Something stinks in Peculiar, Texas, and it's not just the dead cop Sergeant Zane Gwilly found shortly before midnight. Kate Darby misses patrolling the streets of Peculiar, Texas, but she has unfinished business. And she can't have the cops knowing what she's doing.What do the death of a drug dealer and (two months later) a cop have in common? That's what Kate and Zane need to find out. Views: 184
18+ for language and sexual situations... One last time. That's the promise Naomi and Eagle break every time the whiskey flows.Focusing on her hard-earned military career, Naomi Lincoln has kept her secret and highly carnal rendezvous hidden from her protective older brother, the president of Eagle's motorcycle club. Until one reckless night of uninhibited lust and passion changes everything and challenges them to see if their irresistible chemistry can lead to more than mind-blowing sex. This time, will Houston "Eagle" Archer be able to protect his woman? Or will she end up like the last one? Views: 184
They’re a world apart. Is love enough to keep them together?After being a widower for almost half his life, fifty-one-year-old George Parsons didn’t count on ever falling for a woman again, until Millicent came along. After meeting her in his tiny home town of Green Hill Creek, he’s smitten. So when Millie asks him to visit her in New York, he doesn’t hesitate to make the week-long journey from California to see her again.But what was easy in Green Hill Creek seems next to impossible in the city, and in the midst of the ostentatious wealth and desperate poverty of 1870 New York, George will have to overcome snobbery, prejudice and danger to win Millie’s heart. Views: 184
Aya is eleven years old and has just arrived in Britain with her mum and baby brother, seeking asylum from war in Syria. When Aya stumbles across a local ballet class, the formidable dance teacher spots her exceptional talent and believes that Aya has the potential to earn a prestigious ballet scholarship. But at the same time, Aya and her family must fight to be allowed to remain in the country, to make a home for themselves, and to find Aya's father - separated from the rest of the family during the journey from Syria. With beautiful, captivating writing, wonderfully authentic ballet detail, and an important message championing the rights of refugees, this is classic storytelling - filled with warmth, hope and humanity. Views: 184
After an audacious escape from Earth, the Vercetians - and some local friends - hurry home to save their own planet from the disaster about to befall it. The Zerot intend to seal the fate of another innocent race with the cruelest game in the galaxy. Young Prince Ventar has a plan, or almost, but he needs some extraordinary assistance from an ancient unascended race. He'll need even more help to make it home before the genocide game begins. Views: 184
When it was first published in 1985, Ursula K. Le Guin's ambitious and experimental novel Always Coming Home, a tapestry of interwoven stories, poems, histories, myths, and anthropological reports from the fictional Kesh society, included one chapter from a novel called Dangerous People by Arravna, or Wordriver, which Le Guin had "translated" from the Kesh, the invented language of an invented people who "might be going to have lived a long, long time from now" in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley, California. Now Library of America presents, for the first time, the full text of the short, innovative, and perceptive novella Dangerous People, which Le Guin completed shortly before her death, making this Le Guin's final new work. The story of one missing woman and the people around her who may or may not be implicated in her death or disappearance, Dangerous People explores larger questions about what—in relationships, in... Views: 184
He's About To Let In His Enemy And Call Her A Guest...Phoenix Addler wants one thing: to live on his little patch of land and be left alone. He hasn't been into the town of Forbidden Lake in years, and that's just the way he likes it. After all, there's grocery delivery even to the woods, and he doesn't need everyone staring at him the way they did when his fiancée left him standing at the altar on their wedding day.If only Allegra Wright would stop filing injunctions with the Division of Natural Resources to try to take his land. He lives in a remote corner of his family's cherry orchard, which goes right up against the State Park, and she's got it in her pretty little head that he needs to go.Allegra has never gotten along with Phoenix, though he's tall, broad-shouldered, and gorgeous. When her ex-boyfriend chases her one night, she uses her knowledge of the woods to get away from him. The problem? She ends up at Phoenix's house, in desperate need of help.He takes her in, the flame between them as hot as ever. But it's different now. He's...nice. Kind. Hard-working. And did she mention gorgeous? The longer she stays in his remote cabin as his guest, the less she wants to leave. With his help, she finally gets a restraining order in place against her ex, who's been stalking her. She doesn't realize until afterward how hard it was for Phoenix to come to town, but he did it...for her.Phoenix can't believe it, but he'll do anything for Allegra. Anything. But will he have to endure another broken heart? Can Allegra find a way to take their relationship out of the shadows without putting them both at risk? Views: 184
