"He's a gambler at best. A con artist at worst," her aunt had said of the handlebar-mustached man who snatched Ella Wallace away from her dreams of studying art in France. Eighteen years later, that man has disappeared, leaving Ella alone and struggling to support her three sons. While the world is embroiled in World War I, Ella fights her own personal battle to keep the mystical Florida land that has been in her family for generations from the hands of an unscrupulous banker. When a mysterious man arrives at Ella's door in an unconventional way, he convinces her he can help her avoid foreclosure, and a tenuous trust begins. But as the fight for Ella's land intensifies, it becomes evident that things are not as they appear. Hypocrisy and murder soon shake the coastal town of Apalachicola and jeopardize Ella's family. Views: 26
Abducted from her family home in Savannah, Sophia Deveraux is thrown into an army stockade with Cherokee prisoners destined for the West. Though stalked by her abductor, she is protected by three men on the long, deadly journey to Indian Territory. Despite her starved and battered body and soul, one of them steals her heart.
When Clay Jefferson lost his family, he vowed to kill whoever murdered them. Trying to help prevent the removal of the Cherokees from Georgia, he finds his heart torn in two when protecting Sophia becomes more important than his vow of vengeance.
Fate and a gypsy curse work together as Sophia is attacked again but finds an inner strength she never knew she had, and Clay is forced to make a difficult decision -- honor his vow or listen to his heart? Views: 26
Retired from law, Ben Kincaid is forced to return to the bar when a case—and a corpse—fall in his lapAfter years of struggling, Ben Kincaid shuts down his small legal office and decides to make a living doing something that—compared to practicing law in Tulsa—is easy money: playing jazz piano. He buys a minivan to haul his gear, and gets steady gigs playing in a combo at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium. His new career is just starting to take off when a body falls from the Emporium ceiling, knocking the wind out of Kincaid and sending him right back to his old profession.The dead woman is Cajun Lily Campbell, a grand dame of the Tulsa music scene and onetime girlfriend of Uncle Earl himself. And Kincaid must be careful as he readies the old jazzman's defense, because there is a killer on the north side of town who would like nothing more than to hear the piano player's last tune. Views: 26
All's fair in love...and matchmaking!Sierra Kent doesn’t do love. While she embraces the quaintness of her home town Love and delights in matchmaking her clients through her Internet dating agency Love Byte, she doesn’t trust her intuition when it comes to the one emotion that has repeatedly let her down. City-slick Marc Fairley, CEO of LA's premier acquisition company, doesn’t have time for Love. From the minute he enters the kitschy town he can’t wait to hotfoot back to LA with his deranged mother in tow. Instead, he gets roped into the town's Love Fest hoopla, investigates the shady farmer his mom is engaged to, berates his butler for a mad crush on a brash Aussie waitress, and finds himself falling for the brazen red-head who continually baits him.His life couldn't get any crazier.Until he discovers in exacting revenge on his father and achieving his lifelong goals, he may lose the one thing he values most...Can Sierra and Marc create enough sparks to send Love up in flames? And prove that winning isn’t everything in the love stakes, it’s how you play the game.Review"Nicola Marsh has done it again...Crazy Love is a fun, sexy romp that I couldn't put down! You don't want to miss it!" New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Probst Views: 26
A "fast-paced and engrossing" (Publishers Weekly) sci-fi novel that asks the question: What would you do to survive?When the black spheres filled the sky, anyone caught beneath them would vanish in a flash of blue-white light. Huddled indoors, the survivors were unaware if what was happening in their neighborhoods was happening worldwide.Josh is trapped at home with his father, whose sanity is starting to erode from the endless confinement. Megs struggles to survive in a hotel parking garage where she sees human nature at its worst. For both of them, food, water, and time are running out.And hovering patiently above them is an extraterrestrial enemy that has inexplicably declared war against humanity…From BooklistIn Prosser, Washington, 15-year-old Josh and his father awake to a screeching, ear-splitting noise, which, turns out, announces an alien occupation. Then the pods show up, giant spheres of pearl gray suspended in the sky, waiting. Anyone daring to venture outside his or her home is zapped. In L.A. that same morning, 12-year-old Megs says good-bye to her mother in a hotel parking garage. When the aliens arrive, Megs finds herself surviving off crumbs found in other cars. Wallenfels never shows readers the aliens. Though they seem bent on starving people out of their homes, the real horror is what humans do to each other. This is especially the case on Megs' side of the story. Thugs regulate the food, water, and medicine supply inside the hotel; separate families; and kill anyone challenging their authority. However, the dire circumstances don't negate the humor, the hormones, or the humanity found in the young narrators. This is solid, straightforward sci-fi—unfortunately, a rarity in these times when vampires and zombies reign unchecked. Grades 8-11. --Courtney Jones Review"Masterful...grabs the reader by the throat from the first page and never lets go." --Kirkus Reviews"Exceptional and unexpected, Pod is a gem not to be missed." --The Entertainer (Kennewick, WA)"Solid, straighforward sci-fi." --Booklist(Eloquence quotes ) Views: 26
"That shouldn't be here."Those are the last words uttered by Commander Bob Cartwright in September 1976, just before all communication with the crew of Apollo 18 is inexplicably lost during the astronauts' first moonwalk. Frantic attempts by mission control to reestablish contact are unsuccessful. Three days later, however, as NASA is scrambling to put together a rescue mission, astronomers detect a burn of the service propulsion system, and, on schedule, but still in eerie silence, the command module begins its return transit, culminating in the welcome sight of the capsule descending majestically beneath a trio of parachutes into the South Pacific.But when the hatch is opened, the navy divers tasked with assisting the astronauts into the recovery helicopter make a gruesome discovery. The bodies of the three men inside have been burned beyond recognition, victims of a failed heat shield. And with them has died the answer to a great mystery: What was the meaning of Cartwright's enigmatic last statement, and what happened during those three blacked out days in the Mare Crisium, the Sea of Crises?Unfortunately, unless and until man returns to the moon, that mystery will remain forever unsolved.Or will it?Thirty-five years later, Cartwright's sons make a shocking discovery: The capsule that came down in the Pacific Ocean with three charred remains was not their father's capsule. And the body they buried all those years before was not their father.What they've uncovered puts the three brothers on the run, chased by a group of ruthless people who will stop at nothing to preserve the secret behind the fate of the Apollo 18 astronauts. Their pursuers have unlimited resources and power that emanates from the highest levels of the government. The brothers will need to set aside past differences and pool their talents if they are to stay alive and learn what really happened in the Sea of Crises.The answer will include a final staggering revelation. Views: 26
"McGown's style is uniquely hers, engrossing, poignant, with effectual characterization."--Mystery NewsWhen the body of fifteen-year-old Natalie Ouspensky is found strangled near a public park in Stansfield, England, Detective Inspector Judy Hill and Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd have their work cut out for them. For Natalie wasn't quite the innocent her mother believes, and her classmates at Oakland School guard Natalie's secrets--and their own--like life itself. Then a shred of evidence points Hill and Lloyd in the right--and decidedly deadly--direction. . . . "[A ] compelling story . . . The characters are devious, cunning, charming--and truly, truly wicked. This small English town, overrun with malice, is well served by its finely delineated constabulary, with Lloyd and Hill at the top of their form."--Publishers WeeklyFrom the Paperback edition. Views: 26
Anna Findlay needs a man.Anna has gone from being the bullied Mouse in a small town high school to the perfectly groomed and wealthy author of a pop psychology book on sex. When her publicity agent talks her into going to her high school reunion at Christmas, there are two problems - Anna hated high school, and she has no one to go with. So, in her own pragmatic style, she hires an escort from an agency - a move that wil change her life forever.Anna finds herself revisiting her past and learning that she has never been comfortable in any of the personnas she has invented for herself. It takes falling in love - and Christmas - to show her that all she needs do is be herself. Views: 26
