Seven years ago, on the eve of her wedding, Lady Jessica Sheffield witnessed a scene so scandalous she could not erase it from her memory. Shocked, yet strangely titillated, she nevertheless walked down the aisle into a life serene yet unremarkable. But what she kept hidden fueled wildly imaginative and very illicit dreams. . . Alistair Caulfield ran far from the temptation of the prim debutante--all the way to the West Indies. As a successful merchant,...

In high school, Tsukuru Tazaki belonged to an extremely tight-knit group of friends who pledged to stay together forever. But when Tsukuru returns home from his first year of college in Tokyo, he finds that they want nothing to do with him. Something has changed, but nobody will tell him what - and he never sees them again. Years later, Tsukuru has become a successful engineer, but is also something of a loner. It is only when he begins dating an...

The Sea-Story Megapack presents 30 classic nautical tales, plus a bonus poem, ranging from pure adventure to science fiction, from the depths of the ocean to exotic ports of call. Included are: THE SHIP THAT SAW A GHOST, by Frank Norris GHOST LANTERNS, by Alan B. LeMay THE DANGER FROM THE DEEP, by Ralph Milne Farley THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURE OF A CHIEF MATE, by W. Clark Russell THE DERELICT, by H. M. Tomlinson THE TEMPLE, by H. P. Lovecraft A DAUGHTER...