Romance. 91064 words long. Views: 34
-a Firehawks Hotshot romance story- Heavy equipment driver Sheila Williams got blown up one too many times. The Army kicked her loose for that idiot reason. How the hell she ended up in a tourist town for the holidays makes even less sense. Hotshot Randall Jones fights wildfires for a living. The adrenaline fits him like a fire in the forest. They both feel the heat in a Hotshot Christmas. Views: 34
Madness lurks in the shadows...Tiorné, a merchant respected for her just and unbiased practices, staffs her space freighter with a motley crew chosen for their abilities rather than their Blood. How can Tiorné refuse when a man ill with a mutated strain of leprosy seeks sanctuary aboard the Nimrod? His unknown disease is killing him and all he wants is to die free from persecution.Her decision, however, may prove fatal.When the Nimrod's crew begin to show signs of infection, it becomes apparent they have all been exposed to the plague. Tiorné's son, Reigo, finds himself heading a mutiny against his mother as the crew struggle for their lives.How can anyone fight a disease that infects both the mind and body...one that also promises salvation and eternal life to its sufferers? Views: 34
Myka can spot an ant carrying a crumb in a faraway field. She can see an inchworm sliding along a twig in a distant wood. She's a brave-hearted, sharpeyed fairy scout. Then one morning Myka thinks she spots something dangerous and sounds an alarm-a false alarm. Now Myka's no longer so sure of herself. She's starting to think something is wrong with her eyes, but she doesn't want anyone to know. Can Myka count on her other senses to help her fool everyone? Views: 34
Join the Sleepover club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who just want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief. It’s time for the annual twenty-four hour sleepover but the girls soon discover that their arch-rivals the M&Ms are planning to sabotage their fun. Of course, the Sleepover club rise to the challenge but they soon find that revenge can be sickly sweet … Views: 34
Guy Saville's The Madagaskar Plan imagines a disturbing alternate history in which Nazi victory in World War II brings their "Final Solution" ever closerThe year is 1953. There is peace in Europe, but a victorious Germany consolidates power in Africa. The lynchpin to its final solution is Madagaskar. Hitler has ordered the resettlement of European Jews to the remote island.British forces conspire to incite colony-wide revolt, resting their hopes on the expertise of Reuben Salois, an escaped leader of Jewish resistance. Ex-mercenary Burton Cole scours the island for his wife and child. But as chaos descends and the Nazis brutally suppress the nascent insurrection, Cole must decide whether he is master of-or at the mercy of-history. The Madagaskar Plan is alternate history of the highest order, a thriller of terrifying scope based on the Nazis' actual plans prior to the Holocaust. Views: 34
Fascinating and often bizarre true stories behind more than 130 urban legends about comic book culture Was Superman a Spy? demystifies all of the interesting stories, unbelievable anecdotes, wacky rumors, and persistent myths that have piled up like priceless back issues in the seventy-plus years of the comic book industry, including: Elvis Presley's trademark hairstyle was based on a comic book character (True) Stan Lee featured a gay character in one of Marvel's 1960s war comics (False) Wolverine of the X-Men was originally meant to be an actual wolverine! (True) What would have been DC's first black superhero was changed at the last moment to a white hero (True) A Dutch inventor was blocked from getting a patent on a process because it had been used previously in a Donald Duck comic book (True) With many more legends resolved, Was Superman a Spy? is a must-have for the legions of comic book fans... Views: 34
A hot new Amos Walker mystery by a master of the hard-boiled detective novel. "Loren Estleman is my hero."—Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling authorDetroit entrepreneur Carl Fannon hires Walker to trace Emil Haas, his partner, whose sudden disappearance has jeopardized their firm's plans to purchase the historic Sentinel Building. Almost immediately, the missing man shows up and asks the detective to meet him in the empty Sentinel to discuss a top-secret concern. Walker complies, only to find not Haas, but Fannon's suffocated corpse locked in a basement vault. When Gwendolyn Haas, the partner's adult daughter, enters the picture, the client number rises to three, including one missing and one murdered. But the worst is yet to come: Emil Haas's "concern" is that Fannon's been buying up depressed real estate on behalf of Charlotte Sing, the international fugitive Walker knows only too well as Madam Sing. Madam Sing is believed to have been... Views: 34
The Hive: a subterranean genetic research facility owned and operated by Umbrella, an immensely powerful corporation with interests in everything from human longevity to biowarfare. With computerized defenses and heavily armed human backup, the Hive is impregnable and invulnerable. Or so Umbrella believes.But something has gone fatally wrong. The Hive has lost containment of its most lethal and horrific creation: a virus that kills and reanimates human life, reducing the entire facility staff of five hundred men and women to mindless creatures with a single driving force -- hunger. And the key to stopping them rests with one young woman who cannot even remember who she is. Views: 34
A high-stakes thriller, set in the City of London.With his marriage on the rocks and the family-owned merchant bank
threatened by a hostile take-over, life for Raef Carlton could hardly
get any worse. But then Daniel Stewart, Raef's closest friend and
Carltons' Treasurer, is found shot, and Raef's life plunges into
freefall. Views: 34
