Don’t call. Don’t text. Tweet me…
Married to her work, event planner Avery Kurtz runs her life and her business on a private message feed. She has no time to waste on emails or a love life, and Valentine’s Day means just more parties to plan.
But when Tanner Voss, best man in Avery’s best friend’s wedding, is assigned to help finalize plans, her world is turned heart-side up. The hotshot attorney might be a player—he’s hit on her before and she avoided that mistake—but he’s also surprisingly cooperative, focused on making the perfect choices for their friends, and even on board with her messaging preference. Between the erotic dreams about the sexy litigator and her body urging her to forget caution, Avery is wondering if she was wrong about Tanner and wants him to do more than “tweet me.” Views: 17
A Vintage Shorts "Short Story Month" Original Selection Philosopher and amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie has an unstinting commitment to her principles. Sticking to her promises has always been one of them. Then Isabel runs into an old classmate facing marital and financial troubles, who reveals a secret that becomes more and more difficult for Isabel to keep. Thankfully, Isabel's devoted husband, Jamie, is there to help our heroine navigate her competing moral obligations. Beautifully perceptive and witty, this original short story by Alexander McCall Smith shows Isabel calling upon all of her intelligence, charm, and tact. An ebook short. Views: 17
It's almost Christmas, and Emery Hazard finds himself face to face with his own personal nightmare: going on a double date with his partner—and boyhood crush—John-Henry Somerset. Hazard brings his boyfriend; Somers brings his estranged wife. Things aren't going to end well.When a strange call interrupts dinner, however, Hazard and his partner become witnesses to a shooting. The victims: Somers's father, and the daughter of a high school friend. The crime is inexplicable. There is no apparent motive, no connection between the victims, and no explanation for how the shooter reached his targets.Determined to get answers, Hazard and Somers move forward with their investigation in spite of mounting pressure to stop. Their search for the truth draws them into a dark web of conspiracy and into an even darker tangle of twisted love and illicit desire. And as the two men come face to face with the passions and madness behind the crime, they must confront their... Views: 17
One of the bestselling novelists of the American West brings us a gripping tale of gold, greed, and vengeance.Amid the mountains of the West, lie incredible riches never uncovered. Three prospecting brothers, in search of a great fortune, are led on the counsel from a dying Indian straight to the base of Thunder Mountain—a gravelly summit absent of life and vegetation. Despite the mountain's outwardly desolate appearance, the three Emerson brothers approach the five thousand foot silt deposit with wide, hungry eyes—convinced they may have struck the motherload.Once their hunch is proven to be true, the brothers find themselves swimming in gold. Afraid other prospectors would soon discover the source of their newfound wealth and take a cut of the profit, the Emerson brothers—now wild with ambition and greed—plot to set up a mine to conceal their discovery and reap all the benefits.However, their newfangled fortune only brings them more... Views: 17
Two men from humble beginnings in the hills of Southeastern Kentucky return from the battlefields of France after World War I and seek lives they never dreamed possible before the war.John Fulton, a former coal miner who became an Army medic, finds a new life for himself and his youngest brother Bob, a teenage coal miner with aspirations of his own.Ed Elkins, the son of a looked down upon moonshining family returned from the war with a new sense of purpose - to make his name mean something. And that means business alliances with men named Capone and Kennedy.As the Fulton and Elkins families start to increase in prominence they are forced to deal with the powerful and corrupt Milner family who will stop at nothing to crush anyone or anything in path to holding onto the status quo.This is the first book of the Kentucky Yarn series and takes place from World War I into the start of the Great Depression. Views: 16
Detective Jake Daggers likes women who take charge—at least
behind closed doors. But after a dustup at the precinct, it’s his lovely
half-elf partner, Shay Steele, who’s calling the shots, and she’s no easy
taskmaster.Task number one? Figure out how a whip, an ancient book of
the occult, and a monstrous footprint tie into the death of a famed rock
singer. His band mates are high as kites and don’t remember a thing, but the
rock star’s mangled neck hints at a murder of mysterious, supernatural origins.Now Daggers and Steele must race to find the killer before
nightfall. Before he can strike again. In the dark. In the quiet. In the STEELE
OF THE NIGHT.
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