I crashed into him twice. He's a ruthless rival Don who doesn't believe in coincidences. Our forbidden union will ignite a bloody war.Nico:She was never meant to cross my path, but now she's locked in a gilded cage, at my mercy. I don't even know her name, but I know she's mine, and I'll stop at nothing to possess her. As our dangerous games escalate, my obsession grows stronger. My sweet little mouse is clever, and that only fuels my desir...

100 Masterpieces of Mystery maps the extraordinary breadth of mystery writing, from Gothic terror, sensation fiction, and locked-room puzzles to espionage, psychological unease, hard-boiled realism, and tales of the uncanny. Its selections place canonical investigations alongside atmospheric narratives of crime, deception, and suspense, revealing how mystery continually borrows from romance, adventure, social satire, and horror. Standout traditions include the deductive detective tale, the...

The Greatest Mystery Classics of All Time maps the evolution of mystery fiction from Gothic unease and sensation plotting to the analytic detective tale, espionage thriller, hard-boiled investigation, and psychological suspense. Its range embraces locked-room puzzles, criminal confessions, uncanny apparitions, conspiracies, and social mysteries, revealing how the genre repeatedly tests the limits of evidence, perception, and moral certainty. Particularly striking are the juxtapositions of ...

Encounter with God is Scripture Union's daily Bible reading guide designed to lead you to a deeper understanding about what God is saying to you and to his world today. You'll find its thorough and energetic investigation of the whole Bible inspiring and stimulating. And you'll discover that its biblical exposition is complemented by pastoral warmth from a strong field of writers and contributors. As well as daily content, feature articles provide insights into Christian spirituality, tack...

One sassy note triggered a lethal Underboss's obsession. Now he's tearing cities apart across the globe to hunt me down. I have to keep running, or I become his forever.AlessioIt should have been easy: find her, take her, protect her from her family, and convince her she's going to be mine. Except Sienna Harris is nothing like her sister. She's clever, and she's leading me on a chase that will test us both. She's shown me what I've...

100 Masterpieces of Murder Mystery & Detective Fiction maps the extraordinary breadth of crime writing from Gothic terror and sensation fiction to the classical puzzle, espionage thriller, psychological suspense tale, and hard-edged urban narrative. Its hundred selections place locked rooms, poisoned inheritances, disappearances, criminal investigations, and uncanny intrusions in conversation with one another. The volume's range illuminates how murder mystery became a capacious literary fo...

100 Mystery Classics of World Literature maps the extraordinary breadth of mystery writing, from Gothic menace and sensation fiction to detective puzzles, espionage, psychological suspense, adventure, and tales of the uncanny. Its hundred selections place celebrated investigations beside narratives of crime, disguise, inheritance, urban danger, and moral ambiguity. The volume's range reveals mystery not as a narrow formula but as a capacious literary mode, encompassing the locked-room prob...

50 American Classics surveys the extraordinary breadth of U.S. writing from the early republic through modernism, gathering fiction, poetry, travel narrative, autobiography, reform literature, adventure, fantasy, and speculative social thought. Its selections move between the gothic, the frontier romance, realist observation, regional writing, and experimental prose, while placing canonical meditations on democracy, self-reliance, racial bondage, class, gender, and national expansion besid...

Spanning the nineteenth century through the modernist era, 50 American Masterpieces to Read Before You Die surveys the formation of a national literature through fiction, poetry, memoir, travel writing, philosophical reflection, adventure, Gothic horror, romance, and social critique. Canonical meditations on freedom, conscience, nature, class, race, gender, and national expansion stand beside tales of the uncanny, frontier narratives, children's fantasy, and popular genre fiction. The volu...

The Big Book of Ghost Stories: 140 Horror Novels & Short Story Collections maps the ghostly imagination across the Gothic, Romantic, Victorian, Edwardian, and modern traditions. Its capacious selection ranges from ancestral curses, haunted houses, doubles, revenants, and spectral revenge to psychologically ambiguous apparitions and folkloric visitations. Novels and short fiction mingle with fairy-tale, sensation, decadent, imperial, and supernatural-investigation modes, revealing how the g...

Tales of Lost Souls: 400+ Ghost Stories in One Collection maps the extraordinary breadth of supernatural fiction from Gothic romance to psychological horror, antiquarian terror, folkloric fantasy, and modern ghostly unease. Its vast assembly moves through ruined estates, cursed objects, spectral visitations, doubles, revenants, and haunted domestic spaces, demonstrating how the ghost story continually adapts to changing fears. Alongside classic Gothic atmospheres, readers encounter tales o...

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on wealth and birthright but for the overwhelming majority your lot was to fall in with the...