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For twenty years Elizabeth Bennet had lived, quite contentedly, as the second daughter of a country squire. During her Easter visit to her newly married friend, Lizzy has the dubious pleasure of being introduced to Lady Catherine de Bourgh and her cosseted daughter. To Elizabeth’s surprise, the pair take a keen interest in a mere adopted daughter of the Bennet family, and when Mr. Darcy dutifully pays his annual visit to Rosings Park, her life takes a wholly unexpected turn.

Mrs. Bennet and her sister are bound for Bath to take the waters. The mistress of Longbourn could not part from her duties if it were not for Mrs. Gardiner of Gracechurch Street. At Elizabeth’s request, her favorite aunt has offered to take up residence for the few months Mrs. Bennet is absent.

Far into humanity's distant future, Naga, a whimsical superintelligent being, finds herself reborn. Her trusty companion Apollo – a quantum quintessence with an uncanny ability to predict the future - helps her throw a birthday party of cosmic proportions. Naga's children – Tartarus, Gaia, Iapetus and Mnemosyne – have mixed feelings about their newly reborn mother and about each other. Remembering their own trials and tribunals, they rediscover themselves and take a stab at understanding consciousnesses, complexity and what it means to be alive.

A strange twist of fate connects a British soldier fighting in WWI in 1916 with a young woman living in modern-day England a century later, in this haunting best-selling literary time-travel novel.

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is one of the cruelest forms of child abuse imaginable. It is very difficult to prove and even harder to prosecute. This story chronicles a woman's journey as she discovers that her two grandchildren are victims of this abuse that most people have never even heard of. Her faith in God kept her going as she turned their tragedies and trials into triumph. Follow her journey of faith as she fights to rescue, protect, and bring healing to her grandchildren's broken spirits and shattered little souls. 

When her friend Sandy asks for help, Anne Wilson leaves her small, lonely life in Miami for the picturesque island of Saint Martin. But as soon as she arrives, Sandy is murdered, and her death exposes lies: an alias, a secret past, stolen money. Suspected of murder and trapped on the island, Anne is shocked when a cryptic message arrives.

A journey through the Tyrants male and female that imposed their power and will.

All she wants is to be cured of being a WEREWOLF. But the Coven, the Order, and Mother Nature would sooner see her dead. Daemiana is fleeing for her life while seeking a cure to an ancient lycan-shifter curse born of an occultism mishap. She yearns to be able to fully love again once free of her accurst fix, but she's been marked for death by her own kind and by a vicious order of slayers — both cults bent on finding and destroying her first but for opposite reasons.

haBITS provides you with an opportunity to be in control of your habits. In the same way that bits are the basic unit of computer memory, haBITS are regular practices or routines that are not only small and easy to do, but are also the basic unit of logical power. Habits are a component of the system that is based on compound growth. Most software codes involve sequence, selection, and repetition.

So what happens when your husband runs off with your best friend? When you discover the dead body of an old man halfway through your delivery round? When your house is burgled and you get beaten up? Doris, Andy, and Colleen are about to find out. They’re also about to discover that you can find friendship and support in the oddest of places....

Three people have been murdered. One Gypsy and two carnies and no one is being held responsible. Gina Bracken, Allison’s secretary, is angry. Gypsies and carnies are people too - her family was Gypsy. She wants to join a circus to find the killer. Her grandmother says she has to learn to be a Gypsy first and takes her on a houseboat trip up the Little Manatee River. There she meets Vavu, a ruggedly handsome Gypsy with a gigantic mustache.

Bertram Sandell hopped into Allison’s car in heavy traffic, blond hair, blue eyes, a dimple, and a gun. He is being charged with murder, a crime he had nothing to do with. Later, Betsy Bryant is convicted of the murder she did not commit. Following Allison as she solves these miscarriages of justice takes us on a whirlwind tour of Tampa from Ybor City to Hyde Park with a side trip to Longboat Key. It is a hot, sizzling ride with Miss Lillian, New York’s classiest hooker, to Betsy Bryant who burns out husbands like they were wooden matches. 

You always met me in the gardens when you came back from a long trip. Over the years, you had learned that while psychological games did nothing to stoke fire in you, they wrought my ardor like no other little intentions could. I loved hide-and-seek. I loved to wait. I loved to angst and fret, and it whet my appetite for you to such shameful heights that I would nearly lose my voice and barely be able to squeak like a mouse, so thick was my heart with passion and want and thrill and love of you. I tore open every letter you sent, eager to read which day you were due to arrive home.

Carousel is the story of a spoiled boy from an Indian family residing in the UK. Rajesh has had a privileged and pampered life and is resentful of being in his father's shadow. Desperate to make his mark in the world and by a twist of fate, Rajesh enters the grimy world of London's organized crime scene and becomes embroiled in a complex form of tax fraud called carousel fraud. Seduced by money, power, and a array of flamboyant cars and women, Rajesh is quickly losing control of his company, his marriage, and his freedom.

Six hundred years after the War: A group of elderly hermits live in an ancient, crumbling fortress, high up a mountainside. A local Lord, armed with a powerful relic, wants to take it from them. A young Shepherd is determined to save them.

A farm cat and a barn owl wager on which of them will catch a sneaky, high-and-mighty field mouse first. What follows changes their lives forever.

Nothing has gone right for Jade since she arrived in Tokyo with the clothes on her back, the cash Ah Fan fronted her, and a plot to destroy the Yang Wei Rubber and Plastics company. As all the pieces fall into place, nearly half a dozen missteps threaten to throw everything off course, leaving lives in the balance. With this scheme three years in the making and at the cost of what may be Jade’s soul, there’s no room for failure. Can she do it? Can Jade use the heartless and the rich to usher in a tide of change?

FBI Agent Erica Blaine has suffered more than most. After narrowly escaping being at the center of a cult sacrifice she’d been tasked with infiltrating, Erica has spent the last few months hitting the bottle, trying to avoid dealing with the trauma of what she experienced and those she couldn’t save. Her ruined hands, always gloved, are an unavoidable reminder of her pain and anguish. As is the voice that won’t allow her a moment of peace.

These 12 short stories and one novella take you into the lives of people facing life-changing, unpredictable, and often strange inflection points in their realities. These stories are pulled from a variety of speculative genres including sci fi, time travel, horror, clown noir and more; but they are tied together with the author’s sense of the absurd and his love of complicated, all-too-human (usually) characters.