Originally appeared in the print anthology A Mother's Way, under the title "Mother May I?"
From author Lynsay Sands comes a classic short story of a knight in need of a bride…
Lady Alice knows she is not the type to entice a man. She's too voluptuous, too intelligent, too strong minded. Why, she even reads! But then Jonathan, Earl of Fairley, arrives at court. Tall, dark and handsome, the knight is any woman's dream. And he has just been ordered by the king to find a bride… and Alice is to help him!
Jonathan has been evading his mother's matchmaking schemes for years, so why does she insist that Lady Alice isn't for him? Alice is only to aid in his search for a bride, yet Jonathan can't help but be distracted by her glorious hair—the color of a sunset—and a figure that is like a lush berry about to burst to full ripeness… Has Jonathan fallen prey to love? Views: 444
Warrior, Immortal, Angel'The Heavens are corrupted, the Covenant is broken! Angels are falling, and I am close!' he whispers. My orders were to protect the Keeper, not fall for her. If I fail darkness will cover the earth and no one will be strong enough, not angel or human. Lifting his head, Malach’s angelic eyes flash black for a moment as he fights the evil inside. 'Take her!!!' He hears in his mind and her scent wraps around him, her touch entices him, her taste condemns him…Weapon, Protector, Mortal'I was born to protect humanity,' Elina says. 'Malach…is a complication. Envy, lust, greed, are all distractions to force me from my destiny. But what of Love? My feelings for him are stronger than passion...how will I maintain my faith and protect the one thing I treasure above all others?' She hears him call and his touch heals her, his voice lures her, his soul completes her… Views: 444
Mathew is out of his comfort zone, he has to work out how to take the space station closer to the sun. It needs all his attention, but he can’t get the Russian woman out of his mind, or that the commander has accused him of plotting to take over Earthrise. He was sure a murderer was aboard, but it’s possible that everyone is just losing their memory, and now there’s the green glow.Melba has always wanted to play the slide trombone, but she's too small. Her grandmother wants Melba to play a musical instrument more suitable for a girl -- like a flute or violin -- but Melba loves the way a trombone looks and sounds. Tired of waiting around until she's big enough to play a trombone on her own, Melba finally decides to take matters into her own hands with humorous and unexpected results. Views: 444
"The excitement never lessens, and the characters pull you along with them. . . a thrilling story. " —RENDEZVOUSEl Paso, Texas. 1895. Five years ago, life as Jacy Kimble knew it ended with a scandal that sent her brother Hunter and his best friend Trevor Fallon to Yuma Prison for murder. The scandal cost her family their Arizona Ranch, ruined her father's political career and took his sanity, leaving the Kimble family in shambles. Once the belle of Arizona society, Jacy Kimble was haughty and flirtatious—her favorite target: Trevor Fallon. Her father called him a hired hand. Now Trevor has shown up at her door, escaped from prison, or as he tries to make her believe: he was freed in the middle of the night with one order—clear her brother's name and keep him from hanging. For five years she has hated Trevor. How can she believe him now? Yet, how can she not help him try to prove her brother's innocence? It's a hard choice for Jacy: believe the man who ruined... Views: 444
The final exam is survival.Paul is the new kid at Mortingham Boarding Academy, and he has a dark secret.Caitlyn admires Paul from afar and resents that he only has eyes for Erika.Erika thinks that she and Caitlyn are best friends, but she's wrong.Adam is a bully with a major chip on his shoulder.Mark is outgrowing his old friends but doesn't know how to make new ones.In a few short hours, none of this will matter. Without warning, a horrifying infection will spread across the school grounds, and a group of students with little in common will find themselves barricaded in a classroom, fighting for their lives. Some will live. Some will die. And then it will get even worse.Fast-paced and frightening, Silver is a tale set on the fringes of science and horror - a story about the struggle to survive in the face of impossible odds. Views: 443
This first volume of the premium collection features 8 amazing novels by Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, JOHN BUCHAN. Creator of such memorable characters as Richard Hannay, Sir Edward Leithen and Dickson McCunn, this collection features the non serialized novels, in chronological order of publication. This volume has novels 1 to 8; while vol. 2 has novels 9 to 15. The eight novels are the following:Sir Quixote of the Moors John Burnet of Barns Grey Weather A Lost Lady of Old Years The Half-Hearted A Lodge in the Wilderness Prester John Salute to Adventurers Views: 443
Samantha James moves to small-town Skamania, Washington to escape the crooked cops who framed her younger brother, Parker, and sent him to prison for a crime he didn't commit. With the goal of setting up her veterinary practice and making a home for Parker when he's released, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with the local forest ranger.Undercover officer Bobby Thorn is only in Skamania posing as a forest ranger to apprehend the scumbag who killed his partner. He doesn't have time for romance. But when he goes to town seeking help for the injured wolf he finds, he can't help but be drawn to the fiery veterinarian. Caught between sharing sizzling nights with Samantha and doing his job, he finds himself torn. Will he be able to keep from blowing his cover, catch a killer, and keep the woman he loves safe all at the same time? Views: 443
What is the essence of a war museum?The Royal Road in the kingdom of Kesteva runs nearly 1,000 miles from the southeastern marchlands to the northwest coast. Skara Station, tucked into the marchlands of southeast Kesteva, is one of dozens of waystations along that highway of merchants, pilgrims, princes and commoners.What is the essence of a war museum?The Royal Road in the kingdom of Kesteva runs nearly 1,000 miles from the southeastern marchlands to the northwest coast. A tavern tale sometimes told by upperclass engineering students at the Royal University in Roxen starts with the proposition that the Road's meandering path was laid hundreds of years before Kesteva's founding by an off-course troll who was supposed to be delivering a wagonfull of spirits from the Parsian Mountains to a settlement on the Western Sea. The story is as funny, elaborate and off-color as the upperclassmen's imaginations allow, but the punchline is always that the rotue makes perfect sense from an engineering standpoint, which of course considers the wide variety of terrain the Road must cross as well as the locations of important towns and cities the engineers of old were charged to link.Skara Station, tucked into the marchlands of southeast Kesteva, is one of dozens of waystations along that highway of merchants, pilgrims, princes and commoners. It is fully equipped with a customs house, inn, milestone, gardens, warehouses, plaza and Royal Guard garrison tower. Its namesake town has only a few hundred residents but is a proud city, one of the original founded on Aelfric and Aelin's march to the sea. Views: 443
Candace is different from other eighteen year olds. She has a craving for something she shouldn't have. This mini-prequel gives an insight into her daily life before her story is told in Eighteen Summers (Immortal Fire Series - Part One).A 3000 word taster of pure Candy, just for you.The Rome’s Revolution trilogy chronicles the 35th century world of the Vuduri. In this series, 21st century hero, Rei Bierak and his beautiful 35th century Vuduri wife, Rome, save mankind countless times. But there is much more to the far future beyond action and adventure; it has its own physics, culture, language and history. Tales of the Vuduri: Year One collects 366 blog posts about this amazing, brave new world into a single volume. Many times amusing but always thought-provoking, Tales of the Vuduri: Year One offers detailed insight into Rome and Rei’s universe with backstories, scientific tidbits, previously unrevealed secrets, alternate scenes and the occasional random thought. There are teasers for upcoming novels, amusing images and some apparent contradictions resolved. Travel to the 35th century and take a look behind the curtain into the fascinating world of Rome’s Revolution. Views: 442
Authorized by the Margaret Mitchell Estate, here is the first-ever prequel to one of the most beloved and bestselling novels of all time, Gone with the Wind. The critically acclaimed author of Rhett Butler’s People magnificently recounts the life of Mammy, one of literature’s greatest supporting characters, from her days as a slave girl to the outbreak of the Civil War.
“Her story began with a miracle.” On the Caribbean island of Saint Domingue, an island consumed by the flames of revolution, a senseless attack leaves only one survivor—an infant girl. She falls into the hands of two French émigrés, Henri and Solange Fournier, who take the beautiful child they call Ruth to the bustling American city of Savannah.
What follows is the sweeping tale of Ruth’s life as shaped by her strong-willed mistress and other larger-than-life personalities she encounters in the South: Jehu Glen, a free black man with whom Ruth falls madly in love; the shabbily genteel family that first hires Ruth as Mammy; Solange’s daughter Ellen and the rough Irishman, Gerald O’Hara, whom Ellen chooses to marry; the Butler family of Charleston and their shocking connection to Mammy Ruth; and finally Scarlett O’Hara—the irrepressible Southern belle Mammy raises from birth. As we witness the difficult coming of age felt by three generations of women, gifted storyteller Donald McCaig reveals a portrait of Mammy that is both nuanced and poignant, at once a proud woman and a captive, and a strict disciplinarian who has never experienced freedom herself. But despite the cruelties of a world that has decreed her a slave, Mammy endures, a rock in the river of time. She loves with a ferocity that would astonish those around her if they knew it. And she holds tight even to those who have been lost in the ravages of her days.
Set against the backdrop of the South from the 1820s until the dawn of the Civil War, here is a remarkable story of fortitude, heartbreak, and indomitable will—and a tale that will forever illuminate your reading of Margaret Mitchell’s unforgettable classic, Gone with the Wind Views: 442
2349 CESilver isn’t crazy, but upon entering the City of London illegally and being captured by border guards, she’s confined to Bishopsgate Insane Asylum—an institution not-so-affectionately called Bedlam—to await the arrival of her citizenship documents. Here, she meets Doctor Elena Lavergne, a psychiatrist with a low tolerance for insubordination and a penchant for exacting harsh and cruel punishments on her patients.Of course, it’s not long before Elena targets belligerent and combative Silver as the primary focus of her brutality, but Silver isn’t fooled for a second: Elena’s forced austerity is merely a cover for her own weaknesses. She’s a woman at war with herself, in denial about her sexuality and determined to preserve her lifelong abstinence.Threatened and challenged by her attraction to Silver, she lashes out, commencing a battle of wills which soon has both women embroiled in a toxic game of dominance and submission, the abuse escalating until one of them snaps.Book nine in The SILVER Series. Views: 442
As school trips go, this one is pretty awesome.
When I was told we were going to London to study Living History, I thought they were joking. But here I am! Rafe Khatchadorian - global jetsetter!
Now all I need to do is find a way of avoiding the school bully, getting Jeanne Galletta to talk to me, and try not to get lost in London.
But things are never that simple. So fasten your seatbelts and hold on tight, because this could be a very bumpy flight. Views: 442
