Queen of Seven is a novel about the past, the present, and the future. A story about family. A story about growing up, and growing old. A story of how you can never escape your ghosts or hide your secrets forever. It’s the story of Elly, a girl blessed –– and cursed –– with more power than anyone should ever . . .
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Imagine the Cinderella fairytale without the sweet fairy godmother, that Prince Charming was a louse, and Cinderella was a witch capable of cruelty and spitefulness. Sharpe’s retelling of the classic tale includes lust, deception, and violence. Nothing you’d ever expect in the Cinderella myth, but still the heart of the story survives in this re-imagining for mature readers. . . .
Follow Charlotte Faulkner as she moves from Alabama to New York and experiences all the drama, romance, and excitement of college during her freshman year at Bailey University. . . .
Romantic family saga set in Rural Wales, in the slate mining industry. . . .
The Department of Minor Incompetence Correction is a quasi-governmental agency that battles the forces of incompetence through unorthodox means. Its newest recruit, Brandon Wilson, finds himself suddenly thrust into the weird and below-the-radar world of incompetence and competence, along with a host of equally strange denizens from chapter #257. “To change big things you have to change small things, . . .
Eelsvale: Population 1,355. Magic: Some. Sally Carter writes the fiction column in The Eelsvale Pages, but is a little low on weekly originality. Then she meets Detective Hood, recently turned freelance (reasons unknown). He has bit of a reputation, and a knack, for trouble, and doesn’t seem to mind her company (or else he probably wouldn’t keep turning . . .
Andy Cox is a new English writer who specialises in funny romantic stories about unfortunate men. This latest novel “Tell The Groom” is Andy’s first created just for the Internet and will be written here over the next twelve months. Although all the characters are Andy’s own, regular readers of the blog will be able to leave comments and influence . . .
A western themed fantasy, following the story of a low-level political discontent beginning with his imprisonment in a decidedly high security prison. . . .
“Sentence of Marriage” is the first book in the three-volume “Promises to Keep”. The entire work covers twenty-five years; this first volume takes Amy from the ages of twelve to sixteen. Amy is a bright and imaginative girl who dreams of an exciting life in the world beyond the farming valley where she lives. But in nineteenth century New . . .
Edie was pleased to get a job working the vast space-tanker/cruise-ship Aquarius as a systems programmer, particularly as she was a ‘totemized’ person—transformed into a walking, human-sized cat. But she couldn’t have imagined what she’d face there—whether it was the terrors of the planet-sized Main Tank, water reservoir for terraforming and alive with unthinkable denizens, or the shock of . . .
Jinx barely survived his experiences in Rainmoor, and escaped to the woods with his new mate to try and build a life he could understand and appreciate. However, his obligations haunt him quite literally, and drag him scrabbling and yowling into a world of magic, sophistication, and intrigue. What can a magically created bipedal tiger do, but try . . .
Jinx, tigerish creation of a perverse rogue wizard, is summoned to the magical plane of Rainmoor to serve as a bodyguard to the rightful King of that plane—but he is way out of his depth, and under suspicion himself as the death toll mounts. Which Jinx will emerge at last—the jungle beast that walks as a man, the loyal . . .
Naomi was in her kitchen, minding her own business, when all of a sudden she was chucked to another planet. As if that weren’t bad enough, she was attacked, betrayed, and married off against her will. That was on the first day. The next day was worse, much worse. Two words will suffice to describe the next day, and they . . .
Legends is a verbose, ’80s-style, Romeo-and-Juliet-esque, gay-themed fantasy, set in what may be the final days of Atlantis. There are a lot of high fantasy themes—sorcery, chosen ones, priest kings—as well as a mix of Greek, Egyptian, and (I suspect) Aztec mythology. Unfortunately, after 9 long chapters, very little has actually happened, and the backstory—while detailed—offers little compensation.
Cloud Dancers has an interesting premise. An Italian boy gives an Australian girl a pill, and Petro is guiding Felicity up in the clouds, insubstantiated. They’re lighter than they were, and able to walk on the white stuff in the sky.
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