#HIM: Castle Ink is my business, women my game. Being a tattoo artist is in my blood, it's what I was born to do, and I love it. But I grow tired of the game. I've always been a gentleman, but now I'm wearing my heart on my sleeve and looking for the one. Finding that one girl was always going to be a challenge, but I knew from the moment I met her, everything she could throw at me would be worth it. Between work, family and her, my life is at a crossroads. She's the one I can see my forever with, the one that both my mind and heart have agreed on. Now I need to make her mine.#HER: I'm a career woman with a love for movies. My job is my life, it’s everything I need it to be and so are the people I've been lucky enough to surround myself with. But I have a painful past, a past I have tried to escape by learning from my mistakes. However, somehow, it always sticks with me. Over the years I've learned to protect myself, but now one person is threatening those walls I’ve built. The emotions I’m starting to feel, scare me. Is it worth it? Is he worth it? Views: 584
His arms were hanging down, but his face was turned upwards. For the first time Johnny saw a dead man.Colonel Meroy is a prosperous pillar of the landed gentry. But his neighbours would be shocked to learn he'd started out as a London pickpocket, and still earns his income from a career in smoothly organized robbery. Now he's hit a perilous snag – his latest job means going up against the rival and ruthless Luvello gang for a fortune in gold bullion, and even risking the safety of his own son. When a river policeman is killed, Inspector Thompson of Scotland Yard is drawn into the case, and he always gets his man ...He Shot to Kill was first published in 1936, and has remained out of print until this new edition. It includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.'I have the highest opinion of Peter Drax's murder stories ... The secret of Peter Drax's success is his ability to make the circumstances as plausible as the characters are... Views: 584
Five seconds.A deafening blast. Pain. Silence. That was all it took for an IED to end my life as I knew it. The man I was shattered in a hard wave of sound and debris that rained down on me like death itself. And six months later, after waking up to an inescapable hell, I found myself wishing that death had found me. Until her. Miranda Jacobs swept into my life like a cool breeze on a smoldering day. With her smart mouth and her ridiculous jokes, she brought me back to life one minute at a time. Turned out time wasn’t on our side. Five seconds.Screams. Twisted metal. Silence.And I’d lost it all again—only this time, I had no one to blame but myself. Views: 584
Don’t miss the epic finale in T. S. Joyce’s bestselling Red Havoc Panthers series
The countdown is on. Crazy Lynn Matheson has six days until she’ll join all the other shifters who have lost their minds and been put down by their alphas. All she wants to do is get through the next week with the Gray Back Crew as quietly as possible, but some of the big, dominant males in Damon’s Mountains are pushing her to fight her destiny. The main culprit? A tatted-up, motorcycle-riding, trouble-making giant of a man named Jathan Barns. He’s watching her every move, angering the panther inside of Lynn. She wants nothing to do with love, but Jathan is stirring up emotions she never thought she would feel again, and now he’s making her question everything—her destiny included.
The countdown is on. Jathan Barns has six days to save Crazy Lynn. She fell apart when she left Damon’s Mountains, and now no matter what it costs him, he is determined to keep her alpha from putting her down. He would fight every shifter on earth to keep her safe, but he can’t save a half-crazed panther shifter who doesn’t want to save herself. The plan is simple: manipulate Lynn into being the tough girl he knows she is, without losing his heart in the process. But the more time he spends with her, the more he learns things aren’t always what they seem. She isn’t weak like he thought, and as he begins to understand her, it becomes clear that her broken panther might be just the right match for his Bad Bear.
Content Warning: Explicit love scenes, naughty language, and piles of sexy shifter secrets. Intended for mature audiences. Views: 583
Thinker, politician, blagger, schemer, patroness and matriarch, Caroline of Ansbach is the great monarch Britain forgot it had. History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach and yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as 'the cleverest Queen consort Britain ever had'. The intellectual superior of her buffoonish husband George II, Caroline is credited with bringing the Enlightenment to Britain through her sponsorship of red-hot debates about science, religion, philosophy and the nature of the universe. Encouraged by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, she championed inoculation; inspired by her friend Leibniz and Samuel Clarke, she mugged up on Newtonian physics; she embraced a salon culture which promoted developments in music, literature and garden design; she was a regular theatre-goer who loved the opera, gambling and dancing. Her intimates marvelled at the breadth of her interests. She was, said Lord Egmont, 'curious in everything'. Caroline... Views: 583
‘Franny and June’ is ‘Freaky Friday’ meets ‘We need to talk about Kevin’.Remember all those body-swap movies in the 80s? Like Big and Vice Versa and ask yourself, what might happen if the doting parent misses their youth a little too much.Who wouldn’t like another chance to do all again, to get it right this time? To be young and pain free, careless and bright? Still, what price would you pay?Franny and June‘Franny and June’ is ‘Freaky Friday’ meets ‘We need to talk about Kevin’.Remember all those body-swap movies in the eighties? Like Big and Vice Versa and ask yourself, what might happen if the doting parent misses their youth a little too much.Who wouldn’t like another chance to do all again, to get it right this time? To be young and pain free, careless and bright? Of course, we know from Tom Hanks experience that being young comes with its own challenges, right? Views: 583
Lies. Shifters. And space vampires. Elly Morgan, an ex-cop-turned-PI, is sent on a mission to catch a serial killer making a blood buffet of her kin, the legendary Seannach. But she's got more than one problem. The Secretive Seannach Council has teamed up with the Ghael Constabulary and sent a Sanguinary—a detective named Blaine Cornell—to chase the killer. What he knows and can't share could get her killed. He's got lies. She's got lies. And the killer has Elly in his crosshairs.This is the first installment of the Guardians of Ghael urban fantasy series. It's a detective story with a little bit of Dashiell Hammett and a little Cowboy Bebop. Views: 583
In this witty, deeply honest tale of married life, New York Times bestselling author Jane Green delves into the heart of the holidays—and the winter of one woman's discontent . . . Just when she'd sworn off men for good, Sarah Evans met Eddie. Sarah was a magazine editor, living in Manhattan, and loving her life—except for the heartbreaks. A successful real estate developer, Eddie was a breath of fresh air, a meeting of minds—and bodies. Soon came wedded bliss, baby number one—and the proverbial move to the suburbs . . . You just sit there like a slob while I do all the work. Nine years later, this is increasingly what goes through Sarah's mind when she looks at Evan, propped in front of the TV with a beer, ignoring their two children. The truth is, she misses her old life. She misses the old Eddie. She can't help wondering if she'd be happier alone . . . When Eddie's job sends him to Chicago... Views: 583
She loves his brother. He wishes to see her happy. But neither expected this outcome.Graeme Clayton has always thought of his brother, Everett, as a bit of a blockhead. However, when Everett seems to prefer a fawning and flirtatious lady over Beatrice Tierney, Graeme knows that his brother is not just a bit of a blockhead but a complete and utter fool!Knowing that Beatrice secretly loves Everett and despite his opinion of his brother's mental faculties, Graeme vows to do his part to bring the two together. For to Graeme, there is nothing more important than seeing his lovely neighbour and good friend happy.Beatrice Tierney has long harboured feelings for Graeme's younger brother, who is serious and thoughtful–or at least he used to be. Now, she fears she must watch any hope she had of ever securing his heart slip away forever.However, she is not destined to watch alone. Graeme has positioned himself as her champion and with his help, she just might find both true happiness and love. Views: 583
“Part Robert Parker, part Carl Hiaasen, Eddie Perlmutter is a high testosterone, no-nonsense detective with a tender core, and makes turning sixty a carnal, tropical ride.”
- Andrew Gross
Since he arrived in sunny Florida, Eddie has survived a run-in with the Russian mafia and tangled with Boca’s own family of neo-Nazis. But crime and punishment in the land of the Early Bird Special are complicated. The Russians have fled; still their evil lingers; and though the neo-Nazis’ junior thug is guilty, punishing him is a lot more complicated than Eddie thought it would be. And that’s just Eddie’s unfinished business. Helped by a reformed computer conman, he’s busier with new cases than he was in Boston, ranging from a haunted elevator to a double kidnapping. He’s got cases with trails as far as Russia and Israel. Retirement, my foot.
On top of that, women won’t let him retire from affairs of the heart, either. Between his amorous adventures and his burgeoning sleuth business, the twists and turns of Eddie’s life make this an edge-of-your-seat, uproariously funny thriller.
“With a wink and nod, the top cop urges Eddie to take on the city’s toughest criminals in near-vigilante fashion. What results is an entertaining mix of comedy and drama as Eddie squares off with an anti-Semitic hate group. Fortunately, Forman steers his geriatric hero clear of the buffoonery and sentimentality that often comes with the territory in this subgenre.”
- Booklist
“Mystery fans who like their operatives macho with an offbeat sense of humor will certainly enjoy this book and look forward to the next in the series.”
- Library Journal
“Those with a cockeyed sense of humor will find much to like in this parody of a cop caper.”
- Publishers Weekly
“Boca Knights goes down faster than a frosty double mojito on a hot tropical night.”
- Lincoln Child
“Eddie Perlmutter is a character for the ages. Carl Hiaasen, watch your back.”
- Douglas Preston
“Steve Forman’s fun, funky twist of the private eye novel is entertaining and takes dead aim on Boca Raton with devastating results.”
- James O. Born Views: 583
