A marvellously accomplished debut collection from QLA Writers Fellowship winner Amanda O’Callaghan.
The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm. A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills. An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy.
Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O’Callaghan’s stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a ‘taste for silence’. Views: 213
A man who can’t walk away from trouble—and a woman who’s nothing but.“Jean Brashear's portrait of two wounded souls who find each other just when they most need someone is beautifully, gently drawn. Brashear's smooth style and attention to detail make [this] story quietly captivating.” ~RTBookclub 4 ½ of 5 starsDiscover the first book in New York Times bestselling contemporary Texas romance author Jean Brashear’s TEXAS HEROES: Lone Star Lovers series about three brothers, the first an emotional movie star romance where two unlikely lovers come together to heal both their hearts.Hollywood’s hottest heartthrob Liam Sullivan has escaped the paparazzi and celebrity gossips after a sensational tragedy, reexamining his high-flying lifestyle and his priorities. In disguise, traveling through the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, he encounters a rail-thin, starving woman... Views: 213
With his thick impenetrable scales, sharp fangs, and a giant tool designed for female pleasure, the alien heir from planet Aries will have me any way he chooses…I met a man on Halloween.I fell for him before I knew the truth…Ramses. Funny name for a bloke.I should have known what he really was.I shouldn't fantasize about his rock hard muscles…his thick horns…his black eyes, or those sensual fangs…I can't help myself if he's the hottest beast I've ever wanted to bone. Ramses promises to keep me safe… I believe him.One night, I'm yanked from his grasp.All hope of together forever vanishes in an instant.I must find my way back to Ramses. Without him, I have no way of getting back to Earth.Without him, I have no one.Enid... Views: 213
Alexanor is a man who has seen too much blood. He has left the sword behind him to become a healer in the greatest sanctuary in Greece: he has turned his back on war.
But war has followed him to his refuge at Epidauros, and now a battle to end the freedom of Greece is all around him. The Mediterranean superpowers of Rome, Egypt and Macedon are waging their proxy wars on Hellenic soil, turning Greek farmers into slaves and mercenaries.
Greece needs a champion. One last hero. A new Achilles.
When a wounded soldier is carried into his temple, Alexanor believes the man's wounds are mortal. But he is not destined to die. But Alexanor must face his own daemons before he can help the hero face his.
Because this is the new Achilles. His name is Philopoemen. Views: 213
