The White Stag

Winner of the Newbery Medal
 
For generations the tribes of Huns and Magyars had moved relentlessly westward, obeying the voices of their pagan gods, which compelled them to follow the elusive white stag to their promised homeland. They swept Europe, all the while pursuing their vision of the stag. Their leader was called Attila, and the land Hungary. Here is the epic story of their tribal migration and their fierce leader—known to us even today. 

“The wonder of a fairy tale, the stirring romance of a heroic legend, rounded out with the color, atmosphere, and poetry of this artist’s retelling of the story of Attila.”—The New York Times

"A promising debut from a gifted young writer!" - Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author of the After series

White Stag, the first audiobook in a brutally stunning series by Kara Barbieri, involves a young girl who finds herself becoming more monster than human and must uncover dangerous truths about who she is and the place that has become her home.

A Wattpad break out star with over a million reads! Now expanded, revised and available in print and eBook.

As the last child in a family of daughters, seventeen-year-old Janneke was raised to be the male heir. While her sisters were becoming wives and mothers, she was taught to hunt, track, and fight. On the day her village was burned to the ground, Janneke—as the only survivor—was taken captive by the malicious Lydian and eventually sent to work for his nephew Soren.

Janneke’s survival in the court of merciless monsters has come at the cost of her connection to the human world. And when the Goblin King’s death ignites an ancient hunt for the next king, Soren senses an opportunity for her to finally fully accept the ways of the brutal Permafrost. But every action he takes to bring her deeper into his world only shows him that a little humanity isn’t bad—especially when it comes to those you care about.

Through every battle they survive, Janneke’s loyalty to Soren deepens. After dangerous truths are revealed, Janneke must choose between holding on or letting go of her last connections to a world she no longer belongs to. She must make the right choice to save the only thing keeping both worlds from crumbling.

White Stag, the first book in a brutally stunning series by Kara Barbieri, involves a young girl who finds herself becoming more monster than human and must uncover dangerous truths about who she is and the place that has become her home.

A Wattpad break out star with over a million reads! Now expanded, revised and available in print and eBook.

As the last child in a family of daughters, seventeen-year-old Janneke was raised to be the male heir. While her sisters were becoming wives and mothers, she was taught to hunt, track, and fight. On the day her village was burned to the ground, Janneke—as the only survivor—was taken captive by the malicious Lydian and eventually sent to work for his nephew Soren.

Janneke’s survival in the court of merciless monsters has come at the cost of her connection to the human world. And when the Goblin King’s death ignites an ancient hunt for the next king, Soren senses an opportunity for her to finally fully accept the ways of the brutal Permafrost. But every action he takes to bring her deeper into his world only shows him that a little humanity isn’t bad—especially when it comes to those you care about.

Through every battle they survive, Janneke’s loyalty to Soren deepens. After dangerous truths are revealed, Janneke must choose between holding on or letting go of her last connections to a world she no longer belongs to. She must make the right choice to save the only thing keeping both worlds from crumbling.

The oldest fairy stories constitute a fascinating introduction to the book of modern science, curiously predicting its discoveries, its uncovering of the resources of the earth and air, its growing control of the tremendous forces which work in earth and air. And it is significant that the recent progress of science is steadily toward what our ancestors would have considered fairy land; for in all the imaginings of the childhood of the race there was nothing more marvellous or more audaciously improbable than the transmission of the accents and modulations of familiar voices through long distances, and the power of communication across leagues of sea without mechanical connections of any kind.
The faculty which created the fairy tale is the same faculty which, supplemented by a broader observation and based on more accurate knowledge, has broadened the range and activities of modern man, made the world accessible to him, enabled him to live in one place but to speak and act in places thousands of miles distant, given him command of colossal forces, and is fast making him rich on a scale which would have seemed incredible to men of a half-century ago. There is nothing in any fairy tale more marvellous and inherently improbable than many of the achievements of scientific observation and invention, and we are only at the beginning of the wonders that lie within the reach of the human spirit!

Contents
One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes
The Magic Mirror
The Enchanted Stag
Hansel and Grethel
The Story of Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp
The History of Ali Baba, and of the Forty Robbers Killed by One Slave
The Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor
The White Cat
The Golden Goose
The Twelve Brothers
The Fair One With the Golden Locks
Tom Thumb
Blue Beard
Cinderella; or, the Little Glass Slipper
Puss In Boots
The Sleeping Beauty In the Wood
Jack and the Bean-stalk
Jack the Giant Killer
Little Red Riding Hood
The Three Bears
The Princess on the Pea
The Ugly Duckling
The Light Princess
Beauty and the Beast

Luigi Beltani,consummate Italian chef, has finally realized his dream: his own gourmet restaurant in his hometown, Padernello, near Cremona, Italy. Despite resistance from his wife and mother-in-law, the restaurant is a success...until ‘presences’ from Padernello’s thousand-year past begin to visit,threatening both the restaurant’s existence and Luigi’s sanity.

Eilid* Stuart is tall, blond with laser-like blue eyes, deadly with a rifle and, at 21, is the only female deer stalker in Scotland. In January of 1959 she witnesses an airplane crash in a snowstorm in a remote part of Glen Torridon. She rescues an infant boy, the sole survivor, who is returning with his mother to Los Angeles having gone through a serious heart operation carried out by a famous London surgeon. Believing the child is orphaned, and because of her unfortunate relationships with men, she decides to “acquire” the child and raise him as her own. Aided and abetted by her uncle, a General Practitioner who lives near Pitlochry, she names the child Charles Edward Stuart after the young pretender of that name. And so Jens Ericsson the twin son of ‘Red’ Ericsson an American oilman disappears and is presumed to have perished in the crash. ‘Red’ Ericsson becomes a grieving father and is left to raise his remaining son in Houston, Texas. He never remarries and builds a Petrochemical empire in Houston. Thirty-four years later a photograph in a Scottish newspaper is sent to him by a friend who is struck by the similarity of the leader of the new Scottish Republican Party, a certain Charles Stuart and Lance Ericsson Red’s remaining twin son. Suddenly Ericsson is given a glimmer of hope that the son he thought dead might still be alive. He hires a Scottish ex-patriot private detective to investigate. eilid* gaelic for a hind (doe-female deer)

When Judith Waverly’s sensual dream turns out to be an actual passionate encounter with an elf who believes she’s his destined mate, the consequences are devastating.

Judith, torn from her world and seemingly abandoned in Faerie, is thrust among the glamorous, long-lived elves, who consider sex a diverting pastime and humans particularly delectable partners. Their naked desire for her arouses Judith in ways she could never have anticipated. Somehow she must find her way back home before she’s irrevocably changed by her stay in Faerie.

Meanwhile Devoril, the elf who seduced her, broke one of Faerie’s essential laws when he unwittingly transported Judith, a mortal, to Faerie. For that crime he faces death.

The Omnibus Edition (Parts 1-6) contains adult content about a woman's sexual awakening, including bisexual and menage interludes, and is recommended for readers 18+. 34,100 words, or about 162 pages.

Confronted by disturbing changes in herself after only a short time in Faerie, Judith resolves to return to the human world. First she must solve the Queen’s riddle, a task made harder by the elves’ addictive distractions.

Devoril comes face to face with Judith for the first time since he brought her to Faerie.

Part 4 of a six-part erotic romance fantasy serial about a woman's sexual awakening and bisexual polyamory, this episode contains multiple sexual interludes, including same-sex and group encounters, and is recommended for readers 18+. 5,000 words, or about 19 pages.

Adult literature: This book contains strong sexual language. If you are under 18 years old, please navigate away from this page.This is the ninth book in the series The Bedtime Canon, and tells of Mandy, who decides to repay her cheating boyfriend by being worse than he could ever be. She goes to a party where he will be with his friends, and takes on all of them. Apart from him! Mandy was coming non-stop now, her body still shaking. Her clitoris was distended like a tiny cock, feeling Nick's body rub against it with every thrust. She was struggling to breathe, and was well past screaming out; all she could manage was a continuous moaning cry. She glanced round the room, and where before there's been a sea of faces, there was now a sea of naked bodies, as the men in the party stripped off to take their turns. She'd come into this with her eyes open, and it seemed she was to get what she'd expected. Nick's movements where getting shorter now, and much quicker, and Mandy pushed her hips up to meet him as he came. As he fired his come deep into her, Mandy hugged him really tight and whispered to him, "Thank you so much. Don't let Richard near me."Nick pulled out and stood up. He saw for the first time what Mandy had just seen: a dozen or more naked men, stiff cocks standing before them, waiting to get between Mandy's legs. He just caught a glimpse of his own white semen seeping out of her pink c**t, before one of the guys was on top of her, seeking entry. Nick watched as her arms reached behind the lad, hands on his buttocks, pulling him into her. Sure now that she was up for it, he found his own clothes and put them on.

Judith’s fury at the elf who stranded her in Faerie erupts when she sees the white stag. When she discovers the stag is Devoril himself and not just his pet, they enjoy a passionate and bittersweet reunion.

Now Judith has to choose between returning to an uncertain future in the human world or saving Devoril from the Queen’s fury over her broken spell.

Part 6 of a six-part erotic romance fantasy serial about a woman's sexual awakening and bisexual polyamory, this episode is recommended for readers 18+. 6,700 words, or about 26 pages.

Four years ago geneticist Jayce Harper lost the love of his life. Now every Christmas Jayce returns to his cabin in the woods to celebrate Christmas. Alone. Every year he sets an extra place at the table and bakes a full Christmas dinner, including peppermint cookies, knowing those cookies are the one scent his lost lover can never resist.

Four years ago Crane found out who, and what, he was, without understanding why. Thinking his lover had betrayed him, Crane shifted to reindeer form and took off running. He's been running loose in the forest around the lake as a reindeer for the last four years, almost forgetting he's ever been anything else. Now he's been gone so long, he has no clue how to get back.

When the scent of peppermint reaches his nose, Crane suddenly knows he has to remember, or lose it all, forever. When he finds Jayce, the author of the scents that have lured him back, he has to decide if he wants a past he can barely remember, or what he's found in the woods. Whoever he was, whatever they had, Crane knows the scent of his lover may be his last chance to remember.

If the hunters don't find him first…

Judith Waverly's erotic dream featuring a sensual, golden-haired elf and the best sex of her entire life shouldn't turn her life upside down. But when her dream turns out to be an actual passionate encounter with an elf who believes she is the lover he's been seeking for centuries, the consequences are devastating.

Part 1 of a six-part erotic romance fantasy serial, this episode contains multiple graphic sexual interludes and is recommended for readers 18+. 4,800 words, or about 20 pages.

The afterglow of Judith’s erotic dream turns to shock when she finds herself trapped in Faerie. Only the Faerie Queen can send her back to the human world, and the Queen makes no promises. Grief-stricken and desperate for comfort, Judith succumbs to the seductive beauty of two elves.

Devoril, the elf of Judith’s dream, believes she’s the lover he has sought for centuries. But he suffers the Queen’s wrath for the unforgivable crime of bringing a mortal into Faerie.

Part 2 of a six-part erotic romance fantasy serial about a woman's sexual awakening and bisexual polyamory, this episode contains a menage sexual interlude and is recommended for readers 18+. 5,100 words, or about 22 pages.

When the Faerie King sends three elfmaids to summon Judith to an intimate audience, she discovers that elven sexual desire isn’t restricted by gender, and that the elves — both male and female — find mortals every bit as alluring as mortals find elves.

Imprisoned in his shapeshifter form and certain he’ll never see Judith again, Devoril falls into a frenzy of despair.

Part 3 of a six-part erotic romance fantasy serial about a woman's sexual awakening and bisexual polyamory, this episode contains multiple sexual interludes, including same-sex menage, and is recommended for readers 18+. 5,900 words, or about 25 pages.

Desperate to return to the mortal world, Judith successfully guesses part of the riddle posed by the Faerie Queen — and is mortified to be punished for her success in front of the entire Court.

Unable to help Judith in any way, Devoril realizes the heartbreaking consequences of his impulsive act.

Part 5 of a six-part erotic romance fantasy serial about a woman's sexual awakening and bisexual polyamory, this episode contains multiple same-sex interludes with elements of BDSM and is recommended for readers 18+. 6,600 words, or about 28 pages.