epub |eng | | Author:Polly Heron

Chapter Twenty-One AFTER THE REMEMBRANCE Day assembly, Nancy felt the tug of home. Today of all days, it was important to be with your family and appreciate them, even pesky ...

epub |eng | 2021-09-20 | Author:Leah Fleming [Fleming, Leah]

Chapter 13 The hospital outside Scarperton stood like a fortress, set high on the moor overlooking the River Wharfe; a world of its own with high forbidding gates, a palace ...

epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Phillip Parotti

The Winslows’ flat, located on the third floor of a spacious and rather attractive Parisian-style apartment block and with a balcony overlooking the Nile, was not far from the British ...

epub |eng | 2022-02-07 | Author:Violet Marsh [Marsh, Violet]

“You shouldn’t be out here alone!” Myrtle scolded as she flew from the Flett cottage and stomped her way over the sandy beach. Rose jumped at her friend’s cry. Turning ...

epub |eng | 2019-06-25 | Author:Catherine Taylor [Taylor, Catherine]

Louisa awoke with a start. She was still in the wooden bunkroom, but now it was daylight. She was freezing cold, even though she was still wearing the clothes from ...

epub |eng | 2022-02-15 | Author:Todd, Charles [Todd, Charles]

11 It was just dawn when Rutledge walked out of the Abbey and went around to his motorcar. Even the gulls were quiet at this hour, and he had the ...

epub |eng | 2021-02-16 | Author:Todd, Charles [Todd, Charles]

Again they walked in silence, taking the right fork of the road to a cottage that was just out of sight of the stone bridge. “My surgery,” Shepherd said wryly, ...

epub |eng | 2022-07-15 | Author:Walter Kappacher

Passion and rapt enthusiasm the primal source, as in Jean Paul. (Passion remains in the subject, instead of entering the figures as in Balzac.) Fear of passion, so that it ...

epub |eng | 2018-11-19 | Author:Victoria Cornwall [Cornwall, Victoria]

The bay was no more than seven miles from Wadebridge, but to Rose, who had no transport of her own, it may as well have been fifty. Nicholas parked his ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-05 | Author:A A G Whitehead [Whitehead, A A G]

“A great deal of nonsense will be written about Loos. The real tragedy of that battle is its nearness to complete success. Most of us who reached the crest of ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-12 | Author:Rhys Bowen [Bowen, Rhys]

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO When Emily arrived back at the farm and was carrying her suitcase upstairs, Miss Foster-Blake appeared in the hallway below her. “A word with you, please, Miss Bryce, ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-01 | Author:Gemma Liviero [Liviero, Gemma]

CHAPTER 21 We sold the silver candlestick to a peddler for a coin, which kept us from begging for only a day. In the following days, it grew colder, and ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-05 | Author:R. N. Morris [Morris, R. N.]

TWENTY-SEVEN I know you will never read this, my love, but that does not matter, because soon we will be together and I will be able to say all the ...

mobi |eng | 2020-01-01 | Author:Johanna Bell

20 During her visit to her parents, Annie managed to avoid the inevitable discussion about Christmas by asking her father about his work as soon as her mother broached the ...

epub |eng | 2021-07-28 | Author:Kay Brellend [Kay Brellend]

Chapter Fifteen ‘Have I told you, you brush up well, Lily Larkin?’ ‘You have, guv’nor, but thanks again for the compliment,’ Lily cheekily replied. She was again wearing her elegant ...