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A first collection of short stories from C. C. BrowerIn addition to her longer novellas and novels, Brower started out with short stories.Contemporary, Fantasy, Science Fiction - 13 wonderful worlds from a different view of life. New ways to look at the world you live in, and ask yourself "what if" things were different...This anthology contains:The CaretakerWhen The Wild CallsMind TimingBecoming MichelleWhen the Cities Died, I DancedSnow GiftMr. Ben's Rail RoadThe War BringethPeace: Forever WarSnow CaveVacation AmokThe Emperor's ScribeA Long Wait for SantaNote: Mind Timing and Becoming Michelle were co-authored with R. L. SaundersExcerpt from Mind TIming:When the last of the long-languishing news media died, it was with barely a whimper. No bang. Not even a sullen pop. And eyes were dry all around. No one mourned, few even noticed.Two glasses clinked at the Club in celebration. And that was all the wake they deserved.I and my visitor-turned-conspirator were the only witnesses.To the end of a global war that now never happened.- - - -He had entered uninvited and unwelcomed that first day, long ago. It's not that women couldn't have male visitors at the Club. As long as they were properly chaperoned or in the very public areas. But in those days, and by that time, no one expected that a white male presented any challenge or hazard.Women ran politics, they ran business, they ran the world. Women scientists explored the known universe and profited from their discoveries."Mari, a man is here to see you." The female maitre d' at my elbow quietly announced.This interrupted my news scanning, but was cautiously done. Alarmed Club members could get a bit defensive. And in these days, that could be dangerous to other Club patrons.I sensed this as something unique, something out of the usual, the humdrum. It was actually a change I had been praying for.So when that lone white male called at the all-female Club and asked for me by name, I accepted. He was shown to the middle of the main lounge, where two overstuffed chairs sat separated by a small side table. A distance surrounding them for room to move in case anything untoward developed.While such a visit took time away from my scheduled daily poker game. I was tired of the usual bitching banter that accompanied each hand as we all knew the other's tells and bluffs.It was time for new blood. Or a new game...

Have you ever wanted to go back?I've contemplated it everyday for the last six years.Knowing once I did, I'd wreck everything all over again, but still-I dream.Until last night.My past came back to me.As I finished my set, looking through the smoke and flashing lights, I see him. The wreckage still written on Chord's face, tells me hell's coming. I can't erase the hurt my leaving caused, and I'll be damned if I let him wreck us even more.But when I utter one word, I know we're finished before we can even begin to pick up the pieces.Silas.

What is Ki? What does it mean to be Centered? Can Non-Resistance be useful? Would a book about a martial art help you? In "Neko Ryu Goshin Jitsu: Forward into Uncharted Territory" you'll learn how the principles of this martial art work and how they apply to life - your life. Here's your opportunity to discover important life principles you may have never encountered. Principles that could change your life. "Neko Ryu Goshin Jitsu: Forward into Uncharted Territory", is the 3rd in the Neko Ryu series, by Mel Clark. It will carry you into deeply into the Principles of Neko Ryu explaining things like Ki, Centering, Non-Resistance, the OODA Loop, and Surprise. If you're interested in how and why the martial arts work, then you'll love this book. If you're looking for bedrock principles for living, you'll find them here. Buy it today.

Meet Kauri Klement, a receptionist for the A'mara, whose wildest dream is to meet famous actor Derick Aiden whose new exposé film has made him some powerful enemies. Disguised as Kanesh, Derick stays with the A'mara were Kauri is assigned to entertain him for the day, but fate has other ideas when the two of them must flee Irola together as a couple. Will she still love him when he comes clean with her about who he is?

First, a man was staring at her from a tree.Then there was a dead man in her garden.And now, Maggie Kelburn is investigating another murder.Maggie spots a young man up a tree in the public lane behind her house. He soon flees but leaves behind three plastic coins. Maggie discovers the coins are part of a treasure hunting game.A few hours later, Maggie is shocked to find a dead body in her back garden. It appears he fell from the tree which the young man was in earlier.The police take over. They conclude the man, Harvey Chester, died as a result of an accident.His grieving sister isn't convinced. She thinks Harvey was murdered and asks Maggie to prove it.Maggie agrees and is soon caught up in a secret world of treasure hunting. To her dismay, she discovers many members of Harvey's group hated him with a vengeance. Furthermore, they constantly lie to Maggie when she questions them about Harvey's death.Maggie persists, and it's not long before she makes a connection between Harvey's death and the members of the treasure-hunting group.But the killer is aware of Maggie's every move, and when she gets too close to the truth, the killer decides to make a move on Maggie.

Los osos multimillonarios pelean por sus verdaderas parejas. Esta serie llena de acción combina a hombres fuertes, mujeres seguras y escenas de amor ardientes en un mundo mágico multidimensional que provoca a los sentidos. El heredero del Alfa: Orson está huyendo del compromiso. Casey solo quiere cocinar platillos increíbles. Cuando sus caminos chocan, el efecto es delicioso. Esta novela incluye a mujeres atrevidas con curvas, platillos que te harán babear, ataques emocionantes de osos y un amor tan caliente que vibra. Las parejas de los Alfa: Cleo es una Alfa y directora de su propia compañía extremadamente exitosa. Titus y Connor son dueños de un rancho santuario para criaturas sobrenaturales. Cuando Cleo se queda varada en su rancho, las chispas literalmente vuelan. Esta novela vibrante para lectores maduros involucra una revolcada en la paja (literalmente), hombres mojados y sensuales apagando fuegos y un amor que es mágico por el poder de tres. El dominio del Alfa: Este romance paranormal para adultos incluye a personas sensuales que se transforman en osos, meseras de barra sobrenaturales que interfieren, un entrenamiento mágico explosivo y un romance en el trabajo tan caliente que derretirá hasta al corazón más frío. La Flama de Navidad del Alfa: Este romance paranormal para adultos incluye a hadas valientes, un caliente juego de póker de prendas y un romance con un bombero demasiado caliente para soportar. Este romance paranormal para adultos incluye a sexy transformistas, magia explosiva y un lugar de trabajo tan caliente que derretirá el corazón más frío. Sucediendo en el mismo mundo que la serie "Su vikingo elemental", la serie "El hombre oso multimillonario" incluye personajes tan memorables como Lola (la misteriosa mesera del bar sobrenatural que sabe más de lo que jamás dirá), Audrey (una bruja con habilidades para formar parejas) y un elenco entero de criaturas sobrenaturales adorables. Estas novelas INDEPENDIENTE son parte de la serie "El hombre oso multimillonario" que se puede leer en cualquier orden. No tienen finales de suspenso y cada historia termina como se debe: con un "felices para siempre".

Hassa is a healer, a priestess, and a sorceress. She is also irrevocably happy where she is, in the highlands of Iris Sanctuary. But when wars outside the sanctuary's safe walls threaten her people, she's sent on a quest to ask for aid. Soon everything she knows and believes will be tested. Can all conflicts really be solved peacefully, or are her teachers wrong?

Before the cities left, and plunged our world into a global dark age, there were stories that told that history.Collected here are the works of four authors who have been telling scraps and pieces of what happened. All through the eyes of the people (and animals) who lived it. Some are fantastic, others could be tall tales, perhaps some are downright lies. But that is all why they had to be published as fiction.Because few people would believe it, even as a TV documentary. All highly speculative. And that's why it's called Speculative Fiction. But its a very human telling. You may even find yourself in here...This anthology containing:The Lazurai Returns by C. C. Brower & J. R. KruzeWhen the Cities Left, I Danced by C. C. BrowerThe Lazurai by J. R. KruzeA Sweet Fortune by R. L. SaundersOur Second Civil War by R. L. Saunders & C. C. BrowerBecoming Michelle by R. L. Saunders & C. C. BrowerMind Timing by R. L. Saunders & C. C. BrowerWhen The Wild Calls by C. C. BrowerThe War Bringeth by C. C. Brower...and many more.Excerpt:Each with a thundering roar, the cities took flight.Cities - whole cities - roared into the atmosphere, their protective globes turned red and then yellow with the reflections of the exhaust.Their fusion reactors scarred the skies with fume trails. Any place on earth you could see them rise. All the 50 United States and all the major countries who could afford the technology had cities flying that day.They turned their major cities into a one-species "Noah's Ark" to save humanity from itself. Take the best and brightest, and all who could fit, up past the atmosphere and beyond it. Seek a "new life in the stars."This statement came from the last international broadcast. And it played out at its end with a great symphony chord.Unstated was the little-hidden fact that the richest corporate heads and their families and investors all traveled on-board as well, first class.The Arks took temporary station along the "ring of pearls" - those satellites in orbit protected by the same shield as the cities. For a while, their glow added to those pearls. But one by one, those pearls extinguished. Some, with powerful enough Earth telescopes, could see them absorbed into the cities.Around two weeks later, the cities one by one moved out as a string of their own towards the moon.Later, a hail of meteors followed in their wake. We didn't know what those were at first. The last radio transmissions we could receive said they were falling into desolate areas. We couldn't check this as the cell phones and land lines had all quit working at that point. The towers still worked locally as long as they were solar powered. But just as quickly as the Internet had died, all intercontinental communications ceased.Because that "ring of pearls" they'd taken with them were all the major satellites that still worked. While they were also in orbit, they were scooping up all the other "non-vital" satellites and orbiting debris as some grand ecological gesture. These either burned up when they ran into the Arks greater power fields or were just absorbed into them... - - - -Scroll Up and Get Your Copy Now.

Secrets, Magic, and Betrayal…all in the first semester!Zoey is a witch, but she's not very good at it. That is until she's taken to a secret school of mages. There, she discovers a whole new world of a different kind of magic, one that she seems to excel in. She and three fantastically hot boys who are "keeping her safe" are trying to figure out how she escaped their world in the first place and why her parents hid her. And they'd better hurry because something is trying to kill her. Welcome to the Magic Guardian Academy where supernatural creatures try to keep the world safe even on the days that suck.Warning: This is a steamy reverse harem paranormal romance that will leave you addicted.

Living in a town shrouded in mystery, the locals spoke of the dangers inside the trees and trained everyone to stay away from them. Thalia Corner is a town like no other.Elly's childhood still scarred her decades later. Something drew her to the dense woods surrounding her town and had since she was a little girl. Things happened in those woods.Dismissed by those around her, she feared for her sanity. She began to believe it was all in her mind… Until the day she ran from death to the very place she feared.What she found inside those dark woods would change her forever.

If they fail, their world will end…Banished from her kingdom by the evil Queen Morag, Princess Gwyneth, a young sorceress, is forced to undertake an urgent and perilous quest to recover a powerful ring from the bottomless Well of Souls, deep inside the dreaded Spider Forest.But first Gwyneth must rescue Starbright, a unicorn, imprisoned inside The Crystal Mountain. Because only Starbright's horn can neutralize the poisoned water in the Well of Souls.On a journey fraught with danger, Gwyneth is confronted by every nightmare she's ever had, plus some she never could have imagined. Along the way, she rescues a fish from a dying lake, a hive of bees from a fire, and a falcon from a deadly eagle attach. Unable to leave them behind to face certain death, she takes them with her.In the final, cataclysmic showdown at the Well of Souls, as Gwyneth and Morag are locked in a battle to the death, the Princess discovers that even the smallest creatures can be powerful allies. And that not everything is as it seems.

The only thing more dangerous than their chemistry...is their enemies!Mild-mannered Xenoarcheologist Dr. Alec Coimhead and his best friend, Dr. Clemy Armistead, are certain that they've just found the ancient location of an apocryphal battle between demons and angels. Whisked away on a rollicking adventure, Alec finds himself under the watchful eye of Rafe, a taciturn mountain of a man with a mysterious past.with the enigmatic Praesidium, which claims to have protected humanity for generations, Alec clashes with his ethereally handsome bodyguard. As the New Watchers pursue the rambunctious pair across the globe, Alec and Rafe will have to battle ancient terrors and mythical creatures come to life. Racing to the ancient tomb of a fallen angel, Alec and Rafe may lose it all - and each other - to save the world. The Watchers: In The Valleys Of The Earth is the first book in an MM paranormal romance series.

A different take on time travel. What if the "grandfather murder conundrum" didn't exist? Where you could freely travel in time without affecting your or anyone else's present?The trick is that this also tends to "haunt" you, even drive you insane...This anthology contains:Time Bent by S. H. MarpelA World Gone Reverse by J. R. Kruze, S. H. MarpelA Very Thin Line by S. H. Marpel- - - -Time Bent:TIME HAUNTED HER. IT didn't do what it was "supposed to" when she was around.It ran forward, backwards, sideways. Sometimes time helped her solve her problems, sometimes it made them worse.For a lovely young woman, you'd think there would be young men lined up to talk to her at any gathering. But she stayed away from them - perhaps to protect them from what was "haunting" her.Two Ghost Hunters came to help her solve it. But she left with only the promise of returning "just in time" - and didn'tOr was this time-problem contagious? Were other people at risk because of her - or could she pass it onto her children?Life didn't seem any more safe, just because you could bend time any way you wanted.A World Gone Reverse:When the hamburgers all disappeared, along with the buns I was warming, I thought I was seeing things.But when my spatula went through the cast-iron grill top - I had to let it go out of reflex. No way was I going after it - I'd been burned too many times.It wasn't like I had a choice after that. Because the grill itself dropped out through the bottom of the rolling coach we were cooking out of that summer.I looked up at Hami, my order-taker, business partner, and lover - only to see her fall through the floor as well. A look of shock and trying to say something, but frozen in time.Then the coach disappeared, and I fell with it - but only as far as the pavement it used to be parked on. I could see the asphalt beneath my feet at least.Until it turned to some sort of foamy waves lapping on a beach I'd never seen before. Green hard sand. Green water.And a long white line that went down this beach like it was some sort of dual-lane highway going nowhere...A Very Thin Line:I was walking in my pasture one sunny afternoon, when a pair of hands pulled me into the underworld.Once I arrived, I relaxed - a bit. Because it was an old friend. Carol. A time-bender and now a Lazurai as well. Meaning she could walk through rock - and other things."Hi John. How have you been?" Carol was standing in front of a crystal fire place, warming herself from the magma heat that was channeled out of the earth's core."Not bad, Carol. Other than being pulled deep into the earth without a simple request, or how-de-do.""Sorry about that. Really. But I need your help - because I'm worse than haunted now - I'm being hunted.""And I'm the only one who can help you?"She smiled, embarrassed, and shrugged. "Yeah, that about sums it up - other than how many people are after me..."- - - -Scroll Up and Get Your Copy Now

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