Caribbean Short Stories

Lovers Rock stars Jamaica: its language, its landscape, its vibe, its humor, its edge and its persistent, dogged beauty. These seven stories imagine strange, quirky, familiar and delicious encounters between people in search of romantic love in the twenty-first century. Featuring characters from of all walks of life, each story is connected by the unique vibe of Jamaican desire.

Young, impressionable Aubrey is fascinated by the enigmatic Lord Ruthven, and accompanies him on a tour to Europe. But Aubrey develops a growing distaste for Lord Ruthven’s sinister and grotesque conduct - especially as it concerns human blood. This novella, penned during that tempestuous night in Switzerland amongst such notables as Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley, served as the great inspiration for Bram Stoker to create Dracula.

Is Sandy ready for a steamy interracial beach encounter? High powered executive Sandi James is enjoying her vacation in the Grand Cayman islands, where the sun is hot, but the island men are even hotter! After a steamy interracial oral encounter with a very sexy black porter (see Black Awakening: Caribbean Vacation 1) she finds she can't get enough! What starts out as dinner alone ends up on a deserted beach with a sexy black English businessman ready to take her to new heights of sexual passion!

SHORT READ -- Book 2 of the Cassidy Cousins A week-long beach trip. Six single men, and six single women. Anything can happen. Bennett: He's a billionaire who's looking for love. Aynslee: She's a single mom who's ready for a fresh start. When they meet, their passion ignites! If you enjoy a flirty, steamy instalove, then you’ll love meeting the Cassidy cousins. They’re six single women who’ve survived divorce. Now at forty, or close to it, they’re ready to fall in love again, each of them with a smoking hot man of her own.

Sometimes your husband isn't enough. Hopefully he knows this and encourages you to find the pleasure you deserve from other lovers. That's an arrangement that real-life cuckoldress Raven Merlot has had with her husband for many years. When Jared offers to take girlfriend Kelly to the Caribbean she is thrilled, only to find Jared wants to spend all his time fishing. When the couple are shipwrecked in a storm with a handsome local named Nelson, Kelly seizes the opportunity to flirt with him in order to punish Jared. But then it becomes clear that Jared will not object if she goes a lot further.

All the delightful and bizarre inhabitants of Wonderland are here: the White Rabbit and the Cheshire Cat, the hooka-smoking Caterpillar and the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Ugly Duchess... and, of course, Alice herself - growing alternately taller and smaller, attending demented tea parties and eccentric croquet games, and observing everything with clarity and rational amazement.

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a poet, novelist, and literary critic. He created the enchanting world of fairyland inhabited by characters like the snow-queen, the mermaid's son, ogres, dwarfs, monsters, magicians, and giants. The Pink Fairy Book contains 41 tales from Africa, Japan, Scandinavia, and Europe. They range from familiar stories like "The Snow-Queen" and "The Fir-Tree" to the obscure tales of the Tanuki. This collection contains stories like "The Cats' Elopement", The "Princess in the Chest", "Snowflake", and more....

A collection of short stories selected from over three hundred entries in the Author Pete's Young Adult Writing Competition. The stories, although fictional, are very relatable and speak of everyday occurrences in society. Readers will be left, motivated and inspired by the perseverance and fortitude of the young protagonists. There is indeed a light at the end of the tunnel!

SHORT READ -- Book 3 of the Cassidy Cousins A week-long beach trip. Six single men, and six single women. Anything can happen. After a passionate hook-up, and a surprise pregnancy, this Texas sheriff refuses to give up on the love of his life! If you enjoy a flirty, steamy instalove, then you’ll love meeting the Cassidy cousins. They’re six single women who’ve survived divorce. Now at forty, or close to it, they’re ready to fall in love again, each of them with a smoking hot man of her own.

Just a fling, or is it more? All Julie Steffens wants is a quiet couple of days on a Caribbean beach. Just her, a good book, and the balmy sea breeze. But the minute she meets the sizzling hot sailor of her dreams, sparks start to fly, and she’s tempted into the one type of adventure she’s never tried. The only question is, will one night be enough? ** This 14,000 word SHORT STORY prequel to Uncharted and the Serendipity Adventure Romance series is a stand-alone story with no cliffhanger. ** SERENDIPITY ADVENTURE ROMANCE Prequel - Off the Charts Book 1 - Uncharted Book 2 - Entangled ...

How Anansi got his Stories; Anansi and the Sweet Potatoes, The Three Pumpkins, The Girl & the Crow, The Wild Man of the Forest, The Story of Rose Petal, The Tree of Life.

From "Trench Town" to "Half Way Tree" to "Norbrook" to "Portmore" and beyond, the stories of Kingston Noir shine light into the darkest corners of this fabled city. Joining award-winning Jamaican authors such as Marlon James, Leone Ross, and Thomas Glave are two "special guest" writers with no Jamaican lineage: Nigerian-born Chris Abani and British writer Ian Thomson.

Trinidad Noir reveals the Caribbean island’s darkness and its appeal with an unexpected and gratifying result. Features brand-new stories by Robert Antoni, Elizabeth Nunez, Lawrence Scott, Ramabai Espinet, Shani Mootoo, Kevin Baldeosingh, Vahni Capildeo, Willi Chen, Lisa Allen-Agostini, Keith Jardim, Reena Andrea Manickchand, Tiphanie Yanique, and more.

In 2021, the Panama Papers exposed a web of corruption, revealing how the global elite dodged taxes and hoarded wealth. Among the lush and secretive havens of the Cayman Islands, Eloise Deen emerges, on a relentless hunt for stolen fortunes. Known for her unyielding resolve and a knack for persuasion that borders on the lethal, Eloise is a force to be reckoned with. She's well aware that stealing the money is the easy part... getting away with it is a killer. Dive into this short tale where the stakes are as dangerous as the secrets uncovered, and where getting what you want might just cost...

A “sparkling account” (Publishers Weekly) of the uproarious adventures that befall the Palacio family during their disastrous illegal residence in Trinidad that poignantly captures the complexities of dysfunctional families and passionate (but sometimes messy) romance. After fleeing...

Will Nadia take the leap, or will the shadows of the past hold her back? Nadia, a 45-year-old single mother, has built a life of quiet independence in Scotland. For the past fifteen years, she’s raised her daughter alone, closing her heart to love after a painful divorce. But a chance encounter at her sister’s book launch and conference in Jamaica changes everything. In an instant, Roberto—a charismatic Cuban doctor and singer—awakens feelings Nadia thought were long buried. In a daring matchmaking scheme, her sister and brother-in-law encourage her to open her heart again. But will...

The Nun's Priest's Tale is one of The Canterbury Tales by the 14th century Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Read in Middle English by Robert Ross.

Set beside a quiet river in rural Trinidad, Under the Mango Tree is a contemplative work of literary fiction that follows a single place as different lives pass through it. Across a series of short, interconnected scenes, the book observes moments of stillness, labor, memory, play, and quiet connection—people arriving alone or together, pausing beneath the same shade, and moving on again. There is no central plot to resolve and no single voice to follow; instead, meaning gathers slowly through repetition, atmosphere, and attention. Rooted in Caribbean landscapes and everyday life, Under ...

This is a selection of works by three famous Irishmen: Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and Bram Stoker. It includes: the short story by Bram Stoker, "Dracula's Guest"; Oscar Wilde's poem "Humanitad" and three versions of his "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"; and finally, an early collection of poetry called The Rose by W. B. Yeats. There is a general introduction by the writer and actor Tim Dalgleish and other additional material.

Three cozy mysteries from international best-selling author Susan Harper: Murder at the Museum, A Deadly Reunion, and The Final Piece.