ARC for Readers.A movie star moves next door. A disabled veteran minds his own business watching a rather loud *ahem* movie in his bedroom. What happens when she gets fed up with the noise by breaking into his place only to discover him in his birthday suit?Hi. I'm Niki Sargeant. The actress mentioned above. No, that's not a movie pitch I plan to show producers. It's my life.I recently became Hollywood's it-girl and moved into a swanky condo. When I hear a woman screaming rather loudly from my new neighbor's home, I'm concerned. Breaking into his condo seems like a good idea at the time, at least that's what my friends tell me. I realize it's a mistake once he appears in the living room with no clothes on.Yet, I can't keep my eyes off him.Did Niki say she broke into my place over concern about a woman screaming? Let me tell you the truth.I'm Tucker Six, former Marine, the current head of a tech firm, and a mysterious loner. Maybe not a loner or mysterious but I am where it counts.Wait, that didn't come out right. Let's start over.There is only one reason Niki broke into my home, my body.I won't lie. I'm cut and the coolest person within a five-mile radius.I can't blame Niki for wanting me. But I have a problem. She obviously wants me for my body but I wanted her heart. Views: 51
'Something terrible is happening here. Something terrible has already happened.'Snegurochka opens in Kiev in 1992, one year after Ukraine's declaration of independence. Rachel, a troubled young English mother, joins her journalist husband on his first foreign posting in the city. Terrified of their apartment's balcony with its view of the Motherland statue she develops obsessive rituals to keep her three-month old baby safe. Her difficulties expose her to a disturbing endgame between Elena Vasilyevna, the old caretaker, and Mykola Sirko, a shady businessman who sends Rachel a gift. Rachel is the interloper, ignorant, isolated, yet also culpable with her secrets and her estrangements. As consequences bear down she seeks out Zoya, her husband's caustic-tongued fixer, and Stepan, the boy from upstairs who watches them all.Betrayal is everywhere and home is uncertain, but in the end there are many ways to be a mother. Views: 51
The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales—both never-before-published in print—that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition.Bringing together his acclaimed novella "The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky" and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul. A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, "The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky" examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a maddening text, it is told by a young woman trying to come to grips with a country that nearly devoured itself.In My Heart Struck Sorrow, a librarian discovers a recording from the Deep South—which may be the... Views: 51
Cheyenne, 1888. Ezra McPherson is a gunfighter who cannot escape the past, and Luke Tisdale is a young doctor whose brother has been murdered. Marcus Stokesbury and Eloise Endicott are journalists who are intrigued by the mystery surrounding Ezra. Together with Richard Swearingen, a cattle baron who seeks to establish a kingdom in Wyoming, and Andrew Swearingen, a man who has killed but who is now willing to take an extraordinary step to prevent bloodshed, they all become embroiled in a story of love, greed, betrayal and sacrifice. Views: 51
