epub |eng | 2024-02-08 | Author:Stephanie Lake [Lake, Stephanie]

Chapter Three Stormy lust coursed through Sam’s veins as he lost himself in his ghost’s rugged, chiseled features, framed, as if in a classic painting, by several strands of hair. ...

epub |eng | 2004-10-15 | Author:Lyn Jolley

CHAPTER THIRTEEN As work progressed on the swimming pool, Caroline watched more with contempt than interest or enthusiasm. Each day, she took her typewriter down from the loft and spent ...

epub |eng | 2023-08-20 | Author:Frances Reynolds [Reynolds, Frances]

CHAPTER 14 FITZWILLIAM DARCY I had been with Deane, half-listening to his litany of evidence that his heir’s intelligence was far greater than is usually met with, when I saw ...

mobi |eng | 2023-06-09 | Author:Don Jacobson

Chapter 9 Guy Fawkes Day, November 5, 1815 The morning ritual Annie had come to love repeated itself once again. She helped Miss Bennet with her pelisse, handed over her ...

epub |eng | | Author:Agatha Christie

Armed with introductions from a certain influential quarter, Hercule Poirot found no difficulty at all in dealing with the coroner for the district. ‘A curious figure, the deceased man Gascoigne,’ ...

epub |eng | 2022-03-01 | Author:Van Dorn, A.M.

CHAPTER 23 ROLLING HILLS Arizona Territory Bouncing back off the table in her father's claims office, hand in hand, Leah led Blaze through the door at the back of the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Josef Skvorecký

Filthy Cruel World … the present time is not pastoral, but founded on violence, pointed for more massive violence: perhaps it is not perversity but need … —Robinson Jeffers The ...

epub |eng | | Author:Edward Louis Henry

* * * The Jug The beaver trade was rough, the weather and the country harsh, and the mountain men who lived and worked there were rude and tough, many ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-06 | Author:Patricia Preciado Martin [Patricia Preciado Martin]

1 "Shorty" 2 "Stinky Queen" (literally, "flatulant, stinky crown") 3 a Mexican custom in which 15-year-old girls are presented to society (debutantes) 4 bridesmaids La Bailarina The Dancer All I ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]

epub |eng | 2010-06-15 | Author:Susan Engberg

Brother and sister ate with their plates on their knees sitting side by side on Mrs. Willet’s beige couch, the teapot and mugs and salt and pepper on a tray ...

epub |eng | 2016-05-15 | Author:Jack Matthews

June 19, 1863 Dear Homer: Indeed I can do all those things, my Loving Friend! And I long to have you near me so that I can prove it to ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Lesley Krueger [Krueger, Lesley]

THE BUZZER SOUNDED. Vera blinked back to the present, stretching her legs. She assumed there were more religious types at the street-level door. She had been inundated with Pentecostals lately—joke—and ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-29 | Author:Nadifa Mohamed [Nadifa Mohamed]

AUTHOR NOTE Nadifa Mohamed was born in Hargeisa in 1981. Her first novel, Black Mamba Boy, won the Betty Trask Prize, was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and was shortlisted ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-27 | Author:Emma Donoghue [Emma Donoghue]

The headmaster’s – no, beg pardon, the Chancellor’s answer comes by the end of February. He believes Mrs Mackenzie would be a more suitable companion. So he’s not that blind, ...