"YOU'D BETTER GET MOVING, BIG GUY." Prince Jefri of Bahania had just been bested...by a woman! And not just any female, but Billie Van Horn, his gorgeous, take-no-prisoners flight instructor who was more than a match for this ultramasculine male.Well, she might be an ace in the air, but when it came to romance Billie was determined to keep both feet on the ground. So why did the sexy sheik make her feel as if she were soaring high above the clouds? She knew that when royal honor called, her high-born lover would fly from her side forever...unless Jefri defied his destiny and chose love.... Views: 66
A centuries-old mystery. An “accidental” death. A conspiracy that may end in murder. Former British Special Air Service officer Ben Hope is running for his life. Enlisted by Leigh Llewellyn—the beautiful, world-famous opera star and Ben’s first love—to investigate her brother, Oliver’s, mysterious death, Ben finds himself caught up in a puzzle dating back to the 1700s. At the time of his death, Oliver was working on a new book about Mozart. Though the official report states that Oliver died in a tragic accident, the facts don’t add up. But as Ben and Leigh dig deeper, they find that Oliver’s research reveals that Mozart, a notable Freemason, may have been killed by a shadowy and powerful splinter group of the organization. The only proof lies in a missing letter, believed to have been written by Mozart himself. When Leigh and Ben receive a video documenting a ritual sacrifice performed by hooded men, they realize that the sect is still in existence today and will stop at nothing to keep its secrets. From the dreaming spires of Oxford and Venice’s labyrinthine canals to the majestic architecture of Vienna, Ben and Leigh must race across Europe to uncover the truth behind the Mozart conspiracy before they become its next victims. In the tradition of Robert Ludlum and Dan Brown, Scott Mariani’s The Mozart Conspiracy is an electrifying thriller and the start of an exciting new series. Views: 66
Christa has lived her whole life locked in a love/hate relationship with chocolate. It just calls out to her, begging to be eaten, and she finds it impossible to resist. Enough is enough, though. She'd love to keep her beautiful, curvy figure, and if it means she has to spend a week in the notoriously strict Willow Heights health resort that's a price she's willing to pay. Three days in and she's consumed just 200 calories and worked out from dawn 'til dusk. Her hot, muscular personal trainer Ryan just won't let up on her...... Until he decides she's earned a treat. Fat Camp Curves is a messy, sticky, gooey and juicy erotic story about one big, beautiful woman's love affair with a hot stud and a bar of melted milk chocolate. Excerpt:The block of creamy milk chocolate melted slowly between his fingers. He was waiting for just the right time, allowing it to liquefy just a little before placing it delicately on the glistening tip of his cock. I no longer knew which I wanted more, I was so confused. So hungry. So horny. I knew my mind wasn't working properly any more. Warm, melted chocolate and hard, juicy cock. They both meant one and the same now. Whatever else I craved, I knew at least one of them would pass my lips in just a moment. I was either that or completely lose my mind. 'Are you ready to eat, Christa? There's a good girl.' His voice was soothing, calming, like a gentle stroke to my hair. He smiled, smoothly massaging the gooey chocolate the length of his cock. 'Now get down on your knees, girl. I want to come in your pretty little mouth.' Views: 66
Autumn Laing seduces Pat Donlon with her lust for life and art. In doing so she not only compromises the trusting love she has with her husband, Arthur, she also steals the future from Pat's young and beautiful wife, Edith, and their unborn child. Fifty-three years later, cantankerous, engaging, unrestrainable 85-year-old Autumn is shocked to find within herself a powerful need for redemption. As she tells her story, she writes, 'They are all dead and I am old and skeleton-gaunt. This is where it began...' Written with compassion and intelligence, this energetic, funny and wise novel peels back the layers of storytelling and asks what truth has to do with it. Autumn Laing is an unflinchingly intimate portrait of a woman and her time - she is unforgettable.Review'It's a tale of love, of longing, of creation...Ambitious, hypnotic and deeply moving.' - Sunday Telegraph 'Few writers have Miller's ability to create tension of this depth out of old timbers such as guilt, jealousy, selfishness, betrayal, passion and vision. Autumn Laing is more than just beautifully crafted. It is inhabited by characters whose reality challenges our own.' - Saturday Age'Miller has invested this story of art and passion with his own touch of genius and it is. Without question, a triumph of a novel.' - Canberra Times 'Such riches. All of Alex Miller's wisdom and experience - of art, of women and what drives them, of writing, of men and their ambitions - and every mirage and undulation of the Australian landscape are here, transmuted into rare and radiant fiction. An indispensable novel.' - Australian book Review'Miller's long honing of the craft of his fiction has never been seen to better advantage than in Autumn Laing.' - Sydney Morning HeraldAbout the AuthorAlex Miller has twice won the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's premier literary prize; the first occasion in 1993 for The Ancestor Game, and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. He is also an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, for The Ancestor Game, in 1993. British by birth, he now lives in Victoria. Views: 66
Open Secrets, Alice Munro's eighth book, consists of eight matchless stories, each one as rich as a full novel. All of them provide compulsive reading -- and rewarding re-reading."Perhaps you will be surprised to hear from a person you don't know and that doesn't remember your name." These intriguing words begin a letter dated 1917 to the Librarian in Carstairs, Ontario (the heart of "Alice Munro Country"). The letter sweeps us away into a world of secrets and revelations where nothing -- not even a courtship by letter that leads, over time, to a solid marriage -- is as it originally seems.The Ontario stories range from "A Wilderness Station," which gives an account of an 1852 tree-felling accident and sheds light on the harsh life of the pioneers, all the way to the present, where family names known to us appear again in a world of TV shows and snowmobiles.Just as the stories range back and forth in time, they also travel far to distant... Views: 66
In a host of consecutive
bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers spellbound with the
intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr. Alex Delaware–and with
excursions through the raw underside of L.A. and the coldest alleys of
the criminal mind. Rage offers a powerful new case in point, as
Delaware and LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis revisit a horrifying
crime from the past that has taken on shocking and deadly new
dimensions. Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers
when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless
sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand
managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he’s emerged a
haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need: to talk–once
again–with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comes to a
brutal end, that conversation never takes place. Has karma
caught up with Rand? Or has someone waited for eight patient years to
dine on ice-cold revenge? Both seem strong possibilities to Sturgis, but
Delaware’s suspicions run deeper . . . and darker. Because fear in the
voice of the grownup Rand Duchay–and his eerie final words to Alex: “I’m
not a bad person”–betray untold secrets. Buried revelations so horrendous, and so damning, they’re worth killing for.As
Delaware and Sturgis retrace their steps through a grisly murder case
that devastated a community, they discover a chilling legacy of madness,
suicide, and multiple killings left in its wake–and even uglier truths
waiting to be unearthed. And the nearer they come to understanding an
unspeakable crime, the more harrowingly close they get to unmasking a
monster hiding in plain sight.Rage finds Jonathan Kellerman in
phenomenal form–orchestrating a relentlessly suspenseful, devilishly
unpredictable plot to a finale as stunning and thought-provoking as it
is satisfying. Views: 66
He'd longed to claim her...A vacation in Milan sounds ideal to Lily Parisi. Her world was rocked to its core when she found her fiancé cheating on her, but now she is determined to get on with her life—on her own! But not for long... She bumps into someone she knows—Alessandro del Marc—and her plans come a little undone...Darkly, smolderingly enigmatic, Alessandro has long wanted Lily but never pursued her. He's always kept his cool. However, now that Lily—the prize he's always wanted—is in his reach, he's finding it impossible to keep control... The time has come to stake his claim—especially since the passionate chemistry appears to be mutual! Views: 66
In this stunning collection of novels, "America's favorite writer" (New Yorker) illuminates the dreams that lead us toward destiny- and the desires that rule over our hearts.Tonight and AlwaysWhen a renowned anthropologist agreed to help a writer research his new novel, she wasn't prepared for the passion their collaboration would spark...A Matter of ChoiceAn international smuggling ring traps a beautiful antiques dealer and a New York City cop in a web of danger and desire...Endings and BeginningsTwo Washington television reporters try to protect their love from their own professional rivalry-and the hazards of their celebrity... Views: 66
Tim LaHaye created the Left Behind Series, which has become one of the most popular fiction series of all time. Those novels, with more that 50 million copies sold, presented a unique combination of suspense and substance drawn from his lifelong study of Biblical prophecy.
Now Tim LaHaye has created a new series that begins with Babylon Rising. The novels in this new series are even faster-paced thrillers based on prophecies that are not covered in the Left Behind books and that have great relevance to the events of today.
Babylon Rising introduces a terrific new hero for our time. Michael Murphy is a scholar of Biblical prophecy, but not the sedate and tweedy kind. Murphy is a field archaeologist who defies danger to fearlessly hunt down and authenticate ancient artifacts from Biblical times. His latest discovery is his most amazing—but it will send him hurtling from a life of excavation and revelations to a confrontation with the forces of the greatest evil. For the latest secret uncovered by Michael Murphy accelerates the countdown to the time of the end for all mankind.
From the Hardcover edition. Views: 66
