In this fourth and final novel from Blackstock and LaHaye about the residents of Cedar Circle, Sylvia Bryan is diagnosed with breast cancer--and all the neighbors rally round to help her in fighting it. Views: 18
The Big Kill is the 9th installment of the hilarious Matchmaker Mysteries Series. Progress is being made on Gladie's house and her impending wedding. Meanwhile, her best friend Bridget is ready to give birth. But all of that takes a backseat to Gladie's discovery in her grandmother's attic about her father. It looks like her father's motorcycle accident when she was a child was no accident, and now Gladie is thrust into her father's world, where his best friends could have been his murderers. Will Gladie find the killer before she's next? Matchmaker Mysteries...Sometimes love comes with a few dead ends."Elise Sax will win your heart."—New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis"Sax will make you laugh. Her larger-than-life characters jump off the page and make crazy seem like a fun place to hang out."—New York Times bestselling author Christie Craig"With quirky characters reminiscent of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series and a small-town... Views: 18
That girl, the one with the pure heart is long gone and left in her wake… is me, the girl with the tainted one. My heart has been repeatedly splintered only to be mended then shattered again. In one night I lost the boy who continually hurt me whilst also insisting I was his world. The same boy who made me feel like I mattered… even if that meant forcing me to love him. Views: 18
Lexi Alamont’s been looking for love for years. But living in the small town of Sage Springs, Mo., means the search has not been fruitful. Sure, there are ghosts galore in town, but the selection of living men isn’t anything to write home about. She’s happily watched her two best friends meet their matches, and she can’t help but think that maybe she’ll have her chance before long.When Cruz Drakov comes back into town to do some work for his paranormal TV show, Lexi’s called in to sweeten up the crew with her baked goods. With her growing business being praised from the mouths of celebrities, Lexi’s happy to oblige. What she isn’t expecting is to gain the attention of the guy who’s everything she’s shied away from. Cruz is a self-assured witch, a realist, and not afraid to play the field with his charismatic demeanor. Lexi’s optimistic, sweet, and looking for the one who will make her heart whole.Sometimes love is hiding in places you’d least expect. Just ask Lexi and Cruz. Views: 18
Recently released from prison, former major league baseball player Doc Miller takes a job as driver and muscle man for a tough bail bondsman and finds himself in a world of guns, greed, and murder. Reprint. NYT. PW. From Publishers WeeklyThis final volume in Estleman's Detroit trilogy (after Whiskey River and Motown ) is a superb thriller that may cause an uproar in America's sixth-largest city. Doc Miller, once an ace reliever for the Tigers, is sprung after seven years in prison, a sentence he earned when a guest at a party he threw OD'ed on cocaine. Fat, flamboyant bail bondsman Maynard Ance offers six-foot-five Doc a job as escort while Ance goes after a skipped client, Wilson McCoy (last seen in Motown). McCoy, former Black Panther and leader of the Marshals of Mahomet--"revolutionaries" who raise money by selling drugs--eventually turns up a suicide. Accepting Ance's offer of full-time employment, Doc is plunged into an intricate series of events in a fast-moving narrative that veers from a black funeral to a fancy fund-raiser, with danger at every turn. The pleasure of the intricate plot is enhanced by the cast of vivid ? colorful an awk adj to use in describing a multiracial castgood point! characters, led by Ance, who likens a pesky reporter to "a prostate the size of Ohio." Other players include a genteel black former madam who knows where all the bodies are buried, Mahomet's elegant widow, and some ballplaying Marshals who run dope. Real-life Mayor Coleman Young is depicted in the last chapter as the owner of a crack house. As in the earlier Detroit books, the climax here is violent, the denouement cynical. Estleman, who also writes the Amos Walker mysteries, knows and somehow still loves Detroit, not unlike its other bard, Elmore Leonard. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus ReviewsA paroled felon takes a walk on the wild side of the law in this relatively slight yet satisfying conclusion to Estleman's Detroit crime trilogy (Whiskey River, Motor City). Kevin ``Doc'' Miller isn't just any ex-con; he's a former Detroit Tigers pitching star sent to prison on a morals rap. Back on the streets after seven years, Doc finds a new, more dangerous Detroit--one fueled not by the illegal booze of Prohibition-set Whiskey River, or the corrupt unions of 60's-set Motor City, but by crack cocaine. As a parolee, Doc means to steer clear of crime, but his new job as a John Deere salesman pays little and bores him silly. So when tough bail bondsman Maynard Ance offers him a job as his driver, Doc jumps at the chance--and is soon helping Ance bail out Detroit's top black drug-dealers and political radicals. Doc's an amiable guy, as well as a celeb of sorts, so soon he's also organized a weekend sandlot baseball game played by his new acquaintances--drug-dealers, a cop, and his own nerdy nephew, whom he's trying to make a man of--and he's escorting the young widow of a legendary black radical martyr to a testimonial dinner, thus attracting the attention not only of a sexy journalist but also of longtime Detroit mayor Coleman A. Young. Beneath this newfound success, though, trouble brews: one of Ance's old clients, a top drug-dealing black radical, has killed a corrupt cop--and Doc, pressured by another cop to help find the killer, gets caught up in a dirty political war that eventually leads to a tragic death and takes him into a tense showdown with Mayor Coleman himself. Neither as colorful nor as vigorous as the earlier volumes- -but, still, a pleasing if rather rambling mystery-thriller boasting a likable lead, nice baseball metaphors, and a boldly chilling portrait of Coleman A. Young as a devil incarnate. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Views: 18
Sanguis Noctis: Book One Gun for hire Jed Walker doesn't figure it for a difficult job—a simple smash and grab retrieval—except his new client doesn't want money or goods. He wants shy, gorgeous Redford Reed, a man who turns Jed's world upside down inside a day. He is in no way prepared to fall hard and fast for his newest assignment. Redford Reed lives his life locked in his grandmother's house, haunted by a terrible curse and watching the world pass him by until Jed shows up, sent by a man who will stop at nothing to claim Redford as his own. Teaming up with Jed is Redford's only chance at survival, but as the violence escalates, so does the tension between them. Even though they each finally have something to live for, now it's going to take all Jed's skill and every bit of courage Redford has just to stay alive. Views: 18
Erotica/Romance. 10252 words long. First published in www.torquerepress.com, 2011 Views: 18
Mary Heaton is a respectable middle-aged widow, with a daughter who recently went off to university and a husband who until his death was a senior member of the cabinet. Her friends regard her as a little stiff and a little old-fashioned, but mostly as a very straight-laced woman. And then, one morning, a letter arrives with a threat to reveal the truth about Mary's sordid past. Views: 18
New York Times bestselling author Gregory Benford creates an alternate history of the creation of the atom bomb that explores what could have happened if the bomb was ready to be used by June 5, 1944.Karl Cohen, a chemist and mathematician who is part of The Manhattan Project, has discovered an alternate solution for creating the uranium isotope needed to cause a chain reaction: U-235. After convincing General Groves of his new method, Cohen and his team of scientists work at Oak Ridge preparing to have a nuclear bomb ready to drop by the summer of 1944 in an effort to stop the war on the western front What ensues is an altered account of World War II in this taut thriller. Combining fascinating science with intimate and true accounts of several members of The Manhattan Project, The Berlin Project is an astounding novel that reimagines history and what could have happened if the atom bomb was ready in time to stop Hitler from killing millions of... Views: 18
The epic saga of Max and Jennie Gunnarsson is now in one complete edition - THE VROL TRILOGY BOX SET. Travel with the Gunnarssons as they learn magic, fight vampires, travel through time, and try to keep their precocious daughter from murdering everything in sight. Views: 17
