Will the masked outlaw who stole LuciaÕs locket also claim her heart? When Miss Lucia Foxe is robbed by a band of shadowy highwaymen, she does not realize this frightening event will change her life forever. Her brave quest to retrieve her stolen locket brings her into close contact with the thieves and their dashing and fearless masked leader, Len Hawkins. But there is more to Len than meets the eye. Beneath the robberÕs mask lies a woman who, in her heart, is not really so very different from Lucia. As their unlikely love grows against the backdrop of the poverty and violent protest of Regency England, Lucia learns how much more there is to the world than her upbringing has taught her. Len flirts with death every day, and eventually, an attempt at exacting revenge on her cruel father threatens to snatch her from LuciaÕs arms. Will Len survive her encounter with death and avoid the retribution of the agents of justice? And can respectable gentlewoman Lucia love Len enough to sacrifice everything she knows?
Jay Perry's stepbrother, Thyran Vilkus, frames him for a malicious crime, forcing the teenager to go on the run and take refuge with a crew of pirates. During a heist several years later to steal a diamond locket, Jay learns the locket is a key to an ancient magic belonging to the legendary sorcerer, Ashlen Venclin, a magic for which Thyran has been hunting since murdering the governor of his hometown. Now, Jay is thrust into a high-velocity adventure to stop his stepbrother from completing his mission. He must outwit and outmaneuver his cunning stepbrother, avoid capture by an overzealous thick-skulled general, and survive attacks of vicious gorgrims (massive, gorilla-like creatures with venomous barbs finishing their reptilian tails), all to stop Thyran from obtaining Ashlen's powers that have been hidden for centuries. The race is on.
This book chronicles the journey of discovery by a man who went on a quest to solve a mystery. Did his grandmother die the way he was told she had, or was she murdered? The rumor had plagued his family for almost four decades. Could the unthinkable be true, that his own grandfather might have been involved with the mysterious death of his grandmother? Along the way in his multiyear odyssey, the author discovers his family roots, his family tree, and the disturbing secrets long buried by his family. He vividly portrays the life and culture of Paducah, Kentucky, East St. Louis, Illinois, and Okeechobee, Florida, in the 1910s through the 1970s. He displays a culture and dialect of a strong breed of people that lived in rural western Kentucky in the early 1900s. He discovers extreme violence, knife fights, gunfights, bigamy, racism, thievery, bootlegging, and long-lost siblings. He discovers secrets within military and government files, unknown mental illnesses, wife-beatings, and murders. He discovers his grandfather’s World War II emprise, and the surprises it revealed. He uncovers the secrets of Freemasonry, and how it may have been involved in his grandmother’s death. He uncovers many lies from many people, and lawlessness by some in his family. The story includes attempts at a belated exhumation and autopsy to finally solve the mystery once and for all. He finally brings together all the evidence, pieces of a bizarre mystery, never before assembled by his family, to solve the enigma of his grandmother’s death. This book details the emotional pendulum experienced by a grandson on a journey to solve a riddle, and being repeatedly shocked and dumbfounded by what he found. Anne Carayon: “Great entertaining narrative! The mystery thickens as you go along! The historical and sociological backgrounds have transformed a personal sad story into a page of American Middle West history. It is also a description of what man can do to achieve his egotistical goals. That’s universal and timeless.” Deborah Schadt: “How brave it was of Dwain Tucker to put so much thought, time, and energy into looking for something he didn’t want to find! His intention to uncover evidence to disprove a family murder rumor led him to the discovery of numerous family secrets, both good and bad. “Many in Dwain Tucker’s family learned everything they knew from the school of hard knocks, and he was so honest in his portrayal of the ‘colorful’ characters in his family. His attempt at imitating the dialect used by the people of that place and time is both humorous and accurate. “Dwain has my admiration, appreciation, and gratitude for preserving a part of the Tucker family history—that if not for his perseverance would have otherwise been forever lost.”
Dawson's darkly tempting debut drops her unsuspecting heroine into a strange faraway land for a romantic adventure that's part paranormal, part steampunk . . . and completely irresistible. Original.
Tracing material and metaphoric waste through the Western canon, ranging from Beowulf to Samuel Beckett, Susan Signe Morrison disrupts traditional perceptions of waste to better understand how we theorize, manage, and are implicated in what is discarded and seen as garbage. Engaging a wide range of disciplines, Morrison addresses how the materiality of waste has been sedimented into a variety of toxic metaphors. If scholars can read waste as possessing dynamic agency, how might that change the ethics of refuse-ing and ostracizing wasted humans? A major contribution to the growing field of Waste Studies, this comparative and theoretically innovative book confronts the reader with the ethical urgency present in waste literature itself.
Will the masked outlaw who stole LuciaÕs locket also claim her heart? When Miss Lucia Foxe is robbed by a band of shadowy highwaymen, she does not realize this frightening event will change her life forever. Her brave quest to retrieve her stolen locket brings her into close contact with the thieves and their dashing and fearless masked leader, Len Hawkins. But there is more to Len than meets the eye. Beneath the robberÕs mask lies a woman who, in her heart, is not really so very different from Lucia. As their unlikely love grows against the backdrop of the poverty and violent protest of Regency England, Lucia learns how much more there is to the world than her upbringing has taught her. Len flirts with death every day, and eventually, an attempt at exacting revenge on her cruel father threatens to snatch her from LuciaÕs arms. Will Len survive her encounter with death and avoid the retribution of the agents of justice? And can respectable gentlewoman Lucia love Len enough to sacrifice everything she knows?
Violette and Thomas are in France for Camdens coronation into French nobility. Married for seventeen years, their happiness is threatened by the arrival of a suspicious letter from the past, which threatens to destroy their love and marriage. Mary, queen of Scots, seeks refuge in England, hoping that Queen Elizabeth will restore her to the Scottish throne. Instead, Mary finds herself Queen Elizabeths prisoner. She is entangled in a murderous plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Marys life hangs by a thread.
Love under Siege shares the tale of a young womans struggles after she overhears a shocking secret and risks everything in a valiant search for her parents, true love, and a new faith. It has been twenty-four years since Violette de la Marne was told her parents were dead. Now as she stands beside her Grand-Pere Philippes death bed, she clutches the only thing she has left from her parents a golden locket and waits for him to take his last breath. But before he does, she overhears him reveal a shocking secret during a confession to a bishop: he has lied to Violette for years, fearing he would lose her to the Huguenots. Her parents are alive. Betrayed by her Grand-Pere and betrothed to a man she does not love, Violette derives strength from the locket, rejects the arranged marriage, and embarks on a determined quest through sixteenth century France to find her parents who may be imprisoned in Paris. Drawn to the Huguenots who promise intimacy with God and assurance of salvation, Violette continues to hope for a marriage built on love, trust, and faith. With the help of God and the handsome rogue, Thomas Montmorency, her search eventually propels her into the immoral and promiscuous court of Henry II and Catherine de Medici where she must hide the truth to avoid persecution and death.
After a whirlwind marriage in France, Violette de la Marne and husband, Ty MacKenzie, move to Edinburgh to join Mary, Queen of Scots. Life is good until Lord Darnley attempts to murder David Rizzio and Mary, who is pregnant with Scotlands heir. Violette and Ty help Mary escape from her cruel husband, Lord Darnley, who later is conveniently murdered. And Ty disappears, leaving Violette alone to cope with the consequences of his disappearance. Violettes former love, Thomas Montmorency, appears. And Violette is catapulted into a tortuous love triangle with Ty and Thomas. Which love will she choose?
Her name was Tiree Shardfast, Princess of Zephyre, heir to the Heartglow, the special magic which allowed her to speak to drakons. When Tiree set sail with her father King Leopold Shardfast to the Shattered Lands far across the Unknown Ocean, she had no idea of the adventure that awaited her and her best friend Halflorn. Forced by the hand of the Obsidian Emperor to escape through the shards of the Ensemble, she was about to encounter the vastness of the many worlds, and meet people far stranger and more wonderful than she could ever have imagined.
Sara's world was about to change when a mysterious letter popped up at her doorstep, shortly before her 21st birthday. She was soon to inherit her grandmother's house. Her happiness knew no bounds upon hearing the news. But she was unaware of one key fact – The house wasn’t her only inheritance. Sara wasn't the only one whose world was about to change. Johnny, a high school freshman, also found an anonymous package near his house. Little did he know that its contents were far more mysterious than they appeared and the horrors that were about to follow. Will Johnny realize the true nature of the package contents, before it's too late? And, will Sara be able to discover her true inheritance?
The son of shadow warrior Erevis Cale prepares to seek out his destiny in this compelling second installment of the Sundering series The shadow legacy of Erevis Cale lives on even as his old foe Mephistopheles seeks to stamp it out at any cost. Cale’s son, Vasen—unmoored in time by the god Mask—has thus far been shielded from the archdevil’s dark schemes, alone among the servants of the Lord of Light who have raised him since birth. Living in a remote abbey nestled among the Thunder Peaks of Sembia, Vasen is haunted by dreams of his father, trapped in the frozen hell of Cania. He knows the day will come when he must assume his role in the divine drama unfolding across Faerûn. But Vasen does not know what that role should be or whether he is ready to take it on. He only knows what his father tells him in dreams—that he must not fail. Enter Drasek Riven, a former compatriot of Erevis Cale, now near divine and haunted by dreams of his own. He, too, knows the time to act is near. Shar, the great goddess of darkness, looks to cast her shadow on the world forever. Riven has glimpsed the cycle of night she hopes to complete, and he knows she must be stopped. At the crossroads of divine intrigue and mortal destiny, unlikely heroes unite to thwart the powers of shadow and hell, and the sundering of worlds is set on its course.
Follows the legendary gunfighter and gambler back to Dodge City in 1919 as he tries to come to terms with his role as a frontier lawman in the days of the Wild West.
Taking place after Wicked as They Come, this original eBook features a mysterious lady and a reclusive mechanical genius who find love and danger in a traveling circus. An elusive woman arrives at Criminy’s doorstep with a steamer trunk, begging for a position in the caravan to perform her unique new act. She opens her trunk to reveal a menagerie of brilliantly colored butterflies. The woman, who calls herself Madam Morpho, is on the run from a dark past in London, where she was forced to leave her equipment behind and abscond with only her tiny performers. Playing a hunch, Criminy hires Madam Morpho on the spot. Taking her down to meet Mr. Murdoch, the reclusive talented engineer who keeps the carnival’s clockworks running, Criminy instructs them to work together to design and build a groundbreaking new circus for the butterflies. Amid the magical ambiance of the circus and the hint of danger from Madam Morpho’s pursuers, she and Mr. Murdoch soon find that their scientific collaboration has produced chemistry of a more romantic kind.
I AM KING!' 'MAJESTY I KNOW NOT WHO I FEAR THE MOST, THEM OR YOU.' Loveable tyrant and handsome rogue, Courtians King Rapheaus Nolitus is deemed the most powerful and wealthiest monarch in the medieval world of elite knights and chivalry. Feared and loathed by his enemies, he is a great strategist demanding loyalty and respect. Cast into a web of the deepest darkest deception by those who surround him and influence his decisions to safeguard their power, he then meets the seductive Lavanya, an undescribable beauty of no noble birth who reluctantly enters the kings domain. Desire lust and erotic passion ensue but her past soon catches up with her and she fears for her life. Will the king protect her or cast her aside? Thrown into a world of betrayal they both must fight to defend themselves but they must first decide if they can trust each other. Wars are fought on brutal battlefields filled with bloodshed and treachery. Knights defend what is morally right and honourable but their allegiance is soon bought into question. Who amongst them will stand by their convictions? Will the kings obsession and tyrannical rule win hearts or test obedience? Only one person can uncover the cruel twist of truth in the end but it is the king who must have the courage to decide their fate. Conspiracy, greed and treason leads to, 'NO MERCY!
Beware the Fisherman. Andi Wyndham has communicated with spirits since she was a kid. When a bone pendant carved into the likeness of a girl’s face calls to her at a gem show in Pennsylvania, she can’t resist buying it and a sister piece. When she discovers the girls are missing runaways and the pendants are made of human bone, Andi is drawn into a mystery that will force her to confront her gifts, her guilt, and the ghosts haunting her. Pendant Girls Mariah and Bennie urge Andi to find a man they call "Fisherman,” a master of disguise. Teaming up with a handsome private eye and a South Carolina sheriff, Andi must find the girls’ bodies and put their souls to rest, before the Fisherman casts his deadly net to trap Andi.
Astra, a head-turning, Brazilian girl in her mid-twenties is not only beautiful but also brilliant…and in big trouble! Her mission is to assemble cryogenic repositories (‘Arks’) of threatened species embryos to preserve them for the future. However, she is opposed by a fanatical religious group that will do anything to stop her. But is it the Ark that they really want…or something hidden within?
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