The beautiful and free-spirited Raini Blue is a struggling artist with aspirations to have her own gallery. Believing she is content, she's comfortable with her job at a local bookstore and selling her wares in the New Orleans French Market. But her world is about to shift when Tre LaSalle, the man with whom she shared her first kiss as a teenager, comes back into her life. Between his new role as mayor of a world renowned city and being a single father to his eight-year old daughter, Tre has little time for relationships. Until Raini Blue. Intrigued by her beauty and her resistance to his charms, he is determined to win her over. Tre ignites her passions and awakens desires long dormant, but Raini wonders if he can truly accept her bohemian lifestyle, whether or not her family's checkered past will hurt his political aspirations, and ultimately, can she trust him with her heart? The beautiful and free-spirited Raini Blue is a struggling artist... Views: 281
Kennedy was an acclaimed novelist and playwright best-known for The Constant Nymph. In this autobiographical account, taken from her war diaries, she conveys the tension, frustration and bewilderment of the progression of the war, and the terror of knowing that the worst is to come, but not yet knowing what the worst will be. English bravery, confusion, stubbornness and dark humor provide the positive, more hopeful side of her experiences, in which she and her children move from Surrey to Cornwall, to sit out the war amidst a quietly efficient Home Guard and the most scandalous rumors."Most people knew in their hearts that the lid had been taken off hell, and that what had been done in Guernica would one day be done in London, Paris and Berlin." Margaret Kennedy's prophetic words, written about the pre-war mood in Europe, give the tone of this riveting 1941 wartime memoir: it is Mrs Miniver with the gloves off.Where Stands A... Views: 281
"Poppy Denby's back doing what she does best, and this time in Newcastle! Cleverly plotted as always, with an exceptional eye for detail and a fabulous amateur sleuth, Veitch Smith carries us back once more to the Golden Age for this delicious murder mystery." Jacky Collins (Dr Noir)It's 1924 and Poppy Denby is heading up to Northumberland to celebrate her father's sixtieth birthday. She stops off in Newcastle en route to visit her Aunt Dot, who has temporarily relocated from London to renovate a house she's inherited. One of Aunt Dot's guests is the world-renowned artist, Agnes Robson, who is staging an exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery. Reluctantly, Poppy is roped in to help when the artist's press liaison man falls ill. She soon discovers that the local press has dug up some dirt on Agnes relating to the tragic death of a young art teacher in Ashington Colliery, twenty-seven years earlier. As she tries to suppress the story, Poppy begins... Views: 281
I've been in hiding for four years. On the run from the man in whose bed I once slept. I saw something I shouldn't have seen. Took something I shouldn't have taken. And he's just found me. But it's not just my safety I have to worry about. I have a little boy. His little boy. The secret baby of a Russian mobster. He told me in no uncertain terms that I'm his. That we would be a family. But his uncle still wants me dead and I know the man whose been hunting me is the only one who can keep us safe. Views: 281
A debt is owed, and he takes me as payment. HER When my father runs up too much debt, I pay the price. I've been sold. Sold to a man who vows to break me. A man who keeps his face hidden from me, even as his dark desires awaken mine. It wasn't my debt to pay, but he took me, anyway. He said he would have his payment, even if it cost me my soul. HIM I run the club. If someone steps out of line, they either work for me or disappear. But when a local man runs up too much debt, I take his daughter as payment. She is mine to do with as I please. I will have her completely; mind, body, and soul. Nothing would please me more than breaking her. I didn't think I would feel for her. I didn't think I could love again. Now I might be the one who ends up broken. Views: 281
The rulers of the Parvac Empire, Laconian Sector, and Galaxic Expanse have decided to cooperate in a clandestine endeavor to expose the villain behind a nefarious plot designed to instigate a war which would threaten their fragile peace.Appointed by Emperor Probus as his proxy in matters of interstellar security, Princess Teagan Probus is investigating the disappearance of Katherine Dylan, one of only two known survivors of the Asylum, a merchant ship involved in the testing of a devastatingly powerful alien weapon and the key to a terrifying plot.The Inquisitors have three unreliable key witnesses in custody, the Mad Ones, the first Laconian hybrids to be successfully created by Dr. Stanley Crispus. They were instrumental to Stig's suspected plans but were manipulated and used against him. However, should they again attempt to question the criminally insane telepaths, it could have irrevocable consequences, not only for the Imperial family but also... Views: 281
An emotional journey of eroticism, danger, entrapment, escapism, hope and faith in love and triumph over adversity, and the dark secret that lay hidden in the shadows of the lies that surrounded her. Gripped and trapped in the sinister evil, lurking and twisting around every step of her strong will to survive and succeed. Will she succumb to the cruel twisted fate of her adversaries, the sexual temptation of her misguided path or find the strength within to reach for her destiny and succeed? Jade, one woman's journey, this is her story, this is her reality. Inspired by true events. Views: 281
When underachieving writer Larry Mann is granted the lucrative opportunity to ghostwrite the memoirs of the notorious and eccentric businessman-turned-politician Maxime Montblanc, he accepts immediately, tantalized by the financial benefits he's promised. However, as the two men begin to learn about and confide in one another, hints of their pasts surface to reveal two men both breaking in their own ways and both searching for a brighter future that may not exist. Alternating between the stark and the surreal, the abstract and the lyrical, Panegyric is an exploration and examination into the nature of artistic integrity, creation, and legacy, told in a way that is subversive, allegorical, profane, humorous, harrowing, and at times, unapologetically incomprehensible. Views: 281
