Emma-Jean Aldridge knows better than anyone that life isn’t always easy. The loss of her parents has left her with no money and no family. Yet, she’s determined to make her dreams a reality, even if the world she currently lives in may not be ready.Austin McNeil is on the verge of losing his ranch and family business. Being a marine was hard, but life as a civilian can be even more challenging, especially as a single parent. And if that isn’t enough, someone is set on ruining him.Can two people from different times, searching for answers to their individual problems find solutions within each other? Or, will a promise made steal their chance at happiness, leaving all involved brokenhearted?Timeless Hearts: If two hearts are meant to be together - nothing, not even time itself, can stand in the way. Views: 26
Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy.Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death. Both lives have been built upon the division of race, and their meeting should never have occurred . . . until the Soweto Uprising, in which a protest by black students ignites racial conflict, alters the fault lines on which their society is built, and shatters their worlds when Robin's parents are left dead and Beauty's daughter goes missing. After Robin is sent to live with her loving but irresponsible aunt, Beauty is hired to care for Robin... Views: 26
Evil lurks just down the road. It’s been waiting, and the wait’s over…The last thing Emma wanted to do this summer was spend it on a farm! But now she’s stuck, along with her kid sister Julia, and worst of all her two snotty cousins from New York City. Her grandparents are selling the place this Fall, and want some kind of ‘bonding experience’ to happen between the four cousins this final summer. Bonding? None of them had ever spent an overnight here, let alone a month! On their very first night cooped up in the farmhouse, Cousin Grace sees a mysterious light coming from the dilapidated ramshackle house across the fields. The place is supposed to have been vacant for years, so what’s up with that?They ask Grandpa about the Hanson home at breakfast and he totally loses it. He forbids them to go near the place— it can be dangerous, he says. Well it’s the only interesting thing on this dumpy island. And besides, Grandpa really got their curiosity up about Hanson House.…and we know what curiosity did to the cat, right? Views: 26
The woman he can never trust is having his baby...When Lucy Campbell inherits a multimillion-dollar Manhattan estate, her employer's nephew sees only a gold-digging scammer. But even with battle lines drawn, CEO Oliver Drake can't resist the temptation of bedding the very woman he's trying to expose! Then Lucy delivers her shocking baby news. Does she genuinely desire a future together? Or is it another ploy that could destroy Oliver's trust forever? Views: 26
Enter the vivid and cinematic world of Faloiv in the first book of this dazzling YA sci-fi/fantasy duology, perfect for fans of Carve the Mark, Red Rising, and These Broken Stars. Octavia has always dreamed of becoming a whitecoat, one of the prestigious N'Terra scientists who study the natural wonders of Faloiv. So when the once-secretive labs are suddenly opened to students, she leaps at the chance to see what happens behind their closed doors. However, she quickly discovers that all is not what it seems on Faloiv, and the experiments the whitecoats have been doing run the risk of upsetting the humans' fragile peace with the Faloii, Faloiv's indigenous people. As secret after disturbing secret comes to light, Octavia finds herself on a collision course with the charismatic and extremist new leader of N'Terra's ruling council. But by uncovering the mysteries behind the history she's been taught, the science she's lived by, and... Views: 26
