As a chalk-fingered child, I had worn my craving for Mama's love on my sleeve. But as I grew, that craving became cloaked in excuses and denial until slowly it sank beneath my skin to lie unheeded but vital, like the sinews of my framework. By the time I was a teenager, I thought the gap between Mama and me could not be wider. And then Danny came along. . . . A splendidly colored sidewalk. Six-year-old Celia presented the gift to her mother with pride---and received only anger in return. Why couldn't Mama love her? Years later, when once-in-a-lifetime love found Celia, her mother opposed it. The crushing losses that followed drove Celia, guilt-ridden and grieving, from her Bradleyville home. Now thirty-five, she must return to nurse her father after a stroke. But the deepest need for healing lies in the rift between mother and daughter. God can perform such a miracle. But first Celia and Mama must let go of the past--before it destroys them both. Views: 59
In this frighteningly believable thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee, an extinct disease re-emerges from the melting Alaskan permafrost to cause madness in its victims. For recent apocalyptic cult escapee Wynter Roth, it's the end she'd always been told was coming.When Wynter Roth is turned out of New Earth, a self-contained doomsday cult on the American prairie, she emerges into a world poised on the brink of madness as a mysterious outbreak of rapid early onset dementia spreads across the nation. As Wynter struggles to start over in a world she's been taught to regard as evil, she finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse she's feared all her life—until the night her sister shows up at her doorstep with a set of medical samples. That night, Wynter learns there's something far more sinister at play and that these samples are key to understanding the disease. Now, as the power grid fails and the nation descends... Views: 59
IMOGEN: Jesse says you better know what you're doing with Franco. ME: Dude, I'm scared. IMOGEN: !! What? Tell me! ME: He makes me FEEL THINGS. It's icky and I don't like it. IMOGEN: You've known him what, a few hours? ME: I'm telling you, he scares the sh*t out of me. But he's so good I can't stop myself. IMOGEN: Audra, seriously. Chill. It's been a couple hours. It's just insta-lust. I send Imogen another selfie, this one of my face—I'm biting my lower lip, eyes wide, glancing to the side at Franco laying next to me—his mouthwatering and lust-inducing body is on full display from the waist up. I send a caption a second later: ME: YOU DONT UNDERSTAND!!! HE'S GOT A MAGICAL D*CK AND I'M FEELING THINGS!!! ME: Uh-oh. He's waking up. Time for... Views: 59
Sophie Shields has been captured by the person she's been trying to escape for most of her life. The powerful politician who molested her when she was only a child. She changed her name, her hair color, and moved across the country multiple times to get away from him, but Benjamin Powell has been intent on finding her.And when he finally has her in his grasp, he will make her pay for abandoning him and leaving him crippled.Unless Snow can stop him.But this man is so evil that even Snow, the violent, unhinged, fearless part of Sophie, begins to feel afraid.Will Sophie ever break free and see Cole again? Views: 59
"The world is dying. Everyone feels it, and yet, no one knows..."The first four prequel novels in the gritty, unique, new adult urban fantasy series, Allie's War, with an ensemble cast centering on Allie Taylor, the mythological "Bridge" and her antihero partner, Dehgoies Revik.Also includes bonus story, THE MAGIC MAN, which previously appeared only as part of a multi-author fantasy anthology.Collection includes ~NEW YORK - Allie has an unexpected meeting with Revik in New York, when she's still with Jaden.REVIK - a prequel novel about Revik in Vietnam during 1974.TERIAN - a prequel novel about the sociopathic villain, Terian, and how he reacts to Revik leaving the Rooks.BIRTH - Revik gets pulled for a dangerous mission in South America involving the birth of the Bridge.(BONUS STORY!) THE MAGIC MAN - previously published in a fantasy anthology, this Early Years novella is set in the Pre-First Contact era, on a slave plantation in the Caribbean.Series SummaryThe Allie's War series... Views: 59
By USA Today best-selling author Pamela Crane comes a psychological thriller critics are calling "a literary ride that you'll sink your teeth into and savor until the last chilling page." Perfect for fans of Karin Slaughter and Angela Marsons.A kidnapped baby. A mother's will to find her. A killer targeting them both. Three years ago Tina Alvarez was trapped in a sex-trafficking ring. Three years ago she bore a daughter who was sold on the black market. But three years didn't erase her tenacity to get her little girl back … and get even with the ones who took her.When rookie private investigator Ari Wilburn accepts her first case to find Tina's long-lost daughter, Ari unravels a mystery bigger than a missing child. A serial killer is targeting people close to her, and the key to who—and why—is buried deep in her past. As the investigation puts her in the killer's crosshairs, Ari must decide between saving herself or guarding her family's grisly secrets.But for Ari it's not easy being a savior. Bringing Tina's daughter back means taking the child from the only family she knows. Is reuniting Tina with her little girl worth destroying this child's life, and possibly her own?A serial killer is watching. Plotting. Can Ari stop the killer before she's next? Views: 59
An elderly clergyman tells Pat and Phillis of the strange happenings in the middle of the night in the old rectory. "I was at my wit's end," he told them. "I wasn't sure if I was having a nervous breakdown or becoming senile. Then, the noises. I can still hear those dreadful noises in the dead of night."Intrigued, they rush off to Philadelphia. They're too late. Murder gets there before them. Views: 59
A Battle of Wills New Orleans aristocrat
Lucian Beaumont wants only to sell his estranged grandfather's property and escape
the backwoods of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. But a stipulation in the will brings him
head-to-head with a local beauty. Megan O'Malley and the town must have access to
the house. For the first time in his life the commanding Lucian finds himself at an
impasse. Clearly the worldly gentleman doesn't fit in Megan's quaint Smoky
Mountain town. But as she glimpses the man beneath the hardened veneer, she believes
Lucian is here for a purpose. To heal his soul. And maybe, with Megan's help, to
heal his heart. Views: 59
