Alone in his East London shop, a man known only as Dalton makes living prosthetics: bionic, mechanical limbs, from leather, metal, and magic. It's to this little corner of the capital that Finn Croucher, an elite army marksman, travels after an accident leads to his hand being amputated.While Dalton fashions Finn's new hand and teaches him how to use it, he reveals some secrets long hidden, and he and Finn become lovers. But Finn must return to duty, and a string of letters becomes his only connection to the love he left in London. Views: 49
The phantoms of each man, woman, and child who ever perished from disease now walk among the living. Containment is a novel of world-wide devastation and the race to save mankind. Bram Stoker Award winner Charlee Jacob delivers a beautifully gruesome picture of an apocalyptic nightmare. A pure masterpiece of modern horror fiction. Views: 49
Diarmid Campbell scours a battlefield in medieval Scotland for the mysterious healer known as ""Lady Miracle,"" hoping to enlist her powers to help his ailing niece, only to lose his heart in the bargain. Original."About the AuthorSusan King, a Ph.D. candidate in medieval art history at the University of Maryland, took time off from her dissertation to write her first historical romance, The Black Thorne’s Rose. The Sword Maiden marks her tenth novel celebrating the wonderful, magical, and sublimely romantic setting of Scotland. She is a native of New York, and currently lives in Maryland, with her husband and their three sons. Be sure to look for her next historical romance, coming soon from Signet. Susan loves to hear from her readers. She can be reached at P.O. Box 356, Damascus, MD 20872. Please include an SASE for a response. Views: 49
Worker robots keep the high-tech town of Terabyte Heights humming, but ten-year-old George Gearing is the only one who has a robot for a best friend. When his scrappy but beloved pal Jackbot is hit by a car, the whiz kid re-engineers him with fancy parts from state-of-the-art TinkerTech Laboratories. Jackbot's astounding new skills far exceed anything George—or even TinkerTech's head of robotics—could ever have imagined. Will the villainous Dr. Micron destroy the whole town to see his tech-driven dream realized? Not if George can help it . . . Views: 49
When a miscreant patient unexpectedly dies in his dental surgery, Ryder Galen knows two things: he didn't murder the alpha wolf, and he's dead meat unless he can prove his innocence—before the dead alpha's pack kill him in retribution. Handing himself in to the Reform authorities should buy him some time to track down the real killer, with the help of his lawyer ...Half-blood vampire Vassiliki Verity has inherited a secret gift from her human side of the family—a truthseeking ability that enables her to tell when someone is lying to her. Not so good on the dating scene, but very effective in dealing with criminals. Her latest client, though, is an interesting mix of honesty and secrecy, and while she knows he's lying, her conscience won't allow her to throw him to the wolves. But how can she trust a man who can seduce her with his lies? Views: 49
Madewell Brown walked into the village on a hot, dry day in 1946. A solitary black man with one arm longer than the other, he had never found a place for himself. Never, that is, until he had painted his own history on the interior walls of his adobe house in Guadalupe.Fifty years later, Will Sawyer’s truck runs out of gas, and as he walks that same long road back into town he knows it’s best to keep his eyes on the ground. But he doesn’t understand the town’s long history of displacement or the difficulty of truly fitting in there, until he hears the story of the dead girl found hanging from Las Manos Bridge.In Perdido, Rick Collignon returns to the same magical village he first introduced in The Journal of Antonio Montoya.In Perdido, Collignon returns to the same magical town he first introduced in The Journal of Antonio Montoya. Once again mixing present and past, living and dead, he delivers a forthright and unflinching... Views: 49
An estranged father and daughter meet for the first time at Christmas in this touching holiday story that will tug at your heart, from USA TODAY bestselling author Rexanne Becnel.On the train to meet her father, young Anna Spano befriends Eva Stephens, an older woman who occasionally thinks she’s traveling to her home village in pre–World War II for the holidays. Recognizing Miss Eva’s disorientation as the same dementia her late grandmother experienced, Anna isn’t sure who is actually taking care of whom on the journey.At the far end of the journey, Tom Thurston is anxious about what to expect when his daughter arrives. So he’s doubly shocked when a teary old woman embraces him, convinced that he is her long-lost brother.At Anna’s insistence, he reluctantly agrees to bring the woman home with them and try to locate her family. And as Anna clings loyally to her new friend, and Tom struggles to be who Miss Eva needs him to be,... Views: 49
BORN TO DIE A SUCKER'S DEATHAs the man threw a leg over the sill of the window, Jody shot him through the body. The rifle hit the ground and the man smashed back into the house.More gunfire fractured the hot and dusty air. This time it was the sheriff who was hit: he'd run from cover into the bullet-thick street.'My God,' thought Jody. 'I'm all alone!'FINAL BOOK IN THE SERIES Views: 49
This is an intense page-turner, a gut-punch twist-filled story about a woman who has confidence in herself, believes she's a good judge of character, and has filled her life with people she can trust. She's right, but she's also very, very wrong. You'll have a time of it trying to decide who to watch closest. Views: 49
The daughter of a
diplomat disappears on a school field trip–lured into the Santa Monica
mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of
a political motive. There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of
sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD
homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the disturbing question: Why?Working
together with Daniel Sharavi, a brilliant Israeli police inspector,
Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared in one of the
darkest, most menacing cases of their careers. And when death strikes
again, it is Alex who must go undercover, alone, to expose an
unthinkable conspiracy of self-righteous brutality and total contempt
for human life. Views: 49
