"This is the story of how you were loved," Penelope MacLaughlin whispers to her granddaughter.Penelope MacLaughlin marries a miller and gradually discovers he is not as she imagined. Nonetheless she remains determined to make the best of life at the lonely mill up the Gunn Brook as she struggles to build a home around her husband's eccentricities. His increasing absence leaves Penelope to run the mill herself, providing her with a living but also destroying the people she loves most. Penelope struggles with loss and isolation and suffers the gradual erosion of her sense of self. A series of betrayals leaves her with nothing but the mill and her determination to save her grandchildren from their disturbed father. While she can prepare her grandsons for independence, her granddaughter is too young and so receives the greater gift: the story that made them all. Views: 23
In the 30th century humanity has spread across
the galaxy, organizing itself into a loose confederation of worlds. Vivian Skye
has just landed her first job at the distant Extra-Galactic Observatory. Her
task is to perform routine upgrades on the space station’s quantum
supercomputer, quIRK—one of the most advanced pieces of equipment in the
galaxy.
Then, it all goes wrong. The administrator of the station,
Bryce Zimmer, is threatened by Vivian and quIRK’s recent string of eccentric
behavior. Eventually, Bryce’s jealousy and ambition compel him to pit Vivian
and quIRK against each other in a conflict he hopes will consume them both.
Vivian must fight for her rightful place in the galaxy, and survive the
emerging super intelligence that is quIRK.
Can the thing that’s trying to kill her also be her
salvation?
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The Spectacle has everything a young superhero could ever want. He's got a successful crimefighting career, he's on a popular superhero team, and he parties as much as superhumanly possible. But when his father dies of a drug overdose, The Spectacle discovers that his dad was a superhero too. He finds a cardboard box filled with everything that his dad saved from his superhero career, everything that he kept from a lifetime of costumed crimefighting. The box is his last chance to learn about his dad's life as a superhero, and get some closure...until it's stolen. Views: 23
For spoiled young aristocrat Colin Harwood, the port city of Casmile is a buffet of easy pleasures. But when he steps into a pub brawl to help a dangerously outnumbered young man, he is drawn into the seedy underbelly of the city the young man calls home.Gabriel is a cutpurse and a knife for hire, practically an urban legend. His vision of Casmile is touched by a strange combination of faith and madness, driven by fairytale logic and a capacity for love that he often must suppress to survive. He's always worked alone, but when a dashing dragon who calls himself Colin saves him in a bar fight, he pulls Colin into his world.Gabriel's city is nothing like the refined, socialite existence that bored Colin senseless. Colin finds adventure and excitement there—and maybe even love. But with his layers of finery stripped away, nothing remains to protect him from poverty or danger—except Gabriel. Views: 23
Three books in one!Save some of your hard-earned cash by buying the first three Night Marshal weird western adventures in one awesome bundle!NIGHT MARSHAL: A TALE OF THE UNDEAD WESTby Gary JonasVampires in the Old West!Jack Talon, a former US Marshal and infamous gunslinger, is dying of tuberculosis when he arrives in Silver Plume, Colorado with his lovely wife, Sonya. He just wants to do a bit of gambling and get on with the business of dying. Instead he finds himself face to face with Christopher Smythe, a vampire who holds a grudge against the mayor of the town. The mayor hires Jack to kill the vampire, but what Jack doesn't know is that his wife sees Smythe as Jack's salvation. Vampires don't get sick. Vampires live forever. Vampires never age. So what if you have to kill people and drink their blood. Sounds like a bargain to her. She loves her husband and doesn't want it to end with till death do us part. So she sets her own plan into motion...HIGH PLAINS MOONby Glenn R. SixburyVampires vs. Werewolves in the Old West!When vampire Marshal Jack Talon arrives in the Kansas frontier town of Hays City to investigate a series of mysterious deaths, he encounters a shapeshifter, a pack of werewolves, and a young widow who’s about to lose her ranch to an elder vampire with plans of his own. When Jack tries to intervene, the other vampire decides Hays City isn’t big enough for both of them. He sets his sights on Jack, which puts both vampires on track for a head-on collision that only one can survive. High Plains Moon has something for everyone: The old West, American Indian mythology, werewolves, vampires, land wars, and even a little romance. Funny, fast-moving, and building to a climactic finish, High Plains Moon is a worthy and satisfying second novel in the acclaimed Night Marshal series.THIS DANCE, THESE BONESby Rebecca HodgkinsVampire ... Protector or Enemy?Marshal “Suicide” Jack Talon – gambler, gunslinger and vampire – finds himself on the run and short of blood in the middle of winter in the High Sierras. A preacher offers him the only salvation Jack would ever accept – a second chance at being human. All Jack has to do is find a woman of ill repute by the name of Nancy Dancehall, turn her into a vampire, and then hand her over to the sinister preacher. Haunted by the memory of his first kill, Jack refuses. But fate and a pack of wolves bring Jack face-to-face with Nancy and the soiled doves she’s ‘recruited’ from San Francisco. The preacher’s found his own recruits – a campful of vengeful miners out for the blood Jack won in a faro game. But the biggest threat to Nancy and her girls might be Jack’s own growing hunger...Buy all three in one shot for less than the price of two! Even in the old west, that would be called a bargain. Views: 23
When a young man is captured by the enemy lord during battle. He is expected to offer defeat to his captor by allowing him to bed him. But the act might unintentionally activate a hormonal process that will irreversibly feminize him. Views: 23
Draken vae Khellian, bastard cousin of the Monoean King, had risen far from his ignominious origins, becoming both a Bowrank Commander and a member of the Crown's Black Guard. But when cursed black magic took his wife and his honor away, he fought past his own despair and grief, and carved out a new life in Akrasia. His bloody, unlikely path, chronicled in Exile: The First Book of the Seven Eyes, led him to a new love, and a throne. Draken has seen too much blood . . . the blood of friends and of enemies alike. Peace is what he wants. Now he must leave his wife and newborn child in an attempt to forge an uneasy peace between the Monoean King and the kingdom of Akrasia. The long bloody shadow of Akrasia's violent past hangs over his efforts like a shroud. But there are other forces at work. Peace is not something everybody wants . . . not even in the seemingly straightforward kingdom of Draken's birth. Factions both known and unknown to Draken vie to undermine his efforts and throw... Views: 23
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