From Author Billie Dale comes a story of friendship spanning two decades. A life of loyalty, family and love tested by decisions made with the best intentions. With Dale's signature wit and a cast of characters you can't help but adore. Wannabe More, book one in Love in Seven Mile Forge, will prove second chances do exist. After years of friendship, that summer he was mine. With our futures waiting to take us down separate paths after graduation, we made a pact. To explore being more than friends.To indulge in all we'd been holding back. We couldn't have possibly known it would change everything. One careless night in the barn, seeking refuge from the rain, altered our destiny but I refuse to let the baby I'm carrying undo all his hard work. I'll sacrifice everything for him to live out his dream in the NBA. But when he finds out the truth, will he hate me for it?Book 1 in a new series of standalone's. Views: 532
She needs to kiss him...before he figures out who she is!Reid Singleton just had the best sex ever. When the brown-eyed bombshell turns out to be Drew Fleming—his best friend's sister all grown-up—Reid can't decide if he's furious at her ruse or ready for round two! Drew is determined to tame this stubborn bachelor. But she isn't the only person from Reid's past who will change his future... Views: 532
Total Dedication Can Be A Killer.Mia Morgan, homewares queen, is given the choice. Take a break and regroup or the board will terminate her employment. With little choice and less enthusiasm, she heads to Hope Island to stay at the Bed and Breakfast the managing director booked for her.Matt Hope loves to mother people. It's what he does best and where his talents shine. Nobody can channel Martha Stewart quite like Matt can. But Mia isn't an easy client. She's angry about her enforced stay, annoyed that for the next four weeks, she has to find something other than work to keep her occupied. Before long, Matt’s easy going nature starts to wear off on her and she begins to enjoy herself.Just when things start looking good, Mia’s world is thrown into chaos and everything goes wrong, pulling the young lovers apart. Can Matt convince her that they deserve another chance or will her steely determination keep them at arms length? Views: 532
After a hectic time in London, Eric and Georgiana can finally take a break from Eric's fans. But is life in the country everything they expected? Elizabeth is looking forward to trying her new horse, and learning how to shoot so she can join the hunt. Of course escaping the attention of the Prince of Wales is also an advantage of residing far in the north. Anne, Federick and Simon will be busy civilizing Nick, who will make a very important discovery about himself as soon as he accepts his change in status. All is set for a quiet summer among the people Darcy and Elizabeth love the most, or is it? Views: 532
The Teashop Girls is a warm and moving tale of friendship and love in wartime, by the bestselling author of the Woolworths series, Elaine Everest.It is early 1940 and World War Two has already taken a hold on the country. Rose Neville works as a Lyon's Teashop Nippy on the Kent coast alongside her childhood friends, the ambitious Lily and Katie, whose fiancé is about to be posted overseas in the navy. As war creates havoc in Europe, Rose relies on the close friendship of her friends and her family.When Capt. Benjamin Hargreaves enters the teashop one day, Rose is immediately drawn to him. But as Lyon's forbids courting between staff and customers, she tries to put the handsome officer out of her mind.In increasingly dark and dangerous times, Rose fears there may not be time to waste. But is the dashing captain what he seems?Praise for Elaine Everest'Heartwarming . . . a must read' - Woman's Own'A warm, tender tale... Views: 532
Time traveling Scottish grave robbers, a sad loner who murderously re-enacts the Boston Tea Party, a jealous husband in pursuit of the tree he believes is his wife's lover, and senior citizens who battle extraterrestrials for their favorite booth at the local diner. They have dark, absurd tales to tell. Come meet them on the Sunset Cruise, and bring a coin for the Ferryman. (He works for tips.) The dark terror of Monty Python meets the absurd merriment of Clive Barker — or is it the other way around? Views: 532
Detection in the Golden Age!!!
In 1930, Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893–1971) founded London’s Detection Club, whose members swore that their "detectives shall well and truly detect the crimes presented to them, using those wits which it may please you to bestow upon them." The Detection Club pledged "never to conceal a vital clue from the reader."
Anthony Berkeley’s novels and short stories featuring Roger Sheringham and Inspector Moresby are among the finest examples of the fair play, challenge–to–the–reader tradition of the Golden Age. Berkeley punctiliously presented all the clues to the reader, but as Tony Medawar and Arthur Robinson point out in their introduction, he loved showing that clues could be interpreted in multiple ways — and Sheringham is often wrong in his conclusions.
The title story in The Avenging Chance has long been considered one of the five or six greatest formal detective stories. This book also collects seven additional cases of Sheringham and Moresby, one of which ("The Mystery of Horne's Copse") is a recently discovered novelette. Also included are Berkeley’s own tongue–in–cheek satire of the Sheringham stories and a complete checklist of the Sheringham novels and tales.
The Avenging Chance is the eleventh in Crippen & Landru’s Lost Classics series. Cover illustration by Gail Cross. Lost Classics design by Deborah Miller.
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