Contemporary
epub |eng | | Author:Lindsey Davis [Davis, Lindsey]

XXXVII PORCIUS WENT OFF to fetch Scythax and report to Petronius the bad developments. Porcius and I had exchanged a few thoughts: `If you're right, and I have every confidence ...
( Category: Mystery October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lindsey Davis [Davis, Lindsey]

XXXI LAST NIGHT Petro and I had summoned Lucrio to an interview today. Although Petro had given him an hour at which to arrive, we were prepared for him not ...
( Category: Mystery October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:LINDSEY DAVIS [DAVIS, LINDSEY]

33 I CROOKED AN eyebrow to Anacrites. He came across and I heard him groan under his breath" With one forefinger he tried gently to pull loose the gold chain, ...
( Category: Mystery October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lindsey Davis [Davis, Lindsey]

THIRTY THREE Petronius and I planned to spend every evening of the remaining Ludi Romani outside the Circus Maximus. We might have been near the killer all the time. He ...
( Category: Mystery October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lindsey Davis [Davis, Lindsey]

XLVI By the time we reached the house, Helena was looking dreadful again. She normally enjoyed such sturdy good health that this troubled me as much as it plainly embarrassed ...
( Category: Mystery October 7,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-02 | Author:Clive Cussler; Dirk Cussler

Ryan caught up with him after the ship's doctor had tended to the NUMA captain's leg and confined him to a bunk next to the crewman with the broken leg. ...
( Category: Action & Adventure October 7,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos

22 CAVENDISH WAS superbly intoxicated. The Englishman had shoved his raven’s beak onto the top of his head to allow his rosebud mouth unimpeded access to his wine goblet. He ...
( Category: Action & Adventure October 7,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Clive Cussler; Craig Dirgo

"Man," Lincoln said, "you always say that." "BARRETT," HANLEY SAID, "are you cross-trained in the Magic Shop?" "I've worked it before," Barrett said. "Go down there and warm up the ...
( Category: Action & Adventure October 7,2017 )
epub |eng | 2002-10-06 | Author:William Gay

Closure and Roadkill on the Life’s Highway RAYMER HAD BEEN working at the housing project for more than a month, and during this time the little old man had consistently ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Steven Lukes

19 Malvolians and Stalactites Next morning, Nicholas awoke to the sound of children getting ready to be taken off to their various schools. After they had gone, he went downstairs ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 6,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-02-27 | Author:Stephanie Laurens

Dawn was streaking the skies before sleep finally closed Helen’s eyes. The pillow beneath her cheek was damp, her lids decidedly puffy. But she had managed to make the decisions ...
( Category: Regency October 6,2017 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-06 | Author:Elisa Albert

The Living I n her backpack for Auschwitz, Shayna Markowitz packs the following: sunblock, a date-nut bar, her passport (it was just smart to have it on her at all ...
( Category: Short Stories & Anthologies October 6,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Stacy Hawkins Adams [Adams, Stacy Hawkins]

20 espite their awkward encounter earlier, Troy kept his word. He showed up about two hours into Aunt Irene's four-hour hip replacement surgery and joined Uncle Charles, Aunt Melba, Rachelle, ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction October 6,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1985-01-01 | Author:Victoria Victorious

I WEPT STORMILY, angrily. How dared he say such things! Yet he felt them, and I could see that they were in a measure true. I could not think what ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 6,2017 )
mobi |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:The Courts of Love: The Story of Eleanor of Aquitaine

The Fair Rosamund HENRY’S REACTION WAS WHAT I should have expected. When he finally realized that Becket had escaped him and landed in Flanders and was doubtless on his way ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 6,2017 )