14 Hundred Hours

The things we want are so very rarely the things we need. Clifton Heights, a modest Adirondack town, offers many unique attractions. Arcane Delights sells both paperbacks and hard-to-find limited editions. The Skylark Diner serves the best home-cooked meals around, with friendly service and a smile. Every August, Mr. Jingo’s County Fair visits, to the delight of children and adults. In essence, Clifton Heights is the quintessential small American town. Everyone knows everyone else, and everyone is treated like family. It is quiet, simple, and peaceful. But shadows linger here. Flitting in dark corners, from the corner of the eye. If you walk down Main Street after dark, the slight scrape of shoes on asphalt whispers you're not alone, but when you look over your shoulder, no one is there. The moon shines high and bright in the night sky, but instead of throwing light, it only seems to make the shadows lengthen. Children disappear. Teens run away. Hunters get lost in the woods with frightening regularity. Husbands go mad, and wives vanish in the dead of night. And still, when the sun rises in the morning, you are greeted by townspeople with warm waves and friendly smiles, and the shivers pass as everything seems fresh and new... Until night falls once more. Handy's Pawn and Thrift sits several blocks down from Arcane Delights. Like any thrift store, its wares range from the mundane to the bizarre. By daylight, it seems just another slice of small town Americana. But in its window hangs a sign which reads: We Have Things You Need. And when a lonely traveling salesman comes looking for something he desperately wants, after normal visiting hours, after night has fallen, he will face a harsh truth among the shelves of Handy’s Pawn and Thrift: the things we want are rarely the things we need. ©️ Crystal Lake Publishing

There was a woman named Victoria Manansala, she belongs to a poor family. She has a beloved parents who are Aling Beth and Mang Echo. One night, when the moon was full, while Victoria and Sebastian were on their way home they encountered men, then they kidnapped her. When she wakes up, she saw an old man smiling in front of her. She found out that she is the long-lost granddaughter of Senior Fernan. And her parents was already dead. Her parents explains the truth about her. On the city, she fell in love with Lucas, but it brought her pain. On that moment she realized that every full moon, something happened with her. There are four men fell in love with Victoria and they do everything for her to forget the pain. Victoria woke up in the dark room with Tom. She was kidnapped by a person who's the reason why she lost. She discovers the real identity of Tom as well. The two escaped, as time goes by, they fall in love and became a couple. One day, Victoria was kidnapped again, she became missing. And she found by Aling Rosita and Mang Tonyo who takes care of her when she was unconscious. Without her knowing the two was her parents whom she thought were dead. When Victoria is away, she met other man named Fabio who fall in love with her. They found out the truth in the end, and the villain paid everything they did. Years later, one night Tom took Victoria for hiking. Tom proposed to Victoria on the peak of the mountain. She said yes with Tom and they get married. After one year Victoria gave birth to their twin babies, the baby boy was named Deneb while the girl was Star.

My husband finally keeps his promise to take me on a trip abroad after I've given birth to his child. However, he disappears the moment we get off the plane. I roam the foreign land alone, unable to reach him. Two hours later, I stumble upon his childhood sweetheart's social media update. It's a photo of her and my husband sweetly feeding each other ice cream. It's captioned, "Someone who cares about you has you in their heart wherever they are." After a long silence, I comment, "Now you can live in his heart forever." I walk away after leaving nothing but a divorce agreement behind. That's when my husband, who's always been cold and aloof, panics.

Romance and vampire fans will love this story... After three hundred years of running from the vampire who created her, Kira finds solace, aide, and love in the arms of a human... but, for how long? Running from the vampire that made her, Kira gets aid from a magical friend by being placed in a magical coma for 300 years. When it's time to retrieve her from her hiding place, the witch solicits the aid of a few men on a hunting trip. Sparks fly and love is in the air the minute one of the men sets eyes on her. With the evil vampire still searching for her, will he be able to keep her safe? Filled with exciting action and thrills, EMERGENCE is a story that will keep you turning pages right up to the end!

"Don't look at me" she whispered to him as she slowly unzipped his pants, taking his manhood into her hands. Struggling to fix his gaze on the teacher, he felt his cock buried in the warmness of her mouth and her hands moving up and down in sequence as he fought to keep his composure. Her blue eyes stripped him naked and he could see the satisfaction in it as she saw what she was doing to him. "Please" Austin grabbed the chair as he pleaded and felt his body shiver, but Tasha wouldn't stop. ************************************* Austin was a depressed and naive teenager trying to get through the death of his mother, survive high school and be good at football. But he gets involved with Tasha, a female ghost who couldn't remember how she got into the cemetery but with time only realizes she was in a coma. He tries to avoid her which proved to be a bad decision as she made sure to torture him during school hours, if he doesn't help her. He resolves into helping her but ends up causing more problems in his recent relationship. Austin is trying to find the balance between his normal school teenage life,and having his first relationship but instead he finds himself helping a ghost get back into her body, and wanting the person he wasn't sure he could have, Tasha.

When he was 8, she was 3 and a fairy at a Halloween party. His eyes could not leave her side. When he was 15, she was 10, they met at the school entrance, she was in a hurry with her parents and did not see him but he did, his eyes lingered on her every step. When he was 19 she was 14, and was the feisty little thing he has ever seen but then she disappeared... He kept her deeply in his heart, and was eager to meet her again until he saw her as a lady of the night.

Hope Deltori, a 19-year-old girl who lives in the city of Ebian and who anxiously waits for her entrance to the University of Chatrier, a few hours before her entrance to the campus she meets Ronan Ricci, son of Claus Ricci known for being one of the owners of the city, a wolf in sheepskin. Ronan can't help but have feelings for Hope and there are a number of events coming up against him. You will be challenged in all aspects of your life, your love will be challenged on many occasions and the past of both that remains hidden before your eyes will be important key in your union. Come with me and meet them...

Evy was a simple-minded girl. If there's work she's there. Evy is a known workaholic. She works day and night, dedicating each of her waking hours to her jobs and making sure that she reaches the deadline. On the day of her birthday, her body gave up and she died alone from exhaustion. Upon receiving the chance of a new life, she was reincarnated as the daughter of the Duke of Polvaros and acquired the prose of living a comfortable life ahead of her. Only she doesn't want that. She wants to work. Even if it's being a maid, a hired killer, or an adventurer. She will do it. The only thing wrong with Evy is that she has no concept of reincarnation or being isekaid. In her head, she was kidnapped to a faraway land… stranded in a place far away from Japan. So she has to learn things as she goes with as little knowledge as anyone else. Having no sense of ever knowing that she was living in fantasy nor knowing the destruction that lies ahead in the future. Evy will do her best to live the life she wanted and surprise a couple of people on the way. Unbeknownst to her, all her actions will make a ripple. Whether they be for the better or worse.... Evy has no clue.

Alpha Arnold McLean, the great Alpha of the white diamond pack has waited for over a hundred years for his fated mate but the goddess seems to have turned her back on him, or so he thought. Having stayed for as long as a century without his fated mate, he was almost going feral when his people decided to find his him a choose mate. His chosen mate was Tanya Gates, the daughter of a neighbouring pack's Alpha. He agreed to court her for six months before marking her as his mate. Within those six months, Tanya broke his heart and he decided to go far away for some time so as to clear his head. Mildred Paige was an orphan human girl, who hated being broke and idle. She also detested depending on people so she did so many jobs, side jobs to earn a living. Amongst her jobs the one she loved the most was working at the gym house as a cleaner. It was less stressful and better paid. Above all she experienced love there more than anywhere. One day the Alpha decided to visit the gym house as part of his recovery plan, when he got there he felt something different, something he never felt before. His wolf Black screamed mate in his head. "My mate in the human realm?" He thought within himself as a beautiful blond stood in front of him confused. Will Arnold be able to take a human mate? What will Tanya and other wolves do when they find out that their Alpha has impregnated a human?

At the Mating Ceremony, my mate Alexander rejected our mate bond in front of the entire pack, then turned around and marked Sarah instead. While I endured the excruciating pain of rejection and the pack's vicious gossip, Alexander's brother Ethan walked into our ceremonial grounds. He presented me with nine hundred and ninety-nine Moonflowers, confessing he had secretly loved me for years. His wolf had recognized me as his mate, and he'd dreamed of making me his. I was shocked to discover he was my second chance mate, and touched that he saved me from humiliation. I immediately nodded in agreement. Five years into our marriage, I had miscarried five times, and had finally managed to conceive again. Ethan held me carefully, spinning me around with joy, promising to take good care of me and the baby, even if it cost him his life. Four months into my pregnancy, I overheard him talking with the pack healer: "Alpha Ethan, just like the previous five times, the miscarriage drugs have been added to your wife's pregnancy supplements." "I don't understand. Sarah was able to bear your child, so why not your wife?" Ethan laughed bitterly: "Only those who produce an heir can inherit the Alpha position. Alexander is infertile, and I want Sarah to fulfill her wish of becoming the pack's Alpha Female." Alexander and Ethan were the children of our pack's Alpha. The Alpha had declared that whoever produced an heir first would become the next Alpha of the pack. All those passionate vows and promises were nothing but lies. The brothers, Alexander and Ethan, both loved Sarah. If that was how things stood, I would leave. I returned to our bedroom and secretly took out my phone, dialing a number I thought I would never contact again: "I agree to return and inherit the Shadow Pack. But I need you to do me a favor."