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Rattlesnakes interrupt the poker game at Wade's lodge, leaving several people dead. After one of the surviving players gets murdered at the hospital, Wade gets on the case. Suspects range from the hospital nurse to an old foe, Woody. Wade has his hands full in this race against time to catch the killer. But who was the intended victim, and who wanted them dead?
Key West’s sultry summer heat isn't for the faint of heart. But Michal Grabowski is running from a Pittsburgh cocaine dealer intent on killing him in a slow and painful manner, and Key West is the end of the road. Retired Marine Jesse McDermitt enjoys the summer heat and quiet solitude of his tiny island home in the back country. When Jesse discovers that Michal’s would-be killer is connected to recent murders in the Bahamas, he agrees to help the young man. Jesse doesn’t like murderers, smelly crack monsters or drug dealers running amok in his territory. Particularly when one of them was responsible for the destruction of his charter boat. Between a running gun battle with a group of cow hunters stretching from Key West Bight to the Everglades, a shotgun-toting Key West tarot card reader, a retired Jamaican mystic, and a rising body count, there’s little time for Jesse to just relax and watch the sun go down.Show book
Francis Marion Crawford was born on August 2nd, 1854 at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. An only son and a nephew to Julia Ward Howe, the American poet and writer of ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’. His education began at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, then to Cambridge University; University of Heidelberg; and the University of Rome. In 1879 Crawford went to India, to study Sanskrit and then edited The Indian Herald. In 1881 he returned to America to continue his Sanskrit studies at Harvard University. At this time in Boston he lived at his Aunt Julia house and in the company of his Uncle, Sam Ward. His family was concerned about his employment prospects. After a singing career as a baritone was ruled out, he was encouraged to write. In December 1882 his first novel, ‘Mr Isaacs’, was an immediate hit which was amplified by ‘Dr Claudius’ in 1883. In October 1884 he married Elizabeth Berdan. They went on to have two sons and two daughters. Encouraged by his excellent start to a literary career he returned to Italy with Elizabeth to make a permanent home, principally in Sant' Agnello, where he bought the Villa Renzi that then became Villa Crawford. In the late 1890s, he began to write his historical works: ‘Ave Roma Immortalis’ (1898), ‘Rulers of the South’ (1900) and ‘Gleanings from Venetian History’ (1905). The Saracinesca series is perhaps his best work. ‘Saracinesca’ was followed by ‘Sant’ Ilario’ in 1889, ‘Don Orsino’ in 1892 and ‘Corleone’ in 1897, that being the first major treatment of the Mafia in literature. Francis Marion Crawford died at Sorrento on Good Friday 1909 at Villa Crawford of a heart attack. Set in Italy, ‘For Blood is the Life’ draws us into a world usually beyond our senses. With Crawford’s pen the uneasy, horrific world of vampires is now upon us.Show book
Once, on Christmas Day, she sacrificed her heart to save his life. Now, after nine years, will a single glance spark the fire of redemption? London February 1816 Fabien, Comte de Mont Clair, once a highly decorated officer of the exiled Napoleon, cuts a dashing swathe through a London society ball, his eyes only for the glittering ladies of the ton. His heart jolts at the sight of a woman sitting in a shadowed corner. Not just any woman, but one he would have once given the world for. For Hannah, Lady Maxwell, catering to the spoiled darlings of the ton as a humble chaperone is nothing compared to the pain she suffered at the hands of her late husband. Alone and impoverished, she is a person of no consequence but once, a long time ago, she sacrificed her world for the dashing Comte de Mont Clair. Now all she can do is hope that he may glance her way ...Show book
From a unique and path-breaking online Fiction contest comes this very exciting and wonderful anthology of Short Stories - 2 tales to tell. The Notion Press Social Short Story Contest 2014 brought together authors and readers in a wonderful amalgam of Creativity and appreciation, of talent and technology. 500 plus Authors had more than four lakh readers rate their stories on Social media. Offering a new twist to the ever-evolving tale of the printed word… So, just breathe in, and let the words run through your veins Amok; let them peel your eyes a bit wider, as you sit back, relax, And enjoy a rollicking ride to places close and distant, in a way you May have never perceived them before. Expect the unexpected as you flip through these pages – and enjoy the ride.Show book
Black Mare Books presents twelve twisted tales from Artemis Greenleaf, Holly Dey, and A.B. Richards. In this Santa’s sack of Christmas yarns, you’ll find an array of monsters of all stripes. You may want to keep a lookout for a possibly rabid coyote when you stop to play with a dolly. Perhaps enjoy a little shopping before you head into the woods to fell a Christmas tree? Or maybe you’ve wanted to go on a holiday cruise? And whatever you do, don’t look a gift bear in the mouth. And be warned: it’s best to let sleeping babies lie.Show book
The Ukrainian writer Vera Jelihovsky was born on the 29th April 1835. At that time Ukraine, or Little Russia as it was also called, was part of the Russian Empire. Vera was also the sister of Helena Blavatsky, herself a noted writer and a co-founder of the Theosophical Society. As a writer Vera’s works rests mainly on her children’s stories and little of any of her work is known in the West. ‘The General’s Will’ is a fascinating story of a dying man who tries, with the writing of a new Will, to right the wrongs his second marriage has caused to the children of his first. His scheming second wife attempts to change that. But will her selfish plan succeed? Vera Jelihovsky died on the 17th May 1896. She was 61.Show book
