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A lonely terraforming AI is delighted when a spacecraft unexpectedly makes an emergency landing on his planet. Hoping that the mysterious woman aboard might want to stay, he strives to be the best host in the universe.

Geralt the Witcher battles monsters, demons and prejudices alike in Sword of Destiny, the second collection of adventures in Andrzej Sapkowski’s groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the Netflix show and the hit video games. ★ The New York Times bestselling series ★ Over Fifteen...

Set in small town Montana, this sports romance series follows a group of football coaches and players. From a single dad to a second chance to a surprise pregnancy to enemies-to-lovers to fake dating, fall in love with all four stories in the Treasure State Wildcats series.

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one...

What drives someone to keep reaching for all that glitters, no matter the price? It’s easy to believe that more is better: more acclaim, more control, more wealth. But when dreams are fueled by greed, they can quickly twist into nightmares. These six propulsive short stories explore what happens when the true cost of ambition comes due.

Follow the men of the Morelli Family as they meet their matches in this dark mafia romance series.

He came home to settle a debt. He found something the world cannot afford to lose. For eight months, mining engineer Kael Dren has been loading wagons in the border towns, carrying one thing alongside the freight: A seizure order bearing Director Mael's signature. His family's land. His father in the house. His sister in the barn. The word outcome in the operational log. He goes back. Not for the land — for the accounting. Then he finds what's three hundred meters below the surface. Something nine thousand years old.

In a world where survival demands more than strength, the smallest choices can carry the greatest cost. A boy uncovers a fragment of the lost world—and risks everything to understand it. A dying man finds purpose in the ruins of a broken society, where compassion may be the most dangerous act of all. Two clever children wander into a forest of old stories, where innocence is a lie and only the ruthless survive. These three gripping tales from Jim LeMay explore what remains when the rules are gone, and what it takes to endure when the world turns against you. Dark, thought-provoking, and ...

A man arrives home from an international flight to find that the airline has delivered his lost luggage. Wonderful, except he never lost his luggage in the first place. The story is told through his increasingly maddening call to customer service as he tries to figure out how, and why, the airline created a perfect replica of his suitcase and possessions.

He broke his vow in one second… Father Luca hasn’t touched a woman in thirty-two years…until shy church librarian Rosie drops her stack of filthy romance books at his feet. One look at her innocent face and those sinful titles, and his vow shatters. He drags her into the confessional, rips off her panties, and growls that God just declared her his wife. Now he’s defiling his sweet girl on the altar, in the rectory—everywhere—while trying to hide that he’s already knocked her up. Forgive me, Father…because he’s never stopping. Warning: This is an over-the-top forbidden ...

An exhausted mother decides to take part in a pilot program where a robot takes care of her children after school—cooking, cleaning, and helping with homework. The only problem? The robot just might be too good at her job.

From C. J. Box, the New York Times-bestselling author of the Joe Pickett novels, comes a thrilling book of suspense stories about the Wyoming he knows so well - and the dark deeds and impulses that can be found there. Over the course of eighteen books, C. J. Box has been consistently hailed for his brilliant storytelling and extraordinary skills at creating character, suspense, and a deep sense of place. All of those strengths are in the ten riveting stories - three of them never before published - that make up Shots Fired.

As a primal conjurer, Ryn Xaven is a rare sorcerer who can use all types of magic. When he bonds beautiful mages as his protectors and companions, his power grows. Together they'll root out devils, protect their world from demonic invasion, and keep each other warm on cold nights.

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I'm Thane Stone, a simple man that wants nothing more than to put down a few crops in the plot of land I purchased at the edge of town. My dream might very well have come true were it not for what I found in the forest. It called to me, woke something buried deep within, a bloodline that raises far more questions than it answers. So, I suppose I'm a bastard with royal blood? To be frank, I'm not sure I give a damn.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction. Included in this collection are all four full-length Holmes novels and more than forty short masterpieces - from the inaugural adventure A Study in Scarlet to timeless favorites like “The Speckled Band” and more. At the center of each stands the iconic figure of Holmes - brilliant, eccentric, and capable of amazing feats of deductive reasoning.

Emily does not like change—she spends each day working as a children’s librarian and every evening watching television with her cat, Miss Marple. She maintains her house exactly the way it was before her father died. But one day, a mysterious theft at the library pushes Emily out of her routine, forcing her to question if she really is better off all alone.

The founding texts of modern science fiction — in a landmark new English translation. Jules Verne did not merely write adventure stories. He invented a new grammar of the imagination — one grounded in the science of his age, yet reaching toward the unknown with the precision of a cartographer mapping seas no one had sailed. Extraordinary Voyages gathers four of his greatest novels in a complete new English translation by Henry Bugalho, accompanied by critical essays that reveal the philosophical ambition concealed beneath the spectacle of his adventures. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under ...

Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him. Falsely accused of a political crime, Dantès is locked away for life in the infamous Chateau d'If prison. But it is there that Dantès learns of a vast hidden treasure.

Step back into the stories you thought you knew... and discover the darkness beneath. In Dark Fairy Tales Reimagined: 20 Twisted Versions of Classic Tales, beloved fairy tales are transformed into haunting, unsettling stories where magic comes at a price—and happy endings are never guaranteed. A glass slipper binds its wearer to a cursed fate. A hidden kingdom dances to keep an ancient evil asleep. A simple lie twists a boy into something no longer human. These are not the fairy tales of childhood. Each story drags familiar characters into shadowy worlds filled with betrayal, horror, and ...