A fine first novel about military life, written by a military spouse, based on true events. Enter the life of Carlos and Virginia, as their marriage copes with drugs, infidelity, and children, through the challenging assignments among the military communities.

Breaking Free is a present-day adventure story in which the action takes place mostly on one of the more than seven thousand small islands of Indonesia but also on the high seas between Singapore and Sydney, Australia. Alex Blackwood is a Brooklyn born man from Indiana who has seen the gutter from close up in his hometown and again in New York City and in Amsterdam and in Bangkok where he finally hits bottom. To keep from getting drawn into more involvement with drugs and trafficking he has to set himself adrift in a sailing dinghy in the Timor Sea six hundred miles northwest of Australia and one hundred miles south of Bali. He gets to an island whose inhabitants are slaves and to thank them for saving his life he uses Yankee ingenuity to alleviate their bleak lives and later, using raw courage, to try to free them the hard way. When he arrives on the island he finds that the only real pleasure in life for the slaves comes from having sex and to not describe their methods of enhancing and proloning that pleasure would be as ludicrous as not describing their day-to-day lives or their diet or their suppressed tribal customs. Chapters - 8, 10, 11, 16, 27, 29, 43 and 63 is provided at the end of the book to bring the squeamish and/or prudish reader up-to-date with the ongoing story line although this evasion is, at best, unsatisfactory because the 'love stool' - whether it's an actual stool inside their huts or the stump of a tree or an upturned crate, or whatever, outside in the open - plays an even more important role in their lives as slaves than it did when they were free. Because of this, the reader is urged to gird up his or her loins, so to speak, and bravely stay with the main text.

This is a suspenseful love story laced with intrigue about Dalton McQuaide of St. Augustine, Florida and Sophia Modigliani of Tuscany, Italy. McQuaide is haunted by her memory and comes close to death during his wait to see her again.

Gordon and Encarnita share a profound love. He has been transformed by her fateful arrival in his life and even his career has taken an upward turn. However, what fate brought together it can also tear apart.

Tragedy strikes. Darkness draws in where once there was light, a darkness that will find its expression in the flicker of flames.

Described as an 'extreme romantic tragedy' by the author, Spontaneous Combustion blends the genres of romance, thriller and horror in a gripping tale of love and passion, grief and fury.

'One of the rising stars of dark and horror fiction, Mr. Page's series of novellas inspired by music never fails to shock, thrill and disturb... Fantastic ' - Cheryl Matthews, Mad 4 Horror

This book is the fourth in a series of dark fiction novellas inspired by music. In the case of Spontaneous Combustion the music used was the work of Ludwig Van Beethoven.

If you enjoy Spontaneous Combustion then download one of the other novellas inspired by music or the novels Synergy or Quiddity.

Not just another Christmas tale, "The Christmas Deer" is a story for all seasons. This mysterious and inspiring legend endures as a beautiful reminder that reader's everyday lives can be changed by a force much greater than they could ever imagine.

A Honduran woman dies under mysterious circumstances in a Miami hospital. Doctors say it was a heart attack, but one reporter tracks the death to a blood curse handed down from previous generations.

This book explores Victorian and modernist haunted houses in female-authored ghost stories as representations of the architectural uncanny. It reconsiders the gendering of the supernatural in terms of unease, denial, disorientation, confinement and claustrophobia within domestic space. Drawing on spatial theory by Gaston Bachelard, Henri Lefebvre and Elizabeth Grosz, it analyses the reoccupation and appropriation of space by ghosts, women and servants as a means of addressing the opposition between the past and modernity. The chapters consider a range of haunted spaces, including ancestral mansions, ghostly gardens, suburban villas, Italian churches and houses subject to demolition and ruin. The ghost stories are read in the light of women's non-fictional writing on architecture, travel, interior design, sacred space, technology, the ideal home and the servant problem. Women writers discussed include Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Vernon Lee, Edith Wharton, May Sinclair and Elizabeth Bowen. This book will appeal to students and researchers in the ghost story, Female Gothic and Victorian and modernist women's writing, as well as general readers with an interest in the supernatural.

"Ed couldn't help it. In the days that followed, he couldn't get the new mailman out of his mind. From the time he had broken up with Cathy Carroll after high school graduation and had devoted himself exclusively to the pursuit of those whose body parts matched his own, Ed had had an image in his mind, a full-blown mental picture of the perfect guy. That first day, when the new mailman dropped a handful of bills into Ed's mailbox, Ed knew he had found him." Told with warmth, humor, and optimism, The Handyman's Dream is a story for everyone who has ever had a fantasy about the perfect mate. Ed Stephens is a small town handyman. He also happens to be gay and lonely. Ed is practical enough to realize that finding a man in Porterfield, Indiana -- population nine thousand -- is unlikely, so he's shocked and amazed when the man of his dreams suddenly begins delivering his mail each day. Suspecting Fate has lent him a helping hand, Ed schemes to meet the mailman, Rick Benton -- hard-working and responsible -- who has moved to Porterfield to lend a helping hand to his sister, a single parent. Rick, it turns out, is gay and lonely as well. When Ed and Rick meet the attraction is spontaneous and mutual, and soon loneliness is forgotten in the joy of falling in love. As their relationship grows and deepens, they find themselves dealing with the same situations every couple faces: the reactions of friends and families, job responsibilities, and whether their love is a strong enough foundation for a long-term relationship. Ed and Rick, though, have another problem to cope with as well -- whether a small, Indiana town is the best place for two men to build a life together in the early 1980's. With asoundtrack of timeless pop classics, the story of Ed and Rick is a heart-warming journey from that special first kiss to the golden moment when one couple realizes their love is strong enough to endure any and all hardships. Gay or straight, you'll enjoy the ride

She has a dream. He has a plan. Together they’ll take a leap of faith.

Ren has never held an iPhone, googled the answer to a question, or followed a crush on social media. What she has done: Read a book or two, or three (okay, hundreds). Taught herself to paint. Built a working wind power system from scratch. But for all the books she’s read, Ren has never found one that’s taught a woman raised on a homestead and off the grid for most of her twenty-two years how to live in the real world. So when she finally achieves her lifelong dream of attending Corona College, it feels like her life is finally beginning.

Fitz has the rest of his life mapped out: Graduate from Corona at the top of his class, get his criminal record wiped clean, and pass himself off as the rich, handsome player everyone thinks he is. He’s a few short months from checking off step one of his plans when Ren Gylden, with her cascading blonde hair and encyclopedic brain, crashes into his life, and for the first time Fitz’s plan is in jeopardy.

But a simple assignment in their immunology seminar changes the course of both their lives, and suddenly they’re thrown out of the frying pan and into the fire on a road trip that will lead them in the most unexpected directions. Out on the open road, the world somehow shifts, and the unlikely pair realize that, maybe, the key to the dreams they’ve both been chasing have been sitting next to them the whole time.

Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as the Assembly. The human adult population is gone, having succumbed to the Tone-a powerful, telepathic super-signal broadcast across the planet that reduces them to a state of complete subservience. But the Tone only affects the population once they reach their early twenties. Which means that there is one group left to resist: Children. In Valley of Fires the trio of kid heroes - Holt, Mira, and Zoey - are forced apart to accomplish individual quests if they are to have any hope of uniting what remains of Earth's disparate survivors against its alien invaders. Mira ventures west to bargain with Van Cleef, the enigmatic leader of North America's most infamous resistance group. But Van Cleef has his own plans to end the conflict, a destructive solution that might actually work...but at a horrible cost. Meanwhile, Holt travels with Ravan and Avril back to the one place he swore he would never return: Faust, the sprawling and dangerous desert city of the Menagerie pirate guild. He goes not only to resolve his issues with Tiberius, its tyrannical leader, but to enlist the Menagerie in the fight to save Zoey. Except Tiberius has his own problems. Factions within the Menagerie are splintering, and word of rebellion is beginning to spread. If Holt wants the Menagerie's help, he might have to help his greatest enemy in exchange. Traveling separate paths with little hope of safety or reunion, Holt and Mira bring this thrilling, genre-bending series to an utterly unforgettable close.

R to L (Japanese Style). Ever since she got engaged to Takumi and moved out of apartment 707, Hachi has felt like she's slipping out of Nana's life. When the tabloids start digging up Nana's troubled family history, Hachi tries to step in and take care of things. But will her good intentions stir up more trouble? Blast is rocketing to stardom, and the price for bringing them down keeps going up.