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Christmas may come but once a year but evil, intrigue and malevolence are everyday events. Within this volume Christmas is a time when these dark forces form and coalesce to take life and liberty from people who may and who may not deserve the spin of its wheel. Some are merely evil, others have the beginnings of a conscience that displays itself in a dialogue with the devil, or perhaps only themselves. But, in this volume Christmas takes a ringside seat to the horrors of the human heart.

This program features multicast narration. Christine Grillo's Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and friendship in the midst of a new American civil war. The year is 2023, and things are bad—bad, but still not as bad as they could be. Hestia Harris is...

Robert E. Lee knew that he had to keep the momentum of the Confederate forces moving forward, bringing the Army of Northern Virginia and the war itself north into Union territory. A decisive string of victories might embolden foreign powers to join the Confederacy's fight.

Havana Heat transports readers to 1911 America, where real-life pitcher Luther "Dummy" Taylor is trying to work his arm back into fighting shape. Though deaf, Taylor helped lead John McGraw's New York Giants to the pennant, winning 115 games between 1900 and 1908. But an injury relegates him to the minors, and he dreams of one last shot at the big barnstorming trip to Cuba.

"Ein ziehender Biss an meinem Ohrläppchen holte mich zurück. »Bleib bei mir!«, hauchte mir Archer heiß ins Ohr und biss erneut zu." Eine Gay Opposites Attract-Romance voller Leidenschaft und großer Gefühle Seit Jahren kämpfe ich darum, meine Mode auf die großen Laufstege dieser Welt zu bringen, und nun soll ausgerechnet ein heißer One-Night-Stand mein Ticket in die Fashion-Welt sein? Ich hatte keine Ahnung, dass der Kerl, der mich in einem Londoner Club aufreißt, ein stinkreicher CEO und der Earl of Ferringsworth ist.

Obwohl Izaaks Vertrauen in der Vergangenheit auf schlimmste Art und Weise missbraucht wurde, ist er fest entschlossen, nicht der arme reiche Junge zu sein. Bei Fabian hat Izaak seit langer Zeit zum ersten Mal wieder das Gefühl, sich fallen lassen zu können, und mehr noch: selbst der Fels in der Brandung für einen anderen Mann sein zu können. Doch dann gerät Fabian durch einen leichtsinnigen Fehler in eine Situation, aus der ihn nur ein verdammt guter Anwalt retten kann.

Ben Hogan was the hero no one knew. No one knew what drove him to practice until his hands bled. No one knew what private demons built the high walls that surrounded him. No one was even sure how he hit a golf ball with such godlike precision. He built a legend and a mystique that captivates golfers still.

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. In the vast Empire of the Russians literature was a way to exchange ideas, values and cultures. Yet each author, each story, each character is an individual example of a journey that, story by story, has transformed the glimmering arc of its literature.

The Russian novel has a reputation that is immense, both in narrative and in length. Unquestionably though the ideas, themes and characters make many novels rightly revered as world class, as icons of literature. Whilst Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Pushkin and Chekhov are a given in any Russian collection we also explore and include Andreyev, Korolenko, Turgenev, Blavatsky and many others to create a world rich and dense across a sprawling landscape of diverse people, riddled with the class and unfairness in perhaps some of the most turbulent times that Russia has ever experienced.