Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home. Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster carer on New Year's Day and instantly recognises Archie from a domestic violence workshop she helped with. Rosie remembers that when asked what he enjoyed most about the course, Archie said: 'the biscuits'. Social workers are concerned that Archie and Bobbi have been neglected. As Rosie gets to know the children, she begins to suspect that something far more disturbing lies in their past. Archie, jovial and polite, bats away Rosie's attempts to talk to him about anything serious with witty one-liners and sophisticated distractions. Bobbi reacts violently, lashing out and throwing herself around. Rosie has never seen a child as young a Bobbi behaving so viciously, but it is Archie she is most concerned about as the weeks go by. After a worrying incident at... Views: 25
Twelve-year-old Henry Hewitt has been living by his wits on the streets of London, dodging his parents, who are determined to sell him as an apprentice. Searching for a way out of the city, Henry lands a position in Hampshire as an assistant to Sir Richard Blackstone, an aristocratic scientist who performs unorthodox experiments in his country manor. The manor house is comfortable, and the cook is delighted to feed Henry as much as he can eat. Sir Richard is also kind, and Henry knows he has finally found a place where he belongs.But everything changes when one of Sir Richard's experiments accidentally transforms a normal-sized tarantula into a colossal beast that escapes and roams the neighborhood. After a man goes missing and Sir Richard is accused of witchcraft, it is left to young Henry to find an antidote for the oversized arachnid. Things are not as they seem, and in saving Sir Richard from the gallows, Henry also unravels a mystery about his own identity. Views: 25
Flower Queen, A Romance Book by Lilliana Rose Views: 25
Three breaths before he pulled the trigger, he told me he loved me.
Two breaths before, I told him I loved him.
One breath later, everything was different.
Zero breaths. That's how many I have left in this life.
Zero.
That's how many regrets I wish I had.
Be careful today because sometimes, tomorrow never comes.
***NEVER COULD STOP is Jade Regali's story, a full-length new adult romance novel that can be read as either a stand-alone with no cliff-hanger and a happy ending, or as book number seven in the TASTING NEVER series, beginning with book #1, TASTING NEVER, or a three book box set of books #1-3, TASTING, FINDING, KEEPING: THE STORY OF NEVER. This book contains one lost girl, a brooding boy, and a love story mixed with some suspense and a whole lot of hope. It contains mild sex scenes, some violence and plenty of cursing. It also includes a boy with a skeleton tattoo, blue and black hair, and a voice deep and rumbling like thunder.
More New Adult Romance by C.M. Stunich (aka Violet Blaze)
1. Stepbrother Inked (forbidden romance) by Violet Blaze
2. Kicked (sports romance)
3. Groupie (rockstars)
4. Beautiful Survivors (reverse harem)
5. Pack Ebon Red (fantasy)
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Everything is a lie.
Sam has spent the last six months sorting through plots against the people she cares for most. Learning who to trust—and who to kill. And just when she thought she had it all figured out, the good guys separated from the bad, her world is upended.
Ea’s vessel has been revealed.
The equinox is coming.
Sam knows it’s up to her to stop what’s coming—and who is bringing it. If she doesn’t, the goddess inside her will take over, erasing what’s left of Sam’s sense of self. In fact, Hina’s already struggling for dominance.
But how can Sam possibly battle evil itself when her heartbreak is so great she can’t even heal Alex when he needs her most? Sam needs time. And time is the one thing she doesn’t have.
Alex is struggling to heal and to help Sam stay grounded. But he’s got his own mystery to solve. A secret about himself and his past that he doesn’t even know exists. Together, they’ll battle demons inside and out.
Alex isn’t who he thinks he is. Sam isn’t the only one who was chosen. Views: 25
In the early 1970s, Laura Bauer decides to leave college and head fifty miles north of her comfortable Atlanta home to manage a federally funded project aiding pregnant teenagers from the back roads of Appalachia. Almost as young as her clients, Laura is immediately confronted with—and almost overwhelmed by—a variety of young women in desperate circumstances, having no other source of prenatal care. When Nighttime Shadows Fall, Diane Michael Cantor's second novel, portrays the world of these girls with compassion, hardscrabble humor, and reverence for their families' capacities to prevail despite hardships... Views: 25
