Scars are like memories, the worst ones stay with you the longest. Unlucky Roger is a habitual cheater out for a quickie encounter before heading home. The only thing he’s lucky at in life has been evading getting caught cheating by his wife. Unlike his scars, luck will leave Roger. Eileen is out for justice. The man some would call her father scarred her for life without even touching her. The wound, embeds deep in her soul and manifests as a desire to kill. Vengeance for the innocent runs in her veins. She’s restless and has a target in her bed. The vigilante killer is left with a new scar from each unloved soul that crosses her path. Not every one pays the ultimate price for their indiscretions. On the night they meet, she hopes Roger will escape payment. But is doubtful. Unlucky Roger is a short horror story that takes 4300 words to tell. Included, as a bonus is preview of Martha Henley’s debut domestic thriller, Don't Kill For Me. It’s a twisting tale of a woman with a past, a secret admirer’s odd love notes, confessions of murder, and a serial killer that wishes Eileen Rests in Peace. Don’t miss reading the Rest in Peace Killer’s terrifying mission to please one woman by committing murder on her behalf.

In 1844-45, while Alexandre Dumas was working on his two classic novels, The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, he found time to write a play called Sylvandire. A young provincial, Roger Tancred d'Anguilem, arrives in Paris to fight a legal battle for a huge inheritance. His opponent is an Indian called Afghano, who has bribed the judges. The case appears lost until Roger's approached by a sleazy lawyer who promises him success--but only if he marries a woman sight unseen. Sylvandire, his new wife, turns out to be a stunning beauty, but the marriage is intended to deliver his spouse as the unwilling mistress of a royal favorite, who can imprison Roger if he resists. The Dumasian themes of unjust imprisonment, followed by implacable revenge, which were more fully developed in Monte Cristo, here make their first appearance in this entertaining and swift-moving comedy.

Contrastivism can be applied to a variety of problems within philosophy, and as such, it can be coherently seen as a unified movement. This volume brings together state-of-the-art research on the contrastive treatment of philosophical concepts and questions, including knowledge, belief, free will, moral luck, Bayesian confirmation theory, causation, and explanation.

As a child, Katie loved ponies, all things pink and sparkly and dashing event rider Roger Fleming Bowen. Now in her twenties, she’s escaped a desk job in London, packed her collection of pink polo shirts and moved to Northumberland to work for her childhood hero.

The true crime story of murdered Florida lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare. Poor man. Rich man. Dead man. It sounded like a fairy tale: A homeless man named Abraham Shakespeare spent his last dollars on a Florida State lottery ticket—and miraculously won $31 million. Unprepared for his new found fortune, Abraham hired Dorice “Dee Dee” Moore to help manage his winnings and field the numerous requests for loans and assistance that he received. But somehow, Dee Dee was the only one benefiting. When Abraham quietly disappeared from his home in Florida, friends and family grew suspicious—though he could not read or write, his only form of contact was through odd letters and texts. But it wasn’t until investigators began to question Dee Dee about her role in Abraham’s finances that a complicated web of lies—and the desperate lengths to which one woman would go to cover it up—was exposed…

"Ellen James writes with warmth, wit and style. I look forward to each new book."—Debbie Macomber Michael Turner is the man next door and he's got problems! He's an ex-cop turned P.I., who's pretending to be a writer. His partner—normally the most rational of women—is pretending she's pregnant. His eleven-year-old son—whom he loves—isn't pretending anything, but then, the boy's barely talking to him. His father—whom he loathes (no pretense here)—is back in town. And to top it all, he's becoming dangerously attracted to the woman next door, a woman he's been paid investigate, a woman who just might be pretending that she hasn't murdered her husband.

An impoverished young knight joins the First Crusade. Like most of his contemporaries, Roger has never travelled outside his county, let alone country. His fighting skills are untested. On the three-year journey, he discovers the yawning gulf between war as celebrated by the troubadours and the grisly reality of life and death on campaign. Then, in the summer of 1099, he finds himself poised to storm the citadel of Jerusalem itself. ‘Duggan looks upon the past with a connoisseur’s relish of villainy and violence.’ New York Times

A vivid new history of the criminal underworld in the medieval Holy Land The religious wars of the crusades are renowned for their military engagements. But the period was witness to brutality beyond the battlefield. More so than any other medieval war zone, the Holy Land was rife with unprecedented levels of criminality and violence. In the first history of its kind, Steve Tibble explores the criminal underbelly of the crusades. From gangsters and bandits to muggers and pirates, Tibble presents extraordinary evidence of an illicit underworld. He shows how the real problem in the region stemmed not from religion but from young men. Dislocated, disinhibited, and present in disturbingly large numbers, they were the propellant that stoked two centuries of unceasing warfare and shocking levels of criminality. Crusader Criminals charts the downward spiral of desensitisation that grew out of the horrors of incessant warfare--and in doing so uncovers some of the most surprising stories of the time.

The odd and fearsome are not always evil. A blind date might be fearsome to most, but a woman with a collection of dolls, a group therapy session, pancakes for breakfast, or a Halloween party? They all could rate as average or terrifying. Read all the tales in this collection to determine for yourself which are of the paranormal or just odd. Included in this collection of suspicious tales and psychological shorts are flash fiction pieces never before published and two novel excerpts from Martha Henley’s Death and Donuts Thriller series. Become a fan of the author whose serial killer thrillers will have you second guessing random strangers that cross your path. Buy this collection of short stories today and then start Martha Henley’s thrilling novel series, tomorrow.