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Broken hearts aren't always broken. Sometimes they're just bruised.  Desperate to forget her worthless ex-boyfriend and the humiliating way in which they parted, Martha Bigalow goes on a long hike in the rain, hoping the dramatic scenery of the English Lake District will ease her unhappy heart. But...

Blighted and accursed families are an inescapable feature of Greek tragedy, and many scholars have treated questions of inherited guilt, curses, and divine causation. N.J. Sewell-Rutter gives these familiar issues a fresh appraisal, arguing that tragedy is a medium that fuses the conceptual with the...

This seminal new study explores how and why historians and writers from the Middle Ages to the present day have constructed different accounts of this well-loved figure. N. J Higham offers an in-depth examintaion of the first two Arthurian texts: the History of the Britons and the Welsh Annals....

The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. James Reasoner's story is a period western, Joe Lansdale's is bleakly dystopian,...

Your favorite stories from childhood have a new twist. Seven fairy tales of old with characters across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. Green Things Grow from Cinders by A.E. Ross – Glass slippers aren't for everyone. Gretel on Her Own by Elna Holst – This time around, Gretel Kindermann is...

Some of the best-loved stories in the world, originating in Persia, India and Arabia, retold especially for children.

Losing the twenty-first century was bad enough, but Martha Bigalow's situation is about to become a whole lot worse. Only days after her marriage to Vadim—a handsome outlaw stalked by grim shadows of the past—Martha is captured by his arch nemesis, the evil Earl of Edgeway. While...

The fight for Edgeway is over. But, for many, the greatest battle has only just begun... Anselm is gravely wounded. Perhaps mortally so. Lost within his fevered dreams, he journeys back to the long-ago summers of his youth, to a time when the bonds of family and friendship had still...

A wife goes mad on the night of her marriage and her husband is left alone in an empty house. Filled with despair and longing, he sets out on a dream-filled voyage to find her.Note: This is an extremely short story.

In the final few months of 1808, Napoleon's efforts to subjugate Europe by military might and political guile continue unabated. His armies have conquered Portugal and Spain and now an under-resourced British Army under General Moore is floundering in its attempts to throw them out. Archie Dexter...

This book was previously released in 2009 by another publisher under the title of Sweet Charity*. It has been revised and updated for rerelease with Carina Press.** * A war reaches its endgame, but the heat between two unlikely lovers could set fire to all that Resistance forces have achieved....

When Londoners Tom and Charlie discover a body on a treacherous mountain, their Snowdon adventure reaches new heights. Everyone thinks it was an accident, but the facts don't fit: could the tragedy be intentional? The boys know something is suspicious, but it takes more than a hunch to prove that...

Peace-loving Glen Sauten found being Charlie Thornton’s friend difficult; now he discovers how it feels to be Charlie’s enemy. After going out with a girl Charlie wanted, Glen knows he’ll have to stand up to Charlie or be labeled a coward. For now, though, he’s happy to have his friend...

The bandaged man is a literary novella about a young, parentless brother and sister who find a mysterious bandaged man upon their dry and dying land. The man is near to death and carries with him a bloodstained shotgun. With no neighbours nor family, the siblings take the bandaged man into their home...