Sophie was only a teenager, but she already had the emotions of an adultwoman-at any rate where her stepbrother Robert, was concerned. She hadalways adored Robert, and her feelings had never lessened with the years.But her whole family-including Robert himself-disapproved, and dideverything they could to discourage her affection for him. It was only thefact that she felt certain Robert really felt as attracted to her as she wasto him. that gave Sophie any hope at all. In spite of the fact that Roberthad now produced a fiancée Emma Norton, who appeared to have a hold over himwhich Sophie could never compete... Views: 49
Something is wrong on Tioga Island. It seems the dead aren't staying dead. A panicked call from a U.S. Senator's secret service escort results in the activation of Task Force Archangel, a top-secret Special Forces detachment charged with facing unconventional threats. When Major Thom Gant and his recon team arrive, they find that this private little getaway for the rich and famous has become the domain of the walking dead. Just when it seems things can't get any worse, Gant finds that hordes of zombies may be the least of his problems. Views: 49
A novel of fine-tuned beauty, sharp insight and emotional subtlety—about a family in the shadow of WWIIMay, 1940. Brighton. Wartime.On Park Crescent, a sunlit and usually tranquil street, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news. The enemy is expected to land on the beaches of Brighton any day.It is a year of tension and change. Geoffrey becomes Superintendent of the enemy alien camp at the far reaches of town, while young Philip is gripped by the rumour that Hitler will make Brighton's Royal Pavilion his English HQ. He spends hours with his friends imagining life in Brighton under Hitler's rule. And as the rumours continue to fly and the days tick on, Evelyn struggles to fall in with the war effort and the constraints of her role in life, her thoughts becoming tinged with a mounting, indefinable desperation.Then she meets Otto Gottlieb, a 'degenerate' German-Jewish painter and prisoner in her husband's... Views: 49
A poignant saga set against the wildness of Dartmoor - Dartmoor, 1877. When Rose Chadwicks husband Charles betrays her, her spirit is broken. She is desperate to help a wrongly convicted man who has touched her heart, but feels it is beyond her. Charles had promised to help clear the prisoners name, but he scorns her sympathy for the prisoners. As the situation builds to a tearing climax, can anyone predict what desperate acts jealousy will lead to?From BooklistCrosse follows Cherrybrook Rose (2008) with more on the life of compelling heroine Rose Maddiford Chadwick. It’s 1877 in desolate Dartmoor, near Princeton Prison, where her former-prison-warden father lies buried and Seth, wrongly convicted, endures sadistic torture. Rose’s snobbish, hard-hearted husband, Charles, tricks her into believing he will help the convict, whose medical treatment she had secretly arranged, but instead he locks her in her room. Headstrong—and heavily pregnant—Rose yearns to resist Charles. When Florrie, her widowed nanny from years gone by, appears to care for the baby, Crosse takes the opportunity to provide the backstory needed by Florrie—and readers new to this absorbing historical series and its strong themes of romance and feminist equality. The heroine sinks into a postpartum “consuming delirium” after Charles sells her horse and ignores their infant, Alice, who is not the son he wanted. As Rose slowly recuperates, her thoughts return to Seth. Hopefully more titles will follow in this engrossing, cinematically realized saga. --Whitney Scott Review"'Hopefully more titles will follow in this engrossing, cinematically realized saga' Booklist on A Bouquet of Thorns" Views: 49
A Bride For His Majesty's PleasureIonanthe must pay the price for her sister's mistake. She will leave her freedom at the castle doors. Recently crowned Prince Max plans to bring change to his country - after his new bride pays her debt.Her Christmas FantasyLisa yearned for stability and the traditional family Christmas she never had as a child. But then she met the exasperating - and sinfully attractive - Oliver, who was determined to make all her Christmas fantasies come true...Figgy PuddingTake one woman, add a boss who's told the world they're having an affair, and then concoct one very special dish in order to save the heroine's catering career! Views: 49
Each book in the Crime Through Time series is hosted by a different child member of the famous Fitzmorgan detective family. While the young sleuth unravels a fictional mystery, readers learn about the real historical setting and actual crime-solving methods from the different eras. In sidebar activities, readers take on the role of assistant, helping to crack the case. Breathtakingly suspenseful but never violent and always age-appropriate, the books read like private investigative journals, with photos, maps, news clippings and crime scene sketches.In book 6, set in 2031, Otis Fitzmorgan finds himself in the middle of an evil art fraud mystery in space. On his way back to earth via the new space elevator Otis is forced to use his outlawed private detective skills to get to the bottom of the mystery that is threatening to kill all of those on board. Views: 49
Nick deals with released serial killer Gerald Kensky while engaging once again in Kader family problems, complicated by a contract with billionaire Algerian oil magnate Omar Fontaine. CIA Director Paul Gilbrech sends his recruited Terminator to foil Isis plots targeting Middle America and Boston Harbor. Forced by circumstances at home to confront both a traitorous Senator and a world class assassin in league with Fontaine, Nick and his Unholy Trio comrades blaze a path of destruction through terrorists and enablers alike. Views: 49
Bored on a hot afternoon, Alice follows a White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole and tumbles into Wonderland: a topsy-turvy world of riddles and nonsense where animals answer back, a baby turns into a pig, time stands still at a disorderly tea party, croquet is played with hedgehogs and flamingos, and the Mock Turtle and Gryphon dance the Lobster Quadrille. In a land in which nothing is as it seems and cakes, potions and mushrooms can make her shrink to ten inches or grow to the size of a house, will she ever find her way home? Views: 49
