Uncial Press Novel Bytes
Short Reads for Busy People
Don't have time to eat the whole pie or read the whole book? How about just a bite? Try our Novel Bytes. Short Stories and Novellas for readers on the go.
title: And Then There Was Light
author: Ann Dennis
genre: Paranormal
length: Novel Byte Short Story
price: $2.99
Seth's life was in the toilet. All he wanted to do was end the pain and suffering. Just as he was ready to take that final step, someone came along to show him a different way of looking at everything. Was it enough to change his mind?
title: Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
author: Jaye Watson
genre: Romantic Suspense
length: Novel Byte Short Story
price: $2.99
Emaline has been taking care of her elderly, cranky grandfather for so long, she wonders if she'll ever have a life again. When he demands a sumptuous meal, she obliges, even baking him his favorite pie--cherry. It's Johnny Banister's last meal, but the medical examiner finds nothing suspicious. So why does Emaline seek a way to dispose of the flavoring bottle? And why does she worry that Detective Harry Jordan wants more than the pleasure of her company when he asks her to dinner?
title: Carolina's Walking Tour
author: Lesley-Anne McLeod
genre: Regency
price: $2.99
length:
6950 words. Approximate reading time 20 to 28 minutes.
price: $2.99
On his return from the Peninsular War, grievously wounded and troubled in spirit, Alexander Quainton decides that an insouciant manner is the best way to avoid the pity he abhors. Exercising his damaged body with daily walking excursions proves an excellent way of avoiding social engagements. Carolina Finmere, shy and no more than passable in looks, has failed in three seasons to attract a suitor.
For three months, they tramp Bath and its surrounding hills together, gaining in strength and--unwittingly--in intimacy. When September comes it is time to part, unless they admit their love for each other. Carolina knows she must initiate the declarations of devotion, for Alexander is convinced that a man so damaged is no fit mate for a gently bred woman. How can Carolina love someone so scarred and deformed as he?
Plucking up her courage, Carolina declares her love for Alexander. Will he admit his for her, or will his fear of seeing revulsion in her eyes put paid to their blossoming love?more...
title: Charmed, I'm Sure
author: John C. Bunnell
genre: Fantasy
price: $2.99
length:
11200 words. Approximate reading time 32 to 45 minutes.
price: $2.99
Much as mortal youths once ran off to join the circus, this particular Sidhe ran off to join Actors' Equity. She's lived among us for over a century, but stage actress Juliet McKenna isn't immune to loneliness. So when a castmate invites her home for Thanksgiving, Juliet accepts.
At High Court gatherings, one need not sing for one's supper--but one must frequently do so in order to leave the banquet hall afterward. But her friend's brother sees through her magical disguise--and has the knowledge to trap her into slavery.
Now she must choose: return to Faerie and the High Court's wrath, or satisfy Richmond Becket's desire for power at any cost--including her life.more...
title: Comet Wine
author: Lesley-Anne McLeod
genre: Regency Romance
price: $2.99
length:
7450 words. Approximate reading time 21 to 29 minutes.
price: $2.99
A comet, they say, signals change. In a picturesque village in Cambridgeshire, India Pottersby did not think the Great Comet of 1811 would change anything in her quiet life as the vicar's sister. And she was content for it to be so. A difficult life had brought her at last to security with her younger brother in his vicarage, and she had no desire for alteration. Peter Trevayne had likewise come to harbour in the shire after fifteen profitable years in India. His purchase of Fencombe Hall created a stir in the neighbourhood. Speculation was rife, and the doyenne of local society made no secret of her mistrust of the stranger.
Comet watching introduced India to Trevayne, and her preparation of 'comet wine' intrigued him. But nothing could come of their friendship unless the community--and India--could accept change.
title: Eyes of a Child
author: C.S. Fuqua
genre: Dark Fantasy
length: Novel Byte Short Story
price: 2.99
When a farmer imprisons an angel to "heal" his severely handicapped daughter, his demands -- and prayers -- are answered in ways he'd never dreamed. more...
title: God Rest Ye, Mary
author: Jaye Watson
genre: Mystery
price: $2.99
length:
10800 words. Approximate reading time 31 to 43 minutes.
price: $2.99
Emaline Banister couldn't hear who was blackmailing whom in the women's room at work. The holidays were approaching and she was distracted by the need to make a dish that everyone could eat, including the people with odd dietary restrictions. Besides, Detective Harry Jordan was still hanging around, and she wasn't sure if he was attracted to her or still wondering if she was a murderer. When Mary O'Neill died at the party, after eating Emaline's salad, she was once again under suspicion. But this time she knew she hadn't done it.
title: Miss Annabelle's Yankee
author: Rob Shelsky
genre: Time Travel Romance
length: Novel Byte Short Story
price: $2.99
Sleepless, Annabelle spies a strange amber light gleaming in the darkness, shining from a supposedly abandoned farmhouse. There she discovers a portal to another time and a wounded soldier named Seth. She finds herself falling hopelessly in love with this handsome and innocent stranger, but Seth is destined to fight in one of the final battles of the Civil War. The doorway to the past is closing for good. Is there any hope for two time-crossed lovers? more...
title: Love's Liberty
author: Lesley-Anne McLeod
genre: Regency Romance
length: Novel Byte Short Story
price: $2.99
Julia Clemence had loved Simon Mancroft-Martley her entire life, but when she was sixteen and he twenty-one, he had bought a commission and gone to war. He had been gone nearly five years, and on his return an unexpected encounter in the village church convinces Julia that he loves her as she does him.
But Simon has lost an arm in battle, and is determined not to burden her with a crippled husband. Her parents concur with his decision, and she is forbidden to consider him eligible. Julia, by their actions and his, is denied the freedom to accept or decline an offer of love and marriage.
Her stratagems to achieve liberty fail, and she loses hope. But in the parish church that has been her solace, Simon admits the truth of her many arguments, and gives her the freedom to choose her future--with him or without him. more...
title: Never Too Late
author: Anna C. Bowling
genre: Historical Romance
length: Novel Byte Short Story
price: $2.99
Ameila Sinclair has lived all her life with the decorum expected of a 19th century banker's wife. She remained faithful to a husband who never loved her, raised three children, and turned away the love of a lifetime. Now widowed at the dawn of a new century and facing her second fifty years, she decides she can no longer deny the love that has burned within her for decades. Can she throw away the only life she has ever known in order to find the only life she has ever wanted? more...
title: Phantom of the Operetta
author: John C. Bunnell
genre: Fantasy
price: $2.99
length:
7900 words. Approximate reading time 23 to 32 minutes.
price: $2.99
While serving as an artist-in-residence at a small Pacific Northwest college, stage actress Juliet McKenna is directing Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer. Rivalries among the student cast are only to be expected--but are other troubles the work of the theater's restless ghost?
Nonsense, Juliet insists, and with Sidhe-born senses to back her conclusions, she should know. But as the curtain rises on opening night, she's forced to revise her opinions. With one performer in chains and another possessed, the show seems poised to end in disaster--because even if Juliet can improvise a new ending, she may not be able to free her students without revealing her own Sidhe origins.
title: Queen of the Ocean
author: Anna C. Bowling
genre: Historical Romance
length: Novel Byte Short Story
price: $2.99
Frances Carter, daughter and sister of wreckers, stands a gruesome vigil on the Cornish coast, her only solace memories of her childhood love, Mateo Sandoval. Though Frances' father has promised her in marriage to Ewan, a greedy government agent, Frances knows she can never give up on the future she and Mateo had planned.
As a child, Mateo Sandoval was powerless when his father insisted the family return to Spain. As a man, he will let nothing stop him from claiming the life and the woman he has always wanted.
When the sea washes Mateo ashore at Frances' feet the week before her wedding, they know their second chance could be their last. Only love can do the impossible.more...
title: Snass Chucks
author: Rubylee Schneider
genre: Holiday Romance
price: $2.99
length:
6500 words. Approximate reading time 19 to 27 minutes.
price: $2.99
When the two young lady school teachers in a tiny rural school are stood up for the important Christmas Dance, what can they do? How about borrowing their landlady's horses and riding over the mountain to the dance? Of the Snass Chucks don't get to them first…
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