Her name was Crimson... and she was a legend. A beautiful pirate queen who plundered the 16th Century Caribbean sea by day and confronted voodoo and vampires during the steaming tropical nights. Cast in Dark Waters is an original dark adventure tale by Ed Gorman and Tom Piccirilli. Views: 258
Weekly summary of soap opera's hottest news, stories, humour, gossip, blind items, top stars/stories/couples/characters to watch, snark galore, review, and analysis. And Daytime Emmy Awards reporting!INSIDE — Sources: Two More Deals in the Works To License AMC/One Life — and They’re Not Prospect Park! Plus: Is That Why Prospect Park is Posturing Again? Exclusive: Y&R’s Son of Anarchy, Adam Newman, Speaks Out Via Michael Muhney! Frons: Most Hated Man in TV “Steps Down.” GH: Renewed For One More Year? Plus: Shocking Death on GH! Have the AMC and One Life sets been destroyed? Two Surprise Weddings on Y&R! Death and Miscarriage Alerts! Nixon: No Alternative AMC Finale taped; And It’s Too late for One Life, too! Or is it? Why DAYS’s Chandler Massey may be the next Jonathan Jackson! Y&R’s Genie Francis out? Hell, no! Frank Valentini and Ron Carlivati GH-bound! Andrea Evans Returns to One Life; Kim Zimmer out! Erika Slezak sounds off! Last week’s Soap Reviews; Next Week’s Preview Cheat Sheet! And every week: Unbelievable Blind Items! Views: 258
The perfect life
A successful lawyer and loving mother, Nina Bloom would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York--including lying to everyone, even her daughter, about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she knows that she can't let him pay for the real killer's crimes.
The perfect lie
Nina's secret life began 18 years ago. She had looks to die for, a handsome police-officer husband, and a carefree life in Key West. When she learned she was pregnant with their first child, her happiness was almost overwhelming. But Nina's world is shattered when she unearths a terrible secret that causes her to run for her life and change her identity.
The perfect way to die
Now, years later, Nina risks everything she's earned to return to Florida and confront the murderous evil she fled. In a story of wrenching suspense, James Patterson gives us his most head-spinning, action-filled story yet--a Hitchcock-like blend of unquenchable drama and pleasure. Views: 257
This book has everything, a dark family secret, adoption, a Scottish/Chinese social worker, a gay physiotherapist, romance, an Asian matchmaker, a fatal degenerative disease, a catholic funeral, a talking dog, religious conflict and much more, in a fast paced Scottish family saga set in the village of Carfin in Lanarkshire. Despite the drama it is a book that will hopefully make you laugh and cry.The story takes place in a village in Lanarkshire, Scotland, called Carfin. This is a unique place as it has a large Catholic population, a replica Lourdes grotto, an Islamic Mosque, a greyhound racing track, and a small Lithuanian community.Mags (Margaret O’Hara) is a twenty eight year old single Mother of three children. She is emotionally strong and capable, and has a sense of humour that sees her through most situations. She has a close relationship with her brother and sister, and tries hard to keep things on an even keel with her Mother. She has a romance with her sister’s social worker which is fraught with doubts, and she has a reasonable fear that there is Huntington’s Chorea (sometimes called Huntington’s disease) in her family history, but it has been kept a secret. As this is a hereditary condition with an onset in the middle years, sufferers often have their own children, and have passed on the gene, before they show any signs of the disease. If people were aware of their family history and the odds of having the damaged gene, they might wish to put off having their family till later, but Catholic teaching does not allow contraception, so there is a real dilemma for the religiously inclined.Tommy is a social worker in the nearest town of Motherwell, he is single, knows the family through Mags’ sister Kate, and has a romance with Mags. He finds it difficult to make decisions in his own life, but has to make life and death decisions at work.Mary Coyle, Mags’ Mother is a middle aged respectable member of the local community, early widowed and lives alone. She has kept secrets, family and personal, for years and finds it hard to give emotional love to her children unless they behave as she wants them to. She realises that the truth has to come out in the end.Mickey is Mags’ brother he gets involved with an Asian doctor who already has an arranged marriage planned. He is gay but has kept this a secret from some of his family.Harry Wang is a Scottish/Chinese social work manager who tortures the English language with inaccurate clichés.The story opens with the death of an Uncle and the funeral. It describes Mags, her children and her relationship with her ex-husband. Kate is the older sister and she and her husband are going through an assessment to be adoptive parents. Tommy the social worker is preparing the assessment. Mickey, the younger brother, is gay and has a relationship with a Pakistani Doctor whose nephew is in school with Mags’ oldest child, John.Mary Coyle (Mags Mother) drifted into marriage just after the war and made the best of her life, with a few mistakes here and there. She has knowledge of the family illness, and another big secret, but has delayed telling her children.Twins become available for adoption and there is great excitement in the family, at the same time Mickey’s romance goes wrong because he discovers that the Doctor has an arranged marriage planned. Mags tries to root out the truth about the Huntington’s Chorea from other family members and comes up against a lot of avoidance.. Issues of religious differences and hatred and a divided education system are also highlighted as they play a big part in Scottish culture.There are many more characters that play minor but colourful parts in the story. It is told in a fast paced style, and takes place over only about seven weeks. The mood is humorous and emotional with plausible characters. Views: 257
Annie juggles sabotage and summer romance in this refreshing follow-up to The Teashop Girls that includes recipes for tea-related treats!It's the summer before ninth grade, and Annie has been working hard at the Steeping Leaf, which has been busier than ever. And Annie's involved in a huge scone cook-off with one of Louisa's tea suppliers that could mean an all-expenses paid trip to London! But competition is tough, and Annie suspects sabotage when some mean comments show up on her blog. Then there's the whole matter of a stolen kiss with Zach Anderson in the Steeping Leaf stockroom.... With the help of her two best friends, Genna and Zoe, can Annie come up with an awesome contest entry and sort out her love life before the end of the summer? To sweeten the brew, Laura Schaefer has also included recipes for tea and tea-related treats along with lists and amusing quotes--the perfect accents to a great girl read! Views: 257
From the bestselling author of The Women comes an action- packed adventure about endangered animals and those who protect them. Principally set on the wild and sparsely inhabited Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, T.C. Boyle's powerful new novel combines pulse-pounding adventure with a socially conscious, richly humane tale regarding the dominion we attempt to exert, for better or worse, over the natural world. Alma Boyd Takesue is a National Park Service biologist who is spearheading the efforts to save the island's endangered native creatures from invasive species like rats and feral pigs, which, in her view, must be eliminated. Her antagonist, Dave LaJoy, is a dreadlocked local businessman who, along with his lover, the folksinger Anise Reed, is fiercely opposed to the killing of any species whatsoever and will go to any lengths to subvert the plans of Alma and her colleagues.Their confrontation plays out in a series of escalating scenes in which these... Views: 257
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If you’ve ever been in love or especially fallen in love for the second time around, this book is for you. Katherine Watson is vacationing in the Madonna Inn, a unique hotel in the central coast of California. She had planned to go there with her now deceased husband. It is there that she meets an old love. Each of them is hiding a secret.Katherine Watson was guilty of a youthful marriage, too quick with the wrong man and soon forgotten. She was also guilty of settling for a marriage of security, but lacking in love. While vacationing at the world famous Madonna Inn, she meets up with an old flame from a love that was doomed to fail. Is true love ever possible after all her mistakes? Is it possible to re-kindle the flame that burned in her heart? They have both changed in the many years. And they are both hiding secrets. Hers is one of deception that could ruin their relationship while his could cost Katherine her life. Views: 257
This is book one in the series.An 18 year old girl is suddenly able to see future events before they happen. She's moved into a school/hospital with other gifted teens. With their help she realizes that she can change the outcome of her visions but there are consequences to her choices. She learns about secrets, betrayal, friendships, passion and murder. Where did her gift come from and why her?This series is magical. It will take you into different realms of worlds you wouldn't even dream about. A book for teens and adults alike. The story will keep you curious as to what the next page has to offer. Laura is a normal 18 year old girl who's life is flipped upside down after she sees a vision of a tragedy unfold. Later that day the vision plays out exactly as she had seen it. If she were told what was to come, she would never believe it. To help her learn how to control her newly discovered ability she moves into a school/hospital where she befriends other kids who have also developed strange and unusual abilities, some of which can kill. Laura learns how to become a part of the visions. She realizes that she may be able to alter the outcome but learns there are consequences to those actions. Will she make the right choices? She learns about lies, betrayal, secrets, friendships, love, passion and murder. Between saving lives and digging for the truth, she is torn between two guys. Who will win her virtue; the man she loves or the one she desires? Who can she trust? Is it up to her to save the lives of her friends or will they save hers before it's too late?Enjoy, for I have given so much of myself to all these characters.Enjoy, for I have given so much of myself to all these characters. Views: 257
A Cyberpunk poetic story. Earth has been vanquished by our mistakes, we have moved into a new world, Zinzanzar. Similar to our home, but by 2021, the peace we expected, turned into a catastrophe. Look through the eyes of Angela Madison to experience this world of sorrow-surrounding her and within her.As a recent graduate, Ryan Johnson is on the fast track to having a prestigious career and prosperous life. Then Ryan wakes up one spring morning and everything he cherishes becomes jeopardized. He finds himself left with only fragments of the prior night's events and covering his body are numerous strange injuries that he cannot rationally explain. As he learns of the painful experiences that took place the night his memory was deleted, his world is exterminated of all purpose and is instead replaced with abundant chaos. Did his destructive habits finally ruin his family or is someone else hiding in the dark? In search of answers, he begins peeling back the layers that surround his tragic demise. But answers are hard to come by, and the murder that turned his life into a nightmare takes an unexpected turn. His search leads him to the rediscovery of a piece of family history, the tale of an event his own ancestors buried, so that their family could move on from the past by hiding any remembrance of the lost "Gate's Fortune" from the public.Who does a person trust, when he can't even trust himself or his family? While excavating the corrosive details from his wrecked world, he uncovers a hidden relationship that brings him clarity. A relationship that removes the carnage from his mind and breaths life into his heart. But to find any true peace, he himself must not only protect himself and those he loves, but also avenge those he has lost, thus hopefully repudiating his own transgressions within his distraught reality. But, all hidden truth comes with a price. Some of these truths can take a person into a bottomless pit of despair, where things are best left untouched and forgotten. While other times, the only way to survive a life of trauma and pain is to engage the truths that the mind tries to hide. For Ryan, this struggle for regeneration will either lead him into the light or banish him to a bleak life of darkness inside his twisted mind. Because there is but one way to decipher the events surrounding that horrid night, he must dive head first into the raging hurricane within his subconscious, in search of the buried truth. Views: 257
“Oh, Judy, almost home! I wonder who will meet us,” cried Molly Brown. “I feel in my bones that you and my family will be as good friends as you and I have always been. You are sure to get on well with the boys.” Views: 256
Tired of immortality? Take a break from life, back your self up, dissolute, and wake up ten..twenty..even a hundred years later refreshed, young, and ready to live again IN THE FUTURE. That was the sales pitch. The virus hit hard and fast wiping the only backups of thousands. It's murder pure and simple, a rare and unthinkable crime in this age. And why the urgent need to find Sam Storm 6.7?Where is Sam Storm 6.7? The digital backups of thousands have been lost after a Trojan horse virus attacks the human backup storage system. Jeff, Sam's brother, has been tricked into introducing the virus into the system and is now considered an accessory to murder. Strangely the virus has also initiated the restoration of an out of date version of Terra Gates, the most powerful woman on Mars. Terra knows her previous version may have somehow helped Sam, but not why or how. Damon Harding, the monopoly holder on restoration technology, will use every means at his disposal; even create a new copy of a younger version Sam to help in the pursuit. Jeff, Terra, and the young Sam team up to find Sam 6.7, their mistrust of Damon Harding will send them on their own path following clues across the solar system. Damon sends his agent to follow them in the hopes that the trio will lead him to 6.7's hideout. Sam 6.7 wants to be found, and he has a secret that may just change the solar system forever. Views: 256
USA Today Bestselling Author May McGoldrick writing as Jan Coffey Christina Phillips, grieving after a personal tragedy, leaves California for Istanbul, hoping the exotic sights and sounds and smells of the ancient city will help her heal. But when she finds herself being stalked by a young Kurdish woman and threatened by a driver who seems to know all about her family and her life, she must correct old injustices by unraveling family secrets before tragedy strikes once again.Zari Rahman fled the bombs and chemical warfare of war torn Kurdistan, seeking safety and a new life for her newborn daughter. In Istanbul, homeless and desperate, she receives an unexpected kindness that comes at a soul-crushing price. The lives of these women collide in the city where the East meets West, where together they must travel a perilous path to justice and redemption. When the Mirror Cracks connects the past and present narratives of... Views: 256
Carolyn Wells was an early 20th century poet and author best known for mysteries like The Gold Bag and Fleming Stone Detective Stories Views: 256
