The Jazz Age comes alive with a love story for the ages: a rugged Prohibition agent and a saucy flapper from one of Appalachia's most notorious bootlegging families... Manhattan, present dayElla Hawthorne thinks she's going crazy when she hears strange noises coming from the walls of her new apartment late at night. When she discovers that it used to be home to a speakeasy during the Jazz Age, she's determined to discover the building's secrets. Manhattan, 1924Geneva 'Gin' Kelly, a smart-mouthed, red-haired flapper, reluctantly agrees to help rugged Prohibition enforcement agent Oliver Anson catch her stepfather, a notorious bootlegger. But the truth will shake Manhattan society to its foundations... Views: 116
Fourteen years ago, Vivian and Damon walked away from a once-in-a-lifetime love.Their worlds collide again when Damon is appointed Head Attorney for a defendant that could bring Vivian's entire network security company crashing down around her.As sparks fly and old passions resurface, Damon promises they can keep the past and present separate. He demands control in the bedroom, but they agree to keep things professional in the outside world. Each time he ties her up, pins her down, and commands her pleasure, the line between then and now blurs a little more.One of them has to surrender everything if they want to stay together, and both wonder if they're strong enough to walk away from their passions a second time. Views: 115
City of Dragons, Book FourNot only are rogue dragons real, they're attacking my hotel. Every few days, there's another one, terrorizing me, my unborn baby, my boyfriend Lachlan Flint, my friends, and my guests. I have to figure out what's drawing them there and stop them from coming, if only because Clarke Gannon the dragon slayer keeps showing up, and I don't much like her.Lachlan and I are dealing with a case involving stolen magical artifacts and a gargoyle matriarch who doesn't have much faith in our skills.When the case and the attacking rogues converge one day, we run smack into Lachlan's past. He used to work undercover for magical narcotics, and now the vampire gang he infiltrated might offer our only hope to stop the rogues and protect our child.But to do that, we'll need to go undercover again, into the depths of the dangerous magical underworld. Views: 115
A marketer learns the limitations of language in this "hilarious" and thought-provoking satire (Flux Magazine). Miles Platting is pulled from the ruins of a shipwreck into a hospital in which no one will speak to him. The founder of Lingua Franca—a naming rights agency committed to renaming every UK town after a corporate sponsor—Miles is desperate to recount the story of his quest for linguistic supremacy to anyone who'll listen. Confined to his bed in a deathly quiet ward, Miles seeks to find his colleagues and reunite with his true love. But in doing so, he must confront his most deeply held convictions and consider the question of what's in a name in a world where the spoken word has been replaced with silence. Views: 115
The New York Times bestselling author of The Sound of Glass and coauthor of The Forgotten Room tells the story of a woman coming home to the family she left behind—and to the woman she always wanted to be...Georgia Chambers has spent her life sifting through other people's pasts while trying to forget her own. But then her work as an expert of fine china—especially of Limoges—requires her to return to the one place she swore she'd never revisit...It's been thirteen years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed, except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. She finds solace seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled. Seeing them after all this time makes Georgia realize that something has been missing—and unless she finds a way to heal these... Views: 115
She risked her life to save a human child. Pain was her reward. All her life, Emma longed for someone to love. Instead, disaster sees the brand-new bard banished from her people for long lonely years. Injured saving a child, the werebear has to steal food from humans, breaking shifter Law. The territory’s Cosantir and his lethal grizzly warrior catch her in the act. To her surprise, she’s healed and welcomed. Obviously, they don’t know her past. But oh, she can’t resist being around other shifters—especially the captivatingly powerful warrior. Maybe she can stay…just a little while. As a grizzly warrior, Ben is ordered to house the pretty werebear until she heals. His littermate abandoned him, his home is empty, and he’s been alone for a long time. Intelligent and sweet and lushly curved, Emma is a delight…even if she is oddly reticent about her past. Although having sworn off females, he’s sorely tempted by this one. Damned if he doesn’t want to keep her, secrets or not. Females were trouble. Years past, one split Ryder from his littermate. Now the panther shifter is returning to Ben, bringing his cub with him, a four-year-old he stole from the abusive female. To Ryder’s annoyance, his brother is sheltering a wounded bear. A female. Even worse, she’s beautiful and gentle and loving—damned if he’s going to fall for that act again. But when the dark of the moon arrives and death reigns supreme, he’ll discover that not all females are alike. In a world filled with hellhounds and pixies, can three lonely shifters and one silent cub create a new family together? ** Views: 115
