The last epic journey before her life changes forever. Susanna Wilkins will do anything to make her father's final dream come true, including trek along the path Lewis and Clark explored into the untamed wilds of the Rocky Mountains. Every mile is more crucial now that lung cancer is stealing Pa's last days faster than she can come to terms with losing him. The journey becomes harder than she ever expected, but paddling upriver through fierce rapids and fighting hungry grizzlies isn't what terrifies her the most.Beaver Tail endured more than he can stand from the women in his Blackfoot camp, but the last disaster gave him the final shove he needed to join this band of brothers searching for one of their group who's gone missing. The last thing he expected was to find a white woman and her sick father stranded at the base of massive waterfall. His plan is to help them carry their oversize canoe and supplies, then leave them to their strange... Views: 143
Contemporary Fantasy/Paranormal Romance Views: 143
In this hardboiled science fiction novella set in the Shieldrunner Pirates universe, Ku Nel-Aoki sets out to learn why a colony ship is still docked after refueling. The reason turns Ku's comfortable life of crime upside down. A member of the organized crime group known as the Ceres syndicate has gotten arrested and the entire neighborhood's police force has been replaced. Ku's syndicate boss drops the whole mess in her lap. Now Ku has to clean it up before the police find a reason to put her in a cell too, or her boss gets impatient and kills everyone involved.Praise for Barbary Station, a novel which takes place in the same universe as this story:"This book is good fun. I really enjoyed this, and I bet you will, too." (Ann Leckie, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of Ancillary Justice)"Grabs you in chapter one and doesn't let go." (Mur Lafferty, Award-winning author of Six Wakes) Views: 143
Charlie Rhodes is at a crossroads in her life. Her big secret is out – at least with the most important person in her life Jack Hanson – and now they have to deal with a whole new reality.Things are going relatively well when the Legacy Foundation is sent on a mission to Charleston. It seems women are dying under strange circumstances: open windows, no immediate sign of violence, locked doors. The leader of their group is convinced it’s an incubus, and even though he was the chief naysayer before, Jack has no idea what to believe given the reality of his magical girlfriend.It’s a new world and Charlie is excited to embrace it. Jack wants to keep her close while exploring her abilities. They make a fearsome twosome … although there’s danger at every turn.It seems Charlie resembles the dead women, and even though local police thought they had nothing in common … it seems they actually did. They were bucking for a reality television show and it appears someone in that business may be a murderer.Charleston is a new environment and Charlie and Jack are embracing a brand new world. Things are going to be fine … as long as they live to tell the tale.A murderer is stalking Charleston, death is close, and only Charlie can save the day. She’s going to need those closest to her to do it. Luckily, they’re up for the challenge. Views: 143
Bratva Blood Brothers Series #13TimorSo much has changed in the last year or so, I discover a son I didn't know about before and lost the son I had thought would take my place when I was finished with my work. I've spent my entire life serving the Bratva and now, I want to retire.But I don't want to miss any more of my son's lives. I've already missed too much.They won't come to me, so I will have to go to them. If they can start over in a new country, so can I.Then I meet her, Daisy. I've never met anyone like her before. I'm not ever sure I like this woman but I can't stay away from her.Then someone from my very distant past comes round to take from me what he thinks I took from him, my woman.I'll be damned if I let him take my Deyzi, come hell or high water he won't take her, not in that way. I'll kill him first, maybe something I should have done a long time ago…DaisyI had lived, loved and lost and learned to do without in my lifetime but the moment I met Timor, I found something extraordinary, something a woman is lucky to find only once in her lifetime.I've never been a shrinking violet kind of woman, if I wanted something I reached out and took it, well I wanted Timor.Then danger came to call and Timor got in his head that he needed to protect me. Hogwash, I could take care of myself, I just had to show him I guess… Views: 143
Beastly Lords Collection (Books 1–3) Views: 143
As this ingenious new novella, More Walls Broken, begins, a trio of academics have just entered a deserted California cemetery late at night, bringing with them a number of arcane devices aimed at achieving an equally arcane purpose. What follows is the sort of dizzying, mind-expanding entertainment that only the always reliable, always astonishing Tim Powers could have written. Views: 143
