epub |eng | 2002-11-15 | Author:Helen McCabe

Chapter Six Sylvie stood back and surveyed her marble horses critically. She had ordered one of their servants to place the ladders against the scaffolding, in a position where she ...

epub |eng | | Author:Christina Green [Green, Christina]

CHAPTER FOUR London, despite its crowds and noise, seemed unbearably empty, Nicki thought morosely, as she dealt with the phone messages and faxes that had piled up over the weekend. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Julie Coffin [Coffin, Julie]

CHAPTER NINE ELISE was surprised to discover when she awoke that she'd slept for the rest of the night. The gale had softened into a light breeze and the sky ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Josie Metcalfe

CHAPTER SEVEN ‘I’M SHATTERED!’ Vicky groaned as she slumped back into the passenger seat of Joe’s car. ‘I was only looking after three little boys until they fell asleep. I ...

epub |eng | 2006-09-15 | Author:Linda Style

ARRIVING AT HEADQUARTERS and feeling a need to release his pent-up energy, Luke took the stairs two at a time. At the top, he unzipped his leather jacket, then palmed ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Nicola Marsh

CHAPTER SEVEN AMBER closed her eyes and leaned back as the plane taxied down the runway and took off. ‘Drained’ would only begin to describe how she felt after afternoon ...

epub |eng | | Author:Trisha Alexander [Trisha Alexander]

* * * When Shelley got home Thursday night, Missy followed her into her bedroom while she changed her clothes. “Mom, our class is taking part in the citywide Winter ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Leigh Michaels

CHAPTER SIX DANA had always thought that the idea of a drowning person seeing his life flash before his eyes was something of an exaggeration. Now she knew better, because ...

epub |eng | | Author:Trisha Alexander [Trisha Alexander]

Chapter Eight Fighting to control herself, knowing that her earlier admonition to remain calm and collected was the only way to go when her body was so determined to betray ...

epub |eng | 1989-01-28 | Author:Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (eds.) [Pronzini, Bill & Greenberg, Martin H.]

“Well, Ernie?” A big man with a big cigar in one corner of his mouth was speaking to him across a battered desk. “Well, I—I reckon I might take that ...

epub |eng | 2023-02-26 | Author:Safa Khader [Khader, Safa]

They say that when words fail, actions speak louder. At that moment, his words fell short. He couldn’t find the right words to comfort her so he let his actions ...

epub |eng | | Author:Terence Goodchild

All was quiet when the curtain rose (have you ever seen a curtain rose little red flower) anyway on with the show the curtain rose and fell to the ground ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-15 | Author:Raye Morgan

NINA HARRINGTON The Ordinary King Nina Harrington grew up in rural Northumberland, England, and decided at the age of eleven that she was going to be a librarian—because then she ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-20 | Author:Jane McBride Choate

Carla knew what Sam was doing. Suggesting they start at the shelter was his way of keeping her safe. But she couldn’t object. Visiting Saratoga’s shelter for the homeless was ...

epub |eng | 2017-09-02 | Author:Roderic Jeffries [Jeffries, Roderic]

Alvarez reached the end of the dirt track from Ca Na Fiorina and turned on to the road which would take him through Biniarch. Scalfaro had been friendly and amusing ...