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8061) Holiday Extravaganza Complete Collection: 32 Holiday Romance, Mystery and Fantasy Short Stories
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This volume contains 33 short stories-ranging in genre from mystery to fantasy to romance-that centre around traditional holidays such as Christmas and New Year's but also fictional holidays like The Great Give Away.Featuring enthralling, heart-warming, gripping stories from best-selling writer Connor Whiteley, each story comes presented as it first appeared in a newsletter that went to subscribers every single day for 32 days.The very first volume...
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David Watmough, often spoken of as Canada's senior gay male fiction writer, has committed his memories to paper in Myself Through Others. Watmough is well-known for his fiction featuring gay "everyman" Davey Bryant, and the novel The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon is bundled together in this special 2-book collection. Includes: The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon Davey Bryant returns to England for the funeral of a mysterious relative and lands in an...
8063) Banned Books
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Parker and Rafe discover that the challenges of growing up might outweigh the rewards of bucking the system.
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Al regresar a casa tras pasar la Navidad en la vieja y agradable Inglaterra, Adrien English, detective aficionado ocasional, hace un descubrimiento alarmante en la Librería Cloak and Dagger… y un antiguo conocido pide su ayuda para encontrar a un novio desaparecido.
Por suerte, resulta que Adrien conoce a un detective privado de lo más bueno…
8065) Rampant, Vol. 1
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Little Goddess: Book Four
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Lady Cory has carved out a life for herself not just as a wife to three husbands but also as one of the rulers of the supernatural communities of Northern California-and a college student in search of that elusive degree. When a supernatural threat comes crashing into the hard-forged peace of Green's Hill, she and Green determine that they're the ones in charge of stopping the abomination that created it. To protect...
8066) Hindsight Being 2020
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2020 was a year that will go down in infamy. There was a pandemic, people died, rioting in the streets, so many things that I can't even remember.
But while, I was sitting in my tiny apartment for months on end, I wrote. And, wrote. And, wrote some more. And, kept writing. Poetry and short stories. Some made it into journals and anthologies. Some were read aloud and acted out by me and my friends.
2020 may have been a year that will go down in infamy,...
8067) Child in the Valley
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Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is the orphaned foster son of a failed doctor on the run from his father's debt. In 1849, he travels to Independence, Missouri and falls in with the mysterious, four-fingered Renard, and his companion, formerly enslaved Free Ray. Joshua offers his medical expertise to their party, and together they embark on the fifteen-hundred-mile overland journey to Gold Rush California.
Following the hardship, disease, and death...
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More lying, more cheating, more blasts from the past. With a side of murder.
Just when Emmett thought he was done with exes with a thing for backstabbing, another one falls in his lap. Not his ex, for once. No, this one belongs to Emmett's new partner at OWL Investigations and former-okay, maybe current-crush, David.
The bad news? Shirou is here to stay and piss off Emmett for the foreseeable future. Why David doesn't kick him out, Emmett will...
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A Christmas Party To Remember.
Percy cooks cookies for a party. He wants to meet new people. He needs something magical.
Patrick loves Christmas Party. He loves fun. He wishes to find someone special.
Sparks fly the moment they meet.
Can Percy and Patrick realise what they need is each other?
If you love sweet gay romances with a Christmas-y twist, you will love this short story!
8070) A Deadly Kind of Love
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Tom and Stanley: Book OneNothing bad is supposed to happen in Palm Springs. At least that's what San Francisco private detective Tom Danzel and his partner Stanley Korski believe. But when their friend Chris finds a dead body in his hotel room bed, Tom and Stanley drive out to help the local police investigate. What they discover is a rather nasty green snake and an elegant hotel that offers delicacies not usually found on a room service menu. As...
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Alan Beringer has settled into his role of human Elite inspector working with Pyrean Navy privateers. Is it stressful being the principle investigator into a dangerous and hitherto unknown pirate confederacy? Certainly. Is it kind of fun living amid the exuberant and free-spirited crew of the Swallow? Most definitely.
Accidental kidnapping aside, Alan has come to think of the Swallow as his home and the crew his family - and it's obvious to everyone...
8072) City of Monsters
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In a literal city of monsters, it's Hunter's job to sort out the inevitable messes: vampire debt collectors, werewolves who piss on everything, and surprise shifters. There's mundane problems, like paying rent, and keeping his haunted blender placated.
Always happy to be making money, he takes a job from a foul-mouthed reverse tooth fairy to find her missing twin. Just when things seem like they couldn't possibly get worse, in comes Sakari, a hot...
8073) Scoring Position
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Ryan Wright's new hockey team is a dumpster fire. He expects to lose games-not his heart.
Ryan's laid-back attitude should be an advantage in Indianapolis. Even if he doesn't accomplish much on the ice, he can help his burned-out teammates off it. And no one needs a friend-or a hug-more than Nico Kirschbaum, the team's struggling would-be superstar.
Nico doesn't appreciate that management traded for another openly gay player and told them to make...
8074) A Hummingbird Dance
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Detectives Lane and Harper are back for the third Detective Lane Mystery in this gripping twister of a novel that baffles with its ever-increasing body count and suspect list. When Ryan Dudley ventures out on horseback and his horse returns without him, Lane and Harper are summoned to unravel the mystery. Dudley's disappearance marks the first anniversary of a young boy's murder in the same neighbourhood, and mounting evidence ties the two incidents...
8075) Hotshots Collection
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Danger lurks everywhere for Central Oregon's fire crews, but the biggest risk of all might be losing their hearts…Burn Zone
Smokejumper Lincoln Reid is speechless to see Jacob Hartman among his squad's new recruits. Linc had promised his late best friend he'd stay away from his little brother. And yet here Jacob is…and almost instantly, the same temptation Linc has always felt around him is causing way too many problems.
Jacob gets everyone's...
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Kai Logan is BACK! This time, he find himself embroiled in another murder when a popular bartender is murdered at the Baltimore Talon. Now, with one of his drag queen friends framed and charged for the murder by a jealous police officer, Kai now has to find the truth.
If that's not enough, his best friend Jane tried to help someone from Kai's past against a murder charge of their own. That person? HIS ABUSIVE EX-HUSBAND!
With two murder and an air...
8077) A Holiday Homecoming
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Ten years ago Jon's passion for the piano took him across the country to New York, where a demanding concert career consumed his life and left him no time to look back. His father's stroke is the only thing that brings him home to Seattle. The sickroom makes for a dreary holiday until Jon runs into Bo, whose inner light can make anything sparkle.
Bo loves the holidays: the food, the crafts, the glitter! A fling with an old school friend-who grew...
8078) Cryptic Paisley
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When gallerist Celeste meets an old friend at an art show, the artist explains that someone has jacked one of her fashion designs, and soon Celeste's bestie, Truman, is on the case, diving headlong into LA's fashion industry to investigate. Truman and Celeste soon get entangled with a hinky company run by a trio of enigmatic lowlifes who produce a very unusual fashion line. Are they full-on grifters, or just not that competent? Truman goes undercover...
8079) Dead Man's Hand
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A Stud Games Novel. Temptation, peril, and dirty poker Love is a high-stakes game When Collin Callahan, British secret agent, goes up against math genius turned surfer bum Oliver Elliot, the battle is epic-and so is the attraction. They're pitted against each other in an exclusive, ultra-secret-and ultra-illegal-poker match in Gibraltar, but when players start dying and they could be next, they find a common goal: catch the killer before it's too...
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Asher Kaufman could use a miracle. But first he'll have to believe they exist.
Ash is single, strapped for cash, and burned out from his work at a nonprofit. Everyone else's holiday spirit leaves him feeling like he's in the wrong movie.
Then strange, thoughtful gifts begin appearing outside his door: a rustic basket filled with pinecones and acorns, and a beautiful handmade scarf in Hannukah colors. But the most wonderful gift of all comes...
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