During a brutal winter, a young woman longing for love finds more than she expected in the woods, in this wickedly sensuous short story by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.Judith knows her sister, Alice, is the pretty one—but that doesn’t stop her from wishing for love. When a handsome and gentlemanly hunter appears in their village, seeking lodging from the cold, she believes her lover has finally arrived. He does, indeed, choose to stay—but as Alice’s husband, not her own. When another stranger comes out of the woods, looking every bit a vagrant, he offers Judith something mysterious and enticingly strange. Against reason and decency, she welcomes both men into her life, in different ways. As forbidden longings ensnare each of them, an unrelenting winter storm and an evasive wolf on the prowl have everyone on edge…and ravenous. By spring thaw, will any of their hungers be satisfied? Read more

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A mother makes a heartbreaking choice in this unforgettable story about devotion and sacrifice in World War II–era France by the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names.Marie Vachon experiences firsthand the devastation of the German invasion when she takes in a Jewish refugee named Josiane. A loving, if temporary, home for the displaced child. A second chance at motherhood for Marie. After three years, an inseparable bond is created. It’s one that leads Marie and Josiane to an inevitable but surprising reckoning that calls into question what motherhood means—and where it ends.Kristin Harmel’s The Road Home is part of Good Intentions, a riveting collection of stories about the instincts, fears, and fierce love inherent in motherhood from award-winning, bestselling authors. Read or listen to each in a single sitting. Read more

Can two grieving people in a marriage of convenience help each other find healing and love on the Oregon trail?Maribelle Martin-Parker married a year ago and moved away from Independence, Missouri, with her husband for the promise of children and a home. But then tragedy struck and she lost everything. When she returns to Independence and the only family she has left, her sister, Annabelle, is gone. Where did she go? Did she move west with a wagon train on the Oregon Trail? The only chance Maribelle has to find out is to join another wagon train with the same company and go west. But to join the wagon train, she must be married.Logan Prince has no desire to get married. Again. He’s heading west to live the rest of his life alone. But as one of the few unmarried men on the wagon train heading to Oregon, desperate women beg him to marry them for the trip, promising an annulment at the other end. He sent them all away. But there’s one auburn-haired beauty who haunts his dreams and tugs his heart.Can Logan help Maribelle find her sister, and can they help each other heal their grief and find love again? Read more

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This carefully crafted ebook: "Plain Tales from the Hills: Rudyard Kipling Collection - 40+ Short Stories (The Tales of Life in British India)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Plain Tales from the Hills is the Kipling's first collection of short stories, the tales about India and more noticeably about the British in India. The title refers, by way of a pun on "Plain" as the reverse of "Hills", to the deceptively simple narrative style; and to the fact that many of the stories are set in the Hill Station of Simla—the "summer capital of the British Raj" during the hot weather. The tales include the first appearances, in book form, of Mrs. Hauksbee, the policeman Strickland, and the Soldiers Three (Privates Mulvaney, Ortheris and Learoyd). Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Contents: Lispeth Three and—an Extra Thrown Away Miss Youghal's Sais 'Yoked with an Unbeliever' False Dawn The Rescue of Pluffles Cupid's Arrows The Three Musketeers His Chance in Life Watches of the Night The Other Man Consequences The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin The Taking of Lungtungpen A Germ-Destroyer Kidnapped The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly In the House of Suddhoo His Wedded Wife The Broken Link Handicap Beyond the Pale In Error A Bank Fraud Tods' Amendment The Daughter of the Regiment In the Pride of His Youth Pig The Rout of the White Hussars The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case Venus Annodomini The Bisara of Pooree A Friend's Friend The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows The Madness of Private Ortheris The Story of Muhammad Din On the Strength of a Likeness Wressley of the Foreign Office ... Read more

*** Click the BUY Button to Grab this great deal NOW ***From the desk of your Favorite Amazon Best Selling Author Faith JohnsonEnjoy This Wonderful Mail Order Bride Story Set In the Fall...Caroline Dawson has cared for her younger brother since they were children, and she’s always wanted a better life for them. So, of course, she is happy that he has found a job—even though it means she hardly ever sees him anymore. However, Caroline also realizes that now, it is she who is a burden to her young brother. And so, with a heavy but hopeful heart, she decides to take her chances and travel west as a mail order bride.Pierre Morrison is tired of hiring housekeepers. None of them seems capable of making an egg to his liking—and they keep quitting the job. A mail order bride seems to answer his problems, although he finds his bride Caroline quite frustrating. For some reason, she insists on trying to help around the farm when he only needs a housekeeper. And it doesn’t help that her cheerful manner reminds him all too much of his late wife and beloved son.So when tragedy strikes, Pierre is forced to wonder—is it possible to heal the heart, or do some scars stay with us forever?*** Click the BUY Button to Grab this great deal NOW *** Read more

This book is 100% created by the author. No AI was used.He married the wrong sister. . . or did he?Laird Haydon Sutherland has made up his mind. 'Tis time to marry and he has offered marriage to Lady Elsbeth Johnstone, a quiet, demure lass who will never cause him a day of worry.Lady Ainslee Johnstone, Elsbeth's feisty, stubborn twin will not allow the marriage to take place. The arrogant, fierce Sutherland will destroy her sweet sister, so they switch places on the wedding day.Let the battles begin… Read more

It was her wedding day but, instead of walking down the aisle, she was running for the trainIvy Russell had bigger plans for her life than what her mother wanted for her. She had no desire to marry the man from the neighboring farm, a man her father's age. Unable to convince her mother to stop the forced marriage, she had one option, and that was to disappear. But running away in a wedding dress was not the best way to go unnoticed.Rainier Armstrong Jr. was surrounded by socialites begging for his attention and his hand in marriage, but he had no interest in their narrow-minded ways or in his mother's attempts at pushing him to choose within his standards. He was content to remain single and run the businesses his grandparents had left him, until his parents reminded him that his grandfather’s only request for the inheritance he received was that he marry soon and carry on the family nameCan their need to marry be what saves them or will being on the run end them? Read more

This book is 100% created by the author. No AI was used.Must she pay for the sins of her mother?Miss Charlotte Danvers has just received a life-altering shock. After spending most of her life in France in an elite school for girls, first as a student, and then as a teacher, she decides to return to London and take up residence with her mother.When she arrives at her mother’s townhouse in London, she is stunned to discover that the woman who raised her is a well-known courtesan.. After an angry and tearful confrontation with her mother, Charlotte leaves London and makes her home in Bath. All goes well until she meets Mr. Carter Westbrooke, close friend and business partner of Charlotte’s best friend’s husband, Lord Berkshire. After only a few weeks, Mr. Westbrooke declares his intentions to make Charlotte his wife.She can be no one’s wife but cannot bring herself to tell him why. Must she run again? Read more

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Welcome to the imaginary worlds of award-winning author Anna Castle.This collection of short stories ranges through time and space from the Yucatán peninsula in the early years of the Spanish conquest (The Broken Circle) to a bank office in late Victorian London with Prof. Moriarty and his wife (The Stockbroker’s Wife.) Most stories feature Francis Bacon and other characters from his milieu. You’ll read about Bacon’s first case (For Want of a Book) and Tom’s first solo investigation (In Walked a Lady.) You’ll find out how Trumpet wangled her year at Gray’s Inn (Artful Bargains) and what really happened to Captain Valentine Clarady (All Englishmen Look Alike.) Sir Walter’s Ralegh and two friends trade ghost stories on a stormy night (Dark Tales from the School of Night.) You’ll even travel through time by a most unusual method (The Sneeze.) A bonus story brings you into the present, but not quite the present you’re used to (Extinction.) Read more

As arable farmland grows scarce, the United States opens up former sections of Indian Territory for homesteading. Those who want to claim land must make a run for it.Rachael, wearing trousers and sitting astride a spirited horse, pulled the floppy hat lower to disguise her face. She could ride and shoot, but she’d also need nerve and luck. The newspaper estimated over a hundred thousand men and a few foolhardy women would rush into Oklahoma territory in wagons, on horses, bicycles, and by foot when the cannon boomed at noon. Even a train, packed with people ready to jump off, waited for the signal. The Oklahoma Land Run of 1893 held only forty-two thousand plots, so more than half the hopeful settlers would be disappointed. Rachael could not be in that group.Jess Hunter thrashed with alternating chills and fever and called for water. When he received no response, he struggled to sit up. Rachael was gone. His friends had ribbed him about writing for a mail-order bride. He should have listened. Jess looked around the shack. His claim stake was gone! He struggled to his feet and whistled for his horse. No familiar whinny answered, and Dandy wasn’t in the pasture. Was she a horse thief too? He vowed to track her down—just before he passed out. Read more

Ольга Юліанівна Кобилянська (27 листопада 1863 — 21 березня 1942) — українська модерністська письменниця, рання учасниця жіночого руху на Буковині, приятелька Лесі Українки. Авторка повістей та оповідань, найчастіше привячених зображенню українського жіноцтва на межі століть, а також — становищу тогочасного буковинського села. Одна з найважливіших постатей раннього модернізму в українській літературі.Зміст:ЦарівнаЗемляВ неділю рано зілля копалаАпостол черніАристократкаБанк рустикальнийБитваДещо про ідею жіночого рухуІдеїImpromtu phantasieЛюдинаЛист засудженого вояка до своєї жінкиValse melancolique (Меланхолійний вальс)В долахВесняний акордВін і вонаВовчихаЗа готарЖебрачкаЗ юних літ Марії  Read more

Clementine longed for a family of her own all her young life, but from living in the streets to being on the orphan train she had learned not to dream for too much. As a servant for a wealthy lady she kept to herself, did her work, and longed to find her brothers that had been torn away from her five years earlier. One afternoon, she was informed without warning that she would be leaving to marry a man she did not know and, once again, she was that terrified little girl from the streets, except this time the orphan train was not taking her away to someplace safer. Or was it?Lucas dropped out of everyday life from a broken heart, but his mother would not allow it. She ordered him to step back into his role as the heir of his grandfather's beloved ranch or she would take it all away. He ignored her demand; he did not believe she would actually enforce anything. However, when he pushed her too far she was forced to deliver the final ultimatum. He was to marry the proxy bride she had acquired for him and he would wed that day. Will fate step in and do its part or will they both be lost in their own sadness forever? Read more

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Previously published as A Trail of Fire. Includes two never-published-before short stories from the bestselling author of the Outlander series.Featuring all the characters you’ve come to love from the Outlander series, this brilliant collection of short stories throws you into the magical world of Outlander. Includes previously published Virgins, The Space Between, Plague of Zombies, A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows and The Custom of the Army, plus two never seen before works – Besieged and A Fugitive Green.A must-read for all Outlander fans! Read more

Two people fated to be together… Recently engaged to the Earl of Langdon, Lady Bethany is content with the knowledge that she’s made a wonderful match for herself. Until a chance encounter with a handsome stranger makes her wish she was still unattached – a sentiment that grows even stronger when circumstance causes her to spend more time in this gentleman’s company. And the duty that threatens to come between them… Charles Townsbridge is not prepared to learn that the mystery woman he met in the park, the very same woman he cannot get out of his head, is in fact his best friend’s fiancée. Determined to do the right thing, he tasks himself with quashing the attraction, only to discover that the heart cannot be so easily controlled. Read more