She's armed––with hot irons, sharp shears, and a flair for color.She's dangerous––truly bad news for bad hair.And she's going to do whatever it takes to make a place for herself in the exclusive Beverly Hills salon.Even if that means sweeping hair, emptying trash, scrubbing dummy heads, and making soy lattes for the stars that come to Yoshi's salon.Even if it means hiding the fact that she's not really an up–and–comer from New York, but a drunk's daughter from small–town Wyoming.Even if it means igoring her attraction to a tall, dark stranger in a fedora who just stepped off the elevator...and into her heart.But can a talented hairdresser from the sticks really make it in image–obsessed L.A.? And can she ever find true love and real success in a town that wrote the book on fake? Views: 44
When a man sets out to tame a strong-willed woman, hed best hang on to his hat.Will Martinson, the town doctor, already has a heap of troubles on his plate, what with a pregnant whore, an ailing friend and a sheriff with a bad habit of shooting people.The last thing he needs is a strong hankering for a woman who thinks its her duty to turn a mans life upside-down.Eliza Jane Carter is a woman on a mission.Shes going to improve the lives of the women in Gardiner, Texas before moving on to the next town.But when her finances take a turn for the worse and her chaperone heads for the hills, Eliza Jane is stranded in a town full of riled up menfolk, a gun-happy sheriff and one handsome doctor who makes her question everything she ever believed about the love between a man and a woman. Views: 44
Her Pa had literally sold her to a stranger, for food on the table for his large family. Beth Sawyer was the oldest of twelve children, and because of the drought the crops were barely covering the price of the next crop. Beth's mother tried to comfort her daughter by telling her to follow her heart. Luke Horton was a gambler andthe minute he laid eyes on Beth an idea struck him. He'd heard how a pretty woman sitting next to you at the gambling tables could bring him luck, and right now Luke needed some luck. Beth was his answer, but would he have to marry her to get her to go along with his ideas? Views: 44
Doris Grumbach's chilling look at the ways childhood experiences create transformative echoes that last throughout adulthood "I want to lead you all into the ocean to see if you will drown." During the summer of 1929 four children come together and change the course of their lives forever. Caleb and Kate Flowers live an isolated existence with their mother until Lionel Schwartz and Roslyn Hellman come to Far Rockaway for the summer. Roslyn, quickly stepping in as ringleader, dominates the summer's activities, and what appear to be innocent childhood games are actually very real confrontations with the group's most closely held secrets. As the summer progresses, Caleb and Kate's relationship grows from the affectionate love of siblings to something less innocent. The ensuing years will bring profound realizations and undeniable passions for all four as they move through adolescence and grow up. Doris Grumbach's acutely intimate, deeply... Views: 44
SUMMARY:The ending of Prescot's stark adventures as a living chess piece in the city of blood games was to be as terrifying as the perils that had gone before. Because now that transposed Earthman had to fight his way back to his embattled Vallian homeland across a sky full of danger and a sea full of death. And when he returned - if he could - he would find the combat joined, his son at doom's door, his troops up against superior odds, and a battle he must personally fight that would be two battles in two different places at the same time! Views: 44
