CHAPTER 1 The bar clock was showing 7:00 and everyone from the office who weren't already a couple were pairing off, with a couple of exceptions. Jane McClay remained the power of one because no one ever paired off with her. She gritted, thinking any guy who wanted to couple could plunge into her in the cloakroom and she wouldn't even demand use of a condom...
CHAPTER 1 On a wet Thursday Simone Fletcher and the bank's IT manager Jackson Mitchell spent four hours at one of the bank's branches where discrepancies had been discovered by internal audit. Simone was the vice-president responsible for auditing and she and her team had been unable to discover who had taken the missing $85,000. Simone knew the board and...
by Philip Johnson Prologue Fair warning, there is no sex in this work of fiction. It is purely a mystery/romance and I hope that some of you find it good reading. Akron, Ohio is located about twenty five miles south of Cleveland and is transected by interstates seventy seven and seventy six. The city has a population of something over two...
This is the first part of a three-part story that describes the same events from three different perspectives. This is a work of fiction and any similarity to actual persons or events is coincidental. Dear Stranger, We've never met. In fact, I picked you at random from one of those white pages sites on the Internet. You may have already noticed that there'...
Alex looked over the hologram of the plans for the dome in front of him. Though a lot had been done in these past two weeks, there was still more to do. Since the night of the Artucian's entry into the Unified Systems Alliance, both them and the crew of the Perseus had been working around the clock. Salvaging the wrecks of the Dead Snows was well under way,...
Dear readers, remember me?I'm back after a hiatus, now married and living in the US. The last two-and-a-half years have been a whirlwind, not leaving me with the time or the opportunity for what I love best: writing stories. A lot of you emailed me asking if I was still writing, but I couldn't respond because I briefly lost access to many of my email account...
Chapter Twenty-Five: Deals and Dragons That became the new pattern for us for a couple of days. Walk until almost supper, spar with Aedan -- badly -- and then work on meditation with Alistair. I'd gotten to the point where, when necessary, I could ignore the movements, shouts, pokes, and tickles of those around me, and maintain my focus regardless. One even...
After an evening bubble bath to relax herself Margo Needy crawled out and dried off. Wrapping her towel about her she let out her bath water and prowled the halls, still wet. After her heated debate with roomie Heath Talbot over dominance she tried to sort out exactly how to do what he wanted without losing her identity. While loving sex and being dominated...
Author's note: This is, in all its seven parts and their many chapters, one very, very long story. If long stories bother you, I suggest you read something else. No part of this story is written so as to stand on its own. I strongly suggest that you start with the beginning of Part 1 and read sequentially—giving up at any point you choose, of course....
Chapter 1 Beaten and bleeding profusely, Drystan Boland was left to die on the roadside. His two attackers who swooped into his remote campsite at night, took everything: his camping gear, his Jeep and even stripped him down to his underpants. Regaining consciousness, he lurched along the rise to the country roadside and fell back into unconsciousness....