At sprawling Casa Verde, old flames still burn...Seven years ago Amanda Carson watched her affluent, well-respected family lose both face and fortune. Then her childhood crush--ice-cold cowboy Jace Whitehall--made her an offer she had to refuse. Now Amanda has returned to Casa Verde, Jace's luxurious home. And Jace isn't about to let her forget who she is or what she's lost.Yet beneath their heated words, something simmers, waiting. For what once drove Amanda from this land may be the one thing that can make her stay. Views: 38
About the AuthorW. E. B. Griffin is also the author of the bestselling Corps, Brotherhood of War, Badge of Honor, Men at War, and Honor Bound series. He has been invested into the orders of St. George of the U.S. Armor Association and St. Andrew of the U.S. Army Aviation Association, and is a life member of the U.S. Special Operations Association; Gaston-Lee Post 5660, Veterans of Foreign Wars; China Post #1 in Exile of the American Legion; and the Police Chiefs Association of Southeast Pennsylvania, South New Jersey, and Delaware. He is an honorary life member of the U.S. Army Otter & Caribou Association, the U.S. Army Special Forces Association, the U.S. Marine Corps Raider Association, and the USMC Combat Correspondents Association. Views: 38
Read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book! A ring to claim his heir Completely infatuated with successful pro-tennis player Nick St. Clare, Rachel offers no resistance to his sinful seduction. But when their unbridled passion results in a pregnancy, Nick insists that Rachel marry him—no heir of his will be without a father! Rachel knows their marriage is one of convenience, yet the incendiary heat between them still burns bright! But with Nick off traveling the world, how can she convince her husband that there's more to their marriage than just a baby? Originally published in 1982 Views: 38
This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered. In this book, we are brought as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process.Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, was a number one national best seller and, LIKE The Path to Power, received the National Book Critics Circle Award.From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 37
Dusky MacMorgan is living the good life off sunny Fleming Key. But there's a storm coming in the form of the beautiful April Yarborough. She's the daughter of an old pal, and she's come to ask for MacMorgan's help.The Yarboroughs have been in Florida forever. Many of them live off the grid, deep in the Everglades. Now someone's trying to drive them off their cherished swampland.When MacMorgan dives into the fray, he finds that the deadliest danger in the swamp isn't quicksand or gators, but big money - armed with some big guns. Views: 37
In this collection of eleven stories, murder is committed for reasons of fear, jealously, cupidity, and out of sheer compulsion, while the settings include an African game park, a sinister ruined cemetery, an East Anglian seaside resort, and the gloomy purlieus of Epping Forest. Views: 37
THE ZONE 5 • OVERKILL A heavily armed NATO riverine force led by the Major Revells’ Special Combat Force uses the Elbe to try and relieve the Warsaw Pact siege of Hamburg. Only partially successful the NATO troops must survive in the battered city until they can launch a breakout. SYNOPSIS The city of Hamburg has been surrounded by Warsaw Pact forces for a long time, a siege that is starving defenders and civilians alike. To relieve it NATO launches a riverine assault led by Major Revells’ Special Combat Force. A bitterly fought battle eventually delivers some relief to the city but then the enemy noose tightens again and there has to be another battle when the trapped relief force launches a no-holds-barred attempt at a breakout, employing weapons and vehicles scraped from any source. It is then they discover to just what depths the enemy have sunk in their desperation to maintain the encirclement. PUBLISHED First NEL Paperback Edition March 1982 First IMPRINT Publication E-Book Edition May 2005 First Revision IMPRINT Publications E-Book Edition April 2007 Views: 37
This is a novel by Sir John Hackett of a fictional third world war between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces breaking out in 1985, written in the style of a non-fictional historical account. The book was published in 1982. Views: 36
Mack was back in an undercover role. Posing as a U.S. Army sergeant selling guns to terrorists, Bolan struck deep into the ranks of Europes most brutal group of Kidnappers. A team of world-class athletes had been taken hostage. The captors — the Zwilling Horde. The aim— pirating of a deadly chemical weapon. The answer — Mack Bolan! The Executioner was up against fearsome adversaries — the vicious Tania, who liked to scorch the flesh of friends, and the hideous Rudi, a giant hulk whose battle with Bolan added a new dimension to savagery. But they didnt have a chance in hell. When Bolan is reduced to bare fists, only the dead are safe! Views: 36
This the fans' favorite biography of Marilyn, available for the first time as an eBook. MARILYN MONROE is the only book to tell legendary movie star's amazing life story entirely in photographs. The 200+ pictures are from the legendary collection of George Zeno, the premier Marilyn collector in the world and the lively, anecdotal extended captions are written by the international bestselling biographer James Spada. This book, which the New York Daily News called "a labor of love," was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. The eBook edition includes a new introduction. Views: 36
Read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book! The one man she can't resist... Rourke Somerville is bad news! Five years ago Clare learned just how bad. This notorious playboy had a reputation for shattering hearts and Clare could have spared herself a lot of pain, if only she had listened... Now Clare is a confident, internationally famous film star, engaged to a nice, safe man. Yet seeing devastatingly sexy Rourke again brings back vivid memories of their fevered affair... Can Clare resist the allure of the bad boy from her past? Originally published in 1982 Views: 36
Shebat came to the empire of the Kerrions from nowhere , brought by a
renegade son into that vast family regime and its endless territorial
possessions. Now she stood to inherit the majesty and riches which lay
before her , stretching enticingly deep into the infinities of space.
Magical seductress of men , passionate in her lust for power , she moved
among those who controlled the destinies of millions , for whom
treachery and betrayal were as easy as murder. Views: 35
DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR KIDS ARE TONIGHT?
The streets are quiet. Dead quiet as the shadows lengthen and night falls. It’s Halloween. Blood-chilling screams pierce the air. Grinning skulls and grotesque shapes lurk in the gathering darkness. It’s Halloween. The streets are filling with small cloaked figures. They’re just kids, right? The doorbell rings and your flesh creeps. But it’s all in fun, isn’t it?
No. This Halloween is different. It’s the last one. Views: 33
From the back coverThey are cool to the touch and alluringly beautiful in their ageless youth. Their laughter seduces, their brilliance beguiles, and their fathomless eyes are the eyes which transfix...The secrets they guard are rendered in the iron doors and gothic traceries of Notre Dame. Their arts and science are the light of civilization. Their consciousness, so old, so vastly superior, stands vigil over human progress. They were the illuminati. They are the vampire.The players in this story are: Dr. John Gladstone, a fashionable London virologist on the verge of altering history; his elder daughter Ursula, enticed by the lure of immortality; his younger daughter Camille, bereft of reason, bestowed with genius; and the Lady Hespeth, whose obsession is a mask of the unimaginable.Their world as they know it will begin to dissolve in illusion and terror from the moment a young Italian falls beneath Dr. Gladstone's carriage. For Niccolo is the androgynous angel painted centuries ago in da Vinci's Madonna of the Rocks.Now he beckons. And they must follow him past the certainties of their mortal reality, through mysteries shrouded in horror, into the phantasmagoric eternity of sensuous, heady delight which is the life of the vampire.EARLY PRAISE"THE DELICATE DEPENDENCY is rich with period detail and extraordinary insight. The tension builds page by page to a stunning climax, and the sense of creeping, subterranean horror is truly awesome. I doubt that I will ever forget it."—Whitley Streiber"The past half-decade has seen a glut of vampire novels, but few as ambitious and seriously intended as this one... an impressive book, unflaggingly interesting."—Publishers WeeklyREVIEWS"... one of the most ambitious vampire tales I've ever read... a staggeringly researched historical saga as well as an unerringly learned and intelligent contemplation on the nature of vampirism, driven by unpretentious storytelling magic... the very best novel of its kind."—Fright.com"Talbot's characterizations are top-notch as conflict and ambition and love and deceit vie within human and inhuman alike... I suppose I will always want to read [the] traditional kind of vampire novel, but with The Delicate Dependency, Michael Talbot has written something much more substantial, something special, a unique and engrossing paperback original."—Too Much Horror Fiction Views: 32
