From an author hailed for her "great characters"—a brave young woman finds love and adventure in the harsh frontier of nineteenth century Australia (Jo Lambert). After a scandal drove them from their native England, the Noble family have travelled to the other side of the world to start a new life in the Australian colonies. And young Pippa Noble is determined to reclaim their honor by turning her father's hopes for an outback farm into a reality. But her ambition is frowned upon by a society that believes a woman should know her place. Pippa learns some hard lessons about the unforgiving bush country, sometimes with devastating consequences. When an unfortunate circumstance leaves her tending the farm alone, she is pleasantly surprised to find a helping hand—and a caring heart—in Gil Ashford-Smith, the ruggedly handsome owner of the neighboring estate. But her family's past comes to haunt her in the form of an... Views: 464
Meet the Turk brothers one hard riding, curve loving cowboy at a time!
Stranded on a lonely road, Barrett Turk isn’t looking for the love of his life—just a ride to the airstrip where his crew of smokejumpers is waiting. With a forest fire eating its way toward his family ranch and the rest of Willow Gap, he’ll do whatever it takes to stop the next vehicle that drives by.
Fleeing a broken life in Los Angeles, Quinn Whitaker doesn’t know what to make of the hulking, axe-wielding maniac who jumps in front of her truck.
Is he a serial killer?
A crazed car jacker?
Mr. Right?
**Reading order for books (so far!) in the Real Cowboys Love Curves series**
Adler James—Book One
Walker Pierce—Book Two
Barrett Cole—Book Three
**Recommended for** readers seeking a sweet romance that features: curves, a cowboy, a ranch setting with western living, happily ever after, weddings, and family life readers can return to over and over as each sibling, cousin and friend brings their search for true love to a satisfying end. Views: 464
You come across inconveniences -- a stone in your shoe, a raincloud over your morning walk, a flower petal in your eye, a loose baby tooth, gallstones that pass and come out in the shape of fool's gold. You have two choices -- annoyance or reverence. Those who treat inconveniences, bothers, and pains with reverence -- there lie your adventurers, your romantics, your poets.G.K. Chesterton wrote a very short piece that everyone should read entitled On Chasing After One's Hat in which he argues that an adventure is really a matter of perspective and traveling companions, not a destination or a time slot or a reason for travel. His typical one-liner from that piece goes, "An inconvenience, rightly considered, is an adventure. An adventure, wrongly considered, is an inconvenience." In that spirit, the spirit articulated above, these poems come from my adventures over the last decade. ∴ they also come from having rightly considered all of my inconveniences. That definition of adventure is also a wonderful definition of poetry. I say this as a romantic in the old sense of the word, as someone attempting to build upon Inkling and neoplatonic thought, as someone whose every contact with the world sends out further spores of mystery and chivalry, bee and his pollen, love and the court that follows after her. After all, the damsel's distress had nothing to do with needing saving and everything to do with the internal turmoil of her mind as it attempted to seek the higher in the midst of the every day. She was distressed not because she was in a tower and needed a prince, but because it's hard work to rightly consider the inconvenient. Again, Chesterton from his book on Blake:"We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapours, these are the daily weather of this world. Whatever else we have grown accustomed to, we have grown accustomed to the unaccountable. Every stone or flower is a hieroglyphic of which we have lost the key; with every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand...." At the intersection of those two Chesterton quotes lies this book of poems. In life, you come across inconveniences all the time -- a stone in your shoe, a raincloud over your morning walk (in Brooklyn, a drizzle seems a downpour when endured for thirty blocks), a flower petal in your eye, a loose baby tooth, gallstones that pass and come out in the shape of fool's gold. When these things happen, you have two choices -- annoyance or reverence. Those who treat the inconveniences of this world, the nuisances and trials, the bothers and pains with reverence -- there lie your adventurers, your romantics, your poets. Everything truly is a hieroglyphic, a prop in the midst (and mist) of this great and eternal drama we find ourselves within, something we are certain to misunderstand without the proper key. Poetry, for me, has been one of these keys to unlock the inconvenient -- even inconvenient, lesser poems that I do not like and cannot "get." Poetry's not the skeleton key, of course, but it is something like a key to the foyer. Poetry, when done well, unlocks the bothers and nuisances of everyday life, sometimes through observation, sometimes through participation, never through willful ignorance and disengagement. Poetry begs us to engage with the world around us, to discover the story and the world hidden in every little thing, to delve into that In-side which is surely deeper and higher and broader than any outside, let in The Light through that crack in everything, and call us further Up and further In.PRAISE for Lancelot Schaubert ::“Schaubert’s words have an immediacy, a potency, an intimacy that grab the reader by the collar and say ‘Listen, this is important!’ Probing the bones and gristle of humanity, his subjects challenge, but also offer insights into redemption if only we will stop and pay attention.” — Erika Robuck, National Bestselling Author of Hemingway’s Girl“Loved this story because Lance wrote about people who don't get written about enough and he did it with humor, compassion, and heart.”— Brian Slatterly, author of Lost Everything and editor of The New Haven Review Views: 464
Alone in the trenches following a devastating barrage of enemy fire, Robert discovers there is more than just his own innocence at stake in this godforsaken war. Originally published in From the Trenches by Carnifex Press.It was just the driving rain and the liquidity of the mud that made them look like a child’s footprints. Robert had no idea how long he had been following them, or even why. He wondered if he was simply keeping himself busy, distracting himself from the squealing in his ears, the festering wound in his thigh, the cold numbing his face and fingers, the knowledge that everyone was dead, that he was alone and lost in this cemetery, this sewer, this labyrinth. These trenches. Views: 464
Tara thought her life was perfect. Right up until everything fell apart. With no job, no boyfriend, and no future, she returned home to Winterville to help her mom run her floral shop. She felt like she was back in high school, working for her mom and living at home.When nude pictures of Tara show up online, her life is scrutinized even more than it ever was in Hollywood. She can't leave the house without someone asking her questions or thinking she'll be willing to model for them. As if.When Tara meets Noah she thinks he's playing her. He doesn't seem to know anything about the pictures. As they get closer, doubts creep in, but Noah holds strong as her rock.Until he learns the truth. Views: 464
Ben wasn't brought up, he was dragged up.With absent parents and broken friends, a young Ben makes choices that are ruining his life. Before he's even twenty, Ben's spells in prison begin, and soon he finds himself involved in serious crime. When people begin to die, Ben must choose a side.But is this really the life Ben wants or is there a way out of this vicious cycle? Is he destined to fulfil his fate of being once a prisoner, always a prisoner? Or can Ben swap a life on the inside, for one with hope on the outside?Ross Greenwood is back with this shocking, page-turning glimpse into the criminal underworld.This book was previously published as THE BOY INSIDE.Praise for Ross Greenwood:'Move over Rebus and Morse; a new entry has joined the list of great crime investigators in the form of Detective Inspector John Barton. A rich cast of characters and an explosive plot kept me turning the pages until the final... Views: 464
A bonus short story that is NOT for Sale in e-book form--only paperback.
From New York Times bestselling author, Penelope Ward, comes a new novelette.
The first time I met Jade Jameson, I lost my words and accidentally dropped a beer bottle, smashing it to the ground.
The Broadway star sister of my brother’s wife had paid us a surprise visit on Christmas. Quite simply, she was the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen; I was mesmerized.
I’d made a fool of myself, though, and to make matters worse, my girlfriend was standing right there when it all happened.
Jade went back to New York, and we didn’t cross paths again for a year—until one night when a Facebook notification lit up my screen, setting off a chain of events that would change my life forever.
*This is a bonus standalone story of 16,000 words...figure about 1-2 hours reading time...and it's available for newsletter subscribers to download ABSOLUTELY FREE at the end of Mister Moneybags. Views: 464
Three books in one, the definitive Shadow Trilogy box set is here.
Blood and Shadows:
They came from the shadows. They came to destroy us.
Twenty years ago, bloodthirsty assassins turned an innocent girl into a monster. Most of her humanity perished. She fell into darkness.
Now she steps from the shadows. Now she destroys the light. Now she brings the rise of the assassin king.
Dawyn Darklance was thrust into war. After mysteriously arriving on Tar Ebon he joined the Kingdom of Tar Ebon’s army. Dawyn rose to the rank of commander of the king’s guard and now has been chosen to find and destroy the assassin king.
Against the assassin onslaught, Tar Ebon stands alone. But Dawyn and his allies, a druid, mage and bard, will fight. They will rise. They will win, or they will die.
Time of Shadows:
A flash of light.
In one moment, the lives of three college students from Earth are changed forever. They find themselves on the fantasy world of Tar Ebon. There they uncover their destiny.
As John, Ashley and Jason traverse the world of Tar Ebon they learn to harness the magic inside them and find unexpected allies.
But a frigid wind blows from the north. The Krai’kesh, ancient enemy of mankind, are on the march, crushing everything in their path. Can the heroes from Earth make themselves ready in time to face the coming darkness?
Shadows Fall:
The kingdom of Tar Ebon burns.
We call them the Krai’kesh. They came from the far north, crushing our mightiest fortress and slaughtering our army. Creatures of claws, pincers and endless malice, they ravage the land and seek to destroy our most wondrous city.
As the war flares, as the Krai’kesh threaten to overrun the capital city of Tar Ebon, seven heroes of might and magic must go forth to unite the nations under a single banner. Their next battle must be fought together or shadow will swallow all.
The Krai’kesh will not rest until the last human is dead. John and his allies must defeat them. They must win. Or Tar Ebon, and in time all humanity, will perish. Views: 464
A woman's bungled act of kindness sparks a chain of events that reverberates through the generations uncovering secrets, lies and the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century, the classification of the platypus.
Two women, a century apart, are drawn into a mystery surrounding the biggest scientific controversy of the nineteenth century, the classification of the platypus.
1808 Agnes Banks, NSW
Rose Winton wants nothing more than to work with her father, eminent naturalist Charles Winton, on his groundbreaking study of the platypus. Not only does she love him with all her heart, but the discoveries they have made could turn the scientific world on its head. When Charles is unable to make the long sea journey to present his findings to the prestigious Royal Society in England, Rose must venture forth in his stead. What she discovers there will change the lives of future generations.
1908 Sydney, NSW
Tamsin Alleyn has been given a mission: travel to the Hunter Valley and retrieve an old sketchbook of debateable value, gifted to the Mitchell Library by a recluse. But when she gets there, she finds there is more to the book than meets the eye, and more than one interested party. Shaw Everdene, a young antiquarian bookseller and lawyer, seems to have his own agenda when it comes to the book but Tamsin decides to work with him to try and discover the book's true provenance. The deeper they delve, the more intricate the mystery becomes.
As the lives of two women a century apart converge, discoveries rise up from the past and reach into the future, with irrevocable consequences…
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Gone Girl Allie's heart is broken. Her bratty, entitled, and devious heart. Luckily for her, it's 2051 and a new drug is on the market that can heal her broken heart. It promises to erase Jake forever but that's not enough for Allie. She decides to get creative and take it a step further. Not so lucky for Jake, Allie has her mom on her side and the two make a dangerous team of women bent on seeking justice, even if it means committing a crime. Hell hath no fury like a woman (or two) scorned. By the time it's all over, Jake and Allie will learn that forgetting the pain of the past is possible but someone will pay the price. **About the Author
Elaine Ewertz has been in the medical field for over 12 years and now focuses on writing sci-fi and fantasy thrillers, although her interests run the gamut from satire to literary fiction. A graduate of the University of Central Florida, Elaine has worked as a copywriter and editor for a healthcare marketing firm along with treating patients in the chiropractic field. Her debut novel, The Devil You Know, is the first in her Black Shadows Series of contemporary fantasy thrillers. Views: 464
This book is probably my best book yet. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. It explores subjects like pathos from a sympathetic angle, something that is sadly lacking in popular philosophy these days. As in all my books, I am trying to understand myself better, and help people to better understand the world they both see and don't see. Any feedback would be apprThis book is probably my best book yet. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. It might be a little dark for some people, but it not a negative book. It explores subjects like pathos from a sympathetic angle, something that is sadly lacking in popular philosophy these days. As in all my books, I am trying to understand myself better, and help people to better understand the world they both see and don't see. Any feedback would be appreciated, because I'm always looking for new angles on how to approach my poetry. Thanks for reading! Views: 463
