Sickness has come to Joaquin’s town of Los Huesos. It makes people forget who they are. They call for water in raspy voices. They’re so thirsty they no longer care what they drink. Now Joaquin has to run. Approximately 3,000 words, or 12 pages.

Against the backdrop of Medieval Scotland, two enemies fight a desperate battle against destiny and desire.BRAWNY. BOLD. BRAVE.Laird Gavynn MacEuann's a man of action and skill. Both in battle and with the lasses. Notorious for towering strength and matchless features, he takes what he wants and never loses - but conquering this particular castle is easy compared with claiming and then controlling the beautiful, spike-tongued lass he frees by mistake.STUNNING. SPOILE...

Santos Olaru is a seasoned vampire-warrior and an unforgiving mercenary who protects the descendants of Jadon against all enemies, preternatural or human. He is also a whiz with technology and computers – a virtual ghost in any machine – who uses his unique set of talents to make problems disappear. Until now, Natalia Giovanni has flown beneath his radar, even though she has been following him through cyberspace for years…As the only child of a billionaire whose criminal empire spa...

Work brought them together, love kept them intertwined.Four years after unimaginable tragedy, Agathe Santos knows that hope is for losers and so is love, and work has become her greatest escape. But even the world’s loneliest woman can’t hide forever…Reluctant CEO Luke Tindall wants a wife, a family, a love that will last. He might have hired Agathe to save his company and deal with his goofy brother, but from the very first meeting, he has desired far more...

Chosen by FreshFiction.com as their Fresh Pick for October 22, 2013Kat Bastion's multiple award-winning debut in the Highland Legends series:Isobel MacInnes wakes up in present-day California, lunches in medieval Scotland, and by ten days’ end, falls in love with a man and his country, only to lose them in a heart-wrenching twist of fate . . .Found in the arms of her second soul mate . . .Forced to balance the delic...

Swift Torree is a lass with a bonny face, a clever mind, and fingers just meant for thievery.Brenan Mackay is a giant of a Highlander charged with keeping the treasury safe from people of her ilk.Will their meeting spell disaster for them both or will they find a way to join forces and make their own happily ever after?

Disgraced nobleman Lyle Walt has finally started to make a name for himself as an adventurer after leading the charge to defeat a group of bandits plaguing the city of Darion. He’s even started to gain the respect of the seven generations of ancestors whose spirits reside inside the pendant he wears around his neck. But learning a few Arts and earning some respect hasn’t helped much with his current goal: finding a way to support himself and the growing cast of women in his life. As Lyle f...

The Warriors of the Wind are the only thing protecting humans from a centuries-old evil, but with their potential mates, the Aurae, long gone, these alpha warriors are in danger of becoming the very evil they hunt.Storm: the last thing he expects on his hunt is an alluring assassin out to kill him.Shipping magnate Dante Venti is also the Warrior of the South Wind. With the terrifying Tempest Winds loose, it is his duty to scour the streets of Rome on the hunt for one of the...

A Renaissance-era Moorish slave finds love and adventure in her quest to break a necromancer's curse in this historical fantasy."Beautifully balancing putridity, profanity, and poignancy, Bullington renders The Enterprise of Death resonant and achingly human—even as it brims with the unhuman." — A.V. ClubAs the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance E...

In Gayle Greeno's highly anticipated return to her most successful and beloved series, a new generation of human Seekers and their catlike ghatti companions journey to a dangerous wilderness-- while in the tunnels beneath Marchmont's Capital a deadly piece of long-forgotten technology is about to be rediscovered....Praise for the GHATTI novels:"A brilliant fantasy series... No one will be able to resist the Ghatti."--Rave Reviews"A ...

Scáthach is the warrior goddess from the Isle of Skye. When a young boy pleads for the goddess to help his Uncle Trey, his prayers do not go unheard. However, she is surprised to find Trey Brennan, not on a battlefield but in a hospital room, hooked to monitors, his body rejecting a bone marrow transplant. She would accept the challenge and educate Trey in the art of warfare.A war was a war no matter where the battle was held. Be it on the fields of heather with an army or an illne...

The Law Keeper for the Venia bloodline, Marise doesn’t want to return home but duty dictates that she must investigate the attempt on her lord’s life by another vampire.When she sets eyes on her lord, Marise realises that she might have been called for another reason and that the attack on her lord might not have been by a vampire after all. Her only source of information is a guard who was mortally wounded during the attack, a guard who turns out to be the man who broke her heart ...