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The Kiss
An Anthology of Love and Other Close Encounters
2014
First Published
3.84
Average Rating
446
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A kiss is a simple communication. It can also be an exchange, a betrayal, an assault, a promise, a hope...or it could be a goodbye. The intimacy of a kiss cannot be denied. Whether shared, stolen or simply dreamed of, its recipient will be affected. Thirty-one stories by authors from around the world will tease your imagination as you anticipate ‘The Kiss’ in each weird or wonderful tale. This cross-genre anthology contains stories by Kate Aaron, Saxon Andrew, Jacques Antoine, Alison Blake, E. B. Boggs, Shirley Bourget, Ben Cassidy, Jason Deas, Sharon Delarose, Meghan Ciana Doidge, Suzy Stewart Dubot, Corrie Fischer, Brandon Hale, Traci Tyne Hilton, Colleen Hoover, Mona Ingram, J. L. Jarvis, Elizabeth Jasper, Anna J. McIntyre, Jess Mountifield, C. A. Newsome, S. Patrick O'Connell, Suzie O'Connell, Jeanette Raleigh, J. R. C. Salter, Molly Snow, Holli Marie Spaulding, Cleve Sylcox, Robert Thomas, Chris Ward and George Wier. 130,000 words

Avg Rating
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Number of Ratings
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Authors

J.L. Jarvis
Author · 20 books

I’m is a left-handed former opera singer/teacher/lawyer who lives and writes books on a mountaintop in upstate New York. Sign up to get monthly book news at https://www.jljarvis.com/book-news/. If you’d like to get in touch, you can reach me at https://www.jljarvis.com/contact/. Happy reading!

Kate Aaron
Kate Aaron
Author · 27 books

Born in Liverpool, Kate Aaron is a bestselling author of the #1 LGBT romances What He Wants, Ace, The Slave, and other works. She holds a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature, and an MA in Gender, Sexuality and Culture, and is an outspoken advocate for equal rights. Kate swapped the North West for the Midwest in October 2015 and married award-winning author AJ Rose. Together they plan to take over the world.

J.R.C. Salter
J.R.C. Salter
Author · 1 books

J R C Salter was born in Devon in the mid eighties. J trained as a chef and practiced for ten years before quitting to pursue a writing career, having always loved reading and making stories. J wanted to write an epic tale encompassing the adventures of different characters surrounding a mysterious artifact. Main inspirations included The Lord of the Rings, the Silmarillion, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Highlander. J is a self confessed geek who loves such things as Harry Potter, Batman, Metal Gear Solid, Star Wars, Farscape, Firefly, Game of Thrones (Book and Television) and is a proud follower of Whovianism. J’s favourite author is Stephen King, with Charles Dickens, JK Rowling and JRR Tolkien coming very close behind. During any spare time, J likes to dabble in photography, build giant Star Wars models from Lego, and make cookies.

Mona Ingram
Mona Ingram
Author · 41 books
Mona Ingram is the author of over 60 romance novels, including twelve novellas. Many of her stories take place in British Columbia, where she has lived since the age of twelve. In recent years she has lived in the Okanagan Valley and on Vancouver Island. In addition to reading and writing, traveling and bird watching are among Mona's favourite pastimes.
Colleen Hoover
Colleen Hoover
Author · 68 books

International and #1 New York Times bestselling author of romance, YA, thriller, women's fiction and paranormal romance. I don't like to be confined to one genre. If you put me in a box, I'll claw my way out. My social media username is @colleenhoover pretty much everywhere except my email, which is colleenhooverbooks@gmail.com Founder of www.thebookwormbox.com charity and Book Bonanza.

Suzie O'Connell
Suzie O'Connell
Author · 15 books

Suzie O'Connell grew up in a small town on the Kitsap Peninsula in Western Washington, but has called the mountains and valleys of Western Montana home for well over a decade. She has been writing stories since she was old enough to know how (the first she can recall was penciled in the second grade, about the mouse who went to the sea) and completed her first novel, Summer Angel, before she graduated from high school. After high school, tired of the endless rain, she attended college at the University of Montana-Western and graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Writing. She is currently working on a Masters of Education and teaches high school English. Suzie considers herself to be a rather quirky individual with ecclectic tastes in music, movies and books. She listens to just about anything, including pop, rock, country and techno and her favorite movies range from Grumpy Old Men to Lord of the Rings to Moulin Rouge to Pirates of the Caribbean. When it comes to reading, she prefers fantasy, science fiction, romance and literary fiction. She firmly believes it's healthy to laugh at yourself, that best friends are worth far more than their weight in gold, and that home truly is where the heart is. When she isn't writing, teaching or studying, Suzie enjoys playing in the mountains with her husband Mark, their daughter Maddie and their energetic golden retriever Reilly. She is also a hobby photographer, specializing in landscapes.

Molly Snow
Molly Snow
Author · 7 books

Molly Snow is a Top 10 Idaho Fiction Author, awarded by The Idaho Book Extravaganza. Her works include quirky teen romances BESWITCHED, HEAD OVER HALO and TO KISS A WEREWOLF. Also a speaker on writing, her school assemblies have been featured in The Contra Costa Times and The Brentwood Press. Snow is married to her high school crush, has a set of silly twin boys and a bobtail cat named Meow-Meow. Molly also co-writes with her mother Z & C Mysteries, the first in the series being THE RIDDLES OF HILLGATE.

Brandon Hale
Brandon Hale
Author · 6 books

Brandon Hale grew up in a small Virginia town. It was in that town that he met his first love: Horror books and movies. He wrote his first full length novel when he was 17. In the decades since, he has written nonstop, producing multiple novels and short stories. Brandon's first published novel was The Gods and the Builders. Shortly after that, his second novel - Day Soldiers - was released. Brandon is currently finishing up the second book in the Day Soldiers trilogy (which should be released in late June). The third Day Soldiers book is expected to be released by late August. Brandon still lives in Virginia with his wife Laura. To follow the most up-to-date information about Brandon's books (and to just have some fun with him), be sure to check out his Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Books-F...

Elizabeth Jasper
Elizabeth Jasper
Author · 5 books

I've always been a reader and for the past six years I've been writing fiction. I read across a wide range of genres and I find it fun to select features of various genres to use in my writing without sticking to one in particular. I have published three e-books in the past year and I'm currently working on two new novels - one a sequel to my second book, Meggie Blackthorn, and the other a sexy romance which I'll be publishing under a different author name later this year. I worked for many years in prestigious UK universities, where I did a variety of administrative tasks, including organising summer schools, study tours and other events, as well as working as PA to an eminent archaeologist. For most of the year I live in Spain with my husband but we spend a considerable amount of time in the UK with our family.

Corrie Fischer
Corrie Fischer
Author · 2 books
I was born in Fort Oglethorpe, GA but only lived there the first three days of my life. As the daughter of a military chaplain, my life of travels continued on for many years. I have lived in eight different states and over fifteen homes. When I was sixteen years old, I started attending college. At the age of eighteen, I was accepted as a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. Life circumstances challenged my completion of a degree, but alas I graduated from Northwest Arkansas Community College in 2013. I currently reside in my Fayetteville, Arkansas home with my two dogs and a leopard gecko.
Shirley Bourget
Shirley Bourget
Author · 1 books

Shirley Bourget is the Author of Epic Paranormal Fantasy and Romance. Her books carry unusual themes like her tattoo series, Living Ink. She lives in East Texas with her husband and is learning how to be 100% Redneck Lake Trash and loving it. When not writing, Shirley likes taking long walks around the lake, reading, painting, and photography.

Jason Deas
Jason Deas
Author · 8 books
Jason Deas has taught art in elementary schools for over a decade. He likes his job three and a half days a week. He is a songwriter, sculptor, and makes a mean pot of chili. Most of his writing used to take place at Georgia campgrounds, inside a three-man tent or sitting at an uncomfortable concrete picnic table. He wouldn’t have had it any other way until he one day found a 70’s-model camper where he now writes in luxury. Jason has published flash fiction and poems. After writing Birdsongs, a mystery for adults, his nieces asked him to write a book for kids and he granted their wish and wrote Camp Timber View. He had so much fun writing it he is currently putting the finishing touches on another middle grade novel titled The Big Stinky City. He is also working on the sequel to Birdsongs titled, Baptized by Jim.
Meghan Ciana Doidge
Meghan Ciana Doidge
Author · 37 books

Meghan Ciana Doidge is an award-winning writer based out of Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada. She has a penchant for bloody love stories, superheroes, and the supernatural. She also has a thing for chocolate, potatoes, and cashmere. Novels (in order of release): After the Virus, Spirit Binder, Time Walker, Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1), Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic (Dowser 2), Treasures, Demons, and Other Black Magic (Dowser 3), I See Me (Oracle 1), Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic (Dowser 4), Maps, Artifacts, and Other Arcane Magic (Dowser 5), and I See You (Oracle 2), Artifacts, Dragons, and Other Lethal Magic (Dowser 6), I See Us (Oracle 3), Catching Echoes (Reconstructionist 1), Tangled Echoes (Reconstructionist 2), Unleashing Echoes (Reconstructionist 3), Champagne, Misfits, and Other Shady Magic (Dowser 7), Misfits, Gemstones, and Other Shattered Magic (Dowser 8), Gemstones, Elves, and Other Insidious Magic (Dowser 9), and Demons and DNA (Amplifier 1), Bonds and Broken Dreams (Amplifier 2), and Mystics and Mental Blocks (Amplifier 3). Novellas/Shorts: Love Lies Bleeding, The Graveyard Kiss (Reconstructionist 0.5), Dawn Bytes (Reconstructionist 1.5), An Uncut Key (Reconstructionist 2.5), Graveyards, Visions, and Other Things that Byte (Dowser 8.5), The Amplifier Protocol (Amplifier 0), Close to Home (Amplifier 0.5). Coming in 2020: More Amplifier Series and the Misfits of the Adept Universe.

Holli Marie Spaulding
Holli Marie Spaulding
Author · 2 books

I am a writer, mother, Coast Guard military wife, nerf gun ninja, Guns N Roses addict, and an avid reader. Right now I resided in the beautiful state of Hawaii with my awesome (most of the time) hubby and 4 amazing (unless they are smearing peanut butter on the walls)kids. When I'm not chasing my boys around, or being a troop leader for my daughter's Girl Scout troop, I enjoy going to the beach and relaxing with my latest book find. I love music, and a lot of my inspiration comes from the songs that I hear. I have a blog that I am truly awful at updating. I've maybe written two entries, but If you'd like, follow me for updates on book releases and other random thoughts that I may have!

Chris Ward
Chris Ward
Author · 18 books

Chris Ward is the author of The Tube Riders series, the Tales of Crow series, and the forthcoming Endinfinium YA fantasy series. Join Chris' reader group to get free stuff, news and offers. http://www.amillionmilesfromanywhere....

Sharon Delarose
Sharon Delarose
Author · 4 books

Investigative mythologist and UFO experiencer Sharon Delarose dedicated her 2013 book, Ancient Aliens and the Lost Islands, to "everyone who believes that extraterrestrial life exists on the other side of a wormhole, and that ancient alien astronauts visited us in the past... We are not alone. We have never been alone." Sharon undertook what became a mission to research and bring to light the true history of the Nordic Aliens who came to Earth all around the world triggering the Bronze Age. They terraformed Earth to make it habitable again after a great flood. They cleared out malevolent giants who terrorized humans. They taught us everything from veterinary medicine to meteorology to road-building to navigating by the stars. They built the first schools and libraries on Earth, and assisted humans in every imaginable way as we shifted into a new and gentler way of life. They also intermingled with us and produced the Heroes of ancient history—a word whose meaning has long since changed. The result of this research is the 9-book Nordic Aliens series being published in December 2019, but this was not the beginning. For Sharon it began in the late 1950s when as a toddler she encountered the Alien Greys who became lifelong visitors into her sphere. When your encounters begin at such a young age, you do not ask what just happened or wonder at it, for you it becomes the normal. Oh it's this again. You don't realize that your experiences are different from everyone else's. Sharon also encountered the Nordics though she didn't recognize it at the time, not being aware of their unique traits. It wasn't until she began to research the Nordics that she realized that she'd personally seen them, and heard their birdsong language, and witnessed their ghost-like pallor and protective suits. Sharon's 2012 personal experience book, "Alien Nightmares: Screen Memories of UFO Alien Abductions," is an introduction to her early encounters with the Greys, but one intriguing entry involved a woman in a "ghost" suit, a "ghost-woman" who asked for volunteers. This is a common description given for at least one species of Nordics. When Sharon volunteered, she found herself in a bookstore in the "antique books" section, as part of the UFO event. Subsequent experiences that she did not share involved encyclopedias, more libraries with antique books, using these books to research a book that she was writing, and publishing a book that incorporated Christianity with UFOs and extraterrestrials, though she wasn't writing such a book at that time and did not until 25 years later. The Nordic Aliens series combines narratives from around the world including the Christian god and his sons, the angels, Greek gods, Celtic gods, Norse gods, Native American gods, Hindu gods, and those of China, Persia, Africa, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and beyond. Earth's extraterrestrial history is a jigsaw puzzle and everybody holds a few pieces. It is not until you put those pieces together that the truth comes to light. Our ancestors knew the Nordic aliens as kings, queens, neighbors, teachers, and wonder-workers of magic, and yet we remain skeptical in spite of the multitude of UFOs flying the skies. Our ancestral legends are so out of this world, that to accept them is to acknowledge ancient astronaut theory. Studying extraterrestrial history may be the key to understanding our extraterrestrial future.

Saxon Andrew
Saxon Andrew
Author · 47 books

Saxon Andrew is a former social worker with a degree in Psychology and Education from Mercer University. He has taught school, managed several sales organizations and owned his own business. He has devoured science fiction since he first learned to read and his stories are the product of years of personal experience and exposure to the universes created by the genre’s great authors. He lives in Tampa, Florida with his wife and two dogs who still appreciate his sense of humor after all these years. "Dogs are always ready to smile."

Traci Tyne Hilton
Traci Tyne Hilton
Author · 18 books

Traci Tyne Hilton is the author of The Plain Jane Mysteries, The Mitzy Neuhaus Mysteries and the Tillgiven Romantic Mysteries. When not writing she has been known to knit socks, play the spoons, and teach Sunday School, though these days she is most often seen in her role as taxi-driver to busy children. She has been indie publishing since 2010, and though she's had offers from small and large presses, she hasn't gone hybrid yet. She was the Mystery/Suspense Category winner for the 2012 Christian Writers of the West Phoenix Rattler Contest, a finalist for Speculative Fiction in the same contest, and has a Drammy from the Portland Civic Theatre Guild. She blogs at TheWriteConversation.blogspot.com. Traci is an active member of the ACFW, who was lucky enough to teach a continuing ed class on indie publishing at the 2015 conference in Dallas. She also serves on the board of her local chapter. Traci attended Fackelbararnas Bibelskola in Holsby Brunn, Sweden, and earned a degree in History from Portland State University. She lives in the rainiest part of the Pacific Northwest with her husband the mandolin playing funeral director, two busy teens, and their dogs, Dr. Watson and Archie Goodwin. (Her family just admonished her not to forget the cat!) You can join the Good Clean Book club at http://www.tracihilton.com and be the first to find out when her next book releases.

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