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When florist Poppy Driscoll attends a costume party at her best friend Michelle’s house, she expects a night of fun and fantasy. But the evening takes a dark turn when Michelle is found dead, clutching a mysterious black rose. As the village mourns, the whispers of murder spread, and suspicion falls on those closest to Michelle—including her grieving husband. Determined to uncover the truth, Poppy dives headfirst into a web of secrets, lies, and hidden desires.

Edited by the award-winning author, Niamh McAnally, Stories of Place will take you on a whirlwind journey across the globe courtesy of nine international writers whose tales span the genres of thriller, adventure, mystery, coming-of-age, LGBTQ+, young adult, and literary fiction, as well as the vast spectrum of the human experience. Each story is titled using the innovative geocode system What3Words, which uses three words to identify a precise location on Earth.

Explore the darker side of love with these sick and twisted stories of romance.

“A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters.” —Denver Post Black Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, one...

Unabridged, 2 hours Read by Scarlet Chase Angela Knight pairs a vampire warrior and his seductive captor in a battle against demonic predators...

Up until recently, Freeman has been known primarily as a "feminist" writer, for her classic stories like "A New England Nun", and "The Revolt of Mother". However, she also wrote many well crafted supernatural stories which have only recently begun to attract appreciative critical attention. These stories combine pragmatism and supernaturalism and are very much in the tradition of an "Americanized" Gothic.

Young Prince Zaphir, son of King Mago, was a kind young man much beloved by his people and all the animals around the kingdom. He is also quite taken with a young princess, the Princess Bluebell, who feels the same way for him. When a giant descends on the land and the army and other brave men who volunteer to fight him are defeated, Zaphir decides to face the Giant one on one, before more men risk their lives.

It's 1987. Dane Morrison, a middle-aged ad agency sales rep, meets an enigmatic street rose salesman during a hot summer in Houston, Texas. As Dane learns more about the rose man, Dane’s dreams and reality become a hellish playground for the unearthly vagabond. And as Dane soon discovers, where love and hope are found, the rose man walks....

A fairytale where the heroine gets the princess. Rose is the youngest of Sir Roland's three children, and the best beloved. When her father fails to come back from an attempt to rescue the princess from a neighboring kingdom from the notorious and mysterious Black Knight, Rose does not hesitate to strap on her father's old armor, the red faded almost to invisibility, and ride into the dark forest to help him.

Here is an amusing, but deadly tale involving a "little old lady" and her garden and wine. Bring in an obnoxious child and you have the makings for a very intriguing murder mystery. This is a short story with the twists and turns that Elizabeth's books are noted for.

This is a fable about real and fake love, with a typically Wildean twist.

This entertaining and emotionally compelling anthology features the best of author/journalist Jennifer Lafferty's short fiction, from new works like the tender and profound coming-of-age novella Juliet & Mr. Rossini to popular magazine pieces such as the farcical "Unlikely Friends" and "Periwinkle 26". This collection is a mix of meaningful prose, romantic comedy, and plenty of satire.

A beautiful collection of fictional short sequences created to assist you in your spiritual growth of our heavenly father as he so desperately wants us to do. The characters in my stories are those living in sin, those not there yet, and those who are saved. My stories are designed for you to reflect on your current situations and to make your lives spiritually better. My stories will also uplift your spirits, bring peace to your hearts, and teach you how to love our heavenly father even more!

The Black Sea of Roses (Poetry, 12) is a part of Vanessa Chattman's poetry series books. This book is the 12th Volume of the Poetry series. The Black Sea of Roses (Poetry, 12) briefly describes the extent of Vanessa Chattman's creative poetic storytelling in the form of fiction. Very few facts are mentioned, but dates and locations are all fiction.