Welcome to a very flapper New Year’s!
Are you ready for the roaring twenties? For spunky young women crafting their own lives? If so, you’ll love Violet, Julia, and Lola.
Inside, you’ll find a trio of short New Year’s Eve adventures, 1920s style including fireworks, cocktails, and midnight kisses. With stories from The Violet Carlyle Mysteries and the Piccadilly Ladies Club Mysteries and the soon-to-be released Lola Star series.
For fans of Carola Dunn, Jacqueline Winspear, Georgette Heyer, and Lee Strauss. A light, cozy mystery with a fun peek into a New Year’s celebration of a bright young thing. Views: 396
Winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature's Best Writing AwardShortlisted for the Stella PrizeHow to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past—ours, our family's, our culture's—wields in the present?Drawing on nine years of research, Axiomatic explores the ways we understand the traumas we inherit and the systems that sustain them. In five sections—each one built on an axiom about how the past affects the present—Tumarkin weaves together true and intimate stories of a community dealing with the extended aftermath of a suicide, a grandmother's quest to kidnap her grandson to keep him safe, one community lawyer's struggle inside and against the criminal justice system, a larger-than-life Holocaust survivor, and the history of the author's longest friendship.With verve, wit, and critical dexterity, Tumarkin asks questions about loss, grief, and how our particular histories inform the people... Views: 396
Before Mr. Darcy can profess how ardently he loves and admires Elizabeth Bennet in Kent, Colonel Fitzwilliam reveals to the young lady the news that Darcy saved a dear friend from marrying the wrong woman. The colonel thinks perhaps it was Mr. Bingley and Elizabeth knows it must have been.Hours later, Mr. Darcy proposes. She refuses him but the next day he meets her in the lane and gives her a letter before leaving abruptly for London. When Elizabeth returns to Town, the letter has made all the difference in her feelings for Mr. Darcy but she cannot forgive him for the pain Jane suffers over the loss of Mr. Bingley. Can Colonel Fitzwilliam and Anne de Bourgh bring the obstinate lovers together again? Or will it take news from Brighton to help our dear couple see clearly they are the perfect match? Views: 396
Shauna and Zach's dream honeymoon—turned nightmare.Having narrowly avoided tragedy in their hometown of Lavender Tides, Washington, Shauna and Zach Bannister are finally on a honeymoon cruise through the Hawaiian islands. Lost in the glow of their newfound love, they eagerly anticipate basking in the warmth of the lush tropics.But soon the newlyweds begin receiving mysterious threats. After Zach survives two attempts on his life – staged as freak accidents – Shauna ominously receives flowers from a stranger.The lovers become unwitting detectives in an urgent pursuit to discover the identity of their murderous stalker.Set against the spectacular Hawaiian landscape, Colleen Coble's lightning-paced novella is a haunting journey into a world as remote and hidden as it is beautiful, as spellbinding as it is wondrous. Views: 396
EVERY SMALL TOWN HAS A SECRETThe rolling fields outside Curry, Oklahoma, are a beautiful spot to ramble on an early spring day . . . and a lonely place to die. Among the prairie grass and wildflowers, a killer kneels beside a curled-up figure, plunging a syringe beneath skin to deliver the fatal dose. And as the victim's last breath mingles with the air, it sends a warning out to the world: This is just the beginning. AND THIS ONERejecting her judge father's prestigious connections, Ellie Guthrie opened her own law firm in Curry. But something strange is going on. Ellie's tires are slashed. Dead rats are dumped on her patio. Her neighbor, former FBI agent Nate Marcel, insists on watching out for her. And then bodies begin turning up—supposed overdoses that Nate suspects are something much more sinister. IS WORTH KILLING FORThere's a killer in town, toying with her, drawing both Ellie and Nate into a web of murder and... Views: 396
Days of Moonlight takes place in Turkey between 1924 and 2010, and spans the lives of three generations who move as refugees from Crete to Izmir and finally to Toronto. The novel centres on the life and loves of Mehtap, a woman in her mid-twenties with a delicious sense of humour. While working as a secretary at a zipper factory in Izmir, she falls madly in love with her boss for whom she has to lie and wrap presents for his mistress and his wife. Her love for him doesn't change when she also falls in love with her friend, Nuray. After Nuray moves in to share Mehtap's house, their friendship turns into a secret and tumultuous love affair and Mehtap is torn between her deep infatuation with her boss and her love for Nuray. Hurt, Nuray has an affair with Mehtap's boss, then disappears from Mehtap's life for several years until they meet again by accident, and renew their friendship and love affair. Nuray has married in the meantime, and when her husband decides they must... Views: 396
The marquess is back!Will she give him a second chance?When widowed Lady Clara Kingston discovers that Lord Delamare is a guest at the same Christmas house party, her instinct is to run! Six years ago, Hugh broke her foolish heart. Dare she believe he's truly a reformed rake? She's secretly thrilled every time he looks her way, but she'll have to trust him if she's to reclaim his kiss underneath the ever-present mistletoe..."Lee has written an exciting blend of action, adventure and romance. Fans will enjoy the well-written, fast-paced, suspenseful novel" — RT Book Reviews on Captain Rose's Redemption"An exciting spy novel with a Gothic twist that showcases character growth, intrigue, history and a second chance at love" — RT Book Reviews on Courting Danger with Mr. Dyer Views: 396
To save his daughter, he'll go anywhere—and any-when...Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in IT, trying to keep the spark in his marriage, struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career...as a time-traveling secret agent from 2142.Stranded in suburban San Francisco since the 1990s after a botched mission, Kin has kept his past hidden from everyone around him, despite the increasing blackouts and memory loss affecting his time-traveler's brain. Until one afternoon, his "rescue" team arrives—eighteen years too late.Their mission: return Kin to 2142, where he's only been gone weeks, not years, and where another family is waiting for him. A family he can't remember.Torn between two lives, Kin is desperate for a way to stay connected to both. But when his best efforts threaten to destroy the agency and even history itself, his daughter's very... Views: 396
Year 2522. Lyra Daniels is dead.Okay, so I only died for sixty-six seconds. But when I came back to life, I got a brand new name and a snazzy new uniform. Go me! Seriously, though, it's very important that Lyra Daniels stays dead, at least as far as the murdering looters, know.While dying is the scariest thing that's happened to me, it morphed my worming skills. I can manipulate the Q-net like never before. But the looters have blocked us from communicating with the rest of the galaxy and now they believe we've gone silent, like Planet Xinji (where silent really means dead).A Protector Class spaceship is coming to our rescue, but we still have to survive almost two years until they arrive - if they arrive at all. Until then, we have to figure out how to stop an unstoppable alien threat. And it's only a matter of time before the looters learn I'm not dead and returns to finish what they started.There's no way I'm going to let the looters... Views: 396
A chance meeting... In a world still recovering from the vampire/human wars, Kasima Wilder is glad to live in the safe haven of Riverstone, a town founded by vampires and populated by both mortals and immortals. Largely, Kasima has avoided the town's vampire-run establishments. Until one night her wayward boyfriend ditches her at Ever Nights Annual Masquerade Ball. An unforgettable night... As head of security, Lex Stirling's job is to ensure the safety of those within the walls of club Ever Nights, especially on the night of the Masquerade, a night where lust reigns supreme and limits are tested. After rescuing a woman from the unwanted attention of a persistent guest, he finds himself enamored with the little mortal. Soon, their chemistry turns combustible, and they are engulfed in a night of unforgettable passion. A passion that could consume them both as Kasima's ex conspires against them. Views: 396
