Harry Blake had everything going his way. He retired from a successful business career. He wrote two novels and won the most prestigious literary award in the country, not to mention a prize of $125,000 in gold coins. Hollywood had decided to make a mini-series based on his books. He had a beautiful wife and a big, loving family. They lived in a lovely home on a lake in rural South Carolina. It seemed like a perfect life. But one night changed everything. Harry's life turned upside down. Can he start over at this point in his life? Can he expect a new life after 70? This is a story about one man who refused to surrender. Views: 405
There was once a fat little, nice little, round little boy and his name was Tim. As soon as people looked at him they began to laugh and he began to laugh too. He had dimples on his knees and dimples on his hands and dimples all round his mouth. That was because Fairies liked him and used to kiss him whenever they flew past him, and they kissed him so much that they made dimples. He had alot of curly hair which made a lovely mop. In fact he was lovesome all over and no one ever denied it. But when he played about and he never stopped playing the wind blew his curly mop into tangles, and when he stood on his head on his bed or the grass or the nursery floor, that rubbed it into tangles; and when he was asleep and cuddled down into his pillows and dreamed delightful things, that ruffled it into tangles. So after he was dressed in the morning his mamma was obliged to brush them all out and comb out all the knots and make him look soft and fluffy and lovesome for the rest of... Views: 404
A young rider gets to know a new pony, adjusts to a new sibling, and learns a lot about secrets in this charming follow-up to Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley's Riding Lessons.Ellen can't stop thinking about the racehorse Ned—and the secret she shares with him. There seem to be a lot of secrets in Ellen's life these days. Secrets between friends. Secrets within families. Secrets that are all her own. And secrets her parents are keeping from her that could change everything about her life.One thing that's not a secret is how much Ellen wants to jump—to feel herself on a horse as it soars through the air, smooth and fast. The horse she's riding these days is Hot Potato—a pony she can trust, a pony she can practice jumping with. But he can't possibly be as interesting as Ned, can he? And will her parents' secret take her away from the stable forever? Views: 404
The 100 Series eBook Box Set
A Billionaire Romance Trilogy
FOR 100 DAYS she deceived him. FOR 100 NIGHTS he demanded her complete surrender. Now, after all of the secrets and lies and heartbreak, they'll have to decide if their love is strong enough to try again...FOR 100 REASONS.
Get all three novels in New York Times bestselling author Lara Adrian's sizzling, suspenseful billionaire romance 100 Series in this special release 3-in-1 ebook boxed set.
FOR 100 DAYS (Book 1)
Struggling artist Avery Ross is at the end of her rope and out of options when she gets a lucky break to housesit at a posh New York City high-rise. Suddenly she's living a Cinderella dream--complete with a tall, dark, and handsome prince-not-so-charming in the form of the scarred, wickedly seductive alpha billionaire, Dominic Baine, who lives in the penthouse. But Avery's Cinderella fairytale is only temporary. Soon, her time in Nick's world will be up and she'll have to return to real life where her past is full of ugly, dangerous secrets that will threaten everything she and Nick share.
FOR 100 NIGHTS (Book 2)
For a few precious months, Avery Ross lived a glittering, jet-setting sensual fantasy with billionaire Dominic Baine. Her deception revealed, now she owes Nick a debt: for every day she deceived him, a night in his bed. He wants her at his mercy, surrendered to him completely. It's an exquisite punishment--one she never wants to escape. But just as she and Nick begin to forge a bond that goes deeper than even their limitless passion, Avery discovers a terrible truth about her mysterious, commanding lover that shocks her to her core and may separate them forever.
FOR 100 REASONS (Book 3)
Still reeling from the betrayal of her breakup with Nick, Avery Ross has picked up the pieces of her shattered life and become a strong, independent woman and successful artist. But neither money nor fame is enough to fill the void that Nick's absence has left in her heart. When their paths collide again, Nick will do anything to win Avery back. Now the man accustomed to having everything he desires must find a way to redeem himself to the only woman he has ever loved--even if that means confronting the most hideous secrets of his own past.
"...A sexy, sizzling, emotion-filled delight. It completely blew me away!" --J. Kenner (on FOR 100 DAYS)
“The 100 Series is the best kept secret you should be reading. For those of you who are looking for your next Fifty Fix, look no further. I know, I know – you have heard the phrase before! Except this time, it’s the truth and I will bet the penthouse on it.” --Mile High Kink Book Club
"An instant addiction and a COMPLETE escape, with an intriguing storyline and an ending that will leave you gasping for air. This series has quickly become one of my FAVORITES!" --Shayna Renee's Spicy Reads
"Lara Adrian not only dips her toe into this genre with flare, she will take it over . . . I have found my new addiction, this series." --The Sub Club Books
"Adrian simply does billionaires better." --Under the Covers Views: 404
Bridget had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Michael had a hankering after immortality which made him a dreamer. And that was the great difference between these two Austin transplants who loved each other so well.Bridget & Michael are suddenly without furniture or bed, leaving their home in Miami Beach and on the road for Austin. With their books still boxed inside their one-bedroom cave, they explore their new neighborhood only to discover how sketchy it is. Concerned about their safety, Michael has a plan that will take them to the land of the forsaken for a chance at making their Dreams Come True. Gritty characters abound in this life-affirming novel that knows the importance of being irrational. Views: 404
A spellbinding, beautifully written novel that moves between contemporary times and one of the most fascinating and disturbing periods in American history--the Salem witch trials. Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home near Salem, she can't refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane. This discovery launches Connie on a quest--to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physick book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge. As the pieces of Deliverance's harrowing story begin to fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the long-ago witch trials, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to Salem's dark past then she could have ever imagined.
Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the witch trials of the 1690s and a modern woman's story of mystery, intrigue, and revelation. Views: 404
Mayne Reid was an Irish-American author who wrote a number of popular action and adventure books in the same vein as one of his most famous contemporaries, Robert Louis Stevenson. His action packed books depict various settings, including the frontier and Wild West. Views: 404
A love story and a journey through music, the exquisite and perfectly pitched new novel from the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy Views: 404
A broken marriage sends a father and son on two different paths in life, only for both to realise an Angel is working to reunite them. Phillip Overton's writing has been compared to Nicholas Sparks, and some readers hold The Long Way Home in the same elite company as New York Times Bestseller, The Shack.Doug Small was always destined to be a good father. However, the 1980's would be a decade of rebuilding his life after his marriage to Rowena ends in failure. For their son Simon, the decade would be one of survival, living with his mother in their home in Gosford, north of Sydney, Australia. Forced to watch helplessly as his mother's life spirals downward into a cycle of depression and violence, Simon becomes aware of a guiding presence in his life. Is this same presence also at work in his father's life, and could it in fact be an Angel guiding both of them towards their destiny? The Long Way Home tackles the question of why bad things sometimes happen to good people. It gives us the answer in an endearing way, reassuring the reader that better days are just around the next corner. A fine mix of life inspiring drama with a touch of supernatural gentleness, it is a reminder of how life is a journey leading into a future blinded by endless possibilities, and how sometimes it is waiting to lead us the long way home. Views: 404
These irresistible ranchers are guaranteed to heat up the summer!Breaking Bailey's Rules by Brenda Jackson Rule number one for Bailey Westmoreland: Never fall for a man who would take her away from her tight-knit family's Colorado home. So why is she following rancher Walker Rafferty all the way to Alaska? Bailey tells herself she owes the sexy loner an apology, and once she gets there, it's only right to stay and help him when he's injured...isn't it?His Until Midnight by Reese Ryan When Tessa Noble takes the stage at a charity auction after a sexy makeover, her best friend, Ryan Bateman, must place the winning bid. It's definitely not because he's jealous. Their weekend getaway is a ploy for positive press...or so the rancher tells himself. But soon things take an unexpected turn from platonic to passionate, catapulting the couple far beyond the friend zone... Views: 404
It's bad enough that Deanna has to waste her summer in France and her only friend is a mangy black cat, but now she's staring hopelessly into a well, trying to figure out what in the world to wish for.
Before she can make a wish, the cat scratches her, her watch falls into the well, and then . . . so has she! Except that now she's in medieval France, the cat is a handsome young man, and her watch has the power to completely change history.
Maybe a quiet summer would have been nice? Views: 404
As a science journalist with a regular column in "Scientific American," Jeremy Marsh specializes in debunking the supernatural--until he falls in love with the granddaughter of the town psychic. Views: 404
So you've created the perfect weapon, you've trained it be the ultimate killing machine, and sharpened it until it is peerless in motion and flawless in action. However it's not yet yours to command, so you plot and you scheme to make it yours alone. On the eve of success when your long laid plans are about to be realized, your weapon does the unthinkable, it falls in love. What do you do now?What really makes one human, is it a fact of birth, the right of passage that is growing up, is it societies' influence on young impressionable minds, or is it something else? Is Humanity and all that goes with it in fact programmed into our DNA?These are questions that have plagued Shiva all her life. For most people, for Normal people, these are questions with easy answers, after all they were born human, raised human, and have always been 'Human'. But Shiva is not 'Normal', she might not in fact be 'Human'. She is or perhaps was a Weapon, she was created as a weapon, trained to be a weapon, and she sees the world as a weapon. But all that changes one day when she meets a girl and for the very first time, she feels something that defies all logic and all reason. Can a weapon fall in love, or this something reserved only for those who are humans?But there are those in her world who have never doubted these answers, to them she is a powerful tool created for a war not yet fought, and they cannot allow that tool to slip from their grasp. So from the shadows they strike at the very thing that threatens to take that weapon from their grasp, that person who might be the key to unlocking the heart within the weapon. Views: 404
New York, 1933. The city and the nation are in the depths of the Great Depression. The crime families of New York have prospered in this time, but with the coming end of Prohibition, a battle is looming that will determine which organizations will rise and which will face a violent end.
For Vito Corleone, nothing is more important that his family's future. While his youngest children, Michael, Fredo, and Connie, are in school, unaware of their father's true occupation, and his adopted son Tom Hagen is a college student, he worries most about Sonny, his eldest child. Vito pushes Sonny to be a businessman, but Sonny-17 years-old, impatient and reckless-wants something else: To follow in his father's footsteps and become a part of the real family business.
An exhilarating and profound novel of tradition and violence, of loyalty and betrayal, The Family Corleone will appeal to the legions of fans who can never get enough of The Godfather, as well as introduce it to a whole new generation. Views: 404
Continuing the subversive self-revelation begun in Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller takes readers along a mad, free-associating journey from the damp grime of his Brooklyn youth to the sun-splashed cafes and squalid flats of Paris. With incomparable glee, Miller shifts effortlessly from Virgil to venereal disease, from Rabelais to Roquefort. In this seductive technicolor swirl of Paris and New York, he captures like no one else the blending of people and the cities they inhabit. Views: 403
