Casinos are not to Cliff Hardy's liking, nor is wearing a suit and tie, which is why he turns down the job of head of security at a new Sydney gambling establishment. However, when his friend Scott Galvani takes the job and is then murdered, Hardy feels bound to investigate in the face of police indifference. He takes the security job, meets the attractive but unpredictable Vita Drewe, and adds to his list of enemies.Galvani's killers are closer to home than Hardy anticipated and his life and his relationship are on the line. Views: 44
A husband and son abandoned to forge a path alone.A young woman who sacrificed her dreams.How will the God of grace and hope help them find their way? At nineteen years old, Old Order Amish Jolene Keim was on the brink of happily-ever-after when everything changed, stealing the future she expected and burdening her with an unbearable decision. For the next ten years, Jolene throws herself into family life--and then she meets Andy Fisher. The horse trainer and father to a sweet nine year-old challenges her and holds up a mirror to issues Jolene has been unwilling to face.Andy is cautious about his deepening friendship with Jolene, but he believes she knows the truth about him -- that he is a grass widower. As a man whose wife has abandoned him six years past, he is unable to divorce or remarry according to the Amish ways. Andy has wrestled with God concerning his reality, and he had found peace with the solitary future facing him...until he met... Views: 44
Fay is trying to finish up her last year of college and the secret erotic book she is writing. All she really wants is to graduate and find a good job in her field. Everything is going to plan until Keegan shows up, and with his arrival, her hidden desires are completely exposed. She starts writing him into her story of lust and carnal needs The lines between her book and reality blur, but all she has to do is Surrender. Views: 44
FANCYTALES: The "Once Upon A Time" Collection...classic fairytales you know and love - with a romantic Regency twist!Once Upon A Time...Lady Rhiad of the Ryding Hoode's met a Wolfe on the dark road to her grandmother's house. But little did Rhiad or the Wolfe know that their meeting was a scheme put into motion by her grandmother..Though she knew her grandmother's intentions were good, Rhiad could not help but feel betrayed. After all, what sort of grandmother offers her own granddaughter up to be made a meal of by a hungry predator - even if said predator was completely human and fed solely on the virtue of innocents?Still, Rhiad cannot deny being tempted — would it truly be so bad to surrender herself, body and soul, to the heat in his gaze, the pleasure of his bite? Find out in SOMETHING IN RED.* * *Once Upon A Time...A greedy stepmother plans to steal a dowry whose only key lay within the her lovely stepdaughter's heart hires an evil man to take the heart from the girl...Lady Sonoria White is horrified to find herself whisked down a dark London alleyway and off into a dense, murky forest by a band of crafty rogues...Snow is forced to spend her days hiding inside the dark, timber-framed bulk of an abandoned hunting lodge under the protection of seven rogues - and her nights dreaming of the Marquess whose heart she can no longer win in SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN ROGUES.* * *Once Upon A Time...Maxwell Denning, the 4th duke of Rothminster held a grand ball at which he planned to choose a bride - his future duchess - but he never meant to fall in love...Arielle Tremaine was not a lady. Nor was she a member of the aristocracy, and most especially not a royal princess - although she does feel like one in the outfit Max purchases for her to wear to the ball.While Max tries to come to terms with his newly discovered feelings, Arielle does her best to do only what he has asked of her - help him choose the most suitable duchess. The problem is, envisioning her life without Max in it feels very much like dancing on broken glass...Max and Ariel come together in DANCING ON GLASS.* * *Once Upon A Time...a young English lord lost his brother in a terrible fire. Unable to bear the guilt he suffers night after night reliving the fire in a state of madness.Five long years passed, years in which stories of the young lord-turned-mad-earl were bandied about from parlor to parlor. Then one night at a ball, said beast stole away with Lady Jane Cerrigwyn and made her his reluctant bride.Lady Jane is horrified to find herself wed to a madman, but perhaps, she thinks, all is not as it seems for by day the earl wooes her as carefully as any lover might.Dare she try to save him from the madness that consumes him? Find out in THE BEAST OF EDENMAINE...* * *Once Upon A Time...at the grand old age of six, Lady Helena Blackthorpe kissed a toad. But how was she to know the toad would soon transform into a very handsome, headstrong prince who would change her life forever?Join Helena and Simeon within the pages of THE RELUCTANT PRINCESS where Ms. Dobbs proves once again that, where and when you least expect it, something magical occurs.* * *Once Upon A Time.....the heir to an earldom fell in love with a wealthy merchant's daughter who was betrothed to marry a prince.The girl's father, persuaded the future earl to leave the country -- but soon thereafter, his beautiful daughter fell into a deep, mysterious slumber.Though he had tried to forget the beauty he had left behind, the heir's heart had never swayed. But upon his return, Ananias Quinn, found himself quite suddenly in desperate need of a very wealthy bride.As convenience would have it, the wealthy merchant had long ago endowed his beautiful daughter with a considerable marriage portion -- Ananias can have …his true love and wealth … but how does one court a woman who has slept for two long years? Join Ananias in his desperate quest to wake the lovely Lady Ebrielle in SLEEPING HEIRESS. Views: 44
A danger she can't understand Claire Olsen has been in Seoul, South Korea, for only one month. She doesn't know anyone--aside from her roommate and her colleagues at the medical center--and she certainly doesn't know why someone would attack her. Desperate to forget about the violent mugging, Claire tries to focus on her nursing, but one man won't let her hide from the truth. Naval intelligence officer Luke Llewellyn is determined to keep Claire safe, whether she wants him to or not. But finding out why she's been targeted means helping Claire unearth the secrets of her past. And following his heart means trusting Claire with his own secrets.... Views: 44
Joe and Mary, high school sweethearts flush with the innocence and blossoming freedom of the ‘60’s, see their lives torn apart and dreams of a life together disintegrate into the dust of reality.
Joe’s determination to locate his lost love takes him across the country and into the path of hardened criminals seeking retribution for the betrayal that almost crumpled their empire.
He must ask himself if the prize is worth the quest which may just cost him his life. Views: 44
There's only so much relaxation two former detectives can handle—even if they're on their honeymoon. With their recent fall into money, Sean and Sara McKinley should be living it up, enjoying the sun and beaches of Cancun. But heading into their third week, they've had just about enough lying around.When the husband of a couple they've befriended is kidnapped and held for ransom, it has the McKinleys putting their experience to use. As they set out in the unfamiliar landscape of paradise, the investigation will have them risking their lives to stop a killer. Views: 44
Cat Ramsey has the perfect life, a home in the suburbs, a loving family, the sexiest guy in school living next door.And then it all changes: Her father's drinking shifts from the occasional beer it used to be...into a dangerous dependency which threatens them all.He becomes loud.He becomes angry.He becomes violent.Her world is turned upside down.She turns to Johnny. Views: 44
All the other girls had a normal childhood, full of Girl Scouts and sleepovers, but Charlie Evans wasn't so lucky. Her life had been spent in and out the Cardiac Care Unit and moving across the country with her military father. So when Charlie finds out she's moving back to her home town, she hopes things will finally be different. She has learned the hard way not to let anyone in. People always let her down, and it wasn’t easy to trust anyone new. That was until Sam Greyson walks into her life and threatens to knock down every wall she’d ever built to protect herself. With Sam in the picture, Charlie decides to take one last shot and open herself up. With Sam’s help, she is finally able to let someone see the real, bruised and damaged girl inside. That is until she is forced to make a decision between her own happiness and ruining Sam’s life to be with him. If giving him up meant he could have a normal life…She would do it, in a broken heartbeat. Views: 44
Hundreds of years in the future, the pioneering space flight made by Princess Bronwyn has evolved into an empire of interstellar commerce---an empire always on the shakey verge of rebellion. It is also a world that ranges from dense industrial slums to the glittering towers of the legendary Vortex Patrol. Into the former is born an extraordinary girl who finds herself fighting, cheating and stealing her way from the gutters of the spaceports of Blavek to the ranks of the Patrol itself. Views: 44
