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In the early 1800s, there were hard times, territorial takeovers, unrest in the Indian nations, savagery, and an otherwise uncivilized state across America's plains.Those in the east longed for open country and freedom from the large cities growing around them. Wagon trains were making their trek across the east, heading westward. All walks of life, professors, doctors, farmers, and ranchers left the overpopulated east coast for the dream of having blue skies above them and green gr...

Critical Animal Geographies provides new geographical perspectives on critical animal studies, exploring the spatial, political, and ethical dimensions of animals’ lived experience and human-animal encounter. It works toward a more radical politics and theory directed at the shifting boundary between human and animal. Chapters draw together feminist, political-economic, post-humanist, anarchist, post-colonial, and critical race literatures with original case studies in order to se...

As Captain Billy Snow's wagon train moved across the prairie, twelve souls suffered the heat and thanked the Almighty for the breeze that cooled their sweaty brows. Unaware that soon all would come to the end of life's road. Most of those that walked along that hot day knew the grand scheme of life to their good.Bald Jo Kline (Black Hawk) chose a pathway through life that left broken lives like pieces of a puzzle, forever altered by his savagery. Those that he had broken had to face...

They're masters of their kingdoms, boardrooms...and bedrooms! Get four stories of irresistible royals and powerful tycoons in the Regal Weddings and Ruthless Tycoons Bundle. Collection includes: Rich, Ruthless and Secretly Royal by Robyn Donald; Forgotten Mistress, Secret Love-Child by Annie West; Taken by the Pirate Tycoon by Daphne Clair; and Italian Marriage: In Name Only by Kathryn Ross.

Each day we spend in this life has a profound influence on souls around us. Book three is the collection of souls on the highway of life.Bald Jo Kline (aka Black Hawk and Don Jo Verde, to mention only a few of the aliases he had), was born in freedom in Africa, sold into slavery in America, sold to a don in Mexico, traded for whisky to the Apache, and finally became a feared leader in the Indian nation.Dr. Erlinda McAllen was a victim of Black Hawk's raids on her grandfather'...

“If I knew then, dear reader, what I know now, I should have turned on my heels and left. But no, instead, I stood there transfixed on the beautiful image of Seraphina. In that moment my fate was sealed.”Dionysos Mavroulis is a man without a future: a man who embraces destiny and risks everything for love.A refugee from Asia Minor, he escapes Smyrna in 1922 disguised as an old woman. Alienated and plagued by feelings of remorse, he spirals into poverty and seeks solace in t...

Kathryn Purnell's narrative poem is filled with beautiful, evocative imagery. The reader is taken on a tour of discovery, a wonderful journey in the style of an epic as the ghost of Louis XIV of France, also known as the Sun King, reflects on his life and loves. Emotions spanning joy, anger and remorse are called up as Louis reminisces on many facets of his long life, his wives, mistresses, and children. He talks of the architects with whom he designed and built Versailles and the Orangeri...

'the most romantic parts of this narrative are precisely those which have a foundation in fact' Edward Waverley, a young English soldier in the Hanoverian army, is sent to Scotland where he finds himself caught up in events that quickly transform from the stuff of romance into nightmare. His character is fashioned through his experience of the Jacobite rising of 1745-6, the last civil war fought on British soil and the unsuccessful attempt to reinstate the Stuart monarchy,...

Magic sparks and cauldrons bubble;Potions bring love, and curses bring trouble.What if magic could help track down a murderer? Can a young, untrained witch save her people from a dark wizard – and at what cost to herself? Does a young woman’s dreams really predict the future? If so, is there any way to change what she foresees? And what might an independent young witch look for when house hunting? Witches. Warlocks.Wizards. Familiars... Enter twenty differen...

The Uncollected Anthology - quarterly short fiction that redefines the boundaries of urban & contemporary fantasy.Every three months, the authors pick a theme and write a short story for that theme. Then they publish the stories individually.Now, you can buy the "collected" uncollected and get all the stories written for a theme in single place!Be sure to pick up all of year one, as well as all of year two!"The idea behind this anthology series is a little d...

The Uncollected Anthology - quarterly short fiction that redefines the boundaries of urban & contemporary fantasy.Every three months, the authors pick a theme and write a short story for that theme. Then they publish the stories individually.Now, you can buy the "collected" uncollected and get all the stories written for a theme in single place!Be sure to pick up all of year one, as well as all of year two!"The idea behind this anthology series is a little d...

Two pink lines on a stick. Not the ideal way to end a work conference. Neither is what happens when I break the news to the guy I spent the night of my life with: our email chain goes silent.The worst part? I should have known better. I've been here before, and have a perpetually pissed-off fifteen-year-old son to prove it.Then I collide with a man on the sidewalk. He's gracious enough, but when he turns around and those achingly familiar ice-blue eyes meet mine, my stomach...