Clint Adams thinks he's hit just another small-town gambling hall, until lady luck, in the form of a beautiful Faro dealer, shows him a few tricks at the table—and in bed. But when a sore loser guns her down, the Gunsmith finds the stakes raised to life and death. Views: 11
1839 - Having escaped from the clutches of the wicked Gregory Hacklebury and his insane 'maid' Megan Crowthorne, the youthful an supposedly innocent Angelina has been re-united with her own former maid, the beautiful Indira, but cast out into a world with only her jewellery and a few pounds.1975 - Teena Thyme, now back in her own body, knows that it is only a matter of time before she will find herself back as Angelina, for there is unfinished business which her ancestor will not be able to take care of herself.From a world of hot pants and kinky boots to one of corsets, garters and silken mysteries, Teena/Angelina becomes mistress of an early Victorian brothel for the well heeled - and none are as well heeled as Angelina and her girls Views: 11
DEVIL IN THE DETAILS announces Jennifer Traig as one of the most hilarious writers to emerge in recent years – and one of the strangest! Recalling the agony of growing up as an obsessive-compulsive religious fanatic, Traig fearlessly confesses the most peculiar behaviour – like scrubbing her hands for a full half-hour before meals, feeding her stuffed animals before herself and washing everything she owned because she thought it was contaminated by pork fumes! The result is a book so relentlessly funny and frank that it’s totally refreshing. Views: 11
Re-read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer Multi‐millionaire Jack Beauchamp can have any woman he wants – so when florist Mattie Crawford sees a chance to teach this playboy a lesson she has no idea it can go so wrong. Now he's demanding she compensate him by accompanying him on a weekend in Paris... A romantic weekend in the French capital with the most handsome, charming man she's ever met is a fitting punishment – especially as she's vowed to keep him at arm's length. Mattie's praying for separate bedrooms to keep her on the straight and narrow, but she already knows this charismatic man won't let her off that easily! Originally published in 2003 Views: 11
At midnight, in a secret medical clinic in Washington, D.C., two foreign doctors and their team are completing plastic surgery on an anonymous client who is changing the appearance of his face, among other things. After the procedure, the client begins to stir-and suddenly the operating room erupts in violence and the clinic is ablaze.Washington police conduct an arson investigation, with inconclusive results. But one tantalizing fragment of evidence suggests that a terrorist bombing may be imminent. The presidential inauguration is quickly approaching and Washington's police, fire, intelligence, military, federal, and White House security teams are making frantic preparations. Because of the strain on manpower, retired Secret Service agent Swamp Morgan is recalled to active duty. His task: investigate the incineration of the medical clinic as a "firefly"- Washington-speak for something that looks like a threat but isn't. As Swamp begins what he thinks... Views: 11
Two women looking back over fifty years: one full of regret, the other not admitting to mistakes and continuing to be fiercely positive. Which approach, in the end, is likely to prove more satisfying—both for Daisy herself and for those who live around her? Views: 11
