When Pete Amsterdam retired to Key West to live in relative luxury, he thought of his PI license as a simple tax dodge suggested by his accountant. So when a man who's supposedly been dead for two years turns up by the side of Pete's hot tub and asks him to help retrieve the money pouches he buried on a nearby island just before he disappeared, Pete is completely uninterested. Views: 13
Stephanie faced his cold unwavering eyes. For once he had the power over her, total power. He could do anything with her and she knew he would. He had been her slave, now she was his.Stephanie has taken a holiday: a shopping expedition in London to indulge her taste for sophisticated decadence, and to be reunited with her lesbian lover, Venetia. Her sexually inquisitive nature leads her into an exquisite encounter in a penthouse apartment, as she discovers the art of ministering bondage - Japanese style.Keen to try out her newfound skills, she attempts to return to the castle. But things have changed. Her two most rebellious slaves have broken free and want revenge for their humiliation. The tables have turned on Stephanie's position as mistress of the castle as she and Devlin are incarcerated in the dungeon. An elaborate trial is arranged, with the slaves as the jury and sexual servility as the punishment. Can order ever be restored? Views: 13
After a man dressed in black tried to kill Lexi, she didn’t believe something worse could happen after that. Honestly, what could be worse than a psycho trying to kill her, because he got it in his head she'd become a monster for having the power of telepathy and premonitions. But she was wrong—dead wrong. Something far worse was about to happen to her. Views: 13
I'm Barbara Gold. Age: 70. Height: 5'5". Eyes: blue. Hair: gray. Weight: none of your business. Specialties: Undercover surveillance, small arms, chemical weapons, Middle Eastern and Latin American politics. Current status: Retired widow and grandmother.Ex-CIA agent Barbara Gold witnesses a woman being struck down by a car in broad daylight. It was no hit and run but plain, cold-blooded murder.After some sleuthing, Barbara discovers the strangest fact yet about sleepy Cheerville, New England: there's a nudist colony on the edge of town, and the victim was an active member. Barbara must go on the hardest mission of her career—bare her 70-year-old body for all to see—in order to solve another bizarre murder mystery.Read the hilarious 4th book (30,000 words) in the Secret Agent Granny mystery series. Views: 13
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Forty years ago, he stalked the streets of Fairwater. A dark, hooded figure who claimed the lives of twelve people. Now he is back for more.
He enters your home. He lives in your walls. He’s after your soul. Because he is the Grim Reaper. And nothing alive can stop him.
That’s why the folks of Fairwater have enlisted the help of The Frighteners. They’re more than supernatural experts—they’re the best ghost-hunting team in the business.
Because they’re already dead . . .
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A hilarious title for younger readers, from the bestselling and much-loved Jean Ure. If there's one thing Harriet's not short of, it's good ideas. Whether it's for a mad money-raising scheme or a new way of helping somebody out, Harriet has all the answers. Unfortunately, they tend to be the wrong answers, and her plans usually send people diving for cover! This title is four short stories about the reliably hilarious Harriet! Views: 13
We are proud to reintroduce the classic first novel by the author of Madewell Brown.When little José Montoya’s parents are killed one August morning by a cow, his Tia Ramona and his Tio Flavio are troubled by how best to raise the boy. After the funeral, they drive to their childhood home behind the village office, but before they reach the house, the front door swung open and Ramona’s grandfather, Epolito Montoya, who had been dead for thirteen years, stood in the doorway. Why are you out in the rain?’ he said.”Ramona has returned reluctantly to this isolated village in northern New Mexico and to the family that never lets go. As she tries to build a modern life here on her own terms, and still to care for young José, she discovers that she can reach through time, see the richness of her heritage, and reclaim riches, knowledge, art that disappeared generations ago. In fact, she can speak with her ancestors and learn their... Views: 13
Blackwood's WomanAt first J.T. thinks beautiful Joanna Beaumont is just a spoiled socialite roughing it on Blackwood Ranch. But then he discovers the danger she's fled from—and the real reason she needs him. Suddenly, all that matters to J.T. is seeing her safely through the long, hot nights....Roarke's WifeCleo McNamara desperately needs a husband...someone to father her child and protect her from a would-be murderer. Security expert Simon Roarke is happy to take the job—and the sizable paycheck. But Cleo is more than he'd bargained for—and with her life on the line, now is the worst possible time for Simon to lose his heart.... Views: 13
In 2015, Michael Smith set out on a remarkable mission and became the first person to fly solo around the world in an amphibious plane. This is the often funny, occasionally terrifying and always inspiring story of that trip, and how it came about.With limited flying experience, no support team and only basic instruments in his tiny flying boat, the Southern Sun, Michael risked his life to make modern aviation history. His adventures include an unexpected greeting by Special Branch on his arrival in the UK, a near-death experience while leaving Greenland, and a wondrous journey up the Mississippi. Showing a very Australian ingenuity and openness to experience, Michael worked his way around the globe. In seven months he made eighty stops in twenty-five countries, visiting many unusual places and, more often than not, encountering the kindness of strangers.'Great Aussie spirit in a good old-fashioned, seat-of-the-pants adventure' —Dick Smith'The blue-sky... Views: 13
Three different scenarios, three different couples, three different sins.A Trio of Sin is a 4,350 word novella about sex, fun, & a hell of a good time.Let go of yourself in the world of sexual fantasy and pick up this book; you will be thanking yourself over and over again. Views: 13
The New York Times bestselling series hailed as “gripping” ( People magazine) and “compelling” ( USA Today ) returns with Police Chief Kate Burkholder called to the scene of a horrific tragedy on a peaceful Amish farm. The Slabaugh family are model Amish farmers, prosperous and hardworking, with four children and a happy extended family. When the parents and an uncle are found dead in their barn, it appears to be a gruesome accident: methane gas asphyxiation caused by a poorly ventilated cesspit. But in the course of a routine autopsy, the coroner discovers that one of the victims suffered a head wound before death—clearly, foul play was involved. But who would want to make orphans of the Slabaughs’ children? And is this murder somehow related to a recent string of shocking hate crimes against the Amish? Having grown up Amish, Kate is determined to bring the killer to justice. Because the other series of attacks are designated hate crimes, the state sends in agent John Tomasetti, with whom Kate has a long and complex relationship. Together, they search for the link between the crimes—and uncover a dark secret at work beneath the placid surface of this idyllic Amish community. Chock full of twists and chills and set against the unusual world of the Amish, this series “will delight fans of Chelsea Cain and Thomas Harris” ( USA Today ). Views: 13
As a legal investigator, Sara Townley is at the bottom of the career food chain, but with her nose for trouble, she's liable to dig up the dirt on some of Seattle's most villainous vultures. Sara's not feeling too good about her recent Vegas wedding to a Navy SEAL she barely knows, and her assignment to the case of a missing cat—despite the fur ball's multimillion dollar inheritance—only confirms that her life is in the litter box. When the Navy man comes home from active service to make good on his vows, and a rendezvous with a feline informant puts Sara face to face with a dead body, her personal and professional lives suddenly get serious—and she'll need a sharp survival instinct to make it out alive. Views: 13
A hitman isn't allowed to have a life... He calls himself Columbus. Some call him the Silver Bear. All know him as one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Now, as he tracks a powerful politician with presidential aspirations, the fragmented pieces of his own life begin to point to a terrible truth that will unmake everything he is, tear apart the shadowy, criminal world he rules-and put him right in the crosshairs. Views: 13
What can we learn about life, love, and artillery from an eighty-two-year-old man whose favorite hobby is firing his homemade cannons? Visit by visit—often with his young daughters in tow—author Michael Perry is about to find out.Toiling in a shop Perry describes as "an antique store stocked by Rube Goldberg, curated by Hunter Thompson, and rearranged by a small earthquake," Tom Hartwig makes gag shovel handles, parts for quarter-million-dollar farm equipment, and—now and then—batches of potentially "extralegal" explosives. As he approaches his sixtieth wedding anniversary with his wife, Arlene, Tom, famous for driving a team of oxen in local parades, has an endless reservoir of stories dating back to days of his prize Model A, and an anti-authoritarian streak refreshed daily by the four-lane interstate that was shoved through his front yard in 1965 and now dumps over 8 million vehicles past his kitchen window every year. And yet Visiting Tom is... Views: 13
