Payne: 828 books

When a Comanche raiding party abducts his wife, Jake Hollister unpins his star and ventures out on a quest to find his beloved Suzanne. Now, six years later, his close friend John Henry Parker's wife, Sarah, has befallen the same fate.   Agreeing to ride together until Sarah is found,...

It may be very well in most cases to plunge, according to the rule of the Latin poet, into the middle of things. It may be very well even, according to the recommendation of Count Antoine Hamilton, to 'begin with the beginning.' But there are other cases where there may be antecedents to the actual story,...

Born August 16, 1956, in Danville, Illinois.... forty miles due east of Champaign - Urbana, site of the U. of I. (home of H.A.L.). In school, during my formative years, I pulled myself up from having a report card like an alphabet to graduating #20 out of a graduating class of 780, plus 50 other students...

When Doctor McDermott's Medicine Show comes to Sweetwater and meets with two duster clad strangers, Deputy Otis Fuller has some doubts about their real intentions.

Maître Tobias et son soumis Noah sont de retour, en apprenant davantage sur eux-mêmes et leurs relations, testant les limites de ce qu’ils peuvent et ne peuvent pas gérer, à la fois ensemble et séparément. Tobias s’entraîne à devenir plus à l’aise et à retrouver son équilibre...

Tobias est un Dom expérimenté, capable de gérer même le plus hésitant des soumis. Noah est un homme qui a besoin de cela. Il veut se soumettre, mais il n’a pas encore trouvé quelqu’un qu’il croit capable de l’emmener où il doit aller. Au cours d’une rencontre dans le monde du bondage...

The Duke of Trahorn consented to taking the widowed and divorced Lady Elgar to be his wife as a last resort. He needs a hostess to run his keep. Thoughts of love and family died with his accident. Because of his physical limitations he now prefers companionship to sexual need. Meeting Serena...

It is wonderful what improvements have taken place in clocks and watches during the last half-century; how accurately the escapements are constructed, how delicately the springs are formed, how easily the wheels move, and what good time they keep. After all, society is but a clock, a very complicated...

It was a dark and stormy night,—a very dark night indeed. No dog's mouth, whether terrier, mastiff, or Newfoundland, was ever so dark as that night. The hatches had been battened down, and every aperture but one, by which any of the great, curly-pated, leaping waves could jump into the vessel, had...

A solitary room at midnight: a single wax candle lighted on the table: the stiff dull crimson silken curtains of the bed close drawn: half a dozen phials and two or three glasses. Is it the chamber of a sick man? He must sleep sound if it be, for there is no noise--not even a breath; and all without...

[Siren Classic: Erotic Historical Romance] Finding your first one night stand at your sister's wedding would unnerve anyone. Trisha stood before the man she'd once given herself to freely years before. She felt her cheeks heat at the thought of how she allowed him to love her so unconventionally...

If I could turn back time… My name is Talia Perizkova, and time has been on my side…until I told it to kiss my ass during a business trip to Vegas and experienced a night for the record books with my bosses—yes, my bosses. But what happened in Sin City refuses to stay there, and time...

Alt Hist Issue 9 brings you the best new writing in historical fiction and alternate history. This issue features six new short stories and takes the reader from German occupied Yorkshire to Samurai-era Japan, via the Bermuda triangle, medieval Wales, the Vikings and post-war Ireland. You’ll find...

Marshal Lucius Maddox had run into the derby-sporting lady outlaw Cody Jarrett before. But this time she stole his badge. How much nerve could one woman pack behind a bandit's bandana? One way or another, he was determined to find out!