epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Ellen Lindseth [Lindseth, Ellen]

Chapter 22 “Today is the day!” Lavinia exclaimed as she entered the cabin. “You’ve managed to put me off for three weeks, but not this time! The weather is perfect, ...

epub |eng | 1957-01-02 | Author:Erich Maria Remarque [Remarque, Erich Maria]

"That won't hurt you. Well, you can finish up here nowas far as I'm concerned." "Too late." Knopf staggers across to his door. I go upstairs and decide to send ...

epub |eng | 2019-02-05 | Author:Pitts., Jr, Leonard [Pitts., Jr, Leonard]

nineteen SHE STOOD IN THE BOW OF THE BOAT, WATCHING THE ISLAND approach. It was a warm day in May, and the light spray of river water felt good on ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-14 | Author:Simon Scarrow [Scarrow, Simon]

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN The distant roar of the crowd rumbled softly through the walls of the servants’ quarters as Centurion Vespillo stepped back from the prisoner and admired his handiwork. He ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Turtledove, Harry

He wondered if he ought to make some calls anyhow, on the off chance he was wrong. His hand shaped the negative gesture. That struck him as pointless—and also as ...

epub |eng | 2004-08-03 | Author:Harry Turtledove

XI Mary Pomeroy didn’t like going to the post office in Rosenfeld any more. Wilf Rokeby knew too much. He never said anything, not after the first time, but he ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Daniel Greene [Greene, Daniel]

Chapter Twenty Mid-morning, May 9, 1864 East of Laurel Hill, Shady Grove Church, Virginia J. E. B. Stuart’s general staff stood inside the tiny single room of Shady Grove Methodist ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-10 | Author:McKay, Steven A. [McKay, Steven A.]

CHAPTER FIVE Nuallan watched as the Damnonii king, accompanied by four other warriors, one a woman and one the biggest man he’d ever seen, searched the summit of Dun Breatann. ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-25 | Author:Jackie French

Chapter 29 True duty is done quietly, without publicity, without reward, even without hope you will succeed. It is perhaps the greatest virtue, for it must be done with love. ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Angus Donald [Donald, Angus]

Chapter Sixteen The same day: 10 a.m. The horse fidgeted beneath Hogan at the sound of the cannon. The old bay mare had been in many a scrap and mêlée ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-12 | Author:Marion Kummerow [Kummerow, Marion]

“See,” he sighed, obviously uncomfortable with the topic. “It’s just, he’s been voicing his criticism about the Soviets so adamantly, people have noticed. Powerful people.” His eyes bored into hers, ...

epub |eng | 2019-12-03 | Author:Wayne Grant [Grant, Wayne]

Pursuit John de Courcy was first to find the unconscious man in the privy and the abandoned carving knife on the bench. It took him a moment more to comprehend ...

mobi |eng | 2002-10-12 | Author:Michael Curtis Ford

epub |eng | 2020-01-22 | Author:Herbert J. Stern [Stern, Herbert J.]

Chapter 34 Upon my return from Munich, my relationship with Lilian was as icy as the day I left. I tried flowers, her favorite candy, even a piece of fine ...

epub |eng | 2006-03-04 | Author:Lieve Joris