epub |eng | 2019-01-02 | Author:Elizabeth Bailey [Bailey, Elizabeth]

Chapter Nine Banished from his lodgings and charged with a message to General Godfrey cancelling his mother’s engagement to play whist, Francis took opportunity to pursue the man Paglesham. Primed ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jane Steen [Steen, Jane]

Guttridge returned about two hours after dinner, by which time I felt exhausted and peevish. My solitary dinner hadn’t helped. It wasn’t one of the cook’s best efforts, coated in ...

epub |eng | 2022-02-10 | Author:Colette Clark [Clark, Colette]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Penelope studied Mr. Wilcox as he read Agnes’s letter. He seemed to be suffering the same mix of emotions that overcame her as she’d read it, though without ...

epub |eng | 2022-04-06 | Author:Colette Clark [Clark, Colette]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN Pen woke up with the sun the next day and had Jenny set out her smartest outfit, one that oozed sophistication, and most importantly, money. She, more than ...

epub |eng | 2022-02-28 | Author:Colette Clark [Clark, Colette]

CHAPTER THIRTEEN “The Silver Palace? Don’t tell me you’re changing careers already, Pen. I thought you were drowning in kale?” “It’s not for me, it’s for my latest case. I ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-27 | Author:Rachael English [English, Rachael]

Chapter 20 Ailish When the text arrived, Ailish was pulling the last of the turkey meat from the carcass. She’d torn a recipe from a magazine she’d found in the ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:J. Eugene Porter [Porter, J. Eugene]

14 30 March 1942 Achnacarry, Scotland • Joint Chiefs of Staff order Pacific Ocean divided into two commands: Pacific Ocean Areas (Adm. Chester W. Nimitz) and Southwest Pacific Area (Gen. Douglas ...

epub |eng | 2018-08-12 | Author:Mark Richards [Richards, Mark]

PART II Chapter IX The Legions Forty raw recruits stood in attention facing Centurion Fulvius, the designated training officer and the one who had sparred with Alderic—or rather, Artorus—upon his ...

epub |eng | 2016-12-14 | Author:Mark Richards [Richards, Mark]

Marcellus, Wothar, and Valerius stood in the darkness. The three men wore their cloaks to ward off the chill. They had little sleep that night. Dawn would come soon, and ...

epub |eng | 2017-03-01 | Author:Rhys Bowen [Bowen, Rhys]

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Still at Nethercote The gong sounded, and they lined up to go into dinner. Ben was assigned to escort Dido at the back of the line. His father ...

epub |eng | 2018-12-03 | Author:Karen Menuhin [Menuhin, Karen]

Chapter 13 I deviated from my course in search of coffee in the kitchens and my dog, who greeted me enthusiastically but was still reluctant to leave the warmth of ...

epub |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:Gin Phillips [Gin Phillips]

Virgie HENRY HARKEN MET ME AFTER CHURCH TWICE MORE. I had less and less to say, and he tried harder and harder to buy me candy. The last time he ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-14 | Author:Robert Goolrick [Robert Goolrick]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN SHE COULDN’T STOP. It was like a drug she had stayed away from for too long. She wrote to Truitt. She told him she was making progress, but ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-20 | Author:K. J. Jackson [Jackson, K. J.]

~~~ Des stood next to Jules on the front marble steps of Gatlong Hall. Looming above them were the dark tans of the pennant sandstone that graced the front baroque ...

epub |eng | 2018-09-23 | Author:K. J. Jackson [Jackson, K. J.]

~~~ Logan slammed his fist into the wall. Already raw and split from the beating he gave Bournestein, a thin scab broke free and blood stained the plaster wall in ...