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Wedding. Vacation fling. After her latest doctor visit and the dire news she received, Crystal Brooke decided she’s going to live life to the fullest before her treatment begins. Not only will she enjoy her best friend’s wedding, but she’s determined to have a vacation fling - a red-hot sex and no strings attached kind of thing. However, her boy toy ends up being someone who she never expected. Will Spencer succeed in making Crystal see him as something other than her friend?

Revenge is one of the great themes in literature, from Shakespeare to Poe. This collection contains 18 original stories commissioned for this volume plus a reprint of a classic Ruth Rendell mystery.

It started with a kiss. A single kiss that shook me to my core. A kiss to silence me, and a kiss to numb the pain. I took his hand and in turn, he took me away. I thought when we ran away, we’d never have to look back. I was wrong. I think Sebastian knew, and so did I, that he’d be pulled back into this life one day. There was no way we could have gotten our happily-ever-after. Scars don’t ever fully go away, and this sinful place is etched into our flesh.

American author Kate Chopin's "The Kiss" was written on September 19, 1894, and first published in Vogue on January 17, 1895. It is a short story about a woman scheming to marry a wealthy man.

With amazing insight, Anton Chekhov wrote of the lives of the Russian common man as well as the landowner. He established the style of the modern short story and influenced many great writers, including George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Mansfield, and Virginia Woolf.

In “The Kiss”, a lonely, love-starved soldier keeps a secret rendezvous for another man and becomes enamored with a woman he is never to see again. “The Duel” describes the collisions between men and women in hopeless relationships, and how two men are driven to settle the score in a clandestine meeting on a bridge, pistols in hand. In all of these stories, Chekhov’s brilliant portrayal of people from all walks of life and how they deal with the moral dilemmas their circumstances press upon them comes to vivid life in the listener’s mind.

As wealthy debutante Violet Beauchamp travels across country on Route 66, she finds a small dog hurt on the road. Unwilling to leave the dog, she stops at a small Hopi Indian souvenir stand, where she is advised to go to the Holbrook Wigwam Motel. She is also given an enchanted rock, and told that the next man she sees will be the man she marries. When she meets motel clerk Lee, although handsome and kind, she still believes she is destined to marry a wealthy man in California whom she has never met.

Oceanside is a gym facility like any other. But today feels different. Jenny, a personal trainer, and her fellow staff confront the true nature of love and hate. If it takes a village to raise a child, who made the villain?

Las Leyendas son un conjunto de narraciones de carácter posromántico escritas por Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer y publicadas entre 1858 y 1864. Estas narraciones tienen un carácter íntimo que evoca el pasado histórico y se caracterizan por una acción verosímil con una introducción de elementos fantásticos o insólitos. Incluye las leyendas '¡Es raro!', 'Creed en Dios', 'El caudillo de las manos rojas', 'El Cristo de la calavera', 'El gnomo', 'El monte de las ánimas', 'La ajorca de oro'.

Sam continues to adjust to his new life among the vampires with the help of his friend, Lance. This short story continues from RI Polsgrove's novella, Cora.

Big Hot Kisses is a wingy collection of tawdry, "true" tales of lust, sex and passion. So come along on an irreverent, often humorous journey through some everyday "love" stories, where at some point you may surprisingly find yourself confronted with a familiar mirror image called real life.

As a new start and celebration, Maggie decides to take a trip to Bisbee and Tombstone, Arizona. Because of her fascination with history, the two places have always captivated her with their rich pasts. During a tour of the Queen Mine in Bisbee, Maggie's encounter with a miner named Joseph leaves her questioning her sanity. Claiming that he is her dead husband from the past, he is determined to prove to her that their love was real.

Thrown to Earth from a parallel universe, the Bluesman seeks to save our world from being overrun by the horrid, mutated creatures that came with him. Armed with magic, skill, and his companion Scotch, he faces these monsters hoping to create a peaceful world for all. In Death Kiss, it all comes to a head when their archnemesis Lana completes her power symbols. Armed with more magic than ever before, Lana is primed to take over the world unless an old bluesman and his wise-cracking sidekick can stop her.

Each Wednesday morning they take the bus--the lonely graduate student, the marine trying to start a new life in the corporate world, the elderly woman on her way to the senior center, and the exhausted single mother and her daughter--but they never interact. Not until the day tragedy strikes and brings these five strangers together.

After 12-year-old Mar's father unfortunately dies in a car crash during the Christmas holiday, she not only has to recuperate, but also live with her mentally ill mother without the calming presence of her beloved dad. Fast forward three years...Because Mar had blocked out her dad's death, she's never really admitted to herself that he's gone forever, let alone acknowledged or visited his gravesite. She suddenly decides to take a 14-hour journey on a Greyhound bus to finally visit her dad's grave and to face the truth that he's really gone.

O beijo conta a história de uma moça que deseja se casar com um rapaz rico, mas tem um relacionamento com outro homem. Neste conto, Kate Chopin aborda a questão do dinheiro que se sobrepõe ao amor.

Un joven tímido vive, gracias a un beso robado durante una fiesta, un torbellino de emociones. Se convierte de pronto en protagonista de un inesperado e inusual romance. A través de la pluma de Chéjov, quizás el mejor cuentista ruso de todos los tiempos, nos transportamos a la Rusia de finales del siglo XIX, en el que la pasión, la moral y los sentimientos están en constante conflicto. Un cuento inolvidable sobre los vínculos y las ilusiones de la vida.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald nació en Saint Paul, Minnesota, el 24 de septiembre de 1896. Su obra refleja los problemas de la juventud de su país en los años subsiguientes a la Primera Guerra Mundial.

The Wine, the Moon, and One Last Kiss is a collection of short stories laced in a poetic web that performs watercolor painting to your imagination. Words working into roads that connect into moments mimicking paragraphs. Take a sip into "The Wine" where a diner conversation carries you into the bottle, then walk along the ocean shore towards innocence and truth with "The Moon".