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  Spawning Season

  Nicholas Kaufmann

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  "Spawning Season" is a short horror story by Nicholas Kaufmann, one of 35 entries in the audio anthology Come Join Us by the Fire. 
  Net the fish and trap the prawn.Blow the sea horn when it's time to spawn.Sire your sons without any fuss.One for the ocean and one for us. 
  Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories from Nightfire Books, a horror imprint of Tor Books. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of bestselling genre luminaries including China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, and Victor LaValle; Shirley Jackson Award winners Paul Tremblay, Priya Sharma, and Sam J. Miller; Nebula Award winners Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kij Johnson; and many, many more.

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  Blind Date Collection - Six...

  Annette Lyon, Sarah M. Eden,...

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  Amazon #1 Bestselling series in *New Release* for Clean Romance A TIMELESS ROMANCE ANTHOLOGY: BLIND DATE COLLECTION: Featuring New York Times bestselling author Victorine E. Lieske. Readers will love this collection of six novellas—three contemporary and three historical—all with one thing in common: Romance.Three Historical Romance NovellasTHE PROMISE THAT KATY DID, by Annette Lyon: After the death of Sue Ellen, the closest thing she has to family, Katy knows it's time to leave the house she's lived in as a guest and start over in the city. She quickly secures a job, but before leaving, she must honor the unusual promise she made to Sue Ellen on her deathbed: meet with Mr. Balmer. The elderly gentleman arranges for his grandson Barrett to escort her to a town dance. That evening, shy Katy quickly feels at ease with her partner. If her new position weren't taking her from town morning after next, perhaps something could develop between them. But Barrett may not feel the same about her, and besides, they don't have enough time to find out.A LADY OF SENSE, by Sarah M. Eden: Eleanor Sherwood has lived her entire life under her parents' thumb with little hope of escape. When they choose the unbearable Mr. Broadstead to be her future husband, she begs her father for another option. He arranges for her to meet Peter Havensham, who quickly proves himself a good and kindhearted gentleman, completely different from Mr. Broadstead, and utterly undeserving of a forced engagement. Eleanor cannot bring herself to prey upon Peter's honor, but neither can she imagine a life with Mr. Broadstead. What is a lady to do when faced with such an impossible choice?A SECOND CHANCE, by Heather B. Moore: Virginia needs a new start in order to recover from her broken marriage and vicious gossips of her neighborhood in Boston, so when her best friend Millie invites Virginia to Chicago, she goes to live with her friend's family. But when Millie asked Virginia to participate in a double-date, Virginia knows she's not ready to start dating again. Reluctantly she agrees, only to find out that Max might just be the man who can repair the cracks in her heart.Three Contemporary Romance NovellasBRAELYNN'S BLIND DATE, by Victorine E. Lieske. When Braelynn agrees to go on a blind date, she thinks she's hit the jackpot. Tyler is gorgeous and the perfect gentleman. Of course she should have known it was too good to be true. It turns out that Tyler really wasn't Tyler, but a random stranger who went along with Braelynn's mistaken assumption. So, she chalks it up to a dumb mistake until she gets to work Monday morning and discovers that her gorgeous blind date is now her new boss.BIANCA'S HOPE, by Rachel Branton: A blind-date-gone-wrong is not the way Bianca would have chosen to celebrate the news that she might be losing her business, but saying no to the sister who took care of her after their mother's death proves impossible. So for one date, one torturous evening, she'll endure the company of an infuriating, heartless man she has no intention of ever seeing again. She doesn't expect her heart to have other plans. Bianca soon learns that sometimes the unexpected is not only what you need, it's exactly what you've been waiting for all along.BLIND SPOT, by Sariah Wilson: Ria has prepared most of her life to meet her prince, trouble is, her mother keeps yanking her back to reality. So when Ria reads about a country teeming with princes, she drops everything and applies to grad school. But every blind date goes wrong, and while Ria commiserates with her roommate Tessa and Tessa's totally un-prince-like brother Paolo, Ria discovers that all the things she thought she wanted in a man are far from what she really needs.

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  Four Stories

  Matthew Wayne Selznick

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  The first short story collection from Matthew Wayne Selznick focuses on revelations of clarity and epiphanies of character in the face of emotional challenges. 
   
  	Also included are brief essays exploring the formative experiences and memories that inspired each short story, making this collection Matthew Wayne Selznick's most personal creative work to date. 
   The Stories: 
   
  	The collection opens with “You Got Me,” wherein the way two people each deal with one particularly rough day might have a lot to do with how they spend their days to come. 
   
  	Next, a musician struggles with expectations and understanding when he travels far from home with his new band for “Gig Number Two.” 
   
  	In the third story, he says it’s “Not My Fault,” but his girlfriend is convinced his distractions will drive them apart. Then comes the most unexpected distraction of all... 
   
  	The final story, “The Days of Wine and Roses by The Dream Syndicate,” provides a mental soundtrack for a reluctant walk through memory and pain on the way to save a troubled damsel in distress one last time. 
   
  	Each of the "Four Stories" explore universal themes of responsibility, relationships, honesty, and how we define character.

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  The Story of Brave Kasper and...

  Clemens Brentano

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  Clemens Brentano (1778-1842) was one of the giants of German Literary Romanticism. The Story of Brave Kasper and Fair Annie (published in 1817) is a novella outlining the sad tale of two star-crossed lovers, whose fates are determined by their determination to retain their own honour against all odds.Their story is mainly recounted by Kasper's 88-year-old grandmother, who is also Annie's guardian. As each episode of the tale unfolds, a new twist casts a different light on the previous episodes and new pieces of the jigsaw are put into place. The listener waits with bated breath to see what the picture will look like at the end.

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  Catherine's Quest - A Victorian...

  Sheridan Le Fanu

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  Traumatised by dreams and visions about the unassuming chest under the window in her bedroom, Catherine Lestrange demands it be opened; but what is found inside has the power to change her future as well as her reveal her past.Catherine’s Quest is taken from the second volume of the Victorian Anthologies “Horror” series, featuring short stories by classic writers of the spooky, the scary and the supernatural. Guaranteed to give you the shivers, each collection includes familiar and loved creepy tales as well as those less well-known. With music by Benedict Edwards.

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  Life is a Circus

  Alexander Kuprin

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  Various aspects of love, life, and death, set against the circus background. 
  This collection includes the following works:BlondinAllez!BrickieAnatoly DurovLolliThe Daughter of Great Barnum

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