Twenty hours of grim, gray day, leeching shadows from their corners. The feeling like a buzz in your teeth. The scrape of bone on bone...Paul Gallo saw the report on the news: a mass murderer leading police to his victims' graves, in remote Dread's Hand, Alaska.It's not even a town; more like the bad memory of a town. The same bit of wilderness where his twin brother went missing a year ago. Except Danny isn't one of the victims, not that the cops can discover.All they've found are superstitious locals. A line of crosses to keep what's in the woods from coming out.As soon as he sets foot in Dread's Hand, Paul can see no one's telling all they know. But Danny didn't just wander four thousand miles to that cabin in the woods, dark and grimy and stained with blood. He was called.And whatever called Danny is calling Paul too...Praise for Little Girls"Best horror novel of the year."—Hunter Shea"Much more... Views: 142
What could possibly go wrong when Taylor Jamison’s friends drag her to a sex club for her fortieth birthday? Anything and everything. Taylor ends up having sex with a stranger who she only knows as J. Even though the sex was fantastic, she can’t believe she did something she never thought she would. Thinking she’ll never see the woman again, fate has different plans for her. Destiny has brought the women together again, but can it be anything more than a night neither woman will never forget. Share Taylor and J’s story of finding a way to be together despite all the obstacles that life throws at them. Views: 142
Lance Foster is finally getting everything he ever wanted. His band, Intrigue, has the number one record in the country. Screaming fans, crowds of paparazzi, television performances, photo shoots—not to mention more than his fair share of female attention. Being a rock star definitely has its perks and Lance is determined to enjoy all of them.Willa Nathans has never fit in. Sent to a special school for the “exceedingly gifted” as a child, she spends most of her time buried in books and equations—which doesn’t exactly leave much room for a social life. But all of that ends now. Lance Foster has been her crush for years and Willa is determined, finally, to show him just how much she’s changed.There’s just one problem—Lance is her brother’s best friend and band mate. And if there’s one thing Lance knows, it’s that Willa is strictly off limits. No matter how difficult he might find it to stop thinking about her.When Lance’s ex shows up, kid in tow, he realizes that hiding his feelings for Willa from her brother is the least of his worries. Lance is good at one thing—rock and roll. How on earth is he supposed to take care of a kid? When Willa agrees to step in and help out, he knows she’s saving his ass.What he doesn’t count on is how much more complicated things can get when those pesky hidden feelings refuse to disappear… Views: 142
Christmas Key will have to function without its beloved mayor, Holly Baxter, while she embarks on a European adventure with her long-distance love. But when Holly's mother arrives on the island with plans to sell off paradise and build a bloated, gaudy casino on the island's shores, the locals have to pull together to keep her at bay. A shocking loss throws the locals for a loop while they welcome three new islanders to Christmas Key in Holly's absence, but if she learns nothing else from her trip across the pond, Holly comes home knowing in her heart that it's time to say "yes" to new adventures and big changes. Views: 142
Set both in Oman and on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, The Zanzibar Wife is the story of three different women, each at a turning point in her life . . . Oman. The ancient land of frankincense, wind-swept deserts, craggy mountaintops and turquoise seas. A place where tales of evil spirits and eerie phenomena abound. Into this magical nation come three remarkable women, each facing a crossroad in her life.Rachel, a troubled American war photographer, who is struggling to shed the trauma of her career for a simpler, gentler life. Now she has once again picked up her camera and is headed to Oman to cover a quite different story - for a glossy travel magazine. Sophie Khan, a bubbly British woman struggling to keep up with the glitz of Dubai and ready to give up on love. She has rashly volunteered as Rachel's 'fixer', a job she's never heard of in a country she knows nothing about.And Miza, a young woman living far from her... Views: 142
Jessie Redmon Fauset's Plum Bun (1928) is a moving, delicately observed coming-of-age novel––one that brilliantly exemplifies the cultural, social, and creative ferment of the Harlem Renaissance. Its heroine, the young, talented, light-skinned Angela Murray, hopes for more from life than her black Philadelphia neighborhood and her middle-class upbringing seem to offer. Seeking romantic and creative fulfilment, and refusing to accept racist and sexist obstacles to her ambition, she makes a radical choice: to pass as white, and study art in New York City. Against the vivid, cosmopolitan backdrop of Harlem and Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, her subsequent journey through seduction, betrayal, protest, and solidarity is ultimately a journey toward self-understanding. Along the way, Fauset includes fictionalized portraits of leading Harlem Renaissance figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois (for whom she edited The Crisis) and the sculptor Augusta Savage,... Views: 142
From New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper comes a novel based on the lives of two amazing sisters . . .One sailed the Titanic and started a fashion empire . . .The other overtook Hollywood and scandalized the world . . .Together, they were unstoppable.They rose from genteel poverty, two beautiful sisters, ambitious, witty, seductive. Elinor and Lucy Sutherland are at once each other's fiercest supporters and most vicious critics.Lucy transformed herself into Lucile, the daring fashion designer who revolutionized the industry with her flirtatious gowns and brazen self-promotion. And when she married Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon her life seemed to be a fairy tale. But success came at many costs—to her marriage and to her children . . . and then came the fateful night of April 14, 1912 and the scandal that followed. Elinor's novels titillate readers, and it's even asked in polite drawing rooms if you would like to "sin with Elinor... Views: 142
Charlotte Vale isn't just a pretty debutante like London society thinks she is. Behind her golden curls and blue eyes is a soul that craves adventure. She won't be happy living a sedate and safe life with some Duke or Earl like her friends-she needs more. So when she is presented with the opportunity to take part in an undercover mission for England, she jumps at the chance. Even better, it involves finding her father who has been acting as a double spy in France. Anthony Graylocke takes his career in the Royal Navy seriously. The adventurous life of sailing the high seas suits him. There's plenty of time to settle down later with a demure, refined lady like his mother, right now he enjoys the freedom and excitement that commanding his own ship offers. The last thing he wants to do is accompany and protect the offensive disagreeable and unladylike Charlotte Vale on an undercover mission to France. Too bad his orders state that he must do just that. But when a... Views: 141
It's an ordinary summer. Until the dreams began.Cheryl Erskine awakens screaming every night; she whispers in her father's ear: "Something bad, Daddy."Glenn Erskine's worried about his daughter, but as police chief, he's got the whole town to worry about—especially with Jimmy Hale on the loose. The murderer had been too crazy to stand trial—he'd been institutionalized instead. Now he's "cured". And coming home.Dreams are hard to predict, and harder to control. Cheryl and her family are trapped ... in a dark dream. Views: 141
