When Mr. Darcy left Hertfordshire after Charles Bingley's proposal to Jane Bennet, he promised to return in ten days. When he breaks that promise due to events outside of his control, Elizabeth Bennet is left abandoned for over a year, finally joining the Bingley household as the second unmarried sister under Charles' protection. An invitation to Pemberley brings out the merry match-making mischief as everyone has a plan for their future happiness. Caroline is convinced Mr. Darcy has loved her all this time, Mr. Darcy struggles to seek Elizabeth's forgiveness, and Elizabeth just wishes to make it through this visit without constantly embarrassing herself! There's no better season for miracles, even if it takes a few elves to make them happen! A sweet, holiday inspired Pride and Prejudice Fan Fiction, roughly 20,000 words. Views: 172
Probation Officer Storm McKenzie leads a double life. In one, she's a devoted wife and mother and a law-abiding officer of the court. In the other, she's driven to save innocent victims and punish abusers. Eventually she must choose between the two worlds or risk losing everything. Is she a vigilante driven to seek justice, or a psychopathic serial killer? You decide.This is a wild, dark and delirious ride that keeps you on the edge of your seat all the way through to the final twist that leaves Storm facing her darkest childhood fear." ~Cory Lynn Fayman, author of the Rolly Waters Mystery Novels Views: 172
P. D. Eastman’s classic character Aaron the Alligator makes his early-reader debut! Aaron can get into trouble doing just about anything—playing ball, planting seeds . . . even walking! Kids will giggle along as they tackle the simple words and sentences all on their own. Aaron is a star of The Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary and a long-out-of-print series called Everything Happens to Aaron.
Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story.
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A Chicago PI hunts for a missing kid who fell in with the wrong crowd: "Raleigh presents a genuine good guy in the luckless Whelan" (Publishers Weekly). An elderly woman has asked private investigator Paul Whelan to look into the disappearance of Tony Blanchard—a young man she'd taken in after his parents died. Instead, Whelan discovers a string of murders, all tied to a car-theft ring. All the evidence suggests that Tony is dead as well, but Whelan keeps digging until he finds himself surrounded by a dangerous maze of silent witnesses, crooked cops, and people willing to kill to keep the truth from surfacing. When a friend from Whelan's past emerges—a friend Whelan thought long dead—his investigation takes a dangerous turn: one that brings him no closer to Tony, and a lot closer to his own demise. "Raleigh's Paul Whelan series brings to mind the late Ross McDonald's Lew Archer novels . . . Read Whelan now;... Views: 172
Vampires and murder backstage in a Christchurch theatre. 16 year old Riley Lowe is working as a stage hand, backstage at her theatre company's annual show. Her classmate from school, Tasha, is also in the show as a dancer and, as usual, she is flirting with all the guys. In particular, she is trying to take the one Riley is attracted to. Severn is one of a group of professional theatre crew who are helping with the show but the closer she gets to him, the more Riley realises that there is something strange about the group who live and work in the dark. When Tasha is killed and Severn disappears, Riley learns their terrible secret. But can she solve the murder in time to save Severn? Views: 172
What do you do when
your past comes back to kill you?
After escaping her abusive husband, life is finally good for
Camille LeGarde and her daughter, Shelby. She has a great relationship with her
new husband, Gus, who also loves Shelby like his own child. But the LeGarde
family’s fragile oasis is shattered when the man of Camille’s nightmares is
released from prison.
Greg Robinson never wanted to be a father. But he’s playing
the biological card for all it’s worth to get close to Shelby, so he can
realize his true goal—revenge against Gus LeGarde, the man who “stole” his wife
and daughter.
Lured by the promise of connecting with her real dad, Shelby
vanishes, sending Gus and Camille on a desperate race through the worst ice
storm of the century to find her before Robinson can act on his chilling
threat…
If I can’t have them, neither can you.
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It’s 2004, the year same-sex marriage becomes legal in Massachusetts, the year the Red Sox break the curse, and the year everything changes for Meg Myers.
Meg is an animal control officer who doesn’t much like people and doesn’t believe wishes come true. She grew up in state care, bouncing between foster homes and her alcoholic mother. Left physically and emotionally scarred, she is guarded about her past and pessimistic about her future. So she focuses on her job and her dream of opening an animal shelter.
Meg’s world is rocked by three women: Pam and her foster daughter, Violet; Gina, twin to Meg’s best friend Jeff; and Samantha, the vet who shares an uncomfortable past with Meg. Through her relationships with these women, Meg is forced to explore mother-daughter bonds, loss and grief, and what defines friendship and gender in her quest to find security and love for the first time in her life. Views: 171
Nominated for the Shamus AwardBounty hunter Streeter is a string of exes...ex-linebacker, ex-accountant, ex-bouncer, and four-time ex-husband...who excels at exacting his own brand of justice...with explosive results.Streeter is hired by the scheming woman he nailed for insurance fraud to go after her dead boyfriend's stash of drug money...and has to single-handedly face off against a greedy, violent pack of lowlifes and sociopaths killing their way to the big score. Views: 171
