A WOMAN DIED ... AND A HELL-HOUSE WAS BURNED TO THE GROUND!And for Big Jim Rand, another suspense-filled adventure had begun. His quest for the murderer of his brother brought him straight to Cadiz City, the town where violence smoldered and flared.Sarina Hale's legacy, all that her mother had to bequeath her, was a powderkeg with a naked fuse—the sealed diary of the hard-boiled woman who once operated the town's rowdiest house of entertainment.Many a man coveted that book, fearful that his past sins were recorded between its leather covers. To keep his guilt a secret, one was prepared to kill—and this was the man who would have to face the indomitable Big Jim in mortal combat.Big Jim again—tagged by Benito Espina! Views: 20
Owen Wister Award-Winning Author TERROR IN A SMALL TOWN... When their wagon breaks down in the desert, Reverend Jon Keyes and his ailing wife Lorna find themselves at the mercy of blistering heat, punishing thirst, and circling buzzards. On the brink of death, they are rescued by Caleb Hobbs and his beguiling daughter Deliverance, who take them to their home in San Melas. It's a strange little town, built to resemble the New England village they left behind. Everyone in the community is convinced that Jon's been sent from heaven--that he's capable of healing their sick and saving their flock. But can he save these God-fearing folk from the gunslinger Moon who descends on the town like a blood-thirsty vulture? Can he explain the robed figures who gather and chant after midnight? And finally, can a good man wage war with evil itself...without losing his life...or his soul? "Crackling with the fury of a desert storm."--True West on The... Views: 20
When eighteen-year-old Ashleigh Steepleton loses her parents, she has nowhere to turn but to her male cousins, whom she has always looked to as brothers. She goes along with her cousins’ plan to move to California, hoping that life will be better there as her cousins believe it will be. But breaking an axle on their wagon near Creede, Colorado, changes their plans, and they decide to stay and try to earn enough money to finish their journey.
When chef Alexander meets Ashleigh, he is immediately drawn to her, feeling deep down inside that she is the woman who is meant to be his bride. Her cousins don’t approve of the match, though, so he has to keep trying to make it work. Being thwarted at every turn, he wants to give up. Will his love survive long enough to convince her cousins they belong together? Or will she move on to California and leave him with a broken heart? Views: 20
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Camacho's Caballeros, the deadly mercenary force, plans to unveil the traitorous Black Dragon secret society and their scheme to destroy the Draconis Combine's Theodore Kurita--a scheme that could change the course of the entire Inner Sphere. A full-length BattleTech feature film is in development with New Line Cinema. Views: 20
Destitute following her father's death, young Mary Grace visits the handsome but lecherous mortician Hyde Fortune, who once promised her employment. It isn't too long before they are consummating their lust for each other and involving Fortune's housekeeper, the exotic Yu Ling, and his dark assistant Sebastian. When Fortune gets Mary a live-in position as a seamstress at Heaven's Gate -- a local Abbey -- she envisions a time of abstinence and piety. The monks, however, are a randy lot and her assigned roommate Sybil quickly teaches her the ins and outs of their erotic rituals -- much to the delight of Father Luc and her voyeur lover, Hyde Fortune. Views: 19
Thirty six year old obstetrician Morgan Jacobsen has had only two serious romances in her entire life, and they’d both ended years ago. She’s philosophical about her single state when she has time to think about it at all. She has a career that consumes her, a pregnant foster daughter, Tessa, whom she’s growing to love, a messy home of her own that she adores, and several challenged pets that she’s rescued from the SPCA. Life is good—until her estranged mother decides to move in with her.Obstetrician Luke Gilbert is also thirty-six, but age and occupation are the only similarities between him and Morgan. Luke is impeccably groomed, a widower and the father of a fifteen-year-old daughter, Sophie. He’s polite, remote, unavailable, and a hopeless workaholic. He’s quiet, self-contained, unemotional: all the things Morgan emphatically isn’t. Morgan has never told a living soul that Luke starred in a series of highly erotic x-rated dreams that plagued her for months, but although the dreams have stopped she still prefers not to be around Doctor Gilbert—not easy when she has to work with him. He’s simply too perfect for comfort.But Luke’s perfection is a facade. His daughter is pregnant by his best friend’s son, and Luke’s relationship with Sophie is beyond stormy. When Sophie and Tessa become friends, he finds himself confiding in Morgan—and lusting after her as well. Lust soon becomes love, but love has an insurmountable number of obstacles to overcome. Can two baby doctors deliver a happy ending?Excerpt:Morgan had barely made it to the wedding.The organ music swelled into a rendition of the wedding march and she surged to her feet with the rest of the congregation, wishing for the millionth time that she was taller than five-one. She stood on her toes and craned her neck for a glimpse of the bridal pair.Suddenly, a sharp cry from the pew behind her made her look around. A single glance at Pam’s stricken face made Morgan struggle past the bodies blocking her from the aisle.“Excuse me, s’cuse me. Let me past, please.”At last she broke free. Pam’s husband, his face ashen, had half lifted his wife into the aisle. Bloodstained fluid was gushing down Pam’s legs, pooling on the oak flooring. The membranes had ruptured, and Pam was obviously having violent contractions.“There’s something hanging down.” Pam’s anguished whisper alerted Morgan, and oblivious to the craning heads and curious, shocked faces surrounding them, she squatted down and lifted the hem of Pam’s long, loose maternity dress.Holy toot. A bolt of panic went skittering through her. The umbilical cord, the baby’s life-line in the uterus, had prolapsed, slipping into the vaginal canal along with the rush of amniotic fluid. The baby’s life was in terrible danger, its vital supply of oxygen already cut off.Morgan reached up and deftly pulled Pam’s underwear down around her ankles, then grabbed her hands and urged her to her knees.“Down. Get down on your hands and knees, right now, head on your hands, bottom in the air. Frank, help her.”Morgan’s voice, deep-throated and urgent, rose above the organ music, and when Pam hesitated, Morgan took her upper arms and, with Frank’s help, bodily forced her to the floor.“Hold her there. Don’t let her move,” she commanded Pam’s horrified husband.He crouched with an arm across his wife’s body, stammering, “I don’t understand. What’s going on? Is the ba-baby coming right now?” His eyes were filled with terror.“Just keep her down. Keep her still.” There was no time for explanations. Morgan threw herself to her knees behind her patient, searching for the unborn baby’s shoulder and lifting it away from the compressed umbilical cord.Pam’s scream of agony rose above the organ music, and there were shocked and appalled exclamations from wedding guests who didn’t understand what was going on.“Someone call 911, get an ambulance here fast. This baby’s in a hurry to get born.” And it would be a miracle if it survived. Views: 19
The good news is that Bill Parker found just the right woman to take as his bride. The bad news is that she's engaged to another man. But then, nobody ever said that finding love would be easy. Second Chance Suitor is the second novel in the Westward Hearts series, though they may be read in any order. Heartwarming reads with an HEA guaranteed! Views: 19
