This first part of the Wonder collection of short stories brings three New Adult Paranormal tales to the Thanksgiving table. AmityBaby vampire Mindy yearns for a traditional Thanksgiving feast, but her efforts result in disaster after disaster. Can she come to terms with what she is and learn new ways to celebrate? Or will her determination to hang onto the old traditions end up killing her own family?BelongingAt sixteen years old, Rissa was kicked out of her house by her stepfather, bitten by a werewolf and infected so she’d become one herself. She hasn’t had a single thing to be grateful for in the six years since. When a handsome-as-the-devil college guy frees her from a trap, she knows she should leave him immediately, but she can’t bring herself to. Is he truly as nice as he seems and can he really give her a sense of belonging? Or is she setting herself up for the worst shock since her first full moon as a wolf?GratitudeFresh off the battlefield, Alexis, Tristan, and the Soul Savers crew struggle to enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner, especially when a Daemoni attack ruins everything. When it’s all over, can they find a single blessing to count or is that too much to ask in this time of war?Meet new characters and revisit your favorites from the world of the bestselling Soul Savers Series by Kristie Cook. This is the first of a three-part collection, with Christmas and New Year’s coming November 2013. Views: 21
Somewhere in the middle of Maine, one of the world’s darkest secrets has been called to the surface. Alan and his little family find themselves directly in the path of the dangerous ritual. To save themselves and their home, they have to learn the secrets of the Migrators. Views: 21
TORN BETWEEN TWO LOVERS is a gripping and sexy romance trilogy with a unique twist: Our heroine needs your help to decide who wins her heart... RISKY is the second novella in this sizzling new series, in which two enticing men will vie for Anna's heart - culminating in a choice that will be determined by reader vote! Still hurting badly from Grayson Sloan's betrayal in RAW, Anna Claire meets Joaquin Delacruz - and she is completely won over by the wealthy and sophisticated casino mogul. Joaquin is like no one else she's ever known - insanely sexy, passionate...and extremely dangerous. Joaquin's fortune is built on crime; but unlike Gray, he hides absolutely nothing from her. Soon she finds herself ensnared in the web of a powerful, magnetic man who can't - and won't - promise her forever. But Joaquin is used to getting what he wants, and he wants Anna. He is even starting to dream of going legit and living a normal life, with Anna by his side. That is, if Anna's ex, the FBI agent who is his most hated enemy, doesn't get in his way... So, will you join #TeamJoaquin or #TeamGrayson? Make the informed choice with the addictive TORN BETWEEN TWO LOVERS trilogy.ReviewPraise for the Sugarland Blue series: "Strong series launch. . .a satisfying, fast-paced read."--Publishers Weekly"What's not to love about sexy men in blue with fast hands, true hearts, and the courage of their convictions?...[Davis] wraps it all up in an action novel that falls just shy of a police procedural, but with plenty of pure steamy romance and family drama. A great start to the Sugarland Blue series!"--RT Book Reviews, 4 1/2 Stars Praise for the Firefighters of Station Five Series "Sizzling...so hot, it singes the pages!" --New York Times Bestselling Author JoAnn Ross "Grab a fan and settle in for one heck of a smoking-hot read....I could read this book over and over!"--Joyfully Reviewed "Once again, Jo Davis has rocked it!"--Night Owl ReviewsAbout the AuthorNational bestselling author Jo Davis is best known for the popular Firefighters of Station Five, Sugarland Blue, and Torn Between Two Lovers series. As J.D. Tyler, she's the National bestselling author of the dark, sexy paranormal series Alpha Pack. Primal Law, the first book in her Alpha Pack series, is the winner of the 2011 National Reader's Choice Award in Paranormal. She has also been a multiple finalist in the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence, a finalist for the Bookseller's Best Award, has captured the HOLT Medallion Award of Merit, and has been a two-time nominee for the Australian Romance Readers Award in romantic suspense. She's had one book optioned for a major motion picture. Views: 21
In this fifth installment of the Aliette Nouvelle mysteries, Aliette is now, officially, Chief Inspector Nouvelle. After a difficult breakup with former boss and boyfriend Claude Neon, the inspector is transferred from an urban beat in Alsace to the south of France. She is given command of a small brigade at St-Brin, a sleepy town in a valley where wine is the primary industry and source of identity.When Joël Guatto, scion of an old wine-producing family, and recently defeated political candidate, is shot dead on the beach, it appears to be a politically motivated murder. But is it? As a political candidate, Guatto had been no threat, despite his efforts to rally local wine producers incensed by the cheap Spanish wine imports that are jeopardizing their livelihood. A political amateur, Guatto managed to lose not only the vote, but also his campaign manager turned lover, Stephanie McLeod.The scope of Aliette's investigation widens when it turns out that Stephanie has ties to a... Views: 21
The discovery of a set of black-and-white photograph negatives has sent Annie Dawson searching for answers to why they were secreted away behind the portrait of her grandparents. The portrait has hung for generations now on a wall in Grey Gables, the home in Stony Point, Maine, that was bequeathed to Annie by her grandmother, Elizabeth Holden. The negatives hearken back to the heyday of the jazz scene in New York City in the late 1940s. Obviously of professional quality, the negatives lead Annie down a mysterious pathway as she and her friends from the Hook and Needle Club track down how Annie’s grandparents are connected.The biggest question Annie wants answered is, who is the beautiful vocalist pictured amongst some of the great names of jazz? Annie is drawn to the images of Asta, a sultry blonde who seems to have dropped completely from sight before her career had a chance to blossom.Coincidentally, Mary Beth Brock, the owner of A Stitch in Time (the local needlecraft shop where weekly Hook and Needle Club meetings are held) asks Annie, Alice MacFarlane, and Kate Stevens to attend a needlecraft conference in the Big Apple. The trio tackle the conference hall by day while tracking down clues by night.The pursuit leads them to a jazz club where Kate is attracted to the handsome trumpeter, Cole Cutchins. Then the mystery takes a sinister turn when Annie is accosted while stepping off a subway.Follow this latest adventure of Annie and the other amateur sleuths from the Hook and Needle Club as they attempt to stay positive about a bunch of negatives in Jazzed. Views: 21
18 year old Gopi, the orphan born out of a rape, enters the Shakti Academy of Special children and faces the fairy tales coming alive in front of her. Fairies, vampires, werewolves, wereeagles, meremaids,witches and wizards. Views: 21
Winner of the 2002 Somerset Maugham AwardDamien March is a disconsolate journalist working the nightshift at the BBC in London. He hasn't thought of his eccentric uncle for 20 years and so is shocked when he learns that he has inherited his uncle's ramshackle house on an isolated island off the coast of Cape Cod.Without a relationship compelling enough to keep him in his humdrum life, Damien decides to take off to the Cape.But his new future means confronting his family's past. And when he discovers a fragment of an unpublished mystery novel, the parallels with his uncle's life quickly become disconcerting and sinister... Views: 21
“A landmark work of lesbian fiction.” —The New York TimesJane Rule’s first novel—now a classic of gay and lesbian literature—established her as a foremost writer of the vagaries and yearnings of the female heart Against the backdrop of Reno, Nevada, in the late 1950s, award-winning author Jane Rule chronicles a love affair between two women. When Desert of the Heart opens, Evelyn Hall is on a plane that will take her from her old life in Oakland, California, to Reno, where she plans to divorce her husband of sixteen years. A voluntary exile in a brave new world, she meets a woman who will change her life. Fifteen years younger, Ann Childs works as a change apron in a casino. Evelyn is instantly drawn to the fiercely independent Ann, and their friendship soon evolves into a romantic relationship. An English professor who had always led a conventional life, Evelyn suddenly finds all her beliefs about love, morality, and identity called into question. Peopled by a cast of unforgettable characters, this is a novel that dares to ask whether love between two women can last. Views: 21
Rumors had circulated for years in the Lexington area about horse breeders Brett, Colin and Donovan McGilley, especially about the activities that went on above their popular night club, Casey's. Kayla Holden was at Casey's to celebrate her twenty-sixth birthday and in the mood to do something wild and crazy and what could be wilder and crazier than enticing sexy, older Brett McGilley into inviting her upstairs for an up close and personal look at the sexual activities she had heard so much about. Even though Brett was attracted to Kayla, his taste for spanking and exhibitionism was not for someone so young and inexperienced. But Brett had no idea just how determined Kayla was to not only explore his sexual kinks, but to do so only with him. Colin McGilley had fallen for his best friend's wife, Olivia Hammond, the moment he met her and when Doug asked him to help gift her with a ménage on her birthday, he couldn't resist. The next three years, Colin carried the guilt of Doug's... Views: 21
