Blackthorn Press: 164 books

***"Damian and Aria are on fire!"***- Reader Review Love is a battlefield — and only the strong survive. Shunning his Ivy League education and the empire that was his birthright, Damian Cavallo found his place in New York City’s criminal underworld after the fall of the...

Leo Gage has worshipped Diana Barrett since they were kids. But she can never know that, because he’s been lying to her his entire adult life. As the right hand man to Farrell Black, head of the London Mob, Leo’s lifestyle is the antithesis of Diana’s refined, cultured upbringing. He...

*** GET ALL THREE AWAKENING BOOKS IN ONE SEXY VOLUME AND SAVE 50% FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY! *** Experience is an asset. That’s what Nina Fontaine’s best friend tells her when she moves from the suburbs to New York City following her divorce. As much as Nina appreciates the dating...

"Oh so delicious... I now have a new book boyfriend!" - Reader Review FBI agent Braden Kane has been going it alone ever since a family scandal sent him running straight from the Ivy League into Special Forces. That’s where he learned the hardest lesson of all — we’re all alone...

Er würde nicht rasten bis sie ihm gehörte – und dieses Mal für immer. Farrell Black konnte Jenna kaum irgendwelche Vorwürfe machen, dass sie ihn nach der Schießerei, die fast das Leben ihrer Tochter gekostet hatte, verlassen hatte. Jetzt machte er vor nichts Halt um sie zu beschützen...

'Rawdon's Roof', is a slight comic piece, relying for its humour on the folly of a man throwing away his chance of happiness because of an unexplained and unlikely vow.

Lawrence returns in this story to the scenes of his childhood and the colliers he was brought up with. The wife in the story is probably based on his mother although the husband is unlike the drinking, brutal father portrayed in 'Sons and Lovers', Lawrence's autobiographical novel. The story is a...

'The Blue Moccasins' has the charm of looking at some eternal human problems such as unequal marriage, the waning of sexual desire and a woman who cannot give herself wholly to her husband in a thoroughly English and local setting; the stage of an amateur dramatic society where all the passions and delusions come to a head.

‘Smile’ is one of Lawrence's shorter pieces, a thumbnail sketch of an idea. A man is relived that his wife is dead and struggles to hide his relief when confronted with his wife's body. The relief breaks out in a smile which he struggles to excuse. How much better it would have been, Lawrence seems to be saying, if he had just laughed out loud!

'The Border Line' is unusual in that Lawrence dabbles in the supernatural (as he was to do again in 'The Rocking-Horse Winner' two years later) and that this is less a story in the traditional sense and more an exploration of the mind of a particular woman, based on his own wife, Frieda. Katherine,...

'The Man Who Was Through With the World' picks up the same themes as in Lawrence's short story 'The Man Who Loved Islands'. He asks if we can ever withdraw from the world, no matter how much it disgusts us. The ironic part of this fragment is that the hermit vainly seeks to think holy thoughts while...

'The Flying Fish' is unfinished but tells the story of an Englishman, Gethin Day, returning home after years in South America. There is a hint of the home-sickness Lawrence may have felt during his long exile. The bulk of the story is the time spent on the ship which is taking Day back to England....

During the last thousand years Scarborough has been the birthplace, home, refuge, playground, hospital and cemetery for pirates, kings, nobles, merchants, soldiers, seamen, physicians, engineers, artists, missionaries and mountebanks. Chosen for their outstanding courage, villainy or individuality,...

There are over fifty settlements in the world, which bear the name 'Richmond' yet Richmond in North Yorkshire in the UK was the fist and can claim to be the 'Mother of all Richmonds'. From the earliest days of human habitation in the Richmond area, to the building of the great castle and on to our...