A young man is kidnapped from his fiancee's apartment complex. His abductor performs terrible experiments on him, seeking to unlock some hidden potential...and that potential may be his only route to freedom. But at what cost?Margaret, made miserable by her unappreciative family, diverts her attention to someone else's hotel. On investigating further, she is spared disgrace by her inquisitive friend and the unwitting owner. Views: 366
Melanie Addario has a secret admirer, a second chance at love she never thought she’d have. She also has a new job at a local winery working for Rafael Delacruz, making her wonder if she’s finally capped out at certifiably crazy. Everyone in town still talks about Rafael and his arrival in Moon Lake years before under sketchy circumstances, and something about the way he looks right through Melanie gives her the willies.Rafael knows he doesn’t belong in Moon Lake, wedged between the wealthy tourists and heirloom families with streets that match their last names, just like Melanie doesn’t belong working by his side in the hot sun at Crescent Moon, where he gets to talk to her but isn’t allowed to touch. And oh, how he’s wanted to touch that smooth, golden flesh, since long before that Army boyfriend of hers up and walked away. A man would have to be crazy to leave Melanie.The past has a way of coming back home, and Melanie and Rafael each have a great deal to lose. When someone sabotages operations at the vineyard, Rafael’s plans for the business and his hopes for a relationship with Melanie are suddenly put in jeopardy. Can they find a way to be together when life would pull them apart? Views: 366
Tara Langley is an animal rights activist protesting against Gulf Shore Aquarium keeping dolphins in captivity. Paul "Flipper" O'Riley is the aquarium's head dolphin trainer. Fire and gasoline, right? So why are they both itching to light the match? Annette Mardis presents Shore To Please, the next chapter in her wonderfully entertaining romance series, Gulf Shore.Tara Langley thought she'd found the love of her life, but he betrayed her with another woman. So she buried herself in her mission: convincing Gulf Shore Aquarium that dolphins and whales belong in the wild, not in artificial pools.If Tara had her way, Paul "Flipper" O'Riley would lose the job he loves. Flipper is the head dolphin trainer, and the aquarium's dolphins are his babies. While he's open to having a real family one day, the last person he would choose to be his wife and the mother of his children would be Tara.These two should be sworn enemies, after all. He certainly swears at the sight of... Views: 365
Help Nancy and her friends find out who’s causing a major pool party problem in this first book in an all-new, interactive Nancy Drew chapter book series. Includes space for readers to jot down their own ideas and solutions to the case!
Snooty Deidre Shannon writes in her blog “Dishing with Deidre” that since eight is half of sixteen, she’s entitled to a Super Sweet Half-Sixteen party this year! And since the Shannons have a pool, she’s decided to make mermaids her theme. Nancy, Bess, and George are invited to the big bash, where all party guests must dress in under-the-sea-themed costumes.
For her grand entrance, Deidre dresses as a mermaid and is carried out on a giant half-shell by six teenage “sea creatures.” The garden boasts hedges clipped into the shapes of various types of ocean life. Deidre’s father even booked “Queen Mermaid Marissa” to perform in their pool—fin and all.
But when a squirmy snake is found swimming in the pool too, Queen Marissa leaves in a huff! Who would sabotage the mermaid pool performance? Nancy, Bess, and George intend to find out! Views: 365
Having escaped from a turbulent home life, Lea finds herself caught in the grip of a dangerous future. Will the handsome face from her past pull her back from the point of no return, or will she choose to embrace her new, dark life?Lea has made some poor decisions in her life. It makes no difference what pushed her into her choices, but now she has to find a way to survive in this new, hostile world she's stumbled into. Tempted by the danger, she decides to push forward beyond the point of no return... until she is stopped by an unexpected, nearly forgotten past.But... there are so many hands grasping for her, trying to stop her. Can she managed to escape them all and complete this one last job to win her freedom? Views: 365
If you like your detectives soft-boiled and your noir with a bit of froth on top, try this whimsical short mystery set in 1930's Italy, with the jazz-age sleuth, Edmund Mottley.Edmund Mottley, self-styled Specialist in Discreet Enquiries, just wants to enjoy a musical evening. Instead, he finds an international intrigue of dastardly deeds and derring-do. If you like your detectives soft-boiled and your noir with a bit of froth on top, try this Vintage Venetian adventure with the jazz-age sleuth, Edmund Mottley.This whimsical short mystery set in 1930's Italy is a prequel to the novella "Mister Mottley Gets His Man." Views: 365
Vietnam War veteran Timothy Patrick O'Rourke discovers the great paradox of war upon his return to the US in 1973: he has left the war, but the war has not left him. Views: 365
Captain Jamie Starling died of a broken heart, and he's not interested in repeating the experience. But when his ghost ship brings him to a beautiful lady with beautiful Dreams, he can't help but get entangled in her and her fiancé's lives. There's also the small issue of his previous girlfriend, the cause of his death...Dreamcatchers are ghost pirates who take Dreams from the living and exchange them for breaths, the currency in Ectopia. One Santa Monica group is headed by Captain Jamie Starling. When Jamie meets Helen in a sailing Dream, he makes her a promise and ends up entangled in her life and that of her fiancé. His previous girlfriend also becomes a petite blonde problem... Views: 365
Having entered into the trolleybus, you hardly notice him immediately. Though summer day in a transport usually is few people, but you can recognize this man only by hanging orange working overalls on the back of his seat.Twenty-one-year-old Trevor Chiao is Prime Indigo; he is a member of the fabulous Primes, a group of seven men and women whose mission is to protect the Earth from Enclave, an alien organization bent on taking over the world. Protected by an indigo-colored force shield that enhances his strength and speed and keeps his identity secret, he travels all over the world with his fellow Primes, battling monsters, Zoinks, and the mysterious Lily Lee, a beautiful Asian woman who refers to herself as . . . the Attack Doll. The death of Prime Commander has dealt a heavy blow to Trevor and his fellow Primes. And when the team is threatened by government forces intent on discovering their secrets, things go from bad to worse. To hold the team together, the Primes must enlist the aid of an old friend and implement . . . Protocol Black. Views: 365
1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles continues the electrifying story he began in his smashing New York Times bestseller Natchez Burning with this highly anticipated second volume in an epic trilogy of blood and race, family and justice.
Southern prosecutor Penn Cage is caught in the darkest maelstrom of his life. The heartbreaking but seemingly straightforward death of his father's African-American nurse, Viola Turner, has fractured Penn's family and turned Dr. Tom Cage into a fugitive from justice. And in the search for his father and his reasons for running, Penn has unwittingly started a war with a violent offshoot of the KKK, the Double Eagles, whose members seem to know much more about Tom's past than Penn or his mother ever did.
Desperately following his father's trail, Penn finds himself in a maze of mirrors, beset on all sides by a family of criminals and corrupt police whose power reaches into the highest levels of state government. To even the odds, Penn must rely on allies whose objectives are very different from his own. FBI special agent John Kaiser sees Tom Cage as the key to closing not only countless civil rights murders, but also the ultimate cold case: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Penn's fiancée, journalist Caitlin Masters, is chasing the biggest story of her career and believes Tom can lead her to evidence of America's most secret, shameful history. In the end, all roads will lead to the mysterious Bone Tree, a legendary killing site that may conceal far more than the remains of the forgotten.
Penn now knows that the death of Viola Turner is a door to the darkest chapters of America's past. In the civil rights battleground that was 1960s Mississippi and Louisiana, powerful men had audacious, sweeping agendas, and their violent race murders concealed a conspiracy that ran wide and deep, involving the New Orleans Mafia, a Double Eagle hit squad, and a world- altering murder in Dealey Plaza in 1963. And if the FBI can be believed, somehow Dr. Tom Cage stands at the center of it all.
Enthralling, captivating, and utterly engrossing, The Bone Tree is a masterpiece of modern suspense and the next novel in the monumental trilogy that Greg Iles was born to write. Views: 365
Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case." –William Saroyan, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorFamous authors, like everybody else, know that one day they will die. Final Chapters tells the fascinating stories of more than one hundred writers' encounters with death—and their attitudes toward the Grim Reaper: fear, uncertainty, or acceptance.Francis Bacon wrote, It is as natural to die as to be born," while Socrates told the judges who condemned him, And now we go our ways, I to die and you to live. Which is better is known to God alone."Death often came in startling ways for these well-known writers. The playwright Aeschylus was conked by a turtle falling from the sky. Christopher Marlowe was stabbed in a barroom brawl. Molière collapsed while playing the role of a hypochondriac in one of his plays.Edgar Allan Poe was found semicomatose in someone else's clothes... Views: 364
A bungled museum theft.
An ancient Egyptian riddle.
The rumor of strange creatures moving beneath the streets of Paris.
Eleanor Folley knew she was in for a challenge when she accepted the task of cataloging Mistral's archive of purloined artifacts, but she never expected to discover an Egyptian mystery buried in the heart of Paris.
When Anubis and Horus task her with a quest, she cannot refuse the ancient gods, even if it means venturing into the cathedrals of bones that clutter the catacombs of Paris.
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Although everything isn’t all good for the Washington sisters, everything isn’t all bad either. With the love of her life finally home, Vanity is on cloud nine. Having missed him and their relationship more than anything she’s doing everything in her power to make sure he’s happy, which means putting away her old habits. If only that was as easy as it sounded. With Malcolm and the strip club in Vanity’s rearview Rico is having a hard time trusting her. What is Vanity to do when old flames and hidden secrets begin to resurface? Has she gone through three long years without Rico only to lose him again?Cruz and Vega are one of the most sought after couples in the city. Although people are loving them together, clearly seeing them a part is even better. After finding out that the love of her life may possibly have a child on the way with another woman Cruz is crushed. Now that the fairytale relationship she’s grown accustomed to have come to a screeching halt its time for her to take matters into her own hands. Since Vega is having such a hard time putting a stop to this paternity scandal, Cruz decides to abandon the weak girl role and handle it on her own.Just when Ronnie thought she’d finally found a boy to give her heart to, she discovers he’s been cheating. After giving Turk her body and a small space of her heart, only to find out he’s still into games, Ronnie is on to something new. Cute, sweet, and fun loving football star, Courtney, is exactly what Ronnie needs to take her mind off of the drama with Turk. As always it took for Turk to see her with another man for him to change. Only problem with that is, it may be too late. Views: 364
The woman with work-roughened hands begs 1940s private investigator Maggie Sullivan to find her kid sister, the sister she's raised since the girl was a toddler. But two days later Maggie's client is dead. Everyone, cops included, brushes it off as suicide born of despair. Everyone except Maggie.
With her Smith & Wesson and a nip of gin, the flinty detective sets out to uncover the fate of the missing girl. Her hunt leads her to a secretarial agency whose owner likes to paw his employees, and to a rich man's mansion where she encounters depravity beyond her darkest imaginings.
This SHORT STORY, with traces of both hard-boiled and cozy, features characters from the author's full-length Maggie Sullivan mysteries. Views: 364
