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  The Castle of Otranto (Legend...

  Horace Walpole

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  “He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.” 
  The Castle of Otranto is a macabre tale that revolves around a haunted castle. Manfred, the lord of Otranto, finds his son, Conrad, smashed by an enormous helmet on his wedding day. It is soon revealed that according to an ancient ambiguous prophecy Conrad's death might have been an ominous event that signifies the end of his lordship. To rectify the situation Manfred decides to marry his son's bride despite having a wife. Will Manfred plot succeed? Is he indeed a true prince of the castle? 
  Walpole got the inspiration for this bizarre story from a dream. He gave his novel a very authentic embellishment using the plan of Strawberry Hill castle for the set in the novel. He also went as far as to make a believable spoof in the Preface to the first edition that the novel was recovered and translated from an old Italian manuscript. Not as culturally present and talked about a title as other Gothic classics like Frankenstein or Dracula, Otranto became the cornerstone text of the genre. The echoings of Otranto are even noticeable in more contemporary gothic tales such as Toni Morrison's Beloved where a building is more than a location but an entire mysterious entity in itself. 
  The Legend Classics series:Around the World in Eighty DaysThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnThe Importance of Being EarnestAlice's Adventures in WonderlandThe MetamorphosisThe Railway ChildrenThe Hound of the BaskervillesFrankensteinWuthering HeightsThree Men in a BoatThe Time MachineLittle WomenAnne of Green GablesThe Jungle BookThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other StoriesDraculaA Study in ScarletLeaves of GrassThe Secret GardenThe War of the WorldsA Christmas CarolStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeHeart of DarknessThe Scarlet LetterThis Side of ParadiseOliver TwistThe Picture of Dorian GrayTreasure IslandThe Turn of the ScrewThe Adventures of Tom SawyerEmmaThe TrialA Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan PoeGrimm Fairy TalesThe AwakeningMrs DallowayGulliver’s TravelsThe Castle of OtrantoSilas MarnerHard Times

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  Seeking Felicity - Katie Connell...

  Pamela Fagan Hutchins

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  For fans of Liane Moriarty, Lisa Gardner, and Kristin Hannah — Katie Connell is a murder suspect on her own honeymoon. The island is not done with her. 
  Katie Connell's murder cases usually start with a client. This one starts at a party where the host gropes her in front of witnesses, and ends twenty minutes later when she finds him dead on his own hallway floor with his skull stove in. Captain Tobienne of the St. Marcos police calls it murder. Katie calls it the worst start to a honeymoon in recorded history. 
  She has motive, means, opportunity, and a police force that has been waiting for a reason to arrest her since she helped send the former chief to prison. Her passport is surrendered. The honeymoon is cancelled. Nick flies to Texas for his father's cancer treatment, leaving Katie alone on the island with a dead construction magnate, a grieving widow who knows more than she's saying, and a Carib jumbie that's been haunting the murder scene since before the body was cold. 
  The investigation winds through corrupt government contracts, a buried businessman, a pregnant receptionist who could bring down two families at once, and a criminal mastermind who turns out to have been operating three cases deep in Katie's blind spot. The island's jumbie spirits have been trying to tell her something. So has her own house. She just hasn't been listening carefully enough. 
  Seeking Felicity is the 4th novel in the series — the most intricately plotted of the four, and the one where every thread from Books 1–3 pays off. Caribbean mystery at its richest, written by an author who knows these islands the way you only can when you've actually lived them. 
  She solved the first three cases. This one came home with her. 
  Buy Seeking Felicity today and dive into a tropical mystery. 
  Katie Connell is Part 1 of Hutchins' What Doesn't Kill You Super Series.

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  When a Good Man Comes to Town

  Andrew Jaggard

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  ‘When a Good Man Comes to Town’ is a rip-roaring ride through the Wild West of old-time Wyoming. Packed full of gunslinging action, this thrilling novel is a fast-paced, highly atmospheric tale of a good man trying to save the day. A nameless bounty hunter takes a step into the unknown when he accepts a job to help right an emotional wrong. Haunted by past loss, and only used to tracking scum and villainy, he is shocked when this adventure sees him finding love with a woman who is more than his match. Together they must face their demons and defeat an evil plot that could have terrible ramifications for all the people of the Cowboy State.

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  Fury

  Clyo Mendoza

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  In a desert dotted with war-torn towns, Lázaro and Juan are two soldiers from opposing camps who abandon the war and, while fleeing, become lovers and discover a dark truth. Vicente Barrera, a salesman who swept into the lives of women who both hated and revered him, spends his last days tied up like a mad dog. A morgue worker, Salvador, gets lost in the desert and hallucinating from heat and thirst, mistakes the cactus for the person he loves. Over the echoes of the stories of these broken men—and of their mothers, lovers and companions—Mendoza explores her characters' passions in a way that simmers on the page, and then explodes with pain, fear, and desire in a landscape that imprisons them. 
   
   
   
  Clyo Mendoza has written a novel of extraordinary beauty where language embarks on a hallucinatory trip through eroticism, the transitions of conscience, and the possibility of multiple beings inhabiting a single body. In this journey through madness, incest, sexual abuse, infidelity, and silence, Fury offers a moving questioning of the complexity of love and suffering. The desert is where these characters' destinies become intertwined, where their wounds are inherited and bled dry. Listeners will be blown away by the sensitivity of the writing, and will shudder at the way violence conveyed with a poetic forcefulness and a fierce mastery of the Mexican oral tradition.

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  Sheila's Erotic Fantasy World:...

  Sheila Dronan

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  Long ago, in what we shall call the before time, before the emergence of the great civilizations, human beings lived closer to nature and the natural world. Most people lived in family farms which surrounded the towns and villages they frequented for weekly markets and items they needed. It was in these central towns were where the merchants and tradespeople lived. Living away from the towns, and therefore infrequently interacting with other humans, were the witches and the wizards. Witches were the equivalent of what we today might consider a doctor and they typically lived in the woods or other convenient location for them to collect the herbs, roots and other ingredients they required to prepare medicines. Wizards were repositories of knowledge and as such were often sought out for advice. They could most often be found wandering from town to town and typically made their homes in caves. Back in the before time, humans not only recognized the other creatures who inhabited the earth but also took the opportunities to communicate with them. It would not have been uncommon for a human then to spend time talking to a raven, a fox, or a deer while on a walk through the forest. Similarly, the races of the Bogheys and the Gwyllion were well known to humans and interacted with them routinely. But with the rise of civilization, humans decided that they should have dominion over the earth. As a result, wild animals learned to fear them, and the other races have been condemned to myth. Sheila’s Erotic Fantasy World stories are set in this before time. This guide explains who the Bogheys are, where they live, and any special features they have.

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  Across the Crying Sands

  Jane Kirkpatrick

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  A Tale of Uncharted Adventure and Discovery Inspired by a True Story 
    
  In 1888 Mary Edwards Gerritse is a witty and confident young woman who spends as much time as possible outdoors on the rugged Oregon coast where she and her husband, John, have settled. The two are a formidable pair who are working hard to prove their homesteading claim and build a family. But as Mary faces struggles of young motherhood and questions about her family of origin, she realizes that life is far from the adventure she imagined it would be. 
    
  After losing the baby she's carrying, grief threatens Mary, but she finds an unconventional way to bring joy back into her life—by taking over a treacherous postal route. As Mary becomes the first female mail carrier to traverse the cliff-hugging mountain trails and remote Crying Sands Beach, with its changing tides and sudden squalls, she recaptures the spark she lost and discovers that a life without risk is no life at all. 
    
  "Jane Kirkpatrick's writing evokes a powerful sense of the challenges and strengths of women who settled the West."—SANDRA DALLAS, New York Times bestselling author

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