Sylvia is meant for the market, but Raan wants her for himself…SYLVIAI was abducted from Earth in 1969 and I've been in a stasis pod for over six hundred years until I was purchased by yellow lizard-like aliens. RAANAs First Merchandising Officer, my job is clear. I am to find the highest bidders for the abandoned cargo – seven vintage Human females – which are hot property in the Intergalactic Cooperative. I find the task distasteful, but there is one fascinating female I refuse to sell – the one with long straight hair and green eyes, wearing a short skirt and a strange blouse that is no more than two tiny triangles of cloth.Because she is mine.I will pay everything for her and fight anyone who tries to take her from me.Precious Cargo is a steamy sci-fi alien abduction romance with heart. Views: 590
When her body isn’t hers to command, Windy has to find ways to defend herself.
Windy broke her spine in the attack, and she was taken from Adaptation Station and sold to the Splice. Her destiny was to act as their communication conduit. She hated the idea of destiny.
When Alphy sent a hunter to come get her, he is shocked by her condition. They come up with a plan to extract her from the communication array, but it is going to take some time and a lot of patience.
Unable to simply use nanites for the procedure, Windy faces a slow and uphill battle to get control of her body again. It is just the beginning of a wild ride. Views: 590
He offered her helpAnd he found loveHer home destroyed by a wildfire, Brooke Ellis finds temporary shelter at the home of paramedic Dan Sawyer and his young son, Ben. With the addition of Brooke and her lively fur family, Dan finds his carefully planned routine delightfully turned upside down. And his carefully guarded heart daring to trust in love again. When his ex-wife suddenly reappears, will it be Brooke to the rescue? Views: 590
From the National Bestselling author of The Boat Runner comes a poignant, luminous novel that follows one family over decades and across the world—perfect for fans of the film Boyhood.Western New York, 1978: Jamie, Lewis, and Connor Thurber watch their parents' destructive dance of loving, hating, and drinking. Terrance Thurber spends this year teaching his children about the natural world: they listen to the heartbeat of trees, track animal footprints, sleep under the star-filled sky. Despite these lessons, he doesn't show them how to survive without him. And when these seasons of trying and failing to quit booze and be a better man are over, Terrance is gone.Alone with their artist mother, Catrin, the Thurber children are left to grapple with the anger they feel for the one parent who deserted them and a growing resentment for the one who didn't. As Catrin withdraws into her own world, Jamie throws herself into painting while her brothers smash out their... Views: 590
Rouge ex-cop, Virginia (Ginny) Graves quits the force and becomes a private investigator. Trouble is her middle name: Run-ins with the mob, L.A.P.D., F.B.I., bookies, and big blonde assassin, Monika follow her on this high-powered adventure. "I ez killink dat Ginny girl, no?!" Monika exclaims to her lover, mob kingpin, Sid Pressman. Sit back an enjoy this one-of-a-kind high-speed ride through the City of Angels. Ginny's unorthodox methods include a pool cue shoved down a thug's throat when he accosts her friend, Benny. She jams her .22 in the mouth of a suspect when she does not like the way her questioning is going. Messing with Ginny has cost several misfits their lives. Views: 590
"We must do something to pass the time, I thought. Two women in a room, hands and feet tied." Kidnapped in Nigeria by a group not unlike Boko Haram, two women, Nwabulu and Julie, relate the stories of the very different lives fate has meted out for them. When Nwabulu's father dies, her stepmother sends her off to become a housemaid. For years, she suffers the abuse of employers, a love affair with an employer's son offering little comfort. Out of their union a son is born, but the young Nwabulu has to give him up, and is bound to suffer in her stepmother's home again until she can flee, establishing herself as a fashion designer, and finally able to inhabit Julie's world. Julie: privileged, educated, and adored by her parents. She has the opportunity to become whomever she desires. But sometimes too much choice can be a dangerous thing, and in Julie's case it is. At thirty-four she is still unmarried and, for the first time, there is pressure: a burden that will only be lifted... Views: 590
An investigation of missing property takes a darker turn near Lake Superior in Dead Man's Mistress, the next mystery in David Housewright's award-winning McKenzie series.Louise Wykoff is arguably the most recognizable woman living in Minnesota, known for her presence in over one hundred paintings by the late and brilliant Randolph McInnis. Louise, known better as "That Wykoff Woman," was just a young apprentice when her intimate representation and the fact of the McInnis's marriage caused rumors to fly—and Louise to hide away for decades. All of McInnis's paintings are in museums or known private collections, until Louise confesses to having three more that no one has ever heard of—and now they've been stolen. Rushmore McKenzie, an occasional unlicensed private investigator, agrees to look into the theft. As he investigates, following clues that appear far too straightforward, he finds himself on the wrong side of the bars wondering if... Views: 590
