Their mates were running for their lives
Jessie accepted the job at The Wolves Den to make the money she needed to escape home. They accepted both her and her small child. She never expected to meet Cole the male that made her heart beat faster.
The moment Cole met Jessie he knew she was his. He would protect her and Mia. He didn’t know how much they needed that protection.
Jessie’s mother had plans for her and Mia that neither of them would live through.
In order to survive, they needed Cole. The only question left was would he kill to keep the ones he loved safe.
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Tyler Callas had a life most people would kill for; he killed to escape it.
Tyler is the pampered scion of one of the ruling families of the Corporate Council, the legal monopoly that runs the human Commonwealth. His mother has his life planned out, with a seat by her side, running the conglomerate. Tyler has other ideas. With the help of a great-grandfather who was a United States Marine when there used to be a United States, Tyler changes his face and his identity, becoming Randall Munroe and enlisting in the Fleet Marine Corps, qualifying for the point of the sword, Force Recon. Plunged into an interstellar war against the relentless Tahni Empire, Munroe is stranded alone on an occupied colony and forced to organize a civilian resistance to the enemy. The year of constant violence and death wears him down, yet sharpens him at the same time.After the war, Munroe once again takes up arms, this time against his will, when his uncle, Andre Damiani, the head of the Corporate Council, blackmails him into leading a special squad of trouble-shooters, eliminating threats to Council business among the criminal cabals in the Pirate Worlds.But the real enemy is still the Council, and Munroe vows to take the fight to them, no matter what the cost.
The full collection of all four books in the mil-SF RECON series:A War to the KnifeA Wolf in the FoldA Battle for the GodsA Fight to the Death
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First published as an unheralded paperback original, Pick-Up is an authentic underground classic, an explosive bulletin from the urban underbelly of mid-1950s America. It was Charles Willeford's second novel, after a rough and wandering earlier life that had taken him from Depression-era hobo camps and soup kitchens to wartime battlefields. The unblinking story of two lost and self-destructive drifters—a failed painter working as a counterman in a cheap diner and a woman in flight from domestic violence—trying to find a place for themselves in the back streets of San Francisco, Pick-Up is hardboiled writing at its nihilistic best: Willeford's preferred title for the book was Until I Am Dead. Its bleak vision of life beyond the edge is haunted by rape, racism, alcoholism, suicide, and inescapable poverty, yet shot through with a tenderness and compassion sustained against all odds in a society offering few breaks to its outcasts and misfits.... Views: 73
From USA Today bestselling author A. Gardner comes the next to-die-for Poppy Peters mystery...Poppy Peters, accidental sleuth and unemployed pastry chef, is back in Europe attending a friend's wedding. But when a parking valet for the big event turns up dead in the front seat of an antique car, Poppy learns that the little English village of Woodbury isn't all scones and clotted cream. Determined to help the bride and groom, she follows the killer's trail which leads her from the local bakery to a grand estate owned by the town's infamous Lord Chutney. Poppy quickly discovers that the village is keeping a deadly secret. Between a disgruntled shopkeeper, spiteful townsfolk, and a missing bridesmaid, Poppy is convinced that the murderer is living just a cottage away. And may have his sights on her as the next victim.**Recipes included!** Views: 73
