Set in an unnamed valley-surrounded by other valleys, each twenty years apart in time-a masterful, moving literary speculative novel in which the Conseil determines if a bereaved resident can cross the border to the past or the future on a mourning tour. One sixteen-year-old Conseil candidate spots two visitors from the future, but is shocked when she recognizes them as the parents of the boy she loves--

Texas Ranger, Birdie Braxton boards the Brazos Belle to attend a costume party, gets tossed into the Brazos and when she's pulled from the river she's told the year is 1890. A fact she can't accept … until she looks across the river to see Birdie's Nest, her ancestral home, no longer exists.Tad Lockhart is a content man-a prosperous rancher with a ladylove in Waco. He's not interested in marriage and family, yet … until he pulls an unconscious...

Victoria Winters doesn't regret her affair at Woodstock, or that she returned from the past pregnant with a daughter who would never know her father. Her only desire is to be a good mother and live happily ever after, but she's deeply indebted to the Maestro, a mysterious man who saved her life in exchange for ten years of service as his time-traveling courier. Victoria has spent the last four years caring for her daughter, but she still has time...

The Ancient One Kadar had it all: so sinfully attractive he could have any woman he wanted, more power than any other priest of ancient Egypt…Then he lost it all - tricked into captivity and made no better than a djinn – forced to do the bidding of whoever opened his bottle. The Dagda Princess Lady Cynthia Learson, daughter to the Duke of Hawthorne, grew up believing she knew what her life would be like. Then, in the year after her debut, she...

He likes whiskey and wild women She likes Ben & Jerry's He's about to get kicked out of his own band She ate her way off the Miss America pageant circuit What could these two possibly have in common? A psychiatrist A lot of unresolved issues A whole bunch of shared lifetimes And a love that is never-ending As bad boy rocker, Jesse Winslow, and former pageant queen, Kylie Martin, each fight the demons screwing up their lives, the one person who holds...

He said all the right things... then left her alone. Troianne Shelden is an intelligent young woman. With a love for history and a stunning figure, she's a catch for any guy. But after a night of passion with a handsome stranger, introduced to her by their mutual friends, she finds herself in trouble. Her parents passed away long ago. Left with a large inheritance, she looks forward to a new life. Fate takes the wheel when on a stormy night her life...

In a vintage bookstore, Emily discovers a typewriter that mysteriously guides her writing. As her words flow, she finds inspiration and growth in her craft and life, leading to an unexpected revelation about the typewriter's true nature.

In this short, speculative novelette, scientist Pieter Harting ponders changes to come over the next 200 years. Harting, quite ahead of his time, describes coming wonders such as self propelled engines, telescopes, widespread use of concrete and aluminum, and daylight at night without the use of candles. Writing under the pen name 'Dr. Dioscorides', Harting takes the reader on a journey through Londinia and beyond in the year AD 2071, detailing scientific...

A bad hair day? Or the adventure of a lifetime…?Abandoned in a Rocky Mountain cabin, hairdresser Jackie Clarke wonders if a bad hair day can get any worse after smooth-talking lover Blade makes off with her car, her cash and her dignity. Her answer comes when a blizzard strands her in a ghost town, then a blazing inferno and a lewd painting thrust her back to 1891, where she is mistaken for famous saloon singer, Lolita Belle. Cole Morrison is a...

In the distant future, while studying the land of Barzakh in the Sahara, members of the Institute for the Archeology of Human Thought unearth the bones of Gara, a young man, whose Myelin will unravel the secrets of his ancient consciousness. A foreigner in his own land, Gara, in search of a better humanity, has traveled through three eras, from the 11th-century deserts of Mauritania to the dystopic future, inadvertently sowing the seeds of his own...