Meredith Gunter has always been Daddy's little girl. Spoiled all her life, she's never had to ask for anything and expects to get exactly what she wants. When she wrecks her car on the way home from college for Christmas break, she finds herself stranded on the mountain in the middle of a snowstorm, in a one-room cabin with a man she can't help but want.Travis Gregory has lived alone on the mountain for the last four years. He has little contact with the outside world and prefers it that way. When he spots a girl on the side of the road, his conscience won't let him abandon her. The redhead captivates him instantly.Worlds collide when Travis and Meredith try to co-exist in his one room cabin. Can they fight their growing attraction when the nights get longer and the storm isolates them from the rest of the world? Can two people, from such different worlds, ever truly be happy together? Views: 50
Love, passion, food – the essential ingredients in TATIANA'S TABLE, from the bestselling author of THE BRONZE HORSEMAN, THE BRIDGE TO HOLY CROSS and THE SUMMER GARDEN. In her internationally bestselling trilogy, Paullina Simons introduced Tatiana Metanova, one of the most remarkable heroines in contemporary fiction. The unforgettable story of her lifelong love affair with American soldier Alexander Barrington has warmed and broken hearts across the globe. Now comes the final, delicious chapter: a collection of Tatiana's favourite recipes, the first truly epic cookbook, which spans the second half of the twentieth century and two continents, through times of war, times of famine, times of peace, and times of plenty. Here are delectable peeks into the life and love of Tatiana and Alexander as well as their children and grandchildren. From traditional Russian cuisine to American staples, to exotic dishes with international flair, Tatiana's Table is full of twists and turns to... Views: 50
This holiday season, armed with love and passion, can the Keepers stop the reign of Darkness? Christmas is coming to Salem, but so is an evil force that threatens all mankind. In this memorable collection led by New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham, four powerful Keepers must save their community as a strange, eternal night creeps over the town. Forced to choose between their time-honored responsibilities or the lovers their hearts desire, these four extraordinary women must risk their own happiness to save the holiday. But Christmas is a time for miracles, and as each Keeper's greatest longing is met, the Season of Light returns. Don't miss this magical holiday collection from Heather Graham, Deborah LeBlanc, Kathleen Pickering and Beth Ciotta. Views: 49
From Publishers WeeklyU.K. novelist and journalist Hewson (Solstice) presents the first in a line of thrillers set in Italy and features detective Nic Costa and an ensemble cast drawn from the ranks of the Rome state police. University professor Sara Farnese is at her desk in the Reading Room of the Vatican Library perusing a 10th-century copy of Apicius's first-century cookbook De Re Coquinaria when former lover and fellow university professor Stefano Rinaldi careens into the room dragging a large plastic bag. Rinaldi dumps the contents of the bagâ€"the freshly flayed skin of an adult maleâ€"and quotes the Christian theologian, Tertullian ("The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church"), then takes a couple of bullets in the head from a panic-stricken Swiss Guard. Detective Costa and partner Luca Rossi are outside the Vatican in St. Peter's Square on pickpocket patrol when they catch the news of the shooting on a police scanner, charge into the Reading Room and are quickly kicked out by security man Brendan Hanrahan for jurisdictional reasons ("The Vatican is another country"). Rossi and Costa become officially involved when the skinless remains of Sara's lover and the body of Rinaldi's wife are found strung up in an ancient Roman church. After this rousing beginning, the intricate plot spins off in several directions, involving corrupt cardinal Michael Denney, the Mafia, Vatican secrecy and the serial killer who's murdering Sara's former lovers in ways that mimic famous paintings depicting the martyrdom of selected saints. Outsized, eccentric characters, a complex story and an abundance of historical detail make this engrossing book more than just another cookie-cutter, religious-nut serial killer thriller. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review“This enthralling story has it all...Best of all, it’s so seamlessly put together that time flies as you flip pages to get to the end.” —*Rocky Mountain News“Intelligent entertainment. Hewson, far more than most thriller writers, has a serious concern for character.” —Washington Post*"Richly enjoyable, sophisticated and beguiling entertainment."—Sunday Times"Keeps the reader guessing...relentlessly tightening the suspense until the end."—Daily Telegraph"Engrossing... a complex story and an abundance of historical detail."—Publishers Weekly*"An idealistic detective ... Likeable Nic exudes series potential."—Kirkus Reviews* 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
Ranch woman Hilda Hamner spent her youth traveling with her Swedish immigrant family as they drove cattle from Texas up to Kansas cow towns in the 1870s. Hilda decided to get off the cattle trail and bought an abandoned homestead in Kansas with her horse race winnings. She plans on raising horses—and finding a husband that doesn't mind her tall, lanky body that's usually dressed in men's clothing.Noah Wilerson planned to bring his intended bride from Illinois back to the Kansas homestead he started for them, but found out his fiancée had already married someone else when arriving at her father's doorstep. After traveling back home, Noah finds a woman has taken over his claim, leaving him homeless and jobless.Hilda realizes she needs help to make her horse ranch successful, and decides that Noah is the right man—to promote from horseman to husband on her ranch—if he'll treat her as a special woman, and not just a ranching partner.Noah wants his homestead back, and the woman who has... 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
