Robbed Blind - format ePub

A young woman's quick trip to the liquor store turns unexpectedly exciting, and even more dangerous.Abe's Liquors is a 3,000 word crime story.

A sword-for-hire quests to defeat an evil Necromancer.A young girl discovers that music has a magic of its own.An FBI interrogator discovers a chilling conspiracy.A shipwreck unleashes a supernatural...

When Jacob wakes to find himself bound to a chair in an unfamiliar room, he fears the worst.What he discovers in that room will put his worst fears to shame.The Memory Of Justice is a 3,000 word science...

From a place beyond reality, it comes to consume the world.For Barry, getting a transfer to a new position as an electrician aboard the Ketcham Space Station summed up his professional life perfectly:...

A mysterious stranger upsets life in a quiet bookstore.A police negotiator finds more than he bargained for on his latest case.A quick trip to the liquor store becomes exciting.  And dangerous.Private...

A single sock missing from the wash – the source of universal frustration and untold family bickering. Justine never gave thought to what happened to those missing socks, and where they went. Until the...

On the run from their past, swordsmen Raedrick Baletier and Julian Hinderbrook search for a place of refuge where they can start over.That search sends them through a remote mountain valley called Glimmer...

A stunning robbery threatens to bring Lydelton's economy to its knees, and constables Raedrick Baletier and Julian Hinderbrook must find the culprits.A team of Royal Marshalls is in town to help.  But...

A fateful meeting in deep space. A journey to a distant world to hunt the ultimate game: Dragons. Two young soldiers search for a lost family heirloom. Honeymoon bliss turns into a fight for survival...

The people live on the island, and the gods protect it.  The Beast waits on the beach, eager to ensnare the unwary.When outsiders come and disrupt that balance, Yili must find a way to protect his family,...

Larian's comrade-in-arms and friend, Jiles, received a family heirloom in the mail: a pendant from his deceased grandfather. Then he lost it during a night of liberty in Mirasol, a town near their Company's...

New customers come through Popper's bookstore all the time.  But one of them, an average man in every way, has David very concerned that he intends more than just buying books.Popper's is a 4,100 word...

Piter's honeymoon was off to a splendid start. He and his bride had a fancy bridal suite on a luxury spaceliner, and had their own private view of the most beautiful aurora in the known galaxy.Then it...

An infantryman, certain resistance is futile, nevertheless deploys with his unit to fight against an alien invasion.  Lords of the Remnant is a 3,800 word military science fiction short story.

An abandoned bag, filled with money and with what appears to be a bloody handprint on the side, upends Harry's relaxing day at the beach.Beach Bags is a 5,000 word short mystery.

Welcome to a grand adventure: a quest to create fifty-two stories in a year, one for each week, and collect them into five collections. This is the first collection in that quest, filled with ten stories...

The grand adventure continues!  This collection of ten short stories completes the second step in Michael Kingswood's quest to create fifty-two new works of fiction in the year 2023.  With stories ranging...

The midwatch patrol in a surveillance and reconnaissance skiff supporting a combat vessel of the Icaran Confederation Navy tends to be uneventful, an exercise in tedium. Until it isn't. For Joyride and...

As payment for his sins, in particular against Ichabod Crane, Brom Bones must ride his faithful steed Daredevil through the woods around his former home of Tarry Town every night, for eternity.No forgiveness....

Gregory recently took his vows in the monastery. Agnes recently became a nun.When they meet at a Christmas midnight mass, each face a choice—be true to their vows or be together.But maybe they can do...

As an operative for the Qoarthi Empire's Internal Security Service, Manolo Garces investigates and brings to justice all manner of plots against the Empire's integrity.No villain ever escapes his grasp.Until...

Jake wants nothing more than to live where his parents and grandparents lived and died, to make a life and build on their legacy in the world they terraformed into existence.If only his brother would...

Jeff had to get away, to hike in the woods after a fight with his brother. He never expected to stumble onto Miss Melody's Cafe there, in the middle of nowhere. Or that the cafe would hold answers to...

A death in a nightclub. Completely random, with no link to any person, or any motive.Or was it?Drops In The Storm is a short crime story.

A man imprisoned on a sailing vessel finds the ship sinking around him. How to escape, and even if he does, how to survive the aftermath of a shipwreck?Sea Legs is a short adventure story at sea.

Hank loves his bar, and it's done well for him over the years. He made it into his own little paradise and never wanted anything more.Until some unexpected—and shocking—visitors came knocking one Thursday...

A fortune in gold in a subterranean vault that no one can access.No one except Jordan and his crew.It's the perfect job, one that will set him up for life. As long as nothing goes wrong.Drilling For Gold...

Two thieves seek a valuable prize from within the kingdom's Museum of History.But what they find there is more than they bargained for.Revelator is a short fantasy story.

An unexpected phone call from an old colleague prompts Dustin Cofield, Elfsterminator, to investigate a local business that may be a key player in the world-wide Elfin conspiracy against Christmas and...

Julian, Melanie, and Jared have returned to Lydelton.  And not a moment too soon.  Snow has begun falling in the passes, and soon no one will be able to travel in or out of Glimmer Vale and its environs...

In a routine eye exam, Darren McArthur's life takes an extraordinary turn when his doctor sends his consciousness 400 years into the future. There, he inhabits the body of Kaden, an Agent serving the...

After a considerably long dry spell, Ashleigh finally succumbs to peer pressure and does the unimaginable.She contacts an exclusive escort agency.To her astonishment, they unveil a unique service catering...

Jessie had always felt like something was missing. When she graduated, she left her small town to find herself at school. Instead she ended up with a roommate from hell. Literally. She kept giving the...

When Debbie Holten and her friends find her little sister's body sprawled on the beach at the bottom of a thirty-foot drop, they're terrified. Mallory's fall was her own fault, but the four kids are sure...

After a nearly fatal encounter with a Fenshian that is more than one hundred and fifty feet long and nearly half as many high, I, Alexandra, go into hibernation for several thousands of years. When I...

Wilder is a supernatural creature who exists off the energy of dreams. He's never questioned his life in the mystical forest. But when he encounters Meara, he falls in love with her and strange events...

Klaria avoided town. It was too close to the ocean. She couldn't control herself near the sea, the urge to take to the waves too strong. She'd already scared herself once by nearly drowning. It turned...

The first stage of grief is denial...The earth is still spinning but for Death, it is the end of the world; Misery's eyes are closed and they no longer open. How does a being living in an immortal world...

A child of prophecy. A city of secrets. An empire that wants him dead.Reality teeters on a razor's edge - to one side hope and the other darkness, where there will be great weeping and gnashing of teeth.Nathenual's...

Twelve guests. One island. Nowhere to run.When six couples accept an exclusive invitation to the luxurious Haven's End resort, they expect a dream getaway. The private island offers everything—stunning...

Beneath the shimmering façade of wealth, power, and desire lies a tangled web of deception that no one saw coming.Adrian thought he had it all figured out—his charm, his intellect, and his carefully calculated...

StellaLike far too many people here in New York, I've just graduated from film school. Unlike most of them, I did this after getting a bachelor's in Early Childhood education and while working to (mostly)...

Levi Jacobs always dreamed of being more like his father, the greatest wizard in the world, but had no real understanding of what it would be like if he got his wish.Follow Levi's journey from bumbling...

Two sisters. Two fates. One choice that changes everything.Amy and Annie have always been inseparable, but their eighteenth birthday awakens a destiny neither could have imagined. As witches torn between...

He burns for his fated mate.EmersonI just moved to Twisted Oak and sunk all of my money into a small house here on the outskirts of town.This move is meant to be my fresh start and so far, things are...

A funny, emotional and uplifting novel from the French Marian Keyes. 'Heartwarming' Good Housekeeping'A gorgeous story, charming and funny and poignant' Nicola Cornick For fans of Ruth Hogan, Veronica...

The instant number one Sunday Times bestseller and thrilling sequel to the global phenomenon, Fourth Wing! THE IRON FLAME PAPERBACK EDITION INCLUDES A BRAND NEW CHAPTER FROM XADEN'S POINT OF VIEW!'Yarros...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century,...

DON'T BE THE LAST TO DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT EVERYONE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT: 'Pure escapism - think Hunger Games meets Fifty Shades' The Sun'We weren't expecting to become obsessed . . . but we very...

A heart-wrenching grim cozy pirate's tale with a little bit of romance. This is not 'Cozy' in the traditional sense, unless you find misery and betrayal to be as comforting as a cup of hot cocoa."This...

The long-awaited explosive climax to the first arc of the Number One New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive. Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future...

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into the English language as a symbol of the horrors of totalitarianism. George Orwell's...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire,...

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being...

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting Dune Messiah, the sequel to one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for...

THE INSPIRATION FOR HBO AND SKY TV’S EMMY NOMINATED HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. Centuries before A Game of Thrones, an even greater game began, one that set the skies alight with dragon...

'It does everything you'd expect of a masterpiece - and it is one' Sunday Express'Hums and crackles with delicious unease' Independent'Captivating' The Sunday Times'An absorbing thriller' Mail on SundayNO...