In the year 1740, with the whole of Europe balanced on the brink of war, a company of Austrian soldiers is sent to the village of Narutsin to defend the border with Prussia. But what should be a routine posting is quickly revealed to be anything but. The previous garrison is gone, the great house of Pokoj, where they're to be billeted, a dilapidated ruin, and the people of Narutsin sullen and belligerent. Convinced the villagers are keeping secrets - and possibly consorting with the enemy - the commanding officer orders his junior lieutenant, Klaes, to investigate. While Klaes sifts through the villagers' truths, half-truths and lies, Drozde, the quartermaster's woman, is making uncomfortable discoveries of her own - about herself, her man, and the house where they've all been thrown together. Because far from being the empty shell it appears to be, Pokoj is actually teeming with people. It's just that they're all dead. And the dead know things - about Drozde, about the history of Pokoj, and about the terrible event that is rushing towards them all, seemingly unstoppable. The ghosts of Pokoj, the soldiers of the empress and the villagers of Narutsin are about to find themselves actors in a story that has been unfolding for centuries. It will end in blood - that much is written - but how much blood will depend on Klaes' honour, Drozde's skill and courage, and the keeping of an impossible promise . . . Views: 27
Pete and his faithful companion, Blob, love to go wandering in the pitch-dark night, then stumble over a van-load of vampires... And end up at the most frightful fancy dress party ever! Views: 27
Caitlin Wheeler is no stranger to secrets. Her distant father, an infamous financier, was rife with them, taking a mountain of secrets to his grave. While attending her father’s funeral she unknowingly encounters her father’s charming protégé, Neal Dietrich, a handsome, charming and powerful man who captivates her on sight. For years she’s avoided men like her father, but there’s something about Neal that has her yearning for one night with him. That’s it. But Neal wants more and he won’t take “no” for an answer. Her father’s will forces them together and opens Caitlin’s eyes to the underbelly of Chicago’s elite. Neal promises to hold her hand, but his secrets aren’t safe. What was supposed to be a quick weekend away, turns into a cat-and-mouse game filled with lust, charades, and lies. Views: 27
Widowed by the Great War, Maude Whitney is lonely living in the isolated Ozark valley. Life in the rambling old homestead with her young son proves to be more difficult than she imagined, even with her brother-in-law, Harry’s help. Maude doesn’t mourn the husband she lost, not when she realized long ago she wed the wrong brother. Views: 27
From the prizewinning novelist and world-renowned short story writer, recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award and the Literature Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters, comes a gorgeously rendered, emotionally devastating account of a relationship eroded by secrets, set against the backdrop of a national tragedy.When Natasha, a lonely congressional aide in D.C., meets Michael Faulk, an Episcopalian priest struggling with his faith, the stars seem to align. The blossoming of their love over the spring and summer of 2001 is unspeakably tender, both intellectually gratifying and intensely passionate. A month before their wedding, Natasha is vacationing in Jamaica and Faulk is in New York when the terrorist attacks of September 11 shatter the innocence of the nation and of the two lovers. Alone in a state of abject terror, cut off from America and convinced that Faulk is dead, Natasha endures a private trauma of her own at the hands of a young man on the Caribbean shore. A... Views: 27
No Stars at the Circus is the beautifully told story of 10-year-old Jonas Albers, as written in his notebooks. Jonas lives in hiding in the Professor's house during the six months following the round-up of Jews in Paris on 16 July 1942. Jonas spends his days reading about his favourite subjects – among which are sharks, salmon and albatrosses. He also writes about his present life in the attic, as well as the past, in which the circumstances of his rescue are revealed. He writes about his friends at the circus and the family he greatly misses. Unaware of the atrocities happening around him and throughout Europe, Jonas hears that his parents have gone off "to work" and is worried about his little sister, Nadia, who is deaf – so worried that one day he steps outside in the hope of finding out where she is. Views: 27
A kingdom divided, a prince without a throne, a family torn apart - this is the beginning of a new epic by popular fantasy author Karen Miller. Views: 27
