Sylvie reluctantly took Margot's placeSylvie's sister, Margot, was determined to become an actress. She refused to live in Greece with her husband, Leon Petronides, and their small son. So Sylvie found herself going to Greece to look after the boy.The Petronides family was not thrilled with the substitution--but Sylvie soon won them over, especially Leon. Andreas Petronides, his brother, was a different story.He resented Sylvie's attentions to Leon. In fact, he seemed to suspect Sylvie's motives. The only explanation for his attitude never even occurred to Sylvie . . . . Views: 50
Book Two is out now at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K0YOXUE for just 99 cents! From New York Times bestselling author Aubrey Rose and Nadia Simonenko comes a thrilling new shifter romance series: Shifting Fates: an Urban Fantasy Shifter Romance What happens when a soldier falls in love with the shifter he’s been sent to kill?In post-nuclear Manhattan, there are two kinds of survivors: humans and shifters. Cage After his older brother Ben was killed by shifters, Cage followed in Ben’s footsteps and joined the military. His job is simple: protect the surviving civilians in the wreckage of Manhattan and put down the dangerous shifter mutants prowling the streets. Bitter with revenge, he can’t wait for a chance to get even with the monsters who killed his brother. Bindi Half-wolf, half-human Bindi is one of Cage’s monsters. She lives underground, hiding away from military patrols and protecting the ragtag pack of shifter children who have come to depend on her. She’d do anything to get out of the city and get her pack to safety, but nobody gets in - or out - of this city. On Christmas Eve, Cage catches Bindi –in human form - stealing extra rations for her pack. In a moment of pity he lets her go, but not without being struck by a sense that there’s something special about her. Something… different. * a Shifter Romance Series that will pull at your heartstrings When he finally discovers her secret, Cage must decide what’s more important to him – finally avenging his brother, or saving the woman he’s come to love. And Bindi will learn a lesson about humanity...and about love. ** Excerpt: The guard takes a step back, still holding my arm with one hand as he looks down at the stolen packages. He is vulnerable, his body open. There. It’s time. He knows. Break his arm first, take his gun, kill him, and run. The thoughts run through my mind, a carefully planned scenario that I’ve never had to actually act out. My pulse quickens, my skin tight over my limbs. I’m ready to shift into my wolf form if I need to. Looking up at him, though, I can’t bring myself to raise my arm, to snap his elbow. Instead I pull back and break his hold with a twist of my arm, leaping away from him and bending to snatch my cane up from the ground. I am crouched, ready to run, when I look up and see his eyes. They’re light brown, flecked with gold, and even in the dim light they shimmer and glow. Something in them draws me close, makes me want to go back to him, to lean forward and see who he is, who he really is, under the soldier’s uniform. His face is mesmerizing, and I breathe quickly, trying to will myself into action. Kill or be killed. Kill or be killed. He’s huge, and I am losing the element of surprise with each second I wait. Huge. Strong. His shoulders are broad and heavy, and I can’t keep my eyes from wandering over his defined muscles, can’t stop imagining how his hand would feel if it moved over my hips, my body. In this instant, I can feel my pulse hammering against the insides of my wrists, against my temples. I can feel my skin flush with a desire that I’ve never before known. It’s something so fierce and instinctive that it rattles me to the core. Warning : Although this first book hints at sexual tension, future books in the series will be sexually explicit! Shifting Fates is a romance novella series to be released in monthly installments… Book 2 is coming soon! Sign up for our newsletter for updates on all new releases: http://list.nadiaromance.com (Get Nadia’s new adult romance Lost for free instantly when you sign up!) OR http://aubreyrosewrites.com/subscribe/ (Get the free shifter romance Blind Wolf instantly when you sign up!) Book Two is out now at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K0YOXUE for just 99 cents!ReviewPraise for Shifting Fates:**"This story grabbed me at page one and sucked me in--could not put it down. I was absolutely fascinated by the characters and their intertwining relationships. The main character of Bindi displays such strength and responsibility. At the same time, she is just a young girl doing her best to deal with the life she has been handed and survive. Cage is bitter over his brother's death yet he still hasn't lost compassion for others. When Cage and Bindi meet for the first time you can feel the heat rise off the pages. I cannot wait to see where Ms. Simonenko and Ms. Rose takes us with this series!" -Tracy, Goodreads**Praise for Aubrey Rose:"I needed a story to get lost in and this was the perfect choice." - Hermosa Writer**"Aubrey Rose's new page turner is written with a wonderful tact that combines the best of traditional shifter romance fantasies with New Adult. There's a lot of emotionally intense moments and even a little angst. The power in Rose's intensely raw writing sharpens everything in this story. Julia and Damien stand with more realism, and when the steamy scenes come, they're like a summer storm: hot, bright, and maddeningly tense." - Desuvius****Praise for Nadia Simonenko: "This is a dark, intense, and amazingly powerful read." - Emme Rollins, New York Times Bestselling Author, reviewing Found "Nadia is the queen of writing emotional books that make you feel every emotion imaginable. I can't get enough of her words." - Michelle at BookBriefs, reviewing Chasing WishesFrom the AuthorAubrey: This is my first time writing with a co-author, and it's been magnificent! Nadia is the coolest cat, and her writing is oh-so beautiful... it makes me a better writer. I'm so glad she decided to start writing shifters with me!! I really hope this series takes off, because I'm very excited to explore the stories of all of the characters in these books. OMG Kit! I want to write ten more books about her journey...We already have the first two books written and the third one is underway, so don't worry, you won't have to wait long between installments! I like writing series as episodes, and I hope that you enjoy reading them that way. For those who prefer to wait until the series is complete, though, just sign up for our mailing list and we'll let you know when the last book is out! Thanks so much for reading! <3Nadia: Shifting Fates started out as an experiment in collaborative writing and grew into an amazing, totally awesome project. Aubrey is amazing to work with, and I'm very proud of this project. I hope all of you love it! Views: 50
“A painful and hilarious send-up of grandiose doctors and their barbaric medical miracles. . . . A postmodern Jane Austen romp.” – The Boston GlobeIn a novel that brilliantly conjures up the resilience of the human spirit, Alice Adams draws a clear-eyed portrait of a woman who must overcome her resistance to the help offered by others.Molly Brenner suffers from guilt and headaches. The guilt arrives with the insurance money she receives after the accidental death of her second husband (she was on the verge of separating). And the headaches she at first thinks are just a neurotic manifestation, but when she is diagnosed with a malignancy, she finds herself once again depending on a man, this time from a profession she loathes, the medical profession. Amazon.com ReviewMolly Bonner has a problem. Horrible, debilitating headaches have sent her tumbling down a medical rabbit hole into a nightmarish world of hospitals, tests, and-- worst of all--unfeeling male doctors who all suffer in varying degrees from the delusion that they are God. Her specialist, her surgeon, her best friend's lover, and even her own boyfriend are cut from this same arrogant cloth. This raises the question early in Alice Adams's novel Medicine Men, why doesn't Molly just find a woman doctor and a new beau? In Medicine Men Alice Adams explores many issues surrounding the doctor- patient relationship: the dismissive condescension doctors often display toward patients, the unquestioning acceptance of authority patients often grant their doctors. When the patient is a woman and the doctor a man, there's an added patina of expectation on both sides--that the woman be docile, a "good patient," the man all-knowing, capable of solving all problems. These are fascinating subjects, but in making almost all the doctors male and unbearable and all the women passive and victimized, Adams is skating dangerously close to charicature rather than character. From Library JournalIn Adams's breezily written tenth novel, Molly Bonner is having some trouble: her marriage to a stiff, alcoholic New England lawyer has failed; her second husband has just died, leaving her filthy rich with insurance money but terribly guilty because they were about to separate anyway; and the nose bleeds she's been having turn out to result from a golf ball-sized tumor demanding immediate surgery. What's worse, Molly has too many rapacious, self-absorbed "medicine men" in her life, from Dave Jacobs, the domineering creep with whom her friend Felicia has set her up, to Felicia's own married paramour, the oh-so-smug Dr. Raleigh Sanderson. What could have been a nice comedy of manners fall terribly, terribly flat. Even those with grave doubts about doctors will be offended by their depiction here as hopelessly shallow and sleazy, and some readers may find Molly a little shallow herself. With all the slick mating and remating going on, very little time is spent on the consequences for Molly of a possibly fatal disease. Buy where Adams is popular.?Barbara Hoffert, "Library Journal"Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 50
Rick starts his seventh decade out on a sour note. The infamous Cantelli Land of darkness and shadows engulfs everyone in this new chapter of Rick and Lois adventures. His prison pen-pal, contract killer Trish Rocha is set free, and Rick’s world is on fire once again. Lois reveals their first meeting, and a few past interludes much to Rick’s chagrin – including a liaison with a beautiful Mossad agent named Adina. A dreadful conjuring of the past explodes into present day Cantelli Land with a vengeance, but Rick and Lois are up to the mark. Views: 50
SUMMARY: Four of these stories are set on the shimmering desert fringes of Albert Camus' native Algeria, and all of them first appeared in 1957, the year when he became the youngest French writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Views: 50
Hunger ached in her belly... the lioness slid forward as close as she dared. The little boy seconds away from death was two, maybe three years old. He was lost in the heat-soaked sand that was the Kalahari desert.Toddler Alex Theron is miraculously rescued by a passing clan of Kalahari Bushmen. Over the ensuing years, the desert draws him back, for it hides a beautiful secret... diamonds.But nothing comes easily from within this turbulent continent and before Alex can ever hope to realise his dreams he will lost his mind to love and fight a bitter enemy who will stop at nothing to destroy him. Views: 50
Underground, the young warriors discover a lost civilization, and a new friend with vital information. The Rebellion headquarters is hidden within a dangerous maze of tunnels, accessible only by solving a series of riddles. Will Jesse and his friends discover the secret to the Rebellion's tunnels and reach Parvel before it is too late? Views: 50
A contemporary and irresistible story from Patricia Reilly GiffLidie lives in Jales, Brazil, where she's free to ride, to be a wild girl, and to dream of going to live with her father and older brother, Rafael, in New York City. Finally Lidie is 12--time to leave Brazil for New York.Meanwhile, a filly is born and begins her journey to a new home. As Lidie's story unfolds, so does the filly's.Lidie's father runs a stable at a famous race track, and Rafael is training to be a jockey. As much as they want to make Lidie feel welcome, they still think of her as the little girl they left behind. They don't even know what a strong rider she is, and that she's determined to befriend and ride the wild filly her father has just bought: Wild Girl.From the Hardcover edition. Views: 50
It's Christmastime in 1905 New York City, and for once, Molly Murphy Sullivan is looking forward to the approaching holidays. She has a family of her own now. She and Daniel have a baby son and 12-year-old Bridie is living with them as their ward. As Molly and the children listen to carolers in the street, they hear a lovely little voice and see a beggar girl, huddled in a doorway singing Away in a Manger. Bridie is touched by the girl's ragged clothes and wants to help her out if they can. They give her a quarter, only to watch a bigger boy take it from her. But it turns out he is the girl's brother, and they've come from England and are living with an aunt who mistreats them terribly. When the young boy is accused of stealing a purse, Molly intervenes on his behalf.These children are clearly not the usual city waifs. They are well-spoken and used to better things. So who are they? And what has happened to their mother? As Molly looks for the answers to these questions,... Views: 50
