Wicked Good is full of rich characters with whom you will cry, hope, laugh, and cheer. Rory is a character not seen in other novels, every action and thought a contradiction. For example, he is concerned about the safety of the squirrels in his garage yet brutal in his quest toward self-identity and independence. Rory's discoveries about his birth parents and himself leaves him and Archer hopeful in their knowledge that no matter where life takes them, they will always have unconditional love for the other. ...
Unwittingly chosen to join an army of fairies, who fight for the Light of the One, a teenaged girl learns about spiritual warfare as she attends a military academy with fantastical beings. ...
International best-selling author John Locke (Saving Rachel, Wish List, Now & Then, Lethal People, Lethal Experiment) tackles a new genre, with hilarious results. Follow the Stone (An Irreverent Western Adventure) is a good-hearted, rollicking story about a former gunslinger and his crablike scout, who journey West with a mail order bride, a witch, and a wagon full of prostitutes!...
When classical pianist Ally Carpenter goes missing during a night out with friends, the implications stretch far beyond her disappearance. Veteran detective, Senior Sergeant Susan Prescott, believes that sexual predators may have abducted Ally. However, after two women with connections to the Carpenters are murdered, she realises there may be more to the crime than at first thought. While Prescott puts all her efforts into solving the crime, those close to Ally battle their own turmoil. Friendships become strained and secrets come to light as Ally's terrified mother, Eloise, is forced to confront the lie she has perpetuated for 26 years. Cellist, Briece Mochrie?determined to discover what has happened to the girl he loves?is swept into a dangerous undertow of murder and rev...
After wrecking her car and waking in hospital with amnesia, fledgling reporter Grace Morgan has no idea why she’d been in the process of leaving the husband she loves so dearly. Her husband, Police Detective Ray (Razor) Morgan tells her she was leaving him for another man, but that just can’t be so. Can it? She’s determined to remember, even if it kills her. And it just might. When bullets start to fly, Ray is forced to take the wife he believes faithless on the lam until they can figure out who is trying to kill them. ...
Triple Treat Sale! Grab Fierce Dawn for just $2. 99 plus. . . Score What the Heart Wants by Kelli McCracken AND Night Visions by Elena Gray for the same great price, too! Ian, Dylan and Elijah all at once. . . delicious. ~~ "X-MEN action meets True Blood heat!" *****5 stars -Ann Charles, Nearly Departed In Deadwood, 2010 Daphne WinnerOverview : Snarling teeth, glowing eyes. Someone--something--is after her. The man who haunts her dreams enters her reality, claiming she's transforming into a changeling--not quite immortal but no longer human. Except nobody wants this change. Not humans, not immortals and least of all her. Battle ...
Hazel Fintan is the reluctant daughter of the Irish love god, Aengus. She tries to blend in the human world, but her effect on human men makes normal relationships impossible. She’s never cared for her father’s world, especially its infuriating men. Being drawn into a conflict with a legendary race over an impossible tribute doesn’t improve her perception of the Sidhe. But meeting Ian could make the whole adventure worth it. The tribute may be what brought them together, but Ian MacIlroy knows destiny when it stares him in the face with stunning green eyes and a gorgeous smile. Now he has a new mission. Hazel will be his, at any cost. And the cost could be high when Otherworld’s enemies are denied what they seek. Tribute is the first book in the Child...
Heather’s mother sets her up on a date with Wade, a kid from school everybody calls Creepazoid. She soon finds out that Wade is a vampire, but he’s not your stereotypical teenage vampire. He gets bullied at school, mainly by her brother Jason; he’s allergic to everything, constantly has some kind of rash, and is not in possession of the sunniest of personalities. He doesn’t even drink blood. Despite what everybody says about Wade, Heather starts to really like him. That’s if Wade lives long enough for her to develop a proper crush because somebody might be trying to kill him. Actuality is a 20,500 word young adult novella. Due to scenes with violence and language it is recommended for ages 13 and up. ...
Wealthy divorcee Dr. Shannon Patrick meets a local, Joe, while walking on North Topsail Beach. Shannon, a geologist, has recently discovered oil and natural gas in the Marcellus Shale under Ohio. While the newfound wealth has provided her undreamt of new opportunities, including her new beach house in North Carolina, Shannon is still trying to understand her divorce. She feels very alone, even though she has the love and support of her very close family. Joe is a North Topsail local who has walked and run on North Topsail Beach nearly every morning for the past two decades, ever since the loss of his only child to Leukemia, and his wife's subsequent grief-propelled suicide. Shannon and Joe meet and carefully work towards a relationship that they can define an...
Southern England, 3000 BC. Incomers, bringing agriculture from mainland Europe, are wrecking the virgin forests with slash-and-burn. The ancient territories and way of life of the native, nomadic hunter-gatherers, unchanged for millennia, are under threat. Political rivalry inside the village of Burh, and the farmers’ superstitions, result in an attack on a nomad tribe in its nearby summer camp. Tagart, the heir to the chief and at the very peak of his powers, is the only survivor. The farmers thought they had killed everybody. They could not have made a worse mistake. “This is a gripping thriller set convincingly in neolithic Sussex. Richard Herley’s first novel is crammed with archaeological detail, but all of it is subordinate to...
It has been more than 35 years since the mournful Beragundian Siege of Heled, but through the following decades of peace, the House of Olama has lived in relative tranquility, though they are much changed now. Malièb Belgar, who had been just a newborn in those troublesome days of war, is somberly approaching the beginnings of his adulthood. Yet he is a solemn boy, often lost in brooding thought, and despite the copious objections of his female kindred, he regularly spends his daily hours in the company of his father and half-breed cousin and his adopted sister. From them, he has learned much about the world and what it means to be an Akkallah. But unbeknownst to young Malièb and his Olama household, a foreign exile, with an armed host, sits secretly upon the Cliff’s Edge of Mount ...
A lawyer, a murderer and a policeman – caught in a tangled web of love, loss, terror and intrigue in this driving psychological thriller. When criminal lawyer Julia Grant interviews Sam Smith who has been charged with a vicious murder, she feels a strange connection to him. Has she met him before? Does he hold a key to her lost childhood memories?He feels a connection too. “Julia, you are the only one who can help me,” he pleads. Is it the same connection? Does he know something she cannot recall?When he is duly convicted despite her best efforts, he suddenly turns on her in the courtroom and threatens that one day he will make sure to wreak his revenge on her. But why?What has she ever done to him?...
Every now and then one small soul rises from the crowded depths of obscurity and causes the earth to wobble on its axis. This last happened in 2008 when an unemployed doorman stepped onto the worldwide stage in Stockholm and accepted The Nobel Prize for Literature. In this me-me twenty-first century, Thomas Soles may very well be the last American martyr. This self-described “simple man” writes a book that is so powerful it brings back to life the all-but-dead international labor movement. The response to his thoughts and perceptions are astounding. Around the globe, from pole to pole, America to Zimbabwe, the footsteps of marching workers begin to tremor the earth. But not everyone is pleased. There’s a tight-knit, elitist clique that is absolutely li...
"She died," Chessie said. "She died, rose, and nearly died again. She comes. The crows know her – the crows guide her. She follows the sound of a crying child. She follows the drag of un-kept promises on her heart. " – Chessie – Hallowed Ground"They came in the night with their creak-wheeled wagons and patchwork tents, rolling down through the gulch and up the other side to pitch camp. In Rookwood, they called it 'Dead man's Gulch,' and in Rookwood, names were important. If you walked too far through that God-forsaken, dust-drowned ditch, you were bound to drag your boots through bones. If you felt something sharp dig into your heel, it could be a tooth taking a last bite of something hot and living. The Deacon stood in silent shadows watching their progress, o...
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