Short Story: Works that are under 25,000 words
They had been searching for their mate, but when they find her she is traumatized around strange men. They must get her to accept them before they reveal their true natures. Will their love be strong enough to break down her barriers? Could she truly be destined to love two dragons? Today Annie’s dragons will [...]
After a tragedy changes the course of Elise Morgan’s life leaving her without a family and in foster care, she meets Anthony Scott. It doesn’t take long for them to become fast friends and they do everything together. When Elise manages to get a scholarship to college and Anthony doesn’t. They find themselves separated. As [...]
It’s amazing what one can find in strip clubs… Josh Carter gets the shock of a lifetime when he shows up at a place of ill repute for a business meeting and sees the one that got away gyrating on the stage. Abigail Reese—the girl with so much potential, the girl that took his heart [...]
A watery grave beckons her… Governess Catherine Roth finds herself trapped in a cove near Montmoor Hall, at the mercy of Benjamin Montmoor. The professed murderer of Alice Montmoor, he plans for Catherine to share the same watery resting place as the tide rushes in. Meanwhile, Andrew spirals further into delusion and opium usage as [...]
Marilyn Skinner is a woman on the run. Falsely accused of arson, she skipped a court date. She knew the cards were stacked against her seeing as how the house she supposedly set fire to belonged to her most recent ex…the mayor’s son. Why bother with a trial when she knows where she’ll end up? [...]
Marketing executive Shane Andrews’s reluctant participation in a research study leads to the stunning discovery she needs immediate surgery. Out of sorts, and in a moment of spectacular tactlessness, she insults a man wearing a red rubber nose and big floppy shoes. He turns out to be Derek Palmer: Edenton’s hottest young surgeon…and the resident [...]
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… a flashmob proposal. All Kevin wants is to spend the rest of his life with the woman he loves. He’s been planning the perfect proposal for months. He never planned what would happen if she said ‘no’. On the fifth day of Christmas, [...]
Nicole DeMonde’s car breaks down the moment she returns to her hometown for her brother’s wedding. The cop who stops to help her is none other than local hottie Wyatt Truman, who slept with her then dumped her when they were teens. She has no choice but to accept his help. However, she knows better [...]
Given an ultimatum from her father, Lady Penelope Waveland is forced to choose a husband from a list of five lovestruck suitors before midnight on Christmas Eve. But the beautiful and headstrong Penelope isn’t the type of lady to quietly obey. She creates a list of her own rules that her potential suitors must follow [...]
Oscar is excited to meet Derek’s family. But Derek’s mother is transphobic. Can Oscar help Derek’s mom to accept Derek, or will the family split for good? Chains? Check. Lube? Check. Popsicles? Check!! Oscar and his transgender lover, Derek, are all set for a long weekend of some much needed—and more than a little bit [...]
Rick’s looking for some sexy fun and finds more than he could have wished for. After months of a dry spell in the sex department, Rick asks a woman out for a date only to find out she’s a doctor like the ex-fiancé who’d shunned him because of his career. That same day he meets [...]
Red hair, red dress, and a temper to match. Charlie had his work cut out to persuade Caroline they were the perfect couple. What a difference a year makes. Charlie remembered his fiance as dull and dowdy, not the glowing vivacious woman confronting him. It’s not just her looks that have changed, so has her [...]
When rodeo star Jax Weller looks at Luke Parsons, he sees a colt ready to be saddled and ridden hard to the edge of Purgatory. Rodeo rider Jax Weller is cock of the walk at the Bar C. One smile from Jax and every filly and stallion in the territory, two-legged and four, comes running. [...]
Miss Suzanna March wished for one thing: the elusive, rakish charmer, Lord Danning. But after a frightful first season such dreams are impossible. That is until she returns to London, a new woman, and one who will not let the ton’s dislike of her stand in her way of gaining what she wants: revenge on [...]
Childhood sweethearts Lori and Cal reunite after years of hurt and disappointment, but it’s on less than good terms. Alora ‘Lori’ Metcalf doesn’t want to reignite anything with Cal Fortiss. When she returns to her hometown to run a barn raising, she doesn’t expect to see her old high school boyfriend. Or to still find [...]
Can three lonely people keep pain, bitterness, and grief at bay or will emotional fireworks tear down the walls surrounding their hearts? A wild night of meaningless sex is all best friends Connie Hollingsway and Nicci Sullivan have in mind when they approach a beyond handsome, younger man in the Cougar Cave bar. They soon [...]
Milla’s week was bad, a lot harder than usual for an import/export expert. Alex couldn’t believe he’d found his mate. Too bad she’s a smuggler. Milla didn’t know who or what she pissed off, but she was having the worst week of her life. Her ship had sunk during a freak storm. Luckily, she’d gotten [...]
A kindly organ grinder and his performing monkey adopt a young boy after his father spontaneously combusts; a barber living inside a whiskey bottle confronts the neighborhood nuisance who wields a dead squirrel like a pair of nunchucks; and an unruly gang of sock puppets are born in a basement dojo. Welcome to Puppet Shows, [...]
Madaline ‘Maddie’ Reed spends her restless and lonely nights exploring the eerie forest that borders her relatives manor. It is here in the unnerving shadows and darkness of these woods the fight for her life begins, and one kiss will change her fate forever. Ashtine is an orphan taken in by the Dark Blood Brotherhood [...]
Callie Sherman has moved past her silly schoolgirl crush on Aiden Marshall. But she is still haunted by the one kiss they shared the night before he married her best friend. Aiden has been in love with Callie since he first pulled her pigtails years ago. Believeing he could never have her as more than [...]
In this modern rendering of the classic tale, Cinderella gets a bit naughty. Why settle for one man when you can have two? Cinderella is an orphan living at the mercy of her unkind stepfamily. She suffers their beck and call; her only satisfaction coming from a secret dominant-submissive relationship with her stepsister’s boyfriend. When [...]
In animal rescue, no story ever has a happy beginning, but can they have a happy end? Working animal rescue is never pretty, and not all animals get that perfect ending. Follow the stories of some amazing animals who not only had a rough life, but beat the odds and found complete contentment. Kittens, dogs, [...]
Temptation never tasted so good. Close to the Heat, Book 1 With a chance to win a cooking competition that will advance her career, the last thing food truck chef Pepper Joseph needs is a distraction. Except she’s got a heaping helping of it in the form of fellow chef Darien Priest, the man who [...]
Justin can usually satisfy Toby’s diverse erotic desires, but when Toby craves something only another man can provide, will this test the limits of Justin’s love? One key to the success of Justin and Toby’s marriage is plenty of sexual variety, sometimes with other men they meet at the local BDSM club. While Toby assumes [...]
His lover’s death filled Nate Hawthorn with rage. From that time were born legends of bloodthirsty cats and killer bears, of humans entering the woods and never leaving. Legend exaggerated, and he had calmed down and accepted the transiency of human life. Fragile, defenseless, but curious, brave, and loving. He’d allowed their presence in his [...]
Death Day Anniversary by Lee Brazil A newcomer to town follows urban legend to the cemetery- is he a willing sacrifice, or an unfortunate dupe? The Sum of His Parts by Hank Edwards Scott Tallow awakens in a hospital, stitches holding him together. As a handsome doctor helps him heal, Scott comes to realize he’s [...]
Harriet Ruby: Tour Director Extraordinaire, has had some real winners when it came to tourists, but this group, wearing Halloween costumes on an all day tour of Rome, took the cake. Well, it was Halloween, but these folks were seriously…different. When nine of them decide to explore on their own and take off down a [...]
Whoever said girls never make the first move… Eve Stanton channels the undisputed sexiest woman ever to catch the eye of her gorgeous neighbor, Clay NewMiller. Dressing as Marilyn Monroe for a New Year’s costume party, Eve is ready to take on anyone, even the biggest player of them all–the boy next door, dressed as [...]
Your past has a habit of catching up with you. Bare-assed, climbing a wall, would be one of those times, naturally. Chrissie thought her humiliation was complete when Baronet Archie called off their engagement. However, meeting him again, when she is attempting to break back into her temporary residence, takes embarrassment to new heights. Will [...]
Sheriff Corban Culley came to Becker’s Ridge to set roots and make a good name for himself. He never expected to risk it all to save Miss Amelia Grey, the woman who stole his heart. Sheriff Corban Culley is hot on the heels of an outlaw who just robbed the local stagecoach. He captures the [...]
When a rodeo clown, a small town veterinarian and his assistant form a complicated trio, they find it’s their choices that determine who finds love. When rodeo clown Brandt Collins is forced into retirement by an injury in the arena, he heads to long-time friend Kaden Slater’s hometown to settle down. As far as he’s [...]
After nearly a year, Bastian Grey is growing discontent with the lack of intimacy in his relationship with Rick Claremont. Can an adopted cat be the key to a real relationship? Fire fighter Sebastian Grey has finally gotten what he’s wanted since he was sixteen: Rick Claremont in his bed. Only now he wants more. [...]