It's early summer, and in a small community on the central Jersey Shore, a black car screeches to a halt outside the Wright Bros grocery. Danny looks up from where he's working at the carwash to see the driver rifle out of the car and chase a girl rushing into the store. For some reason-fate perhaps or intuition-he de...
The chance meeting on what promised to be a boring summer vacation leads Elizabeth Darby and Caleb Strait into three months of intense attraction and a heated romance.
Part one of two. In 1967, George was the legendary Georgina Monroe, the best Marilyn Monroe drag impersonator New York City had ever seen. But in 1994, George is a recluse who is scared of everyone and everything. Enter Ruiz, a young Latina pageant drag queen known as Audrey the Ritz, famous for her Audrey Hepburn i...
“Like the howl of an accordion—half sorrow and half joy, wondrous and exquisite—these stories squeezed my heart.” —Sandra Cisneros, author of "The House on Mango Street" * In "Once More to the River," Erasmo Guerra writes a moving account of his boyhood on the Texas-Mexico border. An award-winning novelist and journ...
"Musician. Drug Addict. Mute." After leaving rehab six months ago, mute Ambrose Larkin has been living a lie. Wealthy and talented to the outside world, behind closed doors Ambrose is nothing more than a desperate drug addict struggling to keep up appearances, but as the new year approaches his façade is starting to c...
"You know, everybody sees the world in a completely different way. Some people look at blue skies where everything is fine and undisturbed, others look at grey ones, where clouds threaten their very existence and dampen their day." he said. "And how are your skies?" I asked. "Well," he chuckled, pushing a lose stran...
Preview: "I can't come home Stefan," I said into the phone. "I can't look at you, let alone sleep in your bed, the one where you broke our marriage vows." "I understand you are hurting..." "You think you understand, really? How could you possible understand how I feel? Because I have been nothing but faithful to our...
She is an Anomaly. No future. No freedom. No prospect of falling love. Or at least that is what they would have her believe... * In Freya Elton's society love is promised at the end of a countdown. It is the law. No deviation and no change. Love is not a choice. Freya's entire future crumbles when a glitch in the syst...
"Sometimes it's best to stay out where you're not welcome." Demented will chill you to the bone, for these are not your usual bedtime stories. From a son who wants to teach his mother a lesson, a deadly myth on Kingly Road, people who have a certain bizarre diet, to some of the most terrifying things your head could...
"It was then my mother was set on fire." When Beatrice stumbles upon a crazed man in the forest she barely gets away with her life. Unable to convince anyone of his presence, she tries not to go anywhere near him again but that seems impossible when unfortunate situations arise and feelings change. Her life had alway...
Meet Hao lovelorn and alone. Meet Luke bereaved and alone. They meet over the game of go. And then love happens more or less. LGBT themed. Any go players here? Weiqi? Baduk? Here's a story for those who don't mind a little gay drama around the game.
Annabel is a single mother, struggling with everyday life, until her baby mysteriously disappears. Follow her as she joins forces with an unlikely group of people to hunt for her child. Will she find him, or has her future already been decided?