"In an empty basketball gym after practice, confident redheaded coach Casey challenges towering rival coach Leonard to a high-stakes shooting contest:"
The basketball gym had long since emptied. The echoes of the last players' shouts had faded into the high rafters, and the overhead lights had dimmed to a soft, almost intimate glow. Casey stood at the three-point line, casually spinning...
"After quitting her soul crushing job and hitting rock bottom, Julie discovers that what she’s been searching for all along"
Chapter 1Julie woke up at 6:47 a.m. with the same thought she’d had every morning for the last three years: I’m already behind.Her phone was face-down on the nightstand, buzzing like a trapped insect. She didn’t need to look. She...
"A cosy Christmas night turns hot and steamy with Serena's husband and their girlfriend."
The warm light of the open fire danced across the wood-panelled walls as I watched my husband, Alec, climb the stepladder to finish putting the lights on the tree. Beside me, our close friend Sofia hung the baubles as Christmas...
"Pulse is the story of Lu guiding Eva into the hidden corners of her mind."
Sleep surrendered us to daylight in slow filaments: amber loft-light dissolving into watery Toulouse sun, kettle hiss morphing into pigeons on the eaves.Eva still dozed when I planned the afternoon—thumb idly scrolling a mental inventory of toys in the locked...
"New partners and their first party."
Over the next few weeks, we couldn’t get enough of each other and with the kids being around, getting some quality alone time was hard. “Let’s go to work late on Friday, drop the kids off at school, then come...
"James agrees to be cuckolded by his wife in exchange for permanent chastity."
I stood still, mesmerised by my wife's beauty as she reached to put the star on the Christmas tree. Her pale, slim body was decorated with tattoos of a gothic design, complemented by multiple piercings. I couldn't believe my luck...
Grant Ryans tapped away at the keyboard, each stroke a hammer blow to his already heavy head. The air conditioning vent above him weakly blew his tousseled brown hair. His eyes strained against the blue light from the monitor. The...
"A young man finds that he is able to see aliens."
They want to know when I first realized that I could change my world. That’s not exactly how they posed the question. They asked “When did you first realize that you were disconnected from reality?”That is a really stupid question,...
"Lin Ming and the others meet the Aiwaha."
PrologueFrom the field journal of Dr. Layla Harwood:I took this photograph (see above) during my first stay with Naka-Mur and his tribe, the Aiwaha. The young woman in it--whose name I never learned--was one of those who willingly volunteered to...
"Katy got more then she hoped for"
Katy loved babysitting for the Stapletons. Children are always well-behaved. They went to bed on time and stayed in bed. Katy considered herself a pretty eighteen-year-old. Her petite frame stood at five feet, four inches. She was thin, at one...