Jack Delvaux is aliveSummer
Redding thought the blindingly handsome jock who'd loved and left her
years ago had died in the Washington Massacre. She grieved for her lost
golden boy as the rest of the country mourned their dead—until she comes
home to find a very alive Jack Delvaux waiting for her with a
devastating secret that turns her life upside down.No longer the
carefree man he was in his youth, this Jack is dark, hard and dangerous;
a fifteen-year veteran of the CIA hungry for answers…and hungry for
her. The rich, good-looking charmer who broke her heart once before
would have been easy to resist, but this man, this powerful man? Summer
needs him, and he knows it.When Jack's mission uncovers evidence
of government involvement in the Massacre—and plans for another
attack—he's primed for revenge. But he has more than vengeance to live
for now, and when Summer's life is threatened, it's nearly Jack's
undoing. Someone taking shots at his woman? That's a dead man walking. Views: 68
A Barefoot Bay NovelWhen running is all you've ever known . . . Caught between fight and flight, Zoe Tamarin has always picked flight. Since she was rescued from a nightmare childhood by her great-aunt Pasha, they've been on the move, never staying in one place long enough to risk exposing their precarious past. But now that they've reached the sun-baked shores of Barefoot Bay, Zoe may have to stay and fight-for her aunt's life . . . and for a love she ran from years before.Sometimes the bravest act of all is to stand still.Oliver Bradbury came to Florida to start over, as both a doctor and a father to his eight-year-old son. He never expected life to hand him a second chance with the woman he lost years ago-but one look at Zoe Tamarin and he knows he'll do whatever it takes to prove that this time, he can be the man she needs. But when demands of family and friendship threaten to shatter their rekindled passion, Oliver must heal Zoe's lifelong wounds with more than hot kisses . . . but will that be enough to keep her from flying off with his heart?Review"Plenty of heat, humor, and heart!" (USA Today's Happy Ever After blog on Barefoot in the Sand )"Pack this one in your beach bag and get ready for nonstop fun." (Susan Mallery, New York Times bestselling author, on Barefoot in the Sand )"St. Claire writes books that keep the reader engrossed in the story form cover to cover." (Booklist )"St. Claire, as always, brings a scorching tear-up-the-sheets romance combined with a great story: dealing with real issues starring memorable characters in vivid scenes. Best of all, since this is book one in the Barefoot Bay series, there's more to come." (on Barefoot in the Sand)(RT Book Reviews ) About the AuthorFirst published in 2003, Roxanne St. Claire is a RITA® Award-winning author of thirty novels, including her bestselling Bullet Catchers and Guardian Angelinos series. Her critically acclaimed books have been published in numerous languages and recognized with multiple awards including the National Readers' Choice Award, the Daphne du Maurier Award, and the HOLT Medallion, all for best romantic suspense. She currently lives on the east coast of Florida with her husband and two teenagers. You can learn more at:RoxanneStClaire.comTwitter @roxannestclaireFacebook.com/roxannestclaire Views: 68
Thalia and James have been invited to Purgatory to celebrate Christmas with Kalen and Maggie. It's been months since Thalia 'graduated' the program and her and James are happy as can be and Thalia is looking forward to having a normal Christmas. Well... as normal as it can be when it's held at a submissive training school in the middle of rural Scotland and you're helping to cook dinner Views: 68
A fan-favorite from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, originally published in A Fortune's Children Christmas in 1998. Chase Fortune has one year to turn around a rundown ranch to inherit it from his great-aunt. But his careful plans go awry when he rescues his beautiful neighbor, Lesley Bastian, from a blizzard and helps her deliver her baby. Lesley isn't the staying type—she wants to get back on her feet as soon as possible so she can manage her own ranch. But fate and weather conspire to keep them together, and soon Chase must face the terrible choice between his home and his heart. Originally published in 1998. Views: 68
At five years old, Inessa Kozlova is exposed to the dangerous power a badman wields. Now, twenty years later, she’s convinced that a badman is the last thing she wants in her bed. Strong, beautiful, and independent, she’s determined to live the life she wants on her own terms. Yet, from the moment she lays eyes on her Bratva lover, her heart demands otherwise. Dominik Markov owes his life to the Bratva. Having grown up in prison, he associates his ties to the mafia with liberty. Embracing his freedom, he takes all that life has to offer—including all the women he can get. Known as the Bratva playboy, settling down is not his idea of happiness, and love is a mystery he wishes not to solve. It doesn’t take long for Inessa to learn that the power of love is more dangerous than that of any man, and she’s no match against her feelings for Dominik. Yet, it’s Dominik who is brought to his knees—tempted by the only woman who has ever made him want more. Discovering that the cost of more is surrender, he must decide what kind of badman he really is—and if the woman who tempts his heart is worth it. ** Recommended for readers 18+ due to language, violence, and sexual content** Views: 68
Mystery and suspense combine in this first book in an exciting new 4-book series by best-selling author Terri Blackstock. Thelma and Wayne Owens run a bed and breakfast in Cape Refuge, Georgia. They minister to the seamen on the nearby docks and prisoners just out of nearby jails, holding services in an old warehouse and taking many of the 'down-and-outers' into their home. They have two daughters: the dutiful Morgan who is married to Jonathan, a fisherman, and helps them out at the B& B, and Blair, the still-single town librarian, who would be beautiful if it weren't for the serious scar on the side of her face.After a heated, public argument with his in-laws, Jonathan discovers Thelma and Wayne murdered in the warehouse where they held their church services. Considered the prime suspect, Jonathan is arrested. Grief-stricken, Morgan and Blair launch their own investigation to help Matthew Cade, the town's young police chief, find the real killer. Shady characters and a raft... Views: 68
Lori Lansens became one of Canada’s most sought after writers more than a year before her internationally heralded first book, Rush Home Road, would see publication in April 2002. So immediately and passionately was her novel embraced that it was already front-page arts news back in April 2001. Knopf Canada was the first publisher to buy this extraordinary debut novel, but just before the 2001 London Book Fair, Little, Brown US bought the rest of the world rights for a major six-figure sum (for Rush Home Road and the author's yet-to-be-written second novel), and rights have now been sold in numerous countries.The Globe and Mail reported the record-breaking news with full, front-page coverage, and Little, Brown International Rights Director Linda Biagi found herself talking of nothing else in London; she sold Rush Home Road to a further 9 territories with the manuscript still unedited. Biagi likened the book to some of the most important literary achievements of our time, saying, “It’s as if John Irving had written The Color Purple.” Louise Dennys, the Executive Publisher of Knopf Canada, describes it as “a novel of startling beauty and great heart that will immediately find a place within that small, special tribe of books beloved by readers the world over.” The untold story of the descendants of the Underground RailroadHeartbreaking and wise, Rush Home Road tells the life story of Adelaide Shadd, who finds redemption in old age, and Sharla, a five-year-old mixed race girl abandoned to Addy’s care by her white mother. Born in the first decade of the 20th century in Rusholme (inspired by the real town of Buxton), in southwestern Ontario, an all-black community settled by fugitive slaves, Addy Shadd is raped as a teenager and forced to flee the family home. She makes her way on foot to Detroit, where she becomes the housekeeper for an elderly man and his grown son, both of whom develop a crush on her. When misfortune strikes again, she sets off to make a new life for herself in Canada. Thrown off the train at Keating, not far from her birthplace, she meets and eventually marries the train porter, the wonderful Mose, with whom she has a daughter. But when tragedy strikes, Addy is left alone. Now an old woman, she lives a quiet existence in a trailer park near Chatham. Her whole world changes when a young mother asks her to babysit her daughter, as it soon becomes clear that the mother is never coming back. Addy is glad of the company, but not sure if she’s up to the job of mothering this sweet, awkward five-year-old. Nor is she sure how much longer she’ll be around to do so. How she manages is part of the story of this brilliantly captivating novel.Written with verve, grace and unflinching emotional acuity, Rush Home Road is an epic story that explodes our notions of identity, justice, and heroism, penetrating one of our darkest periods with profound insight and humanity. Addy Shadd is a protagonist like no other -- full of quiet, steely bravery and tenderness of heart. This spellbinding novel will leave no reader untouched.From Publishers WeeklyCertain novels recall fairy tales. Their heroes are banished, repeatedly challenged, until finally, foes vanquished, they make their triumphant homecoming. Though it opens in 1978 in a Chatham, Ontario, trailer park, Lansens's poignant debut is just such a novel. At its heart is Adelaide Shadd, a 70-year-old black woman who takes in five-year-old Sharla Cody when Sharla's "white trash" mother abandons her. As Addy turns Sharla from a malnourished, heedless child into a healthy, thoughtful girl, she recollects her own past. Addy grew up in Rusholme, a fictional cousin to the many Ontario communities founded by fugitive slaves brought north by the Underground Railroad. By 1908, when Addy is born, Rusholme is settled almost entirely by black farmers and is close to idyllic. But a rape and subsequent pregnancy force Addy to run away from Rusholme (she thinks of it as a command: "Rush home"), not to return for many years. Addy's life her marriage, her children, her journey to Detroit and back to Canada is the rich core of a novel also laden with history: Lansens manages to work in not only the Railroad, but also Prohibition and the Pullman porter movement. This is artfully done, but Lansens doesn't handle the novel's smaller scenes quite as well: she tends to drop narrative threads and confuse chronology. Some readers will resent the repeated plucking of their heartstrings, too, given how much Addy and Sharla suffer. Nonetheless, Lansens has created in Addy a truly noble character, not for what she suffered in the past but for what she does in the novel's present. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalAs this first novel opens, 70-year-old Addy Shadd is living a peaceful trailer-park existence in the company of down-and-outers like Collette, who leaves her daughter with Addy and then disappears. Five-year-old Sharla is neither lovely nor lovable, and Addy's habit of solitude is hard to break, but as the two outcasts learn to care for each other, they begin healing from the abuse that they have suffered. Memories of Addy's childhood days in Rusholme, a Canadian border town settled by runaway slaves in the 1800s, come rushing back and carry the reader away. Addy recalls intimate details a small brother who died, past lovers, children now gone, and the many people who betrayed her while historical events like the Underground Railroad, the Pullman porter movement, and Prohibition frame her account and reflect some of the hardships suffered by African Americans, even in Canada. Though Addy has led a hard life, her beautiful, gentle spirit, her wise and loving way with Sharla, and an ultimate message of hope redeem the book from melancholy. A beautiful debut; recommended for all public libraries. Jennifer Baker, Seattle P.L. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. Views: 68
Book 5 in the Rockin' Country Series WifeHusbandParentsEntertainers Reaper and Harmony have enjoyed being Garrett and Hannah since their respective tours ended. They’ve become closer, learned to live as a married couple, and been successful in keeping relevant without having their faces on the covers of tabloids. Raising their eighteen-month-old son is the highlight of both their lives. Now that they’ve settled into a routine, Hannah misses the studio, and decides to give Harmony one more shot. Neither she nor Garrett are prepared for the sheer popularity their marriage and the birth of their child has given them as a couple. When the album drops, it sets forth a series of events neither one of them are prepared for. To everyone’s surprise Harmony Stewart becomes more of a household name, has a pop number one, and gets way in over her head with commitments. When the success, the pressure, and the fame all get to be too much, it doesn’t take her long to realize there’s only one title she’s ever wanted to have. Reaper’s Girl Warning - This is the steamiest Reaper & Harmony book written!** Views: 68
Laurel, Bride of Arkansas is 25th in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides Series.Laurel Weidner desires a life of her own away from Philadelphia society and a dull, boring marriage. She is sent to live with her aunt in Lawrence, Massachusetts. When her Aunt dies in a tornado, she gets a job at the Brown Textile Mill to avoid going back home. Two months later the mill burns down, and her father threatens to bring her back to Philadelphia.When the mill and her livelihood perish with the fire, she has no other choice but to answer an ad in the Grooms’ Gazette and become a Mail Order Bride. Will she find peace and long lasting love in the arms of a stranger?Griffin Benning needs a mother for his children. When his wife died, he lost his two children to his in-laws who claimed to have a better environment for raising his children. He misses his family and is coerced into advertising in the Grooms’ Gazette for a wife to raise his children and work the farm in order to get them back.Will his ad for a Mail Order Bride provide what he needs? Can he find love and happiness with a stranger?Can these two strangers find a common ground to reach their goals along with a happy-ever-after? Views: 68
He snatched me up and filled me with his baby.
I shouldn’t submit to him. After all, he kidnapped me.
I should do something – run, scream, fight back.
But one look into his icy eyes and I know the truth: I’m not going anywhere.
I’m going to stay here. Submit to his touch.
And I’m going to have his baby.
Kelsey
I knew when I started that this was a dangerous game.
But I needed answers, and one of these bastards had to know who killed my sister.
I’d do whatever it took to find the murderer.
Even if it meant letting a hideous monster f*ck me like a dog.
Spike Lawler claimed me as his old lady before I even knew to resist.
Now, he says he’ll never let me go.
I’m trapped and drowning, a helpless victim to his disgusting wrath.
And when he finds out I’m pregnant, the last windows of opportunity to escape are slammed shut.
But here’s what Spike doesn’t know:
The baby isn’t his.
And the man who gave it to me is coming to claim his child.
Chopper
I’m sick of standing idly by. It’s time to strike.
Spike Lawler is soft. Weak. Arrogant. He thinks I can’t do a thing to him.
But he doesn’t know that I’ve learned his secret:
His old lady, his most prized possession, is pregnant.
I’m going to hit him where it hurts the most.
The plan comes together perfectly, and before I know it,
I have his old lady tied up in my clubhouse basement.
I go down to interrogate her, only to come face-to-face with a stunning realization.
She’s not just some pawn in this power struggle.
She’s the mother of my baby.
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