Basque Stories

A travel writer. A weekend in Madrid. A deranged drunk Londoner expat. A feisty, lunatic Basque girlfriend. Booze - lots of it. Memory loss and a missing mobile phone. Your average weekend getaway.

Idoia is tired of working graveyard emergency room shifts. She's suffering from severe compassion fatigue and would do anything to go home and get some much-needed sleep. When an accident happens in training she'd rather not be the one to take the patients, but if only she had some say in the matter...

A criminal is on the loose in Basque Dominion-controlled territory. His actions demand a response, and one will come-swift, precise, and absolute. But justice is never just about punishment. In a world where power is perception, every crisis is an opportunity, and every player serves a purpose-whether they know it or not.

...There was a physical anime world that you could enter into? You could push through the barrier and be transformed into an anime character. Time there is much like time in Narnia, which grants the very happy fan years of play time in their favorite anime or manga. The main character of this story discovers exactly that, and is transported into the world of Hetalia. (DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN ANY ANIME OR OTHER SHOWS REFERENCED IN THIS STORY. THE ONLY THINGS I OWN ARE THE STORY LINE, HOW THEY GET TO THE ANIME WORLD, AND CARMEN. KADI, ALICE, AND ELSBETH WERE CREATED BY MY FRIENDS, THOUGH I DO HAVE PERMISSION TO USE THEM IN MY STORY.)

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Jaione met Gorka and is tired of the secrets he's keeping from her. She's tired of his silence, her lack of knowledge about his life, his distance from her. Turns out, he's only been trying to protect her.

Luxe Cor Amor knew she wasn't like anyone else, and bright red hair and baby blue eyes were hardly the tip of the iceberg. She had lost her family and some of her memory. She lived on the streets. She lived longer than she should've. And for some reason, when she really willed something to happen, it usually would. So when she steals food from what she thinks to be just another restaurant, she gets herself into something she never expected. She mets three men; Lovino, Feliciano and Antonio, who accept her into their home. Of course, she has no idea they're countries. But, can they keep this from her for very long? And what about the other countries she mets and connects with? Things turn especially strange when she recognises a few nations and they recognize her. Basque seems suspicious of her, too... Where exactly did Luxe come from, and where will she wind up? (Updated Sundays. I do not own Hetalia.)

Oihane Is a struggling artist who works as a waitress and bartender at her godfather's Basque restaurant in Bilbao's touristic center. She understands doing what's necessary to get ahead and escape her past, but some things she just can't escape. And other things she runs right into without thinking.

In a world where the Basque Dominion reigns supreme over much of the globe, the Axis Powers rise with dreams of conquest and supremacy. But the Basque Dominion, decades ahead in technology and espionage, plays a far deeper game. Through misinformation, assassination, and technological superiority, they manipulate the conflict to their advantage. As the experimental AI, Spear of Donostia, makes its debut, the true power of the Basque Dominion is revealed. The Axis powers may have declared war on the world, but they have no idea who their real enemy is.

Alisa Greer excitedly begins her doctoral program in anthropology when she meets the young professor Dr. Corwin Pierce. An awkward genius, she swears his eyes change color as a result of the light, and his cold appearance can only be a figment of her imagination. Yet as Alisa gets closer to Pierce, bizarre things happen on campus and at archaeological sites that all link back to him. Students go missing under strange circumstances and inexplicable displays of light occur at ancient sites across the globe. Frightened and fascinated, she can only begin to guess at the mystery of Pierce. But the truth is more disturbing than she can imagine... Unwittingly, Alisa finds herself at the center of an ancient alien conflict where terraformed worlds face apocalypse and rebirth at the hands of Watchers. Follow Alisa as she is drawn into their bloody history, spanning from Orion's Belt to the edges of the galaxy. Alisa will negotiate unspeakable loss, romance, and what it means to be human as she chooses between destructive rebellion and alien distance in the science fiction book, BELOW THE BELT. Get the full novel here: http://www.amazon.com/Below-Belt-Ancient-Alien-Fiction-ebook/dp/B018T4XJG0/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1449596828&sr=1-1&keywords=below+the+belt+alexis+donkin

Report on the capture, experimentation, and eventual destruction of a hostile facility near Krakow. Subject Patxi Laboa survived. Enemy assets neutralized. Technology secured.

Spain, 1942. General Franco, despite his own beliefs, has made the country neutral. At least, in theory. Spain, as thanks for Germany's aid during the civil war, provides plenty of arms to the German army. And with tensions between Spain's different political factions still high, the entire country seems to be one spark from another all out war. San Sebastian, the seaside city that American reporter Jackie Ramirez currently calls home, is a seeming paradise. Even with the vacationing German officers in the city, it's hard to think that just twelve miles away, across the Pyrenees in France, the war is alive and well. However, with the imminent threat of being sent back to the states if she doesn't find the scoop of a lifetime, the war is the farthest thing from her mind. However, when she witnesses the murder of a German officer at the hands of a mysterious Frenchman, the war is brought right to Jackie's doorstep, and she finds herself wrapped up in it in ways she never could have imagined.

"Tales of Survival and Revenge" is the theme of BEGINNINGS I. GENESIS and RESURRECTION is the story of violence, heartbreak and the genesis of a bitter cycle of murder and revenge around the Basque country in Spain. BEGINNINGS : Where A Life Begins, is an epic action-packed novel set around the escape of a talented but troubled young mother and her strangely perceptive daughter from the violence of fascist Spain at the end of its bloody civil war and their struggle to make a new life in southwest France. The next two decades bring war, Nazi occupation, political unrest, the birth of the Basque terrorist movement and the appearance of an undercover Franco military officer seeking revenge for millennia-old grievance. Exploring a vast historical sweep of thousands of years, it is filled to the brim with powerful characters, violence, romance, true historical detail, multi-layered themes of love, hate, murder, revenge and political intrigue as well as a dose of science, myth and mystery. In I. GENESIS and RESURRECTION, the story begins with Maria - alone, heavily pregnant and with her baby son in her arms - desperately fleeing the persecution inflicted on her people by the Fascist dictator Franco at the end of the Spanish civil war. On her escape into France, her infant son is the victim of a callous border guard but she and her unborn daughter are saved by an unknown assassin; both actions echoing past and future violence and vengeance. The trauma sends the unborn child's mind deep into the past where a horrible crime against her ancestors in prehistoric times hints at the genesis of otherwise inexplicable hatred and violence that have often re-surfaced down through the centuries. Back in Bayonne, Maria buries her infant son in a world of self-recriminations. It is only through communion with her unborn child and a new friend that she begins to face life again, but unaware of just how dangerous the birth of her new child may turn out to be.

Lorea is a country of changing skies. A desert consumes the land around it, spreading. Winds screech and howl across the mountain range. Magic surges throughout Lorea, but the sorcerers have been gone for so long that there is no one to recognize the signs of an impending disaster. This particular story is about a thief after a priceless book, and a stone shattered into three pieces.

Maite, a girl who has done everything by the way it "should be" and ends up having a summer of full excitement and free of cares as she goes all out in her trip to a small town in the Basque Country with a friend. she is known to be a hopeless romantic that can't find anything like the books she reads until she meets Jon. A mysterious guy that she keeps noticing around town. She thinks he's cute but isn't one to expose her feelings to strangers. But then the two eventually meet, initiating the beginning of a fun summer romance that Maite will forever hold onto.

Brujo: A Witch's Tale is a dark fantasy story that tells the grim tale of two Basque sisters, young Ainhoa and her younger sister, Eilish, who once lived separately from each other due to Eilish's mysterious "blood illness" but conjoin together after their parents, Geliga and Marcrusio de Raido, got arrested for witchcraft by the Spanish Inquisition, which forced the sisters to trust each other and escape the grasps of the Master Inquisitor, Faltpresto Vulgrima, who is dreadfully obsessed in capturing Eilish. With Ainhoa relying on her wits and instincts and Eilish dealing with her illness, the girls attempt the impossible as they survive against the Inquisition and a supernatural force of vampire birds that plague Northern Spain in one of the most darkest and unforgiving times in history.

How he proposed. How he fell in love. How they met.