"In NO PLACE TO DIE, Jaden Skye creates a set of characters that are very well developed, and makes you cheer for our heroine on every page. The environment and the overall description of scenes are superb, making you feel the suspense in the air the whole time. Jaden Skye is a natural story teller and the plot is intelligent and intense, developing at a nice pace. The book was well edited and is an easy read...I can hardly wait to put my hands on the second volume of this series....I recommend this book to the permanent library of all readers that enjoy a well written suspense/romance." —Books and Movie Reviews (Roberto Mattos) NO PLACE TO VANISH is book #2 in the new romantic suspense series by #1 bestselling author Jaden Skye. Olivia, back in New York and trying to resume her normal life, receives a shocking phone call: her best friend from college has gone missing. She never returned from her bachelorette party. Olivia, implored by her... Views: 514
Adina has always wanted to be a part of the annual fashion show at her school for the arts. Now that she's finally in the ninth grade, she and her friends can audition. She knows their act could be perfect. They've got great music, gorgeous costumes and wicked dance moves. But Willow is being her usual flaky self, and Sandra's getting touchy. Maybe even a bit mean. Luckily, Seth remains steady and reliable. Their biggest competition is the annoyingly perfect Prima Donnas, who are doing everything they can to undermine Adina and her friends. Adina is used to working hard at everything she does, including her violin, art, drama and singing classes. But her friends are getting sick of her ordering them around. They just don't get what a huge deal this is. When one of the Prima Donnas gets injured during their audition, minutes after Sandra storms off in a huff, the two groups realize that in order to succeed, they may have to work together. Views: 514
Lisa Townsend has loved her best friend, James Sullivan, since she was in high school, but she’s always been quiet and reserved. Can she find it within herself to finally take that leap?James is afraid if he tells her how he truly feels, he’ll lose her forever, and he’s carried her engagement ring in his pocket for years. The only thing standing in his way is his own doubts.Left with an unplanned pregnancy after one night of passion, will they be able to reconcile their love and give their child the home he deserves. Views: 513
A screenplay for a short movie. The story is about a man who wakes up remembering his last night dream.A screenplay for a short movie.MARGUS, 35, white skin, thin, with short brown hair, opens his eyes and wakes up, there is a bit panic in his eyes, He is in the bed wearing his nightshirt.He remembers some sounds and voices from his dreams. The vague sound of talking with a woman. The sound of noises in the bus. The sounds gradually disappear. Views: 513
While vacationing in Greece in 1956, Lily Tassos, the hard-partying daughter of a powerful arms dealer, has a sudden change in plans. After her sometime boyfriend -a CIA agent- is murdered before her eyes, she finds herself holding a ticket to Moscow and a mysterious metal card. A far cry from her usual pairing of a Faulkner novel and bottle (or two) of white Bordeaux. Alone and haunted by her lover's death, apolitical Lily resolves to complete his mission and find out who killed him. Masquerading as a gung-ho member of the American Communist Party, she travels to Moscow, where she is contacted by Pasha Tarkhan. Brutal, yet charismatic, Tarkhan is both a high-ranking Soviet official and CIA asset, not to mention a covert supporter of the Russian Spiritual Underground. This alliance of self-styled "deists" have rejected the secular Soviet state and vowed to bring it down by means of faith, prayer...and blood. Grinding her old life beneath the heel of her Dior stiletto, Lily puts her new one on the line, surrendering to fate, love and, for once, events bigger than herself. Views: 513
I hate Christmas. I know that's harsh, but all the fake, happy families and people letting the pressure of a perfect holiday get to them really got to me. The one thing making it easier is Mayor Wyatt Ramsey. We're friends, and he decided to make it his mission to change my mind about his favorite holiday. I am less than confident in his skills, but his excitement is more than a little contagious. Just like his kisses. And his touches. And the sexy looks that make me hot. Falling for Christmas is easy. Falling for Wyatt is, too. But not everything is so easy. Like finding out I'm pregnant... Views: 513
Agnes had been deliriously happy married to Frederick Beauchamp, a respected, self-assured landowner. And when he died of consumption after a long sickbed she had been devastated, until help came from an unlikely direction.
Having picked up her life on her late husband's moorland estate, the young widow was ready to love again, but not to deliver herself to another man. This time, she would be in charge.
Eager to make love to a dominant man without being ruled by one, she devised a plan to be overcome in the bedroom but keep control of her own life. And when she found a deserter on the moors, dying of exposure, she thought it was her wish come true.
Set in the Victorian era, Mistress Agnes is a romance in which a brave young woman defies the laws and customs of her time, but also has to face her own fallibility. It is a story of love and of loving, the latter in ways that are not generally associated with Victorian morals.
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A collection of student poems from the 2017 Poetry ContestVoyage to the 1950s:A Sci-Fi novelette (21,419 words, 10 Chapters) An UNUSUAL UFO time travel story as Brad finally gets to meet his obsession, Amanda, and that's not easy since he's in the 21st century and she's in the 20th century.As an experiment to observe human behavior, the gray alien commander of UFO offers his craft's time travel capabilities to propel Brad Anderson back to the 1950s to meet his obsession--a girl in a picture on his grandmother's wall that is over 50 years old. It's an offer that Brad just can't refuse.Excerpt:These beings I pondered, had powers far beyond ours. They could move objects around. They could move around in time. They could make people forget events. They could alter documents. I had no doubt that they could place thoughts in people’s minds if they so desired. Could they even bring Amanda forward and change events to make her fit in unnoticed? That was extreme but the thought crossed my mind. What power they had if they chose to use it. They are around us I acknowledged to myself and we didn’t know it. Those who suspected such were dismissed as dreamers or idiots. I recalled that writers had even written novels contemplating their existence in ancient times. Ghost Informant:A Sci-Fi novelette (12965 words 10 Chapters) Description:In this UNUSUAL story, a policeman discovers a strange informant and sets out to solve a murder that hasn't even been reported. The paranormal world and a by-the-book policeman come together as a recently murdered girl's apparition reaches out to him in a plea to find her body. "Find me," she whispered out of thin air from the back seat of his car--but she wasn't really there when he turned around.Excerpt:I knew I had seen and heard the image of a young woman in the back of my cruiser. But why me? Why did she appear to me and who was she? I knew I couldn’t let it rest.After I got to sleep I had a restless night, tossing and turning. Finally I fell into a peaceful deep sleep until I started dreaming. …………..My gaze moved toward the front of the class where the teacher dressed in a red dress and gold belt had her back turned and was writing something on a blackboard. It looked like gibberish.She finished writing several senses of gibberish, turned around slowly to face the class and I saw it was the girl who had appeared in the back of my car……..As soon as her gaze caught mine she crossed her arms and immediately I could see the piece oMaybe it ran in the family. I knew I had seen and heard the image of a young woman in the back of my cruiser. But why me? Why did she appear to me and who was she? I knew I couldn’t let it rest.After I got to sleep I had a restless night, tossing and turning. Finally I fell into a peaceful deep sleep until I started dreaming. …………..My gaze moved toward the front of the class where the teacher dressed in a red dress and gold belt had her back turned and was writing something on a blackboard. It looked like gibberish.She finished writing several senses of gibberish, turned around slowly to face the class and I saw it was the girl who had appeared in the back of my car……..As soon as her gaze caught mine she crossed her arms and immediately I could see the piece of chalk she had been writing with, extending out from the grasp of the fingers on her right hand……........… Blood was dripping from the very end of it slowly down her hand and onto the floor. I heard the sound as the drops hit the floor—almost like the sound of a ticking clock. Then I woke up.I couldn’t get over the feeling I had in my dream that I had somewhere to go, but I didn’t know where. There are some tasks that you know you have to start even though they hadn’t been in your scheme of things and even though you may not even know exactly what they are. Winston Churchill once said something about being figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a special thing. I guess I had been figuratively tapped on the shoulder. Views: 513
Research scientist Emma Lilton believes she has found a way of making subliminal imprinting (SI), which seeks to unconsciously control decision-making and impede free thinking in subjects, highly effective. Ordinarily, SI would be illegal, but when she persuades Jonathan Woodbridge, the frustrated head of an advertising agency, to use her technique in a TV commercial, the results are astonishing. Though SI loses its champions when a car crash ends their lives, Woodbridge's successor, Elliot Mason, retrieves the secret behind SI and intends to employ it to ensure the agency attains unprecedented success. However, an extreme right-wing political party subsequently bribes him to employ the same method in political party broadcasts; the result is a disaster for the nation and the world changes for the worse. Views: 513
The stakes grow ever higher for Liana Castell... and she must rise to meet them.
Return to the Tower in the gripping fourth book of The Girl Who Dared series, where Liana will face her greatest challenge yet:
Become Ambrose's replacement, or die trying. Views: 513
In the run up to Christmas, New Orleans is usually abuzz with excitement and festivity.This year is different.Asmodeus may have been defeated but the atmosphere in New Orleans is palpable. With the rest of the world watching, and people scared about what might happen next, evil is taking advantage of the chaos. Crime is on the increase in the city and the teenage culprits are proving more challenging to stop than the Fallen.New Orleans is in trouble...Inside the convent the tension is equally thick and tempers are beginning to fray. Half the building is in ruins, the other half is barely habitable, yet angelic duties must continue. Despite frequent clashes with the virtues, Grace and Metatron have permitted Angel and Cupid to clear up their own mess - but without Michael, they have to run the house and recruit potentials, whilst still protecting their charges.... and the former House of Michael is in crisis mode. Views: 512
