The story features a world where magic has overwhelmed science. Starring the Phantom Stranger, Deadman, The Challengers Of The Unknown, The Blue Beetle and Klarion The Witch Boy.

    Read the short story, assemble the 1,000-piece puzzle, and discover the hidden clues. Then solve the mystery by putting together the pieces in the story and in the puzzle. Slick, book-like packaging and high quality artwork make these puzzles a standout. Beware: the 1,000-piece puzzle is different from the cover!

    

    In order to prove herself and escape her father’s chokehold on her life, she’s determined to get on the fast track towards an independent life. However, she never anticipated how meeting Richard Murphy would change her life… Tales of the Winter Wolf follows the adventures of Nicole and Richard. These short stories and novellas contain spoilers for Witch & Wolf #2, Winter Wolf. This omnibus contains the following stories: Volume One Hunted The Scent of Guilt Firecracker Glitter Volume Two Charmed Crash and Burn Wild Wolf Volume Three The Silvered Wolf The Games Wolves Play Volume Four Tangles Witch Striking a Deal In Hot Water Breaking Point Volume Five The Power of a Word Bonds The Value of a Life Shattered

    Then he meets Kelsey. Blonde. Curvy. Attitude. She makes David's beast surface like never before. Even when she argues with him. When Kelsey learns about David's beast, she has to decide if she wants to live in his shadow. Can they find the light, lost in the dark?

    These billionaire heroes searching for their fated mates would make you drool....Read FREE in Kindle Unlimited!"Kara Lockharte always surprises me. I look forward to her books eagerly, knowing I will not find a cookie-cutter plot that I've read a hundred times." -- PurrToday, Amazon ReviewerDevastatingly ripped billionaire dragon shifters intent on conquest. Independent heroines in search of their own destinies. Tropes you can't resist: arranged marriage, reunion romance, and enemies-to-lovers, reforged into stories of unexpected love, magic and adventure that could only be told in modern day America. These wickedly sexy dragon shifters will stop at nothing to claim their fated mates.This special boxed collection includes three explicitly dragon-ferocious romance novellas:BETROTHED TO THE DRAGON (Book 1)What's worse than being hunted down and killed?Being married to a dragon.BELONGING TO THE DRAGON (Book 2)My body wants to say yes to this billionaire dragon shifter.But to mate Lucas is to condemn him to death.BONDED TO THE DRAGON (Book 3)I thought he was helping me escape...Instead, he imprisoned me all for himself.This boxed set is filled with heat, danger, and the secret world of dragon shifters. If you love shifters, adventure, and the power of love, these books are for you.

    Who can you trust? You are, after all, a rogue... A man without a past. Pursued through the port city of Qeynos by a necromancer and a shadowknight, the charming rogue eludes his assailants by stealing another's place on a ship bound for the pirate-infested Barren Coast.

    The curvy, plus-sized waitress is his mate, yet he still hasn’t figured out how to tell her about his bear. When Kate is put in danger, all bets are off, and nothing can stop the grizzly from claiming and protecting his mate. BROTHER BEAR (Book 2) Ana Smith has been on the run for nearly two months when she stops in Bear Mountain looking for work and meets sexy, muscle bound Seth. Too bad gorgeous, tall, perfect guys don’t go for curvy women like her. Seth knows Ana is hiding something, but he won’t push her for answers no matter how long it takes. He’s chosen her and he’s not letting go. When Ana’s past rolls into town, she finds out nothing will stop a grizzly determined to protect his mate. DOUBLE BEAR (Book 3) Samantha Hastings has lived in Bear Mountain her entire life and doesn’t want to leave, but she longs for a man to call her own and accept her, curves included. When she falls for both Cade and Collin, she vows to stay away from the gorgeous twins. After years of searching for the perfect woman to share for eternity, the two men have other ideas for their curvy mate. Sam’s about to find out that loving two men might seem wrong, but her mates will never let her go. IDLE BEAR (Book 4) Sara Henley has resigned herself to a life alone. Though she wants nothing more than a husband and a family, she knows she won’t find him in Bear Mountain, and she’s not willing to leave the small town. Aaron Williams hasn’t shifted into his bear form in almost a hundred years, and considers his shifter side a curse, but he can’t resist the pull to Bear Mountain. When he meets Sara, Aaron is forced to reconsider his past choices, but he still can’t reconcile with his bear—until Sara is put in danger. Now all he has to do is convince his mate to give him another chance. LOST BEAR (Book 5) Dave Yeager is the deputy in Bear Mountain, and the only human in town who knows about the shifting abilities of the sheriff and his friends. After watching yet another couple mate, he’s reminded of his loneliness. Emma has been living in her bear form for the past ten years, but she can’t ignore the call to Bear Mountain. Sparks fly when she meets Dave, but she’s unwilling to be cheated on again, and creates a plan to satisfy them both. It’s perfect until she realizes an alpha always gets what he wants. (Each book is also sold separately!)

    He grew up on Earth convinced he was the last of his kind. He was wrong. Superman, Supergirl, and the half-Kryptonian, half-human clone Superboy must now face their biggest threat: H'El on Earth.

    But when two faces from his old gang turn up, he finds himself getting involved in a new scam, and soon he is embroiled in a world he wants to escape and is forced to confront a man who is dangerously unhinged.

    

    He’s the one that helped Kane out during a shifter battle. Always After Dark takes place in Dallas, Texas. The Tiero family, a group of white tiger shifters is bringing some of its business interests from Europe into the United States. CONTROVERSY Remember Vax? He made a cameo in Shifters Forever: Seduction. He’s back! Shifter Vax Tiero runs After Dark. A nightclub that doubles as a haven for shifters. Man, did he screw up, falling for the curvy graduate student Callie Rivera. That’s a no-no because of the Tiero Council Code. One of the tigresses is a furious, petulant visitor whose jealousy puts Callie in danger. Now Vax has two problems. Keeping Callie alive and keeping that he’s a shifter secret from her. Wait. Two?!? Make that three problems because his half-brother, an equally sexy, shifter named Rafe is in from Europe for a visit. And he’s got his eye on Callie. He’ll waste no time going for what he wants while Vax is taking care of After Dark. Two hot shifter males and a hot-tempered shifter female promise sparks, melee, and drama. The hot sex is a side-effect. TERRITORY Shifter Cy’s sister is missing. He shouldn’t be crossing into Tiero Territory to look for her. He should follow proper channels and notify the Tiero Tribe. But he can’t. He doesn’t have the time to wait around for niceties and permissions. Until he’s caught. Damn the luck. It doesn’t help that one of his captors is a beautiful curvy tigress named Lila. He needs to escape to find his sister, but he hates the thought of leaving the stunning bootilicous tigress behind. ADVERSARY It’s a Shifter Council Meeting. This one’s being held at After Dark. The city’s teeming with shifters. They’re supposed to be cordial, but tensions run high when territorial disputes arise. Curvy tigress Veila has no business falling for Mark Martinez, the alpha of another tribe—a tribe the Tieros have had scuffles with that have lasted several centuries. Romeo and Juliet’s family rivalry had nothing on Veila and Mark’s families. SANCTUARY White tiger shifter Gavin Castro’s got a job to do. Falling in love isn’t part of it. Arctic fox and curvy, Layla’s on a mission. Keep her secret, and catch a tiger… shifter. And not by the tail! BBW Paranormal Shape Shifter Romance If hot sex skeeves you out, you may want to pass on this book. If freaky, downright dirty sexy talk bothers you, yeah, for sure you gotta pass on this one. We believe in sex--hot, dirty, delicious sex. Yup, make it sweaty, too. It's not just sex, it's about the romance. But good romance has sex, and we keep the doors open! Oh, and the lights on! ;)

    Sorrow, joy, hope, and the future loom ahead.

     Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection If You Liked School, You'll Love Work.

     ABOUT THE SHORT STORY’S PRICE: Hello, you lovely people. Odd to talk about money straight up, but I know that some of you might be thinking, £1.99/US$2.99/CDN$3.99/A$3.99 is a lot for a short story. Let me explain how it works in the UK. A rate of 20% VAT (Value Added Tax) applies to eBooks. This doesn’t apply to ‘real’ paper books. That means 33p of the £1.99 goes straight to the British government. Amazon takes around 2p to deliver the story to your Kindle, then takes another 48p as its cut. The remainder, £1.16, goes to me. That's not a great deal, I hope you agree. A roughly similar story applies in foreign territories. In these times of falling sales, and authors losing their contracts, and only one in seven traditionally published authors being able to write fulltime, stories like this are a vital way of YOU supporting the authors whose books you enjoy. So THANK YOU for your support! Think of it in terms of a pint of beer or a cup of coffee: they cost £2-4, depending on where you live in the UK. This story will give you more enjoyment (I think!) than either of those things, and last for a longer time, and cost you less money. This is the third time I have self-published a short story. (Massive thanks here to Pete Simpson, who designed the cover for me!) It’s been an exciting project since the day I did the poll on Facebook, asking you lovely people which of my characters you wanted me to write about. Centurion Tullus won out, narrowly, and this is the result. The one hundred and something people who backed the Kickstarter campaign got to read this story almost 7 months ago, but now you can too. Oh, what's it about? The war of the Batos, or the Pannonian War, which took place between AD 6 and 9, a general emergency that had almost 100.000 legionaries sent to modern-day Croatia to sort out the rebels. Enjoy the story, and please email me if you have any questions about it or anything else – ben@benkane.net Ben