This time her phoenix energy has awoken the long dormant death deity, Nexanthon.She's on the run, trying to stay one step ahead of the monster chasing her and find a weapon powerful enough to kill a death deity.Grave has been given one last task in exchange for his freedom from the Oracle—to protect and help the frustrating phoenix Athera.The only problem is that she's made it clear she wants him, and he has a vow to keep. She's a danger to him on every level, because if he gives in...he will be the one who kills her. Views: 14
What does a lawyer do when she discovers her client may be a liar, or worse? Charles Kendrick, the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, has been named a "person of interest" in connection with the disappearance of his twenty-five-year-old spokesperson, Michelle Forrester. Attorney Marty Nickerson is representing Kendrick, a high-profile resident of Cape Cod, but soon finds that parts of his story don't check out. Meanwhile, Marty and her law partner -- and lover -- Harry Madigan, are defending ex-con Derrick Holliston, who stands accused of murdering a popular local priest on Christmas Eve. He admits the killing, but claims, improbably, that he acted in self-defense. Michelle Forrester's body is found the day Derrick Holliston's trial begins, which leaves Marty and Harry facing two mounting legal battles and two clients whose stories don't make sense. Together they must confront the law in all its maddening complexity, battling for -- or maybe against? -- their own cagey clients in order to see that justice is ultimately served. From Publishers WeeklyConnors's latest trip to the courtroom (after Maximum Security) follows busy, resilient Cape Cod attorney Marty Nickerson and her partner in love and law Harry Madigan as they handle two cases in which their clients' stories are highly suspicious. Marty is representing U.S. Sen. from the state of Massachusetts Charles Kendrick, whose attractive, talented 25-year-old staffer Michelle Forrester mysteriously disappears. Harry Madigan, meanwhile, is appointed public defender for recently released young con Derrick Holliston, who pleads self-defense in the brutal Christmas Eve murder of Fr. Francis Patrick McMahon, claiming the priest made untoward sexual advances. Both cases explode: Kendrick, who had a heated love affair with Michelle, admits that he was with her the night before she vanished, and Holliston commits "tactical suicide" with a short-lived decision to represent himself in court. A mad scramble ensues to assemble witnesses for the Kendrick case just as Michelle's body washes up in picturesque Pleasant Bay, an implicating quarter mile from the senator's estate. Connors smartly keeps her sleuthing tight and her courtroom acrobatics succinct for another excellent, fast-moving courtroom drama headed by a plucky, energetic heroine. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistPartners in love and law, Cape Cod attorneys Marty Nickerson and Harry Madigan don't know how they got themselves mixed up with the two crazy cases they face in their latest outing. In one, a young man barely out of juvenile hall is facing a murder rap and decides to defend himself (though by the judge's orders the attorneys have to sit at the counsel table "just in case"). And then there's Charles Kendrick, a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who some believe may have been involved in the disappearance of a young office worker. Something seems amiss with both of these clients' stories, and Marty and Harry, usually so tuned in to what's truthful and what's not, feel like they're grasping at straws with two defendants who are opposite in social status but equally stubborn. A quick read with plenty of interesting twists and turns, this fourth outing by established trial attorney Connors is sure to please courtroom-drama fans. Mary Frances WilkensCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Views: 14
Science Fiction. 16187 words long. First published in Bridging the Galaxies, 1993 Views: 14
in·del·i·ble adjective making marks that cannot be removed.Not able to be forgotten or removedPermanent, lasting, ingrained, enduring, unforgettable, haunting Some people stay with you. Sometimes love won’t let go. Some marks on the heart cannot be erased. When Owen walked away from Ally he thought he was doing what was best for her. That’s what he told himself. It was a decision that he regretted instantly. Now, he has to figure out how too change his ways and win her back. This will be the hardest fight of his life. But she is worth it. She is everything. Ally isn’t the same girl that Owen left six months ago. She shut down. It was survival. She can’t go back. She can’t let him back in. Losing him was too hard to go through the first time. But he keeps showing up, saying all the right words, doing all the right things. Will she be able to resist him? Can a person really change? Is he worth the risk to find out? Views: 14
From national bestselling author Carol Cassella comes the story of one doctor's struggle to hold her family together through a storm of broken trust and questioned ethics.Claire is at the start of her medical career when she falls in love with Addison Boehning, a biochemist with blazing genius and big dreams. A complicated pregnancy deflects Claire's professional path, and she is forced to drop out of her residency. Soon thereafter Addison invents a simple blood test for ovarian cancer, and his biotech start-up lands a fortune. Overnight the Boehnings are catapulted into a financial and social tier they had never anticipated or sought: they move into a gracious Seattle home and buy an old ranch in the high desert mountains of eastern Washington, and Claire drifts away from medicine to become a full-time wife and mother. Then Addison gambles everything on a cutting-edge cancer drug, and when the studies go awry, their comfortable life is swept away. Claire and her daughter,... Views: 14
