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Hard Shell Word Factory publishes book-length works by new and established authors, for sale in electronic formats and trade paperback. Genres include many bestselling, award-winning books in non-fiction and fiction--Romance (all categories), Mystery & Suspense, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Western, Historical, Mainstream, Young Adult and Children's books.

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1. Long [110446 words]MotherShip by Tony Chandler [Science Fiction/Young Adult]
2. Long [128172 words]Borne On Wings of Steel by Tony Chandler [Science Fiction/Young Adult]
3. Mid-Length [41656 words]Wild Women by Michele R. Bardsley [Romance/Humor]
4. Long [95705 words]Moonfire by Anne Clarke [Romance/Science Fiction]
5. Long [50263 words]The Mistress Affair by Kate Adair [Romance]
6. Long [61227 words]Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary) [Andrew Mayhem Thriller #1] by Jeff Strand [Horror/Suspense/Thriller]
7. Mid-Length [47691 words]Single White Psychopath Seeks Same [Andrew Mayhem Thriller #2] by Jeff Strand [Horror/Suspense/Thriller]
8. Long [90000 words]The Spellbox by Christina Hamlett [Romance]
9. Long [80722 words]Out of Whack by Jeff Strand [Humor]
10. Long [66681 words]By Any Other Name by MaryJanice Davidson [Romance]
  1. Long [73772 words]Lord of Obsidian [Search for Earthlight Trilogy #2] by Laraine Anne Barker [Fantasy/Young Adult]
2. Long [90356 words]The Princess and the Captain by Corinne Everett [Historical Fiction/Romance]
3. Long [63556 words]New Hope by Ellen Gray Massey [Romance/Historical Fiction]
4. Long [121352 words]Cross-eyed Dragon Troubles by Gloria Oliver [Young Adult/Fantasy]
5. Long [66192 words]Murder in La Paz [A Rick Sage Mystery] by Murdoch Hughes [Mystery/Crime]
6. Long [69177 words]Death Mask of the Jaguar [A Rick Sage Mystery] by Murdoch Hughes [Mystery/Crime/Suspense/Thriller]
7. Very Long [205948 words]Wind Time, Wolf Time by Brian Deming [Historical Fiction]
8. Long [88333 words]Love is Blond [Cassadaga Mystery, Book 2] by Marie Dees [Mystery/Crime]
9. Mid-Length [33157 words]The Ghost of Little Bay by Connie Keenan [Young Adult/Suspense/Thriller]
10. Mid-Length [48682 words]Malpractice [A Baltimore Historical Mystery] by Louise Titchener [Mystery/Crime/Historical Fiction]
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1 MotherShip [MultiFormat]
by Tony Chandler
  In the midst of Galactic War a new life-form is born--an AI starship. But with all its weapons and sophisticated programming, the sentient starship is not equipped for its greatest challenge--that of becoming the mother to the last three children of humanity. The deadly T'kaan soon begin the hunt again after they discover that the human race is not quite extinct. As Mother faces these impossible odds, she discovers that deep inside her massive memory systems she holds another treasure--a knowled... more info>> 2002 EPPIE Award Winner, Clara Award Winner

Words: 110446 - Reading Time: 315-441 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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2 Borne On Wings of Steel [MultiFormat]
by Tony Chandler
  The much anticipated sequel to MotherShip! Traveling to the farthest known worlds of the universe, Mother, Jaric and Kyle continue their search for other survivors of the human race. They soon find themselves caught in a web of intrigue, deception and danger--orchestrated by the mysterious and powerful Paum. As they fight back, Mother comes face-to-face with the Paum--a life-altering encounter that shakes the foundation of her existence as an AI. As her enemies reveal themselves and attack, both... more info>> 2008

Words: 128172 - Reading Time: 366-512 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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3 Moonfire [MultiFormat]
by Anne Clarke
  Newly elected as Ambassador to the infant colony of Treaine, Alex Mariltar has been ordered to take a wife from a race not his own. Rejecting the marriage choices of the Coalition, he settles on an elusive and beautiful creature from his dreams. Plucked from the supposed safety of a Coalition vessel, Earth woman, Joanna Chase, finds herself married to a jewel-eyed warrior with a will stronger than her own. [Cover art Dirk A. Wolf] 2002

Words: 95705 - Reading Time: 273-382 min.
Category: Romance
380 Reader Ratings:
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4 Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary) [Andrew Mayhem Thriller #1] [MultiFormat]
by Jeff Strand
  If you're desperate for money, searching for a little adventure, and aren't the most responsible person in the world, you can end up doing some outrageous things. Which is how Andrew Mayhem ends up accepting $20,000 to find a key...a key buried with a body in a shallow grave. [Cover art Dirk A. Wolf] 2000 Dream Realm Award Winner, Inscriptions Engraver Award Winner, Bloody Dagger Award Honorable Mention

Words: 61227 - Reading Time: 174-244 min.
Category: Horror
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5 Wild Women [MultiFormat]
by Michele R. Bardsley
  A virgin with an outrageous to-do list hires a reluctant Prince Charming to help her live a whole lifetime in one short week. Too bad he's not interested in starred item No. 12: A one-night stand. Throw in a serial killer, a U.S. Marshal out for revenge, a hoodlum seeking redemption, and a family secret about to be exposed...and you've got wild times, wild rides, and most of all, wild women. [Cover art Mary Z. Wolf] 2004 Cupid and Psyche Award Finalist, Quasar Award Finalist: Cover Art, Oklahoma Writer's Federation Award Winner, Royal Palm Award Winner

Words: 41656 - Reading Time: 119-166 min.
Category: Romance
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6 The Mistress Affair [MultiFormat]
by Kate Adair
  Kate's young son needs an expensive operation or he will die. Her last hope lies in borrowing the money from Alex Gattung, a business tycoon and distant relative. He thinks she is a gambler down on her luck and offers her a devil's bargain--sleep with him, and he will loan her the money she needs. Her desperation forces her to agree to his terms. But what neither of them counted on was falling in love. 2005

Words: 50263 - Reading Time: 143-201 min.
Category: Romance
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7 Casket For Sale (Only Used Once) [An Andrew Mayhem Thriller] [MultiFormat]
by Jeff Strand
  In Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary), he took a job digging up a shallow grave. It turned out badly. In Single White Psychopath Seeks Same, he took a job as a bodyguard at a seance. It turned out worse. But now, meet the new, improved Andrew Mayhem. He has a real job. He's a better father and husband. And he's vowed to quit accepting money from strange women in coffee shops to perform tasks that go terribly, terribly wrong. This time he's just taking a relaxing camping trip with his ... more info>> 2006

Words: 55606 - Reading Time: 158-222 min.
Category: Horror
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8 Elrod McBugle on the Loose [MultiFormat]
by Jeff Strand
  A comedy for kids ... and adults who were warped as kids! The students at Greenwater Junior High have said they'll never forget this year, and Elrod McBugle is the reason. He's not a bad person. He doesn't TRY to get in trouble, cause mayhem, and occasionally blow things up ... it just happens. And it's going to happen again and again! Share Elrod's hilarious adventures as he faces the wrath of the Slurpy Gulp Beverage Company, tries to become a millionaire selling homemade bubble gum, survives ... more info>> 2006 EPPIE Award Winner

Words: 29348 - Reading Time: 83-117 min.
Category: Young Adult
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9 By Any Other Name [MultiFormat]
by MaryJanice Davidson
  Stephanie Dares is rich, strong, and has no need of rescue from anyone--certainly not from the Darth Vader of venture capitalists, Erik Chambers. At their first meeting, sparks don't fly--a milkshake does. But underneath the clash of two strong personalities lies sexual tension and something more... a commonality they never dreamed existed, the source of which could destroy their only chance at happiness. When they discover they must journey from the Twin Cities to Boston to confront Stephanie's... more info>> 2001

Words: 66681 - Reading Time: 190-266 min.
Category: Romance
114 Reader Ratings:
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10 Single White Psychopath Seeks Same [Andrew Mayhem Thriller #2] [MultiFormat]
by Jeff Strand
  "Sometimes you wake up in the morning and you just know it's going to be the kind of day where you end up tied to a chair in a filthy garage while a pair of tooth-deprived lunatics torment you with a chainsaw. So as I struggled against the ropes, I can't say I was all that surprised." Yes, Andrew Mayhem, hero of the bestselling comedy/thriller Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary) is back. Still incredibly brave. Still ridiculously irresponsible. And this time, becoming chainsaw fodder i... more info>> 2001 Dream Realm Award Winner, EPPIE Award Finalist, Independent eBook Award Finalist

Words: 47691 - Reading Time: 136-190 min.
Category: Horror
90 Reader Ratings:
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11 How to Rescue a Dead Princess [MultiFormat]
by Jeff Strand
  From the creative genius who would have brought you Hamlet, The Scarlet Letter, and a less-boring Moby Dick (if he'd been born on time) comes the outrageous comic fantasy How to Rescue a Dead Princess. It's a tale filled with so much adventure, so much excitement, so much vocabulary, that all who read it will suffer a fit of unrestrained giddiness that will freak out everyone in their general vicinity. This is the saga of Randall, a squire assigned to escort the lovely Princess Janice on a diplo... more info>> 2000 Dream Realm Award Finalist: Best Cover Art, EPPIE Award Finalist

Words: 66349 - Reading Time: 189-265 min.
Category: Fantasy
108 Reader Ratings:
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12 Dark Changeling [Dark Changeling Series Book 1] [MultiFormat]
by Margaret L. Carter
  A successful, middle-aged psychiatrist tormented by an unquenchable lust for blood.... A vampire serial killer on the rampage.... At the age of forty, Dr. Roger Darvell discovers that he is no ordinary man. He also discovers that vampires exist, and that a few of them kill as wantonly and cruelly as any monster in a horror film. When a renegade vampire follows Roger from Boston to his new home in Maryland and attacks one of his patients, Roger must come to terms with the newly discovered truth a... more info>> 1999 EPPIE Award Winner, Dream Realm Award Finalist

Words: 113084 - Reading Time: 323-452 min.
Category: Horror
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13 Night Watchman [MultiFormat]
by James V. Viscosi
  Nate Watson is a cop in a bad section of Island City. Responding to a call from a frightened old woman, Nate and his partner Frank encounter a group of teenage thugs playing at black magic on the decrepit rooftops of the slums. Except they're NOT playing. Defeated by the boys' mysterious powers, Frank meets his death at the bottom of a ventilation shaft. He's the lucky one. The boys drag Nate into a circle of candles and saw him open from neck to waist, playing with what they find inside. When h... more info>> 2002

Words: 101498 - Reading Time: 289-405 min.
Category: Horror
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14 Last of the O'Rourkes [MultiFormat]
by Kate Douglas
  Tough and sassy Kat Malone has a stalker ... but he's the least of her problems. She's just learned that her lover and the father of her unborn child, sexy, irrepressible FBI agent Riley O'Rourke, has died in a car accident ... leaving behind a wife he'd neglected to mention to Kat. Kat attends his funeral, where even more surprises await her. Riley not only had a wife, he also had a brother, a twin who, though he looks exactly like the irresponsible Riley, is everything Riley was not. Uptight a... more info>> 2003 Affaire de Coeur's Reader-Writer Poll Finalist, Jada Press Grand Prize Winner, MyShelf.com Top Ten Read

Words: 67018 - Reading Time: 191-268 min.
Category: Romance
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15 Out of Whack [MultiFormat]
by Jeff Strand
  From the author of How to Rescue a Dead Princess comes Out of Whack, an outrageous comedy about friendship, love, following your dreams, and other really scary stuff. Seth Trexler has two goals in life: to find success with his off-the-wall sketch comedy troupe, and to win the girl of his dreams. But when you suffer from brain-erasing stage fright and an incredible female-phobia, those goals can be a bit tricky to attain. With his best friend Travis at his side, Seth struggles to overcome his fe... more info>> 2004

Words: 80722 - Reading Time: 230-322 min.
Category: Humor
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16 A Wizard Scorned [MultiFormat]
by Patricia White
  Jane Murdock doesn't believe in magic, wizards, or any other matters arcane, but that doesn't stop her from running afoul of a wizard and feeling the full brunt of the old adage: Hell hath no fury like a wizard scorned. Will, an untried wizard, is only trying to take wizard-order brides back to his home world when he, too, finds trouble can wear a beautiful face. The trouble can be very bad, for him and the brides, especially when the pretty face belongs to the evil, love-struck wizard Cordelia,... more info>> 1998 EPPIE Award Finalist, Preditors and Editors Reader's Poll Best Fiction, Affaire de Coeur Reader/Writer Poll: Best Up and Coming Author, Sapphire Award Winner

Words: 89100 - Reading Time: 254-356 min.
Category: Fantasy
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17 Colors of Time [MultiFormat]
by Laurie Jones
  Jonathan Wilks is elated at winning over $2,000 in a winner-take-all poker game. The money will go far for his new life with his beloved Margaret, after they elope tomorrow. As he returns to the rooming house where he lives, and which Margaret's father owns, Jonathan is struck on the head and his world goes black. Kate Carston is surprised to find an unconscious man at the back of her art gallery. Even more surprising is the fact that the man claims to be the long-since dead Jonathan Wilks, pain... more info>> 2000

Words: 61018 - Reading Time: 174-244 min.
Category: Romance
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18 Sleighride [MultiFormat]
by C. J. Winters
  When their sleigh glides into a surprise Vermont snowstorm, the wily horse delivers his 21st century passengers, Kama and Rey, to a country tavern in the year 1811. Shaken, worried and fascinated, the two attorneys set their cool, logical minds in search of explanation. However the attentions of a rowdy, charismatic young farmer and his shy betrothed expand their confusion. Ensnared in the skein of a time long past, Rey and Kama seem destined to bear the passion and pain of love that cannot be .... more info>> 2001 Missouri Writers Guild Best Romance Novel Nominee

Words: 75305 - Reading Time: 215-301 min.
Category: Romance
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19 The Spellbox [MultiFormat]
by Christina Hamlett
  When American tourists Lucy McLaverty and Maxine Desmond saw the sign "Thistleburn--Experience the Medieval"--they thought of nothing more than finding a welcome respite from a fierce storm buffeting the Scottish highlands. But when morning comes, more than the weather has changed. Though still in Scotland, they discover they have been transported 700 years into the past. With little more than their wits to protect them, Lucy and Max are immediately branded as witches and locked in the castle du... more info>> 2000

Words: 90000 - Reading Time: 257-360 min.
Category: Romance
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20 Guess Again [MultiFormat]
by Nora Santella
  FBI Special Agent Hunter McCrary hasn't appreciated anything Russian since a legendary KGB assassin known as Dark Swan killed his dad during the Cold War and left a black cloisonn� swan pin at the crime scene. But when a hacker breaches the security of a government communications line, Hunter needs the computer expertise of the Dark Swan's American daughter, Lynzee Beryl, an MIT professor whose fascination with all things Russian stems from her lost childhood. He suspects the hacker is Lynzee'... more info>> 2003 EPPIE Award Finalist, Cupid and Psyche Award Finalist

Words: 68757 - Reading Time: 196-275 min.
Category: Romance
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21 Key West Conspiracy [MultiFormat]
by Steve Gerson
  "Time can stand still ... it did happen all at once. A man on the roof, the reflection in the bookstore window, a rifle, the buzz in my ear, glass shattering all around me, pain ripping into my shoulder, tearing into my side, the ground coming up to meet me, greet me. And the girl. Running. Running to the back of the bookstore, fading away, fading from sight. Gone." And so begins Key West Conspiracy, a semi tongue-in-cheek novel about retired spy, John Carter Jones, in the wrong place at the wro... more info>> 2002

Words: 103051 - Reading Time: 294-412 min.
Category: Mystery/Crime
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22 Shannon's Creek [MultiFormat]
by June Mack Bradley
  Shots fired! Officer down! Sergeant Stacey O'Hara, a Sheriff's deputy is seriously wounded during a shootout and is near death. Sergeant Jay Reardon, a deputy from Shannon's Creek, Virginia, is an out of town visitor riding with an officer friend. He comes to her aid and is stunned by Stacey's likeness to his missing wife. About to pass over the divide between the living and the dead, Stacey is stopped by a spirit from the other side. She tells Stacey that she must not die. During the long month... more info>> 2003

Words: 71623 - Reading Time: 204-286 min.
Category: Romance
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23 Spirit Lake [MultiFormat]
by Christine DeSmet
  Secrets surround Spirit Lake ... their forbidden love is one of them. Danger collides with the peaceful beauty in Laurel Hastings' woodland hideaway when the man who jilted her fifteen years ago suddenly reappears--on the run from a killer. Cole Wescott--bullet lodged in his leg--stumbles off the train near her cabin on Spirit Lake in northern Wisconsin. He claims the evidence against the killer is stashed in her backyard--across the lake at the abandoned Victorian mansion his family once used a... more info>> 2000 RWA Golden Contract Contest Winner

Words: 89598 - Reading Time: 255-358 min.
Category: Suspense/Thriller
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24 Cowboy in My Pocket [MultiFormat]
by Kate Douglas
  If you like your cowboys sexy, your heroines forgetful and your marriages convenient, this gentle parody of cowboy romances will leave you with a smile on your face and a sigh on your lips. Discover romantic comedy at its best in this captivating tale of a woman who finds her one true love and the cowboy hero afraid to give his heart. Romance author Michelle Garrison is on a mission to learn more about the American West. Her books are no longer selling and her editor has given her an ultimatum--... more info>> 2001 Romantic Times Top Pick, Independent eBook Award Nominee, EPPIE Award Winner

Words: 85038 - Reading Time: 242-340 min.
Category: Romance
66 Reader Ratings:
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25 Hold Back Time [MultiFormat]
by Allene Frances
  Joy Mitchell, director of sales for Fountain of Youth, a high end cosmetics firm, finds the diary of Hollywood's deceased glamour queen, Mona Sterling. Joy didn't expect the heart rending entries to lead her into a near death experience at the hands of anti-aging grurus, or to uncover an ugly scheme involving her beloved company. She sure hadn't planned on adopting a puppy. But the very last thing on her mind was meeting the love of her life. Sometimes, when things get started you just can't Hol... more info>> 1999

Words: 78286 - Reading Time: 223-313 min.
Category: Suspense/Thriller
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