A family tragedy, a 25 year old murder, and a detective determined to make things right... Laura Wilkes has everything a woman could want when she snaps the carousel picture. Her daughter, a happy little five-year-old, is holding the brass ring and smiling at a daddy who adores her. Each time the carousel circles around Laura snaps another picture, seven in all. This is a day of unforgettable happiness; one of the few Laura has left. In the months following the stock market crash, Franklin Wilkes is killed; gunned down in senseless act of vengeance. The police know who did it, but the man has disappeared. It's the height of the depression and there are hoards of nameless, faceless men living in freight train yards and back alleys. The murderer is never caught, but Laura and Emory, her father, never give up hope of finding him. Now, twenty-five years later, Laura's daughter has fallen in love with Jack Mahoney a policeman working crowd... Views: 27
Stepbrothers Stepping Out With His Pack: A Short Story Views: 27
Twelve-year-old Colophon Letterford has a serious mystery on her hands. Will she discover the link between her family's literary legacy and Shakespeare's tomb before it's too late? Antique paintings, secret passages, locked mausoleums, a four-hundred-year-old treasure, and a cast of quirky (and some ignoble) characters all add up to a fun original adventure. Readers will revel in a whirlwind journey through literary time and space in real-world locales from Mont St. Michel to Stratford-Upon-Avon to Central Park! Views: 26
A unique book on Britain's royal families by this well established popular historian. Britain's Royal Families is a unique reference book providing, for the first time in one volume, complete genealogical details of all members of the royal houses of England, Scotland and Great Britain from 800AD to the present. Drawing on countless authorities, both ancient and modern, Alison Weir explores the royal family tree in unprecedented depth and provides a comprehensive guide to the heritage of today's royal family. Views: 26
A New Leash On Love When June Leavy finds two puppies abandoned outside during a storm, she immediately feels a bond with the adorable animals. Swindled out of her life savings by her no-good ex, she, too, was left with nothing but heartache and struggles of her own. But when she arrives at the local veterinary clinic, June is met by dangerously handsome Dr. Ethan Singh, whose sexy smile threatens to disarm her hard-won emotional strength. Back in Peach Leaf, Texas, to recover from an ugly breakup, Ethan gently tends to the puppies and their charming caretaker. But as the storm rages, so does the electric attraction between Ethan and June. Is this real, or a cruel phantom of lost love? Stranded alone at the clinic, only one thing is certain: they've got all night to figure it out... Views: 26
Hope Fairmont longs for a normal teenage life, but with a gift like hers, normal equals healing illnesses and injuries instantly. Keeping a secret like that isn’t easy, but a small town is the perfect place for her to heal those who can’t heal themselves, and an even better place for her father, James Fairmont, to hide his daughter from the rest of the world.
Life takes an unexpected turn when two handsome strangers move into town and begin unearthing other secrets concerning Hope's future and past, revealing to Hope that her gift for healing may be the fulfillment of an ancient, Japanese prophecy gone wrong.
Staying away from these mysterious newcomers would be the smart thing to do, but Victor's gentle, easy manner, and Tie's mixed signals and strange mood swings draw her hopelessly closer to revealing the secret she and her father have been so desperate to hide.
Hope's life is complicated further with visions of a previous life and the arrival of a supernatural demon sent to assassinate her before she learns what she is truly capable of.
With the support of her father, the fiery loyalty of her best friend Angie, and the child-like love of Kirby, a ten-year-old patient, Hope must fight against the forces of a relentless demon god while unwinding the tangled pieces of her past, proving to herself and those she loves that destiny isn’t determined by some cosmic reading of the stars, but by the individual choices one makes. Views: 26
Rada Ni Drako believes that she has recovered from the Traders’ attack. As she continues with life on Drakon IV and Earth, denying just how badly she was injured, the damage inflicted on her soul and mind threatens to pull her back into the shadows permanently. Views: 26
Shouldn’t life get easier when you die?
Henry Richards is having a really bad day. It started with his own murder, and it’s gone steadily downhill from there. Forced into a new life as the Grim Reaper, he must collect the souls of the dying—stubborn, lost and dangerous souls that don’t want to be collected.
When Henry is sent to collect the soul of a middle-aged housewife, he decides to save her instead; but ignoring the rules has dire consequences, and he soon finds his name on an assassin’s hit list. Isolated from his friends and family, he turns to the only help he can: the seductive demoness that lives across the hall, a big black cat with an even bigger attitude, and three mysterious goddesses in white.
But will they be enough to help Henry stop the assassin before every name is crossed off his list, or will Henry’s enemies manage to kill him…again?
Only if he dies this time, there are no second chances. This time, Henry will stay dead forever.
“The trick isn’t to win every time; the trick is to learn from your mistakes and make your losses count for something.” — Steve Richards
**About the Author
Jeremy Hance is a forty-year-old man who only acts his age as a desperate last resort. He holds three degrees, including two from the University of Washington; since none of them have anything to do with writing, or anything Jeremy is likely to ever write about, he's really just bragging and should realize you don't care. Jeremy's day job is writing computer software (at least until he's a world famous author with legions of adoring fans and his own HBO series…which should be, you know, any day now). He lives with his loving wife and two beautiful daughters in the Seattle area, where he has been known to pounce at them from around corners, and tickle all of them without mercy.
His Name Was Death is Jeremy's first book, but it is far from his last. He is currently working on Book 2 of the "Dead Man's Tale" series, The Second Beast Views: 26
