In a world torn by hatred, hope becomes the greatest act of defiance as the lives of three men are forever connected through a series of unforeseen events. Hungry, rejected, and weighed down by responsibility, a young missionary, Elder Gordon, vows to trust God’s hand in the foreign streets of Germany a year before the start of World War I. Violin shop owner, Joseph treasures his family’s Munich shop, but Kristallnacht shatters more than glass. As tension erupts in the streets, Joseph batt...

From award-winning author Kathy Kacer - Two girls are coming of age, one in modern comfort, the other in the Warsaw Ghetto. With just three weeks to go before her Bat Mitzvah, Laura's rabbi assigns her a special project. She is given the journal of a girl her own age who was imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto during the time of the Holocaust and who never had a chance to celebrate her coming of age. Laura is to research young Sara Gittler's life and then share her Bat Mitzvah with her "twin" ...

A proposition… An agreement… A risk to the heart…The final explosive installment of bestselling author Becca Jameson’s The Underground MMA series!MMA fighter Sergei Zholdin has lusted after Agent Taylor Brown from the moment he moved to Chicago. Now the FBI wants him to pretend they’re a couple? The idea is laughable. The steam between the two of them is intense. Nevertheless, Sergei agrees to the charade. And they manage to fake like they’re into ...

Book Six: A German motorcycle gangster falls in love with a black American woman with a dark past against the wishes of his dangerous German familyGEORGIAHaving feelings for him is a big mistake.He's terrifying, with his tatted kill count and piercing green eyes.He's tempting me with his promise of freedom... and forever.With his bike vibrating between my thighs, I lose track of my #1 rule:Never fall in love, especially not w...

Can an Air Force pilot and a dancer make it work as they move to the music of love in the wild beauty of Spain?Air Force pilot, Major Erich “Daredevil” Stark runs into a woman leaving a club and is immediately attracted to her. He wants to know her better but after a brief and intense interaction she slips away. When they meet again, he longs to start over.Bliss Esparza has spent her life doing two things. Dancing and raising her younger brother, W...

Mercedes Fuentes, or Mousy Mercy as she often refers to herself, has buried herself in academia in order to avoid those frightening creatures that make up the other half of the human population: MEN! When an opportunity to pay off the majority of her student debt is offered to her by a family friend, Mercy has her doubts. But how can she refuse a weeklong date with a handsome man, at the end of which she will be nearly free of all debt? Enter the seemingly innocuous, over-worked oil tycoon...

Addison finds Taylor's kinky bondage magazine and decides to wrap up the best Christmas present ever!Addison and Taylor have been together for five years, but when they move in together, Addison discovers Taylor has a secret -- a hidden stash of bondage magazines, with pictures of Addison tucked inside.Addison never thought he'd be into kinky sex, but he'd do anything to please Taylor-- including venturing out to an adult toy store on a hunt to find out more about BDSM. He'...

Emma is an inveterate cat hater. One dark and stormy night she is thrust unwilling into a nightmare war with a particularly belligerent tom cat, Gustav. The gentle idyllic life she had built for herself will never be the same again.

Welcome to the world that almost was. In late 1983 NATO members carried out a command and control exercise. Soviet/Warsaw Pact enemy forces mobilized and got ready 'just in case' war erupted. This story assumes that war did start and tells it from a different angle - from the feline view. Join Able and Archer, two pussy cats on opposing sides, in their story of eating, paranoia and eventual Armageddon. Who will win and who will die? It captures the Cold War mindset, one that appears to hav...

Hot, hungry and lonely, Jim’s looking for a night of scorching no-name sex. Desperate to feel alive, Julia’s on the prowl for a hot, hard body before the Marine Corps sends her back to war. Who knew a one-night stand could be more than either of them ever hoped for? Or that they’d have such little time to enjoy it? Sometimes a person has to take a chance. Do something a little crazy. Live like they’re dying.

Online Friends is #12 in this series of short horror stories. It can be found in Horror You Crave: Volume One, an anthology of 23 stories for the dark at heart.

I'll Never Forget Beatrice is #19 in this series of short horror stories. It can be found in Horror You Crave: Volume One, an anthology of 23 stories for the dark at heart.