Top Ten Finisher, Best Steampunk Short Story of 2014Short story prequel to The Airship Racing ChroniclesChristmas Eve 1820. At Rose's Hopper, a popular London tavern frequented by airship jockeys, all is merry and bright--except Lily Stargazer. Lily and her crew are set to run the Christmas Day Yuletide Airship Race from London to Calais, but not before spending the night swimming in mulled wine and longing for absent lovers. Even the prospect of a Yuletide win can't convince Lily that this Christmas will be better than any that came before. But Lily is about to find out that there really is a Father Christmas. Join Lily Stargazer in this steampunk romance short story, a prequel to the steampunk romantic adventure series, The Airship Racing Chronicles.Includes a preview of Chasing the Star Garden. Views: 41
Carlo Minelli is about to discover that war and art are certainly not mutually exclusive.His politically ambitious father is carefully curating Carlo's future at the family's Lombardy vineyard. But Carlo and his artistic mother have other ideas. On the day he is meant to take up a highly coveted art scholarship at the French-run Villa Medici in Rome, Il Duce declares war. Carlo is turned away from the heavily guarded entrance to the Villa, leaving him neither a student nor gainfully employed in support of the war effort.Press-ganged into the Italian Army and captured in North Africa, Carlo the POW sketches and paints his way across three continents and several oceans, bringing the hardships of World War II into sharp relief against unexpected mateship, beauty and love."The silly sods think they're all being shipped to Austria. They'll get one hell of a shock when they end up in Australia!"'Peter Yeldham's historical fiction pedigree is one of the best in the... Views: 41
What the eye cannot see...
Colin Gerrard has everything. He is a handsome, charming, and unattached gentleman in possession of a fortune. But what nobody knows, and would never suspect, is that he is not nearly as carefree as he seems, nor is his heart free for anyone’s taking. It was already taken long ago, and when his lost love unexpectedly reappears, in London of all places, he’s very much afraid that she still has it.
...the heart already knows.
Lady Susannah Hawkins-Dean had no intention of ever seeing Colin again after their terrible departure sixteen years ago. She never wanted to see anyone that knew her in the past. There were too many secrets, too much shame, and he, of all people, could not know them. But when Colin refuses to leave her in the past, Susannah finds that she is just as in love with him as she ever was, and it could ruin them both.
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What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway? Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV 1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious months until impact. The Last Policeman presents a fascinating portrait of a pre-apocalyptic United States. The economy spirals downward while crops rot in the fields. Churches and synagogues are packed. People all over the world are walking off the job—but not Hank Palace. He’s investigating a death by hanging in a city that sees a dozen suicides every week—except this one feels suspicious, and Palace is the only cop who cares. The first in a trilogy, The Last Policeman offers a mystery set on the brink of an apocalypse. As Palace’s investigation plays out under the shadow of 2011GV 1 , we’re confronted by hard questions way beyond “whodunit.” What basis does civilization rest upon? What is life worth? What would any of us do, what would we really do, if our days were numbered? Views: 41
The generals are making a person with psychic power to perceive the future and draw the weapon that will dominate the world in 2064. Views: 41
The best way to ruin a perfectly wonderful friendship? Have sex with your BFF. A mistake. That's what Troy calls what was easily the single best sexual experience of my life. He claims our "slip" was due to too much alcohol. I respond the only way I know how, which to bury the entire experience under a six-foot mound of denial and regret. Lesson learned. When I'm finally in an emotional place where I can move on with someone else, Troy does a complete about face. Now he wants me. And he wants more. That should have been the end, right? I'm getting what I've wanted since I was sixteen. But devastating news turns Troy's life upside down and soon becomes my cross to bear. And the only way I can get back everything I lost is to bare it all. Literally. Now my boyfriend may be a progressive, twenty-first century kind of guy, but when it comes to his girlfriend posing nude for Playboy? He's 100% Neanderthal. Views: 41
Angie Amalfi is close to one of the biggest breaks of her rocky culinary career--a chance to co-write a cookbook with a famous chef. But as she scrambles to prepare for the impending interview, her realtor sister Cat is suddenly accused of a murder in a rich client's home. A priceless relic--an iron chain that was used to bind St. Peter while in a Roman prison--is missing from her wealthy client Marcello Piccoletti's home, and a murder was committed on the heels of the disappearance. The only person who can clear Cat's name is the client himself, and he's in Rome, tending to his restaurant, Da Vinci's. Heedless to Angie's stern warning, the always unpredictable Cat insists on traveling to Rome to confront Picoletti, and Angie must drop everything to accompany her sister. The Roman restaurateur has the chain with him in Rome, and exonerates Cat of the murder as well. Unfortunately, the police in the states still suspect Cat and now Picoletti, the only witness, has disappeared. Angie takes a job as a cook at Da Vinci's, hoping to get to the bottom of this complex mess. And when bodies start piling up like balls of fresh mozzarella at an Amalfi family picnic, it looks like Angie and Cat's trip to their homeland may spell arrivederci Amalfis. Views: 41
When Jack Blackjack disobeys the orders of his spymaster, he enters dangerous waters in this lively Tudor mystery. London, 1555. Queen Mary is newly married to Philip II of Spain – and not everyone is happy about the alliance. The kingdom is divided between those loyal to Catholic Mary and those who support her half-sister, Lady Elizabeth.Former cutpurse turned paid assassin Jack Blackjack has more immediate matters to worry about. Having been ordered to kill a man, he determines to save him instead. But Jack defies his spymaster at his peril ... and even the best-laid plans can sometimes go awry. When it appears that Jack has killed the wrong man, he reluctantly finds himself drawn into affairs of state, making new enemies wherever he turns. Can he survive long enough to put matters right? This engaging Tudor mystery will appeal to fans of S J PARRIS and RORY CLEMENTS. Views: 41
In 1928, Rose Wilder
Lane—world traveler, journalist, much-published magazine writer—returned
from an Albanian sojourn to her parents’ Ozark farm. Almanzo Wilder was
71, Laura 61, and Rose felt obligated to stay and help. To make life
easier, she built them a new home, while she and Helen Boylston
transformed the farmhouse into a rural writing retreat and filled it
with visiting New Yorkers. Rose sold magazine stories to pay the bills
for both households, and despite the subterranean tension between mother
and daughter, life seemed good.Then came the Crash. Rose’s
money vanished, the magazine market dried up, and the Depression
darkened the nation. That’s when Laura wrote her autobiography, “Pioneer
Girl,” the story of growing up in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, on the
Kansas prairie, and by the shores of Silver Lake. The rest—the eight
remarkable books that followed—is literary history.But it isn’t
the history we thought we knew. For the surprising truth is that Laura’s
stories were publishable only with Rose’s expert rewriting. Based on
Rose’s unpublished diaries and Laura’s letters, A Wilder Rose tells the
true story of the decade-long, intensive, and often troubled
collaboration that produced the Little House books—the collaboration
that Rose and Laura deliberately hid from their agent, editors,
reviewers, and readers.Why did the two women conceal their
writing partnership? What made them commit what amounts to one of the
longest-running deceptions in American literature? And what happened in
those years to change Rose from a left-leaning liberal to a passionate
Libertarian?In this impeccably researched novel and with a deep
insight into the book-writing business gained from her own experience as
an author and coauthor, Susan Wittig Albert follows the clues that take
us straight to the heart of this fascinating literary mystery. Views: 41
A most unlikely governess......with a shocking secretPart of The Governess Swap: Lady Rebecca Pierce escapes her forced betrothal when the ship she's on wrecks. Assuming the identity of a governess she believes has drowned, she enters the employ of brooding Lord Brookmore, who's selflessly caring for his orphaned nieces. Inconveniently, she's extremely attracted to the viscount, with her only chance of happiness tied to the biggest risk: revealing the truth about who she really is...The Governess Swap miniseries Book 1 — A Lady Becomes a GovernessLook out for the next book, coming soon!"A passionate and sensual Regency romance" — RT Book Reviews on A Pregnant Courtesan for the Rake"A charming tale" — RT Book Reviews on Bound by Their Secret Passion Views: 41
