What could be worse than knowing the exact day the world is going to end?
Waking up to find out that it didn’t.
The post–April 23 world is a lawless, senseless, ruthless place, but it’s not loveless. At least, not for Rain and Wes.
But when the government begins holding daily televised executions as a demonstration of their power, that love is put to the ultimate test.
Will Rain sacrifice one life to save the others?
Or sacrifice the others to save the one? Views: 579
Five strangers, one cafe - and the day that everything changed.A regular weekday morning veers drastically off-course for a group of strangers whose paths cross in a London cafe - their lives never to be the same again when an apparently crazed gunman holds them hostage. But there is more to the situation than first meets the eye and as the captives grapple with their own inner demons, the line between right and wrong starts to blur. Will the secrets they keep stop them from escaping with their lives?Charity Norman beautifully captures the fear, and the surprising solace, to be found in a situation that has gone way beyond your control. In this elegantly told tale of the power of humanity to save and destroy, Charity's writing is full of compassion and compulsion. Views: 579
An innocent girl like Raelynn should've never tracked down Playboy. His name alone should've been a red flag waving in her face, but she needed help. A ladies man like Playboy should have locked the door on Raelynn the second she knocked. The way she looked at him like he hung the stars should have set him running, but he always took what he wanted. Raelynn is looking for a hero, not just a tumble in the sheets. Playboy isn't anyone's hero. Views: 579
Charlie Stetko had a life to envy. A penthouse in Manhattan, a beautiful girlfriend, and a high-octane marketing career. Or so she thought. When her girlfriend sends her packing, Charlie ends up unemployed. Without a place to live or money of her own, she's forced to do the one thing she vowed she never would: go back to Shaker Falls, Vermont. Back to her parents and back to the small town life—and the people—she left behind. Back to a part-time job in the new bakery in town.Emma Grier thought Charlie was the love of her life until that uppity Manhattan entrepreneur swept Charlie off her feet. Charlie left everything in Shaker Falls behind, including Emma's shattered heart. But Emma picked herself back up and now owns a popular restaurant in town. As for her love life? She doesn't need one. Something else she doesn't need? Charlie waltzing into her restaurant to sell her the bakery's pie. Views: 579
If music be the food of love…Spring welcomes concert season in the newly-minted spa town of Castleford, and Bess Turner is only too delighted by rumours that a famed composer will be performing his newest symphony only a few miles from her home.Christopher Cluett has been working on his latest composition for so long that he knows it will never live up to the expectation of the masses – assuming he can ever find a way to finish it. A quiet debut in Castleford is marginally preferable to a public shaming in London, but when the bad-tempered Christopher meets sweet-tempered Bess, might he also rediscover the music that has long eluded him? Views: 579
Bessie meets Marc in a chemistry class at college. She can't bring herself to ask for his number and is disappointed when the semester ends without another glimpse of the sexy French guy. In a wonderful twist of fate, who should she run into on her beach vacation? The two are quickly enamored and spend the whole summer in a whirlwind of flirting. Just when things might get more serious, a tragedy in Bessie's family causes everything to screech to a halt. Will the undeniable chemistry between the two manage to carry them through the tough times? Views: 578
Murders plague a university library—and only an intrepid book cataloger can solve them.For the staff of the library at the center of The Widening Stain, it's easy enough to dismiss the death of a woman who fell from a rolling ladder as nothing more than an unfortunate accident. It's more difficult, however, to explain away the strangled corpse of a man found inside a locked room, surrounded by rare and obscure erotica. And that's not all—a valuable manuscript has vanished from the stacks, which means that both a killer and a thief are loose in the facility's hallowed halls. It's up to chief cataloger Gilda Gorham to solve the crimes but, unless she's careful, the next death in the library might just be her own...A humorous and literary Golden Age mystery, The Widening Stain is adorned with as many playful limericks as it is with bibliographic details. The book, which offers a satirical glimpse of academic life at an institution... Views: 578
