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The Life and Times of Bob Cratchit is a compelling, inspirational back story to the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol, focusing primarily on the life of Robert Cratchit, Scrooge's clerk. As he grows up facing, poverty and hardship in both, rural England and a squalid section of London, young Robert puts to practice the lessons learned from his insightful, coal mining father, Peter, to eventually become the man countless, millions have loved...

Paulette O'Connell accidentally summons her grandfather's ghost, and he won't leave until she discovers why she needs him. Zak Markel's sole mission is to save his brother's eyesight, but he gets side-tracked by Paulette. Maybe together, they'll find just what they need...and more. Remnants is the next haunting addition to Betty Bolt�e's sweet romance series, Ghosts of Roseville.Paulette O'Connell is focused on building her costume and home decorating...

Why did her suitor leave to fight without a word?Amy Abernathy is a woman renowned for her storytelling prowess but even she cannot invent a sound reason for her suitor's inexplicable actions. She picks up the shreds of her heart and endeavors to forget him, until he suddenly appears without any fanfare or explanation. She flees besieged Charles Town and him, escaping to a plantation to attend her sister in childbirth. Nursing her broken heart and...

In 1782, the fight for independence becomes personal in the port city Charles Towne, South Carolina. Samantha McAlester, midwife and healer, returns to Charlestown to find it occupied by the British and her one of few medically trained people in town. But when a friend is shot during an attack, she must defend her reputation as well as her heart against the town doctor, Trent Cunningham. Dr. Trent Cunningham has a lot to prove to his father and to...

Southern hospitality is alive and well. In this anthology you may find a little old, a little new, and perhaps some mysterious doings. How about a ghost — or was it a ghost pepper? Was that a witch, a sprite, an elf, or a seer? You may be looking for a beautiful garden, a mint julep, or a jazz festival. Come on down! Bless your heart, you may never want to leave.

What A Day! is a collection of stories about special, memorable

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It's the beginning of a new golden age of space exploration. Finally, humanity is taking the commercialization of space to the next level-mining asteroids. The new gold rush of the commercial space era has begun. Another commercial venture, an attempt to put a hotel on the Moon, is seeking the space tourism gold of the ultra wealthy. And it seems as if the dream of finally sending people to Mars is finally going to happen using a ship propelled by...