Serafin and Ash are on the run from the Guild. There’s only one place for them to go, one place where Serafin believes they could find the help they desperately need. But it’s the one place that Serafin dreads. Home to the Circus.Her Mother, Pythia, is delighted to see her, but Titus, her father, is less welcoming. As is Cassius, a trapeze artist, and, as it turns out, Serafin’s betrothed.That night a gathering is held in honour of Serafin’s return, but the Circus is attacked by amongst others a dactyl with the ability to breathe fire and sets everything in its path aflame. In order to save her family and Ash, Serafin puts her life in danger by surrounding her attackers in a fire circle…She finds the last of her people hiding in the forest and helps to heal where she can, but she knows she has to leave or put them in further danger. It is then that she decides she will track down the Great Elemental. Views: 27
Big Nate meets Encyclopedia BrownClueless McGee is just your average fifth-grader: snarky, awkward, and a magnet for trouble. The only difference: he's also an amateur detective. Determined to make his absent father proud, he uses the skills he's learned playing video games to solve mysteries. Only he's no Sherlock Holmes. Or Encyclopedia Brown. Or even Scooby-Doo. When the school bully is framed for filling the orchestra teacher's tuba with macaroni and cheese, Clueless is on the case. But can he catch the culprit before he strikes again? His only obstacle, as Jeff Mack shows us in his hilarious new illustrated series, is his own ineptitude . . . questionable talent . . . and limited intelligence. No problem! Views: 27
Close your eyes and make a wish Alison Tyler has a sexy present for grown-up birthday girls and boys.Forget the French perfume and the boxes of candy, the Hallmark cards and the gift certificates. The birthdays in this collection are observed in more carnal ways, with suitably sexy presents for all. In Simone Harlow’s Happy Birthday,” a tough policewoman gets the tables turned when naked Nick” arrives to tame her. In Marilyn Jaye Lewis’s The Birthday Party,” an unexpected ménage a trois in the dark proves the perfect gift. And in Kate Laurie’s Her Birthday Suit,” two women give their skeptical girlfriend a stud who insists, A promise is a promise. I can’t leave you until you are absolutely satisfied.” Views: 27
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Charity Barlow wished to marry for love. She and Lord Robert have been forced by circumstances to marry, and she feels sure she is not the woman he would have selected given a choice. The Marquess of St. Malin makes it plain to her that their marriage is merely for the procreation of an heir, and once that is achieved, he intends to continue living the life he enjoyed before he met her. While he takes up his life in London once more, Charity is left to wander the echoing corridors of St. Malin House, when she isnt thrown into the midst of the mocking Haute Ton. Charity is not at all sure she likes her new social equals, and shes not at all sure she likes her new husband either, except for his striking appearance, which sends her pulses racing. Lord Robert is a rake and does not deserve her love, but neither does she wish to live alone. Might he be suffering from a sad past?Review"Readers will love the delightful tale of love in an arranged marriage. As troubles buffet the new couple and their love is tested, readers will be rooting for them to make it through."—Romantic Times Book Reviews, May 2011About the AuthorMaggi Andersen fell in love with the Georgian and Regency worlds after reading the books of Georgette Heyer. Victoria Holts Gothic Victorian novels were also great favorites. Maggis free time is spent enjoying her garden and the local wildlife, reading, movies, and the theater. She lives in the beautiful Southern Highlands of Australia. Views: 27
Romance ignites amidst the tumult of a territory striving to find its identity as it passes from pre-colonial rule to US statehood and beyond. Parts 1 and 2 of the Louisiana History Collection present these lush, politically tense historical romances in chronological order. FIERCE EDENReynaud, half Natchez Indian, requires that Elise share his bedroll in exchange for saving her friends during an uprising. Widowed after a brutish marriage, Elise fears intimacy more than the Natchez. How can she view Reynaud as an enemy after his tender introduction to love?LOUISIANA DAWNCyrene rescues a handsome rake from drowning for the sake of his silver lace. In return, she requests he relieve her of her tiresome virginity. She expects to be her own woman afterward...but fails to reckon with René's skill or her own lonely heart.EMBRACE AND CONQUERFélicité despises the Irish colonel who marches into New Orleans with the Spanish conquerors; pride demands she escape from his beguiling embrace. Will he let her go, or follow into the trap of a pirate's lair? Views: 27
Snow and Cait are back for a new adventure. When Integra offers Snow a seat on the United Monster's Council, she is only too happy to accept, but of course, there is a condition to this offer.Now with the mission to build up her notoriety, Snow must make a name for herself in the monster world, too bad something or someone wants her dead, again.As Snow and Cait are led deeper and deeper into the world of monsters and the different territories they control, they will have to fight to keep what they hold most dear. A love most eternal will prevail even on the darkest of nights.Also contains the short novella called, Adventures of Elena the Werewolf. While Elena's parents are traveling she has decided to go on her own little adventure. Along with slaying imaginary dragons and beating up rude boys, Elena might just discover a little bit of puppy love. Views: 27
When danger stalks Lizzie back to her quiet Mennonite hometown, more than her life’s at risk. With nowhere else to go, whom can she trust? Road to Kingdom book 1. Views: 27
In the ancient darkness of a mammoth cave, a cosmic secret lies buried Working late in a deserted lab, a researcher named Gregor makes the discovery of the century. Within the dingy mottled surface of a stone named “moon rock 66095” lies unparalleled superconductive property—a power which, if harnessed correctly, could solve the world’s energy problem once and for all. But when his supervisor tries to take credit for the breakthrough, Gregor murders him and hides the rock safely inside Kentucky’s Labyrinth Cave. And his supervisor will not be the last man to die before Earth learns the secrets of moon rock 66095.When NASA organizes a team to retrieve the magnificent rock, world-class cavers Tom and Whitney Burke are the natural choices to lead the expedition. But Whitney is still shaken from a terrible caving accident, and lets her husband and daughter go without her. When tragedy strikes the expedition, however, she must overcome her fears in order to rescue her family, plunging into a cave so deep that she may never see daylight again. Views: 27
Troy Jensen could do it all: he conquered
the Seven Summits, sailed solo around the world twice, and even fought a
bull in a Mexican slum on a dare. So when word comes that a rogue wave
has swept Troy off a crab fishing boat in the Bering Sea and into a
watery grave, his brother, Jack, doesn’t buy it.Against his
better judgment, Jack decides to quit his job as a Wall Street trader
and head to Dutch Harbor, Alaska, to investigate. Minutes after
revealing his plan in his father’s New York City office, Jack is nearly
run down in the street. He doesn’t think much of it at the time, but as
he digs deeper into Troy’s disappearance, Jack unearths information
about RED-CELL-SEVEN (RCS), a super-secret American intelligence group
that has operated for forty years in almost total secrecy and with
complete impunity—and its leaders intend to keep it that way at any
cost.An adrenaline-pumping tale of one man’s descent into a
hellish underworld populated by terrorists, assassins, and very bad
“good guys,” Arctic Fire explores the disturbing difference
between doing what is good and doing what is right when it comes to
protecting America from her greatest enemies.
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Shelby adores her new house, until she learns it's haunted by a grieving Confederate soldier. When a mystical spell in a hidden diary transports her to the nineteenth century, where she becomes the writer of the diary, she finds herself tornbetween wanting to go home and needing to stay. She realizes she is the only hope for the survival of the family she has come to love. Views: 27
Jace Beleren has the power to travel between planes of the Multiverse, but with this gift comes isolation. He is one in a million. He is a planeswalker. And he is on the edge of a mystery that could alter the face of his adopted home—a vast, world-wide city known as Ravnica—forever.Faced with a magical code that is built into the very foundations of the city-world itself, Jace marches into the numinous depths of Ravnica’s underbelly in search of the promise of powerful magic. What he finds is perhaps more burden than boon. Once buried in past, the code resurfaces as Ravnica’s power-hungry mage guilds, unbound by the Guildpact that had once maintained order, struggle for control of the plane. But in the drive for primacy, there is no neutral ground.Jace knows that he can’t crack the code on his own, not while the guilds task teams of mages to unravel the mysteries, but he also knows that the danger of the quest is too great to include his friends. As the mystery begins to unravel, the choice may not be his alone. Views: 27
