The first novel in Pulitzer Prize-winning Edna Buchanan's riveting Britt Montero series.Meet Britt Montero, a crime reporter for a major Miami newspaper. She practically sleeps with a police scanner by her bedside. She's dedicated and brave enough to pursue a story no matter where it takes her.When a high-speed police chase leads to the death of a black football hero, Britt discovers that what seems like a cut-and-dry case is actually an intricate web of racially charged violence. As the city she loves explodes into a major riot, Britt is caught-up in life-threatening events that bring the case to its shocking twist. Views: 8
"Ms. Roycraft has a very definite gift for grabbing the reader 'by the throat,' and holding on through the entire book." —Irene Marshall, Escape to RomanceSex has never been so deadly for one of the undead...It's been twenty years since the vampire-mortal war known to the undead as "Hell" ended, but peace has been hard for Chicago's doyen, vampire Che Kincade. Beauty and power ensure that blood, sex, and money come easily, but compromises and concessions are hard for a half-breed undead warrior whose roots run centuries deep in violence. Still, he's managed at last to make peace bearable.A secret affair with his mortal counterpart, Chicago Mayor Deborah Dayton, ensures that their weekly meetings at city hall to discuss the vampire problems in the city are accompanied by wonderfully delicious clandestine sex. But Cade's house-of-cards peace tumbles when, just hours after their usual tryst, news comes that a high-profile murder has taken place in the city.... Views: 8
Feb 1807 - Sep 1809The Roger Brook stories continue with his saga through the years 1807-1809. Napoleon is at the height of his powers. By now the complete autocrat, lusting for more power, he had warred against Prussia, Austria and Hanover, struck through Poland, towards the Baltic and into Russia. The needless wars were bleeding France white.Roger Brook, still the most valuable and resourceful of secret agents, moves amongst the centres of power of Europe and beyond, and owing to mischance and intrigue is carried to Turkey, Persia, Portugal and Brazil. But, interwoven with the historical pattern, runs the thread of Roger's passionate involvement with the lovely Lisala de Pombal – a woman as licentious as she is beautiful – who plays her part in leading him from one desperate situation to another. Views: 8
Cory Beecher didn't mean to shoot handsome Tyler Montgomery and only kisses him so he doesn't find the runaway slave in the barn. Abolitionists never considered marrying slave owners, but her world explodes with new found desire when her lips touch his. Can she go through with her carefully crafted plans to marry math instructor Douglas Raymond when her heart longs for another? Tyler Montgomery needs to find the runaway slaves before his rival Edward Vandal captures them. Although he doesn't want to involve the fiery and beautiful Miss Beecher, once she kisses him, all his plans unravel. As his rival closes in on the quarry, he hesitates to leave, knowing she's marrying the wrong man. But what does an unemployed lawyer with questionable parentage have to offer the woman he loves? Views: 8
From the author of Parallel comes a high-stakes romantic puzzler set in a near-future where everyone's life is seamlessly orchestrated by personal electronic devices.Fast-forward to a time when Apple and Google have been replaced by Gnosis, a monolith corporation that has developed the most life-changing technology to ever hit the market: Lux, an app that flawlessly optimizes decision-making for the best personal results. Just like everyone else, sixteen-year-old Rory Vaughn knows the key to a happy, healthy life is following what Lux recommends. When she's accepted to the elite boarding school Theden Academy, her future happiness seems all the more assured. But once on campus, something feels wrong beneath the polished surface of her prestigious dream school. Then she meets North, a handsome townie who doesn't use Lux, and begins to fall for him and his outsider way of life. Soon, Rory is going against Lux's recommendations, listening instead to the inner voice that everyone has been taught to ignore—a choice that leads her to uncover a truth neither she nor the world ever saw coming. Views: 8
LIFELINE: an elite search-and-rescue squad based out of Banff, Alberta. Specializing in high-risk rescue missions, this team goes wherever the job takes them... As the chopper pilot for the elite Lifeline search-and-rescue team, Erin Tate is used to handling power. Calling the shots in the air is one thing—in the bedroom it leaves her cold. What she wants is a man strong enough to strip away her control. Paramedic Timothy Dextor has a wild card reputation, and the dark appetites to prove it. The only thing missing is a woman he can share them with. Landing a position on the Lifeline squad puts his old flame back within reach. He already knows what Erin needs, and this time he's not letting her go. But when an emergency throws Erin and Timothy together in unanticipated ways, the stakes are raised—on the job and off. Now they'll both discover the real meaning of control...and the risks that come from falling in love. Views: 8
In fairytales, the prince rescues the beautiful and thin princess. Crystal never let being plus size stop her from achieving her goals, but she never expected a prince to swoop her up on a white horse either. Independence is her strength, and her career gives her security. Then her company took over a warehouse run by four hot men, and she can’t get her mind off of them. Working with Roman, Andy, Lance, and Fred fuels dreams of much dirtier fairytales for her. Mixing business with pleasure is asking for trouble, but she can’t resist. Dreams don’t come true every day, and she has to jump on this merger where everyone wins! Views: 8
When undercover detective Cormac Kelly infiltrates a ruthless gang bent on kidnapping and extortion, he is forced to break cover and shoot his way out of a hostage situation gone bad. Tearing through the dangerous streets of Belfast with a twelve-year-old boy and his seriously injured father in tow, Kelly desperately tries to evade the gang and reconnect the family with the boy’s mother, football agent Lydia Gallagher. But she is in London, unaware of their freedom and being forced by the gang to betray her top client. As Kelly breaks every rule in the book and crosses the line from legit police officer to rogue cop on the run, the role of dapper but deadly ex-spook Stephen Black means the difference between life and death… Views: 8
LIMITED TIME SALE! $0.99 Only! 5 NEVER-BEFORE-BUNDLED NOVELS AND ONE BONUS NOVELLA FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR MARIAN TEE Werewolves, immortals with dragons for souls, demon dukes, and a lot more! Falling in love with a shifter is often a perilous choice, not only to a woman's life but her heart as well. There's something about these shapeshifters and immortal warriors that make you want to risk everything, knowing that when they do fall in love, they do so for eternity. To Love a Shifter: A Paranormal Romance Boxed Set offers all the supernatural romances you'd want, ranging from sweet and funny Young Adult stories to sizzling-hot adult BBW contemporary romances. In The Werewolf Prince and I, Misty Wall is your average girl: not too slim, not too pretty, and broke as hell. She's wished for her life not to be too boring, but she gets more than what she's bargained for when her boss, CEO Domenico Moretti proposes a marriage of convenience. Oh, and there's also the little thing about Domenico being a werewolf prince, too.In A Royal Heartbreak, the love story of Domenico and Misty continues as war looms in the horizon. Will Domenico succeed in convincing his princess he loves her more than his ambitions for his pack and his destiny as the one prince to rule all Lyccans?In Suit & Fangs, the race of Caros - powerful beings that were what vampires used to be - is introduced, together with Caylie Sonora, an 18-year-old Caro heiress who's bent on one thing: make Luka Georgiades fall in love with her and then break his heart the way he broke hers years ago.In The Demon Duke & I, photo-blogger Georgina McCartney knew her beautiful arrogant captor Silviu Draghici is crazy when he tells her two things. First: he's a demon. Second: she's destined to be his duchess, and he's not letting her go.In Evren: Enter the Dragonette, Deli chooses to save herself from certain death by allowing her rescuers to transform her into Evren: immortals with dragons for soul. As she starts her new life with the Chevalier brothers, she finds herself falling more and more for Lucian, who unfortunately only treats her as a sister.In Awakened: The Zombie Who Loved Me, back-up dancer Dazzle must find a way to protect her heart. Her bodyguard Varthan, a zombie-slash-Viking-warrior, is bent on seducing her. That wouldn't have been so bad if only he wasn't doing so because he considers it his "duty" to teach her about the art of lovemaking. Offering more than 1,000 pages of fast-paced paranormal romances that will keep you at the edge of your seat, this boxed set is guaranteed to make you dream about finding a shifter to love as well. Views: 8
Bai Jiang--San Francisco's best-known souxun ("people finder")--is hired to track down the mysterious Daniel Chen. Police inspector Kelly suspects Chen of being involved in a botched drug heist that resulted in the death of an officer. Bai has her own suspicions. She thinks the police just want to see Chen dead. Her investigation leads Bai into deadly intrigue as she finds herself caught between international intelligence agencies and merchants of war, who deal in death, drugs, and high-jacked information. To make matters worse, she's thirty-something and dating again. It's not easy juggling a suitor with family connections, a brazen young man who finds her irresistible, and her ex--the father of her child. World conflict and family strife explode as adversaries face off in San Francisco's Chinatown, a world away from the one we know.From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 8
