Tave Spencer has lost her heart to Daniel Luckett, but he is determined to run from their love. Knowing that he can't provide her the luxury-filled life Matthew Chandler offers, Daniel decides to leave town, telling Tave that someday she'll realize he is right. Will Tave find healing for her broken heart as the wife of Matthew and mistress of his plantation home? Will Daniel find the peace he so desperately seeks? And will Tave and Daniel discover the plans God has for them together—or will they wait until it is too late? Views: 22
In Blackmuir Wood, above the Victorian Spa village of Strathpeffer, sixteen miles west of Inverness, in the Highlands of Scotland, four American students are found with their throats slit. Worse, each has been given a chilling new haircut. The FBI arrive, but too late to prevent another terrible murder, and into town strolls everybody's favourite accidental death-junkie barber, Barney Thomson, looking for a short back and sides and a different hair colour.
THE FACE OF DEATH is a 17000-word Barney Thomson novella that takes place after the events of THE BARBER SURGEON'S HAIRSHIRT (Barney Thomson book 2). However, knowledge of the events of the first two Barney novels is not necessary to enjoy THE FACE OF DEATH.
Praise for THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON (book 1)
"This chilling black comedy unfolds at dizzying speed... an impressive debut novel." –
Sunday Mirror
"The plot, Russian literature fans, is a modern spin on Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. The bloody ending, movie buffs, is pure Reservoir Dogs." – The Mirror
"This is pitch-black comedy spun from the finest writing. Fantastic plot, unforgettable scenes and plenty of twisted belly laughs." – New Woman
Praise for THE BARBER SURGEON'S HAIRSHIRT (book 2)
"A mad, macabre romp with surreal characters and cutting black humour." – The Sunday Mirror
"Gloriously over the top, very bloody and very, very funny." – Daily Telegraph
"A novel which is both genuinely silly and a fun read." – The Scotsman
"A flawless follow-up to an impressive debut, this is extremely well-written, highly amusing and completely unpredictable in its outrageous plot twists and turns." – The List
"Lindsay's burlesque thrills offer no sex, no drugs, no desperation to be cool. Just straightforward adult story; fantastic plot, classic timing and gleeful delight in the grotesque. With more talent than Irvine Welsh could dream of, Lindsay has crafted a macabre masterpiece where content lives up to style." – What's On
THE BARNEY THOMSON novels in order:
#1 THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON
#2 THE BARBER SURGEON'S HAIRSHIRT (aka THE CUTTING EDGE OF BARNEY THOMSON)
#3 MURDERERS ANONYMOUS (aka A PRAYER FOR BARNEY THOMSON)
#4 THE RESURRECTION OF BARNEY THOMSON (aka THE KING WAS IN HIS COUNTING HOUSE)
#5 THE LAST FISH SUPPER
#6 THE HAUNTING OF BARNEY THOMSON
#7 THE FINAL CUT
THE END OF DAYS, a novella, can be read at any point in the sequence.
About the author
Douglas Lindsay is the author of the Barney Thomson barbershop crime series, as well as the thriller, LOST IN JUAREZ and the police procedurals, THE UNBURIED DEAD and WE ARE THE HANGED MAN. He lives in Somerset.
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Brody begins to learn how much the wreck has taken away from him… as well as what additions have been made in the darkness of his mind. His identity crisis is in full flame; there is more going on inside than he had bargained for.
The biggest lesson Brody is learning has everything to do with forgiveness. The struggle he is having is not whether he can forgive his friends, but whether they have the capacity to forgive him. He wants so much to show each and every one of them how sorry he is for having taken anything, especially trust, away from them. Taking into consideration all that is going on in this new world that is evolving more toward sin, Brody thinks the end is up to him.
What is it going to take for Brody to find his long lost friends? Using only his mind, he must locate and save them from an ever-growing underground clan of soul-seeking Pasties, who exist solely to wreak havoc on anyone harboring suicidal or homicidal thoughts. These beings have been strewn out below the surface of Trendago in a dark cave system known as Freeland—a place where the planet’s water supply provides breeding grounds for edible bugs that create enough light for Brody’s friends to see they are not the only ones down there.
In order to miraculously save his friends, Brody must overcome his biggest foe: himself. He toils with his inner personalities, half of which know forgiveness is the only way; the other half have other plans.
Find out if good conquers evil within Brody’s mind. Will his prophetic dreams pan out the way he wants them to, or has the wreck taken so much away from him that this is all just a delusion?
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Marvin Kreitman, the luggage baron of South London, lives for sex. Or at least he lives for women. At present he loves four women—his mother, his wife Hazel, and his two daughters—and is in love with five more. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, nice Charlie, loves just the one woman, also called Charlie, the wife with whom he has been writing children's books and having nice sex for twenty years. Once a week the two friends meet for a Chinese lunch, contriving never quite to have the conversation they would like to have—about fidelity and womanizing, and which makes you happier. Until today. It is Charlie who takes the dangerous step of asking for a piece of Marvin's disordered life, but what follows embroils them all, the wives no less than the husbands. And none of them will ever be the same again. Views: 22
BONUS! This ebook contains a preview of the hot story "The Auction: Deflowered by the Billionaire" by Dara Tulen. Lizbeth has arrived to interview for her new housekeeping job, and it turns out to be Darius's incredible mansion. More than that, Darius himself is exquisite, and he's planning to introduce her to a world of lust and passion... provided she does everything he asks. Does Lizbeth have it in her? WARNING: This 3,800-word story is a steamy read that features hot interracial sex between a latin woman and white man, billionaires, dominant and submissive action, exhibitionism, oral sex, masturbation, and may be too hot for some readers to handle! Views: 22
CAUGHT BETWEEN DUTY...
George Augustus Griffin, Viscount Chanderley has to marry—fast: His father has ordered him to find a suitable wife this very Season. Alas, the only woman Griff has eyes for is the very unsuitable Miss Carlotta Stanton, who is not only unbecomingly tall, but also wears the ugliest spectacles in all of England. Still, Griff is utterly bewitched by her intense green eyes. Yes however much he feels drawn to her joie de vivre, duty and honour demand that he stay far away from Miss Stanton.
...AND DESIRE...
Dubbed “the Giantess” because of her unfortunate height, Charlie Stanton finds the London Season far less glamorous than she had thought it would be—not the least because she is consigned a place among the wallflowers. But then she becomes acquainted with the very dashing Lord Chanderley, whose life is overshadowed by a terrible tragedy in his past. Ever ready to help others, Charlie is determined to rid him of his Sad Melancholia—even if it means taking on wild boars and highwaymen. However, the biggest challenged might be the elusive viscount himself and his belief that he is beyond all redemption. Views: 22
Like Winchester's Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by historyIn the tradition of Krakatoa, The World Without Us, and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816 was a remarkable year—mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months, allowing for excessive rain, frost, and snowfall through much of the Northeastern U.S. and Europe in the summer of 1816.In the U.S., the extraordinary weather produced food shortages, religious revivals, and extensive migration from New England to the Midwest. In Europe, the cold and wet summer led to famine, food riots, the transformation of stable communities into wandering beggars, and one of the worst typhus epidemics in history. 1816 was the year Frankenstein was written. It was also the year Turner painted his fiery sunsets. All of these things are linked to global climate change—something we are quite aware of now, but that was utterly mysterious to people in the nineteenth century, who concocted all sorts of reasons for such an ungenial season.Making use of a wealth of source material and employing a compelling narrative approach featuring peasants and royalty, politicians, writers, and scientists, The Year Without Summer examines not only the climate change engendered by this event, but also its effects on politics, the economy, the arts, and social structures.Review"Many people in North America and Europe believed that the freezing summer of 1816 foretold the end of the world. Unaware that the invisible ash cloud that spread round the world from a volcanic eruption in Indonesia caused the aberrant weather, they thought the sun was dying. William Klingaman vividly portrays the myths and realities of that terrifying season." —James M. McPherson, Pulitzer-Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Battle Cry of Freedom, Crossroads of Freedom, Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, and For Cause and Comrades"When a volcanic eruption on a Pacific island swathed the earth with droplets, producing freakish weather that ruined harvests all over the world, how did people react? William and Nicholas Klingaman tell us how the year without summer affected an astonishing variety of people on different continents, including rulers and peasants, working families, Jane Austen and Mary Shelley. A book like nothing you've read before." —Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation Of America"William K. Klingaman’s groundbreaking work will forever alter the way we view the years immediately following the War of 1812. Beautifully written in prose that will excite both expert and layman, it tells the remarkable story-in superb detail-of how in April 1815 the severest volcanic eruption in 2000 years on Mount Tambora disrupted the earth’s weather profoundly, and with it, the politics, economics, arts, and religious beliefs of an era. In every respect this is a marvelous book, impossible to put down." —George C. Daughan author of 1812: The Navy’s War"Klingaman’s vibrant narrative carries us from Indonesia to Ohio as it traces the global effects of the Mt. Tambora eruption. The Year Without Summer is as dexterous at explaining the science of climatology as it is at describing how the endless rain in Geneva figured into Byron’s poetry or how New Englanders saw God’s wrath in the summer snowstorms that froze their fields." —Steven Biel, author of Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster"Massive volcanic cataclysm, ash and global cold, failed harvests, social unrest, and Frankenstein to boot: Klingaman paints an intriguing, multilayered picture of the year when global climate went mad and a lot of people went hungry. The Year Without Summer is a sobering reminder of humanity’s vulnerability to natural disasters—in a world with far fewer inhabitants than today." —Brian Fagan, author of Beyond the Blue Horizon, The Great Warming and Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind"Intrigued by the weather? You will be after reading The Year Without Summer. Writing with verve and flair, author William Klingaman shows how in 1816 an event in the Far East dramatically influenced weather patterns in Europe and the United States, causing summer blizzards, flooding, and deadly famines. This is a disquieting, but important, story that throws light on global weather patterns and our precarious hold on life." —John Ferling author of Independence, Almost a Miracle, and Setting the World Ablaze "The Year Without Summer puts Krakatoa in the shade. This is an erudite, vivid, and fast-paced narrative of the extraordinary consequences of the largest and deadliest known volcanic eruption in history. Linking the stories of a cast of royal, political and literary characters - Louis XVIII, Madison, Napoleon and Byron among them - as well as laborers, seafarers and rabble-rousers, William and Nicholas Klingaman help us visualize and understand how a remote Indonesian volcano helped to foment social, economic and political turmoil on both sides of the Atlantic." —Clive Oppenheimer, author of Eruptions That Shook the World and Volcanoes"A thought-provoking account describing the far-reaching and long-lasting effects on Europe and America of a single volcanic eruption in the tropics. Tambora's 1815 outburst caused changes in weather patterns with negative impact on agriculture, resulting in famine and disease. Riots and political discord followed and worsened the socio-economic consequences of the Napoleonic wars in Europe. Such an aftermath provides a warning for what our living earth may have in store for the future." —Dr. Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, author of Volcanoes in Human History and Earthquakes in Human History"The Year Without Summer shows how a volcanic eruption in Indonesia transformed life in the United States and Europe. William and Nicholas Klingaman have placed 1816 on the list of pivotal years in history and have provided a compelling account of the mushrooming effects of a natural disaster. This is environmental and world history at its finest." —Louis P. Masur, author of The Civil War, 1831, and The Soiling of Old Glory"A great book about one of the least known and most devastating natural disasters in history." —Theodore Steinberg, author of Acts of God and Down to Earth"The Klingamans lay out the scientific details of the disaster in a lucid, easily digestible manner. They also effectively integrate the natural calamities into a narrative that includes the political and social milieu of Europe and North America. This is an engrossing work that illustrates the fragility of societies when confronted with sudden and severe disruption of weather patterns." —Booklist"An intriguing sidelight on the effects of climate change." —Kirkus ReviewsAbout the AuthorWILLIAM K. KLINGAMAN has taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Maryland. He is the author of six previous books, including narrative histories of the years 1918, 1929 and 1941.NICHOLAS P. KLINGAMAN holds a Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Reading. Views: 22
The gods are flawed . . . and they make awful parents. Deryck knows first-hand the cruelty of the gods. Three thousand years after his birth, he is still trapped, forced to service humans as an Incubus—unable to choose whom he sleeps with, and living a life completely devoid of love. There is no out for him. No hope. Or so he thought. Shayla McIntire spent five years getting her life back on track after the accident claiming her husband’s life. She is content to a nice, boring, subdued life free of the abuse she suffered before. Her friends are worried. They want her to find the man of her dreams and move on. Little do they know, the Powers That Be have decided the man of Shayla’s dreams. There’s just one hitch, he’s enslaved to the gods and it will take power she doesn’t know she has to free him. Deryck isn’t the only one hoping Shayla will free him, though. Views: 22
Kevin Spencer, the hero of Liar, Liar, Flat Broke, and Crush, has a knack for tackling big ideas and goofing up, so what's next? Politics, of course! He's running for office, and his campaign is truly unique. Views: 22
