When a young archeologist is shot to death, his uncle, Detective Inspector William "Bill" Foy, comes out of retirement to help the London Metropolitan Police track down his killer. Foy's investigation, deeply resented by his immediate superior officer, first concentrates on an artifact, an oracle bone, from China's Bronze Age, which he believes holds the key to the homicide, but much more turns out to be at stake. Foy soon finds himself faced with untangling a complex web of murder, corruption, art theft, and smuggling. With the help of his two young assistants and an Oxford professor, Foy follows the history of the oracle bone and uncovers a ruthless international criminal organization whose origins are traced back to the cataclysmic collapse of Nazi Germany. Views: 633
A LoveRotica sex journal, a curious librarian, and a sexy alpha who keeps what he finds. Knox UenoI never thought a bookworm librarian could crack my spine.Talk about underestimating a book by the plain cover.Siah rewrote every page I thought I knew, and then put me back on the shelf, well-used and ready for check-out again.I'm not mad that she worked me over.I'm pissed that she left. Siah KentWhen I went to Knox's bed, I unleashed all my wicked fantasies.I can't want more, so after our weekend together, I scribbled, "The End" to our story in my LoveRotica Sex Journal and boarded a flight for home.I'm single and satisfied until Knox rolls into town flipping all my well-ordered hormones with an erotic entry of his own.It doesn't matter.He'll never know my backstory, and I refuse to share my climax. Red Velvet is a standalone ambw interracial erotic romance with a happy ending. Views: 633
She's come to build a future. He's running from his past.Patrick O'Connor has seen far too much of the cruel and unforgiving world. Life has beaten him down relentlessly. Out of hope and out of options, he makes the terrifying and desperate decision to return home to the family he has lied to for years, the family he knows will never forgive him.Widowed and nearly unable to care for her tiny daughter under the weight of extreme poverty, Eliza Porter jumps at the opportunity to leave behind the slums of New York City for the promise of a new life and a new beginning in the frontier town of Hope Springs.Fate tosses the two of them together more and more often, while the burden of his tightly-held secrets and the ache of her abandoned dreams pull them further and further apart. Clinging to the whispered possibility of something more than the pain life has offered them thus far will require every bit of hope they can find in this peaceful but precarious valley of... Views: 633
An ex-Spitfire pilot is dragged into a race against a shadowy government agency to unlock the secrets of the lost empire of Atlantis...In post-war 1952, the good guys are supposed to have won. But not everything is as it seems when ex-Spitfire pilot Captain Samantha Moxley is dragged into a fight against the shadowy US government agency she used to work for. Now, with former Nazis and otherworldly monsters on her trail, Captain Moxley is forced into protecting her archaeologist sister in a race to retrieve two ancient keys that will unlock the secrets of a long-lost empire - to ensure a civilisation-destroying weapon doesn't fall into the wrong hands. But what will she have to sacrifice to save the world?File Under: Fantasy [ Top Women | Riff-RAF | Pyramid Scheme | Bash the Fash ] Views: 633
With his best and craziest days behind him, a Florida call center employee struggles through mind-numbing drudgery day after day—but he just might have a way to reclaim the madness and his former life.The zombie apocalypse is over. The humans have won. Life is back to normal. And Rip is bored as hell. It's not much of a life sitting in a call center in the poor town of Spanish Shanty, Florida, answering emails like a drone and listening to customer complaints. Rip was ruler of a tiny kingdom in the Lazy River waterpark, killing zombies by day and making passionate love at night. He misses the danger, the camaraderie, and the blistering love he once knew. He longs to feel Santana—his trusty machete—in his hand, and Davia—the fiercest woman alive—in his arms once again. He can still picture it— life on the razor's edge—and he would do anything to get that feeling back.But what if Rip could get it back? He's totally... Views: 633
A Future Chron Story Battle at Ciudad de las Estrellas!It was the most audacious undertaking ever conceived by man. The building of a Starway where light-sails would journey on beams of laser light to distant stars. But there was misunderstanding between the Star-Way Corporation and the settlements along the Starway. And misunderstanding always leads to conflict.Read about the building of this engineering marvel and the struggle to keep it operating."The Cloud" is a story in the Future Chron Series. This series of short stories published by Future Chron Publishing ranges from near future to far millennial, from familiar Earth-based settings to distant worlds.This is hard science fiction - old school."The Cloud" is also available in the collections "From The Earth V-2." Views: 633
Forty years ago in the midst of war, an Anagovian soldier discovered the incredible ability to manipulate the very fabric of reality. Without thought of the consequences, man-kind used it to every advantage, winning the war and sending Anagovia into an age of peace and prosperity. Weavers grabbed hold of the Threads of reality and shaped them to their will. They are considered by most to be a blessing from the gods themselves. But a darkness is seeping in through the Fabric that none of them anticipated. Scores of men and women are going missing and beasts that normally keep to the dark corners of the world are moving in growing numbers. Li'or is a mercenary. She takes any job that pays well and keeps her moving- no matter how dangerous. One night while she's setting up camp, a young Weaver named Hashkan stumbles in and throws her careful plans off course. Before they realize it, they find themselves tangling with armies of monsters and madmen as they try to unravel the... Views: 633
