The Napus

The Napus
Author: Leon Daudet
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-04-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434446514

In Paris, on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, an old man suddenly vanishes without a trace: a new plague has reached France, and will soon grow to terrible proportions. The event is witnessed by a cytologist working at the Aristotle Institute, who is also a Polyplast--the result of an experiment in selective breeding intended to produce pacifists, but which has also had perverse results. As a result of his presence at the crucial event, the Polyplast becomes a privileged observer of the entire tragedy, of which he naturally sets out to write a personalized history, explaining how the new plague became the casus belli of yet another war in an endless series, fought with the aid of "Archimedes": powerful, long-range weapons that would destroy the world in no time were it not for their habit of misfiring, and only killing tens of thousands of people instead of millions. The Napus, first published in 1927, remains one of the classics of absurdist science fiction.

The Sniper’s Kiss

The Sniper’s Kiss
Author: Justine Saracen
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2017-02-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1626398402

It is 1944, and vast armies drive each other back and forth over blood-drenched Europe. In the midst of it, two radically different women meet, one a Russian speaking American on a failed diplomatic mission and the other a Soviet sniper. The American, fleeing a sordid past worthy of Dostoyevsky, has murder in her heart but has injured no man. The other, a once-saintly believer, has killed a hundred of them for Stalin. Their politics are worlds apart, but a reckless drunken kiss has tied them together, through church and trench, incense and the smoke of battle. If they survive the war, can they survive the peace?

Savage Kiss

Savage Kiss
Author: Lena Pierce
Publisher: MBK Hanson Inc.
Total Pages: 78
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Savage Kiss is book 1 of the Shattered Hearts MC trilogy. Books 2 and 3, Reckless Kiss and Burning Kiss are available everywhere now! I took her unprotected just to keep her safe. I'm holding her here under the president's orders. But the fiery mystery that drove Meghan into my arms has hidden layers I never expected. She doesn't want my help, but she's getting it anyways. We'll find the answers she wants. Then I'll pin her down and take what I want, too. DIRK When your MC president gives you a job, you do it. No questions. No dallying. Just get the sh!t done. But when the job turns out to be snatching up his baby sister and keeping her under my eye, things get a little more interesting. It doesn't hurt that Meghan is a stone cold fox, with the temper to match. She's feisty. I like that in a woman. It makes it all the more fun when I break them. But what was supposed to be a simple bodyguard job turned into exile and war as we run from the men who seem to want her dead. Protecting your mark is never easy, but it's even harder when I'm dying inside to get my hands on her curvy little frame. Every time she smiles at me, I feel emotions bubbling to the surface. Things I haven't felt in years. Things that make me want to break all the rules to make her mine. F**k it all. I've decided I want her in my arms. And I don't care what I have to do to keep her there. MEGHAN I left behind everything to make a life for myself. The biker world has long since receded in my rearview mirror. Now, all I want is piece in my little corner of the city. No war, no choppers, no dead bodies. Just quiet. Calm. Gratitude. But I soon learn that it's not so easy to escape the outlaw lifestyle. My brother – the one who refused to give up his biker ways when I left – calls me out of the blue. His voice is different than I remember. Darker. Deeper. More haunted and cruel. He tells me I'm in danger. Whether I like it or not, he's pulling me back into the world of the Shattered Hearts MC. He says it's for my own good. But the man he sends to collect me doesn't seem good at all. In fact, he's the definition of a bad boy. Dirk Dvorak is everything I ran away from. Massive, muscled, tatted, and terrifying. But he keeps making me react to his presence in ways I never anticipated. He takes what he wants. And gives me only what I beg for. I'm forced to watch from within the MC clubhouse as my little store goes up in flames. No one seems to give a d*mn about finding out who wanted to hurt me so bad. Not even my dear brother. No one, that is – except for Dirk. And the longer I spend on the hunt for answers with the biker bad boy by my side, the more I find out about the man he truly is. And the more I fall deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole I tried so desperately to claw my way out of.

The Substitute - Book I Hardcover

The Substitute - Book I Hardcover
Author: Tionne Rogers
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 700
Release: 2012-04-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1105637638

"I understand this is all new to an inexperienced youth like yourself. I was half expecting your denial, but I'm willing to wait, within a reasonable time frame, that you become my lover. I will provide, take care and see that no harm falls upon you, as long as you respect me and behave according to your status. As I said, you are the most adorable thing that has caught my attention in years. You have to be mine and I have every intention to win you over." With these words, Konrad von Lintorff, a Swiss German banker declared his intentions to a 19 years old penniless student. Guntram was young, kind hearted and exactly looking as Konrad's former lover. Can a young sweet boy survive the High Finance World and the love of a possessive and violent man? Follow Guntram's diary through a story of intrigue, love, sex, betrayal, secret societies, deceptions and murder.

One Wild Kiss

One Wild Kiss
Author: Jessica Lemmon
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488062838

Surely one little weekend with the boss won’t lead to too much trouble… A Kiss and Tell romance by Jessica Lemmon. Operation Get Over Him has just hit a bump in the road… Breathe in. Breathe out. He’s just a guy. Addison Abrams starts every day at the office reciting that mantra so she can stop obsessing about her beautiful boss, Brannon Knox. But when someone accuses her of liking him in a romantic way, her cover is blown. She’s mortified. Even more mortifying—Brannon kisses her! What’s he trying to prove? A weekend road trip to Tahoe should be just the thing to get him out of her mind. But when her car breaks down, it’s Brannon to the rescue. Now, she’s driving with him, by his side…and in his bed. Just for the night. Okay, for the weekend. And then they’ll be back to business…right? Love triumphs in the Seattle tech world in the Kiss and Tell series. Book 1: His Forbidden Kiss Book 2: One Wild Kiss Book 3: One Last Kiss

Earlier Stories

Earlier Stories
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 550
Release: 1891
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: