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An unwanted evening at the big top turns into an unexpected moment of passion. The enigmatic performer Alexander hides more than a few secrets under his clowning attire and gives one lucky audience member a night she'll never forget. This steamy short is sure to stimulate and entice.

This first book of the Real Estate Knowledge Series, Securing Grant Money: Step-by-Step Guide for First Time Homebuyers, will guide you through the actions in acquiring your first home and receiving a forgivable loan or grant money for your down payment. Eligibility requirements must be met in the county of your purchase. Which means your income will need to be below the median income of the area you are purchasing in.

Enter the world of Britfield: Adventure, intrigue, conspiracy, mystery, and suspense! Tom has spent the majority of his life locked behind the cruel walls of Weatherly orphanage, but when he learns that his parents might actually be alive, Tom is determined to find them. Together, with his best friend Sarah and armed with only the word “Britfield” as a clue to Tom’s mysterious past, the two make a daring escape. Now, they are on the run from a famous Scotland Yard detective and what appears to be half of the police officers in England!

Your household is not just a shelter from a war zone; it is the command center from where you launch your attacks. It's this vision of the world with the Christian family at the heart that modern parents desperately need to recover.

Charles LeFlore began his career in law enforcement with the Choctaw Lighthorse Police, helping to bring law, order, and justice to the Indian Territory of the western United States. His success in bringing in wanted men led to his appointment as a United States deputy marshal serving the territory surrounding Fort Smith, Arkansas. Follow along with LeFlore and his fellow Choctaw lawman, Talako P. Vaughn, as they track, capture, and sometimes kill some of the most dangerous outlaws in all of Indian Territory.

A battle for jurisdiction sets Lieutenant Ellison Frost off on one of the most difficult cases of her career, forced to balance her need for control with her want for justice. As the bodies pile up and the evidence begins to point in a direction she feared, Ell must enlist the help of a reluctant marine colonel in hopes of uncovering classified information about the parties involved. With his career on the line, Colonel Anthony Craig must weigh his loyalty to the core against the lives of the fallen.

Join the adventure through dystopian worlds, to outer planets and into a speculative future. Welcome to the Future Days Anthology. Seventeen authors imagine a future with thrilling tales, starships, unlikely heroes, and exotic aliens, all of which combine to make Future Days a must-listen sci-fi fantasy short story collection.

Marcel faces a life-changing decision. He can play it safe with a job at a neighboring estate or take his chances at a prestigious Parisian university. Torn between following his heart or stepping into his father’s footsteps, Marcel takes the wisdom of an enchanted tree…and promptly shrinks to the size of an insect.

When 14 year-old Marcel leads his crew out of a dark and disused snake tunnel in search of fresh air, little does he know he is entering the labyrinthic galleries of an ant nest. With Brim (an inchworm), Bea (a honeybee), and Rhino (a beetle) at his side, he not only discovers the smell of danger but also the essence of friendship and the power of perfume.

A family torn apart. A king with an iron fist. Will their faith be strong enough to survive persecution and reunite? Jeanne is the wife of a wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV's soldiers will stop at nothing to forcibly convert the country's Protestants to the "true" faith. The men ransack Jeanne's belongings and threaten her children. If Jeanne and Jacob can't find a way to evade the soldiers' clutches, their family will face a fate far worse than poverty and imprisonment. They may never see each other again....

New York, 1689. Jacob Delpech thinks day and night about his wife and child. He's determined to reunite with his family in London, but New York’s brutal winter deep-freeze has ruined his carefully laid plans. With transport across the Atlantic at a standstill and European politics on the verge of upheaval, his chances of ever making it home grow slimmer by the day. Snowbound in Switzerland, Jeanne Delpech’s heart aches for a loving reunion with her husband. To make it back to London, she and her son must travel across extremely treacherous terrain.

France, 1685. Jeanne is the wife of a wealthy merchant, but now she risks losing everything. Louis XIV’s soldiers will stop at nothing to forcibly convert the country’s Huguenot "heretics" to the "true" faith. The men ransack Jeanne’s belongings and threaten to take her children. One by one, Jeanne watches her neighbors cave under the constant harassment.

Geneva, 1688. Jeanne is barely scraping by on meager earnings from weaving. She dreams of her previous life as a wealthy merchant’s wife before Louis XIV’s soldiers ran her family out of France for refusing to renounce their faith. But even in Geneva, Jeanne and her son aren’t anywhere close to free from persecution. Jacob hopes his letters make it to Jeanne from the other side of the ocean. As he bides his time as an indentured servant on a Caribbean plantation, tragedy strikes in the form of shipwreck and pirates.

A grisly murder leaves a haunted estate without an heir, and a powerful medium scrambles to find answers from beyond the grave. Determined to escape the nightmarish memories of her childhood, heiress and psychic Maribeth Sommerset pursues the adventurous life of a psychic investigator, beginning with a murder, and the spirits who hover behind at the haunted Chateau Swansea.

Turns out my one-night stand is actually my best friend's wedding planner. He's hanging out in our small town for the next three months, meeting with my friends, negotiating deals, and oh, he's also the main suspect in my first police investigation - the case I must solve to become a detective. And the crux of it all? I'm falling head over heels for the guy. I've dreamed my whole life of this promotion. I thought I'd never find love. Now I'm afraid I might lose both.

A little girl found a leg on the shore of my lake. The authorities won’t drain the lake to look for the rest of the body. They say it’s impossible, that 5,000 acres is too much, even to look into a potential murder. The thing is...they emptied it out a while ago just to clean up some old sewage. They absolutely can drain the lake if they want to. But maybe they know better than to try.

The Raider clans have been defeated, and their planet is under the supervision of the Riss, with Captain Reese the station commander. But while Reese sees the Raider clans as on probation, many in the SAS task force she commands perceive them as prisoners and hope to break the Treaty and get revenge. As Nadya attempts to maintain the fragile peace, the three empires are being invaded. They know the invading force is far more technologically advanced than the SAS. But who are they, where did they come from, and what do they want?

Nadia is now an experienced naval officer with two engagements with the Raider's cruiser packs. But hosting an intelligent parasite, she continuities to be seen as an alien, generating disgust, fear, hate, and attempts to kill her. To add to her problems, the Raiders have identified her as contributing directly to their bad luck and have designated her a dybbuk - demon - and have set a price on her dead or alive.

A young girl dreams of seeing the stars and meeting aliens. Her chance comes in the form of a project offering a college education, a commission in the SAS Fleet, and a partnership with an alien. She successfully qualifies and wins one of the coveted 10 positions. Of Course everything comes with a price - the alien is a parasite that inhabits the body and mind, and is there for life. Is it a dream or nightmare come true? Maybe both?

Die drei Millionäre Dylan, Jerry und Scott haben eine skurrile Wette am Laufen: Wer als Erster eine Jungfrau über 30 verführt, gewinnt! Scott lernt die 34-jährige Olivia kennen und ist sich sicher: Mit ihr wird er die Wette für sich entscheiden. Doch da hat er die Rechnung ohne Olivias Charme gemacht, mit dem sie sein Herz erobert. Auf einmal steht der attraktive Millionär vor einer schwierigen Entscheidung: Soll er Olivia alles gestehen und die Wette abbrechen? Oder soll er das Spiel genießen, weil es für etwas Ernstes sowieso zu spät ist?