Learn how to transform turfgrass lawns and open spaces into biodiverse meadows with this practical and inspiring step-by-step guideToday’s homeowners and landscapers are increasingly seeking to make a positive impact on the environment through the natural spaces they create. For Florida residents looking for alternatives to traditional turfgrass lawns, The Florida Meadow Manual is a timely guide. Meadows—diverse plant communities of native grasses and wild...

The first novella of The Unholy Trinity series.Katie doesn't know what she is. All she knows that touch people drains the life ouf of them, and that she has some sort of mystical charm where she can influence the people around her.One fateful day she finds herself staring at the business end of a crossbow. Then when a dangerous felon comes to her aid, her life will never be the same...

Pre-life.A story from this perspective, of life as we think we understand it, may surprise, comfort or challenge you. This is the odyssey of a soul as it exists in the fascinating realm of the pre-life, existing with absolute freedom in limitless realms – while waiting with trepidation to be born, to be sent back again.

A short story At Death's GatesSomeone wants vampyre Lily dead, and a bargain with Death has been struck. Death sends servant Agaar to bring Lily to him, but the task becomes more complicated than either Death or Agaar anticipated.This tale appeared originally in the Tales From The Mist anthology.

All families have secrets. But at 32 years old, Bree Campbell is discovering that her entire life has been a secret. Like most people, it never occurred to her to question her mortality; that is until she learns that she is a human born into a family of magicals and begins to question everything and everyone in her life.As the doors to Bree's new world fly open and she finally hears the prophecy told at her birth she must face the revelation that she is a Chosen One; the last and g...

There are hard lessons to take from the story of Beauty and the Beast, which tend to be forgotten. Knowing there is a happy ending to be had, we tend to overlook and forgive the Beast's flaws. But what if they're not so easy to dismiss? A gentle man trapped in the body of a beast is one thing. But what if the beast is the gentle one, and the man is the monster? What if to save one, the other must be sacrificed?Approximately 23,780 words in length. Some adult content. Sequel novella...

Imagine for a moment that legend and fact are two living and breathing entities. In legends, Atlantis was destroyed by a great flood due to greed. For a civilization to be gluttonous, they have to be imperialistic. A great war would have taken place to destroy such a powerful civilization. In fact, mankind has learned of civilizations older than the Egyptians and Sumerians. Within the last five decades, archeologists have learned about the Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, and the City of Lord Krish...

This collection features 10 stories from Scott Seldon's Galactic Confederation Universe. Smuggler Tramp Darvon makes a run through a dangerous stellar nursery. Smuggler Hazdon Brenker is tricked into doing a job by a girl out for revenge. Customs Marine Sgt. Rolfel is tested to see if he has what it takes to be promoted to commander and then he and his best friend take a leisure cruise that turns out to be more business than pleasure. Trader Alluren Beldaras makes a normal delivery, but en...

A daughter's mistake.A mother's wrath.An impossible choice.Sophie's plans were simple: Leave the supernatural behind and raise a child of her own creation. For twenty years life couldn't have been better, until the day her daughter showed up on her doorstep bloodied and bruised. They say, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." But the wrath of a mother, whose only desire was to protect her child, is unfathomable. Those pure of heart can rest easy. However, if you c...

Vena Edwards life was already too hectic when she met her Dad for the first time after twenty long years! Then, cherry on the cake, she was informed by him that her marriage has been fixed to his friend's son, Sean! But Sean has someone else in his heart, Ariel! his first and last lady love. Vena suddenly finds herself in a twisted love story and is scared by the anger raging in the eyes of Amun..Sean's once-upon-a time best friend!More twisted is the fact that she is charmed, scar...

From the author of Malakh comes a dark tale of black magic, obsession, and the price of covenants with the fallen.The Wyckham House has stood for centuries, its origin unknown, its history black and bloody. Aaron Schaefer came away from his experience with "the devil's mansion" with amnesia and an aversion to specific people…and to the full moon.When Kimberly Owens' father disappears in Aaron's town, she gives no heed to the potential danger. Reckless and rash, armed only w...

A man out to save his own skin meets a woman who may be the end of him in a rollicking historical romantic mystery that "will utterly delight the reader" ( Abilene Reporter-News).As one of Queen Elizabeth I's most trusted spies, the daring Crispin Foscari never leaves anything to chance. So, he's surprised when he's told he has two weeks to clear his name of treason, or his neck will meet the executioner's noose.Sophie Champion is a hero to women o...