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  Showdown - A Paradise Novel

  Anonyme

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  Welcome to Paradise. Epic battles of good and evil are happening all around us. Today that battle comes to town with the sound of lone footsteps clacking down the blacktop on a hot, lazy summer afternoon. The black-cloaked man arrives in the sleepy town of Paradise and manages to become the talk of the town within the hour. Bearing the power to grant any unfulfilled dream, he is irresistible.Seems like bliss . . . but is it?Or is hell about to break loose in Paradise?

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  Make Me Want

  Rebecca Brooks

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  Abbi Haas likes them big, bad, and out of her bed the next morning. So when a smoking-hot firefighter shuts down a possessive ex by pretending to be her boyfriend, she's happy to play along—and stay for the no-strings-attached sex under the stars. But her knight with bulging biceps had better not think she's some damsel in distress. She'll handle her ex like she does everything: on her own. 
   
   
   
  Wildland firefighter Tyler McCall is supposed to be taking a break from danger. First step to having fun: pick up a sexy stranger by pretending he's her man. Too bad his fake girlfriend is also his new coworker . . . and their little white lie has already spread. Tyler knows he should walk away before he gets burned. But he can't stay out of trouble, and there's no way he's letting her go. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  At Christmas Time - From their...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on 29th January 1860 in Taganrog, on the south coast of Russia.  
  His family life was difficult; his father was strict and over-bearing but his mother was a passionate story-teller, a subject Chekhov warmed to. As he later said; ‘our talents we got from our father, but our soul from our mother’.  
  At school Chekhov was distinctly average. At 16 his father mis-managed his finances and was declared bankrupt. His family fled to Moscow. Chekhov remained and eked out a living by various means, including writing and selling short sketches to newspapers, to finish his schooling. That completed and with a scholarship to Moscow University obtained he rejoined his family. 
  He was able to help support them by selling satirical sketches and vignettes of Russian lifestyles and gradually obtained further commissions. In 1884, he qualified as a physician and, although it earned him little, he often treated the poor for free, he was fond of saying ‘Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress.’ 
  His own health was now an issue as he began to cough up blood, a symptom of tuberculosis.  Despite this his writing success enabled him to move the family into more comfortable accommodation.  
  Chekhov wrote over 500 short stories which included many, many classics including ‘The Kiss’ and ‘The Lady with a Dog’.  His collection ‘At Dusk’ won him the coveted Pushkin Prize when was only 26.  
  He was also a major playwright beginning with the huge success of ‘Ivanov’ in 1887.   
  In 1892 Chekhov bought a country estate north of Moscow. Here his medical skills and money helped the peasants tackle outbreaks of cholera and bouts of famine. He also built three schools, a fire station and a clinic.  It left him with less time for writing but the interactions with real people gained him detailed knowledge about the peasantry and their living conditions for his stories.  
  His most famous work, ‘The Seagull’ was received disastrously at its premiere in St Petersburg. It was later restaged in Moscow to highlight its psychological aspects and was a huge success. It led to ‘Uncle Vanya’, ‘The Three Sisters’ and ‘The Cherry Orchard’.  
  Chekhov suffered a major lung hemorrhage in 1897 while visiting Moscow. A formal diagnosis confirmed tuberculosis and the doctors ordered changes to his lifestyle.  
  Despite a dread of weddings the elusive literary bachelor quietly married the actress Olga Knipper, whom he had met at rehearsals for ‘The Seagull’, on 25th May 1901. 
  By May 1904 with his tuberculosis worsening and death imminent he set off for the German town of Badenweiler writing cheerful, witty letters to his family and assuring them his health was improving.  
  On 15th July 1904 Anton Chekhov died at Badenweiler.  He was 44.

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  The Mythical Hero's Otherworld...

  Tatematsuri

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  The bitter conflict in Faerzen has drawn to a close with the Grantzian Empire's victory. As Hiro and his allies return to the capital, it would seem that, for the moment, the bloodshed is done. Yet only a fool would take this temporary lull for a lasting peace. The empire's foundations are creaking. War is coming; indeed, for those with eyes to see, its harbingers are already here. Second Prince Selene has left the north, an almost unheard-of occurrence. The beleaguered House Krone scrabbles to maintain its grip on power. First Prince Stovell, to the astonishment of all, announces that he will relinquish his place in the line of succession. And as Hiro plots to place Liz on the throne, blood is spilled at last on imperial soil. When schemes months, years, and even centuries in the making come to a head in the capital, who will prevail—and at what cost?

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  Natural Witch (Magical Mayhem...

  K.F. Breene

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  "Penny could've had no idea of the amount of explosive magic that runs through her blood. Now she is on the run, fighting for her life and her freedom from a ruthless organization that would use her to dominate the magical world.Something has always been missing from my life. A hole that I could never seem to fill.When I accidentally turn a coven of witches into nightmares, I find out what that something is.Magic.And it turns out, I have a crap load of it.As a latent power awakens deep inside of me, I’m exposed to one of the most powerful and corrupt organizations in the magical world—the Mages’ Guild.Barely knowing a spell from a few swear words and luck, I won’t be able to evade them alone.And that’s when I meet him.The Rogue Natural. The best and most feared mage in the world.He’s dangerous, mysterious, and has a vendetta of his own. He is now the only thing between me and magical enslavement.Magical Mayhem Trilogy 1.“Performed by Renee Dorian, Robb Moreira, Julie Hoverson, Colleen Delany, Gabriel Michael, Carolyn Kashner, Chris Davenport, Alyssa Keegan, Nanette Savard, Terence Aselford, Rob McFadyen, Earl Fischer, Jenna Sharpe, Tyler Hyrchuk, Eric Messner, Julie Ann- Elliott, Matthew Bassett, James Konicek, Rose Elizabeth Supan, James J. Johnson, Dawn Ursula, Ken Jackson, Holly Adams, Scott McCormick, Rayner Gabriel, Elena Anderson, Gwen Grastorf, Tia Shearer and Nora Achrati.”

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  The Discovery

  Holy Order of MANS

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  The Discovery is the adventure story of a young man who has heard about a mysterious place hidden in the California Sierra Madre Mountains. He visited these mountains on many occasions before, but now his quest is quite different. Join him as he opens a passage to a valley he has never seen before. Guided there by an enigmatic dwarf, he discovers a mystic group of Teachers and Adepts who are willing to share with him how they live. The treasures that they reveal change his life forever. The Holy Order of MANS is a mystic Order dedicated to teaching the esoteric foundations of our world religions. Historically this esoteric knowledge has remained a secret, given to a few. We are now in the Internet Age where all knowledge is freely available, so the time has come to speak more openly of the deeper truths of antiquity.

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