epub |eng | | Author:Mercedes King

When Jackie wasn’t attending classes or studying, she found herself entertaining Philip at the apartment, though they were never alone. Ghislaine spoiled them with chocolate soufflés while Christian never tired ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alex R Crawford [Crawford, Alex R]

CHAPTER 25 “How did you know to check how if she was alive?” My body defrosted a bit, and my teeth stopped chattering, but the cold sunk deep into my ...

epub |eng | 2022-09-07 | Author:HILARY GREEN [GREEN, HILARY]

Chapter 14 In a shabby public house, one of the few buildings still standing between Cable Street and the Commercial Road in London’s East End, a tall man with reddish ...

epub |eng | 2018-04-17 | Author:Norma Hopcraft

Chapter 44 Philippe and Elodie were eating dinner in the kitchen Wednesday when the phone rang. Philippe excused himself from the table and stood to pick up the receiver, which ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-15 | Author:Joyce DiPastena [DiPastena, Joyce]

“What do you mean, she is gone?” Triston’s words thundered in the empty hall. He had ejected Siri’s suitors following her fall down the stairs, while Sir Gavin had returned ...

epub |eng | 2017-08-15 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE]

26 (return) [ This remark of Mr. Cornelius Littlepage’s, may induce a smile in the reader. But, few persons of fifty can be found, who cannot recall the time, when ...

epub |eng | 2014-08-01 | Author:Vanessa Couchman [Couchman, Vanessa]

Chapter 16 1906 Six years had passed since my miscarriage. Despite Vincentello’s efforts, I had not been able to conceive again, and I feared that it was my fate to ...

epub |eng | 2022-08-25 | Author:Seth Hunter

Chapter 11 The Infernal Machines Through his Dollond glass in the foretop of the Falaise, Nathan watched the late-afternoon sunshine glinting on the helmets of the French cuirassiers drilling on ...

epub |eng | | Author:Susanne Dunlap

CHAPTER 6 Paris, September 1782 Everything in Paris looked different to Elisabeth when she returned from Flanders and Holland. The countries themselves and the people—of those she remembered little beyond ...

epub |eng | 2017-05-25 | Author:Anatole France

13 Évariste Gamelin was sitting on the Tribunal for the second time. While waiting for the proceedings to begin, he chatted with his fellow jurors about the news that had ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gail Eastwood

Chapter Thirteen Was his life barbaric? Alex had never stopped to consider such a possibility before. He had always accepted that forgoing certain aspects of civilian life was part of ...

epub |eng | | Author:Susanne Dunlap

CHAPTER 4 Elisabeth stood on the street and stared up at the limestone building that would be her home on the Rue Saint Honoré. Her mother hadn’t come to fetch ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-25 | Author:Jean-Francois Caron [Caron, Jean-François]

I’m the child Rose before her sinking mother, her singing mother, the essence of sadness, maluron, lurette. I know war waged inside the head. It’s grounded in rampant despondency, in ...

epub |eng | 2018-01-26 | Author:Teri L. Reynolds

Chapter 26 1773 Once the guardsmen left her room, Marie scrambled. Being thrown back into her life so abruptly, she reacted without any time to think, or plan what she ...

epub |eng | 2021-07-27 | Author:Uwe Johnson

December 26, 1967 Tuesday Christmas is over, and The New York Times once again feels she needs sixty-eight pages to bring us all the city’s shopping opportunities as well as ...