At first, Leslie Hopkins doesn't believe Reed Jacobs when he tells her somebody's using her store to receive their drug shipments. But it soon becomes apparent the private investigator is telling the truth.
Leslie is more than happy to help in the investigation, but she's not thrilled about some of Reed's methods, which include spanking her for not doing as he asked. But as the time passes she comes to like the PI. She just doesn't want him to know it.
As their feelings for each other grow, Leslie is faced with the stark reality that that Reed lives almost five hundred miles from her little town, and will leave when things are wrapped up. She wants to believe he's not just using her, for business and pleasure. Sometimes you just have to leave to trust people. Views: 27
From Publishers WeeklyA troublemaking youth comes of age after many fantastical and at times squalid adventures in this fourth volume of Cook's Chronicles of an Age of Darkness (following The Women and the Warlords ). In a barbaric world scattered with the remains of high technology, swordsmith's apprentice Drake Douay is promised (he thinks) the hand of the daughter of King Tor of Stokos, falls for and tries to seduce ex-priestess Zanya Kliedervaust and is cast off by his master Gouda Muck for general shiftlessness. Stealing the swordsmith's favorite weapon, the boy takes sea passage to find profit and glory. He is captured by the pirate Slagger Mulps of the Walrus , whose crew bear a grudge against Drake, and is rescued by the competing pirate captain Jon Arabin of the Warwolf . After surviving many adventures as king, slave and mercenary, and as the object of religious hatred by a powerful cult led by Gouda Muck, Drake is reunited with his true love Zanya--only to face further trouble. Cook's picaresque odyssey goes on and on. While the tale occasionally shows flashes of imagination, the reader eventually loses interest in this world and its crude inhabitants. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 27
Commitment is a four letter word...My little sister's best friend has always been off-limits.It doesn't matter how many times I've imagined what it would be like to be with her, she doesn't want me. She wants a clean-cut guy with a boring job who'll sit at home and answer her every beck and call.I know who I am, and I'm not going to change.Sure, I'd do anything she asked, but I can't change me. Not that she's ever asked. She knows I'm a lost cause. Life as a surf instructor might not be stable, but it's fun and I'm good at it.These days I think it's the only thing I'm good at. Because I sure as hell suck at saying no to her lately. Views: 27
Jaffy Brown is running along a street in London’s East End when he comes face to face with an escaped circus animal. Plucked from the jaws of death by Mr Jamrach – explorer, entrepreneur and collector of the world’s strangest creatures – the two strike up a friendship.Before he knows it, Jaffy finds himself on board a ship bound for the Dutch East Indies, on an unusual commission for Mr Jamrach. His journey – if he survives it – will push faith, love and friendship to their utmost limits. Views: 27
Trekking with their eco-photographer parents, Amy and Christopher suspect a thief on New Zealand's famous Milford Track.Is it Ms Tree, the Freedom Walker? Other suspects include a keen golfer, a rugby international and Zoe, the guide. When a mischievous kea bird steals from the twins, they change their minds. Dr Al, the celebrity explorer is being filmed on the Track, by their parents. Could he be involved in illegal kea or nugget smuggling?Backpack mix-ups, a loo-with-a-view and a kea copy-watch contribute to this heli-hiking mystery set in New Zealand. The Frequent Flyer Twins are nearly 'fleeced' by a nugget smuggler. Views: 27
Enidina Current and Mary Morrow live on neighboring farms in the flat, hard country of the upper Midwest during the early 1900s. This hardscrabble life comes easily to some, like Eddie, who has never wanted more than the land she works and the animals she raises on it with her husband, Frank. But for the deeply religious Mary, farming is an awkward living and at odds with her more cosmopolitan inclinations. Still, Mary creates a clean and orderly home life for her stormy husband, Jack, and her sons, while she adapts to the isolation of a rural town through the inspiration of a local preacher. She is the first to befriend Eddie in a relationship that will prove as rugged as the ground they walk on. Despite having little in common, Eddie and Mary need one another for survival and companionship. But as the Great Depression threatens, the delicate balance of their reliance on one another tips, pitting neighbor against neighbor, exposing the dark secrets they hide from one another,... Views: 27
