It started with one week away from the pressures of a bedridden father and addict sister, and a chance to change lives- to change her life. Independent. Focused. Driven. Grace Matthews is determined to make a difference. Confident. Powerful. Intense. Callan Fontaine is a force of nature. Because he has to be. As the lead mercenary on his team, it's how he keeps his men alive. A wounded man. A compassionate doctor. And a chance meeting that makes their two worlds collide. Now Grace's future hangs in the balance while Callan's past lingers in the background. Will she be enough to show him the world is still beautiful? Or will he walk away from the one woman that can be the light in his darkness? What do you do when the one thing that can put you back together is very thing that threatens to rip you apart for good? Views: 256
On the windswept Scandinavian Åland Islands, the festive season is snowy and chilly—yet breathtakingly beautiful. It's time for Alicia to enjoy her first winter back on her beloved Islands with her family. But her estranged husband, Liam, springs an unwelcome and devastating surprise and her ex-lover, Patrick, tempts her with an altogether different kind of future, making Alicia face an impossible choice. With her world crashing around her, can Alicia create the idyllic Island Christmas she's always dreamt about? Meanwhile, Brit, Alicia's best friend, returns to the Islands to lick her wounds after a particularly bloody break-up with an Italian chef. When she meets her new boss, the Captain of a Baltic cruise liner, sparks fly. Brit can't help but fall quickly in love with Jukka, but when she discovers his murky past, she fears her heart is about to be broken yet again. Are the rumors about Jukka true, or just typical small island... Views: 256
A fated hero stands between the galaxy and revenge served cold.
When Orion and the AlphaOmega team track down a missing scientist, they discover that weapons of planetary destruction have found their way into the wrong hands. Now a vycart warlord, thought long dead from the plague that wiped out his race, has returned to wreak havoc
on the Galactic Union.
With help from his team, a scientist with a shattered memory, and powerful friends in the government, Orion sets out on a crusade to stop Typhus the Mad Thinker. He’s up against black hole bombs, annihilating particle beams, synthetic super soldiers and more, and as his investigation goes deeper, he discovers that Typhus has good reason for wanting to bring the Union to its knees. All the while he must contend with Typhus’ “children,” a foursome that
comes down on Orion like the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Friendships are tested as Orion lays it all on the line — his business, his name and his life — to protect billions of innocent lives. But every choice has a price, and every man has his breaking point. Views: 256
Available in English for the first time, a collection of deeply humane stories depicting marginalized populations by one of the greatest South American writers of the 20th century.The Peruvian writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro is one of the masters of the short story and a major contributor to the great flourishing of Latin American literature that followed the Second World War. In a letter to an editor, Ribeyro said about his stories, "in most of [them] those who are deprived of words in life find expression—the marginalized, the forgotten, those condemned to an existence without harmony and without voice. I have restored to them the breath they've been denied, and I've allowed them to modulate their own longings, outbursts, and distress." This is work of deep humanity, imbued with a disorienting lyricism that is Ribeyro's alone. The Word of the Speechless, edited and translated by Katherine Silver, introduces readers to an indispensable and unforgettable... Views: 256
