From the internationally acclaimed author of the Harry Hole novels--a fast, tight, darkly lyrical stand-alone novel that has at its center the perfectly sympathetic antihero: an Oslo contract killer who draws us into an unexpected meditation on death and love. This is the story of Olav: an extremely talented "fixer" for one of Oslo's most powerful crime bosses. But Olav is also an unusually complicated fixer. He has a capacity for love that is as far-reaching as is his gift for murder. He is our straightforward, calm-in-the-face-of-crisis narrator with a storyteller's hypnotic knack for fantasy. He has an "innate talent for subordination" but running through his veins is a "virus" born of the power over life and death. And while his latest job puts him at the pinnacle of his trade, it may be mutating into his greatest mistake. . . .From the Hardcover edition. Views: 198
Garrison's been patient long enough. It's time to win his bride. Dahlia Lenox is tired of ranch life, rules and restrictions. The poker table is her domain and the one and only place she yields to no one's rules but her own. The biggest win of her life, a prize that could free her from small town life is calling and she can't wait to claim the prize. Nothing is perfect though and leaving town means leaving the only man who ever made her ache to be his, Garrison Lee. Surrendering to him is not an option. Garrison wants everything from Dahlia including her obedience in bed. He's been patient. He's been courteous. And he's been a damn gentleman. All that's gotten him is a brush off from Dahlia each of the three times he's proposed. When Dahlia risks everything to escape him forever, Garrison is forced to raise the stakes in a single hand of poker... winner to take all. Don't miss the third book in the Wildflower Brides series with a daring... Views: 197
A novelette of 14,000 words, sequel to Hambly's Darwath series. The teleporter is due to open between the Keep of Dare and an unknown Keep, lost for three thousand years - and Archmage Ingold Inglorion is snowed in fifty miles away and unable to be there to deal with whatever might be on the other side of that teleporter. California warrior-woman Gil Patterson, and California mage-in-training Rudy Solis, have to explore the unknown Keep on their own: to interpret its secrets, to prevent whatever might lurk there from following them back to the last Keep of humankind... and to destroy it when, in spite of their efforts, it does. Views: 197
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