Beneath the Surface of Victorian Life Lies a Very Different World...Hated and feared by the upper classes, the Illuminists guard their secrets with their lives. Janette Aston's insatiable quest for answers brings her to their locked golden doors, where she encounters the most formidable man she's ever met. Darius Lawley's job is to eliminate would-be infiltrators, but even he may be no match for Janette's cunning and charm...Praise for Highland Heat:"Dramatic and vivid...Scorching love scenes threaten to set the sheets aflame." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"[The characters] fight just as passionately as they love while intrigue abounds and readers turn the pages faster and faster!" —RT Book Reviews, 4 Stars Views: 14
Life is not as good or easy as Thomas Pichon imagined as a 12-year old in early-18th-century Normandy. Inclined to poetry and religious/erotic imaginings, he is an office clerk, aspires to be a writer and is a part-time spy for the police. But his careers advance too slowly, and he takes comfort and release with prostitutes. A courtesan brings a new possibility and Thomas wants to have his cake and eat it too. Award-winning Canadian author A.J.B. Johnston has published more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles about 18th-century French colonial history in Acadia. A Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, Johnston applied his considerable sense of French history to imagine Thomas Pichon’s life. Johnston lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Historical, biographical fiction. Views: 14
Enjoy more Sugar...Join Clara at the rat pit...Relax with Mr Bodley as he is lulled to sleep by Mrs Tremain and her girls...Find out what became of Sophie. Michel Faber revisits the world of his best-selling novel "The Crimson Petal and the White", conjuring tantalising glimpses of its characters, their lives before we first met them and their intriguing futures. You'll be desperate for more by the time you reluctantly re-emerge into the twenty-first century. Review"... will be read in a sitting. Unless of course you are admitted to Accident and Emergency, having come over queer, huffing with laughter, or dizzy with envy at Faber's talent. Or probably both." Tom Adair, Scotsman "The story-telling has a verve and a slyness that brook no argument... Faber remains an unrivalled master of his subject." David Robson, Sunday Telegraph "Faber's characterisation is unmatched. Sure to keep old fans happy, and win some new ones, too." Big Issue "All offer a poignant sense of the connections between stories and centuries and, thanks to Faber's characteristic mastery of intrigue, the arbitrary nature of endings." Views: 14
Aiden McGregor gets a second chance at life and finds himself enchanted with the fairylike girl who believes in magic, moonbeams, and dancing in the rain.
Free-spirit cartoonist Zoey Brooks has been waiting for her fate. As a teen her Aunt Thea foretold that the love of Zoey’s life would appear to her—but at 25 years of age, she’s tired of waiting.
Internet dating, crazy cats, and a stalker later, the love of her life finally appears.
She wants forever and a day. Too bad he can only give her two. Views: 14
Losing someone is never easy. The hardest part is learning how to live without them — mentally rearranging your future now that your dreams have been shattered.Devastated by the loss of her fiance in the World Trade Towers on 9-11, Jessica Brooks is certain she'll never love again. Hell, she may never even leave her apartment again. But circumstances force her back to her hometown of Atlanta and into the arms of someone who understands her pain.Torn between mourning her fiance forever and finding peace in the midst of her grief, Jess must find the key to her happiness, the cure for her pain, and learn how to move on without the person she held most dear.Learning to Live is a New Adult novel about love and loss, and finding comfort in the company of those you'd least expect. Views: 14
A suspenseful, mysterious, passionate, paranormal adventure that traverses centuries and continents while sweeping through the emotions of first love and heartache A sensitive coming of age story Views: 14
On a January night in 1817, former cavalry officer Captain Gabriel Lacey is summoned to the banks of the Thames to identify a body. When Lacey looks down at the pretty young woman, cut down too soon, he vows to find her murderer. His search takes him from the seamy streets of the East End, to gatherings of the London ton in Mayfair, to the chambers of respectable Middle Temple barristers. Views: 14
Waking up with amnesia! Waking up from a riding accident, Carrie Kincaid's world is turned upside down when she can't remember the man in front of her--her husband! He sets her heart racing, but every memory with tycoon Max is a blur. For Max, this is a last chance to save their marriage. Until her memory returns, he will recreate the moments that shaped their romance, one magical date at a time! It's a race against time to help her rediscover all the reasons why they fell in love in the first place... Views: 14
Author's Note: Seth’s Promise is a rewrite of Lilly: Bride of Illinois (2015). The story has been changed to fit into the 'Grooms With Honor' Series.1888.When rancher Seth Reagan left Kansas for a livestock show in Chicago, he never dreamed he’d be returning a week later with seven horses, extra carpet bags, and a wife.Lily Lind answered a mail-order-bride advertisement, expecting to be a Chicago businessman’s wife. Instead, she finds herself singing randy songs to a bunch of drunk men in a saloon. After escaping the saloon and finding Seth, Lily accepts his offer of a marriage of convenience to protect her from the saloon owner’s thugs. They travel back to Seth’s hometown to decide their future.Now what? Go their own ways, or make their marriage real? Will Seth want Lily though, after he learns her secrets? Views: 14
