Mills & Boon are excited to present The Anne Mather Collection – the complete works by this classic author made available to download for the very first time! These books span six decades of a phenomenal writing career, and every story is available to read unedited and untouched from their original release. Passion...halfway across the world! What would her family say if she told them she was in love with an older man who lived in the foothills of the upper Amazon basin? Alexandra could answer her own question – they would be horrified! But she is determined to be with the man she desires – and nobody is going to stop her!

Here is Paul Gallico’s most moving fable since the immortal The Snow Goose. “This story was told to me when I was a boy, by my great-grandmother on a Christmas Eve by the fire. I always believed that stories told by great-grandmothers must be so, for their old eyes look inward and they recall . . . “I never knew whether this was something she had heard, or perhaps read in old letters. yellowing in an attic loft, but only that it happened in the wilderness of Britain’s colonies in the New World in the long distant past on Christmas Eve.” So begins Paul Gallico’s Christmas tale about a frontier family in colonial America. Jasper Adams had settled in the North American wilderness, cleared the forest, and built the fortlike cabin to which he later brought his bride, Dorcas, whom he had wooed and won in Albany. Her family was newly arrived from England, but her great love for Jasper enabled her to adapt to this new life. And in April 1752 she gave birth to their son. It was a hard life but a rewarding one. It was also dangerous. For the last fifty years the French, sometimes with Indian allies, and the British had been struggling for control of America. But constant vigilance and luck had kept Jaspers family and home safe. That is, until the morning of December 24, when an Indian raiding party surprised Dorcas while Jasper was out hunting. Without a miracle, all would be lost. In this heartwarming story of faith and fortitude, Gallico describes a confrontation between two cultures and a victory for humanity.

M*A*S*H* meets CATCH-22 in the most riotous, ribald, WW II military madhouse ever! It all began when Major Kelly's Army engineers were dropped into Nazi-occupied France and ordered to keep a bridge open until the Allies arrived. Except the mission was a secret and nobody knew they were there--nobody except the Luftwaffe, which kept bombing the bridge ... which meant the GI's kept rebuilding it ... which meant the Luftwaffe kept bombing it... which meant the tension was doing funny things to Major Kelly's men's minds ... which mean anything could happen.

Neugeboren's debut collection of stories and third book. The title story, actually a novella, won the Transatlantic Review Novella Award, tells the story of Corky's baseball-playing brother, "probably the most famous guy in our neighborhood in Brooklyn," and is narrated by Howie. This adolescent Howie is also the voice behind five other stories within the collection, all also set in Brooklyn. Neugeboren's ability to use sports as his arena for fictional settings is top-notch.

The Crossroads, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.Along a major commercial strip, one family has built its fortune on blood, sweat, and tears . . . and that makes them a target. More than half a century ago, Papa Drovek opened his small grocery store at the junction of two country roads. As he bought more and more land, the roads became highways, and now the Droveks own a complex of hotels, restaurants, a truck stop, a shopping center, and two gas stations. Papa's eldest son, Charles, is president of the Crossroads Corporation, son Leo enjoys his token job, and daughter Joan manages the commercial tenants' leases. But when younger son Pete's wife gets restless and lonely, she becomes an easy pawn in a sleazy scheme of robbery and murder. The target? Old Papa Drovek himself.Features a new Introduction by Dean KoontzPraise for John D. MacDonald"The great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." - Stephen King"My favorite novelist of all time." - Dean Koontz"To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen." - Kurt Vonnegut"A master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer . . . John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all of us in the field. Talk about thebest." - Mary Higgins Clark

divpContents:br/ppIntroduction · Robert SilverbergbrTomorrow’s Children · Poul Anderson amp; F. N. Waldrop · nv Astounding Mar 1947 brIt’s a Good Life · Jerome Bixby · ss Star Science Fiction Stories #2, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 brThe Mute Question · Forrest J Ackerman · vi Other Worlds Sep 1950 brLet the Ants Try · Frederik Pohl · ss Planet Stories Win 1949 brThe Conqueror · Mark Clifton · ss Astounding Aug 1952 brLiquid Life · Ralph Milne Farley · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories Oct 1936 brHothouse · Brian W. Aldiss · nv Famp;SF Feb 1961 brOzymandias · Terry Carr · ss Again, Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972 brThe Man Who Never Forgot · Robert Silverberg · ss Famp;SF Feb 1958 brGinny Wrapped in the Sun · R. A. Lafferty · ss Galaxy Aug 1967 brWatershed · James Blish · ss If May 1955/p/div

Colonel Julian and Other Stories was Bates's first collection following World War II, containing stories he wrote between 1941 and 1951. The New York Times called the collection 'distinguished...Mr. Bates avoids the sensational or the melodramatic; through an unerring selection of the exact gesture or thought or act or incident, he reveals the very essence of his characters' thwarted personalities.'The title story 'Colonel Julian' sees an eighty-three-year-old veteran of service in India now hosting pilots in his mansion. Here the old generation meets the new. The Colonel is fond of a young pilot, but also bewildered: by his enthusiasm so different from his own business-like relationship with war, by his lack of perspective on his role in a larger military strategy, and by an apparent absence of ethics.'The Bedfordshire Clanger' sees the welcome return of Uncle Silas after a ten year hiatus. Bates has Silas regaling his young nephew...

This is the first of two volumes of the author's vigorous apprentice work, rescued from the pulps by a team of four editors. During the years covered here, 1947-1952, the author "would make a list of the magazines which might be interested and then send [the story] out again and again until it was sold or the list was exhausted. There were lots of magazines then. There was an open market for short fiction. There were lots of readers. Bless them!" [Author's Foreword] The pulps included Detective Tales, New Detective, Doc Savage, and Dime Detective, among others.

From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   He had done a big favor for her husband, then for the lady herself. Now she’s dead, and Travis McGee finds that Helena Pearson Trescott had one last request of him: to find out why her beautiful daughter Maureen keeps trying to kill herself. But what can a devil-may-care beach bum do for a young troubled mind?   “The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author.”—Jonathan Kellerman   McGee makes his way to the prosperous town of Fort Courtney, Florida, where he realizes pretty quickly that something’s just not right. Not only has Maureen’s doctor killed herself, but a string of murders and suicides are piling up—and no one seems to have any answers.   Just when it seems that things can’t get any stranger, McGee becomes the lead suspect in the murder of a local nurse. As if Maureen didn’t have enough problems, the man on a mission to save her will have to save himself first—before time runs out.   Features a new Introduction by Lee Child

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Here are strange, beautiful stories covering the full spectrum of the late Roger Zelazny's remarkable talents. He had a rare ability to mix the dream-like, disturbing imagery of fantasy with the real-life hardware of science fiction. His vivid imagination and fine prose made him one of the most highly acclaimed writers in his field. Three times he won the Nebula Award, and six times the Hugo Award, for excellence in novels and short fiction. Roger Zelazny possessed a unique, dazzling talent; his visions of the future, of other worlds and of other realities are, by turns, enchanting and disturbing, and always memorable.

Apr 1789 - Jul 1790At Fontainebleau all seems peaceful and serene, with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette secure on their thrones. Yet as Roger Brook arrives on a secret and vital mission for Prime Minister Pitt, the smell of blood, Revolution and Terror is already in the air. Intrigue, violence, suspicion – this is the maelstrom into which Roger is plunged at once. But with it: love. Isabella D'Arana is beautiful, Spanish – and married. Laws and conventions must be defied if he is to have her. With his love story folding into his professional affairs, Police and agents must be outwitted if he is to achieve his secret mission.

'...Once we have begun our operations there can be no turning back, but if you agree to join me I have no single doubt as to our success. What is your answer?'Hinckman stood up—his great chin jutted out and he threw his massive shoulders back as he replied: 'I guess this is the biggest proposition that's ever been put up, Lord Fortescue—but I'm your man!'Lord Gavin took his hand, a sudden fire leapt into his strange, cold eyes. 'Within a year,' he said softly, 'you and I will be the richest and most powerful men in the world.