James Green, alias Sudden, was now a respectable rancher. The gunfighter had hung up his guns. But then an old friend needed help, so the respectable rancher reached for those two well-kept guns, slowly strapped them on, and reached for his hat. Now the die was cast—and Sudden was back again! Views: 27
Woman declared dead revived as she is placed in coffin, killing her husband of shock! Holidaymaker startled by African lion leaping through Welsh hotel window! Man swallows live turtle to win bet! From the archives of the British Library, journalist Jeremy Clay has dragged into the light long-lost stories that enthralled and appalled Victorian Britain. Divided into sections - from Love and Marriage through Court, Crime and Punishment, Animals, Accidents and Misfortune, Inventions, Sport, Food and Drink , The Supernatural, and finally Wagers and Feats - and with each article reproduced in full, The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton is also packed with sketches from the sensational Illustrated Police News. Deliciously appalling and dreadfully funny, The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton will have you, one way or the other, in tears... Views: 27
Two halves of whole, rare Drachon twins Taggart and Vincent Jennings once shared the weight of being the salvation of their people until Vincent disappears, leaving Tag to bear their people's disappointment alone. Now Vincent is back, demanding Tag help him rescue the one woman neither can live without, but they're going to have to repair their own relationship if they have any hope of convincing her to take a chance on them.
Years ago Dr. Brit Mahoney helped develop genetic research that had the potential to enslave the entire Arcane to the Triumvirate and she sacrificed everything she loved to destroy it. Determined to never allow her emotions to make her vulnerable again, she's buried herself in science, refusing to allow herself to succumb to her desire for Taggart Jennings. Then his estranged twin appears and their combined hormones ignites a mating heat that is even more than she can withstand.
When it becomes obvious Brit's research was resurrected with fatal consequences, Vincent must reveal the horrible truths of his past to give them any hope of a future. Views: 27
An intimately charged novel of desire and disaster from the author of American Woman and A Person of InterestRegina Gottlieb had been warned about Professor Nicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigious university high on a pastoral hill. He's said to lie in the dark in his office while undergraduate women read couplets to him. He's condemned on the walls of the women's restroom, and enjoys films by Roman Polanski. But no one has warned Regina about his exceptional physical beauty—or his charismatic, volatile wife.My Education is the story of Regina's mistakes, which only begin in the bedroom, and end—if they do—fifteen years in the future and thousands of miles away. By turns erotic and completely catastrophic, Regina's misadventures demonstrate what can happen when the chasm between desire and duty is too wide to bridge. Views: 27
When twin sisters Kate and Donna inherit their grandmother's restaurant, the Blue Plate Cafe in Wheeler, Texas, there's immediate conflict. Donna wants to sell and use her money to establish a B&B; Kate wants to keep the Cafe. Thirty-two-year old Kate leaves a Dallas career as a paralegal and a married lover to move back to Wheeler and run the cafe, whild Donna plans her B&B and complicates life by having an affair with her sole invester. Kate soon learns that Wheeler is not the idyllic small town she thought it was fourteen years ago. The mayor, a woman, is power-mad and listens to no one, and the chief of the police department, newly come from Dallas, doesn't undersand small-town ways. Worst of all, blunt, outspoken Donna is not well liked by some twon folk. The mayor of Wheeler because seriously ill after eating food from the cafe, delivered by Donna's husband, and the death of another patron makes Kate even more suspicious of her grandmother's sudden death. When Donna's investor is shot, all signs point to Donna, and she is arrested. Kate must defend her sister and solve the murders to keep her business open, but even Kate begins to wonder about the sister with whom she has a love-hate relationship. Gram guides Kate through it all, though Kate's never quite sure she's hearing Gram--and sometimes Gram's guidance is really off the wall. Views: 27
