Two countries. One ancient grudge. Can love unite them at long last?Consigned to the Highlands to marry a mysterious Laird feels like a death sentence to eighteen-year-old Sarina Bashir. Her entire life and family reside in England. Growing up, she’s heard terrifying stories of the Highlands and their brutish people. However, when Sarina’s father is killed by a Highlander, her brother, Thomas, schemes the perfect way to take revenge...He betroths Sarina to the very Highlander responsible for their father’s murder, Laird Seamus Mackenzie, and presents her with a sharp, beautiful dagger with which to slit his throat. All Sarina has to do is wait until he falls asleep on their wedding night and then vengeance will be theirs. But when Sarina meets the handsome and honourable Seamus, she soon learns that the very family she loves and trusts has secrets of their own…Who should Sarina believe? Is love strong enough to overcome all sins? Views: 563
Something is afoot in Durbuy, the smallest town in the world. Alexander, Hope, Meredith and Amy are spending a wonderful time on holiday with their parents in a house at the edge of a forest when, quite by accident, they stumble across a gateway into a fantastic land populated by dwarfs, gnomes and a host of other creatures each stranger than the last. But they are not the only ones looking for a way back to their own world; a mysterious Sorceress has been trying to locate the portal for the last several centuries... Views: 563
From a New York Times-bestselling author, a sweeping history of the American West In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East.Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West. Views: 563
The bond is broken. Ascension is coming. The Advent is rising. And the enemy is winning.
An ill-prepared world crumbles before the power of the Alpha Prime and his ascending Summer Omega daughter. Presidents and kings bow before Mareus as Advent pack numbers grow. In the wake of their severed bond, Kale and Shelby struggle to find meaning in their changed relationship—but it takes more than love to repair it. The keys of Ascension are held by the magical races that have found refuge on Earth, and the third key has been identified—but it is held by a mistrusting and often devious race. In order to claim it, Shelby and Athena race against each other on a journey that brings them face to face with a darkness never anticipated, the very darkness that destroyed Alsvoira.
Long held prophecies and beliefs are shattered as the true meaning of the Advent begins to take shape. Earth may always have been a temporary refuge. Views: 563
An imaginative, strange, and boldly inventive collection of stories from a singular mind, with a new introduction by Mark HarrisIn The General Zapped an Angel, featuring nine supremely entertaining fantasy and science fiction tales, a Vietnam general shoots down what appears to be an angel; a man sells his soul to the devil for a copy of the next day's Wall Street Journal; and a group of alien beings bestow a mouse with human thought and emotionFast, one of the bestselling authors of the twentieth century whose career spanned decades and genres, skewers war hawks, oil speculators, and profit-at-all-costs capitalism with wit and empathy, making these stories as relevant today as when they were first published in 1970. Views: 563
Bound to a stranger...in a secret ceremony!With her finances, reputation and heart all broken by a family scandal, Grace Linwood seeks employment. But the lady she's companion to isn't long for this world. She's intent on seeing Grace protected and quickly wed to her son, curt and closed-off Captain Spencer Dauntsey. With little choice, all Grace can say is "I do"...but who is the man she has just married? Views: 563
