Le jour de ses noces, Juliana St. John apprend que son fiancé est déjà marié. Heureusement, elle retrouve son amour d’enfance, Elliot McBride, tout juste rentré des Indes, qui lui propose de l’épouser et de s’installer dans sa propriété écossaise. Juliana accepte sur un coup de tête, mais elle déchante à la vue de la bâtisse délabrée qu’elle va devoir entretenir, aidée d’une poignée de serviteurs. Il y a pire : Elliot n’est plus le même. Son comportement étrange inquiète Juliana. Prête à le soutenir de son mieux, elle va vite se rendre compte que son mari lui cache bien des secrets... Views: 498
Kyle doesn't believe in love at first sight... until it happens to him. A cupcake foretold it, and sure enough, he's smitten. But his beloved seems to be stir-crazy, and his new fairy godmother is worse.Did destiny bring them together? Will common sense tear them apart?This is a short story from the Life in a Fairytale collection of shorts, coming soon. Views: 498
Once again our part–time hereo and full–time walking disaster area finds himself smack dab in another misadventure. This time it's full of dude–ranch disasters, bungling bronco busters, and the world's biggest cow–and, well, let's just say it's not a pretty picture (or a pleasant smelling one). Through all this, Wally learns the importance of following God's command to always forgive one another. Views: 498
The entire Neteru Guardian team is on the run, having now been labeled as America's most-wanted terrorists following the gruesome demon battle that felled the Washington Monument and crashed the front doors of the White House. The Anti-Christ is positioned for emergence, the powers of darkness have released the pale horse of the apocalypse, and half the Neteru team is pregnant. Plagues from hell that ravage the country are being cited as stemming from bio-terrorism. The nation is under martial law. The Neterus and their team are underground. If things weren't bad enough the Dark Realm breaks the sixth Biblical seal, which plunges the world into perpetual darkness…and irrevocably into the Armageddon. Views: 498
or the men and women of the battered pilgrim vessel IONA, members of the Holy Order of St. Brigid and St. Brendan, it was the last chance.Even with survival at stake, they must obey their holy order's rule: they cannot invade, they must be invited to land. And they don't know enough to be sure of wangling a welcome.The Holy Captain Abbess Dierdre Cardinal Fitzgerald sends Seamus O'Neil as a spy. A spy? Seamus is a crack soldier, a second-rate bard, and a young man looking for love, but a diplomat he isn't.The land is beautiful, and the women are lovely and loving-except for gorgeous, chilly Marjetta-but a paradise it isn't.In fact, the land is more dangerous than Seamus could have imagined. It will be a miracle if he and Marjetta keep their skins intact-much less pull off a landing for the IONA.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Views: 498
Nancy investigates the kidnapping of Caterina Reigert by posing as the writer of the girl's father's autobiography. Views: 498
Whether chasing debutants or gunning down killers, the legendary Continental Op doesn’t miss a beat, in this collection of short stories from master of noir fiction Dashiell Hammett
From the day she was born, Sue Hambleton has wanted to tell her family to go to hell. Bred to be a debutante, Sue’s more at home in the back alleys of the Bowery than the ballrooms of Fifth Avenue. When she’s finally old enough, she bolts, shacking up with a series of machine-gun artists, killers, and thieves in a debauched spree that takes her across the country and out of her family’s shadow. But when she finally surfaces in San Francisco, she becomes the Continental Op’s problem—the deadliest problem he will ever have.
Years of working as a private investigator gave Dashiell Hammett unique insight into life at the edge of the underworld. In “Fly Paper,” “The Farewell Murder,” and “Death and Company,” this pioneer of the hardboiled is shown at his very best. Views: 498
You remember that you were puzzled when I told you I had heard something from the owls—or if not puzzled (for I know you have some experience of these things), you were at any rate anxious to know exactly how it happened. Perhaps the time has now come for you to be told. Views: 498
In the night class, attendance can be fatal
In a California high school, a signup sheet mysteriously appears on the bulletin board: NIGHT CLASS. No course description, no details, no clues. Four kids, each with their own individual problems and desires, write their names on the sheet. Andrew, the handsome, seemingly perfect jock, signs up first, hoping that the mysterious course will finally propel him into the life of fame he craves. Mariah’s intense crush on Andrew inspires her to follow suit, for a chance that her romantic fantasy will come true. Autumn, beautiful and popular but deeply dissatisfied, adds her name to the class list in an effort to escape the claustrophobic clutches of the cool clique at school. Ned, brainy, awkward, and insecure, signs up with a desperate dream of becoming popular. These students will discover whether the night class is a place where dreams come true—or where nightmares are made real. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Caroline B. Cooney including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection. Views: 497
In the next highly anticipated installment of Lee Child's acclaimed suspense series, Jack Reacher comes to the aid of an elderly couple . . . and confronts his most dangerous opponents yet. "Jack Reacher is today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of."—Ken Follett"This is a random universe," Reacher says. "Once in a blue moon things turn out just right." This isn't one of those times. Reacher is on a Greyhound bus, minding his own business, with no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Then he steps off the bus to help an old man who is obviously just a victim waiting to happen. But you know what they say about good deeds. Now Reacher wants to make it right. An elderly couple have made a few well-meaning mistakes, and now they owe big money to some very bad people. One brazen move leads to another, and suddenly Reacher finds himself a wanted man in the middle of a brutal... Views: 497
Cut off from government support, the Project has gone private as the Harker Group, specializing in high order security. Business has been slow, but when a wealthy British explorer wants to hire her services, Director Elizabeth Harker isn't sure she wants the job. Sir Jeffrey Livingston has an ancient map leading to the lost city of Paititi, where a legendary treasure of gold was hidden during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. The ruins of the city are somewhere deep in the unexplored Amazon jungle. Livingston is mounting an expedition to go after the gold. He wants the Project team to provide security. Simple enough, except word of the map and expedition has leaked. Communist rebels want to get their hands on the gold and use it to fan the flames of revolution. That can't be allowed to happen. Harker agrees to take Livingston on as a client. The team heads to Peru and sets off into the Amazon. Soon they are far from... Views: 497
He's having a hard time minding his own business when it comes to the one woman he's never been able to get out of his head…or his heart.Eva Channing had no idea that a trip to see an old friend, to visit old haunts, to relive a past she'd been too young to appreciate and too inexperienced to handle would flip her current life upside down but it has. Now everywhere she turns, Carson Brandt is there reminding her of what they had. What she's never been able to forget…and isn't sure she wants to.Carson put Eva behind him ages ago—or so he thought. But when their paths cross again unexpectedly, he's forced to face the truth: He's never gotten over her. He shouldn't have looked her up afterward. He should've kept her consigned to the part of his life that's long gone. He's good at doing that. Thing is, she's been keeping a secret all this time. One she had no right to keep. Not from him.A secret named Zack. Views: 497
ack Ryan Jr. finds that the scars of war can last a lifetime in the latest entry in Tom Clancy’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.Twenty-six
years ago, Dr. Cathy Ryan restored the eyesight of a young Bosnian girl
who had been injured during an attack in the Bosnian War. Today, her
son, Jack Ryan Jr. has agreed to track down the young woman and deliver a
letter from his mother. What he finds shocks them both. The
helpless child has grown into a remarkable woman. Aida Curic is a
self-possessed beauty with a big heart and an even bigger secret who
runs a controversial refugee agency near Sarajevo. Jack finds himself
deeply drawn to both her and her country, but soon finds himself in the
crosshairs of the seething ethnic tensions and ancient blood feuds of
the Balkans, the region of Europe where empires go to die. If Jack can’t
navigate the world of secret service agencies, special operators and
local mafias to save Aida, Sarajevo will prove the be the fuse that
lights the next world war.
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Praise
Fantastic Praise for Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Jr. books“Clancy’s
thriller industry lives on in this Jack Ryan Jr. adventure by Maden…
Fast-moving and exciting, this one reads like it came from Clancy
himself.”—Kirkus Reviews “Mixes nail-biting suspense with hard-hitting action to deliver a blockbuster hit.”—The Real Book Spy“Will satisfy the craving of the audience for more Ryan family adventures”—Booklist “Under Fire is a tour de force of the kind Clancy practically invented, a tale beautifully envisioned and realized.”—Providence Journal“A
high-octane, high stakes novel of international intrigue and military
action, involving global brinksmanship, espionage, and romance.”—The Huffington Post“Continue[s]
the intense, thrilling, and realistic plots that Tom Clancy was known
for…riveting and gripping.”—Elise Cooper for Military Press, Crimespree
Magazine, and Blackfive.net
About the Author
TOM CLANCY was the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of more than eighteen books. He died in October 2013.
MIKE MADEN is the author of the critically acclaimed Drone series. He holds both a master's and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Davis, specializing in international relations and comparative politics. He has lectured and consulted on the topics of war and the Middle East, among others. Maden has served as a political consultant and campaign manager in state and national elections, and hosted his own local weekly radio show for a year. Views: 497
Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine teams up with the pop-culture phenomenon Garbage Pail Kids for a first-ever GPK illustrated middle-grade series Welcome to the town of Smellville, where ten kids all live in a big tumbledown house and have as much fun as they possibly can. People may think that they're gross and weird and strange, but they're not bad kids—they just don't know any better. In this hilarious new illustrated series from bestselling author R.L. Stine, the Garbage Pail Kids—from Adam Bomb to Brainy Janey—get into mischief at their middle school, all while battling bullies and their archenemies, Penny and Parker Perfect. These all-new illustrated stories are sure to amuse, entertain, and blow away readers of all ages. Bonus: includes four exclusive Garbage Pail Kids stickers! Views: 497
