A cursed fae prince. A lonely human lass. A magical bond that can't be broken...Aislinn...All Aislinn Morgan wants is to live a peaceful life with her sister in the beautiful highlands of Scotland. When a hike on the Isle of Skye goes horribly awry and the sisters are taken to the mythical land of the fae, Aislinn will do anything to protect the only family she has left.Even bargain with a beastly fae prince.But the powerful Kieran O'Bairr is no ordinary fae.He's dark, dangerous, and devastatingly handsome--and he claims Aislinn is his fated mate. As the magic of their bond brings them closer together, Aislinn wonders if she can heal his cursed heart... or if his haunting darkness will consume them all.Kieran...Fae Prince Kieran O'Bairr has spent the last one hundred years in a self-imposed exile for a crime that haunts his every waking moment. The isolation has only hardened his cursed heart and an unexpected burden cripples his once unmatched power.The breathtaking Aislinn Morgan is a complication he doesn't want.But his longing for the golden-haired lass is undeniable, her kissable lips a temptation he can't resist.Aislinn is his fated mate.And one desperate, stolen kiss will be his undoing.Step into the mythical land of the Celtic Fae, where romance meets mythology in a breathtaking tale of love and adventure. Fate Calling is the first book in this clean romantic fantasy series. It's packed with magic, enemies-to-lovers and slow-burn soulmate romance!

A Novella from the World of the King’s Riders! A runaway daughter, seeking escape from abusive hands. A journeyman tanner willing to risk safety to aid her. When Jarek steps into the alley to toss out the trash, he finds Erron and can’t look away. Even when her father roughly jostles her out of sight, claiming she’d made a wrong turn. He should leave well enough alone, but those desperate eyes haunt him. And he’s never been one to turn his back on someone in trouble, especially the most beautiful lass he’s ever seen. He just never imagined it’d be his life in jeopardy, and his heart that needs saving.

Can you love enough to let go? Love… It surely has a ring to it, but does it always have to come with a background score? Is it only about Paris, roses, gifts, texts and I love you? At least, that’s what they thought until they met her. She showed them what it takes to love someone and to be in love. Between meeting the deadlines and managing to stay alive, she never tried to socialize. The last thing she expected was to find a gang of friends for life in the middle of the night. Love, respect and trust were the things they shared. Aditya met Pavni as a stranger, took her as a friend and hoped it would never end. The relationship was like a magnet. It pulls them together as well as takes them apart, no matter where they were. He wished it would last forever! Their journey begins from chaos. If they walk through the chaos with love and hope, will they reach their destiny?

Analyzing works by George Eliot, Joseph Conrad and James Joyce, the author offers a new approach to narrative theory by showing how successive generations of novelists have used ever more powerful concepts of chance even though, he argues, chance is precisely what narrative cannot represent, since when it tries to do so it slips into the fated. He also relates the novelistic treatment of chance to important historical currents in the philosophical and scientific understanding of chance, and provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the representation of chance in any narrative. The author asks three central questions: Why did British novelists become intensely interested in chance in the late nineteenth century? Why and how did they thematize it in their fiction? How did the novelistic treatment of chance contribute to innovations in narrative form?

In the mid-1980s, Easton Press began publishing a series of leather-bound collector editions called “Masterpieces of Science Fiction” and “Masterpieces of Fantasy,” which featured some of the most important works in these genres. James Gunn was commissioned to write introductions to these works, which allowed him to pay tribute to many authors who inspired and influenced his own work. In Paratexts: Introductions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, Gunn has collected the most significant essays produced for the Easton series, along with prefaces he wrote for reprints of his own novels. Cited here are some of the most significant works of 19th and 20th century science fiction and fantasy, such as The Island of Dr. Moreau, 1984, Stranger in a Strange Land, A Clockwork Orange, Speaker for the Dead, The Postman, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe, The Dead Zone, The Mists of Avalon, Dragon’s Eye, Nine Princes in Amber, Blue Mars, The Last Unicorn, and The Lord of the Rings. Drawing upon Gunn’s lifetime of work in the field, these introductions include analyses of the individual works and the fields in which they were written. Gunn also briefly discusses each novel’s significance in the science fiction canon. Collected here for the first time, these prefaces and introductions provide readers with insight into more than seventy novels, making Paratexts a must-read for science fiction and fantasy aficionados.