They say revenge is best served cold...but for these couples, hot is better!**** THE MISTRESS ASSIGNMENT Kelly Harris feels out of her depth cast in the role of femme fatale. But she reluctantly agrees to play the seductress and teach a lesson to the man who'd betrayed her best friend. It's a scheme fraught with danger-especially when sexy stranger Brough Frobisher gets caught in the crossfire and wants in on the game himself! LOVER BY DECEPTION**When Anna Trewayne wakes up in hospital with amnesia, the first person she sees is Ward Hunter. The chemistry is so immediate and intense that she's convinced he is her lover. But Ward is not who he seems. And as their relationship deepens and Anna's memory returns, deceptions threaten to destroy everything. Views: 45
Usually Crosstime Traffic concerns itself with trade. Our world owns the secret of travel between parallel continuums, and we mean to use it to trade for much-needed resources with the worlds next door. Preferably without letting them know about any of that parallel-worlds stuff.But there's one parallel world that's different. In it, the atomic war broke out in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love. Now, Crosstime Traffic has been given a different sort of mission: find out what on earth, or on the many earths, went wrong, in The Valley-Westside War, the sixth book in Harry Turtledove's parallel adventure series.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Views: 45
Review"_The Priest's Graveyard_ is a thrill-a-minute ride, with heart-pounding action and a twist that you'll never see coming."--Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of Ice Cold "_The Priest's Graveyard_ will haunt you--long after you want it to." --Brad Meltzer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Inner Circle "_The Priest's Graveyard_ is perfect entertainment. Beguiling, compelling, challenging, and riveting --- fantastic gimmick-free storytelling. Don't pass this one up."--Steve Berry, NY Times bestselling author of The Emperor's Tomb Praise for THE PRIEST'S GRAVEYARD: The Priest's Graveyard by Ted Dekker is an amazing novel, utterly compelling, the story of an abandoned girl and a strange, vengeful priest whose paths eventually cross-with terrifying consequences. Intensely readable, well written, and completely original. --Douglas Preston, co-creator of the famed Pendergast series of novels "_The Priest's Graveyard_ is a thrill-a-minute ride, with heart-pounding action and a twist that you'll never see coming." -- Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of _Ice Cold___"Here's the best part about The Priest's Graveyard: It's smart enough to realize that, for many, the scariest thing in life isn't a monster or something that bumps in the night. It's love. Love is terrifying. And powerful. And unstoppable. And if you don't already know that, you're about to see why. The Priest's Graveyard will haunt you -- long after you want it to."-- Brad Meltzer, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Fate and The Inner Circle__"If you've never visited Ted Dekker's world, do it. The Priest's Graveyard is perfect entertainment. Beguiling, compelling, challenging, and riveting--fantastic gimmick-free storytelling--that's what you get with Ted Dekker. Don't pass this up." -- Steve Berry, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Emperor's Tomb Dekker's new thriller is skillfully written, surprising, and impossible to put down. It might, in fact, be his best novel to date. At its center are two compelling characters: Danny Hansen, a priest who doles out punishment to people who have skirted justice through the usual channels; and Renee Gilmore, who has dedicated herself to getting revenge for the murder of the man she loved. When Danny and Renee come together, united by their pursuit of the same man, they are in store for shocking revelations that could destroy them both-and will keep readers captivated to the end. This is an extremely well-thought-out novel, precisely plotted, and, like a good magic trick, deceptive and startling. Although the story's right-angle plot twist is jolting, it doesn't feel forced or unbelievable, and the book's atmosphere is appropriately dark and unsettling, kind of like the feeling you get from the Saw movies (although this book isn't nearly as graphic or twisted as those). A daring and completely riveting thriller. (_Booklist_ ) Product DescriptionTwo abandoned souls are on the hunt for one powerful man. Soon, their paths will cross and lead to one twisted fate. Danny Hansen is a Bosnian immigrant who came to America with hopes of escaping haunted memories of a tragic war that took his mother's life. Now he's a priest who lives by a law of love and compassion. It is powerful men and hypocrites who abide by legal law but eschew the law of love that most incense Danny. As an avenging angel, he believes it is his duty to show them the error of their ways, at any cost. Renee Gilmore is the frail and helpless victim of one such powerful man. Having escaped his clutches, she now lives only to satisfy justice by destroying him, regardless of whom she must become in that pursuit. But when Danny and Renee's paths become inexorably entangled things go very, very badly and neither of them may make it out of this hunt alive. Judge not, or you too will be judged. (2011) Views: 45
The weirdness never stops!Oh no! Kids are getting too unhealthy, so Ella Mentry School has hired a health teacher to help the kids eat right and exercise. Ms. Leakey is a real health nut. She makes a punching bag filled with junk food! She designs a robot that smokes and drinks! She opens up a fast food restaurant that sells broccoli burgers! She puts sunscreen on her car! Views: 45
Imagine being there before the Titanic set sail.Now imagine being there before she’s even built.Sam
Altair is a physicist living in Belfast, Ireland. He has spent his
career researching time travel and now, in early 2006, he’s finally
reached the point where he can send objects backwards through time. The
only problem is, he doesn’t know where the objects go. They don’t show
up in the past, and no one notices any changes to the present. Are they
creating alternate time lines?To collect more data, Sam tries a
clandestine experiment in a public park, late at night. But the
experiment goes horribly wrong when Casey Wilson, a student at the
university, stumbles into his isolation field. Sam tries to rescue her,
but instead, he and Casey are transported back to the year 1906. Stuck
in the past, cut off from everyone and everything they know, Sam and
Casey work together to help each other survive. Then Casey meets Thomas
Andrews, the man who will shortly begin to build the most famous ship
since Noah’s Ark. Should they warn him, changing the past and creating
unknown consequences for the future? Or should they let him die? Views: 45
In a novel with echoes of Noble House, The Alchemist, and Gorky Park, Japan's preeminent detective-Samurai, Sano Ichiro, returns to risk his honor and life. In 1690 Nagasaki, Sano must crack his most sensitive case yet as he sets about to discover who killed a Dutch trader whose body has washed up on the shore of a small island famed for its "barbarians."From the Hardcover edition. Views: 45
The Mummy's Curse For centuries they slept, buried in the dust of ancient Egypt, Lost, but never totally forgotten...Now the seven caskets have come to Greenfield, a peaceful college town in upstate New York...where a young museum curator thinks she has made the acquisition of a lifetime...where the horror is about to begin. FOr a secret Egyptian cult will do anything to steal the ancient mummies...to begin the unspeeakable rituals that will restore the seven to life...One by one, the innocent people of Greenfield will be taken captive, their souls fed to an insatiable evil that only a miracle can conquer...that nothing on earht can stop. Views: 45
Devenport Naval Base, New Zealand, 1962: With her husband away at sea, Sophie Flynn's life is becoming considerably complicated. She has two children to look after, the captain's wife to minister to, a wayward sister to keep an eye on, and an elderly neighbor to nurse. As if that wasn't enough, Sophie falls in love with the commodore, adding a volatile element to the mix. This romantic novel—spiked with a dash of feminism—offers deeply perceptive observations of married life. Views: 45
Makeeda's plans for the summer holidays are falling apart! Her parents suddenly announce that the family is going on a trip to visit their relatives in Ghana – and then she splits up with her boyfriend Nelson. Can things get any worse? But in Ghana things are different, and Makeeda, the sophisticated London girl, makes some surprising discoveries about herself, her family and her friends. And, while she's struggling to reconcile her two cultures, could it be that she's found true love where she least expected it? Views: 45
This is a small collection of Donald E. Westlake's more well-known crime and science fiction short stories; as collected by Flyboy707.ABOUT THE AUTHORDonald E. Westlake was born on July 12, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York City,
New York, USA.
Westlake, a former US Air Force pilot and one time actor, has become the
writer most associated with tales of organised crime. Indeed, in story after
story, he has demonstrated his particular belief that crime is actually not
very different from any other type of business enterprise-and the intelligent
criminal is just, one more example of ‘Organisation Man’.
In Westlake’s early novels like ‘Killing Time’ (1961), about the running
of a corrupt upstate New York town, he dealt with organised crime from the
inside with great objectivity; but over the years elements of humour and the
absurd have crept into his work in the shape of bungled robberies and inept
confidence tricks.
In 1962, by way of contrast, he adopted the pen name Richard Stark and
started a series of novels about Parker, a cold-blooded professional thief, who
was later transferred to the screen in ‘Point Blank’ featuring Lee Marvin
(1967).
Not content with this, Westlake invented a second major character, Mitch
Tobin, a guilt-ridden former New York cop turned private eye, whose adventures
appear under the name Tucker Coe.
More recently still, he has begun writing a number of capers about a
group of inept thieves led by criminal manqué John Archibald Dortmunder.
For this remarkable display of virtuosity, Donald Westlake has won
numerous awards, including three Edgars and a Grand Master Award from the
Mystery Writers of America, as well as an Oscar nomination for his screenplay
of Jim Thompson’s ‘The Grifters’. In ‘The Sweetest Man in the World’, written
in 1967, he mixes his deadpan humour and fascination with organised crime in
the tale of a clever fraud... and it’s even cleverer denouement.
Donald E. Westlake died of a heart attack on Wednesday, December 31,
2008. He was 75.
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A collection of ribald rhymes featuring characters from fairy tales,fables and nursery rhymes -- as you've never seen them before! From the tortoise and the hare and Hansel and Gretel to Ali Baba and Aladdin, these traditional stories will never seem the same again once you have had a taste of Roald Dahl's hilarious verse and Quentin Blake's suitably lively illustrations. Views: 45
