Celebrate spring, slip into an enchanting tale, and show your support for World Central Kitchen!Remember waking up with the first blush of a new romance filling your morning with joy?Seven breakout authors bring you a medley of love stories that will quicken your senses, lift your hearts, and make you imagine love in whole new ways. Spanning the scale from gentle and sweet to spicy hot, each entry brings a fresh look at love in all its variations a...

FREE PREVIEW! READ THE PREQUEL TO ME, MYSELF, & WHY!From New York Times bestselling author MaryJanice Davidson, comes OUTTA THE BAG, the hilarious prequel story to her upcoming novel ME, MYSELF AND WHY, the first in a brand new series. In OUTTA THE BAG, Clive Better--the better-than-best plumber in town--attends a speed dating event where--instead of attempting to score phone numbers--he recounts his recent run-in with a freaked-out cat and a sexy-but-psyc...

What could a pampered house cat possibly have to complain about? This latest collaboration from picture book superstars--and cat devotees--Lane Smith and Jory John brings with it a hilarious set of feline problems!Just like most cats, this cat lives an extremely comfortable life. But he has his problems too!The sun spot he's trying to bathe in won't stop moving. He keeps getting served dry food instead of wet. And don't even get him started on the vacuum--i...

USA Today Bestselling author W.J. May brings you a Red Riding Hood story like you've never seen...Beautiful, quiet Rouge is trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to be. With little knowledge about her past, she has questions but has never tried to find the answers.Everything changes when she befriends a strangely intoxicating family. Siblings Grace and Michael, appear to have secrets which seem connected to Rouge. Her hunch is confirmed when a horrible...

In TOO LATE, 15-year-old Greg is in a teen sex offenders’ facility because of an assault on his stepsister. He hates the professionals who try to help him and can’t wait to go home. When he enters a room for a meeting, his mother is there crying. Her partner, whom Greg calls Step Dude, sits at her side. They have come to tell Greg they don’t want him back. It’s too late to be good, they say. Greg comes to the crippling realization of what he has become: the father he has both hated and fea...

Seventeen original stories about a mall where anything you can imagine is for sale-but who will pay the price?The stores in Enchantment Place live up to the title, catering to a rather unique clientele ranging from vampires and werecreatures to wizards and witches, elves and unicorns' in short, anyone with shopping needs not likely to be met in the chain stores. Here are seventeen shopping trips you'll never forget, from a store that sells the highest qual...

Embark upon these twenty short, scrumptious flights of fancy from the unmistakable pen of Scott Prize-winning author Kirsty Logan, and you will be astounded, titillated, disturbed, amused, heartbroken, and above all, astonished.

Can a farmer still love the man who stole his horse, and broke his heart?What kind of relationship begins with a passive-aggressive bottle of wine?How's life treating Mac and Tony of Life Lessons, ten years later?Thirty short stories, ranging from flash fiction to 10,000 words, bring laughter and tears, triumph and heartbreak, and the quiet moments in between. And love, always love.Do you have ten minutes, or an hour, to spend with a story? Check out this co...

This collection of gritty and intense short stories compares the horrors of the real world to those of the supernatural. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year.

Liz is determined to carve out some alone time to spend with her husband, Jimmy. But fate and the kids seem destined to interfere. And worse, her attempts to find a happy balance between responsibility and romance may prove more a comedy of errors than the night, well—fifteen minutes—of hot sex she's hoping for. Or will it?

Police Detective Alex Charming was nothing if not a dedicated officer of the law. He was known to be something of a hard-ass, truth be told. His reaction to the victim found attacked on a public street, his cat still in the pet carrier backpack he was wearing, could be written off as concern. Perhaps a bit more involved than usual, per se, but then he was an animal lover, so maybe that was it. If his colleagues discovered he was visiting the unconscious man every day at the hospital, that ...

The Bachelor's Cat is the story of an artist, a difficult and romantic man. The artist brings home a stray cat and the cat teaches him some things about love.