Killing time… Stargate Command is in crisis — too many teams wounded, too many dead. Tensions are running high and, with the pressure to deliver tangible results never greater, General Hammond is forced to call in the Pentagon strike team to plug the holes. But help has its price. When the team’s leader, Colonel Dave Dixon, arrives at Stargate Command he brings with him loyalties that tangle dangerously with a past Colonel Jack O’Neill would prefer to forget. Assigned as an observer on SG-1, hostility between the two men escalates as the team’s vital mission to secure lucrative mining rights descends into a nightmare. Only Dr. Janet Fraiser can hope to save the lives of SG-1 — that is, if Dave Dixon and Jack O’Neill don’t kill each other first… Views: 27
CINDERELLA OF TUDOR TIMESIsobel Weeks is a plain lass and well she knows it, but even ordinary drabs can morph into dazzling butterflies for one magical event known as “A Midsummer Night’s Masque.” Yet she never dreams that one reckless adventure will break her heart, even as it capture another’s.PRINCE OF SECRET PAINSir Christopher Tanner is enchanted by “Madame Mysterie” and vows to uncover the secrets behind her velvet mask. Even while Kit secretly grieves for what he can never have, he is determined to make one final run at happiness, before his heart is set upon a dusty shelf one last time. Views: 27
A Wager Most Wild With businesses to conquer in Singapore and a centuries-old family heirloom to find in Scotland, investor James Drummond is no stranger to a challenge. But making the mysterious Fiona Lam his represents his riskiest power play yet. When he offers her the moon and stars, Fiona counters with a proposal of her own-a bet, to be exact.Winning a high-stakes horse race against James is Fiona's best chance at reclaiming her family's factory...and her father's honor. Seducing James is just a means to that end...until they end up in bed together! Then all bets are off.... Views: 27
A collection of novels including and not limited to dangerous lovers, action and adventure. Blood Warrior by HD Gordon, Rivulet by Jamie Magee, Switch by Janelle Stalder, Charmed by Cambria Hebert, Dark Waltz by AM Hargove, Damaged by Becca Vincenza Views: 27
A slightly spooky but mostly funny series about the mischief ghosts can make - and the kids who take care of the mess. Angeline and Edgar might be kids, but they're also two of Ghost Club's youngest ghost-catchers. Got a problem with a ghost, poltergeist or ghoul? Can't sleep because of all the rattling chains and cackling laughter? Angeline and Edgar are the experts to call.So it's entirely logical that when new kid Dylan joins Ghost Club, Angeline and Edgar are the perfect candidates to introduce him to everything he needs to know, from which ghost-catching gadget will do the trick to when to run like crazy to avoid being splattered with ectoplasm.The trouble is, Dylan's not quite sure he wants to be a ghost-catcher . . . Views: 27
BANISHED WORLDS IS WHERE YOU NEVER WANT TO VISIT, EXCEPT TO DIE!Harry Danbeu did not expect to ever leave the prison planet, Lark, but one day an old buddy snatched him off planet."Harry, do this one little job for the President ofThe Federal Union and you will receive a pardon,making you a free man again. One catch, we are dropping you on the worst prison planet in the sector to find and retrieve the President's missing 16 year old daughter."Teamed up with Federal Agent Mia Roberts, with brains and beauty, Agent Sinclair Price, and his old buddy, Senior Agent Kalvin Nelson, they are dropped onto Tirus, a prison planet run by a vicious warlord.On Tirus, they quickly realize that a normal day starts with brutality, and goes downhill from there. The team is informed by Jane Garrett that daddy, the President, wants her back because he needs her organs. President Garrett was injured and will die unless he has her organs harvested. She is his perfect match. So she ran and ended up on Tirus.Harry vows not to let that happen. Of course, Agent Nelson has a different idea. Views: 27
America in 1953 seems hell-bent on squandering the flood tide of international goodwill earned in WWII. Senator Joe McCarthy is on a red-hunting rampage in Washington, and the fledgling CIA under Allen Dulles is starting to dabble in nation-building. Into this moment of history wander Nick Carraway and Jake Barnes, refugees from Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. They begin a correspondence that leads to a close friendship, and widens to include a bizarre cast of characters. From the classic fiction of the period come Larry Darrell (The Razor's Edge), Alden Pyle (The Quiet American), Lady Brett Ashley and Robert Cohn (The Sun Also Rises), and from real life, Roy Cohn (Robert's nephew) and his pal Davey Schine, Roy's boss Joe McCarthy, the Dulles brothers, the Weavers, French intellectuals Sartre and De Beauvoir, Iranian premier Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, novelist Jackie Susann, music moguls Jerry Wexler and... Views: 27
