Troubled by a large number of KGB agents operating freely in the US, the lackadaisical attitude of the general population, and the media's irresponsible depiction of communism, an ex-double agent sets out to use all he has learned in his position as a captain in the KGB's western intelligence section. He was all that stood between the soviets and their plan to take control of the first test launch of the Peacekeeper—America's newest ICBM. The soviets aimed to destroy several cities along the southern California coast—an apparent accident. This, they surmised, would show America too incompetent and irresponsible to be allowed to develop high-tech weapons. The Soviet Union would become the world's only super power. The marine has his own demons to fight, both past and present. Complicating his life and his one man war against the KGB is the woman he met and fell in love with—she is a mystery. Views: 447
Dora's face, an aesthetic work in progress, exudes an unfinished blankness - as though God had become distracted and wandered away from the wet canvas before completing a meager handful of details. Not that any of this makes a difference to lovelorn Harry Jankowski.A Tale of Romance is a traditional story of romance, yet a new take on the Troubadours.Really, it is boy meets girl, but with one or two twists. A wonderful love story. And one that might have a happy ending. The reader will see if they do live happily ever after or they don’t. They might. The story has a would-be lover who talks about politics and is a general boor. How can he keep his girlfriend he adores? Perhaps by reinventing himself. Or is he never really going to change and always be a boor. Views: 446
A couple discover the price of loyalty.Set in the distant future, Donors, is a short story of a world where every citizen is expected to pay any price for the state. Views: 446
Under Siege!It's the Fourth of July, 1987 in El Paso, Texas, and rock solid cop Devalerie Love just wants to do his job and then go home to his wife and two young daughters. Sent to an unfamiliar precinct and reduced to babysitting a soon-to-be-closing police station, he resigns himself to an uneventful evening.But the routine "supervisory job" becomes a test of heroism when a horde of vicious monsters attacks and the police officer is forced to team up with a notorious criminal, Rattlesnake Torres, contract killer for the Mexican Mafia, to fend off the rampaging creatures. It is a fight to the death as the besieged occupants of Station 19 battle the swarming reptilian hordes.Did the creatures come down in the meteor storm? Or were they grown in a laboratory to be the ultimate weapon? Who will survive the night? Who will survive the Siege of Station 19! Views: 446
After narrowly surviving two harrowing tragedies, Jules now fully understands the importance of the visions that she and people around her are experiencing. She’s convinced that if the visions passed from her to Sawyer after she saved him, then they must now have passed from Sawyer to one of the people he saved.
That means it’s up to Jules to figure out which of the school shooting survivors is now suffering from visions of another crisis. And once she realizes who it is, she has to convince that survivor that this isn't all crazy—that the images are of something real. Something imminent.
As the danger escalates more than ever before in the conclusion to the Visions series, Jules wonders if she'll finally find out why and how this is happening—before it's too late to prevent disaster. Views: 446
When Dahken Cor Pelson meets Thyss of Dulkur, she is already a powerful sorceress and impressive fighter, qualities both frightening and pulse-quickening. But from where did the golden haired, bronze skinned sorceress of the fire god Hykan come? Chosen is the first in a line of tales that explores the past of this willful and dangerous woman.When Dahken Cor Pelson meets Thyss of Dulkur, she is already a powerful sorceress and impressive fighter, qualities both frightening and pulse-quickening. But from where did the golden haired, bronze skinned sorceress of the fire god Hykan come? She should have been a priestess of import, if not a queen in her own lands, but instead she floats like a leaf on the wind, going where adventure takes her.Chosen is the first in a line of tales that explores the past of this willful and dangerous woman. Views: 446
A rapturous novel of love, longing, and exile, The Silent Woman depicts a twentieth century woman's life against a backdrop of war and political turmoil.Sylva, half Czech and half German, is born into an aristocratic family and lives in a castle outside Prague. She marries a man she doesn't love and is seduced by the joyful madness of Paris in the 1920s as an ambassador's wife. When the Nazis force her to state her loyalty, she capitulates, not realizing how this decision will inform and haunt the rest of her life. Sylva's story is interwoven with a contemporary sex chronicle of her son Jan, a world-renowned mathematician and émigré living in the United States, who exudes the restlessness of a man without a country. Views: 446
Allan flees Elderwood City because he killed the rich man who murdered his sister. He hides in the ruins of an ancient castle. He discovers the castle was the stronghold of one the legendary mages of yore.Allan learns that the magic never went away, only diminished due to overuse. He has the gift of using magic to cast spells. But what should he do with his new-found skill?Allan flees Elderwood City because he killed the rich man who murdered his sister. He hides in the ruins of an ancient castle. He discovers the castle was the stronghold of one the legendary mages of yore.Allan learns that the magic never went away, only diminished due to overuse. He has the gift of using magic to cast spells, reading the tomes of the long-dead mage. But what should he do with his new-found skill?Allan decides that he will fight the injustices that threw him and his sister onto the streets, and ultimately led to her death. He will disguise himself as The Defender, and fight for those who cannot fight for themselves.Allan returns to Elderwood City. He finds that his battle will be against more than common criminals and the idle rich. Corruption goes to the heart of His Lordship’s Manor, and is spread throughout the city.Can Allan handle his new powers, and succeed as a masked hero? Can he inspire hope, or is the darkness too entrenched to be defeated? Views: 446
When a lady loses her memory, who better to rescue her than a seductive duke.
Viola, so named by her benefactor, Hugh, Duke of Vale, has lost her memory, along with her respectability, after being found unconscious near his estate dressed in a male servant’s clothes. She is a mystery unto herself, with her knowledge of books and Latin, and her skill at the pianoforte.
Thanks to the duke’s kindness, Viola has found a temporary home with his nanny in a cottage on his estate, while danger lurks in the shadows and darkens her dreams. She must leave beautiful Vale Park before Hugh marries Lady Felicity Beresford, the neighbor’s daughter; their marriage arranged when they were children. And before Viola and Hugh succumb to an impossible passion.
As the announcement of Hugh’s engagement draws near, he tries to accept the inevitable, he must marry a woman he doesn’t love. He is intrigued by Viola. Who is she and what has driven her to such an act? As the Bow Street Runners work to find the answers, Hugh grows more deeply and dangerously drawn to the mysterious lady.
Previously published as Rules of Conduct.
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When highwayman, Jack Winter, stops a carriage passing near his hideout, he has no idea that he’s about to meet the new owners of Hawkstone Manor, the ancestral seat of the Winter family. Hawkstone was seized by the Roundheads and now Oliver Cromwell has given it to one of his supporters, Percy Threlfall, but it’s the alluring Lucy Threlfall who captures Jack’s attention. Views: 446
Who better to solve a crime than the keenest observer of human nature in history? Rotten at the Heart is the first in a series of Shakespearean mysteries featuring and narrated by the Bard himself.London, 1596. With his patron's mysterious death leaving Will on the brink of ruin and eviction, he's forced to fall back on his own inimitable powers of observation in order to ferret out the killer and in so doing unravel a conspiracy that goes straight to the beating heart of the court of Queen Elizabeth I.Rooted in historical fact and written in Will's own accessibly Elizabethan voice, Rotten At the Heart explores the intersection of religion, politics, and corruption, and underscores the sacrifices that honour demands when a troubled man finally discovers his own.Introducing Wm. Shakespeare: Detective. For fans of David Liss and, of course, Shakespeare himself... Views: 445
For those who wish to know more about some of the history of Sacred Wind world, this book of appendices includes: Appendix 1 – A Quick Guide to Quantum Computing, Appendix 2 – The Bi-Millennial Deity Conference, Appendix 3 – The Frothy Ale Tsunami of ‘87, and Appendix 4 – History of the Cestrian Music Tournament.May Odin bless your wind for reading...‘Sometimes there are tales that must be told, songs that must be sung, and farts that must be farted. And sometimes the spirit of these great adventures, heroic deeds, songs of glory, and flatulent blessings is powerful enough to touch the hearts, ears and nostrils of the Gods. And so it is with Sacred Wind.Certainly I know that I, King Beef Vindaloo-Boiled Rice III, puff my rice with pride and thicken my sauce when I recount the adventures of the Companionship of Wind. How a stranger from beyond distance and beyond time (a lad called Aiden Peersey, from your reality) joined Sacred Wind in their quest to win the Cestrian Music Tournament, to save the faerie queen, to win freedom for our land, to be able to fart freely, and to win the right to their cheese. It is the stuff of legend. And sometimes the Gods decree that such legends need to be manifest in the entire Multiverse… although not necessarily the smells.However, even though this most splendid tale has been told in the marvellous Sacred Wind books 1, 2 & 3, there are other tales that need telling. And so a series of historical appendices has been commissioned by none other than Odin himself. You have here the first four of these enlightening pieces of literature, with more to follow. So read with pride, my friends… and if you feel the need to have a small fart at any time, know that it will cause pleasure to many.May your rice be forever fluffy, may your poppadoms be crisp, may your curry be hot, and may Odin bless your wind.King Beef Vindaloo-Boiled Rice III.’ Views: 445
