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When Miranda Wilson is hired to care for Dominic Andrus’ triplets, she has no idea she’s about to have the adventure of a lifetime. At first, it’s like the plot of a gothic novel: young governess, mysterious employer, three motherless children - but there the resemblance ends, for Dominic Andrus is an interplanetary criminal, hiding his children on Earth to prevent their abduction. As she’s thrown into a war between the Andruses and a madman sworn to destroy them, Miranda’s life becomes a wild sci-fi movie. She takes it all in stride until she meets Kit.

Marley Fox, orphan, foundling, and poacher, is born towards the end of the 19th century at a time when humans are under attack from the Dark Angels who harvest souls for their own nefarious aims. The youngster’s only family is Black Annie, a recluse who has occult powers. The Angels of Light are attempting to protect humans, and Marley is to play a part in the fight against those who would destroy their world.

They were an unlikely pairing - he, an urchin from the back streets of Belfast, and she, a sickly youngster from a well-to-do background. Yet they were chosen to go against the most fearsome creature ever to threaten Earth - the terrifying Beast from the Apocalypse. The wizard Patrick told them of the mission. The Army of Light would face the Army of Darkness. The children had to recover the Lance of Light and use it against the Beast, or the Army of Light would be defeated. For different motives, the children agreed to go.

Dusty Fenton rides to his brother's wedding and encounters flaming lead from treacherous outlaws determined to seize control of the Crooked H Spread! Framed for murder, kidnapped from the safety of a Cowtown jail, mortally wounded in a shootout, hurled over the edge of a cliff by stampeding cattle, helplessly tied, tortured, and left to die in a burning barn, Dusty vows not even death itself will prevent him from saving his brother's bride and a young boy abducted by a rabid pack of the range's cruelest men, in this blazing action-filled western.

Gilbert Connatt, former film star, now dead broke, would give his life for a good role. And that may be just what he has done when he signs to be the lead in a newly discovered play by George Gordon, Lord Byron. As an added inducement, Gilbert finds he will be playing opposite his former flame, Sigrid Holgar, who has become a megastar since they broke off their headline-making Hollywood romance.

This is a story about a man, his son, and their three-day mission to cheat death. Sometimes funny, often sardonic, with shifting perspectives and unpunctuated dialogue, Nearly Dead in North Dakota is a fast and loose journey through history, science, religion, pop culture, and a closer examination of the kind of world we live in but never get enough time to really think about.

Archie’s predicament deepens as he spies for both the contending factions within the British Women’s Association for the Eradication of Vice, steals secret plans for the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation, and is subject to the monstrous attentions of the mysterious "angel" that dwells in the basement of the Association’s secret laboratory at Wiveliscombe.

Katy yearns for the ultimate bad boy, and the Devil grants her wish...sort of. Can a monumental underachiever of a demon and a “good girl” find true love? Lisa helps an old gypsy woman and is given a black cat and a wish charm that works...at the wrong moment.

This breathtaking and brutal novel is a gripping tale set in the magnificent Caucasus Mountains during Georgia's ill-fated invasion of Abkhazia in 1992. The Caucasus Cauldron gives a vivid focus to a historical moment left out of the history books, a world ripping itself apart and ravaged by never-ending hatred and blood feuds.

His partner was death-branded by six bullets from a ghost gun. It was Curt Traynor's birthday, and Curt was a young man who liked to celebrate the occasion with a drink and a friendly brawl. Curt had been working like a dog and his partner in the Tomahawk ranch, Frank Ballard, felt Curt had earned the right to blow off a little steam. What worried Ballard was Del Hudspeth, who owned the Crazy K. Hudspeth wanted the Tomahawk and recently had been hiring men who seemed to have more experience with six-shooters than herding cows.

This is the first spellbinding novel in multi-fantasy award winner Manley Wade Wellman's classic horror trilogy about Judge Hilary Pursuivant, the jurist so deeply seeped in the lore of deviltry and supernatural evil - that no one or thing, not even the most powerful of dark forces, can stand against him.

McHugh's back, drunk, and locked deep in a Mexican jail while the clock ticks down to doomsday! Someone is planning an international incident that would set off a revolution in one of the US's closest South of the border allies, plus provoke a shooting war between the US and Mexico - and it's up to McHugh, the two-fisted secret agent who always travels with a briefcase containing a fifth of Scotch and a .45, to stop it.

It wasn't a journey that anyone would make willingly. But Dale Maffitt had little choice. Wanted for hanging on a trumped-up charge of horse-stealing, trailed by a relentless posse, Maffitt's only hope lay in Mexico. To live, he must ride fast and hard over the scorching Texas plains and beat the posse to the border. Once across, he would be safe from arrest, and the posse would have to turn back.

Stellan, a married mid-20s Chicago accountant, dreams of a new life free from a spiteful wife and two unruly young daughters. His salvation comes by way of mobster Dusan “Squeezebox” Kovačević. Stellan stumbles onto a cache of $2.1 million hidden beneath loose floorboards at Squeezebox’s warehouse. He at first resists the temptation, but it proves too tempting. He plots out his theft, and, under the cover of darkness, bolts with the money in his trunk.

Full of endearing characters, vivid worlds, and thrilling adventures, this anthology is also a touching examination of what these celebrated authors consider their best work.

Love Handles is a collection of seven character-driven and highly erotic stories about real women exploring differing aspects of their personal sexuality and homosexuality.

When Vicki Fowler's body is found covered with bee stings in a Central Illinois pasture, the sheriff calls her death an accident. Freelance reporter and private detective Nick Bancroft doesn't believe it. He learns the victim lived in a home for young unwed mothers who work as waitresses and whores at a local nightclub.

A summer with terminal patients wasn’t what Sonia had in mind when she signed up for her school’s nursing internship program. With no previous exposure to death or dying, Sonia joins the ragtag team at Tender Hands Hospice (Your Best Last Resort) and becomes the center of attention to the oddball nurses who work in end-of-life care.

Involuntary Immortals is the story of a woman who finds herself outliving her lovers and the incredible peril she faces when she sets out to discover the source of her involuntary immortality. Helen Ranston discovers her own daughter Agnes thinks she is a witch or vampire. Agnes is 40, but still looks 20 and has never aged throughout her daughter's entire life.

Rog Phillips' Rat in the Skull and Other SF Classics is a giant helping of classic Golden Age science fiction. The main ingredient is Phillips' science fiction masterpiece Rat in the Skull (unavailable for nearly 50 years). What the magazine editors said then about this controversial Hugo nominee novelette remains true today: "Some people will be shocked by this story. Others will be deeply moved. Everyone who reads it will be talking about it. Read the first four pages: then put it down if you can."