Francis: 3998 books

Keri Walker is 12 years old and is in a bit of strife. She has been on the end of some bullying from The Gang of Five and she’s keen to make herself scarce when they are around. However, she can’t help but step in when she finds a much younger child being bullied.   The Gang...

Life on Mars? – Explores the possibility in a short fantasy tale.The story follows the exploits of Dorian and Sulara as they form a union, overcome adversity and create a new future for themselves. Unbeknown to them an external force is threatening their environment and all of those around...

A KILL CODE SURVIVOR In KILL CODE, Jackie Winn narrowly survived assassin’s attacks Now, she's fighting for her life again HER ALLY Leo Marston, retired sniper assassin, is at her side; friend and lover. They band together to survive, despite their...

Frank Jennings was a keen murder-mystery fan, but no one was more surprised than he to find himself mixed up in a murder mystery in real life, and that the victim was the wife of one of his own neighbours. Paul Murray was the sort of man who ought to have hanged for murder. There everybody...

Fifi LaRue, international woman of intrigue, fashionista, hopeless romantic and lover of rainy days. Episode 2 of the Fifi Serials finds our girl heading to the bright sunny land of Florida to stop a threat to an international gathering at the Kennedy Space Center. Starting off...

Playing the Ball Where the Monkey Leaves it is a necessary rule for anyone who wishes to find peace in life. For peace can come only with the acceptance of life, of the way things are in life. The suchness of life is the starting point in daily living and the beginning of the discovery of happiness...

'When the Eye is Unobstructed’ is a radical call to wake up from the sleep of unawareness. It is an invitation to open our eyes to all that is. The wise ones call this ‘seeing with attention’… seeing that is untrammeled by our judgements. Great teachers and mystics love using stories...

What is enlightenment? What does it do for me? How do I get there? Who or what is God? And who am I really? These are all questions most of us ask from time to time, and some of us insistently. In this book the sage invites the reader to come to the truth of who you are, to see your original...

Cindy Miller is a conservative business executive by day with a secret after five fantasy that she wants to pursue. Her husband tells her to get the idea out of her head and that no one will give her a second look. She has been going to amateur strip night but wants to take her fantasy to the...

Francis Ferry, parisien né à Montmartre, maintenant dans le quatorzième, possède une agence d’investigation… Il passe des heures à faire des filatures, le plus souvent dans le cadre d’adultère et ce pour toucher des honoraires qui couvrent tout juste ses frais. Si ce n’est pas encore...

A Christmas gift to my readers and colleagues here at Smashwords. May the joy of His Nativity illuminate your Christmas season and be yours throughout the coming New Year.

The Tides of Barnegat (1906) is a seashore romance by Francis Hopkinson Smith that deals with divorce and family problems. Set in a small fishing community in New Jersey the story concerns two sisters Jane and Lucy Cobden. Jane the elder pledged long before on her father's deathbed to look after...

A Former Assassin: Leo Marston is done with long-distance murder and he'll do anything to keep it in his past even if he has to make one final kill shot. A Dead Man: Nathan White seeks revenge from the grave—or so it seems when the computer program he wrote prior to his death begins a systemic...

Toma Ivanian returns to Berlin because his parents believe that Orthodox Christianity in Bulgaria will suffer the same fate as in Russia. He returns to Berlin to work for the water department. He's suffering from what his former teacher in Bulgaria called systemic shock. He keeps the secret told to...