He was bold, intoxicating, and held a darkness that pulled at my heartstrings. I wanted him from the very first moment I saw him across the dance floor at the club. She was quiet, but her eyes and body said everything her words couldn't. I didn't know who she was when I took her and made her my own. We had already crossed a dangerous line that there was no coming back from. We were on the run. From who I didn't know, but he told me it would all be okay. That he would do whatever he could to protect me from the people that were hunting us. What I failed to see was that the monster had always been right within grabbing distance. Now that I was a part of his world, his life, and hopefully his heart, could I survive the carnage that was about to take place? The ties that bind us, were also the ties that would end us. I loved him, and now all that was left for me was death. ** Views: 22
How far would you go to be the perfect mother? The hilarious Wife in the North by Judith O'Reilly, based on her enormously popular blog, recounts one woman's attempt to move her family and her life from cosmopolitan London to rural Northumberland.Maybe hormones ate her brain. How else did Judith's husband persuade her to give up her career and move from her beloved London to Northumberland with two toddlers in tow? Pregnant with number 3 Judith is about to discover that there are one or two things about life in the country that no one told her about: that she'd be making friends with people who believed in the four horsemen of the apocalypse; that running out of petrol could be a near death experience and that the closest thing to an ethnic minority would be a redhead. Judith tries to do that simple thing that women do, make hers a happy family. A family that might live happily ever after. Possibly even up North... Views: 22
Trail of Echoes: the latest Elouise Norton novel from critically acclaimed writer Rachel Howzell Hall. On a rainy spring day in Los Angeles, homicide detective Elouise "Lou" Norton is called away from a rare lunch date to Bonner Park, where the body of thirteen-year-old Chanita Lords has been discovered. When Lou and her partner, Colin Taggert, take on the sad task of informing Chanita's mother, Lou is surprised to find herself in the apartment building she grew up in. Chanita was interested in photography and, much like Lou, a girl destined to leave the housing projects behind. Her death fits a chilling pattern of exceptional girls—dancers, artists, honors scholars-gone recently missing in the same school district, the one Lou attended not so long ago. Lou is valiantly trying to make a go of life after her divorce and doing everything she can to avoid her long estranged father. She races to catch a serial killer, but he remains frustratingly... Views: 22
What if you could have sex with anyone in the world?The ultimate fantasy? Or a nightmare of self-discovery? Michael Blasco, a young scientist investigating what happens to the brain during the process of learning, suddenly finds himself on the other end of experimentation. On the way home from his lab one night he runs into Tony, a fitness instructor from his gym who he harbors a crush for, on the same platform waiting for the subway. When Michael imagines Tony naked, a pleasant fantasy to spice up a dull journey home, an extraordinary thing happens: Tony strips then and there on the platform and offers himself to Michael in front of all onlookers. Horrified, Michael flees. But back at his apartment, Tony reappears, as if by magic. And disappears again, when Michael wishes him away. Being a scientist, Michael recognizes an experiment when he sees one, and sets out to test the parameters of his newfound gift. In quick succession he conjures up Billie Holliday, Johnny... Views: 22
Damsels in distress seem to always find Doug Renaud. He doesn't mind being their knight in shining armor, but there are limits to what he can do. When he visits a patient in a psychiatric hospital, he knows there's a chance his life is going to get an extra dose of drama. He just didn't know that drama included meeting the woman of his dreams working as a nurse at the hospital. Not that simply finding her means everything will fall into place in Doug's love life. There's not a day that goes by that Lizzie Ellens isn't looking over her shoulder. After escaping an abusive husband, she and her two-year-old son have jumped around from city to city, trying to keep a step ahead of him. When Doug walks into her life, she knows he's trouble, but it's hard to deny the connection she instantly feels. As intriguing as starting a new life with him sounds, her past means taking a chance on a famous hockey player isn't in any of her playbooks. Will Doug and Lizzie be able to work around her fears? Or will Lizzie's past show up to put everyone they know in danger?** Views: 22
"Golden Compass meets Treasure Island." An orphaned child. A mysterious device. Cut-throat pirates who'd kill to get it.When her mother is murdered by pirates, Harriet Howland is thrust into a dangerous quest to find her missing father. A fast-paced steampunk adventure for everyone from 9 years old and up.Harriet Howland is happy to day-dream, listening to the tales of adventure a roguish sky monkey tells her at their secret meetings. But when her home is attacked she is thrown headlong into a dangerous struggle for survival. What is the mysterious device the dying woman gave her? Who is the strange Professor Poliakoff? Will she find out before the pirates close in? Views: 22
