Dex Pratt's life has been turned upside down. His parents have divorced and his mother has remarried. When his father attempts suicide and fails, Dex returns to their small town to care for him. But he's not prepared for how much everything has changed. Gone are the nice house, new cars, fancy bikes and other toys. Now he and his wheelchair-bound dad live in a rotting rented house at the back of a cornfield. And, worse, his father has given up defending marijuana growers in his law practice and has become one himself. Unable to cope, Dex begins smoking himself into a state of surrealism. He begins to lose touch with what is real and what he is imagining. And then there are the aliens...and the girl-of-his-dreams...and the crop circle... Views: 22
Libby Lowell's mind is made up. The only way for the widow to go forward with her life is to leave Laramie, Texas, behind. She should have known rugged rancher Holden McCabe would try to stop her! Her husband's best friend is Libby's fiercest protector. It's not that she doesn't want or need Holden's broad shoulder to cry on. But it's time to put away the past.Holden isn't letting Libby get away so easily. He hasn't forgotten how she turned to him in her hour of need—and the painful secret she shared. But his idea to push them both into moving on backfires when passion leads to pregnancy...something Libby's wanted for so long.Is this their biggest mistake...or the second chance they've both been searching for? Views: 22
With Her Hunger Lorie O’Clare Book eight in the Lunewulf series. Mariah has just lost her entire family. For years, lunewulf have lived peacefully in the Yukon Territory. But when humans burn the werewolves’ homes, Mariah and her pack run to a new home. Determined to embrace her new life and not be destroyed the way her pack was, Mariah refuses to be controlled by anyone. When she spots Luther with two other males, she’s not only interested but willing to take all three of them on. Only one of the males remains in her thoughts though. She will have Luther again. Luther runs on the edge of the pack that leaves the Yukon Territory and heads to British Columbia. He is Cariboo lunewulf. The lunewulf think his kind are barbaric and run with less honor. Luther has no need for all of the lunewulf’s laws and traditions. He does have a need for Mariah though. It burns so hot through him he won’t let her out of his sight, or his bed, until she agrees to be with him forever. Reader Advisory: These wolves aren’t your everyday pooches. The males are wild and feral, the females are strong and won’t roll over to have their tummies rubbed. If you like wolves, want your loving untamed and fierce, then come take a ride on the wild side…if you can stand the heat. Views: 22
OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEB...Everything should have been quiet and pleasant for Ben Holiday, the former Chicago lawyer who became sovereign of the Magic Kingdom of Landover. But it wasn't.Horris Kew, conjurer, confidence-man, and trickster, had returned to Landover from Ben's own world. Alas, Horris had not returned of his own volition--he had been sent by the Gorse, a sorcerer of great evil, whom Horris had unwittingly freed from the magic Tangle Box, WHERE it had long ago been imprisoned by the fairy folk. Now it had returned to enslave those who had once dared condemn it. But first, it would rid Landover of all who could stand in its way...Soon Ben found himself imprisoned within the gloom of the Tangle Box, lost in its mists and its labyrinthine ways. The only one who could free Ben from the Tangle Box was the lady Willow. But she had disappeared, was gone from Landover on a mysterious mission of her own....From the Paperback edition. Views: 22
This fifth in the bestselling, award-winning Arthur Beauchamp series finds the outwardly crusty, poetry-loving, wily old lawyer compelled, by new developments, to look back at his first -- and most disastrous -- murder trial. While renewing his annual try for the Most Points in Vegetables and Fruits at the Garibaldi Island Fall Fair, Arthur Beauchamp is forced by new developments to revisit his first murder trial, which went horribly wrong. Now, nearly 50 years later, he is opening old wounds but also facing a chance for redemption and reconciliation. From the Hardcover edition.ReviewPraise for William Deverell: "Deverell is one of Canada's best and funniest mystery writers."— Ottawa Citizen"Vastly entertaining. . . . Deverell is rivalled only by Rumpole's John Mortimer." — Toronto Star "Deverell is a master of the laugh-out-loud crime novel." — Vancouver Sun From the Hardcover edition.About the AuthorWILLIAM DEVERELL has published some fifteen novels. I'll See You In My Dreams is the fifth in his bestselling Arthur Beauchamp series: the first, Trial of Passion, won the prestigious Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing and Canada's Arthur Ellis Best Novel Award; the second, April Fool, also won the Arthur Ellis Award; the third, Kill All the Judges, was a finalist for the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal; and the fourth, Snow Job, was a Globe and Mail Best Book. One of the creators of the TV series Street Legal, Deverell winters in Costa Rica and spends his summers on Pender Island, British Columbia. Views: 22
A book of naughty stories for good boys and girls! Have you ever had a fight with a crazy dentist, or put dog poo on someone's bike seat, or ridden a wheelchair into the girls' toilets? Of course not. Because you're a GOOD kid, unlike the foul children in these shocking stories... Views: 22
In this chilling saga of a military/industrial/financial complex run amok, the Zero Sum trilogy pits Dr. Steven Archer against a powerful Wall Street financier in a white collar chess-game that quickly transforms into a cage-fight to the death. Views: 22
Science Fiction/Fantasy. 71036 words long. Views: 22
Fantasy PlaylLand Series Book 4Words: 10,020Georgia thought that getting fired from Fantasy Playland meant her sex theme park days were over. But Billy pitches a new idea to the owners: a series of live lectures on how to be a better lover, and Georgia’s the woman he wants on stage for the audition.She’ll have to spread her legs in front of hundreds of spectators. It’s an unexpected final chance, and she can’t botch it. If she makes her boss look bad again, he’ll kick her out of his life, and his bed, for good. Views: 22
