A story Williams wrote for his children—spinning it from The Hair of Harold Roux, his National Book Award–winning novel. Two children enter a secret valley within a mountain and encounter a people with whom they share a strange kinship.Thomas Williams published eight novels and a collection of short stories over three decades beginning in 1955. In 1975 he won a National Book Award for The Hair of Harold Roux, which, like several of his works, was set in the fictionalized Leah, New Hampshire. Views: 13
Blood is thicker than pride. The final book in the Elite Operative Series brings together foes, family, and friends to start a new order.Special Agent Switch needs to get close to Greek tycoon Konstantinos Lykourgos, the prime suspect in the theft of a priceless ancient icon from a monastery on Mount Athos. His accomplice is the EOO's recurring nemesis: Theodora Rothschild, aka TQ, the Broker.Ariadne Lykourgos, heir to her father's shipping empire, expects to have a much-needed holiday on the family yacht with her friends. But the arrival of a new crew member challenges her values and tests her loyalties.Will Agent Switch be strong enough to keep secrets from Ariadne, and will Ariadne be able to cope with the truth? Views: 13
If we're going to make a new order for Rome, a better order, I might add—sacrifices have to be made. We have set the assassination date for the Ides of July ...
What better opportunity for a beautiful young widow than to join a prestigious trade delegation bound for Gaul? There was the fanfare as the procession left Rome, the breathtaking journey through lush Alpine meadows. And let's not forget the promise of riches for delivering a certain pouch, sealed with the sign of the black salamander.
Except things are never that simple when Claudia Seferius is involved. There's a rockfall, for a start, which leaves the party stranded, as well as five men dead—and one death is not accidental.
All Claudia wants to do now is to get out of the valley they are trapped in and hand over the pouch. But there are those who will go to any lengths to stop her.
And suddenly Claudia finds herself plunged into a deadly game of high treason, in a land where warriors still hunt human heads and where wicker-man sacrifices are far from rare... Views: 13
Ash never thought she'd be living in a haunted house. She just
wanted to get through her senior year. But when her father uproots them,
their new house is the site of the infamous Moss murders ten years
ago. Ash meets Aaron, the only surviving Moss son, and sparks ignite.
She's drawn to him and his darkness like nothing she's ever felt before.
But things are not as they seem, and Ash doesn't know who to trust.
Maybe history isn't so dead after all. Views: 13
A prince's surprise twins may turn his royal marriage into something more... Prince Gabriel Alessandro's top priority is continuing the family line, and he's found the perfect bride-to-be in Lady Olivia Darcy. While their royal marriage is not based on love, he desires her. Making a baby together will be pure pleasure. Then Gabriel learns he is already a father...to twins. Olivia surprises Gabriel with her acceptance of his motherless girls, making him believe their loveless union could blossom into something more. But Olivia's agreement conceals a devastating secret. In danger of losing the dynasty he so desires, will he risk choosing love over duty? Views: 13
The Duke of Wittaker has been living a lie…
He’s been spying on the dissolute,
discontented noblemen of the ton, pretending to share their views. Now he’s
ready to step out of the shadows and start living a real life…but when the
prime minister of England is assassinated, he’s asked to go back to being the
rake-hell duke everyone believes he still is to find out more.
Miss Phoebe Hillier has been living a lie, too…
All her life she’s played by society’s
rules, hiding her fierce intelligence and love of life behind a docile and
decorous mask. All it’s gotten her is jilted by her betrothed, a man she
thought a fool, though a harmless one. But when she discovers her former fiancé
was involved in the plot against the prime minister, and that he’s been
murdered, she realizes he wasn’t so harmless after all.
And now the killers have set their sights on her…
The only man who can help her is the Duke
of Wittaker—a man she knows she shouldn’t trust. And she soon realizes he’s hiding
behind a mask as careful as her own. As the clock ticks down to the assassin’s
trial, the pair scramble to uncover the real conspiracy behind the prime
minister’s death. And as the pressure and the danger mounts, Phoebe and
Wittaker shed their disguises, layer by layer, to discover something more
precious than either imagined—something that could last forever. Unless the
conspirators desperate to hide their tracks get to them first.
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Sorcha Kavanaugh knows better than to tangle with the Fae. She's been aware of the Fair Folk, the Gentry, the Good Neighbors since she was a little girl. Her Gran used to warn her not to sing, not to play music, not to even hum, lest the Beautiful People hear her remarkable voice and spirit her away. Sorcha never believed Gran's stories, until one of the creatures walked into a bar where she was singing and stole a year of her life. So when Elada Brightsword, the right hand of South Boston's renegade Fae patriarch, interrupts her set at the Black Rose, Sorcha knows trouble has found her... again.The Fae warrior has admired Sorcha from afar for months, but he's aware of her unhappy history with the Fae, and has been waiting for the right time to approach her. Unfortunately for Elada, time has just run out. An old enemy, the malign Prince Consort, has identified Sorcha as a Druid descendent with the potential to become a stone singer, a bard with a voice that can shatter the strongest magical constructs. He will stop at nothing to enslave Sorcha and use her voice to bring down the wall between worlds, freeing the decadent, deadly Fae Court to return - and rule again. Views: 13
