A freak electrical storm sweeps over Britain, knocking out power lines in its wake. Without the National Grid, Britain is in left in the dark – no lights, no heat, no electricity...From among the British refugees now scattered across northern France, a young soldier is recruited for a mission that takes him back home, to find a Britain at once recognisable and massively altered.A freak electrical storm sweeps over Britain, knocking out power lines in its wake. Without the National Grid, Britain is in left in the dark – no lights, no heat, no electricity...Three months later, from among the British refugees now scattered across northern France, a nation itself rocked by the crisis, a young soldier is recruited for a mission that takes him back home.This is his story, as he ventures back to find his homeland ravaged, its population scattered, and civilisation on the brink. This is a tale of an alternative future, set in a Britain at once recognisable and massively altered. Views: 372
An epic love story that spans a lifetime and faces every obstacle... *
1971—In the tiny, backward town of Tulma, Tennessee, optimistic, bookish Caroline Carson unwittingly finds herself in the middle of a forbidden romance. Severely neglected by her family and forced to flee Tulma to protect her secrets, Caroline’s young life comes crashing down around her. She finds refuge in a new town, but the past always has a way of stretching around time and stirring up trouble.
When a new love comes into her life, she has to decide if she can give her heart to someone else, or if she will always be tied to someone she can’t have.
Willow Aster is the author of True Love Story and In the Fields, and many more to come. She loves her crazy life with her husband and kids. Views: 372
Liam: After serving four years in the army, I’m back home in Texas, but it hasn’t taken me long to see that I don’t belong here anymore. Luckily, I heard that my cousin, Jake King, is now living in New York City, so I’ll join him there, hoping to put the past behind me. And, unlike most other twenty-two-year-old guys, the one thing I’m NOT looking for is romance. In fact, I’m planning on being celibate for the foreseeable future.
Mila: I don’t need a bodyguard, and I certainly don’t want one, but my dad is sure that someone’s trying to hurt me. All I want is to focus on my practice and spend time with Grandma Millie at her beautiful resort. However, after meeting my bodyguard, I’m now thinking that going to Pleasure Island with him might not be such a bad deal after all.
Former soldier, Liam Finnegan and sex therapist Mila Golding are about as different as two people can be. After Liam is hired as Mila’s bodyguard, they fight the chemistry between them, but fate has other ideas. Will they be able to move beyond the baggage of their pasts, or will their biases prove to be their undoing?
Don’t miss Pleasure Island, the final book in the Sex Coach series. Contains a free preview of the Pure Lust series. Views: 372
#1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward is heating things up this winter with a holiday novel featuring some of her most iconic Black Dagger Brothers.When Trez lost his beloved to a tragic death (The Shadows, Black Dagger Brotherhood #13), his soul was crushed and his destiny seemed relegated to suffering. But when he meets a mysterious female, he becomes convinced his true love has been reincarnated. Is he right? Or has his grief created a disastrous delusion? Therese has come to Caldwell to escape a rift with her bloodline. The revelation that she was adopted and not born into her family shakes the foundations of her identity, and she is determined to make it on her own. Her attraction to Trez is not what she's looking for, except the sexy Shadow proves to be undeniable. Has fate provided a grieving widower with a second chance...or is Trez too blinded by the past to see the present for what it really is? In this sensual, arresting... Views: 372
Navy SEAL. Team Leader. Warrior. Men are born. Warriors are made. Honor is earned. I was sixteen years old when I first heard those words from my best friend's father. The Vice Admiral took me in, taught me about integrity, and gave me what I'd never had—a family. But it wasn't just my best friend and his father who changed my life. The emerald-eyed blonde with an innocent smile stopped me dead in my tracks. Wanting to be a man worthy of her, I enlisted and became a SEAL. Except not even the Trident I'd earned changed the fact that she was the Vice Admiral's daughter and my best friend's much younger sister. She was strictly off-limits.Then tragedy struck, and I found myself in the one position I never should've let happen—with my arms around her. Now I had one objective. Code name: Alpha.... Views: 372
The girl who loves Christmas falls for the Grinch—it's a Christmas miracle. What started as a dumpster fire of a blind date turns into a deal. In truth, it probably didn't help that I showed up dressed like an elf but that's a story for another time. Our start was rocky at best which is why it's so frustrating that I can't stop thinking about his sexy British accent. Or the way his chest and arms fill out his suit. Or his perfect hair with that single streak of grey at the front. Santa likes lists and so do I, so here's all the reasons why Andrew and I aren't right for each other: He's my brother's best friend He's the biggest grump I've ever met. He hates Christmas. That last one is big for a girl like me who thinks that the entire month of December should be a national holiday. So, when he calls for my help in planning his firm's holiday party, I can't pass up the opportunity to grow my small business.... Views: 371
Busy building a new career with his catamaran company, former SEAL Jack Girard had all but forgotten about his grandfather’s quest to find the golden Mayan goddess statues until his brother’s beautiful widow, Jillian, and adorable daughter, Addison, arrive in Cancun with the research materials. His need to complete the family quest is almost as strong as his desire for Jillian.Between raising her daughter alone and finishing her doctorate in Mayan anthropology, Jillian doesn’t have time for a man in her life. Although, after mourning her husband’s murder for two years, she’s ready for a man her bed.An underwater Virgin Mary statue and centuries-old manuscripts lead the two of them through the Mayan Riviera and directly into danger.During steamy Caribbean nights together, will they develop the ability to move on and discover the real treasure isn't gold? Views: 371
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Anne Tyler's *The Beginner's Goodbye.*
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
BALTIMORE WOMAN DISAPPEARS DURING FAMILY VACATION, declares the headline. Forty-year-old Delia Grinstead is last seen strolling down the Delaware shore, wearing nothing more than a bathing suit and carrying a beach tote with five hundred dollars tucked inside. To her husband and three almost-grown children, she has vanished without trace or reason. But for Delia, who feels like a tiny gnat buzzing around her family's edges, "walking away from it all" is not a premeditated act, but an impulse that will lead her into a new, exciting, and unimagined life . . . .
"TYLER DETAILS DELIA'S ADVENTURE WITH GREAT SKILL . . . As so often in her earlier fiction--Celestial Navigation, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, The Accidental Tourist, and her nine other novels--[she] creates distinct characters caught in poignantly funny situations. . . .Tyler writes with a clarity that makes the commonplace seem fresh and the pathetic touching."
--The New York Times
"UTTERLY COMPELLING. . .WONDERFULLY SATISFYING. . .Ladder of Years is virtually flawless."
--Chicago Tribune
"A 'PAGE-TURNER' IN THE BEST SENSE . . . One wants to lightly caress the pages of the story because one cares for Ms. Tyler's touchingly flawed characters. . . . Both madcap and genteel, Anne Tyler knows as well as anyone that 'human beings lead many lives.' Casually, delightfully, Ladder of Years will tell you just how we humans manage this trick."
--The Baltimore Sun Views: 371
It is for Humanity sake. to raise the awareness.It is for me and youfor every one you knowSo may you tell a friendwhether they weremale or femaleWe shall we are all parts of this universe!For the sake of you of me of every one you know!never hesitate to tellit is for the sake of you You every one on this universei could use my poetic language to expressto raise the awareness to tell you my brothersplease wake upit is the time to clean the sleeping dustthat has been on your shoulders for ages.Here our start dear brothersHere will be the end of fight Should not we avoid ifwe could by a smile we You all offerA good word is the curefor what might cause warTo heal the woundedand to recover the sick to kick the diseaseso Smile if you pleasehave a deep look on my bookJudge it never by the coverbut by the thoughts i you offerMay God Bless this universe!Remember it is a call to wake upto put the swords downTo let the words be onLove is neededit does completesfills the heart draw smilebeautify the lifeit is peacewhere no victims shall beit is peace where no strongno rich shall we haveequals to ourselvesthe hearts are scalesIn Such word a Smile overweight your side! Views: 371
Hi – I’m freelance editor Merry Summerfield, and it’s another fantastic day in drowsy Drizzle Bay. That’s until Vicar Paul and I find Isobel Crombie lying dead in a sea of flowers in the aisle of Saint Agatha’s church. Who’d kill a harmless old girl like her?In no time flat I’ve scored a house-and-pet sitting gig – Isobel’s remote seaside cottage and her two darling dogs. It comes complete with hollyhocks and seagulls and a SEAL from California who looks a lot like a younger Jon Bon Jovi. He's certainly cute, but aren’t his questions about Isobel's house a bit – well, suspicious?Then I find a secret office stuffed with alarming files about car thefts and Black Ops assassins. Maybe Isobel wasn't as harmless as we all thought? Sleuthing’s more fun than I’ve had in ages, but how safe am I on my own now things are unraveling? Little white Bichons are hopeless attack dogs. Views: 371
