Rock star Jesse Slade disappeared under mysterious circumstances several years ago. Now, as Nancy and her friends Bess and George watch a television retrospective on Slade's life, they notice something, and Nancy vows to reopen the case and solve the mystery. Views: 698
Drekken is a dragon warrior. Bonded to his dragon, Miri, together they lead a squadron of fliers. Yet, nothing in his life could have prepared Drekken for his greatest challenge: babysitting.Stranded after a deadly battle, separated from his squadron and Miri, Drekken finds himself the only hope for two young empaths and their nursery group of hatchling dragons. It is a challenge he cannot fail.Drekken is a dragon warrior. Bonded to his dragon, Miri, together they lead a squadron of fliers. His fliers respect him, his enemies fear him, his reputation precedes him. Yet, nothing in his life could have prepared Drekken for his greatest challenge: babysitting.Stranded after a deadly battle, separated from his squadron and Miri, Drekken finds himself the only hope for two young empaths and their nursery group of hatchlings. He must lead them all to safety and, along the way, discover some truths about himself. Views: 698
In the suburbs of Connecticut, a carpenter embarks on a gruesome killing spreeWhile preparing dinner for her husband, Mrs. Porter runs out of lemons. Driving to the supermarket, she yearns for life in New York City. The Porters moved to Connecticut because it was supposed to be safer, but that afternoon, when she returns home and finds a madman waiting with a knife in his hand. He doesn't just kill Mrs. Porter – he leaves behind a gory scene that would horrify even the hardest New York cop.The killer is Paul White, a local carpenter whose wife knows nothing about his thirst for blood; Mrs. White is an innocent who lives to make her husband happy. As she begins to see shadows of Paul's vicious side, she will learn just how twisted love can be. Views: 698
The synopsis: Lennox Armbruster was struck by a speeding vehicle—but was it an accident or an insurance scam gone wrong? Roy Ballard is hired to find out, and he soon learns there’s a third possibility: attempted murder. Joe Jankowski, the man who hit Armbruster, is a tough-talking player in the construction industry, and a feud with one of his former employees has shown that he has a temper to match his brash personality. When Roy and his partner Mia Madison attempt to dig deeper, they learn just how far Jankowski will go to shut down their investigation. Views: 698
Imagine changing centuries—and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time.When 15-year-old Annie Lockwood travels back 100 years and lands in 1895, she at last finds romance. But she is a trespasser in time. Will she choose to stay in the past? And if she does, will she be allowed to stay? Views: 698
Somewhere amongst the shadowy stacks and the many basements of the
British library, something is very much amiss - and we're not talking
late returns here. Is it a ghost, or something much worse? PC Peter
Grant really isn't looking forward to finding out.... Nightingale is out of town again, and Peter gets called to the
British Library about what appears at first to be a poltergeist problem.
But after some investigating, it turns out to be a book running amok
after dark and keeping the librarians up at night.The book isn’t actually a book, but an ancient device of magical
origins. It has moving parts and seems somewhat sentient, or at least
aware of its surrounding. I’d love to learn more about it and see it
featured in later books.Peter brings Toby and Postmartin along to the library and learns from
the librarians that the good professor has a reputation for stealing
rare tomes. This comes as no surprise to me because I’ve always
suspected that about him. Gatekeepers like the people of the Folly have
always seemed like the kind to “confiscate” rare books and other objects
of magical origins for safe keeping.
This short story reads like another sequence from the cutting room floor, not unlike The Home Crowd Advantage.
I get the feeling these two should have been part of the main novels,
but for whatever reason, they had to be cut during the editing process.
But they were too good to delete permanently, so we get these little
snippets to entertain us while we wait for #7. Views: 698
Led by circumstances to accept the kind of case he dislikes—a "worried mother job"—"Nameless" reluctantly agrees to investigate the strange disappearance of college student Allison McDowell and her mysterious new boyfriend while on a driving strip from Oregon to San Francisco. The young couple vanished suddenly and without a trace after their car broke down and they were forced to spend a night in the tiny village of Creekside, in the remote Northwestern corner of California.When "Nameless" travels to Creekside and begins to question the locals, he encounters apparent apathy, hostility, and mounting evidence that suggests the couple may have met with foul play. Is one or more of the inhabitants of Creekside responsible? Is it Allison's boyfriend, whose identity is unknown even to her mother? Or is it forces of a far more sinister nature? "Nameless's" search takes him to Eugene, Oregon and then back to the Northern California wilderness. And it leads him from what seems to be a simple disappearance to a complex conspiracy of evil, one which reaches far beyond this remote backwater and threatens to destroy him as well before he can expose the truth. Views: 698
Neelie Nelson fears the worst. Her husband has been gone over a year on a dangerous assignment to infiltrate a powerful drug cartel in Mexico. Her hands shake uncontrollably when she unwraps the crystal ball. What will she do if she sees his death?Do you believe fortune-tellers can really see into the future in their crystal balls?Neelie Nelson finds her grandmother irritating beyond belief. She's always going on about being a true Gypsy. Whatever.Everything changes the day she brings out the crystal ball, with its hypnotic sparkling and the strange magnetic pull.After her grandmother's death, Neelie packs the crystal ball away, and doesn't look at it again until she is desperate to find out what has happened to her husband. Instinctively she knows something is terribly wrong, and her hands shake uncontrollably when she unwraps it and feels its vibration once more.What will it reveal in its deep, swirling core? Views: 697
Officer Monica Martinez suspects that a string of murders in and around San Antonio are related. Though she knows that she should leave it to the homicide detectives to solve the case, her instincts tell her that there is more to the mystery than the detectives realize. Monica is unable to let it go, even if it means jeopardizing her career, and possibly even her life.Max is dead. Cut himself shaving and look where it got him. A ghost in his old apartment, Max is now stuck haunting the new tenant, a girl named Charlie. And while Charlie can see him, well… she’s not the most cheerful of girls on the best of days, and she’s certainly not thrilled to be sharing her apartment with a maudlin Irish ghost. Life—or un-life, as the case may be—is about to become difficult. Views: 697
What - did you think all vamps were pale, thin and brooding? Don't I wish. Gloriana St. Clair is an eternally "full-figured" vampire-she just happened to be bloating when a sexy Scotsman sank his teeth into her. She and said Scot- Angus Jeremiah Campbell III, aka Jeremy Blade-have been on and off again for centuries, currently off. A couple hundred years has taught them how to press each other's buttons-in good ways and bad. Glory's headed for Austin and a new business venture: Vintage Vamp's Emporium. After all, she loves clothes, and she is an antique. Only problem is, there's a billionaire techno-freak vampire hunter on the loose. Blade's in total he- vampire mode, and wants Glory to move in with him so he can "protect" her. But it's time for this vamp to explore her own powers. Views: 697
When a mysterious envelope arrives for Jake Ransom, he and his older sister, Kady, are plunged into a gripping chain of events. An artifact found by their parents—on the expedition from which they never returned—leads Jake and Kady to a strange world inhabited by a peculiar mix of long-lost civilizations, a world that may hold the key to their parents' disappearance.
But even as they enter the gate to this extraordinary place, savage grackyls soar across the sky, diving to attack. Jake's new friends, the pretty Mayan girl Marika and the Roman Pindor, say the grackyls were created by an evil alchemist—the Skull King. And as Jake struggles to find a way home, it becomes obvious that what the Skull King wants most is Jake and Kady—dead or alive. Views: 697
Follow Homicide Detective Allan Stanton through the toughest cases of his career.Three complete novels in one.Grave Situation (Book 1) - Halifax cop Allan Stanton is a troubled homicide detective who has lost everything, including his family and his sense of justice. When he finally decides to leave the force and start over, he's assigned a string of murders that all bear the signs of a serial killer collecting trophies.As Stanton unravels each grisly crime scene, the mounting evidence points uncomfortably close to him and a case unlike anything he’s ever seen.One Kill Away (Book 2) - In this sequel to Grave Situation, Halifax homicide detective Allan Stanton has walked away from his job to reconnect with his young son—until a killer starts methodically carving his way through the city's underbelly. His ex-partner needs help, and Stanton reluctantly returns.The killer is definitely working through a list of victims, and he's leaving cryptic clues at his grisly crime scenes. Are they there to confuse the police? Or is there something more to them? As Stanton unravels this shocking central mystery, he becomes the target of an unexpected enemy—those next on the killer's list.Sorrowful Road (Book 3) - Halifax Homicide Detective Allan Stanton has been haunted for the last year by one case he couldn’t close: the brutal murder of a pretty twenty-two-year-old in Point Pleasant Park. On the anniversary of her death, the body of another young woman is found. The MO suggests the same person killed them both, but the long gap between murders is unusual for a serial killer.Fellow detective Audra Price joins Stanton in the search for this ruthless predator. But neither is prepared to handle such a unique brand of psychopath. Over a decade of unsolved case files turn up a swath of carnage, cut all across Canada with bone-chilling efficiency. The only way to bring justice to the victims is by following the most horrifying trail of their careers—to a monster who knows he’s being hunted. Views: 696
