With
the realm on the brink of war, the once-celebrated blades have become
an easy target for the rage of its devastated citizens.
The nightblade warrior Asa’s lifelong quest for vengeance is over, but
now she finds herself on the run from the people she sought to protect.
As Asa forges a new course of action in an uncertain world, her path
crosses with that of a young noblewoman.Mari knows that great
opportunity lies in the heart of chaos. If the Kingdom is to rise again,
Mari will need support, and she can think of no group better than
the nightblades. But the nightblades have been betrayed before, and
gaining their trust will not be easy.Mari wants to save the
Kingdom. Asa wants to save the people. Both are willing to risk
everything. But do their quests make them allies…or enemies? Views: 515
From the New York Times bestselling author of Good Grief comes a richly poignant and stirring story that asks: How soon is too soon to fall in love again?The last thing Rudy expected was to wake up one Saturday morning, a widow at fifty-four years old. Now, ten months after the untimely death of his beloved wife, he's still not sure how to move on from the defining tragedy of his life—but his new job is helping. After being downsized from his finance position, Rudy turned to his first love: the piano. Some people might be embarrassed to work as the piano player at Nordstrom, but for Rudy, there's joy in bringing a little music into the world. And it doesn't hurt that Bella, the Hungarian men's watch clerk who is finally divorcing her no-good husband, finds time to join him at the bench every now and then. Just when Rudy and Bella's relationship begins to deepen, the police come to the store with an update about Rudy's wife's untimely... Views: 515
Fugitive crime writer David Mitre is caught up in a deadly conspiracy when he's witness to a brutal murder on the stunning island of Cyprus.Having melted easily into Cyprus's relaxed expat community, fugitive crime writer David Mitre is feeling relatively secure. His cash stashed in secret accounts and his exit routes mapped out, he can concentrate on his writing. All that changes when he's witness to a cold-blooded murder in broad daylight on Paphos beach. The killing brings David to the attention of the FBI, who forcefully request his help in solving a crime far worse than anything he's been accused of.Fight or flight? Is helping the FBI the only way David will be able to live his life without constantly looking over his shoulder ... or could it lead to an even worse fate? Views: 515
When the mutilated remains of a young woman are found in an Appalachian Mountain cave, newly sworn-in deputy sheriff Brynn Callahan is forced to track down a killer driven by twisted motives . . . Not long after donning the uniform of the McCreary County Sheriff's department in Bone Gap, Tennessee, ex-Marine Brynn Callahan faces her first official homicide. On a cold February morning, a lone cross-country skier stumbles across the mutilated body of a young woman. Sent to investigate, Brynn is shocked when she recognizes the victim as a fellow Traveller, Maura Keene. Maura held a solid standing both within the Travellers' insular community and among the settled townspeople—a fact that makes her murder all the more disturbing to Brynn, who also straddles the two worlds. After her trained K-9, Wilco, digs up human bones, and then a scrap of paper scrawled with arcane Latin phrases is uncovered, Brynn finds evidence leading her to question those... Views: 515
Florence, 1429. With shrewd investment, strategic alliance and sly manipulation, the Medici family have climbed to the top of Florentine society. But their success has left a slew of bitter enemies in their wake, enemies who will stop at nothing to usurp their power. When family patriarch Giovanni de Medici is struck down by a suspicious and fatal illness, he leaves the family's wealth and reputation in the hands of his sons, Cosimo and Lorenzo, to protect by any means necessary. But Florence is a nest of vipers, its noble families vying insidiously for supremacy. Cosimo and Lorenzo must draw out the serpents at its breast to secure their family's legacy, or lose everything. First in an award-winning, bestselling quartet charting ten generations of rise to power. Views: 515
Multi-layered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker Prize–winning author Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, herself caught between cultures. In this definitive selection, chosen by her surviving family members, her ability to tenderly and humorously view the all-too-human situations faced by three (sometimes interacting) cultures—European, post-Independence Indian, and American—is never more acute. In "A Course of English Studies," a young woman arrives at Oxford from India and struggles to adapt, not only to the sad, stoic object of her infatuation, but to a country that seems so resistant to passion and color. In the wrenching "Expiation," the blind unconditional love of a cloth shop owner for his wastrel younger brother exposes the sometimes tragic beauty and foolishness of human compassion and faith.... Views: 515
A disastrous top-secret military experiment. An amateurish foray into the boundaries of cutting-edge physics and dimensional rifts.Now, worlds and dimensions are merging and fantasy bites our reality. Views: 515
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Ranney - the story of a woman recuperating from tragedy only to be visited by murder. Jennifer Roberts is a survivor, not only from the car accident that changed her life, but from murder in her own neighborhood.Except that no one believed it was murder. Not Talbot, the cop who brought back bad memories. Nor her husband, whose actions led Jennifer to think that she had a problem there, too.She was determined to convince others that what she suspected was true - a murderer was loose in her neighborhood. Her only help was an eclectic group of amateur sleuths who played at murder.More intense than a cozy mystery, not quite a romantic suspense, Murder Among Friends is a thriller with a neighborhood bent. Not one international terrorist is to be found, but that's all right. The neighbors are strange.Murder Among Friends was originally titled Murder by Mortgage. Views: 515
