In this latest thriller from *New York Times* bestselling author Jefferson Bass, Dr. Bill Brockton discovers the dark side of the Sunshine state when he's called in to investigate human remains found on the grounds of a boys' reform school in Florida
The Bone Yard
The onset of summer brings predictably steamy weather to the Body Farm, Dr. Bill Brockton's human-decomposition research facility at the University of Tennessee. But Brockton's about to get more heat than he's bargained for when Angie St. Claire, a forensic analyst with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, asks him to help prove that her sister's death was not suicide, but murder. Brockton's quick consulting trip takes a long, harrowing detour when bones begin turning up amid the pines and live oaks of the Florida panhandle. Two adolescent skulls — ravaged by time and animals, but bearing the telltale signs of lethal fractures — send Brockton, Angie, and Special Agent Stu Vickery on a search for the long-lost victims. The quest leads them to the ruins of the North Florida Boys' Reformatory, a notorious juvenile detention facility that met a fiery end more than forty years ago. Guided by the discovery of a diary kept by one of the school's young "students," Brockton's team finds a cluster of shallow graves, all of them containing the bones of boys who suffered violent deaths. The graves confirm one of the diary's grim claims: that one wrong move could land a boy in the Bone Yard. But as the investigation expands, it encounters opposition from the local sheriff, who's less than delighted to find forensic experts from the state capital and the Body Farm digging up dirt in his county. As Brockton and his team close in on the truth, they find skeletons in some surprisingly prominent closets… and they learn that the ghosts of the past pose perilous consequences in the present. Views: 27
It is 1932. Polly and her older sister, Maud, travel by trainand boat from Winnipeg to an island between Vancouverand Victoria. Polly will live with their grandmother, the sisters'new guardian, and attend the small school on the island, while Maud will go to boarding school in Victoria.Their extended family welcomes the girls warmly. New-school jitters give way to new friendships and even a new puppy, and slowly Polly feels that she is becoming part of a larger family she never knew until now. But Polly and Maud have a dramatic secret, and they have promised each other never to tell anyone. A surprise arrival on the island, however, threatens Polly's newfound happiness andtests the bonds of family love. Can Polly keep the secret and her new life on the island? Views: 27
Travel to the plains in three North Dakota romances where dreams grow big and hearts are drawn to love. When coffeehouse owner Jake shows interest in Angel's Roost gift shop owner Tess's angelic wares, Tess wonders about their future—and what Jake really believes about angels. Lily has suffered a string of devastating losses. Maybe helping rebuild flood-destroyed Wildwood will revive her dreams, too. When a sale ad for a defunct North Dakota resort blew up against Olivia's Boston-bound car, it caught her attention. . .then her determination to bring new life there again. Views: 27
A SWEEPING INDIAN HISTORICAL ROMANCE BY NYT BESTSELLING AUTHOR NICOLE JORDAN. She is Summer Weston, a willful Texas beauty who commands the attention of every eligible male in the county including a notorious loner no lady would dare consider. He is Lance Calder, half-white, half-Comanche—proud, passionate and forbidden. Yet he is Summer's only hope of rescuing her sister. Aching to possess the ravishing beauty, Lance sets an impossible price on his aid - marriage! Views: 27
Jessica Fletcher is in a Florida retirement community for the funeral of a dear old friend whose heart gave out-only to discover that the woman's death from natural causes may have been artificially induced.With the help of a feisty group of young-in-spirit retirees, Jessica must track down the clues and find out who prescribed the fatal treatment... Views: 27
FOUR COMPLETE NOVELSYOUR TURN, MR. MOTOTHINK FAST, MR. MOTOMR. MOTO IS SO SORRYRIGHT YOU ARE, MR. MOTOJOHN P. MARQUAND was born in 1893 in Wilmington, Delaware. Marquand graduated from Harvard in 1915, and settled in Newbury, Massachusetts. He worked as a reporter for the Boston Transcript and the New York Herald Tribune and served as a lieutenant in the army during World War I.An extremely popular writer, Marquand was noted for his novels of manners, which earned him the title of “martini-aged Victorian.” In 1938 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Late George Apley.His character Mr. Moto, a Japanese agent, was a highly successful creation, both in the book and in the movie version, in which Peter Lorre played Mr. Moto.Marquand died in 1960 in Newbury, Massachusetts. Views: 27
Jacob Williams was used to men hitting on him, but little does he realize Guy Franks has waited hundreds of years to find his mate and nothing was going to dissuade him from a relationship, even the man himself. When someone starts killing models, Guy knows its time to claim the man fated to be his.
Content advisory: Extreme violence. Views: 27
Sci-Fi/Futuristic BDSM Runaway Bride meets Unstoppable Force -- recipe for disaster? Or love rekindled? Views: 27
Chronologically fits after Sector General 04, but not part of the main sequence.Table of ContentsSPACEBIRD (a Sector General story)COMMUTERASSISTED PASSAGECURTAIN CALLBOARDING PARTYPATROLFAST TRIPQUESTION OF CRUELTYFALSE ALARMDYNASTY OF ONEOUTRIDERAbout the Authorr Views: 27
Mira Chambers has an infallible gift for
solving mysteries ... but using it comes with a price. Determined to regain her
independence after ten years in orphanages and asylums, Mira leaps at the chance
to help her friend, Bennet Chiron, an enigmatic ex-con who risked his life to
save hers. Mira plans to investigate the murder-robbery that put him behind bars
for six years in the hope of clearing his name. But people are turning up dead
under bizarre circumstances, and Mira discovers that she′s being hunted by two
old adversaries.Layers of secrets are about to be ripped apart ... is
Mira the only one with a steep price to pay? Views: 27
