BEHIND THE HIGHLANDER'S SCARS… Reeling from betrayal, the once devastatingly handsome Andrew Gilvry has returned to Scottish shores to fulfill a promise made to a dying man. The widowed Rowena MacDonald has been entrusted to his care, and Drew must do all he can to protect her…. LIES A DARK PASSION! But Drew's honor is about to be tested—because there's something in Rowena's dove-gray eyes that awakens a flame long extinguished. And on a perilous journey across the Highlands, with only this alluring woman for company, how long can he deny his desires? Views: 37
Two kids and their grandfather take a trip to New York to tour the city and see a Yankee's game. Not in the present, but thanks to Harry Houdini's lost magic wand that accidentally turned up on Ebay, they travel back in time to the last week of September, 1927 to see Babe Ruth hit his record-breaking 60th home run that Friday and experience life in the Jazz Age. Staying at the Algonquin Hotel, thanks to the granddaughter's love of Harpo Marx of the Marx Brothers, a regular of the hotel's world famous Round Table lunch group, they befriend him, Dorothy Parker, (the poetess, critic, queen of the putdown and thoroughly modern woman) and humorist Robert Benchley. While touring the city, they run into other famous and soon-to-be-famous people, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Cagney, Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel and a certain Japanese Navy Midshipman to name but a few. These chance encounters and seemingly innocent trip in time unleashes a series of events that begin to spin out of control. Speakeasies, bootleggers, gangsters, kidnapping and a desperate rescue attempt lead to potential historical mayhem. The reputation of one of the greatest baseball players of all time, the outcome of World War Two and the future as we know it is in serious danger. Based on actual events, this carefully researched tale is an educational, historically accurate 'snapshot' of life in the Jazz Age highlighting manners and morals, Prohibition,Wall Street, technology, transportation, (rail, ship and air), entertainment, sports and world affairs in the last week of September, 1927, the decade when women experienced their first true liberation and when modern America was born. All the characters were or plausibly could have been in New York at that time. Views: 37
Welcome to the Louisiana Bayou and the world of rising star Macy
Beckett’s newest series, where hopeful hearts will go to great lengths
to change their luck in love... On the surface, Joy
McMasterson has everything—a steady career, a trendy French Quarter
townhouse, and high-society parents who fill her schedule with a
rotation of trust fund hotties. But despite her good fortune, Joy is
suffocating beneath the pressure of her father’s political campaign.
Every detail of her life is scripted, from her sensible Tiffany hoops to
the men she’s permitted to date.To assert control over
her love life, Joy visits The Sweet Spot bakery—home to Allie Mauvais,
third-generation voodoo priestess and renowned matchmaker. Armed with
love potion and a newly-found nerve, Joy walks out of the bakery and
into Ryan Gibson’s tattoo shop. One look at the gorgeous owner and she
knows two things: they have enough chemistry to steam the ink off his
skin, and he’s not the kind of guy she can take home to her parents. But
if Joy wants to escape her father’s shadow, maybe Ryan is exactly who
she needs… Views: 37
Twenty two tales of horror that will take you into the world of darkness and fear, a dim, shadowy netherworld just beyond the veil, just past the threshold, just "After Midnight."
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The Keiko is a ship of smugglers, soldiers of fortune and adventures. Travelling Earth's colony planets searching for the next job, and nobody talks about their past. Until now. Captain Ichabod Drift is being blackmailed. He has to deliver a special cargo to Earth at a specific time and place, and no-one can know they're there. It's what they call a dark run...
"Dark Run
is a thrill-ride of non-stop action, wise-crackery and adventure in the
vast vaults of outer space. I look forward to revisiting Ichabod Drift
and the crew of the Keiko time and again…" - Luke Scull
"Mike Brook's Dark Run is a rambunctious, rapidfire rollercoaster of a read. Get signed up and strapped in for a helluva ride!" - Michael Cobley, author of the Humanity’s Fire series.
"Intrigue, piracy and action, Dark Run is a page turning SF romp with with an edge as sharp as mono-molecular blade." - Gavin Smith, author of VETERAN and WAR IN HEAVEN
"A fast and wry SF adventure full of the deviousness and wit of Firefly." - Stephen Deas Views: 37
Everyone makes choices, Every choice puts you in an Arena…
Sextus Magnus' had a choice between protecting those he loves, and protecting the freedom of The Republic. That choice has thrust him into a struggle of life and death, for him and the ones he loves. Freedom in The Republic has a costly price.
He knows it’s his own fault he’s here. Sextus Magnus' has shed the illusion of The Republic, that he has been unjustly thrust into, so quickly he didn't have the opportunity to consider the repercussions. Sextus now must conjure every bit of cunning and luck he can muster to save not only his own identity, but the lives of those he holds dearest.
Sometimes, the exposure of illusions comes at a very real price… what will he sacrifice! Views: 37
What would you do if given a second chance? To right a wrong from your past? A wrong that should have never happened.A wrong that haunts you every day?Would you stop at nothing to reclaim the one person you built your entire future around? Hell YES! YOU WOULD! Walker Reed, has everything a man could desire. POWER. SUCCESS. WEALTH. What he didn’t have was Reese Mitchell. The one woman who held his heart. One night she walked out of his life; disappearing without a trace. Shattering Walker, and his heart to ache for her return. SEVENTEEN YEARS LATER… Fate has reunited them with an unexpected twist. His Second Chance at Forever is standing before him, and looking as beautiful, as he remembers her.Determined to find out why she left him, Walker will stop at nothing to learn the truth.He’s taking back what’s his… THIS TIME AROUND, HE WILL NOT LET HER GO… Views: 37
