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    Semi-fictional tale of a beloved Norway Spruce, with full color illustrations!Sprouting in an old abandoned field around 1895, Old Gent, a Norway Spruce, grew into a majestic towering specimen of his species, protective of the old home he saw built on his lands as a stout sapling. Human activity amused, startled, frightened and sometimes hurt him, thus he never found trust in the beaverlike species, until the fifth owner in nine decades moved into the old house he sheltered. The woman and her spouse proved reverent, changing his attitudes towards humans.      The old tree experienced a new emotions, and gained the name of Old Gent. When terror from the skies...

In this full color paperback, follow the short tales of creatures as diverse as Feklaar, the white dragon forced into first contact with the dangerous Humans on his world, Princess Tulitara of the Unicats, who is kidnapped. and an appaloosa Pegasus who triumphs over his insecurities as he comes of age, shown from their points of view. Quick fun reads, they take the reader more worlds of the fantastic, from the dark tale of Kaekodemon, who is murdered and returns as a spirit to enact revenge on her killer for her kittens, to the fun, lighthearted Keeper of Word, a tiny winged equine who wakes, unable to recall who she is.

In these novella length short tales from THE FURLTES OF ARORIEL world, discover details about Commander Geupetus’ childhood, and his fight with Cerus and feud with Clan Enilura. Find out the origin of Geupetus’ pet Monius Terpus, and of his importance to the three children who rescued him. Read more about the childhood separation and subsequent bonding of Elara and Tesuris. In the last story, learn how the Felakoon Fantia saves Nera from the despair of her bondbreak. A fine complimentary volume to the main series, these tales reveal details omitted from the main story lines.

Semi-fictional biography of Khan, a real Maine Coon. Abandoned and left at a local shelter, a Maine Coon kitten awaits an uncertain fate. During his stay, Khan befriends a wise old tomcat. Four days later, to Khan's horror, the shelter workers take his friend away, leaving Khan scared and alone. Just before Khan's time is up, a man enters the shelter and adopts Khan. Though he feels loved, he is also alone, and misses his mother, his litter mates, and his tomcat friend. Weeks later, when another young kitten joins the household, Khan befriends him, and they form a tight bond. Khan deals with life's challenges and surprises, always finding strength in feline friendships, old and new, and...

The second mission of the Sunpyne, to retrieve the Voziak, proves far more difficult than expected. Commander Geupetus and his crew discover the critical importance of an astounding turn of events, when a wormhole throws both ships into an astonishing situation. In primitive conditions, the crew of both ships must now fulfill an unknown destiny in which their Felakoons play a prominent role, and set history on its proper course. They cannot fail this mission.

Book Three of Three   (Full color interior.)

The second mission of the Sunpyne, to retrieve the Voziak, proves far more difficult than expected. Commander Geupetus and his crew discover the critical importance of an astounding turn of events, when a wormhole throws both ships into an astonishing situation. In primitive conditions, the crew of both ships must now fulfill an unknown destiny in which their Felakoons play a prominent role, and set history on its proper course. They cannot fail this mission.

After two decades of marriage, Simon was dead!  Dead in a most unfortunate and unexpected way.  Who would have expected a brand new Toyota Yaris to topple from the car transporter like that?   But what had he done with that evening's winning lottery ticket ?!!! ... A wife had to mourn ....yes ...  obviously ... but all the same ... They had been scratching around for money for so very long.  They owed everybody  ... and well probably they had both realised only too well that ... twenty years was a very, very long time.   They probably would both have chosen to go their separate ways long ago ... but ... well they just hadn't!  But you cannot possibly '...

University professor Sarah Crockett’s eleven-year-old daughter disappeared five years ago. The only person still looking for her is Sarah. “Give up on all those fairy-tale stories,” her ex-husband tells her. “Kidnapped kids don’t come back when they’ve been gone that long.”You should know, she wants to tell him. Since you killed her.Did he? Maybe her child is still out there. Waiting for her mother to find her. But no one else will ask the questions it will take to find out.Until into her life walks Russell Pierce, a software magnate who also has a lost daughter. Eighteen-year-old Thomasina is running from him. No surprise: the girl thinks he murdered her mother, his wife.“I ...

Sarah’s daughter Anna has been missing for six years and counting. The cops gave up long ago. But now a dead child may have something to tell Sarah about what happened to Anna . . . if she can make the dead talk.

And she has a new ally who wants to bring justice to Sarah’s unfaithful and lying ex-husband every bit as much as she does. They’ve given up on patience and caution. They’ll do whatever they have to. They can smell blood among the lies. 

Among the Lost Children is the three-book story of Sarah’s search for her daughter and her own sanity amid desperate choices that test her courage and will.

 

Show-jumping rider and trainer Robb Slaughter should have been too young to remember watching his mother being murdered.

But he remembered how long she screamed because she never stopped.

Now Robb has to find out who tried to kill a Grand-Prix jumper champion and deliver the true justice that will finally stop the screams. 

But buying that kind of justice will take smarts and cunning and lies. And a willingness to kill if that’s what justice means.

In Three Strides Out, set in the ultra-competitive world of champion horse-show jumping, Robb’s search for the monsters who kill horses for money leads to a hard truth about himself, and a brutal truth about the woman he loves.

Chris Englund has been offered $500,000 to throw the Kentucky Derby. Now he must choose: between temptation and truth, between honesty and his life. The prize isn’t just a garland of Derby roses. If he throws the race, he’ll betray the hard-won honor he’s sacrificed so much for. If he rides to win, he’ll destroy the horse and lose the woman he loves.

When the stars were new, and planets still smoldered like embers, two souls were born and lived and died – but in death these twins would become so much more. The brother went away, and chose to accept the way of things, but the sister remained. In the howling abyss she would make her vow; to use the great gifts bestowed unto her by the Void to change fate, and save her home from the cold, creeping hand of entropy. See The Queen in Time rise from a frail and wayward spirit, to a being of divine strength – her shroud of holy light so grand as to swallow up entire worlds. But before she becomes the empress eternal she must first take a single world, and a hapless planet of tropical ju...

Nobody likes to be quoted out of context. But what if you were trapped in context? What if you couldn’t escape from whatever you were doing when Burnout Fever struck? That’s what happened to Melanie Stroub, One moment, she was making fun of an Internet preacher, and the next she was lost in a hall of mirrors, staring down an endless series of deteriorating Angels, and the light at the end of her tunnel was nothing more than a guttering candle.

Peter Harvey is a second year undergraduate in the Oxford of 1968. At school, two years earlier, he had an affair with John, a younger boy, whom he then dropped. Now, John is coming to the same college.Memories unlocked and Peter faces the issue of his sexuality, aided by his old friend and mentor, Arthur Benson, the school’s deputy head. Peter and John meet and resume their relationship, but can it survive the events of a traumatic summer?Five years later, we see Peter returning to his old school as a teacher, seeking to build a new life. He settles in with help from Arthur Benson and new colleagues Terry Fowler and Ian Palmer.The school has problems, though: it is stuck firmly in the pas...

Why should it matter to me that there was going to be a good-looking, charming gay boy around the office? I was forty-two, for God’s sake and had nothing to offer a young man like that, even if I was prepared to do anything about my sexuality. Which I was not. Because we all knew what the outcome of that would be. So there. End of subject.Prickly, irascible and totally dedicated to his environmental consultancy business, Steve Frazer has no time for hook-ups or relationships; they belong to the past, to another life that he left behind two decades ago. Consequently, his powerful attraction to a new recruit, bright, funny, out-and-proud Josh Ashcroft, is an unwelcome emotion. Initially...