It starts with the girl. How it ends is up to DC Aidan Waits.Isabelle Rossiter has run away again.When Aidan Waits, a troubled junior detective, is summoned to her father's penthouse home – he finds a manipulative man, with powerful friends.But retracing Isabelle's steps through a dark, nocturnal world, Waits finds something else. An intelligent seventeen-year-old girl who's scared to death of something. As he investigates her story, and the unsolved disappearance of a young woman just like her, he realizes Isabelle was right to run away.Soon Waits is cut loose by his superiors, stalked by an unseen killer and dangerously attracted to the wrong woman. He's out of his depth and out of time.How can he save the girl, when he can't even save himself? Views: 18
Humanity's back is against the wall. Locked in a war of annihilation with an opponent able to strike anywhere, the Constellation Navy have lost sixty percent of their carriers and hundreds of star fighters in a few short years.
The newly commissioned CNS Arcadia is to join the battle for the Bryson system, but before they've even made rendezvous with the fleet, they'll be thrown onto the front lines.
The captain has a secret mission, the leader of the attack squadron has deep political connections, and their arcom ace doesn't exactly have a reputation for following orders.
And then there's Tarek.
He should be just a logistics pilot, but humans are evolving. What began as an uncanny ability to predict enemy fire might just become the power needed to bring the war to a speedy conclusion.
But at what cost?
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You can always come home. Second chances come a little harder.Jesse and Zoe were the high school golden couple. Football captain, cheerleader, prom royalty. After graduation, though, Jesse couldn't resist the urge to experience life outside their small town. He didn't exactly expect Zoe to wait twelve years for him, but now that he's back, he finds some small part of him hoping she did.It's no big surprise she's married. The kick in the face is she married his best friend.Zoe was devastated when Jesse left, but she's filed those bittersweet memories under "Moved On". She loves her life, and loves her husband. She has all she needs. And Jesse keeps an honorable distance.One cold, wet, miserable day, tragedy turns Zoe's world upside down. Jesse never expected her to simply fall into his arms, but a man can dream. Except his dream doesn't include the fact that this time, she's the one hitting the road...and he's the one left behind.Warning: This... Views: 18
RIGHTING THE PASTWhen Cole Hawkins left Whitebark, Wyoming, nine years ago, he couldn't tell a soul the real reason why—not even the love of his life. It had killed him to keep secrets, but he'd made a promise to his father to never share the truth. Now after nearly a decade, Cole is back. And he has every intention of reclaiming Tamsin Rayburn.When her family's ranch is targeted by an arsonist, Cole, working for the local fire department, wants to help catch the culprit. Tamsin has moved on—but she's conflicted when she sees Cole. Could she consider giving him a second chance? That is, if the truth behind why he left doesn't break her heart all over again. Views: 18
Haunted by her dreams . . . Kathi Ellison is an English literature major at the University of California in Berkeley, living with her boyfriend off-campus. She is also the daughter of a candidate for the U.S. Senate and his wife, a role that could affect her life should her father win the election. But before she can consider her future, Kathi must first come to terms with her past. A car accident when she was four-years-old killed her mother and left her in a coma for several days. The migraines and nightmares that plagued her as a child have recently returned with a vengeance, leaving her mind full of visions that feel more like memories. Memories that are not her own. Memories of a frightened and traumatized child named Sheri Walker. Memories linked to her mother's death that her stepmother doesn't want her to remember . . . Views: 18
From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a familiar story with a dark hook—a tale about Peter Pan and the friend who became his nemesis, a nemesis who may not be the blackhearted villain Peter says he is...There is one version of my story that everyone knows. And then there is the truth. This is how it happened. How I went from being Peter Pan's first—and favorite—lost boy to his greatest enemy. Peter brought me to his island because there were no rules and no grownups to make us mind. He brought boys from the Other Place to join in the fun, but Peter's idea of fun is sharper than a pirate's sword. Because it's never been all fun and games on the island. Our neighbors are pirates and monsters. Our toys are knife and stick and rock—the kinds of playthings that bite.Peter promised we would all be young and happy forever. Peter lies.From the Trade Paperback edition. Views: 18
