This term the naughtiest girl in the school is trying to be good. But someone wants to spoil things for her. Views: 494
Three years ago, high school student Veronica Fortune witnessed the brutal murder of her parents. Now armed and dangerous, she sets out to hunt down the very thing that destroyed her life. That is, until she disappears. Spinoza is a private investigator who specializes in finding the missing. He's good at what he does. Damn good. But he's also a recovering alcoholic and a royal mess. Hired to find Veronica, Spinoza won't let his personal demons — or demons of any kind — get in the way of finding the truth about the missing girl. Now following a bizarre set of clues that leads him into stranger and stranger territory, Spinoza is about to come face-to-face with something legendary. . . and something hungry for blood. Views: 493
Ambitious and fiery Lee Coil is determined to work her way of the ladder of a predominately male-oriented workforce. Knowing her disadvantages, but refuses to let any setbacks deter her. When she gets an opportunity to catapult her career, she jumps at the opportunity.Traveling across the country for a lead on a hot case, Lee uncovers more than she bargained for. With Darren, her boyfriend and co-worker, helping her dig for answers, Lee is forced to admit one thing: she may be in over her head. Can the dedicated cop prove that she's more than a woman in man's world? Views: 493
Small towns + gossip = frictionNo one in the town of Whitby, North Carolina was excited when Jonas Merchant returned to town. Jonas was an effective muckraker; an expert at uncovering secrets, rumors, and undercurrents. Even worse, he'd fallen on hard times and was desperate for easy cash. It was a decidedly dangerous combination.It was perhaps not the biggest surprise when Jonas was discovered dead one day. More shocking, at least to local librarian Ann Beckett, was the fact that her straight-arrow director Wilson was one of the suspects in Jonas's death.Will Ann be able to track down the killer and clear Wilson's name before he strikes again? Views: 493
April 1193. England’s King Richard Lionheart languishes in a German prison, and treason scents the air. Richard’s younger brother, John, seizes Windsor Castle, and Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine summons her trusted personal “queen’s man,” Justin de Quincy, to do the impossible– mediate a truce with her rebel son. Amid such fateful events, the murder of a Welsh peddler’s daughter seems small. But the cruel demise of the beautiful Melangell so troubles Justin that not even a threatened French invasion can keep him from investigating her death. Yet can he bring Melangell’s craven killer to justice? Views: 493
Amanda McCabe, writing as Laurel McKee, presents a short (2750 words) story set in Georgian Ireland of "The Daughters of Erin" series. Allison and Finn are intellectuals and Irish patriots in Dublin of 1802--and they certainly don't believe in enchanted leprechaun gold! Nor do they believe in romance--until a magical encounter shows them what can happen when they let true love into their livesA special treat for St. Patrick's Day! Amanda McCabe, writing as Laurel McKee, presents a short (2750 words) story set in Georgian Ireland of "The Daughters of Erin" series. Allison and Finn are intellectuals and Irish patriots in Dublin of 1802--and they certainly don't believe in enchanted leprechaun gold! Nor do they believe in romance--until a magical encounter shows them what can happen when they let true love into their lives... Views: 492
