Daily Archives: June 4, 2017

Three Men in a Boatby Jerome K. Jerome

Three Men in a Boat is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction to the comic novel. One of the most praised things about Three Men in a Boat is how undated it appears to modern readers – the jokes seem fresh and witty even today. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator Jerome K. Jerome) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior manager at Barclays Bank) and Carl Hentschel (the founder of a London printing business, called Harris in the book), with whom Jerome often took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional but, “as Jerome admits, developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog.” The trip is a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity. Following the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled Three Men on the Bummel.

The Assignmentby Jade A. Waters

What would you do if someone offered to fulfill your wildest fantasies? 

Seductive. 

Charming. 

Dominant. 

Dean Sova is everything Maya Clery craves. From the first touch, their connection is intense. After leaving her troubled past behind, Maya thought she was happy—she is happy—but meeting Dean forces her to acknowledge dark needs she longs to explore yet has never had the courage to face.  

Her perfect match, Dean encourages Maya to set loose the submissive urges inside her in a series of assignments intended to open her mind and test the limits of pleasure…but Maya isn’t sure she can fully let go of her inhibitions.  

What would you do if someone offered to fulfill your wildest fantasies? 

The answer seems obvious. You take the offer and hope the price isn’t too high. 

Book one of Lessons in Control 

Dawn of the Infectedby Eileen Cruz Coleman

Never Surrender. Not Now. Not Ever.

For twenty-three-year-old start-up tech company CEO Selena Martinez, it was just another uneventful early morning bus commute from her cottage in rural Southern Maryland to her office in Washington, D.C. But when her bus is suddenly attacked by a horde of crazed savages, Selena becomes immersed in a world of terror and confusion, where she must learn to survive on her own using smarts and skills she never dreamed she possessed.

Selena is a fighter, but even someone as strong-willed and determined as she needs a little help during an apocalypse.That help comes in the form of a mysterious man who seemingly appears from nowhere and saves her from certain death. Selena will soon learn that she was saved for a very special reason, and that she may, in fact, hold the answer to saving the world.

Perfect for fans of angels, witches, vampires and fae.

Dawn of the Infected is an urban fantasy prequel novella to the Hybrid Chronicles.

Sweetwater Americanby Eileen Cruz Coleman

Sandy is young, smart, and attractive, and as an aspiring film student at a prestigious university in Washington, D.C., she seems to have everything going for her, including the attraction of one of her young, handsome professors.

But Sandy also has a past.

While very young, she is sent to live with her godmother in a small town in El Salvador. The town is nondescript in every way but one: in over seven years, no babies in the town have been born alive. Without a scientific reason for the stillborn children, it seems the only explanation is that the town is cursed.

Now grown and attending college in America, Sandy continues to carry the weight of her childhood with her, a burden that has always prevented her from ever being truly happy.

Then one day she meets a cafeteria worker named Elena, and Sandy instantly feels the pull of something mysterious and intriguing in the woman.

Reluctantly, Elena agrees to be the subject of Sandy’s film project, and in the process provides the key to unraveling the secrets of Sandy’s past and the path to finding true love in the future.

Something Like Thisby Eileen Cruz Coleman

What happens when a sexy rich writer meets a damaged girl?
The only way that twenty-three year old Jadie Santiago can escape her sucky childhood is to force herself to move on with her life and bury a shameful secret.

When Jadie lands a new job at a literary agency things start looking up. Yet the one thing Jadie never expected was capturing the attention of the devastatingly handsome and rich Reece Carter, an aspiring writer who could destroy the precarious future she's just started rebuilding.

Even though her heart might be in the right place, Jadie can't seem to stop making one bad decision after another. Especially when it comes to those she loves. Which means getting involved with Reece could be dangerous, but so is ignoring the smoldering tension that ignites whenever they're around each other. And before she can fully commit to someone, Jadie must learn to overcome her own inner-demons.

After Jadie bumps into the absentee father who abandoned her and is now homeless, it causes those crippling insecurities to come crashing back into her life. The shocking encounter forces Jadie to face a dark deed that still haunts her. Now she has no other choice but to tell Reece the truth and risk losing everything.

Ephemeral Summerby Sheila Myers

When Emalee’s parents die in a tragic murder/suicide she is sent to live with her aunt who spends her summers on an idyllic lake in Upstate New York. To cope with her loss, Emalee becomes emotionally detached from everyone around her. As she enters adulthood, Emalee struggles to maintain this façade while trying to navigate relationships with the men in her life: Peter, an artist and close friend who lacks the ambition to make his art known to anyone but himself; and Stuart – a quiet, intelligent philosopher with whom she falls in love one summer, only to get caught up in a bizarre love triangle with his cousin, Danielle.

Rising passions, shameful secrets and desperate acts drive Emalee away from her summer home and the mysterious Stuart. Years later, as a graduate student tracking moose in the Canadian wilderness, Emalee finds herself embroiled in yet another forbidden affair and must decide: is love worth it?

Set among the pristine lakes of Upstate New York and the Canadian wilderness, the characters in Ephemeral Summer come to life in vivid landscapes impossible to forget.

From the Shadows: 13 Tales of Urban Fantasy, Witches, Werewolves, Magic, Romance, Shifters, Fae, Demons, Vampires, Dark Fantasy & More!by Various Authors

When the human world meets the paranormal, all hell's gonna break loose!

Worlds collide in this epic collection featuring tales from NY Times, USA TODAY and National Bestselling Authors!

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Featuring stories from eleven of paranormal fiction's top authors. This unbelievable box set has thirteen novels of urban fantasy, witches, romance, werewolves, magic, shifters, fae, demons, vampires, dark fantasy & more!

This anthology includes:
Roaring Midnight by Colleen Gleason
Demons of Desire by Debra Dunbar
Marked by Temptation by Deanna Chase
Falling Dark by Christine Pope
Redeemer of Shadows by Michelle M. Pillow
Justice Calling by Annie Bellet
Murder of Crows by Annie Bellet
Pack of Lies by Annie Bellet
The Guardians by Mandy M. Roth
Charming by Dannika Dark
Everlong by Hailey Edwards
Bloodsick by Melissa F. Olson
Bitter Disenchantment by Shawntelle Madison

Sworn To Darknessby Douglas R. Moquin

Drama unfolds when work at a construction site inadvertently disturbs the final resting place of an ancient enemy. After three hundred years, an old curse, forged in blood and shaped by the cruelty of the long-forgotten King Phillip’s War, returns, seeking vengeance upon the unsuspecting citizens of historic Birchfield, Massachusetts. Amos, the terror of so many Bay State frontier village inhabitants, is back.

Many years before, this villain met his doom under mysterious circumstances, and was said to have turned to black magic to escape a terrible, prolonged, and painful death. But a dark promise had been made before he met his fate…a promise he fully intended to keep.

Without warning, the small New England town is suddenly engulfed in a ferocious wave of violence, tragedy, and terror, never before seen by its residents. Whispers of a blood-thirsty werewolf, or some kind of shape-shifting creature, prowling the shadows, soon begin to circulate among the locals, and it falls upon the shoulders of three unwitting boys, Brian Lapointe and his two pals, to fend off the descending darkness. The future now rests with these young friends, who must confront their town’s inner demons before they all pay the ultimate price for its past sins.