Nessa Joanne Mulholland, aka Marilyn Monroe's No. 1 teenage fan, is living the high life in Manhattan. Literally. Waffling and pancaking it up every morning (care of housekeeper Vera) in her to-be stepmother's Tribeca penthouse apartment, things couldn't be better. Or so she thinks, until things start to go terribly, horribly wrong, in true Nessa fashion. All of a sudden, she's starting to feel the need to pull at her collar. Yes, it's summer in NYC and things are heating up fast, including the Professor's and Holly's wedding plans. Gasp! Along with Nessa as her dad's too-gorgeous research assistant moves into the penthouse while Holly's away filming in LA; Cringe! As Nessa gets dumped for 'Doris Day'; Hiss! As former fiance Kent Sweetman decides he wants Holly back, wedding or no wedding; and Bite your nails! As the cupcakiest wedding ever hangs in the balance. Phew. The temperature's getting hotter by the second, heat rash is setting in fast and everyone's starting to... Views: 70
Product DescriptionDan Abnett, the Black Library's best-selling author, returns with more tales of Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor and his retinue of lethal operatives. First introduced in Dan's astonishing Eisenhorn trilogy, Ravenor has left his former master and is now investigating the spread of a unholy psychic substance called flects. As his investigation takes him into the higher echelons of the Imperial hierarchy, it becomes clear that this will be his most dangerous assignment yet. With a huge range of novels behind him, Dan once again shows why he is the master of the Warhammer 40,000 universe. About the AuthorDan Abnett lives and works in Maidstone, Kent, in England. Well known for his comic work, he has written everything from the Mr Men to the X-Men in the last decade. His work for the Black Library includes the popular strips Lone Wolves, Titan and Darkblade, the best-selling Gaunt's Ghosts novels, and the acclaimed Inquisitor Eisenhorn trilogy. Views: 70
Darius Stewart has been banished and offered the leadership of a new pack. With the pack to settle and a rogue wolf terrorizing the local population, threatening to expose their species, the last thing he needs is a mate further complicating his life.
That’s just fine with Meg O’Reilly. A witch, she knows something is not right in her town. Discovering there are good werewolves, bad werewolves, and the possessive, bossy, sexy alpha wolf trying to take over her life is not exactly welcome. Too bad she can’t seem to keep her distance.
This book was originally published in 2006. It has been revised and expanded. Views: 70
Product DescriptionWhen L.A. entertainment lawyer Julie Burns becomes convinced that finding The One is "just a numbers game," she sets out on a dating frenzy. From chance meetings and blind dates to dating services and the wonderful world of the Internet, Julie will try anything to meet her man. And in the process, she discovers a secret or two about the single life: Sometimes love sneaks up on you when you least expect it-and even the worst first impressions can have surprising results. Views: 70
The querulous island kingdoms of Wefrivain are unified only by religion - a wyvern cult ruled by an eccentric and cruel High Priestess. The wyverns are under attack by a gang of pirates known only as the Guild of the Cowry Catchers. Now Gerard, the honorable and naïve new Captain of the Temple Police, is about to learn more than he ever wanted to know about the pirates...and the Priestess. Views: 70
Larry Feldman desperately needed a kidney. After two god-awful years on dialysis, watching his life ebb away while waiting on a transplant list behind 74,000 other Americans, the gun-toting couch potato decided to risk everything and travel to China, the controversial kingdom of organ transplants. He was confident he could shake out a single, pre-loved kidney from the country's 1.3 billion people. But Larry urgently needed his cousin Daniel's help… even though they had been on the outs with each other for years. But wait: Larry was never one to not get his money's worth. Since he was already shelling out for a trip to China, he decided to make it a twofer: he arranged to pick up an (e-)mail-order bride while he was at it. After a tireless search of the Internet, he already knew the woman he wanted. An unforgettable adventure, Larry's Kidney is the funniest yet most heartwarming book of the year. Views: 70
Book 1 in the Shadow Dweller series. Shai Jordan, fledgling New York journalist, is on the trail of a serial killer. The excitement of her first big assignment turns into terror when she sees an uncanny resemblance between this string of murders and the death of her mother years before-the bodies have been drained of blood. Now, in an eerie, sickening development, all the victims bear a disturbing resemblance to Shai, and all signs point to her as the next victim. But no one, not even the police, will believe her or protect her. Out of the darkness comes a man who turns her blood to flame and incites her deepest, darkest desires. Her sensual lover who pulls her into a nighttime world of erotic abandon that threatens not just her career, but her life. As evidence starts to build, Shai must determine whether her dark lover is her savior…or her killer. Note: This title was previously published elsewhere, but has been revised and re-edited. Views: 70
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Ariadne and Nikoletta are beautiful identical twins-but opposite in every way. Groomed to take over her father's empire, Nikoletta will go to any lengths to get what she wants. Araidne, raised in obscurity and unaware of her vast family fortune, is generous and naïve. But when she agrees to a shady scheme-orchestrated by her late father's board of advisors-to take the place of the twin she has never even met, she becomes embroiled in a web of passion, deception, and untold danger. Views: 70
Clive January, a black man and successful Wall Street banker. A husband, father and lover of a woman with whom he'd shared an obsessive love since before his marriage to another. And now he's dead, shot in the back at his sumptuous Long Island summer home. When the story opens we see Clive's ghost who has realized that he must work through Bob Greene, the white detective assigned to his case in order to discover his murderer. Clive is trapped in a world between heaven and hell and his only hope for peace is to find out who killed him. Bit by bit, through dreams and by taking over Bob's consciousness, he reveals his life leading up to the murder in the hope that if Bob knows what really happened, he can find Clive's murderer before it's too late.A DEAD MAN SPEAKS is the story of two men who need each other to complete their lives — one living the other dead —- one to move forward in this life and the other to move forward in the next. It's about two men with two... Views: 70
In the third installment of The Wakefield Romance Series, we meet Ellie Mae, Rhea Griggs' cousin. She is 'damaged' and afraid to let herself out there after suffering an abusive marriage. Bobby Timmons is the 'playboy' of SEAL Team 10, going through women like it's going out of style. Can these two broken and passionate souls find love in one another or will their pasts ruin everything? Views: 70
Inspector Konrad Sejer returns on the trail of a violent killer in small-town Norway.Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride is due to join him, he is called to the hospital to his sister's bedside. The local taxi driver sent instead to meet the bride at the airport returns without her. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow. Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre head the murder inquiry, cross-examining the townsfolk and planting seeds of suspicion in a community which has always believed itself to be simple, safe and trusting. For what can only have been an unpremeditated and motiveless act of violence, everyone is guilty until proven innocent. Views: 70
Woman HaterEveryone in the office described the boss's mysterious older brother as wary of the female of the species--a real woman hater. He'd been burned in the past, and now was twice shy, to say the least. So when Nicole White had to travel with her ailing employer to his brother's home in Montana, she was prepared for the worst. What she found was a man more roughly masculine than any she'd ever met.But Winthrop Christopher's distrust of women ran straight to the bone. Nicki knew she should avoid him, but she couldn't hide from the feelings he stirred in her. Could she ever teach this woman hater to love again?If Winter ComesCharismatic Phoenix mayor Bryan Moreland had already won the devotion of his constituents and was well on his way to getting reporter Carla Maxwell's vote...until she found out that the hunky leader wasn't all he claimed to be. Rumor had it the popular politician was an embezzler. It was just... Views: 70
