The acclaimed Faire Folk Saga continues with a new trilogy starring half-elf Keelie HeartwoodSummer is here, and all sixteen-year-old halfelf Keelie wants to do is visit her friend Laurie in L.A. Instead she, her cat Knot, and her cranky, medieval, elf-lady grandmother are on their way to help the Redwood Forest, whose tree shepherd is missing.With the help of the handsome Sean, and Scott, her father's former apprentice, along with a mysterious coyote, Keelie sets out to find the lost tree shepherd. But can she discover the deadly secret of the Bloodroot tree in time to vanquish the darkness and save the Redwood Forest? Views: 38
A New from the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Award-winning author of Marsbound . Carmen Dula and her husband have spent six years travelling to a distant solar system that is home to the enigmatic, powerful race known as “The Others,” in the hopes of finding enough common purpose between their species to forge a delicate truce. By the time Carmen and her party return, fifty years have been consumed by relativity-and the Earthlings have not been idle, building a massive flotilla of warships to defend Earth against The Others. But The Others have more power than any could imagine—and they will brook no insolence from the upstart human race. Views: 38
An erotic short story of a certain proposal/proposition, by a global superstar, to one lucky fan. * * * ‘The Gift’ features in Jess’s multiple-genre-crossing erotic short story collection, 4:Play. Tone of this story is more erotic/romantic, than pornographic. * * * By author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott. Views: 38
A woman’s body has been found at the bottom of a well. The death wounds are startling: two small, round punctures to the jugular vein. . . . Vampire fever is spreading throughout the countryside, and suspicions soon fall on the recently arrived Emma Rimmele. Investigator Hanno Stiffeniis must do everything he can to find the true culprit before the mob’s hysteria reaches its breaking point and turns violent.Set in a nineteenth-century world where people truly believed in vampires, Unholy Awakening pits rational, scientific detection against unhindered, violent superstition.From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. At the start of Gregorio's stellar fourth historical featuring Prussian magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis (after 2009's A Visible Darkness), Hanno and his wife are struggling to go on after an epidemic in their hometown of Lotingen claims the life of their infant son. When the body of seamstress Angela Enke turns up at the bottom of a well with two circular wounds in her neck, Hanno sets aside his grief to investigate. His efforts to interrogate the enigmatic Emma Rimmele, the victim's employer and a newcomer to the town, are derailed by his attraction to her. Meanwhile, the locals leap to the conclusion that a vampire is responsible for the murder, and that Angela herself will soon rise from her grave to prey on them. Once again, Gregorio (the pen name of Michael G. Jacob and Daniela De Gregorio) conjures up a pervasive atmosphere of fear and menace, while using the plot line to provide insights into the mind and heart of his complicated lead. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistRumors of vampires are rife inthis lengthy fourth addition to Gregorio’s Magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis mystery series set in Napoleonic Prussia. Lotingen, Hanno’s plague-beleaguered hometown, suffers not only the deadly virus that took Hanno’s baby but also attacks of wild dogs attracted by the smell of death. Add to that dismal miasma the whiff of murder: a young seamstress is found in a well, having bled to death from a double-pronged neck wound. And she is just the first. The villagers blame newcomers to town, Emma Rimmele and her elderly father. Hanno applies steady logic to rumors of supernatural evil but is pressured by town politics and deep-set superstition. Unfortunately, each time Hanno stops to reflect, the pace drags. In addition, the whodunit is virtually solved early on; the historical setting is sadly neglected; and near escapes don’t create enough tension to hold the reader’s attention. Comparisons to the supernatural element in Dan Simmons’ Drood (2009) and to the psychological exploration and pacing of Ruth Rendell are apt, however, and those who enjoy the intellectual trappings with which Gregorio wraps his stories will be pleased with this package. --Jen Baker Views: 38
What does an Australian look like? Is it the clothes they wear? Is it the colour of their skin? My family says it is what's inside that counts, not what people look like. Edward — Check Chee — lives with his parents above their store in Sydney's Chinatown. His mother is English, his father is Chinese and Edward is trying to work out where he fits in. He's not the only one — the new White Australia policy is making it harder for Chinese people to settle in Australia and the whole Chinese community must battle for rights that other Australians take for granted. Views: 38
A Widow in Paradise - There are few problems that can't be fixed by a golf bag full of money. At least, that's what overwhelmed mom of four Dannie Treat thinks when she stumbles on the cash stashed in her garage. But she soon discovers that the bills are about as fake as her missing husband's supposed death. The paper trail leads her to Guy Loughran, whose wife also disappeared recently...along with the mob money Guy borrowed to open his own saloon. Now, less than twenty-four hours after meeting Guy, they are headed to the Caribbean in search of the truth. Maybe it's the umbrella drinks or the dirty dancing, but Dannie is about to become a widow in paradise. Good times... Suburban Secrets - Grace Becker needed to get a life... And thanks to '80s night, one too many Flaming Togas and a game of Truth or Dare with her girlfriends, this woman who has let her Day-Timer rule her life has found excitement in spades. Rather than reveal the truth--she's done time for forgery--Grace opts for the Dare: giving her undies to a total stranger. A smoking-hot, almost-half-her-age stranger who's been making eye contact with her all night. Can life get any more peculiar? Well, it does when the hot stranger slips her his room key--along with a computer memory key linked to identity theft. And when she's taken into custody by a sexy Secret Service agent. And when her knowledge of Eastern Bloc cuisine lands her an undercover assignment cooking for a Russian mob boss... Suddenly her old life as a suburban soccer mom is looking like heaven! Views: 38
