Showing results for "the path" in Literature & Fiction

Kade, a slightly older werewolf (at over 100 years), needs a night way from the Pack. Too many responsibilities and one near miss with a potential mate made Kade hide in his work, the only peace he can find. His brother convinces him to meet the sexy woman for a one night of fun. What could it hurt? But when he finds this woman could be his mate, can he convince her to leave her orderly, sane world and be with him and his wolf-half, for life?

For the last ten years, I thought I was nothing special. I was just another priestess in the Temple of Temptation...one of many. Little did I know that my god has plans for me. He intends to make me powerful. But what I will become is up to me. For centuries, things here have always been done the same way—and the gods are now paying for it. Somehow, I'm expected to revive the faith. I'm their last hope, but no one is quite sure how I'm supposed to do that. 

I was a child when my father surrendered me to the Temple of All Gods. No one gave me a choice. No one even bothered to explain. I was simply tossed aside, unwanted. That was the day the God of Temptation claimed me as his. Now, I'm studying how to become the perfect priestess. Life in the temple means embracing my emotions and learning to harness each type of desire. Power, fear, lust, and rage are the most common, but not the only ones. Each has a power. Each has its place. I just have to figure out which kind of priestess I'll become.

The sudden move from Calgary, Alberta to the outskirts of Jasper during his senior year leaves Alex isolated in a cabin with bickering parents. He copes by taking daily hikes along the shores of Maligne Lake, until he meets a young man named Amulii. He’s huge, unkempt, and speaks broken English, but there’s something else uncanny about him Alex can’t quite place.

On Earth, Peter is a financial wizard, the accountant that could make your monetary missteps disappear in a sea of numbers, but he's trapped in a thankless job...until the day he's shot dead in his apartment...only to wake up in a body that isn't his and a world he doesn't know. Part of the hated Gold clan, Peter is now a servant in a land of cultivating martial artists, strange fantastical races, and warring clans. And while he might start at the bottom, the Gold clan gains their power through the accumulation of wealth...and making money is what Peter does best.

Paige Harlow is a good girl. She's always known where she was going in life: top grades, an ivy league school, a medical degree, regular church attendance, and a happy marriage to a man. So falling in love with her gorgeous roommate and best friend Alyssa Torres is no small crisis. What do you do when you meet someone who changes everything you know about love and passion?

The Path of Light is a collection of short stories nothing if not a mirror to the phenomenal range of human behaviour. Taken from the Upanishads to the Jatakas to South Asian folklore, these simple but contemplative tales show how people are capable of both extreme cruelty and inordinate...

If Celia and her group of smoking lesbian agents are going to take over Asia and overcome the anti-lesbian and anti-smoking League, they will need to deal with Mai Li first, and there may be no greater lesbian seduction challenge for her! In this episode of Overcoming Mai Li, Celia is increasingly pleased with the progress in her long-running seduction of the impassive Mai Li. There is a path to freedom, and that freedom is found in the arms of another woman!

In this 3,500 word short story, we learn the allure of power, greed, sex, and darkness...and how it can all make a good girl go bad. When Duvessa Doyle took the job in the little town of Winslet, she stumbled into a world beyond her greatest imaginations and experiences things few could ever understand. But her hunger for power brought the sensual darkness of the Aberration Order to her door. The Time Keeper Society aren't the only ones tasked to time, but the difference is that the Aberration Order disrupts it. Assassinations, kidnapping, and deliciously dark deeds.