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Frank Quick arrives at his office one day to find a glamorous blonde waiting for him. The blonde hires him to find her missing husband, only she forgets to tell Frank that her missing husband is in deep trouble with two sets of mobsters who are also looking for him. The White Jamaican is a step back in spirit to the detective noir novels of the 1950s, fully of bad guys, smoking guns, and a femme fatale you'll never forget.
After generations of isolation, a small community has deteriorated into stifling sameness. Determined to escape its oppression, Seren explores the surrounding forbidden territory, only to discover that she and her people face imminent destruction.
The photo took Matt Steele off guard, jerking him back to a time he'd done everything to forget, to emotions he never wanted to relive. In the midst of a hotly contested race for the White House, the photo and the man who brought it to him will challenge everything Matt thought he knew about himself. The choice he faces to put honor on the line could change the outcome of the election and the fate of a nation.
Two hundred years after an alien attack cripples Earth, mutations are frequent but Egart's metalskin is unique. The Church-State of Florida exterminates mutants but employs Egart because he's a powerful healer. Individual lives versus purity of race, a precarious balance. En route to becoming a priest, Egart is summoned to heal Kali, his former lover who betrayed him. He cures her, meets Farrell, and learns that the Fall was caused by an alien attack. Surviving a perilous quest for a lightship, Egart bonds with it, reunites with Kali and his long-lost father...but can he rescue Farrell?
As Jennet Ferguson drives home after attending a play at her school, a fallen tree forces her to detour from her usual route. When she encounters an old-time horse-drawn sleigh on an isolated country road and realizes it is going to collide with her, she steers to the side, hits ice, and goes hurling off the road and down a deep slope.Did the driver of the sleigh intend to kill her? And why does she keep seeing the sleigh in various parts of Foxglove Corners?
When Lady Flora's twin daughters, Clio and Calliope, declare they will marry only twins, she is at a loss on how to proceed. However, her son, James, knows of a pair of young men living in a crumbling castle by the sea. Besotted by the gothic novels they have been reading, the girls could not be happier. An invitation to Castle Blackwater is soon forthcoming. It has everything they desire: hidden passages, an evil lord, and handsome heroes. But, who will marry the heir and which must settle for the spare is entirely another matter.
Written as a Civil War memoir, The Hag Rider explores fifteen-year-old Jack Benson's transition to manhood as he tells his soldier's account of life in the Confederate cavalry, a life convoluted by the spectral manipulations of Vanita, an old witch-woman who is sworn to protect him. Her hidden presence seems to protect Jack throughout the war in amazing ways, across countless miles, through patrols, battle, and capture.
What would lead ordained minister and Vietnam veteran, Kyle Weston, to commit suicide by hanging himself in the church-and wearing a T-shirt proclaiming 'Death from Above?' Why would he send letters to both his best friend, Rev. Jon Braddock, and his 'enemies' prior to his death, arranging for all of them to find his body at the same time?It is these questions and more that Jon seeks to answer in the wake of his loss. And the journey is more unsettling than he could have imagined. No Good Deed examines America's two great conflicting passions: war and religion, and their interaction over four decades.
Dublin, IrelandGrowing up and growing old. These two side effects of life creep up on Finnula 'Fudge' Ginnane and her mother, Mary, simultaneously, yet while the young country girl is helped through this confusing time by her best friend, Lilly McDermott, the older woman must face advancing age and the heartache of a forbidden relationship alone. This tragicomic tale spins a web of unexpected love, rejection, discovery, loss and finally, hope.
Brownie Terwilliger looked at his opportunity to run for mayor of Philadelphia as a chance to right the wrongs of a city. Boy was he ever wrong!
Stephen Travis is a prison chaplain who is approached by inmates with evidence of criminality by the prison's staff-which has a direct effect on the inmates and their families. The problem is, no one in the "chain of command" within the system wants to know about the wrongdoing. Travis finds himself not only being reprimanded for reporting the crimes to his superiors, but ultimately having to go outside the system in order to see justice done. He finds support in two colleagues, as well as in the woman with whom he is romantically involved. But the search for justice also becomes a matter of life and death.
Joshua, the second son of the Duke of Bellevue, reneges on a promise to marry Kate Morely because of an incident that occurred when she was twelve. Instead, he intends to pursue the rich and beautiful prize of the Season, Lady Camilla. Kate takes up the challenge and intends to attract Harold Brumley, heir to a duke. Unfortunately, he is addicted to taking snuff. She must convince him she loves the habit to gain his attention. When Joshua starts to look her way again, Camilla plots to remove Kate from the competition which may prove fatal.
Mankind has fled to the Asteroid Belt to escape its bloating red sun. Humanity has evolved-it had to in order to survive...and now? Now there's a new threat. Human beings from a parallel universe have discovered how to create and use gateways-portals-between universes to travel. To make contact. To attack. To steal the dark energy which buffers one universe from another. This story is not about the future of one world, but rather the fate of an infinite number of worlds, all parallel to our own.
Revolutionary War veteran sharpshooter Stephen Davis searches for the reality of the old saying, that all it takes is, "Two people and a piece of ground." He finds himself caught in a web of violent criminal activity instead, is hunted, must use his deadly skills too often. All while courting a planter's stunning daughter, overlooking a gifted farm girl. He rescues a stolen ex-slave, they wipe out a sophisticated robbery ring, but he is betrayed by his betrothed, then loses the other girl. Maybe.
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