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Years before the Great War summoned Bess Crawford to serve as a battlefield nurse, the indomitable heroine spent her childhood in India under the watchful eye of her friend and confidant, the young soldier Simon Brandon. The two formed an inseparable bond on the dangerous Northwest Frontier where her father's Regiment held the Khyber Pass against all intruders.

From a snowy impromptu game of Frisbee in the center of a holiday light display to a woman's trepidation as she arrives home on Christmas Eve with crates of rescued shelter dogs, these stories will brighten the spirit of you and your family this season and for many seasons to come. Some stories are funny, some are sweet, and some are heartbreaking, but all of them show that, if our hearts are open to giving and receiving love during this special season, incredible things can happen.

James Rollins presents a collection of twelve stories that dig a little deeper into his creative stomping grounds and open vistas into new landscapes and characters.

Snowed in at a castle full of handsome lords, three young ladies are about to have the holiday of their lives. The road to happily-ever-after always takes some twists and turns.

As society gathers at Kingstag Castle for the wedding of the year, matrimony is in the air. But who will be the bride?

A collection of stories that explores dark conspiracies and desperate human acts hiding in plain sight.

A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader.

This collection of seventeen classic mystery stories, dating from 1837 to 1914, traces the earliest history of popular detective fiction.

Mystery Writers of America presents a collection of crime and mystery stories from some of the best contemporary authors, all of whom have been invited to put their own unique spin on what it means to recognize a certain day or event every year.

Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs and screams at people to stay away from her babies; Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky, until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke; and Noni in number 7 has telephone conversations with Jesus and tells the police about them.