Uncle Oliver has a rule before the girls go out: his shield goes on first. No penetration — just his own release left inside their panties, meant to keep the boys away. Laine's used to it. Her visiting cousin Alicia isn't. He doesn't stop there.
A story in the Daughters if the Line Universe
In 1944, the B-29 has a reputation as a flying death trap, and the men assigned to fly it are refusing. The Army's answer: send in two women pilots to prove it can be done. Karen Whitfield doesn't fly to make a point—until the point needs making. When an engine catches fire mid-demonstration, she and her copilot have thirty seconds of procedure between them and disaster. What follows silences every man on the flight line—for exactly as long as it takes them to feel embarrassed about it.
A story in the Daughters if the Line Universe
When a burning bomber crashes at the edge of a WAAF airfield, medical orderly Vera Ashworth doesn't stop to think—she runs toward it. What follows is thirty seconds that will define her: a trapped pilot, bombs still live in the wreckage, and a choice made not in her mind but in her body, before fear has time to catch up. A short, true-hearted story about the quiet shape of courage—and what it costs to be called a hero for doing the only thing you knew how to do.
Two years after Robert's Rebellion, three foreigners visit Tywin Lannister, Lord of Casterly Rock, during his breakfast and alter the course of history for the Seven Kingdoms.
There is no word in English to describe the relationship between my children and their in-laws. However, there are at least two ways to solve the problem. One is to use the invented term “kin-law”. The other...
Marcus Hale had every chance in the world and wasted all of them. He drank, he gambled, he lied—and when his pregnant wife Claire Jensen was driven to the edge, he arrived too late to stop her. For twenty years afterward, even as he clawed his way to wealth and power, regret followed him like a shadow he could never outrun. Then, at the height of his success, a gunshot ended everything—and sent him back. Marcus wakes on the day it all began again: Claire alive, furious, and done with his empty