What would you do to keep yourself safe from persecution?Cobalt Leventhorpe is faced with that question every few centuries. From friends to enemies, once they find out what he is, they never like him. And every time, it pains him to take such drastic measures.But meeting a new face in his latest home changes his perspective. The newcomer, a certain Paulina Monson, seems eager to know his secret. He does his best to keep her from it, but she finds out all the same.His perfect hideaway comes crashing down when he discovers her family is no different from the rest of them. He must leave town, but he cannot slip by without Paulina's insistence to accompany him.Fearing the worst and trusting no one, he's on the run again. Decades have taught him that his secret is his to bear, and not to be shared with anyone. Only a fool would depend on a human, yet his persistent companion makes him rethink everything he's ever known about them. Views: 110
A slightly TAMER version of Rapturous—all the romance, all the heat, just a little less erotic. Control is his mantra...until one woman breaks his control—and his heart. It's Oscar night, and Academy Award-winning director Hayden Roth spontaneously kisses the woman he desires above all others, even though he knows she can never be his. Addison York craves her boss's best friend, Hayden, but he has never given her an ounce of encouragement—until tonight when he kissed her after winning the Oscar. Was that kiss the start of something or another in a long line of frustrations where Hayden is concerned? Something is keeping him from acting on the attraction that simmers between them, and Addie is determined to find out what it is. But when she stumbles upon the secret that Hayden, Flynn and her other close friends have kept from her, will she allow hurt feelings to get in the way of true love? When Hayden won't share... Views: 110
This is the brooding love story on the themes of music, deafness and nationality, set in London, Vienna and Venice, and is the first novel by Vikram Seth since his 'A Suitable Boy'. Views: 110
In present-day Los Angeles, Caroline Martin has everything but the thing her soul craves most: a daughter. When she undergoes what is supposed to be a routine hysterectomy, she unwittingly aborts the little girl she's always longed for, leaving the unborn baby's soul in limbo. Sharing a hospital room with Caroline is a pregnant woman who's just been shot by her boyfriend. Her unborn child is barely hanging on—and the soul of Caroline's hovering baby cannot resist the overwhelming urge to rebirth via this unclaimed fetus. In the aftermath of these events, two engaging heavenly guides, working together through sensitive humans, struggle to find an alternate way to help Caroline and her would-be daughter forge the link that was always meant to be between them—before the child's brutal father makes good on his vow to steal the girl and disappear with her forever. By turns comic and tragic, Rachael's Return explores the concept of soul mates, the afterlife, reincarnation,... Views: 110
As a historian in the bleak, climate-ravaged twenty-third century, it's Zoe's job to record and archive the past, not to recreate it. But when she comes across the diaries of Harry and Michelle, who lived two hundred years ago, she becomes fascinated by the minutiae of their lives and decides to write a novel about them, filling in the gaps with her own imaginings. Harry and Michelle meet just after the Brexit referendum when Harry's car breaks down outside a small town in Norfolk. Despite their different backgrounds, and Michelle having voted Leave while Harry voted Remain, they are drawn to each other and begin a relationship.From her long perspective, the way Zoe sees their world is somewhat different from the way we see it now. Two Tribes becomes a reflection on the way our ideas are shaped by class and social circumstances, and how they change without us even noticing. It explores what divides us and what brings us together. And it asks where we may be... Views: 110
