Matildas superstar Sam Kerr's incredible story! It's official! Eleven-year-old Sam Kerr is a fully-fledged soccer tragic! So, when the school's annual Sports Day comes around, she is disappointed when soccer isn't on the list of activities. Sam goes on a mission to get her beloved game added to the program. With help from her best friends, Indi and Dylan, she petitions her classmates to create the first-ever soccer team in the history of her school. But will Chelsea stir up trouble and ruin everything? On the home front, Sam and her siblings are organising a surprise party for their parents' wedding anniversary. But things aren't going to plan! And with her team's grand final just around the corner, there's a lot to deal with ... even for a soccer superstar in the making!

Clan, family, duty—the tenets of the Oren-yaro are clear: you are swords first, servants first. Yet no one expects much from the youngest daughter, not even when your family is sworn to the wolves who rule the land. At an age when most of her sisters have wed and borne children, Anira remain nursemaid to a decrepit father and an ailing mother, forgotten by a world moving too fast for her liking. When her elder brother deserts Warlord Yeshin's army, she is forced to step up to save her family from disgrace.Plunged into a world of bloodshed, Anira becomes the unlikely last link to a tyrant's plans as she is tasked with bringing home the first dragon their kingdom has seen in decades. The arrival of a mercenary band, hell-bent on the same goal, creates a rivalry between her and their stubborn, unyielding leader. With her family's freedom on the line, Anira must risk vengeful ancients, debased rituals, and even her own sanity to seize the prize.When death...

LOVE'S HOME RUN is as pure and emotional as it gets. Readers will love the page-turning drama as they followed a playboy trying to be husband material. Filled with memorable moments, it's a story told with heart and humor, and is a tale about love and renewal triumphing in the face of overwhelming odds. JACK NEWHOUSE, the best right fielder in baseball, has grown tired of easy women and wild sex. To the chagrin to his partying teammates, he wants to settle down and get married. On the other side of this enthralling romantic comedy, DJUANA had just told her man of seven years that they are pregnant. The guy exploded in rage, striking Djuana and leaving her in the restaurant stunned and bewildered. Pregnant, heartbroken and depressed, the last thing Djuana expected to find that night was the man of her dreams. And Jack fell in like immediately and pursued Djuana like a sharply hit fly ball.

Part XXXIII featuring contributions from: Terry Golledge, Naching T. Kassa, Susan Knight, Martin Daley, Dan Rowley, Marcia Wilson, Tracy J. Revels, Josh Cerefice, Craig Stephen Copland, Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Mark Wardecker, David Marcum, Kevin P. Thornton, Tim Symonds, Tom Turley, David MacGregor, Andrew Bryant, Hugh Ashton, a poem by Alisha Shea, and forewords by Jeffrey Hatcher, Roger Johnson, Emma West, Steve Emecz, and David MarcumParts XXXI, XXXII, and XXXIII 2022 Annual 61 New Holmes Adventures Collected in Three Companion Volumes.In 2015, the first three volumes of The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories arrived, containing over 60 stories in the true traditional Canonical manner, revisiting Holmes and Watson in those days where it is "always 1895" . . . or a few decades on either side of that. That was the largest collection of new Holmes stories ever assembled, and originally planned to be a one-time event. But readers wanted more, and the contributors had more...

Random circumstances brought them together. Love made them family. When Maddie and Robert got engaged, she knew she wanted a holiday wedding. After all, the two of them had met at Christmas, he'd proposed at Christmas, and Christmas had always been a magical time for her and her girls. But each year after their engagement, the yuletide season seems to get preoccupied with everyone else's needs. Between Maddie's four daughters and their budding families, her mother's never-ending escapades, and Robert's job and his son, it never seems to be the right time for the two of them to walk down the aisle. As Christmas approaches yet again, it appears Maddie may finally be able to make her own wedding a priority. But when a secret comes to light that threatens the entire foundation of Maddie's family, the magic of the season seems too tarnished and tainted for a walk down the aisle. Will the secrets of the past douse the Christmas spirit and...

The New York Times–bestselling author discusses her crime-solving hacker heroine, "surely one of the genre's oddest and most interesting creations" (Chicago Tribune). When the NYPD detective and sociopath known simply as Mallory made her series debut, John Sandford called her "one of the most interesting new characters to come along in years." A homeless wild child who was taken in by a New York City cop and grew up to follow in his footsteps, she possesses a skill set—including a talent for computer hacking—that allows her to track down her prey like no one else. In this insightful essay, author Carol O'Connell shares fascinating insights about her origins, her psychology, and her strikingly different sense of right and wrong. "Mallory is not your usual plucky and generally wholesome mystery solver. Jane Marple would probably cross the street to avoid making eye contact with her." —The Washington Post Book...

Vampire succubus Godfrey has always pursued love, but yielding to his feelings for his EMT partner, Trevor, wouldn’t be right. Instead he feeds on sexual energy and investigates a drug ring. But even a vampire can’t ignore his feelings forever.