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It was a beautiful day. A young raccoon had been playing in the meadow and was having fun. As this perfect day was coming to a close, he was called by his grandma that it was time to come in for dinner. As he went to his grandparents’ house, he saw his grandpa looking out into the distance very thoughtfully. He wondered what Grandpa was doing and what was he looking at. When the young raccoon got up to the porch, he asked his grandpa what he was doing. His grandpa replied that he was contemplating. The young racoon had never heard that word before or known what it meant.

Yasmine Alvarado has a secret life and a haunted past. A single mother living in the remote mountain community of Sparrowdale, Colorado, Yasmine is a survivor. Having escaped a sadistic, psychopathic husband, she now secretly moonlights as a private dominatrix while raising her teenage daughter, Charlie.

Follow the struggles of this beautiful black and white kitten who starts out his life happily playing in his cozy home, then finds himself scared and alone in a world he knows little about. Cold and alone, will he ever feel safe and loved again? Find out as you listen to The Tale of Walter Mittens.

Labor organizer Padma Mehta is on the edge of space and the edge of burnout. All she wants is to buy out a little rum distillery and retire, but she's supposed to recruit 500 people to the Union before she can. She's only 33 short. So when a small-time con artist tells her about 40 people ready to tumble down the space elevator to break free from her old bosses, she checks it out - against her better judgment. It turns out, of course, it was all lies.

From Amber Collins, author of more than 200 size-related erotica stories, comes the latest in the collection that celebrates tiny women - or women getting tiny!

"After an injury left me with no personal memories, all I want is to experience some semblance of normalcy. Unfortunately, my life is anything but normal these days, and that includes the hot guy who keeps accusing me of faking my amnesia while demanding information I literally cannot remember.

Alexandria Tillie Bush, a 21-year-old college student, went home to visit her parents in Glenwood, New Mexico, on her summer break. During her visit, her grandfather, Len Hudson, once a prospector for gold in the Mogollon Mountains, bequeathed an adventure for Alex to find his buried treasure in the rugged Gila Wilderness. What Len Hudson didn’t realize when he asked his granddaughter to venture into the wilderness was that her life, and everyone who accompanied her, would end up in a dangerous and deadly quest.

So many young people enter adulthood with expectations of blissful dating followed by a romantic marriage but then discover they’ve been duped. Because they learned about love and sexuality from faulty sources - social media, their friends, Disney fairy tales, pornography, or even their own rocky past - they have no idea what healthy lifelong love is supposed to be like. The results are often disastrous, with this generation becoming one of the most relationally sick, sexually addicted, and divorce-ridden in history.

“Well that was fast.” Said Damian. Paul responded, “It didn’t take much tracking. An easy find for me and my pack. There are five male vampires and they’re down by coconut creek. Approximately six miles north from your place. They have set up a little camping area. What do you want to do? Set up a surprise attack?”

Author and human resources practitioner Maria R. Nebres brings more than 25 years of personal and professional experiences, gained insights, and problem solving with time-tested measures to offer an integrative framework to answer leadership questions and address dilemmas. Within Love and the Highly-Engaged Team, Maria invites leaders to learn: the truth about lasting success and what it takes to achieve it; why most leaders fail when it comes to leading tired, disengaged employees; the truth about time and how to use it to make it their all; and more.

The Armenians were a crucial part of the army of Alexander the Great following him to the ends of the known world at that time.

Damian was about to call it a day and end the hunt when he saw Ariel lock eyes on a rare predator...the werewolf. He shouted, "Ariel, No"! Simultaneously, Ariel was in mid-air and came to an immediate standstill when she heard a whimper sound followed by a voice "No, Stop! I’m Ashford”. Confused, Ariel looked to Damian for answers. Ariel discovered the shape shifters that day and how much their clan would need them in their lives. Two vampires mates were out on a rampage and had gotten the fever to kill humans whenever a new Half Vampire/Half Man was born.

Ariel couldn't move her lower legs, and although she wanted to open her eyes, they would not. Was she even conscious? This must all be a dream. But she could hear cars, horns, buses, and people passing. Surely they must see her? It was all Gabriel Stones fault, or was it?

Some messages cannot be choked and stifled. Some messages have a voice that must be heard, a truth that must be spoken. Whether it be in this lifetime or the next, ultimately, justice will prevail. Healing Bridget: Injustice to Freedom, is a short story about harsh realities of the past surfacing for an opportunity to be set free. Through intention, determination, and vulnerable moments of surrender, the author takes you through her very personal, raw, and powerful healing experience.

This collection of short stories delves into the steampunk realm, visits the paranormal, and encounters everything in between.

Lexi Catherine Sanders seemed like your average 25-year-old witch. She worked a job she liked during the day, and she was even dating a nice, non-supernatural guy. However, Lexi's charmed life isn't as normal as it looks on the outside. You see, Lexi is a cold-case solving, time-traveling witch. When Lexi learned she had to travel back to 1988 to solve her next case, she strapped on her Z. Cavaricci jeans and grabbed her bottle of Aqua Net hairspray and '80s mixed tape.

Letting the man of her dreams go would have been much harder had he been a real person. Living happily ever after with her soul mate would be much easier if reality was as uncomplicated as her dreams. And for Elizabeth Baker, the future would be much clearer if the lines between dreams and reality were not blurring yet again.

Annie Sutton is not only a best-selling mystery author, she’s the proprietor of the newly opened Vineyard Inn. Recently engaged to local Police Sergeant John Lyons, instead of making wedding plans, Annie’s fighting with him about his older daughter, a troubled teen who has moved home - bringing chaos in her wake. With Annie’s beloved brother away on a troublesome journey of his own, Annie needs a friend. She begins to confide in one of the Inn’s guests, a mysterious stranger named Mary Beth Mullen.

Alias Space and Other Stories is the first fiction collection from Nebula Award-winning writer Kelly Robson, who vaulted onto the science fiction, fantasy, and horror stage in 2015, earning spots in multiple year's best anthologies. This volume collects Robson's best stories to date, along with exciting new work, and notes to accompany each piece. Robson's stories are noted for their compassion, humanity, humor, rigor, and joy.

If any kind of utopia exists in postapocalyptic America, Ryan and his companions have yet to find it. But high in the Virginian mountains, their quest may find its reward. Heaven Falls is an agrarian idyll, its thriving inhabitants harnessing powerful feminine energy and the medicinal qualities of honey. Bountiful and serene, this community is the closest thing to sanctuary the companions have ever encountered. But as they are seduced by a life they have only envisioned, they discover Heaven has a trapdoor that opens straight to hell....