The gift she never wanted...Since Katrina Landon was a young girl, she has always had the gift of forewarnings. Usually, this sight has never disrupted her life. Until now. The wealthy father she has never known wants to meet her, but she must travel from the slums of London through the Amazon rainforest to his plantation in order to get her inheritance. But her premonitions are warning her of the danger ahead. If only her gift could tell her more about the handsome guide, Mr. Knightly, who immediately stirs her temper...and her interest.Felix Knightly isn't looking forward to escorting a spoiled rich girl through the jungle, no matter how much her father pays. Yet when he meets her, he finds her distracting innocence, and charming demeanor unsettling. He's not certain what to think about the sudden forewarnings she keeps giving. He'd rather fight off fire ants, howler monkeys, and crocodiles than risk losing his heart to her, since he's never met a wealth woman who can be honest.As they delve deeper into the shadows of the rainforest, they discover they weren't just wrong about each other, but they were wrong about the dangers of the jungle. Someone wants them dead and they have to find out who it is before it's too late. Views: 576
Bound to an Azhi she is being forced to fall in love with, Xia must now face a world that seems to be falling to pieces. Dark powers are rising, everything is shifting and the only thing that seems stable is Sanquility. The Black Wolf will be her rock when she looses almost everything. Will she be able to face this challenge in the darkness that she's enveloped in? Or will she loose the battle to the ultimate evil? Views: 576
Good people sometimes do bad thingsMarianne needs to find who's leaking secrets from her company, before they lose another major contract. What she doesn't need is an affair with her married boss. Even worse, to fall in love with him.She discovers the security leak is more than a case of commercial espionage: someone is lying in the shadows, playing games with them. Now more than her heart and career are at stake—her life is on the line. Views: 576
THE SIREN AND OTHER STRANGE TALES is a collection of six short stories spanning the twentieth century about people who discover death is not always the final curtain. •Double-dealing care assistant Mandy Robinson meets a mysterious cat. The cat knows when death approaches but does Mandy?•In a strange encounter on a lonely road in France, self-absorbed artist Gavin is given some ghostly marriage guidance.•A holiday in France proves to be one life-lesson too far for rebellious teenager Sukie.•In German-occupied France collaborator Jean Fourrier pays the price for his betrayal.•A simple game of cards between four respectable middle-aged ladies. Nothing could be more natural…could it?•A stranger comes to a remote seaside village in the middle of winter. What haunts him? Is it grief or guilt…? Views: 576
"A short story of brutal love."
Glenn Rolfe (author of Blood and Rain, Slush, and Becoming) offers up a love story for the ages.
Veronica's yearly winter vacation leads her to another brutal tryst in her favorite dump in the world, the Lucky Lounge Motel. When she meets her next victim, things don't go as planned. This Christmas in New Jersey, she finds a lot more than she was looking for....welcome to Veronica's world of blood and murder...welcome to paradise.
A short story from Glenn's collection, Land of Bones New 2020 Christmas Edition also contains the short stories "Waiting Up for Santa" and "The Killing Season" Views: 576
This time it's Alex Cross on trial.
Alex Cross is on the wrong side of the law. Serving a suspension from the force while he awaits trial for murder, Cross has been branded as a trigger-happy cop, another bad apple walking the streets with a gun, an accusation that Cross will do anything to refute. To make himself feel useful again, Cross opens a counseling office in the basement of his home. When his former partner Sampson shows up needing his help, Cross jumps at the chance, even if it may end up costing him what's left of his career. When a string of young, blonde women go missing, the investigation leads Cross and Sampson to the most depraved, darkest corners of the internet. Struggling to prove his own innocence and uncover the truth lurking online, Cross must risk everything to save his most at-risk patient of all...himself. Views: 576
“There’s something out in that water. Be ready to take the people you love and leave when it comes onshore.”
For three months, Lyric Walker has been trapped in the hunting grounds, the Alpha city at the bottom of the ocean. But Lyric Walker, Brooklyn girl, is not going down without a fight. She makes an unlikely alliance with her jailor, a Rusalka named Husk. Husk reveals the truth about what actually resides in the Great Abyss. The Great Abyss is not some Alpha god but belongs to an unknown clan of monsters, ones who think in a hive mentality and believe anyone who cannot hear their voice is broken and must be destroyed. And Lyric has just woken them.
After a death-defying escape, Lyric makes her journey back to the mainland to prepare humanity for another monster invasion. Once reunited with her parents, Bex, and hot-nerd-with-potential Riley, Lyric has to break the terrible truth.
Lyric was just a girl when the Alpha arrived in her hometown. She was a soldier in the second attack that saved her world. What will she have to become now, and who will she have to leave behind? Views: 576
Recovering from a shoulder injury that could end his career as starting pitcher of the New York Empires, Drew MacIntire comes to Silver Bay for solitude and privacy from the media frenzy his surgery has created. After he dances with the beautiful baker, Baylee, at his sister's wedding, his heart not only wants baseball back, but a future with her as well. Baylee Nelson is settled into her simple, small town life in Silver Bay with her young son, Casey. When Drew saunters into her bakery intent on asking her out, she can't help but be thrilled. He's handsome, sexy, kind, and also takes interest in Casey. Baylee knows she needs to keep things casual. She and Drew live in separate worlds, and she needs to keep her focus on her business and son, but Drew didn't get to the top by giving up easily. Drew and Baylee are falling hard, but with spring training approaching, it seems like the third strike for their future...Can their love withstand the media glare and challenges of a long... Views: 576
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Beatrice does her best thinking upside down. Hanging from trees by her knees, doing handstands . . . for Beatrice Zinker, upside down works every time. She was definitely upside down when she and her best friend, Lenny, agreed to wear matching ninja suits on the first day of third grade. But when Beatrice shows up at school dressed in black, Lenny arrives with a cool new outfit and a cool new friend. Even worse, she seems to have forgotten all about the top-secret operation they planned! Can Beatrice use her topsy-turvy way of thinking to save the mission, mend their friendship, and flip things sunny-side up? Views: 576
A little girl who desperately wants a dog introduces an imaginary Great Dane called Henry into her home. But then, to her great surprise, she is allowed a real Henry! Was old Mrs Garrow, with her cackling laugh and black cat, responsible for her wish coming true?From the number one author for animal magic comes a wonderful new edition of this much loved classic. Views: 575
