Evan Shaw has wanted to be invisible since he was twelve. A shadow of guilt and fear follow him wherever he goes, even across the country. Not even sunny Glenhaven, Florida could chase away the dark clouds of Evan’s past. It’s not until the college library that Evan finally wished someone would see him. Dani Bishop was born and raised in Glenhaven. The daughter of two professors at Edgewater College, she starts her freshman year, eyeing the cute guy in the library. Getting to know him isn’t easy, and she realizes there’s more to him and his past than meets the eye.Evan wants a future away from fear and hatred, and he’ll eventually have to face those things head-on. But first, he’ll try to work up the courage to talk to the girl in the college library just a few tables away. Views: 528
All Emma wants is to belong... Emma, the youngest daughter of the great family, cannot find acceptance among the peers of society despite four Seasons of pleasing everyone. She is banished to Inverness to avoid any scandal her anger might cause. Even in Inverness, she is an outsider, for her cousins, including staid and boring Morgan Davies, spend all their days working and thinking, for heaven's sake! Having survived years of the family's disasters, Morgan likes his quiet life and routine. Emma's excesses and plain speaking disrupt his days. When Emma discovers politics and adopts as her cause women's suffrage, the most outrageous scandal the family has yet to produce threatens to turn Morgan's world inside out... This book is the twelfth in the Scandalous Scions series, bringing together the members of three great families, to love and play under the gaze of the Victorian era's moralistic, straight-laced society. This story... Views: 528
She had every reason to go...Until he gave her one to stayAfter her father's passing, Ruth Fisher is required to sell her family furniture business. She plans to leave the Amish community to pursue an Englisch education—until she meets the new owner. Malachi Schrock has ambitious plans for her father's store, but when the transition sparks an unexpected attraction, could following her heart mean staying in Miller's Creek forever? Views: 528
This gripping story of adventure and courage is set in a magnificent wilderness with the French, English, Iroquois, and Wendat just starting to do battle for what would become the US and Canada. The novel begins with the English pitted against the French, both aggressively claiming the land and resources of North America for themselves. The Iroquois align with the English, the Wendat with the French. The warring conflict between Iroquois and Wendat goes back generations, but exists in an uneasy balance until the English sell guns to the Iroquois. Etienne Brulé, a historical character, has lived with the Wendat for 25 years. He knows even if he can get guns for the Wendat, the price everyone will pay in the end will be way too much. Views: 528
Priory McAllister has fought off boardroom sharks, handled high-pressure jobs, and thought she’d seen it all. Ready to live the suburban life she found her dream home and can’t wait to move in. Unknown to Priory, the house is inhabited by two ghosts, Rhee and a mischievous Dylan who call Priory's new house their home and have since 1935. They have no intention of leaving after all, she couldn’t be harder to get rid of than the others who tried to encroach on their home. Jacey Ryder, Priory’s long-suffering secretary has agreed to help her boss move…the things you do for your crush! Now, she gets to play referee between her boss and a bossy ghost, as each side try to lay claim to the house. What can she do when an unstoppable force, (her boss) meets an immovable object, (the ghost) besides hope for a peaceful solution? They are like two peas in a pod—two angry, stubborn peas in a pod. Views: 528
Zaida, an imaginative teenager, wants to bring her divorced parents back together.It's November 2008, and a family squabble over their daughter's holiday escalates into a nightmare, involving the detention of English and Syrian family members by Assad's intelligence forces. In Syria, the Al-Sayeds have no qualms about prolonging Zaida's holiday; they cherish the 12 year-old who looks like the girl they lost in an Lebanese refugee camp. Zaida's father has returned home to a family business closely interlocked with the regime, and with Zaida in his beautiful Damascus house he rediscovers the joyful art of fatherhood. In Leaford, Virginia Franklin waits anxiously for news from her daughter. Was it the right thing to let her go? Alternating between a family-run acupuncture clinic in Britain and Syria before the civil war, the book fuses themes of parental love, cultural transmission, forgiveness, trust and betrayal. Views: 528
Told primarily in instant messenger conversations, Skype, emails and texts, this is Jaclyn Moriarty's Feeling Sorry for Celia for the modern teen. Taylor and Isolde used to be best friends - before THAT FIGHT, 18 months ago. It's been radio silence ever since - until Taylor contacts Isolde to sympathise with her breakup: the breakup that she never saw coming; the breakup that destroyed her confidence and ended her dreams of joining the National Ballet School.Taylor's had his own share of challenges, including a life-altering accident that has brought his hopes of competing at the Winter Olympics to a halt.Isolde responds to Taylor, to be polite. But what starts out as heartbreak-themed Spotify playlists and shared stories of exes quickly becomes something more.And as Taylor and Isolde start to lean on each other, the distance between them begins to feel not so distant after all ...A boy. A girl. A one-of-a-kind... Views: 528
The last thing that acrobat Kirin DiUmbra needs is to get snared in the deadly succession politics of the Kingdom of Silbar.
The first thing Prince Terrell wants is to prove himself worthy to wear the Silbari Crown. But he’s going to need un-looked-for help if he isn’t to end up murdered.
Two young men are thrown together by fate in a desperate struggle for their lives amidst magical dangers and deadly enemies. They must fight their way through crumbling ruin and searing desert, past bloody-handed fanatics and hostile ghosts. But even death will pale before the painful truths they must face when together they stand before the Stone Throne, and challenge the arcane power that will choose the next King of Silbar.
Come along on a lush fantasy adventure in an ancient and magical land. Views: 528
