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New York Times bestselling author, J. Sterling has created a world you’re going to fall in love with—in this ultimate holiday romance bundle of fun and flirty stories. It includes Kissing My Co-worker, Dumped for Valentine’s, My Week with the Prince, Fools in Love, Spring’s Second Chance, Don’t Marry Him, Summer Lovin', Flirting with Sunshine, Falling for the Boss, Tricked by My Ex, The Thanksgiving Hookup, and Christmas with Saint.

Welcome to Wheel: a perfect world without poverty, disease, or want. Tinkered and tuned in every way for maximum order by Rank and Spoke, every child knows her destiny - so long as she can take the neural implant. The defective, whose bodies reject the implants, do not exist. Ghosts. Cyphers. Haunting the edges of society, living on scraps, killed for sport. A lucky few, the Crudrats, scrape out a perilous living cleaning the toxic wastes from the great machines that power the station.

Alex, marine biologist and werewolf, has seen better days. Unexpectedly alive, secretly gay, and haunted by a meddlesome, matchmaking ghost, he must now team up with very flirty mermen to save the city from sushi smugglers.

Four original, unabridged, full-cast productions of Gail Carriger's most beloved fantasy short stories: "The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn't, the Mummy That Was, and the Cat in the Jar": A mummified cat, a secret agent, and an aristocrat entangle Alessandro Tarraboti (father of Alexia Tarraboti from the Parasol Protectorate series) in a rollicking, wry adventure into the supernatural secrets of ancient Egypt.

When Alessandro Tarabotti and his valet, Floote, find themselves in Egypt on the queen's business, a chance encounter with tourists quickly leads to a...situation...with the local mummies. Can Allesandro complete his secret mission before he's hijacked by social obligation? And how will his aunt Archangelica react to his treatment of her cat?

Stephen got stoned so he could deal with the chemo, but it's his husband who really needs the drugs. After all, watching your partner of twenty years die of cancer can leave you courting bankruptcy, your life in ruins. It can drive you to steal, or cheat, or look for hope in a can of chicken-noodle soup you bought from the demonic pawnbroker at a creepy old hock shop at the edge of nowhere.

Young men make rash choices. At 19 years old, with no money, no food, and no hope, one man's choices start making themselves. As winter sets in and time runs out, he needs salvation anywhere he can find it - in a brothel, a dumpster, a gun, or maybe in a creepy old pawn shop in a broken down city at the edge of nowhere.

A golden summer afternoon gave Albert the perfect excuse to escape his cubicle for a little fresh air and some time at the park. But when his boss catches him on the way out the door and piles on extra deadlines, forcing Albert to work through the time off, he figures he might as well just write off the afternoon. But neither Albert nor his boss could have planned on a surprise adventure courtesy a broken briefcase, an escaped python, and a mischievous pawnbroker who keeps a creepy little shop out on the edge of nowhere.

Alan Tosetti set the sterling standard in a town built on silver. The greatest architect in Nevada history, he died before he could finish his masterpiece Craftsman. Two years later, his youngest daughter died of old age in the same house, sitting in front of the fire. She was only 26.

High in the desert, between the mountains out west, up where the ground throbs from the nuclear test detonations, the casinos still glitter, drawing people from the far reaches of the world. They come here to try their luck, to take a chance, to have the adventures they wouldn't write home about.

Alliston Hayes loved three things: getting married, hats, and the late Jac Jarger. So when she got the chance to combine the three with the help of a demon-possessed cat and an ancient book, how could she pass it up? And how could she know that her enthusiasm would result in "The Incident"?

Think you can't write a great novel in a month? Think again. Most of the best novels in history were written in a month or less. Professionals do it all the time. And with Becoming an Every Day Novelist, so can you. Prolific author J. Daniel Sawyer walks you through the process in this lively and fun day-by-day guide to going from blank page to a publication-ready novel...and doing it every month.

Landon Walker's to-do list:

1. Free his daughter from alien control
2. Prove his ex-wife is not an eco-terrorist
3. Keep the earth from becoming an alien battlefield
4. Join the first manned mission to another star system

Nothing on the list can be checked off without visiting a secret shaman site in the mountains of Patagonia. Prelude to Proxima is the second book in the Centauri Series by Rebecca S. W. Bates.

Missing your Indie publishing goals? Losing money by delivering work late to sub-contractors? Struggling to write more than one book per year? Spend a weekend with Meeting the Writer's Deadline and learn to deliver your work on time. Meeting the Writer's Deadline will show you in a weekend how you can start managing your book projects and meeting your deadlines! Get Meeting the Writer's Deadline today, because writing is serious business.

Spending money on social media? Throwing hours at marketing? Advertising every day but not seeing your book sell? You need a business plan. A business plan for writers. The Writer’s Business Plan gives you the knowledge to succeed - not for one book but across your entire career as a writer. In clear language without jargon, The Writer’s Business Plan guides you through creating your business plan in seven simple steps.

Writers face a world of infinite possibility - and hard decisions. To navigate the publishing world, you must understand business and money from the point of view as a businessperson, not an employee. J. Daniel Sawyer, longtime businessman, educator, and author of over 20 books guides you through the transition from thinking like an employee to thinking like an entrepreneur, and gives you the tools you need to make informed decisions about how to grow your fiction writing from a hobby to a life-sustaining career.

Everybody lies - especially when dating. Fortunately, Luke has your back. A self-appointed honesty enforcer, he volunteers at bars using VR optics and data mining in his quest to referee the game of love. He'll keep you honest and send you home happy...if you play fair. But a world without secrets holds all kinds of surprises, even for Luke - like transparency activists, and broken hearts, and the unexpected appearance of an Open Source Woman.

On a trip to visit his ailing grandfather, 17-year-old Peter meets a magician who claims to know how to grant Peter's dearest wish: to perform impossible illusions. But dearest wishes come with costs, and new opportunities come with each turn of the cards in a hospital room at the edge of nowhere.

From fairy tales fractured into unrecognizability to Russian mobsters hanging out with zombies, from New World slavery to modern Alaskan cruise ships, the stories in Fantasy Adrift sail across the genre. Two writers make their fiction debuts next to best sellers Steve Perry and Dean Wesley Smith to take listeners on a journey of the imagination - as only Fiction River can do.

Climbing Olympus Mons put him on the map. Winning a gold medal in asteroid jumping got him great press. Children everywhere tune in to watch every time he skydives from a space station. But Suave Rob Suarez likes to aim high - really high. Together with his stunt partner and their childhood hero, he aims to stage the biggest daredevil stunt in the history of the universe.