The second gripping, powerful novel by the author of Once Were Warriors.Boys' homes, borstal, jail, stealing, then jail again - and again. That's been life for Jube and Sonny. One Pakeha, the other Maori, only vaguely aware of life beyond pubs and their hopeless cronies . . .Reviewers found it compulsive and unforgettable, one saying: 'Brutal, foul-mouthed, violent, despairing and real . . . it can't be ignored'.In this novel Alan Duff confirms his skills as a gripping story-teller and a masterful creator of characters and situations. As one reviewer noted, it is 'original and important'. Views: 11
Katherine Kennedy has it all. She is beautiful, wealthy, and engaged to a man who, at one time, seemed perfect for her. Only she can't marry him, and she can't say why. All she knows is there is suddenly nothing she wants. Not her fiancé Antonio. Not any of the hundred thousand things her money can buy.
Jack McCabe comes home from the war with a pretty medal and a lot of ugly pictures in his head. He has nowhere to go, nor anyone to go with. All he has is a vague sense of discontent, a restlessness that will not abate.
Separately, Katherine and Jack are drawn to Paradise Tours on the privately owned Cristobel Island, a resort promising life-altering adventure. Just choose the time and place. Suddenly they find themselves over 125 years in the past, 1881 to be exact. Neither of them knows the other is a fellow time-traveler.
For Jack McCabe it's the life he craves, and he's at the top of his game-until his run-in with Alanna McCleod, the beautiful but deadly train robber. Katherine no sooner lands back in time than she is mistaken for Alanna McCleod and can't understand why-until she sees the wanted poster.
Set in the Old West, this high-spirited tale of mistaken identity, romance, and murder is part historical fiction, part time travel fantasy, and completely captivating. Views: 11
It's
all fun and games … until someone falls in love.
Oliver Goswick, Viscount Rathburn, needs
money—and soon. With time ticking away and his inheritance held hostage until
he's properly wed, Rathburn's slim options point to a single solution: a faux
engagement. In need of the perfect bride, he knows of only one candidate: his
best friend's wallflower sister. The plan seems flawless, except for one
problem … He can't help falling in love with her.
Poised, polished Emma Danvers knows nothing
good can come of Rathburn's scheme. Spending the next two months engaged in a
mock courtship is not what she'd imagined for her final season. Yet, charmed by
his roguish ways and the inexplicable hammering he causes in her heart, she
accepts his challenge.
For Emma, keeping the secret seemed easy
when it was just a game … But as Rathburn begins to see past her reserved
exterior to the passionate woman within, the risk of losing her heart becomes
all too real.
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Plus-sized P.I. Savannah Reid gets a taste of the high life when she attends a Hollywood premiere on the arm of husband Dirk Coulter. Savannah may be a newlywed, but even she gets weak in the knees when she meets celebrity athlete-turned-movie-star Jason Tyrone. So imagine how she feels when the star's rock-hard body is found rock-hard dead...Some guys have everything. With his stunning looks and dazzling charm, Jason Tyrone is America's favorite new action hero. Make that was. Once so spectacular in action, the blockbuster idol was found dead in his hotel room after his latest premiere. Despite his chiseled physique, Jason is never getting up again...Though the autopsy reveals Jason may have gotten his killer body through doping, no one wants to believe the beloved athlete is a fraud, least of all Savannah. Soon she's deeply immersed in the dark world of body enhancing drugs, and wondering if the world-class gym where Jason worked out is really just a front for a... Views: 11
Lawyer Jessica Drake is 31.
Practicing law by day, she moonlights as a singer in a rock band by night.
Young, beautiful, smart and talented, her life is nothing if not busy. So, why
does her boss think she has time to not only train, but spend her spare time
babysitting the lead actress in the TV series he’s producing? With a small
contingent of both male and female fans waiting for their chance and one very
persistent special friend, Jessie is already on the verge of overwhelmed. Not
sure where her life is going, if anywhere, she’s still hiding from her past.
The fact that her favorite actress just walked through her door isn’t helping
either.
Actress Stephanie Winters
arrives in Ohio determined to just ‘do her job’ and go home. Still depressed
after her latest failed relationship, she has no desire to take on a new role,
let alone a part in a new TV series. Still, she does need to work and keep her
career going. At least that’s what her agent keeps telling her. When she meets
Jessica Drake for the first time, she becomes intrigued by the emotionally
detached, yet gorgeous lawyer. No longer interested in one night stands or long
distance relationships, Stephanie still finds herself drawn to Jessie.
Can Jessie move beyond her
inability to trust someone again? Is Stephanie Winters worth the pain? For that
matter, is Stephanie willing to break her own self-imposed loneliness and wait
for Jessie?
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Second Chances boxed set This boxed set contains three full length novels featuring women who have a second chance at love, proving love really is sweeter the second time around. Sugar Daddy Review "Absolutely one of the best books for me right now. I loved it mostly because it was fluffy, romantic, and meaningful." Reading Renee Reviews Sugar Daddy synopsis Hannah Matthews, an over educated under employed mother of twin girls, takes the girls on the annual Labor Day weekend family vacation while her husband stays behind. By the time she has returned, he has cleaned out their bank accounts, their apartment, and moved in with a surgically enhanced stripper. Try as she might, Hannah is forced to resort to desperate measures: finding a Sugar Daddy. Gavin Meyers, affluent businessman, discovered too late that his bohemian wife wasn't in love with him when he caught her in their bed with a lover...his sister. After a heated meeting with the lawyers trying to arrange the divorce agreement, his lawyer suggests he get a hobby and work out all his anger. He can't think of a single thing he wants to do more than find some woman to punish for his suffering. And it just so happens, he stumbles across a personal ad that will serve his purpose. What kind of woman advertises for a Sugar Daddy? First a Dream Review "This is a Modern Day Cinderella Story. Not my typical read, but I truly enjoyed it. At first I wasn't sure I would like this type of story, but once I started reading I found I couldn't put it down. The characters were so easily liked. Gabriel a very rich playboy, and Isabella a Mother of Two found a love that some would say could only be found in a fairy-tale. “Don’t ever stop dreaming. Just dream bigger now.” Romance Uninhibited First a Dream synopsis One showy winter night when her best friend has to cancel their girl's night out, Isabella surprises her husband at work, but she was the one who was shocked to find him in a compromising position with her sister. As a budding photographer, she struggles to find her passion and hold everything together for her young son and daughter, while preparing for a major gallery show. Desperate for inspiration, she seeks out the advice of her professor and mentor who tells her to dream again and be happy. Unsure of what that would entail, but distracted still the same, Isabella literally runs into Gabriel Charmant, a handsome rich playboy only in town for the summer. He imagines Isabella will be fun, a distraction to stave off the boredom as he takes summer classes in this provincial town forty-five minutes from the bright lights and city life he's used to in Montreal. Gabriel never imagined that without even trying, Isabella would change him and without even knowing, she'd win his heart. Just as they begin to build a future and everything seems to be coming together, his lies and deception threaten their happily ever after. Worth the Wait synopsis When Sarah discovered lingerie in her husband's vehicle, she knew her life would be changed forever, but she never could have predicted how much. Soon, what began as a harmless Girl's Night Out with a friend for a tarot card reading turned into a shocking realization that her mother had kept a huge part of her heritage from her, and her dreams of late suggested that her good friend, Brian, wanted to be more than just a good friend. For as long as he had known Sarah, Brian had felt an undeniable attraction to her. The longer he knew her, the more he wanted from their friendship. He would do anything to heal her heart and help her become who she was meant to be. He would do everything within his power to protect her from harm and save her from the forces that threatened to keep them apart because he knew some loves were so special that they were worth the wait. Views: 11
Len Wahlberg, the Night Horde MC’s Sergeant at Arms, has had Isaac Lunden’s back for decades. A loner at heart, he has needed no closer bond than the brotherhood of his club. For years, he’s preferred to take his women in groups, because he has neither needed nor wanted the intimacy of a coupling. But after he’s seriously wounded in a firefight, feeling his age and mortality more acutely than ever before, he discovers that his own company isn’t enough any longer. He needs a stronger, more intimate bond, and he finds that connection in an old friend. Natasha Westby is a club daughter. Her father, the Horde’s first SAA, raised her alone, within the rough and rowdy walls of the clubhouse. After a torrid, youthful affair with Isaac ended in public humiliation and heartbreak, Tasha left Signal Bend and found a safe distance from which to make a life—close enough to stay connected to her family, but far enough to live her life outside the club. She built a complete, contented, unconventional life that has little to do with Signal Bend or her club family. As a doctor working at the nearest hospital, she finds herself involved more and more deeply with the club as its business becomes more and more dangerous. When her family ties finally upend her separate life, she is drawn back home and into Len’s arms. While Len and Tasha try to understand and define their connection to each other, and Tasha struggles with her reentry into the world of the club, the Horde’s unwilling entanglement with a dangerous drug cartel becomes deadly. Fighting for justice and freedom against a man who will commit any atrocity to assert his power, the Horde family experiences pain and loss the likes of which it has never known before. Love and hope are all they have left. Note: Dark themes. Explicit sex, graphic violence. Views: 11
An NYRB Classics OriginalWhen the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfolding through a series of letters written by an unnamed narrator, Last Words tells the story of a passionate relationship between two young women--their sexual awakening, their gradual breakup, and the devastating aftermath of their broken love. In a style that veers between extremes, from self-deprecation to pathos, compulsive repetition to rhapsodic musings, reticence to vulnerability, Qiu's genre-bending novel is at once a psychological thriller, a sublime romance, and the author's own suicide note.The letters (which, Qiu tells us, can be read in any order) leap between Paris, Taipei, and Tokyo. They display wrenching insights into what it means to live between cultures, languages, and genders--until the genderless character Zoë... Views: 11
Armani Curtis can think about only one thing: her tenth birthday. All her friends are coming to her party, her mama is making a big cake, and she has a good feeling about a certain wrapped box. Turning ten is a big deal to Armani. It means she's older, wiser, more responsible. But when Hurricane Katrina hits the Lower Nines of New Orleans, Armani realizes that being ten means being brave, watching loved ones die, and mustering all her strength to help her family weather the storm. A powerful story of courage and survival, Upside Down in the Middle of Nowhere celebrates the miraculous power of hope and love in the face of the unthinkable. Views: 11
Adapting to life in a new world would have been challenging in the best
of circumstances, and Zander's circumstances were anything but the best.
Trapped in Deusterros with tragedy behind him and only the unknown
before him, he wasn't sure he would ever find his way back to the
carefree teenager he'd been such a short time ago.But
with nowhere to go, and a new sort-of-family who needs him, Zander may
just discover that his greatest strength will come from rising to the
challenge.Featuring the continuing stories of the entire
Rose family - and now, Zander, too, Leaves of Revolution brings the
Dusk Gate Chronicles full circle as one family fights for the destiny of
two kingdoms. Views: 11
He was attractive, talented...and way off-limits. Heather Gadway may have been a world-class college pitcher and a top university coach, but she's a rank amateur when it comes to managing the Falcons, her father's struggling minor-league team. And when it comes to managing her aggravating attraction to Garrett Wolf, their talented new pitcher. It's going to be difficult enough to make it as the first female manager in the league and prove to her overly critical father she's worthy. No distractions. No missteps. And certainly no romances with players. Everything stands between them--including their troubled pasts--even as Heather's world falls apart and Garrett's the one who's there to catch her... Views: 11
BAD REPUTATIONAll Clint Adams wants is some good rest and some good food. But when he rides into Acuna, Mexico, he's met with a hotheaded Mexican looking to start a fight with the legendary Gunsmith. Clint tries to convince Juanito that he's messing with the wrong gringo, but the only thing that stops him is a bullet to the shoulder.The wannabe pistolero will live, but the Montoya patriarch isn't about to let his family's reputation suffer for his son's stupidity. Now, with the wrath of the entire Montoya clan bearing down on him, Clint is outnumbered. But if he can convince three local mercenaries to stand with him, the Gunsmith just might get out of Mexico alive...OVER FIFTEEN MILLION GUNSMITH BOOKS IN PRINT! Views: 11
