The Tactical Crime Division – TCD – Is A Specialized Unit 0f The FBI. They Handle The Toughest Cases In The Most Remote Locations.When TCD learns of a school invasion turned lockdown, every agent is ready to engage. With children in jeopardy, the stakes couldn't be higher. But it becomes personal for hostage negotiator agent Evan Duran when he learns Annalise Taylor is one of the captives holed up with the students in a school for the gifted. He'll need every resource available at TCD and every ounce of his expertise to turn this disastrous situation into a rescue mission–and if he succeeds, maybe reunite with the woman he never stopped loving. Views: 504
His ring will protect her...And expose his guarded heartWidowed Lady Cecily has a dangerous plan to secure her family's future and their safety. A plan that is perfect, right until Lachlan of Drummuir discovers it! Cecily's sure the honest and brooding warrior will expose her, despite their unexpected and powerful chemistry. But when she's sent to the king for judgment, Lachlan shocks her by offering the ultimate protection—his hand in name only! Views: 504
In 1986, 26-year old Ruth visits a friend at the hospital when she notices that the door to one of the hospital rooms is painted red. She witnesses nurses drawing straws to see who would tend to the patient inside, all of them reluctant to enter the room. Out of impulse, Ruth herself enters the quarantined space and immediately begins to care for the young man who cries for his mother in the last moments of his life. Before she can even process what she's done, word spreads in the community that Ruth is the only person willing to help these young men afflicted by AIDS, and is called upon to nurse them. As she forges deep friendships with the men she helps, she works tirelessly to find them housing and jobs, even searching for funeral homes willing to take their bodies – often in the middle of the night. She cooks meals for tens of people out of discarded food found in the dumpsters behind supermarkets, stores rare medications for her most urgent patients, teaches sex-ed... Views: 504
The story continues in The Forgotten Kingdom, the second book in the epic Lost Queen trilogy, already hailed as "Outlander meets Camelot" (Kirsty Logan, authors of Things We Say in the Dark) and "The Mists of Avalon for a new generation" (Linnea Hartsuyker, author of The Golden Wolf).AD 573. Imprisoned in her chamber, Languoreth awaits news in torment. Her husband and son have ridden off to wage war against her brother, Lailoken. She doesn't yet know that her young daughter, Angharad, who was training with Lailoken to become a Wisdom Keeper, has been lost in the chaos. As one of the bloodiest battles of early medieval Scottish history scatters its survivors to the wind, Lailoken and his men must flee to exile in the mountains of the Lowlands, while nine-year-old Angharad must summon all Lailoken has taught her and follow her own destiny through the mysterious, mystical land of the Picts. In the aftermath of the battle,... Views: 504
Origin Stories (an Undead Age Novella) Where were you when the dead didn't die? Father Walter, an unassuming Irish priest, lives a life of quiet service to others. When the dead refuse to die, can this gentle man survive? Connor's mistake cost him the woman he loves. He wants to win her back, but will he get the chance or die trying? Emily's interview doesn't go as planned. Will a re-do prove she has the skills to make it through the end of the world? Mario plays his cards close to the vest. Have his motivations been misinterpreted, or is he as cold as the undead hordes? Miranda is looking forward to her junior year of college. Will she crack under the pressure of the zombie apocalypse, or can she pull it together in time to survive? See how it all began for the characters you know and love—and sometimes hate—in this Origin Stories novella from The... Views: 504
In June 1940, the horror-struck inhabitants of Jersey watch as the German army unopposed takes possession of their island. Now only a short way from the English coast, the Germans plan their invasion.Hedy Bercu, a young Jewish girl from Vienna who fled to the isolation and safety of Jersey two years earlier to escape the Nazis, finds herself once more trapped, but this time with no way of escape.Hiding her racial status, Hedy is employed by the German authorities and secretly embarks on small acts of resistance. But most dangerously of all, she falls in love with German lieutenant Kurt Neumann — a relationship on which her life will soon depend.A remarkable novel of finding hope and love when all seems at its darkest. Views: 504
