Aimée Thurlo takes readers on a thrilling ride through Copper Canyon... Detective Preston Bowman had a Navajo gift for sensing danger. And the danger stalking Abby Langdon was undeniable. But nothing could force her off the Sitting Tall Ranch she'd built for disabled children--not even her own near-death experience.... Alone on her isolated ranch, she had no one to trust--no one but Preston. And as the risk intensified, so did her desire for the strong, silent lawman. But Preston was from a different world. Even if he could keep everyone on the ranch safe...she couldn't say the same for her heart. Views: 10
Series: Pentigrast -- Book 1: This is a 5 part series and the next book will be published on May 14, 2013. Subsequent books will follow every 2 weeks thereafter.The four bodies were naked and posed in a sexually ritualistic way about the pentagram, four bodies and 5 points; it seemed this grotesque work was yet unfinished. Each woman was beautiful and in her prime, Talen thought to himself that none of the women could have been more than 25. They sat there legs spread wide giving their womanhood to each point of the pentagram, twisted smiles upon their faces showed the last of their death throws and the heavy bruising on their necks told the tale of their demise. The cruel winters grasp had frozen the bodies solid with no hint of decay. When it started could be guessed, sometime after the first fall of snow, with mid winter fast approaching this queer scene still had ample time to conclude.Thus begins the tale of the Pentigrast and the two unlikely companions seeking it's answers. Talen Morgan, a man trying to forget his secret past and Riven Lannister, a man of tales and legend with a dark history in the church. Views: 10
Uncle Abner, the most famous literary character created by Melville Davisson Post, is a righteous amateur detective, a keen observer of human actions with profound knowledge and love for Bible. On his journeys around the backwoods of West Virginia, long before a proper police system is in place, he is confronted by murders and mysteries that cannot be ignored. He helps to solve them with his impressive intuition and deductive skills.Abner's adventures are populated with peculiar characters and intriguing adventures set in the rough but fascinating land 'where men concealed their feelings as one conceals the practice of a crime; and one would have stolen his neighbor's goods before he would have intruded upon the secrecy of his emotions.'This collection of eighteen stories, first published in 1918, with the pivotal character of justice-dispensing Uncle Abner connecting them all, is often considered among the most important American detective and crime fiction. Views: 10
The world is reeling in the aftermath of genocide. Former black operative Sophia is among the remnants of the Akhana, a once-strong organized resistance against the all-powerful world government known as the Fifth Column. Branded as the world’s most wanted terrorist, Sophia barely escaped her last encounter with the organization with her life. Now a new threat is emerging from inside the Fifth Column. Project Seraphim: a technology utilizing extremely low frequencies that can make anyone feel and do anything at any time. Mass populations will fall under the influence of an almost unlimited power. To stop them Sophia must join forces with former friends turned enemies and former enemies turned unlikely allies first among them Denton, a master manipulator whom she would prefer to run her knife through than work with. Sophia has four days. Four days before what little freedom the human race has left is gone forever.
The brutal game of betrayal and counter-betrayal that began with the international bestseller, The Chimera Vector , continues in this highly anticipated sequel. Views: 10
Violets are blue.Roses are red.One of you bitchesWill soon be dead.Those lines weren't quite what greeting-card entrepreneur Molly Masters had in mind when she encouraged her weekend workshop students to write a bit of verse, anonymously. Eerily, within hours, one of her aspiring writers is murdered, apparently without rhyme or reason.Or so Molly thinks until a storm and a blackout isolate the group in their mountain retreat. Katherine the professor, Nancy the shrink, Lois the doting mom, Julie the dog breeder, and Celia the big pest. Behind each one's suburban facade lurk passions unfit for family greeting cards, and a rage for life--and death. . . . Views: 10
But Adella had never felt anything quite like the glow that was now spreading through her whole body and pulling her towards the young man who stood beside her. In another moment she would be in his arms and everything would be forgotten. Digby let go of her hand. “I am sorry,” he said. Adella knew that she must hurry, that there was still a little way to walk to the teashop and then the long road back out of town to Mottram’s, but she could not. The golden spell of the Botanical Gardens did not want to let her go and her steps were slow and heavy as she walked beside Digby to the entrance. As they stood beside the great stone archway, he drew her to him. “We must leave this other world we have stepped into,” he sighed, “but before we do – ” Adella felt all her breath leave her body as his lips touched hers. It was the sweetest sensation, as if all the sunshine, the heavenly scents of the gardens, every blissful moment of the magical time she had spent with him, was caught up in his kiss. Then he released her. Views: 10
The first twenty-five years of Churchill’s life were full of adventure: night marches, cavalry charges, skirmishes on the North West Frontier, escape from a Boer prisoncamp and a visit to the Cuban War. Acknowledged as his best book, his zest for life bursts right off the page of My Early Life. Yet this is more than just an adventure story. It is an elegiac portrayal of the halcyon period of Edwardian content before the First World War, and deeply revealing of one of the dominating personalities of the twentieth century. Here lie the roots of that restless, questing energy and dauntless ambition, born of absent parents and miserable schooling. Views: 10
