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Ronelle was smitten with it the minute she and Leonard pulled up into its driveway. Because the house was nestled snugly between two towering, thriving oaks covered in shiny, green leaves, set slightly back from the road, the couple hadn’t been able to get a full view...

Prete swaggered as he entered the apartment. He looked at the lanky black man reading, seated in a plush recliner. “Not bad accommodations for a cell, is it, Lightbringer?” Prete asked Cole who slowly rose from the chair. “A cell is still a prison, no matter how...

Leonora was livid with fury. “Keisha grabbed at a straw, Minister, and he has no power whatsoever to change the course of this war,” she nearly spat out her words, only remembering at the last second to adopt a subservient tone. Minister Prete had killed others for...

An icy breeze cut straight through Cole’s jacket. He glanced down from the top of the lighthouse at the surf pounding the beach. A strange, prescient sensation wrapped itself tightly around the black, lanky twenty-six-year old, as if trying to dispel the physical cold...

Gavin stared at the scrap of paper as if it were a slice of gold. He looked around furtively to ascertain if anybody else in the Funds Office happened to be looking at him, but nobody was paying him any attention. Gavin failed to see Justin staring at him with a deep...

Danté fell instantly for Joshua the minute he walked into the seminar venue. His fair skin only accentuated the mole perched slightly above the left corner of his kiss-me-please pink upper lip. Danté’s knees turned to wobbly jelly when Joshua smiled at the group; it...

I am careful to sneak very discreetly into the apple orchard. Although I had been visiting the gardens for about six years now, since I was eleven years old and had run away from my abusive stepmom and her endless stream of lovers, many of whom thought I came with the...

The wind was a beast determined to invade the small house Dan had constructed about eight years ago on the shores of a remote mountain lake. Finding the spot with all the materials he would need readily available within nature was pure serendipity. It was also exactly...

The Red Army was rapidly gaining ground. Although the soldiers of the Black Army were throwing themselves in battle-crazed, mindless charges against them, the Red Army soldiers were inexorably nearing their goal: to replenish their rapidly dwindling slave numbers. It...

Forty-two-year-old Brenda revelled in the delight of vilifying neighbours and spreading scandalous rumours. Her latest target was the oh-so-fresh-faced intern, Mary-Ann. “What a pretentious name,” Brenda thought uncharitably when Marcus, the Overseas Department...