Blue: 1806 books

The rules for slaves are simple--keep your head down and train hard. For it is only your training that can save you in the Coliseum. All this Thrace knows. But he forgets it in a moment when a young slave's cry of terror rouses him from his sleep. The boy, young Africanus, has found a body--and...

Hill Spirits Anthology introduces a sampling of the diverse range of writers and writing styles found in the Spirit of the Hills Writers Group. In Hill Spirits, you’ll find amusing slice-of-life stories, scary tales to share around the campfire and, in a quiet moment, poems for reflection.

For Doctoral candidate Tannis Winter, immersing herself in the homeless culture means living on the streets in disguise. When a mysterious derelict begins to stalk her, she shoves him into the path of a police car, and flees into the safety of a suburban neighborhood.Newly elected city council...

What’s an ancient god of death to do in the modern world? Anubis, Egyptian Guardian of the Veil, has a problem—two runaway children. HIS children. His search for his beloved twins has brought him grief and worry and a trip to Minneapolis. He’s meeting with an “artist” who churns out commemorative...

Lord John, the earl of Farleigh--his giant frame scarred by battles fought as a mercenary knight--returns home to England to claim his unexpected inheritance. But now he must battle against the wicked baron Elwood of Eye and a woman with an inner strength to match his own who dares to love him....

Blake Dylan, The Earl of Diamond, has a heart of ice. The time has come for him to return to England and enact his plan of vengeance, even if it means wedding the daughter of his sworn enemy. Lady Nicole Langley has vowed she will not marry unless for true love. When she is lured into a...

Alan Montague discovers he is going blind. Chelsea Danvers avoids physical contact with people. Alan needs help with his work. Chelsea can provide it. Together they are Perfect Partners. Join Alan on his journey into darkness. He is a pragmatic and determined person....

A disgraced warrior, once a soul dancer, must dance her magic again to save her people. Can she reveal the traitor and prevent a civil war? A short story by Lisa Silverthorne. Originally published in Sword & Sorceress 17 (DAW Books, June 2000).

Collages is Anaïs Nin’s last work of fiction, and is, as the title suggests, a collection of interwoven stories, opening and closing with the passage: “Vienna was the city of statues. They were as numerous as the people who walked the streets. They stood on the top of the highest towers, lay...

A Cafe in Space, Vol. 9 contains several excerpts from Anais Nin's unpublished 1950s diary in which she describes the "trapeze life," swinging back and forth across the country from her husband in New York to her lover in Los Angeles, and how difficult it was to keep her men in the dark...

Volume 11 of A Café in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal contains excerpts from the unpublished diary of Anais Nin, topics of which include living in 1950s America, Nin's hateful relationship with Helba Huara, and fears of the havoc that publishing her diary could bring. The lead article involves...

LONG BEFORE SHE BECAME FAMOUS for her Diary, Anaïs Nin fought a lonely battle to give America emotional, poetic fiction. During the 1940s and 1950s, her most productive period, she was either ignored by the American literary establishment or subjected to outright hostility. But she had a reputation...

Volume 12 of A Café in Space features excerpts from Anais Nin's unpublished diary revealing the truth about the famous "come as your madness" party in 1953, at which Nin's daring costume caused a sensation and where Kenneth Anger got inspiration for his underground classic film "Inauguration...

"I have chosen to reveal the intimacies of Anais Nin's last days as I witnessed them so that the story of her death is not lost. Everything comes back in the mind’s eye. Everything comes back in the crucible of the heart. She remains in my psyche all these years later as the most refined and...