Flash fiction in 26 sentences. Authors from all over the world joined the challenge to write a complete story in 26 sentences, with a sentence beginning with each letter of the alphabet. From romance to horror, science fiction to mystery, every genre is included in this little book. Perfect to take along in your bag or briefcase for a quick read and instant entertainment. 

Seven children are abandoned by their drunken father one cold, sleety night after their mother died in childbirth. The children must make the hard decision to split apart. The story follows Frankie, third-born, as he heads to a neighboring farmer to ask for room and board in trade for his ten-year-old muscles. When he suspects the farmer may sell him to a stranger for labor, he hops a northbound train to escape his fate.Frankie searches for love to fill the hole in his heart. Throu...

Fourteen-year-old Jemma loved music, so when the CrossRoad Band pulled into the park near her projects, she was intrigued. Drawn in by the hard rock style, Jemma swayed to the music, jumped at the flash pots, and danced during the light show. She wanted to be on that stage someday with her sequinned outfit, jamming to the beat. When her day finally arrives, she hopes to prove her worth and her music as the band performs in the bowels of a maximum-security prison. Jemma hadn't counted on be...

Frankie struggles between right and wrong and the battles fought in his mind. Abandoned by a drunken father at age ten, Frankie must find his own way in life. Through many harrowing experiences, life is seen from the eyes of a boy growing into a man. Frank narrates his story from the thoughts of a young lost boy finding his journey back home. When a farmer and his wife take him in, it seems like the answer until he thinks the farmer is going to sell him to a stranger. Frankie hops a train ...

After being abandoned by their drunken father, Frank Larue has some old scores to settle, some fences to mend. Now grown, Frank goes back to his hometown in search of siblings he's been separated from for ten years.  Visiting the old homestead brings back good and bad memories, but also points to chilling evidence of things gone wrong. Someone has lived - and died in the barn. Frank suspects someone was murdered, buy why, and who? Frank comes across some happy surprises and meets a...

She couldn't help but feel unwanted, unloved. Nina abused her, called her ugly and lazy. Benny said she was damaged goods; no man would love a cripple with those scars. Nina tried to give her away and Benny almost took her. Escaping the clutches of another man, there was only one thing left to do...The people around think she's a runaway and put her in a group home. Foster care seemed scary, but anything was better than living with Nina. The girl finds sweet solace in playing the p...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum’s life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home in this dynamite novel by Janet Evanovich.“The most popular mystery writer alive.”—The New York TimesBefore Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 Hawaii to Newark, she’s knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, and she’s flying ba...

A wonderful, emotional roller-coaster from the #1, MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Shari Low.Sometimes moving on means saying goodbye to the past...Colm O’Flynn was loved by his close circle of family and friends, however his death came too soon for everyone to make peace with their past.Shauna, his second wife, adored him. But one night she broke their marriage vows, and didn’t get time to ask Colm’s forgiveness.Jess was the first Mrs O’Fly...

Detective Mike Bennett takes on a chilling man trying to play god as he threatens New York with a terrifying epidemic in this gripping novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author.A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. His message is clear: remember your manners or suffer the consequences! For some, it seems that the rich are finally getting what they deserve. For New York's elite, it is...

The houses in Saffron Lane are being filled with artists thanks to the efforts of Nell and Angus. Ginger doesn't win a place there, but gets a job running the small café/art gallery, taking refuge there from her abusive bully of a son. When she meets Iain, sparks fly between them, the first time she's felt attracted to anyone for years. But will her son spoil it?Emil is in town to open the small museum in Saffron Lane and run his father's business. This throws new opportunities in h...

A USA Today Bestseller!New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julie Ann Walker continues her red-hot Black Knights Inc. series in rough-and-tumble Peru"The Man" is backDan "The Man" Currington is back in fighting form with a mission that takes him four thousand miles south of BKI headquarters, high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. He's hot on the trail of a rogue CIA agent selling ...

Stephanie's got a one-way ticket to trouble...Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's life is set to blow sky high when international murder hits dangerously close to home in Explosive Eighteen. No. 1 bestselling author Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series is not to be missed by fans of Lee Child and JD Robb.Raves for Evanovich's bestselling series: 'Stephanie Plum in ass-kicking form... utterly delightful' (Cosmopolitan...