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The Bookworm Box is proud to present Two More Days, our second anthology installment. Much like the first installment, Two More Days is an exciting and unique listening experience with contributions from several of our charity's featured authors. Each author was given the same first sentence. Where they took that sentence was completely up to them.

Être captive n’était que le début… Lorsqu’une jeune Highlander est l’orpheline confiée à un oncle qui dirige une bande de vauriens et de voleurs, elle n’a d’autre choix que de rester et de voler. Aucun choix, car partir signifierait abandonner son petit frère. Elle lui a dit de ne pas la suivre lorsqu’elle part razzier le bétail d’autres clans. Avec sa malchance, il fallait bien qu’il choisisse justement la nuit de sa capture pour la suivre. Drew MacIntosh n’aurait jamais imaginé devenir le tuteur des jumeaux en bas âge de sa sœur. C’est un combattant. Il ...

William Blackheath fa sogni ricorrenti, sempre lo stesso, ancora e ancora: una donna che lo chiama, che gli chiede aiuto. Non crede ai veggenti, ma decide comunque di andare da uno per capire cosa significhino quei sogni. Gli viene detto che, per trovare pace, deve trovare quella donna. Shana Invermore è per metà scozzese e per metà gitana. Di certo non è un fiore delicato, né una che segue sempre le regole. Sa razziare meglio di molti uomini. Finché non viene catturata. Ora Shana è la prigioniera di Jacob Stewart. E quel dannato Stewart ha intenzione di usarla come esca. Gli farà ...

La prigionia era solo l’inizio… Quando una giovane delle Highlands è l’orfana affidata a uno zio che guida una banda di farabutti e ladri, non ha altra scelta che restare e rubare. Nessuna scelta, perché andarsene significherebbe abbandonare il suo fratellino. Gli ha detto di non seguirla quando esce a razziare il bestiame degli altri clan. Con la sua sfortuna, era inevitabile che decidesse di seguirla proprio la notte in cui viene catturata. Drew MacIntosh non avrebbe mai immaginato di diventare il tutore dei gemelli piccoli di sua sorella. È un combattente. Non è materiale da ...

L’amore torna una seconda volta… Clyde McMannis non è esattamente felice. E chi lo sarebbe, con i suoi bambini e l’amore della sua vita scomparsi? Ma riesce ad andare avanti. Tiene a bada il dolore grazie a coloro a cui si è avvicinato. Tutto cambia quando un volto familiare del suo passato da tempo dimenticato lo ritrova e gli fa un’offerta. Ailsa Dunne ha perso il suo vero amore e marito in guerra. Le sembra giusto portare avanti il suo scopo e servire la Scozia. Quando viene chiamata ad addestrare giovani donne come assassine e spie, risponde alla chiamata. Magari potesse ...

Rufus MacIntosh vuole riprendersi il diritto di nascita della sua famiglia. Ha combattuto guerre e i suoi demoni personali. È tempo di reclamare ciò che appartiene ai suoi. Più precisamente, a suo fratello. Così, con amici e alleati, riconquista ciò che è della sua famiglia. Le terre sono di nuovo loro. Solo che ora Rufus scopre che suo fratello ha abbandonato il diritto di nascita, la terra, tutto quanto. È partito verso nuove terre e nuovi mondi. Rufus dovrebbe sentirsi sollevato: non è più responsabile di nulla di tutto questo. Può andarsene dalle terre dei suoi antenati. Ma ...

William Blackheath fait des rêves récurrents, toujours le même, encore et encore : celui d’une femme qui l’appelle, qui implore son aide. Il ne croit pas aux voyants, mais il va tout de même en consulter un pour comprendre la signification de ces rêves. On lui dit que, pour trouver la paix, il doit retrouver cette femme. Shana Invermore est à moitié écossaise, à moitié gitane. Ce n’est certainement pas une pauvre petite chose fragile, ni quelqu’un qui respecte toujours les lois. Elle sait mener un raid aussi bien que n’importe qui. Jusqu’à ce qu’elle se fasse ...

L’amour revient une seconde fois… Clyde McMannis n’est pas exactement heureux. Qui le serait, alors que ses enfants et l’amour de sa vie ont disparu ? Mais il tient bon. Il garde sa douleur à distance grâce à ceux dont il s’est rapproché. Tout cela change lorsqu’un visage familier de son passé depuis longtemps oublié le retrouve et lui fait une offre. Ailsa Dunne a perdu son véritable amour et son mari à la guerre. Il lui semble juste d’accomplir sa mission et de servir l’Écosse. Lorsqu’on fait appel à elle pour former de jeunes femmes à devenir espionnes et ...

In an all-too-plausible future where corporate conglomerates have left the world’s governments in shambles, anyone with means has left the polluted Earth for the promise of a better life on a SpaceTech-owned colony among the stars. Maité Martinez is the daughter of an Earther Latina and a powerful Aunare man, an alien race that SpaceTech sees as a threat to their dominion. When tensions turn violent, Maité finds herself trapped on Earth and forced into hiding.

When Amihanna di Aetes first got to Sel’Ani, she never thought she’d have the full support of the Aunare, but she does. She never thought that she’d fall in love, get married, or become the High Queen, but she did. She never thought that she’d be planning something so stupid as her return to Earth, but that’s exactly what she’s doing. With the Alliance broken, SpaceTech has fully retreated to their home planet, but the chaos of war will descend again. Amihanna and Lorne know they don’t much time to plan their next move.

Nightmares are plaguing me. I wake up smelling sulfur, feeling my skin burning, knowing that I’m burning to death on the surface of Abaddon, but I’m not. I’m on Sel’Ani, my father’s home planet. I’m alive and using my true name and finally free to be myself. And yet, I’m completely falling apart. Every time I wake up screaming, Lorne is there. I don’t understand how he knows when I need him, but he does, and even if I can’t say the words aloud, I’m so thankful that he’s there. Because I wouldn’t survive this without him.

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Told in her own words, this is the story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was portrayed in an Oscar-winning performance by Charlize Theron in the film Monster. There have been few female serial killers, but Aileen Wuornos, who was executed in 2002, was a remarkable example of this rare breed of death row inmate. All too often, female prostitutes have been the victims of male serial killers - Wuornos’ killings were the inverse of this pattern.

Chris is the guy Cosette always wanted. Fun. Funny. Lighthearted and sweet. Chris always manages to find beauty and laughter, even when fighting a chapel full of demons. He's exactly what she needs. Except he's a werewolf and she's a member of the Lunar Court—the only fey court that holds sway over the werewolves. Even on his best day, Chris isn't strong enough to last a few hours in the Lunar Court without becoming a slave. No matter how much Cosette's heart wants him, she knows she has to let him go.

Meredith Molloney never thought she'd find a mate, let alone someone like Donovan Murry—one of the most powerful Alpha werewolves alive. Now that she's no longer cursed and the evil Luciana Alvarez has been taken care of, she thinks life will finally settle down. Then Donovan gets a call telling him that his pack has gone to pieces. The news that his second in command has been found brutally murdered has Donovan packing his bags for Ireland, but the last thing Meredith wants to do is go with him. She's never let a few angry wolves stop her, and she's not about to start now.

Claudia de Santos has always looked out for every witch but herself. She fought from the shadows as her coven turned dark, and with a little help from her half-witch/half-Alpha werewolf cousin, Teresa McCaide, Claudia is doing everything she can to keeper friends and family in the light. Now the coven has splintered into two factions: Luciana's army of witches wielding dark magic, and Claudia's few stragglers who fight with the wolves. War is coming, and it won't be much of a battle if Claudia can't find the spells to counteract Luciana's demonic power.

When she finds her best friend, Meredith, getting sick in the bathroom, Tessa knows something’s majorly wrong. Meredith was cursed years ago, and the dark magic kept her wolf dormant - only now the wolf is awake, and that same spell is killing her. Tessa has no intention of sitting around while Meredith wastes away. Even if it means playing with magic she doesn’t understand, she’ll do anything to save Meredith’s life. Including bargaining with the local coven of witches and its crazed leader, whose only goal is getting Tessa to join the witchy ranks.

Tessa—part witch, part werewolf, raised human and now the unofficial leader of a newly minted supernatural alliance—gets a distressing call from her brother, Axel, in the middle of the night. Tessa and her mate, Dastien, race to save Axel, but Tessa's learned that nothing is ever easy in the supernatural world. She has seconds to make a choice, but there’s only one thing Tessa can do to save the two most important men in her life—sacrifice herself.

For the first time since Tessa met Dastien, life is quiet. The evil witch, Luciana, is six glorious feet under, St. Ailbe's is closed due to human trespassers, and people are finally getting used to the fact that supernaturals exist in the world. It seems like the perfect time for a honeymoon. Their trip is turning out to be the honeymoon that fantasies are made of—sunset cruises, long walks on the beach, and every romantic cliché you can imagine. Tessa couldn't be happier. Except that her visions are on the fritz.

Tessa McCaide has a unique talent for getting into trouble. Then again, it isn’t easy for a girl with psychic visions to ignore what she sees. Luckily Tessa and her family are leaving California and moving halfway across the country, giving her the perfect opportunity to leave her reputation as “Freaky Tessa” behind. But Tessa doesn’t realize that kissing the wrong guy in her new Texas town could land her in far more trouble than she ever imagined. Like being forced to attend St. Ailbe’s Academy, a secret boarding school for werewolves.