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  The Buccaneer Belle

  Vanessa K. Eccles

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  Blood for blood. Life for life. Treasure for treasure. 
  Samantha’s life has been plagued by her sister’s illness. With her family’s finances and spirits running low, she makes a fateful decision to seek the guidance of a ghostly seer who’s rumored to frequent River Street—Savannah’s notoriously dark side of town. Desperate for answers, she approaches the soothsayer, disguised as a man to keep herself safe. His premonition surprises her and has her believing a better future awaits. 
  But the night isn’t done with its surprises. After being kidnapped, imprisoned on a pirate’s ship, and required to do the wicked captain’s bidding, she wonders if she’ll ever return home. She’s witness to both the brutality and the soft side of the world’s most infamous villains, and she’ll never be the same. With the help of a handsome young doctor and the captain’s wife, she realizes she must become them to escape them, and she makes a deal with the devil that just may save her sister’s life. 
  About the Series: The Lore and Legend series is comprised of standalone novelettes and novellas, each centered around a legend or piece of folklore. Read them all, or pick and choose those that are most interesting to you. There is no reading order. Explore the tales of old through these short reads that are sure to bring history to life through fiction. If you are a fan of folklore, dark history, fantasy, and spooky stories, this series is for you.

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  Emma

  Jane Austen

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  The culmination of Jane Austen's genius, a sparkling comedy of love and marriage Beautiful, clever, rich and single Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected. With its imperfect but charming heroine and its witty and subtle exploration of relationships, Emma is often seen as Jane Austen's most flawless work.

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  This Christmas

  Jane Green

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  In this trio of warm, witty, insightful stories, three very different women face questions of the heart that could change all their Christmases to come. Vacation by Jane Green: When her husband's job takes him away from home indefinitely, a restless suburban wife and mother must confront Christmas alone - and decide whether she's better off that way. The Second Wife of Reilly by Jennifer Coburn: A newlywed is haunted by thoughts of her husband's first wife - and comes up with an unusual plan to cure herself in time for Christmas... Mistletoe and Holly by Liz Ireland: Longing to fit into her family's picture perfect holiday celebration, a young woman finally brings home the perfect boyfriend - only to find that nothing is as she expected. Infused with the hopes and dreams of the season, these entertaining and exquisitely written stories will inspire your Christmas spirit and will stay with you all year long.

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  Partridge in Pear Tree A: Twelve...

  Stuart MacBride

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  First story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season 
  Billy Partridge wasn’t really cut out to be a cat burglar, but it was ‘do the job, or come up with thirteen grand by Thursday, or have both legs shattered’. 
  ‘Do the job’ seemed the least worst option. But he’s about to find out just how bad the least worst option can be… 
  Stuart MacBride, the Sunday Times bestselling author, weaves a web of mystery and black humour in this top-rated collection. The hard-boiled fiction stories, filled with thrillers and detective elements, are a testament to MacBride's prowess as a bestselling author. 
  For fans of Mark Billingham (The Wrong Hands), Jd Kirk (A Killer of Influence), J M Dalgliesh (The Talisker Dead), Andrew Raymond (The Bonnie Dead), and James Oswald (All That Lives).

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  The Elroom

  Jerry Sohl

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  The Elroom by Jerry Sohl is a gripping science fiction short story that explores the thin line between reality and illusion. When a man steps into the mysterious "Elroom," he finds himself in a place that defies logic, shifting his perception of time and space. Is it a portal to another dimension, a twisted experiment, or just a product of his imagination? As he struggles to escape, the truth unravels in an unexpected way. With its eerie atmosphere and thought-provoking narrative, The Elroom challenges the reader to question what is real and what lies beyond human comprehension.

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  Who killed Charlie Winpole?

  Ernest Bramah

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  Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author of 21 novels and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works have been ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood.In his stories of detection, Bramah hit on the idea of a blind detective, Max Carrados, whose triumphs are all the more amazing because of his disability.In Who Killed Charlie Winpole?, Max Carrados investigates what initially appears to be a tragic case of a teenage boy who is accidentally poisoned by a toxic toadstool mistaken for an edible mushroom. Within a few days, the boy's uncle has been arrested and charged with murder. But Carrados is not satisfied by this explanation either and embarks on a highly irregular kind of investigation.

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