Amidst the blood and carnage of battle, the barrier between the world of the living and the world of the dead grows thin, and, occasionally, something slips through. Although usually dismissed as fantasy or fairy tale, history contains numerous stories of violent warriors, decapitated in battle, who return from the dead to terrorize the living. The ancient Irish called these malevolent spirits dullahan, but in English they are generally called headless horsemen. This book presents the history of these rare and dangerous undead warriors, explaining how and why they were created, describing their strengths and limitations, and finally revealing how they can be defeated. It also examines the best-documented encounters with these spirits, including the most famous and enduring manifestation, the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow. Views: 65
BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE... With Logan Buchanan's life in jeopardy, private investigator Jessica Deveaux's conscience demanded she guard her ex-lover. She'd once loved Logan with her whole, young heart, but the charming millionaire hadn't wanted any romantic entanglements. And now proud Jessica vowed to use this one-week assignment to end whatever feelings she still had for him.... But two years had changed Logan. This former playboy was still devastatingly sexy, but now he seemed more caring, compassionate and... committed. He almost seemed to regret losing Jessica. And as the danger escalated around them, Jessica found herself hoping that Logan wouldn't just want her heart for hire, but for keeps! Views: 65
Ready…Set…Marriage!It seemed everyone wanted to marry handsome, wealthy Logan Kincaid. Everyone except Merrie Foster, his make-believe bride-to-be. Well, that was fine by Logan. Playing the enamored groom to Merrie's blushing bride was only a means of avoiding the stampede of would-be wives. Because the last thing Logan wanted was marriage.…Or So He Thought.Suddenly spending all his days—and his nights—with pretty Merrie on her family's Montana ranch was way too appealing. Heck, if this confirmed bachelor didn't watch out, he would be making a mad dash to the altar himself—with a certain spitfire redhead who'd wound her way around his heart….Wranglers & Lace: Hard to tame-- impossible to resist--these cowboys meet their match! Views: 65
The untold story of Peter Pan: the shocking account of J.M. Barrie's abuse and exploitation of the Du Maurier familyIn his revelatory Neverland, Piers Dudgeon tells the tragic story of J.M. Barrie and the Du Maurier family. Barrie's fascination and obsession with the Du Maurier family is a shocking study of greed and psychological abuse, and his compulsion to dominate was so apparent to those around him that D. H. Lawrence once wrote: J. M. Barrie has a fatal touch for those he loves. They die. Views: 65
THE BABY MAKER? Rugged cowboy Jake Spencer liked how babies were made-but wasn't about to make one himself! Then he heard that the sexiest single gal in New Hope, Texas was planning to visit the sperm bank. Suddenly, convincing Priscilla to do her daddy-donor hunting the old-fashioned way seemed infinitely appealing. Priscilla Barrington would do anything to have a baby. So when a devastatingly attractive bachelor like Jake Spencer tried talking her out of Plan A, she decided to make him her Plan B. This latest baby endeavor involved candlelight, satin sheets and seducing a certain marriage-shy cowboy into leaving his boots by her bedroom door--permanently! Views: 65
Jack Thornfield, new CEO, is shocked to see his long lost love, Beth Allen's resume come across his desk. After 8 years apart they have a second chance at happiness in this romantic story about love and secrets. Views: 65
'A gripping and welcome addition to the growing genre of historical crime fiction' - Waterstone's Books Quarterly. 'An elaborate, closely plotted tale that combines extensive research with high drama' -The Herald 1579, St. Andrews. A thirteen-year old boy meets his death on the streets of the university city of St. Andrews and suspicion falls upon one of the regents at the university, Nicholas Colp. Hew Cullan, a young lawyer recently returned home from Paris, uncovers a complex tale of passion and duplicity, of sexual desire and tension within the repressive atmosphere of the Protestant Kirk and the austerity of the academic cloister. Views: 65
Product DescriptionChapter 1Chapter 1 Fleeing in terror wasn’t something Elyn Castel did. People usually ran from her, not the other way around. Besides, after she'd spent fifty years as the slave of a sadistic sociopath, there wasn't much anyone could do to inspire terror in her. But Elyn ran now, and she ran hard. She darted down the concourse in long bounds that made the humans gape, leaping over tables filled with diners, spinning around astonished space station security guards, ducking the angry claw swipe of a huge A’vi warrior. Her sensors revealed Jarl “Blade” Bladin was still behind her, matching her stride for impossible stride. But when the ill-tempered A’vi tried for him, one swing of an armored fist sent the massive alien down with a crunch, and a startled, agonized “Chik!” The pursuing security guards had to stop to help the injured A’vi. Never piss off a guy named Blade. Her own master could have told the A’vi that, had Blade left the vicious fuck alive. Elyn had heard that Blade did a very thorough job on Kruz. She would have thanked him for that, if only he hadn’t targeted her next. Just that instant, Elyn’s cyplant whispered, and she shot in the direction it indicated, a service corridor that snaked out to one of the station’s ten huge cargo holds. She could lose Blade there if she got lucky, or kill him if she had to. Or die if she failed. Odd. A few months ago, Elyn would have viewed the prospect of dying as a relief. But Kruz still trapped her then, vicious blight that he was. Now, she had no interest in dying. She was curious about what life would be like as something other than a vampire’s slave. Elyn might not deserve to live, but she wanted to give freedom a try. As she ran for the service corridor, she was acutely aware of the distance between her and her target. Cold, star-flecked blackness lay beyond the towering transparent walls of the Kring Station concourse, along with the elegant white shapes of the great passenger liners and cargo vessels that orbited alongside the space station. Beyond the ships lay the vast blue arc of the planet Cameron, with its landmasses in a hundred shades of green and brown. A thoroughly beautiful view had she not been running for her life. Elyn had always been fast. She reached the service corridor and plunged into it like a bucktor diving into its burrow. She knew that Blade was much bigger, since he’d been engineered for heavy combat, which made him slower and a fraction less agile. Still, no human and damned few aliens would have had a prayer against him. Elyn, however, was not human, and could run him into the ground. She'd already proven that. In the months he'd been pursuing her, Elyn had always outrun him. Unfortunately, now there was nowhere to run to. Her ship didn’t board for hours yet, and she’d have to shuttle over to it. Blade would be on her long before then. She had to either lose him or fight. Elyn really didn’t want to fight. He’d kill her. And he’d do it bloodily, as the newsies said he’d killed Kruz. If the reporters were right, if Blade really was powerful enough to slay such a monster, Elyn had no chance whatsoever. So she listened to the ring of boots on the corridor behind her with dread in her heart. The nanotekker made no other noise, said nothing, barely seemed to breathe hard, while Elyn sucked air in desperate gulps. It was like being pursued by a hunting cat, with a beast’s utter focus and lethal determination. Blood and Steel 7 Reasoning with a man like that wasn’t possible. She could only get the hell away from him. If she could. The corridor’s gray walls blurred past, and with each gazelle spring, her armored boots banged furiously on the deck in a drumroll of terror. Her heart kept time with the beat, pounding desperation in her ears. At last the great double doors of the cargo hold loomed, locked against anyone who did not have the entry code. In seconds, Elyn’s cyplant electronically hacked the code, and the doors slipped soundless Views: 65
Living again in a
humble shack, Ruby is determined to make a secure and happy home for her
precious infant daughter, Pearl. Paul Tate — her first love, whom she
was forced to abandon — is at her side once more, now a man of dazzling
wealth. When he whisks her into his grand house, it seems their future
is assured. As mistress of Cypress Woods, Ruby can forget even the
shocking reason she and Paul must wed in a secret ceremony and remain
husband and wife in name alone.But the thick, expensive walls of
Cypress Woods cannot shut out the terrible memories that have woven
their fabric over her destiny, or the cold eyes of Paul's mother,
Gladys, reminding Ruby of the secret she must keep to give Pearl a
loving father. Then her venomous twin sister, Gisselle, arrives to taunt
her with news of Beau Andreas, the true father Pearl has never met, and
the only man Ruby will ever long for with all her body and soul,
Desperate to find the complete, fulfilling life she craves, Ruby builds a
precarious new existence, a flimsy shanty of hope that the first flood
washes away. Only when the storm exposes the very blackest evils of the
past will she glimpse the rainbow's fragile promise, a morning of
sunshine and laughter with a family of her own.... Views: 65
Ami isn't much for trusting strangers. She has a hard time trusting anyone. But she's no coward, and she's no pushover in the protection department either. So when she comes across a mysterious warrior taking on eight deranged vampires on his own, she doesn't hesitate to save his bacon. Of course, that was before she realized what one little rescue would get her into . . . Marcus Grayden has been an immortal protector of humanity for eight hundred years, and at the moment he's not interested in backup. From the moment Ami arrives in his life, he can't deny that she's strong, smart, and extremely skilled at watching his back. But she's also destroying his protective solitude and stirring desires he can't bear to awaken. After all, whatever her secrets — how can she defeat death itself? Views: 65
