Calise Thomas looks through a crowded room. What she isn't expecting to find is Chris. He offers to take her home, but she doesn't leave his side so easily. She insists on joining him and his elite team at their special training grounds in the deep woods of Ohio. Without hesitation, she goes along with Chris to the farthest end of the state. Right away, she meets his mysterious posse.Calise Thomas looks through a crowded room. What she isn't expecting to find is Chris.He offers to take her home, but she doesn't leave his side so easily. She insists on joining him and his elite team at their special training grounds in the deep woods of Ohio. Without hesitation, she goes along with Chris to the farthest end of the state. Right away, she meets his mysterious posse. They start mocking her attendance and tease her for being new. But she trains with them anyway and takes on her role as a Collector.Meanwhile, a mark starts forming on her shoulder, one that matches the rest of her teammates. She's initiated. A magic cloud consumes her for the first time, and she discovers people (like herself) are living in a secluded structure underground, as well as collaborating with 'the outsiders'. The Collectors are one aspect of an entire new world she never knew existed. Views: 378
Read the next book in the Steeple Ridge Romance series! HER RESTLESS COWBOY features the youngest of the Buttars brothers, Ben, and his cowboy romance journey toward happily-ever-after with a woman older than him. You'll get all the cowboy romance you love, as well as opposites attract, age gap, and all the sweet and swoony kissing you want! She's a workaholic. They're total opposites, but Ben knows what he wants... Will he get too restless waiting for her? Cowboy Ben Buttars is the youngest of the four Buttars brothers who come to Steeple Ridge Farm, and he finally feels like he's landed somewhere he can make a life for himself. At only twenty-five, and having been cared for by his older brother when their parents died a decade ago, Ben's never dated, never had a serious relationship, never really worried about anything. Reagan Cantwell is a decade older than Ben and the recreational direction for the town of Island Park, five... Views: 378
A passionate portrait of love’s contradictory power, in five illuminating stories.
Andre Aciman, who has been called “the most exciting new fiction writer of the twenty-first century” (New York Magazine), has written a novel in Enigma Variations that charts the life of Paul whose loves remain as consuming and covetous throughout adulthood as they were in adolescence. Whether in southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents’ cabinet maker, or on a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he’ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men; on a tennis court in Central Park, or a sidewalk in early spring New York, his attachments are ungraspable, transient and forever underwritten by raw desire—not for just one person’s body but, inevitably, for someone else’s as well.
In mapping the most inscrutable corners of desire, Aciman proves to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche and a master stylist of contemporary literature. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid, he casts a sensuous, shimmering light over each facet of desire to probe how we ache, want, and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of those who may want only to offer what we crave from them. Behind every step the hero takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love always casts its luminous halo. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and others. But sooner or later we discover who we’ve always known we were. Views: 378
Winner of the Scholastic Montegrappa Prize for New Children's Writing = Poppy is thrilled that they're spending the summer at Smuggler's Cove. It might even take her mind off the mystery of her past. But Poppy is about to make some amazing discoveries - and solve more than one mystery...
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Now with no choice but to go forward, Elaine and her new friend, Weslie, must descend into the terrifying Dweller mines to rescue their friends, who are now trapped in the deepest reaches. That’s bad news, because there are monsters down there they’ll need to deal with, along with other unspeakable dangers. But rescuing her friends won’t be the only dangerous task waiting for Elaine. There’s also talk of a Heart of Flamestone far underground, and it might hold the secret to stopping the Dwellers and freeing all their slaves for good. But worst of all, Elaine’s now weighed down with the knowledge that she must also kill her evil stepfather to stop his system of slavery. He’s in pursuit and if Elaine can’t find the strength to kill him and tear her family apart, he’s going to make sure she never sees the surface again. Views: 377
Romance, adventure , anguish , drama , fanfiction, Harman , Saumya, haya intersex romanceTo fall in love is acceptable but to fall in love with an anomaly. The world, society and even his family are against this unique love. How far and how long will his quest for love be? Join Harman and Soumya in this one of a kind love story. Views: 377
The streets of south Auckland are a tough beat, and Dan Crowley’s detective squad is under-resourced and overworked.Violent crime is riding a surging wave and the cops seem helpless to stop it. With a brutal gang of gun-wielding thugs robbing cash vans, each robbery more violent than the last, it is only a matter of time before they have a body on their hands.While Dan is chasing a promotion he’s worked his butt off for, his compassion for the underdog leads him to hunt the hoods who have beaten a young boy and left him too traumatised to leave the house.Dan Crowley doesn’t like bullies, and he’s taking this case personally.A new boss named Kennedy doesn’t help, and at a time when his career should have been taking off, Dan is racked with self-doubt and left reconsidering his future. Policing is his passion, but maybe it’s become a one-sided affair with a cruel mistress.Between the internal politics, the crooks, and running a squad of oddball detectives, there’s not much time to worry about priorities at home. At least he can always count on the lovely Molly, but she has problems of her own.Not only is their best friends’ marriage in tatters, but something strange is going on at work and Molly is determined to get to the bottom of it.A little sleuthing on the side can’t hurt…can it?Throw in an undercover cop, a blue-flamer, an old adversary and a vulnerable informer, and you have life as a street detective in south Auckland.It’s hard, relentless and unforgiving, and Dan Crowley keeps coming back for more.But when the red mist comes down, lines are crossed and there are no guarantees he will walk away unscathed… Views: 377
