Wanted:A beautiful young woman—preferably one with no connections, who won't ask too many questions—to spend two weeks in the North of England with an obstinate, aloof, and utterly handsome man.Must love dogs, fixing up crumbling castles, and gorgeous and complicated war heroes who may or may not be hiding hearts of gold under their gruff exteriors.Must not, under any circumstances, fall in love . . .Simpering misses need not apply. Views: 11
Yearning to be free, Imogene has fled the idleness and cruelty of the phae court to hide in the sunlit realm of humans. When the Dark Hunters find her - and they will - she will face the Queen's wrath. But she is tired of running, and after a chance encounter with a seductively handsome stranger named Vaile, Imogene embraces the earthly passions within her, if only for one night. But has she fallen for a man - or an illusion? Views: 11
Finely-honed portraits of hope and change, these two novellas are linked so skillfully that they achieve the intensity of a single novel in which some characters succeed and others fail on separate but equally compelling quests. In "The Fires," Gina Morgan makes a pilgrimage to Uzbekistan to carry out her husband's final wish—to be cremated—only to find herself entirely at sea in the strange new reality of the former Soviet republic, while in "The Exorcism," Tom Swanson begins to make sense of his life when he retrieves his angry daughter from her exclusive New England college after her expulsion for setting fire to a grand piano. Views: 11
LUKE GALLOWAY doesn’t lie. Well, not normally. And never about anything as serious as death. But, somehow Luke’s friend and business partner, Sam Paris, convinces Luke that he needs to do just that. Sam believes the only way his daughter will come back to see him is if he were dying. And so the lies begin . . .RUSTY PARIS has been alone most of her life. Her parents were divorced when she was very young. Rusty was pushed off to boarding schools, while her mother made a hobby of marrying rich men. She doesn’t remember much about her father, only that he never made an attempt to be a part of her life for the past twenty-one years. But all that is about to change. When she gets word he is dying, she runs home to be by his side, which puts in right in the path of that scoundrel Luke Galloway.Luke has no room in his life for rich heiresses. Been there. Done that. From the first time Luke and Rusty meet, they clash. She considers him nothing more than a lowly ranch hand who enjoys riling her temper. He considers her arrogant and prissy. But that doesn’t mean he can fight his attraction to her, nor hers to him. And when they find out they’ve both been duped by Rusty’s father the sparks really start to fly. Views: 11
A gut-kick of a read, with non-stop action and as inventive a world as I've ever seen.—Vicki Pettersson, New York Times bestselling author of the Signs of the Zodiac seriesGreat characters who jump from the page; a smart, layered plot, and pacing that screams. This is the kind of book that makes you look forward to a rainy day.—John Gilstrap, author of Nathan's Run Readers...will devour Banks's clever and compelling Mortal Path series. Assassins, demons, and danger, oh my!—Lisa Gardner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love You MoreDakota Banks has taken the supernatural thriller and given it a breathtaking new twist! Deliverance is the third book in Banks's relentlessly exciting urban fantasy series, Mortal Path, featuring heroine Maliha Crayne, once a demon's henchwoman and paranormal assassin now determined to atone for her centuries of murderous acts. A cross... Views: 11
"If You're Selling Something, I'm Not Buying, Cowboy."They weren't the warmest words of welcome for Gage Phillips, who's just been named overseer of Dark Diablo ranch. On top of that, the Texas rover recently found out he's a father. The last thing he needs is a woman ordering him around, not to mention driving him crazy with desire...especially now that he's thinking about mending his footloose ways.Ireland seems a long way from Chelsea's new life on the Callahans' New Mexico spread--which now includes a teenage girl and her father: a raffish Texas cowboy with a slow, easy grin who's throwing temptation squarely in Chelsea's path!But a proposal? Gage surprises even himself with that one. It's strictly business--so Chelsea can get her citizenship. Or maybe not. Because as far as Gage is concerned she's already hooked one ready and willing renegade! Views: 11
(THIS BOOK IS OVER 72K AND WRAPS UP THE PHANTOM WARRIORS' SERIES AND THE ATLANTEAN'S QUEST SERIES. IT IS NOT A STAND-ALONE TITLE.)Taylor Shelley has always had the worst taste in men. When her latest ex turns out to be part of the Russian mob, she’s offered the chance to start a new life…on another planet.No more bad boys for her.Hades, The Dark King is both feared and rejected due to his mixed Atlantean/Phantom heritage. As King of the Phantoms, he rules his land via blood and claw. Hades doesn’t have time to watch over a human female, even one as enticing as Taylor, but a debt is a debt. If keeping an eye on the woman for a week will clear the slates, then he’ll do it.Taylor isn’t sure how a cage-fighter ended up on the throne, but she wants nothing to do with this royal bad boy.What starts as an obligation, ends in a game of seduction where the players are evenly matched. There’s only one rule to remember when playing with the Dark King—the house ALWAYS wins.Warning: This book is VERY spicy and contains adult situations/language (M/M, Violence, F/M. Views: 11
An ambitious young man struggles to define himself and his future in a Caribbean nation plunged into violent revolution. Having spent his childhood trapped in the slums of a politically volatile Caribbean island, Alexandre dreams of escape. Within only a few years, he rises from being a valet for an important politician to becoming a caretaker for a derelict estate purchased by a wealthy foreign businesswoman. While the rest of the country copes with the rise of a brutal dictator, Alexandre flees to his new home in the remote mountains outside the capital. There he oversees the restoration of a manor house and gardens that evoke for him an innocent, unspoiled past. When his new employer sees a chance to turn the estate into something more—a decadent, jet-setting resort—Alexandre views the undertaking as the culmination of his dreams. Eager to lose himself in the creation of this opulent Eden, Alexandre severs the last links to his unhappy past, including his family and friends. But as the outside world starts to crumble around him, Alexandre must face the limits of the utopia he has created. Soon he is trapped in the middle of a war he has tried to ignore, and discovers he will have to choose between preserving the estate he loves and protecting the people he has spent his life trying to escape. Review“Hebert conjures a vibrant atmosphere, as rich as a character as any inhabitant, whether in the fetid stink of the slums or the cool, detached opulence of the most affluent homes...” (Booklist )“Allegories about the morality of international development projects are rarely as subtle and lyrical as Christopher Hebert’s debut novel, ‘The Boiling Season.’” (San Francisco Chronicle )“THE BOILING SEASON is a beguiling political novel...Hebert conjures this strife-torn island-at once fictitious, but also hauntingly familiar-with uncanny precision and compelling lucidity.” (Peter Ho Davies, author of THE WELSH GIRL )“’The Boiling Season’ is a subtly crafted novel and an auspicious debut for Hebert.” (Dayton Daily News )“...a tour de force of restrained, unreliable first-person narration, a love letter to a beautiful, forgotten place, and a visceral depiction of Haitian political upheaval...A truly auspicious debut.” (Michael Knight, author of THE TYPIST and THE DIVINING ROD )“Hebert demonstrates an ambition and clarity of vision that is rare in a first novel...A rich, synthesized imagining of the personal history of a country torn asunder.” (Kirkus Reviews )“Hypnotically fascinating...It’s remarkable to see an American novel so profoundly steeped in the tradition of the great Haitian writers of the twentieth century.” (Madison Smartt Bell, author of ALL SOULS' RISING )“THE BOILING SEASON asks all the right questions, and it answers those questions beautifully, with great dramatic force.” (Charles Baxter, author of THE FEAST OF LOVE AND GRYPHON: NEW AND SELECTED STORIES )“...luminous and important...Christopher Hebert is a serious new novelist, one who’s offered us a real gift-a mesmerizing entertainment that uplifts, educates, moves, and changes us.” (Laura Kasischke, author of IN A PERFECT WORLD and THE RAISING )“With an unforced formality of diction...the whole is told with such clear-eyed compassion that the reader comes to honor failure-one mark of this novel’s success.” (Nicholas Delbanco, author of SHERBROOKES ) About the AuthorChristopher Hebert graduated from Antioch College, where he also worked at the Antioch Review. He has spent time in Guatemala, taught in Mexico, and worked as a research assistant to the author Susan Cheever. He earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Michigan and was awarded its prestigious Hopwood Award for Fiction. He lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, with his son and wife, the novelist Margaret Lazarus Dean. Views: 11
