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Gate-Crashers

by Dave Spence

It’s Christmas 1984 in Manchester and seventeen year old Nick Hopper has devastating news on his mind. Rather than reveal his tragedy to school mates in their gloomy old pub, Nick seeks a change of heart and goes to a trendy hotspot where life gets in the way of death when a beautiful girl writes on the back of his hand urging him to seize the day and choose life! Along with his carefree best friend Heff, Nick embarks on the greatest night of his life gate-crashing a lavish house party to purs... more

The Fisherman's Wife: Love & Murder in Pirates Cove

by Tracy Traynor

1727. A wife with an oppressive husband. A pirate trapped by circumstance. Together they must face their fears and make a break for freedom. When Connie’s parents died, rather than become homeless she accepted a proposal from a fisherman known for his temper. After seven years of marriage and still childless, she is labeled cursed. Her drunken husband brutally punishes her for her failings and Connie retreats into a world of her own. Seeking his fortune, Eddie finds himself becoming an... more

Beth Through Time

by Harmke Buursma

After convincing her overprotective brother to let her join the London Season, Beth Easton is finally entering society together with her friend and chaperon, Anne Blakeley. When attending the first ball of the Season she meets the spirited Willa Balfour, the daughter of a marquis, who has no intentions of meeting the Irish duke her father arranged for her. Beth agrees to switch identities with Willa and meet the duke in her stead. Although Beth is supposed to drive the mysterious duke awa... more

Helens: Not Necessarily About Sex

by Matthew Louis Kalash

This entertaining collection of stories by Matthew Kalash revolves around themes of love and the arts, including painting, writing, history, mythology, and conversation, along with reflections about chess, cuisine, confectionery, travel, and literature. There's even a little disquisition on the implications of pornography. The stories are all set around the turn of the 21st century, before the rise of social media and the ubiquity of internet culture. A more innocent time...perhaps. Though th... more

The Wrong Way to Wright

by D Adiba

Aya Daniels is a thirty-six-year-old woman at her breaking point after never recovering from the loss of the man who broke her heart several years before. She spends and eats to compensate, becoming overweight, depressed, bored, lonely, and deeply in debt. When she is invited to return to the Caribbean island of her heritage, she thinks she has been offered a lifeline. Unfortunately, she soon realizes most of her troubles have followed her to paradise. As a result, she jumps into a marriage o... more

Gods & Angels

by E.J. Knox

From Elizabeth Stevens, writing as E.J. Knox, comes...
A ruthless god. A sinful angel. A princess to come between them.

My life is perfect. My life is planned. My life isn’t mine.
Promised to a man I love. A man I hate. Not even a man. A god.
Apollo Callahan is that and much more.

My life is broken. My life is fractured. My life isn’t free.
Craving a man I hate. A man I need. Not even a man. An angel.
Valen K... more

Perfectly Accidental

by Elizabeth Stevens

Sometimes, you’ve got to let go of all you’ve held on to.

I feel like I’ve been given a place in life – expectations of me – that it’s useless fighting. So I don’t bother. I’m the guy they all think I am; fighting, smoking, drinking. Because what else is Roman Lombardi but a troubled teen?

No one’s convinced I’ve got anything going for me. I take what – and who – I want when I want i... more

EVERLIEGH

by Robert Moore

The story of this saga spans many years… For Everliegh, everything begins at the age of her awakening. An 18-year-old high school girl, she is the victim of a dirty rumour, started by her ex, which destroys her social life. Only her friend, Olivia, remains faithful by her side. On the first day of her final term, two brothers, as mysterious as they are bewitching, arrive at school. Eve then discovers the existence of the caste, elite beings endowed with astonishing powers which she seems to b... more

Meet Me Halfway

by Lilian T. James

Madison gave her heart to a boy at the age of sixteen, but all she got in return was a broken heart and a swollen belly. Alone with a baby and desperate for the love she hadn’t found, she turned to a man who sealed his claim of devotion with a diamond ring. He promised her a family. A life. A future. But his lies had only been a cover for the personal hell he introduced her to daily. Now, at twenty-five, Madison has long since stopped believing in love. Balancing single parenthood, th... more

(Un)Common Love

by T.R Whittier

Where would an uncommon assortment of strangers ever even meet, no less fall in love? Why, Boston Common of course! But can true love transcend the challenges that arise from the intersection of extreme wealth, desperate poverty, suppressed snobbery, and relentless schoolwork? And yet, it’s undeniable. It’s unbelievable. It’s (Un)Common Love.

Anchor of Gold

by Holly Manno

Business, pleasure, and the chaos of modern life twist Madeline down a shadowed path where she meets Travis, the man who breaks all her rules. Truthful and intense, experience family drama, workplace bullying, and conflicts of interest amidst this searing forbidden romance.

Reason and Romance

by Terrance Layhew

A serious author, George Austen believes romance is a worthless genre, until he's challenged to write one of his own by a rival author. "Reason and Romance" follows George along his way as he faces the questions of what love means and the people it's meant to be shared with. Enjoy wit, humor, and discover the true meaning of romance. Join George as he is challenged with the question, "Is romance more than just a genre?”

Stolen Kisses

by Lia Huni

I might have bitten off more than I can chew… When I found out my boyfriend was married, I did what any rational math teacher would do: I took a job across the country in Rotheberg, the “Alpine Jewel of Oregon.” I can live with the town’s weird obsession with The Sound of Music, and Mrs. Fogelhaus’s stollen is to die for. But when my principal assigns me a baking class, I know I need help. I teach calculations, not cooking. Rotheberg’s golden boy, Dylan Mead, should be the solution to my equ... more

The Cackling of the Crows

by Neal Sellers

Gregory Que (pronounced “Q”), takes readers on a literary ride, bobbing, weaving and sparring with them about his exploits, sharing wisdom and secrets with wit, sarcasm and blunt honesty. He believes he is writing a “how to” book, but readers will ultimately surmise correctly that his profferings revolve around women in his life, four in particular with whom he shares secrets involving his past, present and future. A charismatic, complex, self-proclaimed “ladies ... more

Pride of Spirit

by Andrea K. Stein

Will he sense the love in front of him despite the loss of his sight? Will she overcome her wariness of men to embrace the man he’s become? 1st Lieutenant Simon Demarest, late of the Royal Navy, is no longer the man he used to be. The man he used to be led boarding parties with little more than an ax and a blood-curdling cry sure to stop a slaver's crew in their tracks. The man he used to be could dance all night with the prettiest girl in the room. The man he is now cannot even read a ... more

A Little Too Familiar: an Uncanny Romance Novel

by Lish McBride

Love brings out the animal in you Louise Matthews has got it good. Wonderful job? Check. Loving family? The best. Roommates? Pretty fantastic, thank you. All of this helps her stay focused on what she wants: to finish out her apprenticeship and become a fully licensed Switch-an animal mage who bonds familiars to their witches. Only a problem has just moved in-a hot, occasionally wolf-shaped problem. Declan Mackenzie doesn't want to be a lone wolf, but he doesn't have a choice. Girlfriend? ... more

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