He did the impossible.Bowe Bellanger broke all the rules in surviving The Narrowing Path. The victory was short-lived.Three years of trying to return the Bellanger family to its former glory comes to nothing when one of the other families attacks, forcing Bowe to flee the city. At the same time, powerful forces threaten war and rebellion throughout Arcandis, and Bowe has to take advantage of the upheaval or be overwhelmed by it.The second book in The Narrowing Path Series takes Bowe on a harrowing journey where he'll face a terrible decision that will decide not just his future, but the future of the entire society. Views: 46
Charlotte Lightwood has one season to find a husband or she'll be forced to marry her guardian's loathsome cousin. With no title or dowry, she doesn't have much hope of making a good match.Sebastian Wilkinson, the Earl of Marley, has been the most eligible bachelor on the marriage mart for more years than he cares to count and is very aware of his duty to marry a woman who will add to the wealth and stature of his title. Sebastian makes Charlotte an offer she can't refuse: he will pretend to court her to help her attract more suitors in exchange for her advice about which ladies he should pursue.As they work together, their mutual attraction grows. When they realize they just might be perfect for one another, they must decide whether to bow to the dictates of society or follow their hearts. Views: 46
It is the year 1586. England is awash with traitors, plotting to assassinate the Queen and bring about a foreign invasion. The young physician Christoval Alvarez, a refugee from the horrors of the Portuguese Inquisition, is coerced into becoming a code-breaker and spy in Sir Francis Walsingham’s espionage service. In the race to thwart the plot, who will triumph – the ruthless conspirators or the equally ruthless State?About the AuthorAnn Swinfen spent her childhood partly in England and partly on the east coast of America. She read Classics and Mathematics at Oxford, where she married a fellow undergraduate, the historian David Swinfen. While bringing up their five children and studying for an MSc in Mathematics and a BA and PhD in English Literature, she had a variety of jobs, including university lecturer, translator, freelance journalist and software designer. She served for nine years on the governing council of the Open University and for five years worked as a manager and editor in the technical author division of an international computer company, but gave up her full-time job to concentrate on her writing, while continuing part-time university teaching. In 1995 she founded Dundee Book Events, a voluntary organisation promoting books and authors to the general public. Her first three novels, The Anniversary, The Travellers, and A Running Tide, all with a contemporary setting but also historical resonance, were published by Random House, with translations into Dutch and German. Her fourth novel, The Testament of Mariam, marked something of a departure. Set in the first century, it recounts, from an unusual perspective, one of the most famous and yet ambiguous stories in human history. At the same time it explores life under a foreign occupying force, in lands still torn by conflict to this day. Her latest novel, Flood, is set in the fenlands of East Anglia during the seventeenth century, where the local people fight desperately to save their land from greedy and unscrupulous speculators. The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez is the first book in a series featuring Kit Alvarez and Walsingham’s secret service. She now lives on the northeast coast of Scotland, with her husband (formerly vice-principal of the University of Dundee), a cocker spaniel and two Maine Coon cats. www.annswinfen.com Views: 46
Living in the same house as two narcissistic parents is nothing short of a nightmare, and no one knows this better than twenty-four year old Louis. Despite moving out several years ago, he has yet to break free from the damaging effects of his childhood. When he decides to get treatment for his social anxiety, agoraphobia, and obsessive-compulsive disorders, he forms an unexpected attachment with his new therapist. Before they can get too close, though, Louis meets another girl who catches his eye. Views: 46
FIRST THREE BOOKS IN THE SERIES:
ROSS, QUINN, AND GASPAR
ROSS:
He's looking for a fine, brave woman...
Laird Ross has weathered painful betrayals before, but Fate is not finished with him. Not only has the fairy foretold come to expose his secrets and destroy his clan, she might just destroy his heart as well.
Jillian agrees to be the travel companion to a couple of aging sisters. Sadly, they're not as fragile as she thought, and Jillian is the sucker they plan to send back in time. When she lands in the arms of a 15th century Highland laird, she thinks it's a joke--but the joke's on her. No matter how perfect Ross might be for Jillian, she'll never get back to the future unless she betrays him completely.
QUINN:
A desperate American lass flees from a hit man...into the arms of a 15th century Highlander.
Quinn is running out of time. He's about to die a martyr in the dungeons of the Gordon Keep, but he's decided he wants to live after all. His only hope? To convince one of the Gordons that Quinn can control the future.
Jules escapes her security detail and goes to Scotland to claim a fortune that should be hers. With a hit man on her tail, however, she must run again**. Only this time, she runs into the past where a shooter is not the only danger.
Jules and Quinn are thrown together by both Fate and the Muir witches, and they realize they are not as alone in the world as they thought. But they'll have to maneuver around a centuries-old curse and a villain they never saw coming--or they'll lose each other forever.
GASPAR:
A trouble-making Scottish lass catches the attention of the most dangerous man in Venice.
Temptation hasn't been a problem for Gaspar in years, but when a fiery Scotswoman bursts into his territory spouting words of witchcraft, he's tempted to get away from her--fast. But the beauty is a danger to herself, and who better to eliminate that danger, than God's Dragon? It will be a simple thing, surely, to keep her from reaching beneath his armor...
Isobelle's soft heart and penchant for trouble has delivered her to the shores of Venice, and to the attention of God's Dragon, a man whose responsibilities include trying witches. Her Highland guardian has his eye on the New World, but if he doesn't stay close, Isobelle will end up in the dragon's fire.
THE NEXT BOOKS IN THE SERIES, WICKHAM, JAMES, AND PERCY,
are available individually, or in bundle form soon.
Visit L.L. Muir's Amazon page and/or her website at llmuir.weebly.com
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Nine years after a worldwide zombie apocalypse, the Mission Safe Zone is struggling to deal with the presence of a serial killer within the population. Salvage teams have also noticed that the undead outside the walls are changing, becoming more dangerous. Views: 46
In this first instalment of the Bow Street Rivals series a riot breaks out in Dartmoor prison, enabling some American inmates to escape. The twin detectives Peter and Paul Skillen catch wind of a projected assassination but the target is unknown. Trouble ensues when a woman from the Home Office vanishes; a mysterious lady turns up at the archery shooting gallery; and Paul's gambling addiction worsens... Views: 46
Who’s afraid of the big, bad wolf?From the outside, librarian Megan Upton appears to live a quiet, painfully ordinary life. She’s lonely, but she’s content, more or less—that is, when she isn’t being haunted by wolves.She sees their hulking shadows in blizzards, and their shapes stalk her dreams. Even worse, it’s a family affliction: her beloved grandmother, whose sanity seems to be slowly slipping away, raves about seeing phantom wolves, too.When a twist of fate brings the beautiful, enigmatic, hungry-eyed Kara into Megan’s life, Megan’s wolf sightings intensify, even as her attraction to Kara grows.Soon, despite the wintry weather, love begins to warm Megan’s heart. But sharp-toothed danger lurks everywhere. One dark, snowy night at her grandmother’s isolated cabin in the mountains, Megan will have to confront the wolves—and the truth about her family, Kara, and herself—face to face.Part heart-pounding mystery, part epic romance, the novel Big, Bad Wolf, will leave you spellbound. It is approximately 52,000 words (several days worth of reading or so). Views: 46
