves many twists and turns. Mackenzie Mason is a single, stressed-out, professional woman in desperate need of some time off. She finally takes the long needed break and while on that vacation, makes a new friend, deals with a stalker and works a jigsaw puzzle with extraordinary properties that changes her life forever. She also finds a way to light the dark loneliness of her life. It is difficult to nail down an ex...