Sylvia Trocadero, a junior-level corporate lawyer, is a rising star at Taylor & Hitch Investment Strategies. She's a talented, intelligent young woman with a brilliant academic background, superb debating skills, and an uncanny intuition. Success both in her career and personal life seems assured until her bosses give her a daunting assignment.She's tasked with persuading a bestselling novelist to sign a multi-million dollar contract which the writer persistently rejects for some m...

What if you met a complete stranger only through the sense of touch? Disillusioned with his life in the town where he lives, a man resigns his job and determines to start again elsewhere.  With the bright prospect of a new job and a new home awaiting him in another city, he patiently bides his remaining time in the cold, empty town that has been such a lonely existence for him.  But on the seventh to last day of his job, he accidentally brushes up against a ...

"Kyle's pace slowed significantly as he drew near the group. His gaze was fixed on the girl wearing a mauve wool cap out of which fell feathery, light brown hair down past her shoulders. She was sitting on the bottom step off to the side and was looking away from the school, ignoring her boyfriend's silly behavior on the landing. Her arms were crossed in front of her, holding them close to her stylish, grey wool coat, trying to keep warm. The grimace on her face suggested she was bare...

Sylvia Trocadero, a junior-level corporate lawyer, is a rising star at Taylor & Hitch Investment Strategies. She is a talented, intelligent young woman with superb debating skills, a brilliant academic background, and an uncanny intuition. Success in both her career and personal life seems within reach until her bosses give her an unusual assignment.She is tasked with getting a bestselling novelist to sign a multi-million dollar, ten-year contract. She meets the man in Paris, deter...

An interstellar explorer investigating a mysterious emanation in deep space comes under attack by marauders and is severely injured. The explorer's vessel gradually loses power, stranding him helpless in a sector far from civilization. Unable to move and left for dead, all hope seems lost until an enigmatic figure suddenly appears on board... Part of the Psychological Adventure Series: stories that put the reader into the shoes of the character through their thoughts, feel...

"The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" were originally published in 1843 and "The Cask of Amontillado" in 1846. Even today, these stories have the ability to scare the unwary.Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) was an American writer in the Romantic style and is best known for his stories of mystery and the macabre.

Nebula-winning author of the Alex Benedict series: A woman steals a starship to find her long-lost clone-sister in a "masterly" novel of first contact ( Library Journal).We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence missions and space exploration. The only living things in the Universe are found on the Nine Worlds settled from Earth, and the starships that knit them together. Or so ...

Imprisoned and condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition, an unnamed man is cruelly tortured by his captors even as an enemy army encircles the city.A pioneer of the short story genre, Poe’s stories typically captured themes of the macabre and included elements of the mysterious. His better-known stories include “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”.HarperCol...

The charming new bestseller from the No.1 bestselling author of The Canal Boat CafeRobin’s reinvention of her parent’s guesthouse is a hit. Bookings are up and the carefully themed rooms are hugely popular with the guests. Life in Campion Bay is turning out to be much more eventful than she ever imagined – it’s far from the sleepy seaside town that Robin remembers.She’s secretly thrilled to have a charismatic new guest in the shape of Will, the attractive ma...

Assigned as Inventory Master to the newest Sector Guard base on Teklan, Roxanne is sure only of one thing, if the seductive singing in her mind doesn't stop, she is going to go nuts. With a little investigation, she finds the source of the nocturnal music and tells it to shut up.Esur is a tad taken aback, after all, as a Drai sleeper, he is a full shifting dragon looking for a mate and Roxy is it. The sharp-tongued Terran won't drive him away, but he may need all of his powers of p...

Sensing the past and solving crimes with touch does not prepare a Mayden to meet her dragon.Mayden Morningside is a Reader who works with contracts and lives a quiet life until her old recruiter from Terra comes asking her to join the Sector Guard. She will have her body changed to match her partner’s, a strange but necessary practice when one’s partner is a dragon. Harusk is a sleeper, a dragon who chose to preserve his genes through a prolonged hibernation. Waking to find out his...

During a space jump to another solar system a space ship encounters unforeseen problems.