A year has passed since Gretchen lost her fiancé, but she still can’t sleep. Or paint. And her new home in New Orleans is either haunted or she’s finally going crazy.
Her bet is on the latter.
So when her best friend, Burke, offers to sweep her away to a private luxury island for a break, she can’t say no. Maybe if she can be someone else for a few days, the ghosts of the past will quiet. At least for a little while.
Burke knows what she’s going through. She lost her fiancé, but he lost family. He gets her in a way no else can. But lately she’s noticing things she shouldn’t about her former fiancé’s younger brother—his sexy smirk, that spicy Cajun accent, and the way he looks at her when he thinks she’s not paying attention. A week alone with him? Dangerous. If she blurs the lines between them, she could ruin the only friendship that means anything to her. She could ruin it all.
But the island of Eden has its own agenda. The island knows what you need. That’s what the invitation says. She just never imagines it will grant her the one wish that could destroy them both.
Contemporary Romance with a Paranormal Twist
*Part of the Invitation to Eden multi-author series but can be read as a standalone. Views: 594
Queen of Sky Island is a coming of age story charged with fantasy, heroic adventure, and vividly imagined new worlds. It is a 21st century adaptation of a story by L. Frank Baum. The story reveals a young girl, Tara, who in her determined search for her military father becomes trapped on an actual island in the sky where she leads one other worldly army against anotherQueen of Sky Island is a coming of age story charged with fantasy, heroic adventure, and vividly imagined new worlds. It is a 21st century adaptation of a story by L. Frank Baum, the creator of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.Queen of Sky Island reveals a young girl, Tara, who in her determined search for her military father becomes trapped on an actual island in the sky where she leads one other worldly army against another.Tara’s faithful companions on this perilous adventure are Bobo, a brave young boy who possesses a flying umbrella, and Sgt. Rik, a resourceful disabled veteran who looks after Tara and her mother at their sea cliff cottage on the Earth. Through miscommunication, Tara and her companions arrive at Sky Island, a bizarre land divided between wildly different pink and blue territories. They are unfairly taken prisoner by the Boolooroo, the selfish and mean-spirited leader of the Blue people. Facing a horrible punishment known as “patching,” Tara and her companions escape and run for a thick fog bank that separates the two territories. With help from an unusual creature, they cross through the dense fog, and they are taken to the queen of the Pinkies. After surviving a near fatal test in this new realm, Tara shows what she is made of and rises to lead the Pinkies against the Blues in an attempt to defeat the Boolooroo. Views: 594
A woman living in post apocalyptic California falls in love with a sequential hermaphrodite living on the now dead island of Catalina.A retired peace officer and his wife traveling across the country in their new motorhome, make a planned stopped in a small Texas town nestled in the foothills of the Guadalupe Mountains not far from Mexico's border. Arriving in the late evening at an already closed RV park they follow the posted instructions for self check-in and settle in for the night. What happens next "Aintright." Views: 594
A work of original and detailed research this is the first biography to concentrate exclusively on Woolf's close and inspirational female friendships with the key women in her life. Vanessa Curtis looks both at the effect of these relationships on her emotional life and the inspiration that each woman provided for the female protagonists in her fiction. Women inspired and fascinated Woolf until the day she died, evoking not only her loyalty, love and wit, but also anger, envy and insecurity. The author begins by exposing the lesser-known details of Woolf's Victorian childhood, spent underneath the suffocating wings of the 'angels in the house' who instilled in her a lifelong battle between creativity and convention. The journey continues with a study of the other unique women in Woolf's life: her silent sister, Vanessa Bell; enigmatic artist Dora Carrington; complex writer Katherine Mansfield; aristocratic novelist Vita Sackville-West and riotous, militant composer Ethel Smyth.... Views: 594
Club Reclamation is a place where Vets from all military branches come, chill, grab a drink or meal and find like-minded folks with a story to tell, or problem to share or a soapbox to stand on. If you've served in the Armed Forces, chances are you'll find a friend who gets you and what you've been through at Club Reclamation, where everyone gets a second chance.Former SEAL Maximus Delgado is called to the morgue to identify the body of a young boy who could be his four year old son, Kevin. With Detective Vargas and Brock in attendance, Max faces down his fears to do the unthinkable.Mercy steps in and sends Max and his team on a journey to find his son who's reportedly ill with a highly contagious disease. He must defend his name and honor against those who oppose him. With his lady by his side, the clock is ticking and Max is running out of options to defeat the Lies in the Morgue. Views: 594
The first sequel to Cities of the Dead: Stories of the Zombie Apocalypse brings readers four more stories set in four unique locations, continuing the thrilling journey started in the first collection of stories. Set in the midst of a brutal winter, the different groups of survivors must innovate new ways to survive, and test their mettle against both the undead and Mother Nature.The first sequel to 2011's highly acclaimed Cities of the Dead: Stories of the Zombie Apocalypse, Winters of Discontent brings the reader four additional stories set in the same universe. If zombies weren't enough to contend with, Mother Nature has gripped North America with a brutal winter, forcing the surviving humans to find ingenious new ways to survive the apocalypse. And, to make matters worse, men are quickly turning on their fellow men in a battle for the remaining resources of the world. Readers will also re-unite with gyrocopter pilots Will and Frank as they, too, fight the undead and winter in the shadow of the Kinzua Dam deep in a forest in Pennsylvania. Views: 594
Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan has managed to save the demonic ever after from shrinking, but at a high cost. Now strange magic is attacking Cincinnati and the Hollows, causing spells to backfire or go horribly wrong, and the truce between the races, between Inderlander and human, is shattering. Rachel must stop the occurrences before the undead vampire masters who keep the rest of the undead under control are lost and it becomes all-out supernatural war. However, the only way to do so is through the ancient elven wild magic, which carries its own perils. Views: 594
Trouble always seems to find Bobby Coon. Hunted by Farmer Brown\'s Boy, treed by Buster Bear, chased by Prickly Porky the porcupine...what\'s a poor raccoon to do? Views: 594
Starting your life over at age thirty-eight isn't easy, but that's what Sarah Winston finds herself facing when her husband CJ runs off with a 19-year-old temptress named Tiffany. Sarah's self-prescribed therapy happily involves hitting all the garage and tag sales in and around her small town of Ellington, Massachusetts. If only she could turn her love for bargain hunting into a full-time career. One man's junk is another man's treasureBut after returning from a particularly successful day searching for yard sale treasures, Sarah finds a grisly surprise in one of her bags: a freshly bloodied shirt…that undoubtedly belongs to her ex, CJ, who now happens to be Ellington's chief of police. If that's not bad enough, it seems Tiffany has gone missing. Now it's up to Sarah to prove that her cold-hearted ex is not a cold-blooded killer…But finding that treasure can be murder. Views: 593
Along a lonely stretch of desert, a bandit robs for revengeThe Chicolote stagecoach is just outside of town when a highwayman tricks the driver into stopping. With a long-barreled hunting rifle, he forces the passengers to hand over their valuables and lifts nearly $30,000 in paper money from the coach before riding into the night. He hides his haul in a cave, keeping only a pair of diamond earrings to give to his beloved. Then he sends the sheriff a note with directions to recover the stash. For Hal Trevor does not want to steal—he simply wants to destroy the stagecoach line.Calvin Poole, the line's owner, made an enemy of Trevor by chasing his wife. When Poole hires the infamous Laredo to track down the mysterious highwayman, kindhearted Trevor becomes the one thing he never wanted to be—an outlaw. Views: 593
Mei-Li Hastings is in trouble. She’s Dream Sharing with a Kindred warrior. Normally that’s a regular part of being claimed by one of the tall, handsome aliens who came to Earth looking for brides. But in Mei-Li’s case, nothing is normal. The dreams she’s having show a huge, frightening male with a red laser for an eye and a metal arm. The man who’s coming to claim her is a Dark Kindred—one of the emotionless denizens of Zeaga Four where love is unknown and feelings are outlawed.
Six has risen steadily in the ranks of the Collective since his inclusion into the Dark Kindred at age fourteen. Now, to his dismay, he is suddenly having dreams he cannot ignore—dreams of a girl with dark eyes and silky black hair who fears him desperately. Despite the fact that he is supposed to feel nothing, Six finds himself drawn to the girl. And when he is ordered by his superior to claim her, he comes in search of his future bride.
Now they are locked in a struggle of light versus dark...cold versus warmth. For when Mei-Li is near him, Six’s frozen heart begins to thaw. Though the Dark Kindred warrior is determined not to commit “Feel-crime” he cannot contain the emotions growing within him for the petite girl he snatched from Earth. But with the newfound feelings of love and desire, come some much darker feelings. In order to love Mei-Li, Six will have to face the darkness within and a tragic past he has locked away for years.
Will he survive the memories that surface…or will they drive him mad? Views: 593
John desperately wants to join Bellamy's crew and will do anything to prove his worth to Captain Black Sam. Defying his mother is only the beginning. As John is spurred on by blind ambition, his actions become so impetuous that even Black Sam is caught off guard. Inspired by a true story.On November 9, 1716, at the tender age of nine, John King became the youngest pirate in history. His mother tried to convince him that a pirate's life was not for him. But the young boy travelling onboard the Bonetta, captured by pirate captain Black Sam Bellamy, could only see the flutter of the Jolly Roger and the exciting lives of the men who live by the pirate's code.John desperately wants to join Bellamy's crew and will do anything to prove his worth to Captain Black Sam. Defying his mother is only the beginning. As John is spurred on by blind ambition, his actions become so impetuous that even Black Sam is caught off guard. Inspired by a true story. Views: 593
