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"Inside Melting House" is a creepy and suspenseful story that will draw you into its mystery. It introduces you to sympathetic characters over two generations who, even in the short space of the story, you come to sympathize with and understand.
When you listen to it, you will experience:
An atmospheric and effective story that elicits curiosity and dread in equal parts
The story as told from the point of view of a complex and sympathetic narrator/main...
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Michael is a professional photographer. He knows exactly how to take the best pictures and is desperate enough to accept any work when the rent comes due, which is slowly creeping up on him. When he's offered a new job opportunity from a high-end client, the last thing he expects is to be confronted with an abuse scandal in the midst of the cast.
He meets an extremely attractive model, someone he soon recognizes from his teenage past. To make things...
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An assassin is at the top of his field, and none of his kills are ever the same. In this way, he never leaves a signature, and that keeps the law two steps behind. It's a life full of turmoil and continuous travel, but it's the life he chose.
He gets a job that requires him to kill not only the mother and father, but also the heir apparent. The client wants this done so there will be no one to step in and take what's rightfully his.
The assassin...
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A newly renovated Amish bed-and-breakfast, a wedding, and a murder....
There's a new mystery to solve for elderly Amish widow Ettie Smith.
When Ettie and her sister were asked to help out at the bed-and-breakfast for a wedding, they were speechless.
They quickly agreed.
The "till death do us part" vows didn't take long to be tested when the groom was found dead on the library floor.
Leaning over the body was Thomas, one of the owners of the...
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Mary is a gas-station attendant with an epileptic son who can barely make ends meet, when she makes them meet at all. She has dreams of a forbidden love but can't focus on those dreams when she can't even buy her son's medicine. She has a real knack for staying calm under pressure and steadfastly does what she needs to, in order to keep food on their table and a roof over their heads.
One day, she has an encounter with a woman who claims she can...
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"Canadian Family Adventures" follows the tale of 10 Irish siblings who immigrate to Canada in the late 1880s. Their mother, Maggie Collins, wants her children, between the ages of 10 years old and 30 years old, to have a good life, and she arranges for them to sail to Canada.
The ten siblings arrive in Canada by ship, and each one settles in a different area of Canada and pursues a different career.
Sean, 28 years old, settles in Halifax, Nova...
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Love lost and new beginnings: These are the things you can expect in the latest Natashiah Jansen story, entitled "Sergeant's Heart".
Celest didn't expect to start her new life with the love of her life on such a devastating note. Luckily for her, Dina, a lifelong friend, is always by her side to support her. In her journey to recovery, a handsome stranger moves into the neighborhood. If only she knows how much they have in common.
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"Kidnapped Writer" is about our melting pot here in America. The main character is Viola, and she's having a horrible day. In fact, it was absolutely the worst day of her life. After years in her newspaper job as a writer, they've cut back on everything and put her into the advertising department. On her way out of town for the weekend, she gets kidnapped by a strange family needing her help. Outraged, Viola finds herself held captive by a very old...
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A new term, "empty nest divorce," has cropped up to explain the recent increase in separation and divorce among couples ages 55 and older. In years past, when married couples lived shorter lives, the norm was to stay together throughout life. But as the average life expectancy has dramatically increased, so has the percentage of divorce for older people. Experts now state one in four marriages are now ending.
Traditional family groupings struggle...
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Valerie's Tale is a story about a little girl with a heart filled with courage and strength, living in a world plagued with war and where magic is divided by clerics, who believe in using magic conservatively, and mages, who use it for whatever their heart's desire.
Valerie is forced to grow up quickly when her mother contracts a life threatening illness, one that a cleric cannot heal. With hopes of saving her, Valerie seeks out an old wizard, a...
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Liam grew up thinking he wanted to be a zookeeper. He practically lived in the zoo as a child, and his brother is wild enough to be an animal, so it seems perfect. But no one told him he had to go through so much higher education. No one told him he needed practical experience. As an unhappy volunteer who works at the zoo after high school each day, he's beginning to wonder if it's worth it. Suddenly, he's faced with a mysterious visitor, a girl who...
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Mermaids, mermen, treacherous villagers, and a Nix: these are some of the exciting things in store for you with the latest Natashiah Jansen story entitled Pearl Port Singer.
You'll be taken on a dive into the magical world of merpeople and learn:
why the treacherous villagers set up false harbor lights;
why the mermaids want to stop them;
why the mermaids call on Antaeus to help;
why Antaeus believes that Damarion, the moon equatorial feeder,...
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Angelique wants nothing more than to meet her personal Prince Charming. She becomes involved in a domestic case, and the officer in the case takes a liking to her stern attitude and brilliance in domestic law.
Frederick comes back after being shunned and verbally excused from this teacher's presence. She is aware of everything, except that he is readily and eagerly interested in her. After accepting a hasty date decision, Angelique decides that maybe...
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Julia has been let go from her job of 20 years as a ground water geologist in Eastern Washington and must find a new way to support herself. She decides to pack up her belongings and return to her family's cottage on Pine Island. There she hopes to find a new meaning to her life, while living in the peaceful and serene setting that she always experienced in the northern woods of Canada.
She is surprised to discover that her old buddy Andrew still...
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Ben enters a spelling bee at school. He was thrilled when he was named the winner for the second grade class! As a special award, Ben was given a pin as first prize! This pin meant a great deal to him, especially since he had to study so hard just to be in the contest. Ben loved to look at his pin every day. Everything was going well; at least until the day Ben's pin disappeared. In the blink of an eye, it seemed to have vanished right into thin air!...
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Dean Petro has gotten out of a long, hard break with his longtime band, The Golden Kings. After trying to come to terms with a new record deal, he literally runs into his future girlfriend and muse as she leaves a restaurant near the Hollywood Bowl.
The Golden Kings, a group of musicians thought to be the greatest since Coldplay, has a distinct reputation for practically disowning their bass player on stage. Dean, following Tony's short bass tenure...
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They were princesses that were never supposed to inherit the throne, but to live happily ever after with their princes.
Everything changed when a mass slaughter took the lives of the generation before, leaving an elderly king with no heirs, save them.
Felicia rules the kingdom with a heavy heart, separated from her long term love to love a man who makes her choose; love or the throne.
Eva, the sickly but strong-hearted princess, and James, the...
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"One Winter Moment" is an intriguingly original coming-of-age story, a delicate romance that delves beneath the surface to explore our various family dynamics and the ways in which they shape us, influence us, and make us who we are.
Romance, passion, family, and cultures collide when 20-year-old college student Giorgio Meducci finds himself faced with the decision of a lifetime. Torn between beautiful Meghan Elliot, the girl of his dreams, and...
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"A Winters Morning" takes a close look at a young woman who is dealing with the residual affects of her abusive husband.
It gives a window into the emotional battle between still being in love with her husband and hating him.
The story is told in a series of flashbacks. Some throw the listener directly into the moments, others are brief past-tense recollections.
Told in first person, it allows the listener a window into the protagonist's direct...
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"An Illustrated Warning" is a carefully crafted and creepy tale designed to unsettle and chill you. You'll be held rapt to attention as the dread sets in and things go from odd to eerie and then from eerie to utterly frightening. There is plenty of fright in this story, which is made up of several elements that work together to create a terrifying whole.
The mystery of a young man's missing grandfather
A collection of bizarre and horrid illustrations...