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All Holly Bargo's books are available for purchase on Amazon. For her book catalog, go here: 

HOLLY BARGO BOOKS

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​Everyone likes a little something for free. Free reads offered here include essays and short stories and are suitable for readers of all ages. Click on any button below to open the corresponding document.

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Skeins of Gold

Caught by her father's lie and the king's greed, the miller's daughter faces an impossible task: spinning straw into gold. An imp accepts her paltry trade to save her life, but what are his motives? What's a poor peasant woman to do?

This retelling of the ancient fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin addresses some questions left unanswered by the traditional versions and is told from the perspective of the miller's daughter.​

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demon's denoument
dragonspawn
the hidden thorn
silence
the war god's new adventure
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By Water Reborn

This is a tale of honor and obligation, of instinct and restraint. When the fae huntsman obeys a royal command to capture a mate for the prince, an old widow's life ends in water and is then transformed to youthful immortality by water. Dependent upon the huntsman who captured her, Gwen must come to terms with an afterlife that offers one very important choice: accept the huntsman or not.


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Hair Trigger

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A female gunslinger returns to her hometown to claim her inheritance and get justice for her father’s wrongful death, but crashes into a statute of limitations.

This short story was originally published in Six Shots Each Gun: 12 Tales of the Old West, co-authored with Russ Towne.

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The Barbary Lion (Immortal Shifters Book 1)

Once a king and now a police detective and always a hunter, immortal shifter Atlas Leonidus knows the instant his mate's foot touched the soil of his country and claims her. Chloe cannot believe what her captor says, though the changes wrought in her own body give evidence to his wild words. Isolated, she becomes depressed. Rebellious, she breaks beneath his autocratic rule. But Chloe's smart and she's no doormat. Beneath the veil of meek obedience, she plots and schemes: all it takes is one mistake, one moment of inattention, to escape.

THE BARBARY LION is the first book in the Immortal Shifers series, which is available on Amazon. Each book is complete in itself.


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Nonfiction Essays & Articles​ (Click to download)

50  Shades of gray on the moral spectrum
hiking, humming and spitting on the trails
what's wrong with today's romantic fiction
the freelance lie
romance for dummies
is fantasy hocus without pocus?
Appreciate Your TEam
Monster Romance
my worst bosses were women
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