A new collection of stories by Mavis Gallant is always a major publishing event. For this is the writer who--like Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro--has made Canadian short stories a presence on the world literary scene, and on our bestseller lists.In Across the Bridge four of the eleven stories are connected, following the fortunes of the Carette family in Montreal. In "1933" their widowed mother teaches Berthe and Marie to deny that she was a seamstress and to say instead that she was "clever with her hands." In "The Chosen Husband" the luckless suitor Louis has to undergo the front-parlour scrutiny of Marie's mother and sister: "But then Louis began to cough and had to cover his mouth. He was in trouble with a caramel. The Carettes looked away, so that he could strangle unobserved. 'How dark it is,' said Berthe, to let him think he could not be seen."We then follow their marriage, the birth of Raymond, and Raymond's flight from his mother and aunt to his... Views: 10
Can love ever be enough to heal two damaged souls?On the run from her troubled past in a stolen four-wheel drive, Matilda Denver seeks the sanctuary of sleepy Moonstone Valley where she hopes to heal and make a fresh start. But her plans go awry when the vehicle breaks down and she's stranded at the side of a deserted country road. Ryan Hunter, after working himself into the ground at his interstate truck-driving job since his sister's death, is making his last run before a well-earned month off. On the last stretch home, he happens across a beautiful woman and scraggy dog hitchhiking. It's not long before he connects Matilda's bruises to her past and what she's on the run from. He instinctively wants to protect Matilda and offers her a place to stay at his property, Heartsong.Although both battling their own demons, they start to discover how much they have in common – and soon they're also battling the strong desire to fall hard... Views: 10
THE LADY AND THE LONERHe was an outlaw. A rebel. A man she'd sworn to avoid. A drifter more comfortable roaming the range—alone—than taking a wife and building a family. But from the moment he became her protector, Jennifer Horn felt a connection and an irrepressible urge to make him her own.Corey Rainwater was running. From himself. From his past. Especially from the look in Jennifer's eyes. He could never be the husband she needed, or the father her precocious daughter so desperately desired. Because dreams weren't made for men like him.At least, that was what he'd always believed.... Views: 10
As senior project manager for his father's construction firm, Perry Sachs has helped build top-secret military installations around the world. Now he learns a secret beyond his imagination—one on which his father's life depends.Forty years before, Henry Sachs and a small group of scientist had studied a mysterious underground bas not built by the U. S. Government—nor any other country, as far as they experts could tell. Concerned by the unexplainable complex on American soil, authorities flooded the site to prevent its creators from every returning.Now, Henry and members of his team are falling, one by one, to a strange, deadly illness. When Perry hears his father whisper the name "Lake Lloyd," he and his team begin a desperate search—for the exact location of Henry's secret mission, for the cause and the cure of his condition, for answers to the decades-old questions Henry has kept hidden inside. Views: 10
Angela Wroboski has recently moved with her mother from their small hometown into the city to rid them of a dark past. Now, Angela must deal with the fact that her home will be anything but "normal." Her dad, the infamous Nick "The Weasel" Wroboski, has served three jail terms for various crimes, including robbery, during her lifetime, and on June 5, Angela's fifteenth birthday, he's released from a two-year sentence in Fort Gavin Prison.Arriving home with an attitude and attire that's sure to mess up her friendships and future, The Weasel tries in his own way to prove that this time he's going straight. But the influence of the old gang, led by notorious Uncle Al who's now operating an enigmatic "business" that's more than a little shady, remains a constant threat to Nick's future as a family man. When Angela learns that a crime is being planned that could blow apart her family, she must quickly decide how to intervene without breaking her father's code to "never discuss... Views: 10
What happens when a group of eleven orphaned teens from the City of Keansburg, New Jersey, suddenly find themselves back in the days of King Arthur? Also along for the trip is an older, gray-haired man named Merryl who at one time was a magician. The ten boys and one girl along with the elderly magician soon find that they are an integral part of the fable of King Arthur and his Round Table. Views: 10
The Alpha male. Strong. In control. Letting no one and
nothing rule him…until he meets the one, and all bets are off. The world tilts,
the bed rocks, and suddenly that tough guy finds himself Brought to His
Knees—in more ways than one.
This collection of ten hot to erotic novellas and one short
erotic novel will take you on journeys of lust, love, and adventure, leave you
breathless and quite possibly in need of a cold shower.
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