The Third Lost Tale of Mercia: Aydith the Aetheling

EBook Description: Aydith�s story is that of a young aetheling who, despite her royal blood, can get no one to listen to her willful opinions. With the encouragement of a kind hearth companion named Hastings, perhaps she will find another way to help her ill-fated country.

Beauregaard Sweet became invisible, but his troubles began when he suddenly reappeared. Now everybody wants something from him. Manny the mechanic wants his wife. Sharad LeMaster wants his secret. Emma Biggs wants another shot at the TV news, the Four Tribes want to send him back to wherever it was he�d gone, and all he wants to do is eat donuts and watch reality TV.

The Sledgehammer Concerto

Three siblings: A mystic, with power to heal the wounds of the soul and dispel the anguish of the dying; A genius, who strove to bring human desire itself to heel, and succeeded beyond her hopes; And a visionary of freedom, whose depictions of courage in the face of oppression brought him a most unpleasant official notice. They huddle in a cabin in the New York woods. The door is open to you.

On Broken Wings

You�re a young woman with no memory of your past. You�ve been made a sexual slave by a gang of vicious bikers. After ten years� agony, you�ve freed yourself by committing murder and earning a faceful of scars. But the biker king is obsessed with you. Your sole chance of escaping him lies in trusting a mysterious young man you�ve just met. Do you choose the devil you know, or the devil you don�t.

The Second Lost Tale of Mercia: Ethelred the King

This haunting short story illustrates the scandalous circumstances surrounding King Ethelred�s rise to power at the age of eleven, and reveals why the entire reign of so-called �Ethelred the Unready� seems to have been cursed.

Catching Caroline

Can the hunger that thrives in darkness be a love for eternity? Jack Shaw�s reputation as a wicked libertine is well deserved. He lives for the moment, indulging in temporary pleasures. Until he meets Lady Caroline Seton. Now he wants more than one stolen kiss, he wants forever. But Caroline hides a dangerous secret, one that could cost him his life. Will his love be enough to save them both?

The Secret Flower And Other Stories

In an age when cleverness often counts more than substance, the writer of these stories (and poems) offers a break from all the noise. Clement, a teacher, mother and poet, writes with a measured beauty that recalls Tolstoy and Tolkien. There is nothing heavy or stilted about these tales, which rely less on plot devices than on allegorical symbols and the evocation of moods. But there is the thrill of expectancy, a sense that something new is on the way, and the belief that the Someone for whom humanity longs and waits is seeking us, just as we seek Him.

A Mixture of Metals

Born in Society after the War of Restitution, Simora undertakes a voyage of investigation into the faceless forces that control him � to the Southland, to an affair with �barbarian� Mary, and to the Colony gulag. Finally, in the Settlement of the Guardians, he discovers why his mother disappeared. But other questions remain.

Mastering ID

A chance meeting with an enticing woman forces Jacob into a battle with Id, the primal instincts surging within him. As his new nature is revealed, Jacob struggles to understand what he has now become and what he has lost, forever.

Bloody Kansas

The Reverend Jacob Channing is a man on a mission, to abolish the practice of slavery now and for all time. To this end he leads a settlement to the Kansas Territory, but so does a prominent slave-holding Missourian. As John Browns raid sets everyone on edge, the battle for Kansas turns Bloody. This work is essentially a Shakespearean tragedy set in the old west, but is also many other things. It uses this historical setting to explore modern issues, not the least of which is the uneasy relationship between politics and religion. It is hoped that readers will gain both a new perspective on both US History as well as modern events.

The Albatross and the Mermaid

After a devastating fire at the age of eleven, the smoldering images of a dead mother and sister live in the faces of every black woman that Adrian Moreaux ever meets. One failed relationship has our Caribbean-American man also convinced that white women aren�t for him either. Plagued by the nightmares of his past, Adrian thus resigns himself to a life of sex without love until the day an enchanting flaxen-haired beauty comes along.

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