Natasha Carmichael woke up from a poison induced slumber to find Lucius, that vampire whose blood runs in her veins, looming over her. What's an immortal.
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That much vampire blood after going cold turkey is causing her to run wild. She can either try to work the excess energy off in bed with Anton or go on a killing spree with Patrick. Once the choice is made, Natasha quickly finds that she has other issues. Read more Read less. Kindle Edition File Size: Customer reviews There are no customer reviews yet. Share your thoughts with other customers. Write a product review. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. Anyone that loves to read a great vampire series, this is a must read!!!!
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This series has it all!! Once you pick up a book from this series you will not put it down.
These three series are nothing alike, but all Three are awesome, and a Must read for Paranormal fans! This series has you turning the pages so fast, that you will finish the book and not only want more, but will go back sometime and read them again. Vampires, Steamy Hot Sex, Witches, mystery, suspense, great plots, scenes that will make you laugh out loud till your cheeks hurt, moments that will leave you holding your breath, and so much more!
The author has created a world for Paranormal fans that will leave you speechless, and trying to find more reads like her books, but good luck with that! Every book gets better and deeper into the world Melissa created for us, I never want it to end. This review is after reading all 15 books in the series. I would pay any price for her books, and I don't say that very often. Aug 25, Ashley rated it really liked it. Don't let the different cover fool you, great vampire read! Only downside, waaay too many books in the series for my taste. Jd rated it it was amazing Oct 18, Ridouan rated it it was amazing Jul 28, Sara Joy rated it it was amazing Oct 31, Alyrica rated it really liked it Sep 06, Emily rated it liked it Jan 20, Tiffany M rated it it was amazing Mar 23, Trina Davenport-smith rated it it was amazing Oct 16, Zee rated it it was amazing Sep 30, Lisa rated it really liked it Apr 29, Regina rated it really liked it Sep 26, Gyslain Desgagne rated it liked it Feb 06, Kristina rated it really liked it Jan 15, Shellee rated it really liked it Apr 29, Laura rated it it was amazing Feb 18, Li Hai is a Chinese student finishing up a business degree from La Sorbonne.
The only thing they have in common is an imperfect grasp of French, and as their time together draws to a close, Wren discovers that this is not quite enough. Greg Dalhart developed software that can find any fugitive in the U. Now it is tracking him down as he runs for his life. Suddenly, Greg Dalhart has become worth many millions of dollars dead. The killers after him, and the woman with him, will soon learn the same things: Greg Dalhart and his software are not what they had seemed — and one of the two is evil.
Pitch For her entire, adult existence Juliet Driscoll has remained locked within herself. Orphaned as a toddler and abused as a young girl, she presently maintains a precarious emotional balance working as a bar waitress at a popular North Dakota watering hole. Her free time is spent solving complicated engineering problems through an on-line university. She dreams of obtaining an engineering degree, all the while unaware that she and her brother are the rightful heirs to a silver mining fortune. She partially succeeds in tamping down her defensive personality when Nickolas Olsen re-enters her life.
He is not the same person whose high school kisses she rejected. Together they begin to unravel her true identity, an identity that places Juliet in the crosshairs of murder attempts so callous that only her quick thinking allows her to survive. In a twisting path of treachery and danger, Juliet confronts the legacy of her birthright, and in the process finally awakens to the astonishing power of a first love.
Eros is a seductive re-telling of the classic Greek myth, Cupid and Psyche. They would be living in a speckled yellow cottage, six miles from the Nile River and, best of all, a world away from anyone they knew. The same town where Sarah Scott lives in a stifling, abandoned trailer, eight-months pregnant and two weeks sober, trying to figure out how to re-gain custody of her eight-year-old daughter and where to borrow a car.
As Mabel forms an unlikely friendship with Sarah, pitting herself squarely against Charlie and Amber in an unpredictable battle for the custody of two little girls, the struggle that follows leaves old wounds hovering thick and heavy, like smoke rising off charred Arkansas rice fields. The unique voices of Amber, Sarah, and Mabel combine to tell this story that becomes all three of theirs, a story of loss and betrayal, of sisterhood and of friendship, and of untold secrets. Death of an Elephant is an allegory of existence. He is a conflicted man at the crossroads of civility.
His eastern soul and western mind confounds his life. An estranged outsider meets absurdity like the demise of a loyal elephant poisoned by of his own keepers.
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Thirty three year old Jasmine Anders is an insecure clairvoyant who has finally escaped from an abusive relationship in Fort Collins, Colorado and begun a new life with a new job in Moab, Utah. On the two-day drive through the Colorado mountains, she discovers the exquisite guitar playing and dark chocolate vocals of the late Texas country star, Tom DeVries.
With the help of her joyful, beer-swilling boss, Jasmine becomes the owner of a charming adobe home, fully aware that the house is haunted by a seductive male presence that turns out to be the spirit of Tom DeVries himself. Tom is desperate to complete some unfinished business, left behind when he rolled his T-Bird in the Arizona desert. Jasmine, with her ability to communicate with spirits, is the perfect candidate to assist him with his last task on earth. Romance ensues, with obvious limitations. Further complications arise when Jasmine finds a boyfriend in the very physical, half Navajo, Rob Dishta.
Humorous and sexy, this novel bounds from the Colorado mountains to the Utah desert and to the music scenes in Austin and Nashville. On the more serious side, Jasmine must recover from an abusive relationship and a lifetime of ridicule for her psychic abilities. As she juggles a grueling job, a difficult task and having to choose between two lovers, Jasmine learns to accept herself and her abilities, and to learn the meaning of true love. This is a romance novel with some bluegrass fed beef on its bones. Liz Barnes, the driven, dark-hearted heroine of A Brand New Hell, is a successful real estate developer who plans to pave over as much of the world as possible.
Rock Hall natives like Crowbar, Seasnake and his son, Junior, fire up their workboats and head down the Chesapeake, as the modern ways of Liz? Western Shore head east across the Bay and threaten to ruin their way of life. Sunny Brafford swore off men fourteen years ago when she kicked her lying, cheating husband out of her bed and out of her business, and Brafford Inn went on to be one of the most sought-after bed and breakfast locations in northern Wisconsin.
She finds it unsettling that she would win a contest she never entered and is determined to find the culprit who set this in motion. Her beguilement has become the perfect disguise, hiding her silent rage and compulsive determination to get whatever she wants no matter who gets hurt, or killed, along the way. One Last Lie is a timely and tension-filled novel with an ending that shocks even the most observant of readers. When Justin Thiery is assigned to a school shooting in Frosthaven, Florida, he is disturbed by yet another mass murder but he takes some comfort knowing at least none of the children were hurt.
As a Special Agent in the Florida Department of Law Enforcement he is tasked with heading the investigation in this tiny, rural town. Wounded in the attack, Erica is a patient at the nearby trauma center but when Thiery goes there to question her, he finds that she is gone. Thiery has to wonder: As he interviews some of the witnesses, one student tells Thiery that when one of the shooters came into the classroom, he asked Erica what her name was.
Complicating the case, Thiery is partnered with a former lover, FBI Agent Sara Logan who wants more from him than just a crime solving partner. As he unravels the mystery of the missing teacher, he learns this is not the first time Erica has fled town unexpectedly. When a troubled U. Marshal comes to town looking for her, too, Thiery, believes he knows why she ran, but the question is: Daisy McLean had a happy, if unremarkable, life.
The oldest of three children, she grew up in a loving family in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma. Young, smart, and pretty, with a rewarding job and fun, supportive fiance, Daisy had every reason to be satisfied… and absolutely no reason to suspect that she was secretly the daughter of award winning novelist John Anders Erickson.
Daisy learns that her birth father is a writer widely considered to be on the short list for the Nobel Prize for Literature and that the woman laid to rest was actually her birth mother. Think before you speak… Minnie Chase is an ordinary girl and an extraordinary mathematician. She has a great job and a husband-to-be and loves them both.
She is brilliant with numbers but finds people more of a challenge. She believes that if she can just master the art of being normal, her life might turn out right. Ashton Greene is one of the most powerful and celebrated CEOs in business. The subsequent fallout disastrously affects Minnie too. She sets out to correct her mistake, to put things right. She soon finds out that it is easier said than done. Fairfield Detective Alexis Alex Martinez is in pursuit of a killer so brutal, he holds an entire city in the grip of terror.
His victims are picked at random; their torture and mutilation, unspeakable. Their prime objective is to avert discovery, and when her investigation comes too close to revealing their existence, Alex becomes a target. Their physiology has evolved to consume bio-energy directly. They age at an incredibly decelerated rate. And they feed on humans to survive. Since childhood, Sawyer has been trained to manipulate and entrap on reflex, to put emotion second and Family first; yet one moment of weakness, sparing the very detective that hunts him, the woman he has grown to love, makes him a dangerous threat his people cannot tolerate.
Now, light must join forces with darkness as Alex and David struggle to stay one step ahead of an invisible army out to silence them both. Twelve years after the unexpected death of her beloved husband, Kaitlynn Gillespie remains consumed by grief. Become alarmingly reticent and withdrawn, she shelters herself within a narrow world of career and family, spiraling ever deeper into seclusion, spending endless hours alone, burrowed under a shield of creative endeavors.
Deep within her shattered heart however, harbors the free spirit she once embodied. One capricious act opens the door to an astonishing relationship, and Kaitlynn must grapple unexpectedly with emotions she thought forever lost. Her vacillation over this inadvertent intrusion into her life becomes even more complicated when the announcement of an office closure places her career tenure in jeopardy.
Forced to choose a new direction, she makes a decision that plunges her into a life-changing course she never dreamed existed. Accentuated with original poetry, historical minutiae, Native American legends and artfully worded vignettes, this truly unique chronicle will inspire everyone who believes our lives follow a constantly shifting path, and all we need to navigate that next blind curve, is a measure of faith.
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Nine-monthers hunt her down in bookstores. Saleswomen strap fake bellies to her waist. From immaculate conceptions to baby daddy juggling acts, everyone April knows is popping up pregnant. Everyone except for her. She and her husband, Joseph, spend their days transporting sperm in little plastic cups to a fertility clinic in Austin, Texas.
And with her mother and sisters, three women born knowing how to attract attention, April must find a way to get theirs when she needs it most. Aislin is innocent and her faith in God has set her free, so how could it be that a murderous pirate holds her heart captive?
Although innocent, she cannot remember the events of that night, so she is sentenced to a prison colony in Australia. On the voyage there, the prison ship is blown off course and winds up too far west, where the murderous pirate, Captain Jackson, is said to rule the seas. Her pleas to God seem to go unheeded as the ship is attacked and taken by the formidable buccaneer.
Captain Gabriel Jackson is a pirate of a different breed.
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Playing the part of a bloodthirsty brigand, he finds himself coming to the aid of the enchanting maiden almost against his will. As they both struggle to survive in a vicious world, they are drawn together by an unseen force. Even though she is kidnapped, thought dead and more, time and time again God continues to bring the pirate captain into her life. Innocence Lost is the first installment of the Altheizer Preserve trilogy, a series that chronicles the life of Jack Wilson as he attempts to survive in the wild lands that surround civilization years into the future.
Wilson had been living a normal life in a revamped New York City when he fled from civilization after the secret order of Regulators had targeted him for extermination. Thrust into a new world behind the thick forest of Altheizer Preserve, Wilson crosses paths with the strange inhabitants of the wilds, the Naturalites. Innocence Lost is a whirlwind of adventure bouncing from a futuristic New York City to the untamed Altheizer Preserve and back to civilization as Jack Wilson searches for answers to why his life has been so dramatically altered and climaxing in the Adirondack Mountains, remarkably unchanged following two centuries of climate change, global warfare and economic strive that left humankind on the edge of existence prior to the discovery of longevity.
Ten years later, the mysterious Mr. McGraw offers aimless drifter Merlin an impossible deal: Spacefaring civilizations are deadlocked over how to treat less advanced planets, including Earth. The century-old, best-of-seven Series is tied at three, and McGraw wants Merlin for the finale. His previous Earth recruits, three pitching legends, were all winners; McGraw intends to stick with that formula, even if no legends are available.
The two rosters begin to resemble all-time All-Star teams, and many question whether the unknown Merlin belongs. For Alaire Larkin, staying positive has never been a problem. Her future promises only happiness and a lifetime of service to the State, until the day she uncovers a secret library and a world of emotions she never knew existed. Alaire knows she must forget what she has learned or run the risk of internal exile. It should be easy. All she has to do is smile. In the Golden State, citizens are committed to helping those in need and contributing to the public good.
But what about the Inders, those outcast souls diagnosed with Interpersonal Negativity Disorder, who linger on the margins of society? And what about the world beyond, a subject never discussed or taught in school? Terrified by his newfound powers, Guy struggles to unearth the secret origin of the shoes, realizing along the way that he can use them to become rich and famous. But his plan quickly takes a turn for the worse. Now Guy must choose what to do with the shoes: Leo Leaper is an introverted 8th-grader whose sole aspiration for his southern Arkansas life is to become a published author, like his eccentric mother Patrice.
He is a daydreamer and engages his overly creative mind to excuse himself from the most common aspects of reality, replacing them with fantastical scenarios and images that help sedate him from the things that cause him the most pain. The young writer watches his mother transform into a monstrous beast, finds his house covered in muddy footprints that no one else can see, is confronted by an army of trolls outside his bedroom window, and wonders why the strange guy living in his closet constantly demands hot tea and insists that Leo not open the door to look at him.
But when he is visited by three sword-wielding young boys who speak of war, Leo questions how far his mind has taken him. On the last day of school Leo is approached by an old man that claims to have the key to understanding his visions. One that even his skeptical step-father will soon not be able to ignore. In this lightning-paced novel that brings more twists than chapters, Leo will be pushed to the limits of human capability, driven by a centuries-old unexplainable force.
It is an inhospitable world of deep crevices and rock pools, where the fast-flowing tide can so easily trap the unwary in minutes, cutting them off from safety. Wild and unkempt, she is marginalized by the local community, which treats her as slow-witted, a virtual outcast. In those days, flither girls were seen as the lowest of the low; the hard work they did, toiling in freezing conditions, scaling cliff faces, wading out to sea and braving the treacherous currents, went largely unappreciated and undervalued.
Amy braves the ferocious conditions without question or complaint; it is all she has ever known. One stormy day, her life is torn apart when her beloved father is lost at sea. In her denial of events, she searches the sea and shore, convinced that he will return, but instead of her father she finds another refugee washed ashore. Facing a life-threatening decision, she can either leave him there to perish and save her own life, or she can try to save both herself and this mysterious man.
But in doing so, she risks being cut off and suffering a cruel death in the freezing water of the North Sea. The conflict that came ashore turns a girl into a woman. The first in a planned Trilogy. Eddy Winters never expected his dad to try to kill him. Luckily the police intervene in time and take his dad to a psychiatric hospital.
Eddy moves across the country to live in a cliffside mansion that the locals call Rockwatch with his estranged mother who he has never met. Eddy just wants to have a normal life. He wants to make friends, get a girlfriend, go to parties, and graduate highschool. Unfortunately, strange things are happening at Rockwatch and they all seem to revolve around him. Then Eddy finds a man chained to a boulder in a cave below the mansion who claims to be immortal.
All that pales in comparison to the knowledge that his mother is actually hundreds of years old and plans to sacrifice Eddy to a demon on his sixteenth birthday in exchange for her continued immortality. Cast off by a husband who wants children more than he wants her, Mary Bellamy seeks a fresh start in tiny, affordable Lawson, New Hampshire. Now she has a huge secret to keep, at great personal cost. Lawson loves its gossip, but as her predicament worsens, Mary also finds support that she never expected. Will it be enough to save her when her unraveling ex threatens everything she has left?
In this witty and affectionate tale of small town life, Mary discovers that the connections we make can result in terrifying risks, but also unexpected blessings. The story is told through posts on a fictional Tumblr page, which the couple sets up to share their now-separate worlds. We watch as they communicate and miscommunicate with each other through their posts and photos, as they try to be honest about their lives but end up irresistibly manipulating their own experiences to get what they want. What do you get when you combine sun and sand, maritime history, barrier island ecology, scuba diving, a quirky love story, eminent domain abuse, and a violent crime?
A literary low-key murder mystery that appeals on multiple levels. His allies include a loyal dog, a salty charter boat captain, the sketchy denizens of the boatyard, and an alluring dive instructor who may or may not have a hidden agenda. With the help of this motley crew, Ketch struggles to make sense of his new reality, while trying to save some of the things that really matter along the way.
The hyper-realistic dreams of the world of Corante dried up, leaving her desperate. She needs the solitude, snowed in at her cabin far from the public and her social anxiety, to reconnect with the world of her dreamscapes. Rather than inspiration, she finds a half-dead man buried in the snow. When he wakes with no memoires, she comes to realize he bears a striking resemblance and uncanny similarities to a handsome and morose widower from her books. He finds himself instantly and inexplicably drawn to fragile yet strong Alyse.
He wants to ease her growing hysteria with answers, but every memory he recovers of his past only connects him more to her fantasy series. He longs to pull her close and protect her from the world and herself, but Alyse pushes him away. When Alyse is captured, Alertan has no choice but to relive his nightmare in order to save the woman he loves. Her mom, who hails from Magnolia, Virginia, is a renowned scholar of African American literature and a local success story. And unlike her mother, Noni feels no connection to their new house, which was built by her enslaved great-great-great grandfather.
Sophie was just a teenager when she died in She can relate to this unknown, forgotten girl who must have profoundly disappointed her parents. But will any of this unearthed history bring her closer to her own heritage? And will it close the ever-widening rift between Noni and her mother? It is March Britain is still in the throes of the Second World War and Soran Manor, once stately, has now fallen into decay and disrepair after the Luftwaffe bombings.
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Within months, the ha-ha wall is mended to keep out stray livestock, the overgrown and neglected grounds are tamed and in bloom, and the victory garden at long last produces more vegetables than weeds. Soran Manor, however, is on the verge of foreclosure. It is clear that James is not who he claims to be. A woman is found in an empty room, the doors all locked, the victim of cyanide poisoning which has mottled her skin and turned her blood a dark shade of purple.
Detective David Parks, battling his standing within the LAPD when his former partner is found guilty of planting evidence, is brought on to solve the murder of the woman in the room. Another man is paralyzed, having been poisoned with a toxin taken from an exotic fish. As the body count builds, Detective Parks and Dr. This sends them on a path that goes back to an ancient society of assassins trained to rid the world of evil and sin via poison. Has someone picked up this ancient tradition? Or is there a simple and more personal reason behind the killings? More lives are threatened as Det.
Isley work to get closer to the truth behind this poisonous killer. Jenna Jax-Anders hit rock bottom in high school. Or so she thought. From rock star heiress to knocked-up has been, she turned it all around, marrying the punk rock baby daddy love of her life. The perfect Hollywood fairytale. Until the day she walked in on him kissing her best friend. As she struggles to find herself and redefine the world around her, she faces the challenges of raising her over-achieving teenage daughter, the heartbreak of losing her best friend backstabbing aside , and emerging from the shadows of two famous last names to find her own identity.
Soldiers call them Dear John Letters. When Sergeant Matt Mathews received his letter, it marked the loss of his young daughter and the woman he loved for more than half of his life. It marked the loss of his military career, his musical talent to Amusia amnesia and it almost marked the loss of his life. But it was not all loss. Somehow he gained possession of a mysterious envelope, filled with ancient Chinese script. Local authorities and the Military Police refused to take it, even though someone was trying to kill him to get it back. He also gained a relationship.
With his marriage over, he allowed his interest in a beautiful coworker to grow. Without realizing it, his attraction grew to captivation and he found himself in a romantic interlude of mesmerizing infatuation. He was enraptured with this woman, this enchantress with her rare, exotic qualities. He did not know she was guided by the stars, psychics, and ancient oracles, or that she came into his life not just to love him, but to heal him. She understood how the abuse in his youth crippled him sexually, and if she remained pure in her intent, she could make him whole again.
Matt struggles to regain his musical memory, and grieves for his precious daughter. He finds himself entangled in the rapid transitions of misery, misfortune, joy, and good fortune, as he tries to sort out the confusing contradictions of good and bad love. Running for his life, he careens through the yin and yang of a world that crashes and rebuilds itself around him at breathtaking speed. As the murderous Vietnam conflict rages nearby, Matt fights his own war of love and redemption in the mystical metropolis of Bangkok, Thailand. At last, the perfect society is a reality.
After seven years waiting and hoping, civil servant Nicholas Machida is finally on the list of Harvestees: At last, he can stop merely existing and look forward to actually living again. Unfortunately, his dream of becoming a member of this perfect society is suddenly shattered when a chance mugging forces him to kill a man, nullifying his potential admission. In addition to this, he soon also finds himself on the run from an uncannily efficient judicial system which itself appears to be perfect in every way.
With just four days remaining until his Harvest, Nicholas is forced to place his trust and, potentially, his life in the hands of a select few friends and acquaintances, each of whom take a starkly different view of the Harvest and what it means. But which of them is right? The author describes the , word Death of a Pharaoh, the first in a trilogy, as an apocalyptic mystery thriller with heart-stopping plot twists in the spirit of The Da Vinci Code, only more plausible.
The action spans two thousand years and invites readers on an exhilarating chase through three continents, not counting a surprising version of heaven. The skillful weaving of strands of historical fact with richly colored threads of fiction creates a tapestry that seduces even the most jaded imagination. The novel challenges important concepts of religious faith. What if Jesus became divine but not in the way Christians believe?
It also poses a series of questions about our future, such as what happens if the Gods give up on the human race? The story begins in near-contemporary Philadelphia with the murder of Fannie Carter, the last in a long dynasty of True Pharaohs. Just one problem, the seventeen year-old African-American is serving hard time in a medium-security prison for manslaughter and has no idea of his destiny. An evil consortium hell-bent on a takeover of the global economy, including major food supplies, will do anything to stop his coronation in Egypt, already complicated by the presence of an army of former Vatican Swiss Guards searching for the earthly remains of Jesus Christ.
Even the Gods pray that the band of ruthless capitalists behind the regicide and the fanatical leader of Sanctus Verum, a secret agency of the Catholic Church, never decide to join forces. Maxie Pierce has had a rough day. For a year-old senior from Sioux City, Iowa, her precarious morning begins when a handsome detective in a fedora shows up at her doorstep. He informs her family that her father has been found dead of questionable circumstances. Maxie learns that her father was bootlegging whiskey across the Iowa border into Illinois, regardless of Prohibition, and that he had mob connections.
After her uncle is called to the house, she follows him to City Hall, where she sees him bribe the detective. Later that evening, Maxie and her best friend, Becky, witness a murder at the hotel. Auntie Rose notices the detective, who keeps snooping around the hotel. Could he suspect her of running a speakeasy? What family secret is Auntie Rose hiding? Why did her uncle bribe the detective? And who is the murdered mystery woman? Maxie feels compelled to uncover the answers in order to satisfy her own curiosity, and protect her best friend in the process. After escaping from prison, her mother goes on the lam.
Maxie is faced with difficult decisions. Should she keep her silence and protect her family? Or should she answer to her moral conscience, confront them all, and rat on them to the detective? Seventeen-year-old basketball star Alexandra Campbell had everything going for her-looks, brains, a scholarship to college, good friends and a loving family. All that changed the night her younger sister Jenny was shot and killed in a convenience store robbery. Any hope for justice comes to a heart-wrenching end when the police are unable to collect enough evidence to arrest the Black Diamond girls suspected in the shooting.
Alex, devastated by the loss, decides she must take matters into her own hands. Transforming herself from a wholesome girl next-door to a fearless badass, Alex infiltrates the gang and wins their trust. But what starts out as a revenge mission, unexpectedly turns into a journey of friendship as Alex begins to care about the girls and see them as more than criminals.
With her life in jeopardy, Alex must act fast in seeking justice. He comes home to find her father dead and Amy desperately trying to save her land and ranch from her greedy stepmother. Will Amy turn to him for help or will she shun him after the way he left her in the past? Dan Stover is a field biologist studying capuchin monkeys. Meanwhile in Bogota, Charlie is accused of murdering a teenaged girl. He lands in La Modelo, an actual Colombian prison that makes the ones in Midnight Express seem benign. Under conditions of great emotional strain, the brothers each must cross severe cultural barriers and extreme danger to achieve a future with the women they love.
American GIs are pouring into England, bringing with them romance and heartache. An American army unit has set up base outside a small Hampshire town in preparation for the D-Day landings. Lieutenant Jack Webster is focused on preparing his men for battle and has no intention of getting involved with a woman while there is a war to fight. But then he meets Samantha Mitchell, a beautiful English nurse whose life has already been shattered by four long years of war, and almost at once his resolve begins to weaken? Set against the backdrop of the Second World War and its aftermath, A Nightingale Sang is a heartwarming story that celebrates the triumph of love over the separation of war.
It is nearing the turn of the century and rumors are circulating that the wizard Napoleon Bonaparte may attempt to escape from his prison on St. Even as he plots and plans, twelve-year-old Willa Caper begins having strange dreams involving the imprisoned wizard, dreams that seem all too real and frightening.
These dreams reveal clues which will lead her to a music box that has the power to free Bonaparte. The dreams will take her from the drawing rooms of Hesby Wold, through the streets of London in a mad dash to retrieve the box, and then into the hidden world of the Faerie Kingdom, the only place where the music box might be safe, to stop the vengeful French wizard set on bringing war to his enemies over half a century after his final capture at Waterloo.
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His numbers had come up. Finally, he could forget all his troubles and escape this horrible world and everything it had become. It was the chance to live a normal life again. After the catastrophic and world-wide economic collapse, the United States had been a broken shell of its former self for more years than he cared to remember. Sheltered from the chaos and anarchy of the outside world, New York City had become a privately-run sanctuary operated by a mysterious and powerful company named Maddox Corporation.
To recruit workers for the island, Maddox ran a lottery program, offering winners the chance to escape what was now a brutal and desperate existence in the real world, and instead begin a privileged life in the safety and comfort of a city that most would only ever dream about again. But not all was well in this walled utopia.
Pumped up on a synthetic, designer drug for unparalleled strength and endurance, players could hunt and kill randomly selected lottery winners by any means necessary. Of course, entrance into this last remaining paradise on earth came with a catch. There was always a catch. Anna Brennan needs help. And so she turns to Dr. Corvol, a charismatic, unconventional fertility doctor who takes beautiful pictures of the children born under his care, and believes that mind and body play equal parts in procreation.
Hooked by his insightful questions, she agrees, with some trepidation, to undergo treatment with him, including his form of psychotherapy. The discovery redefines her views on life and parenting, and opens the way to a successful medical intervention. She becomes pregnant, gives birth to a beautiful daughter, and even discovers her true calling. Her happiness seems complete.
When Anna makes a disturbing discovery a few years later, she must use all of her new-found strength and sense of self to keep her family from getting torn apart. The Conception Artist is a haunting upmarket novel, layering mysteries within mysteries. It also explores the everyday miracle of two people striving to keep a relationship alive even as they are changing side by side. The humble wife of an immigrant man, middle-aged Cruzita nervously awaits the birth of her child.
During a blizzard on December 12, , her complicated delivery produces unexpected twins. Her doctor takes it upon himself to hide the baby in the hospital until he is able to sell it on the black market a short time later. A home is found for RJ where he grows up with his docile mother, a former-prostitute who is married to an abusive Baptist preacher. His is a home shrouded in secrets and peeling with scabs of scorn. He fends off verbal and physical blows courtesy of his adoptive father. Typically quiet and reserved, RJ finds the switch that sets off his own anger and it is both his savior and his downfall.
Adina remains with her biological parents who bind her with strict religious and cultural handcuffs. Her transition to adulthood is transitioned by her falling for a bad boy who gets her pregnant. This is an explicit tale of two sociopaths whose light and dark sides will keep you riveted yet sometimes jittery with discomfort. Could things have been different? Honesty is the best policy, except in love, politics, family, and murder. For ambitious Albuquerque Mayor Tomas Zamara, that covers just about everything. Mayor Zamara is also fending off his father, who wants to rescue his failing business with city money; and struggling to satisfy his demanding new woman, the radiant and volatile Tory Singer, who may not be who she says she is.
Then, when a flash flood unearths the skeleton of his long-missing wife, investigators zero in on Zamara as a suspect. Has an IQ of and a photographic memory. An orphan from the age of two and now a top class spy. And she has a pet rat named Daga. But can he actually take things seriously?
From rescuing a Senator in New York to an adventure above ground in North Carolina, to an even more dangerous adventure even higher above ground, will Shay, Rebecca and Patrick be able to find some kind of common ground and manage to save the day? Or will they end up killing each other first? Lastly, meet the Puppetmaster. And he has his eye on Shay. The country is still recovering from the Great Depression. Droughts ravage the Midwest. Emily has never been the kind of girl to do the expected; some even call her a bad girl, but really, Emily simply wants more than her small town can offer.
Her grandmother understood that about her, even encouraged her to live a life to be remembered, just like Alice Ramsey had in when she drove an automobile cross-country. Her life is a mess. She had to get away, even if it ends up being with a criminal, and even if it ends up being the final in a lifelong string of bad decisions. The Army is using black troops so, if the experiment fails, they can laugh it off; it does not fail. Bicycle Tramps is the story of what happens next. The novel is narrated by J. What happens in St. An unlikely bond takes hold when these soldiers realize that their survival depends on one another and they end up fleeing to the American West on bicycles.
A bit True Grit, a bit Huckleberry Finn, a bit Glory, a lot of Breaking Away, Bicycle Tramps is a literary bicycle western, an argot and a picaro based on true events and authentic, strange cycle-powered steampunk machines. Quirky, clumsy and eager-to-please Karly has more than her fair share of bad luck. Single and unemployed, Karly continues tripping through life both metaphorically and physically.