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Longing for Home: A Proper Romance by Eden Sarah M
epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Eden, Sarah M. [Eden, Sarah M.]

Chapter Twenty-Four Katie awoke in a panic. She smelled smoke. She tossed back her blanket and threw her legs over the side of the bed. Her heart raced in her ...
( Category: Western September 10,2017 )
Always You by Erin Kaye
epub |eng | | Author:Erin Kaye [Erin Kaye]

Chapter 12 He was there, sitting on the bench by the river in front of The Big Fish, when Sarah arrived with her sandwich in one hand and a confusion ...
( Category: Women's Fiction September 10,2017 )
Heart of the Lonely Exile by BJ Hoff
epub |eng | | Author:BJ Hoff

Belfast, Ireland Joseph Mahon the priest arrived at the hospital in Belfast two days after Christmas. There he found Morgan Fitzgerald bundled in a wheelchair by the room’s only window. ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 10,2017 )
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-01 | Author:William Kent Krueger

19 At home we found Gus with my mother which was odd. Though she tolerated his presence my mother didn’t care much for Gus. She often told my father that ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 10,2017 )
People of the Silence by Kathleen O'Neal & Gear Gear & Kathleen O'Neal & Gear Gear
epub |eng | | Author:Kathleen O'Neal & Gear Gear & Kathleen O'Neal & Gear Gear [Gear, Kathleen O'Neal & Gear, W. Michael]

Twenty-Eight Ironwood sat on the bottom step of the stairway that led down into the First People’s kiva, his head in his hands. Wind Baby raged outside, shivering the bones ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 10,2017 )
Justice Denied by Robert Tanenbaum
epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Robert Tanenbaum

11 Nothing improved Karp’s spirits like being in court. It was his gambling, his girls, his heroin. He glanced around at the courtroom. Milton Freeland was at the defense table, ...
( Category: Contemporary September 10,2017 )
No Lesser Plea by Robert Tanenbaum
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Robert Tanenbaum [Tanenbaum, Robert K.]

Chapter 12 “Mister Bloom, please. Chip Wharton here. Thank you. Sandy? I’ve got some good news for you. The old man is definitely going to run. Of course I’m sure. ...
( Category: Contemporary September 10,2017 )
A Division Of The Spoils (Raj Quartet 4) by Paul Scott
epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Paul Scott [Scott, Paul]

The Dak Bungalow (Sarah Layton) I THE SCENE WAS over. I can enter now, Sarah told herself. * But I did not enter. None of us did. I thought I ...
( Category: Classics September 10,2017 )
The Day Of The Scorpion (Raj Quartet 2) by Paul Scott
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Paul Scott [Scott, Paul]

II ‘The examinee’s last statement, please.’ The clerk flicked back one page of his notebook. ‘“So it was obvious the inquiry was about a woman who’d been assaulted.”’ ‘No – ...
( Category: Contemporary September 10,2017 )
Badge of Glory (1982) by Reeman Douglas
epub |eng | 2002-04-01 | Author:Reeman, Douglas [Reeman, Douglas]

12 ‘Up the Royals!’ Major Rupert Fynmore sat on an upturned ration box and nodded impatiently. ‘What shape is Sir Geoffrey’s niece in? Must have been a terrible ordeal for ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 10,2017 )
Sarah: Women of Genesis: 1 (Women of Genesis (Forge)) by Orson Scott Card
epub |eng | 2011-03-18 | Author:Orson Scott Card [Card, Orson Scott]

“Girls!” cried Qira. “Come down here right now!” Of course they were making so much noise that they didn’t hear her—she had to send a servant to fetch them. “Oh, ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction September 10,2017 )
Battlecruiser (1997) by Reeman Douglas
epub |eng | 2003-09-01 | Author:Reeman, Douglas [Reeman, Douglas]

10 Survivors The uniformed doorman examined the girl’s official identity card and letter of introduction, and said, ‘If you’ll wait in the office, miss . . . er, Mrs Meheux, ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 10,2017 )
The Jewel In The Crown (The Raj quartet) by Paul Scott
epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Paul Scott [Scott, Paul]

Part Six CIVIL AND MILITARY I Military Edited Extracts from the unpublished memoirs of Brigadier A. V. Reid, DSO, MC: ‘A Simple Life.’ Late in the March of 1942 when ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 10,2017 )
The White Guns (1989) by Reeman Douglas
epub |eng | 2004-05-01 | Author:Reeman, Douglas [Reeman, Douglas]

'Got her, Sub?' 'Yes, sir.' 'Call if you need –' He did not finish it but lowered himself into the oily warmth of the companion ladder. The wardroom was empty. ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 10,2017 )
The Cruel Sea (1951) by Monsarrat Nicholas
epub |eng | 1951-04-14 | Author:Monsarrat, Nicholas [Monsarrat, Nicholas]

11 The two bodies lay side by side on the quarterdeck, neatly tucked in under the two ensigns. Ericson, clearing his throat to start reading the burial service, found his ...
( Category: Genre Fiction September 10,2017 )

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