Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive.
Last summer, Mackenzie Bishop, a Keeper tasked with stopping violent Histories from escaping the Archive, almost lost her life to one. Now, as she starts her junior year at Hyde School, she's struggling to get her life back. But moving on isn't easy -- not when her dreams are haunted by what happened. She knows the past is past, knows it cannot hurt her, but it feels so real, and when her nightmares begin to creep into her waking hours, she starts to wonder if she's really safe.
Meanwhile, people are vanishing without a trace, and the only thing they seem to have in common is Mackenzie. She's sure the Archive knows more than they are letting on, but before she can prove it, she becomes the prime suspect. And unless Mac can track down the real culprit, she'll lose everything, not only her role as Keeper, but her memories, and even her life. Can Mackenzie untangle the mystery before she herself unravels?
With stunning prose and a captivating mixture of action, romance, and horror, The Unbound delves into a richly imagined world where no choice is easy and love and loss feel like two sides of the same coin. Views: 417
From New York Times, USA Today, and #1 Kindle bestselling author Gemma Halliday... Her name is Bond. Jamie Bond. And her luck may have just run out. P.I. Jamie Bond knows there's corruption in the Los Angeles County D.A.'s office. What she doesn't know is how far it runs and if her on-again, off-again love interest, A.D.A. Aiden Prince, is involved. Is he aware of the danger lurking in his halls of justice? Is he dating his exotic beauty of a co-chair? And why are drug dealers making middle of the night calls to the D.A.? Jamie is determined to find out. But between one case of an "open marriage" wife who fears her husband is secretly monogamous, an Elvis obsessed musician crushing on her employee, and an over-sexed baby-boomer father, Jamie has her hands full. Not to mention one hot photographer, Danny Flynn, who seems determined to take their relationship from "best friend" to "best night of her life." The boundaries between personal and professional blur in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, where no one can be trusted...and not everyone will make it out alive. Jamie Bond Mysteries: Unbreakable Bond (book #1) Secret Bond (book #2) Lethal Bond (book #3) Bond Bombshell (short story) Here’s what critics are saying about Gemma Halliday's books: "A saucy combination of romance and suspense that is simply irresistible." - Chicago Tribune "Stylish... nonstop action...guaranteed to keep chick lit and mystery fans happy!" - Publishers’ Weekly, starred review “Smart, funny and snappy… the perfect beach read!” - Fresh Fiction Views: 417
She's always chose to walk on the wild side. To save hundreds, now she has to."Buchman just might be at the top of the game." – RT Book ReviewsTrisha O'Malley has flown her own way since before she could walk. Her Boston Irish attitude and remarkable helo piloting skills have led her to join the Army's finest.Navy SEAL William Bruce works best on his own. For him, a team size of one ranks as perfect.When Somalia's sea pirates run out of control, they must think and function as a true team for the first time in either of their lives—or the price of the dead will laid on their own graves."The balance of romance with the rest of the 'real world' story made it something that I'll never forget." – Pure Jonel"Passion, emotion, and an intensity that is breathtaking and real." – The Reading Cafe[Can be read stand-alone or in series. A complete happy-ever-after with no... Views: 416
Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.
So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos.
A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another. Views: 416
Portable Childhoods offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lies hidden just beyond the ordinary. Described by reviewers as timeless, delightful, chilling, and beautiful, this is short fiction at its best, emerging from a distinctive, powerful voice. The collection includes the Nebula Award–winning novelette Basement Magic." Views: 416
The new cold war has arrived with new players joining the affray. The second book in the Litchfield family series finds the mountains and natural gas fields of Turkmenistan acting as the catalyst in these shifting sands. Praise for Michael"Impressive action scenes" Kirkus Reviews"The moral ambiguity of Lichfield is refreshing" San Francisco Book ReviewThe new cold war has arrived. With new players joining the affray. The second book in the Litchfield family series finds the mountains and natural gas fields of Turkmenistan acting as the catalyst in these shifting sands. In Japan, a new Prime Minister seeks to make his mark, in order to reclaim his nation’s place in the world. In North Korea, a man considered to be a peacemaker plots and schemes to take power of the South. In China, a civil servant moves his instruments around the world to enable him to challenge the might of the United States. When Sir Thomas Litchfield is forced by the President of the United States to help him bring peace to the world’s longest conflict in Korea little does he know that decisions made long in the past, in the corridors of power are about to bear fruit and bring the world to the brink of oblivion. The Devil’s Playground is a story of passion, conflict, greed and naked ambition that follows both the allies and foes of peace as the reader joins Thomas on his journey to protect those he loves and is charged to lead while he walks the tightrope of keeping both his “masters”, old and new happy in the aftermath of his doomed attempt to revenge the woman he loved all those years ago. Views: 416
Jordan Parker becomes an obsession for William, a man who believes she is the only being on the planet that can save him. When Jordan goes on the run, it culminates in a bloody massacre where Jordan is the sole survivor. Mr. Parker, the father who abandoned her before she was born is forced to acknowledge Jordan and bring her into a world filled with magic, wonder and danger.Jordan Parker becomes an obsession for William, a man who believes she is the only being on the planet that can save him. When Jordan goes on the run, it culminates in a bloody massacre where Jordan is the sole survivor. This forces Mr. Parker, the father who abandoned her before she was born, to appear and bring her into his world— a world filled with magic, wonder and danger. Through him, Jordan will learn the secrets of her birthright, what makes her power special and why she has suddenly become a pawn in a deadly war for power. Views: 416
In Area 51 a top secret meeting to negotiate a truce between a people-hungry alien race and government leaders failed, and now battle cruisers are incoming for blood. Admiral Carter uses the skills and tools of The Ally, an alien refugee, to beg for foreign support against incoming regiments with advanced weaponry before it's too late, uncovering a truth hidden from him for thirty years. (Part 2).In Area 51 a top secret meeting to negotiate a truce between a people-hungry alien race and government leaders failed, and now battle cruisers are incoming for blood. Admiral Carter uses the skills and tools of The Ally, an alien refugee, to beg for foreign support against incoming regiments with advanced weaponry before it's too late, uncovering a truth hidden from him for thirty years. (Part 2 of a series). Views: 416
The riding forth of the Sidhe, who meets a lone old man walking home one night. The Irish Celts knew them as the Sidhe--the Shining Ones. Padraic O'Connell experiences a night of joy, wonder, and paralyzing fear after meeting strangers in the dark forest. There are creatures more wild and less friendly than elves on the road at night. Was it all a dream?Legends tell us of the magical beings known as elves and of their rides on certain nights. The Irish Celts knew them as the Sidhe--the Shining Ones. Supernatural, capricious, and fearsome they are, but there are other things more terrible and less friendly out on the road at night, as old bard Padraic O'Connell finds out. He experiences a night of joy, wonder, and paralyzing fear after meeting strangers in the dark forest. Was it all a dream?This ties in with the Secret Ones volumes and the book Lady of the Sidhe. A part of the Ages of Telamon series. Views: 416
It was just a game, one of those quaint text adventures from the 1980s: quests, dwarves and silly fun...Until the dwarf showed up at your door.He's got a big axe.What if he couldn’t control it?, What if he didn’t want to?Alfie Diamond, flat on his back, chilled to the bone in the freezing unforgiving snow.Shocked, dumbfounded but even so secretly excited, still tingling from the thrill, if that was the correct word to use, from his near death experience but then again maybe it was just the mind altering effects of hyperthermia, who knew?The images that had flashed before him during his “first” mind blowing Awakening were alien to him, jumbled, superfast messed up glimpses of things to come and things off the past but whose past, certainly not his, he would remember surely wouldn’t he?The faces didn’t register, the language fell on deaf ears and yet he inexplicably felt connected, suddenly his life gained a sense of direction, no more bobbing about like a cork in the open ocean.Purpose and motivation were coming his way that much he had acutely be made aware off as the nerve endings of his brain cells fizzed with adrenaline infused blood.He was on a precipice, he could lay there and continue to stare up at the descending snowflakes, let the raw biting cold take him or he could grab this adventure with both hands steam rolling into a new unknown future, a future born of a secret so far back so distant into the past it would surely send him to hell and back.Evil would seek to destroy him, Good would look to him as a saviour, him a naive curly haired East End boy, youngest of six children, average school grades, slight misfit on the outer edges of the obligatory social groups, not fit enough to be considered a “Jock”, not clever enough for the nerds and certainly not fashionable in his tatty t-shirt, shorts and scruffy trainers to be one of the “beautiful people”, a square peg in a round hole, well this square peg had been enlightened, today Alfie Diamond was re-born and if he ever got up onto his feet again, his first steps would be into a dangerous new world, a world he hoped included the beautiful stranger whose silken long hair trailed across his face as she hovered over him as he slipped in and out of consciousness, a world he hoped would not chew him up and spit him out. Views: 416
