When Ray is sacked from his job in London, he goes to Japan hoping to start his life afresh. Things begin well: he lands work as an English teacher and strikes up a relationship with the beautiful, intriguing Tomoe. But his world is turned upside down when Tomoe's father is found dead. Convinced that his death was a murder, Tomoe sets out after the killers, and when she goes missing Ray is forced to act. In his quest to find her he's dragged into the 'floating world' – a place of corrupt politicians, yakuza, sumo wrestlers and call-girls – living out an adventure that echoes his dreams of Tokyo's feudal past. It's a search guaranteed to bring further loss of life, and Ray is pulled into a desperate chase to ensure it won't be his. Views: 622
A fragile heart needs extra care.
Burned-out social worker Aaron McCoy is on vacation for the first time in years—boss’s orders. Road-tripping to his brother’s wedding with his best friend, Tyler, seems a fun way to spend the mandatory two-week leave, and they set out for Kansas—and a difficult homecoming.
Aaron’s mother was a drug addict, and his adorable younger brother was quickly adopted while Aaron spent his childhood in foster care. As Aaron mends fences, Tyler hopes to show him that this time, he won’t be left behind to face his problems alone.
Aaron’s opening up to how right it feels to be with Tyler and the possibility of taking the leap from friends to lovers. But along with the wedding celebration comes a painful reminder of the past. Aaron’s heart is still breakable. Can he put it in Tyler’s hands? Views: 622
Love was a concept Kale Serano didn't believe in. A weakness for those around him to exploit. Then an enchanting human snuck beneath his guard. To keep her, he took vows that meant she was his forever.Kale was everything Carolyn Sutherland had ever dreamed and then some. The dangerous djinn had her love after only one magical week together. When tragedy strikes, she's forced to fight for the man who no longer remembers the passion that burned between them.What happens when a djinn forgets the love that binds him? Views: 622
He's hoping to bury the past. She's ready to settle the score.The Sterling Ranch's season opening isn't going so smoothly. With the ranch's lodge full of guests and a Montana blizzard threatening, Will Sterling needs help—and he needs it fast. So when his childhood friend Poppy Carmichael agrees to lend a hand, he's grateful for a second chance...and more enticed by the woman she's become than he cares to admit.For Poppy, it was supposed to be a retreat full of horse rides and hoedowns—with a side of showing Will what he's been missing all these years. But as the snow deepens outside, the guests' suspicion and mistrust turn sinister inside, catching Will and Poppy in the crosshairs.Weathering the storm in each other's arms is all too easy for Will and Poppy, but will a confrontation with a killer mean their reunion is short-lived?New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author B.J. Daniels starts her Sterling's Ranch series off with a... Views: 622
Ceylon born and bred, yet English through and though thanks to their stern father, who is the local Vicar, beautiful young Dominica Radford and her five sisters are excited when one Sunday a very handsome English gentleman comes calling on their father in their rundown Vicarage in Colombo. But excitement turns to shock when Lord Hawkston out of the blue asks for Dominica's hand in marriage for his twenty-four year old nephew Gerald Warren, who is running Lord Hawkston's estate in Northern Ceylon. Having discovered that Gerald, recently spurned by a previous fiancée, is drinking heavily, letting the Hawkston tea estate go to wrack and ruin and treating his native lover cruelly, Lord Hawkston is desperate to see him married and settled and so sees the intelligent and sensible Dominica as the perfect bride for him.Overwhelmed by his Lordship's generosity in giving her a glorious trousseau of pretty clothes, Dominica initially agrees, but soon she realises not only that she does not... Views: 622
The dragon's journey begins.
Fang, a hardened veteran of countless gang wars, has one mission: to avenge his family. Since his childhood, he has climbed the ranks of the gang responsible, waiting for his chance to kill the man who stole his future. The streets of Dockside chew up the weak and sentimental; only the most ruthless survive, and Fang intends to come out on top.
On the outside, his childhood friend Birch is a man of the people and a force unto himself. Through notes and messengers, Birch and Fang have coordinated a slow-burning plot to destroy their mutual enemy.
But when Fang's boss orders him to steal a magical stone from a royal ship, Birch demands Fang hand it over to him instead. Fang is caught between the ultimate reward -- the right to challenge his parents' murderer -- and the growing spark he feels for Birch. Views: 622
