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  The Caballero's Way - Murder...

  O Henry

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  William Sydney Porter was born on 11th September 1862 in Greensboro, North Carolina. At age 3 his mother died from tuberculosis. From an early age it was clear Porter had a large appetite for reading as he absorbed the world around him. 
   
  He first attended at a school run by his aunt before enrolling at the Lindsey Street High School and then worked at his uncle’s drugstore and gained a pharmacists’ license in 1881.  
   
  A persistent cough took him to Texas in the hope that a change of climate would help his symptoms. He took on various types of work, initially from ranch hand and cook and then as varied as pharmacist, draftsman, bank teller and journalist. He also began to write, though for now, purely as a hobby. 
   
  He was a member of several singing and dramatic groups when he met 17 year old Athol Estes, daughter of a wealthy Austin family. Despite her mother’s objection owing to Athol’s tuberculosis, they began courting and in July 1887, they eloped and soon married. 
   
  Athol, impressed by his writing, encouraged him to get them published. A job as a draftsman at the Texas General Land Office paid a healthy $100 dollars per month and life was good. 
   
  But then life turned cruel. His son died a few hours after birth although a daughter, Margaret, came the following year.  His job had to be vacated but another was found at the First National Bank of Austin. The bank operated informally and Porter was careless in keeping the books. He lost that job but began writing for the humourous weekly The Rolling Stone and the Houston Post. Some time later the federal Bank auditors went through his former accounts and he was arrested on charges of embezzlement. 
   
  Porter fled the day before his trial to Honduras. Holed up for several months he began to write.  Athol had become too ill to travel to meet him and learning that her health was deteriorating he surrendered to the court in February 1897.  Bail was obtained so that he could stay with Athol during her final days.  
   
  Porter was sentenced to five years at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. His pharmacy qualifications got him the job of night druggist.  His sentence also gave him time to write and publish fourteen short stories. In December 1899 in McClure’s Magazine he published a short story as O Henry.  
   
  He was released two years early in July 1901, and reunited with Margaret, now 11, in Pittsburgh.  He now began his most prolific period of writing; a short story per week for the New York World, while also publishing works in other magazines.  Eventually over 600 of his short stories were published. 
   
  Porter was a heavy drinker and in 1908 his health, which had deteriorated for several years, took a dramatic turn for the worse, as did his writing. 
    
  O Henry died of cirrhosis of the liver complicated by diabetes and an enlarged heart on 5th June 1910.

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  Stripped Blindfolded and Cuffed...

  Laura Vixen

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  Emily has never really been into one-night stands, but meeting Gigi is enough to change her mind about that. She willingly goes back to her new friend’s apartment when the offer is made, but things get out of hand when they get in the bedroom. Stripped, blindfolded and cuffed, Emily finds out Gigi has a taste for spanking and pain mixes with pleasure as the BDSM bondage game plays out to a kinky end. 
   
  This story is a work of fiction and contains sex scenes and is suitable for adults only. All characters are fictional and are over 18 years old.

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  Beecham's Infirmary for the...

  Briar Somerset

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  In a town where health is currency and longing is lure, a reluctant investigator and seamstress must uncover whether hunger will anchor a man already slipping into the dark. 
  Behind the decrepit doors of an infirmary said to offer miraculous cures to London's ailing elite, people are vanishing. Private Investigator and estranged heir to French aristocracy Jacques Valmont is summoned across the channel to sleuth, despite the lingering sickness of his own—one of grief that stirs in his blood and shadows his mind. 
  Amidst the fog and fever, he finds an unlikely ally in Annie, the quick-witted seamstress working next door to Beecham's Infirmary, whose presence seems to quiet the storm inside him. When she suggests the only way to breach the infirmary's guarded walls is becoming a patient himself, Annie's grandmother warns them both of curses that fester with longing. Unnatural aches that transform a person entirely, if not quelled. 
  As Jacques nears the truth, desire and dread twist together. Annie may be the last tether holding him to his humanity—or the final thread that unravels it.

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  The Dark Side of Inheritances -...

  Sheridan Le Fanu, Edith Nesbit,...

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  The grief that death brings is difficult to adjust too.  And after the funeral the deceased’s estate must be divided up as their will and wishes have specified.  However, with that division of material goods there often comes tensions and jealously between family members, friends and others.  What they thought they were to the deceased is now somewhat different in the cold light of reality.  Trouble begins to brew. 
   
  01 - The Dark Side of Inheritances - An Introduction 
  02 - Dickon the Devil by Sheridan Le Fanu 
  03 - The Ebony Frame by Edith Nesbit 
  04 - The Weird of the Walfords by Louisa Baldwin 
  05 - The Three Sisters by W W Jacobs 
  06 - The Beast With Five Fingers by W F Harvey 
  07 - The Tractate Middoth by M R James 
  08 - The Cobweb by Saki

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  Tall Dark and Grumpy - a spicy...

  Evie Rose

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  I pretended my dangerous kingpin boss was my boyfriend… And now he’s demanding marriage. 
  I shouldn’t have messaged him. 
  And I definitely shouldn’t have said he was my boyfriend. 
  In my defense, I was trying to forget my crush on my silver fox Italian boss and lose my V-card after a month of pining and tummy flutters.  
  Then my boss messages back. When he hears where I am, he’s feral. 
  He turns up at the bar, kisses me, and tells my friends I’m his fiancée. But it's all fake. 
  OMG. 
  With an obsessed and protective kingpin, Tall, Dark, and Grumpy is an instalove mafia romcom that will make you swoon and blush and giggle. All the grumpy sunshine feels, and a bit of London mafia touch her and die. 
  Narrated in duet by Zara Hampton-Brown and Dane Anderson, with delicious Italian and British accents.

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  Huntress of Avaleor: A Tale of...

  Dave Eidson, MK Eidson

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  On the hunt for food for her village, Bryn encounters friends she's not seen in years… and a mysterious white metal sphere. When she lets her curiosity rule her actions, Bryn soon finds herself in strange surroundings… and thrown into the middle of a rebellion. Can she save herself and her friends, find a way back home, and protect her low-tech village from her high-tech abductors? 
  Huntress of Avaleor pits low-tech wits against high-tech machinations. Who will come out on top?

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