When her husband dies, Lu Si-yan's mother is encouraged to sell her young daughter into domestic service. Lu Si-yan is just eleven when sold by her uncle. Nearly two years will pass before she can get back home to her mother and brother. In this powerful and compelling novel Sally Grindley portrays the life of a young girl in China, a young girl whose life is said to be like 'spilled water'. With a brilliant first-person narrative and a powerful description of time and place, this novel is gripping, heart-wrenching and utterly mesmerising. Views: 43
Cards of fortune, tell your I story,Answer all I've come to ask let the draw set forth the course of what has been and yet may pass Annie's fascination with Tarot spirals beyond her control when her readings become reality. As if cursed, Annie faces friends Cooper and Kate with this newfound power--a power that threatens the very strength of their Wiccan bond. Views: 43
Business and Pleasure Lynn LaFleur First in the Lavender Lace series. Marci Bayne, president of a successful media company, refuses to get involved with an employee. She doesn’t consider it professional, especially after an affair with one ended badly. Enter her new vice president, hunky Keefe Donegan with his black hair and blue eyes, and she’s a goner. When Marci visits Lavender Lace, a store run by Celtic goddess Ashlyn, she can’t resist the sexy lingerie. Ashlyn convinces Marci to be brave and buy something new, something a man wouldn’t be able to resist. Keefe is delighted to discover the sexy underwear beneath the president’s business suit. He’s even more delighted to find the sensuous woman inside the president. Their lovemaking is hot and passionate, but he wants more than sex. He has to convince Marci that business and pleasure are the perfect combination. Views: 43
BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Anne Perry's Treason at Lisson Grove and Execution Dock.A young bridegroom enlists private investigator William Monk to track down his fiancée, Miriam Gardiner, who disappeared suddenly from a party at a luxurious Bayswater mansion. Monk soon finds the coach in which Miriam fled and, nearby, the murdered body of the coachman, but there is no trace of the young passenger. What strange compulsion could have driven the beautiful widow to abandon the prospect of a loving marriage and financial abundance? Monk and clever nurse Hester Latterly, themselves now newlyweds, desperately pursue the elusive truth--and an unknown killer whose malign brilliance they have scarcely begun to fathom. Views: 43
A Taste of Twilight Aubrey Ross Crimson Carousel, Book One When a string of apparent suicides leads Jessie Curtis to a famous rock band, she’s convinced nothing can shock her anymore. Then she comes face-to-face with Rafe Steele, the enigmatic lead singer and centuries-old vampire. He’s darkly charismatic and sensually compelling in a way almost impossible to resist. Rafe is infuriated when an old enemy’s barbaric actions lead a nosy investigator to his door. Jessie is persistent and shrewd, and he wants her with obsessive intensity. She already knows too much. He can’t let her walk away. He must seduce her, control her, claim her as they unravel the mystery. Publisher’s Note: This book was previously published under the same title, however, has been modified and edited for Ellora’s Cave. Reader Advisory: In order to stop the killers, the incredibly decadent Faelon from Aubrey’s upcoming Crimson books provides the needed third when Jessie and Rafe create a powerful blood bond through a sexual ménage. Views: 43
First in a brand new series from the author of the Rogue Mage novels Jane Yellowrock is the last of her kind—a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires and hunts vampires for a living. But now she's been hired by Katherine Fontaneau, one of the oldest vampires in New Orleans and the madam of Katie's Ladies, to hunt a powerful rogue vampire who's killing other vamps... Views: 43
