epub |eng | 2024-02-28 | Author:Mary Romasanta [Romasanta, Mary]

24 THE BEEPING FROM DHARMA’S alarm awoke Emma from her slumber. She rubbed her eyes. For a moment, she had forgotten where she was. “Dharma, stop,” she commanded. The beeping ...

epub |eng | 2023-06-23 | Author:Kelly, Evangeline

Chapter Fourteen The next morning, I woke up with a headache. The previous day had started so well. My mother had initially been on her best behavior at Jackie and ...

epub |eng | 2005-09-15 | Author:Alison Strobel [Strobel, Alison]

GRACE GOD, HELP ME. I was exhausted from scrambling for more conversation, from trying to be witty (and feeling sure I’d failed miserably), from forcing laughs, and I was dying ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-02 | Author:Rachel J Bonner

Chapter 16 Monday morning – Leonie I sat up, unsure of where I was but certain I was safe because I could sense Perry. As I glanced around the room ...

epub |eng | 2022-05-22 | Author:Amey Zeigler [Zeigler, Amey]

Chapter 16 The expansive green stretching in front of Blakely Manor soaked Christiaan’s shoes in dew, and his footprints left tracks in the grass. Mists swirled around the trees. The ...

epub |eng | 2022-12-27 | Author:Jarecki, Amy

5 WEDNESDAY, 12TH AUGUST 1818 Since the men had gone shooting with her father after breakfast, Lydia stole away to a cozy upstairs parlor for a much-needed respite. She’d brought ...

epub |eng | | Author:Cathy Bryant

Chapter Twelve Liv and Darcy stood in a tiny group of people as the Navy plane that bore the body of Mike Ugarich touched down. Though it was mid-November and ...

epub |eng | 2021-04-15 | Author:Dorothy Dunn

September 1966 I awoke this morning, chilled. Our Indian summer has turned into fall—weather befitting this glorious Ember Day, when the liturgy bids us rejoice in the harvest. It’s great ...

epub |eng | | Author:Maryann Landers

Chapter 13 I scanned the lunch menu up on the board at the Tasty Freeze. I tried not to notice when Rusty's coat brushed up against my arm. He must ...

epub |eng | | Author:Maryann Landers [Landers, Maryann]

Chapter 14 Ideas I longed to do more to save the tan puppy that lay limp in Rusty’s folded arms. We’d been up all night, cuddling little Boo, who shivered ...

epub |eng | 2021-01-14 | Author:Amy Blythe

CIARAN HUFFED ON HIS hands and then picked up the next shiny bauble. The church was an icebox when there wasn't a service running. He hooked the bauble in place. ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Peggy Darty [Darty, Peggy]

Later, sitting at her desk, she swiveled in her chair, staring at the bulletin board beside her. While writing her mystery, she tacked up a poster board that listed all ...

epub |eng | 2021-01-16 | Author:Pamela S Thibodeaux

Chapter Eleven Melena resisted the urge to hurl the phone. Of all the unmitigated gall! Before she could finish berating Garrett in her mind, much less speak the words aloud, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Angela Joseph

~Chapter Seventeen~ Marva loved listening to Mr. Raymond talk about his daughter Wendy who wanted to become a nurse. “Imagine this,” Mr. Raymond said. “Yesterday she came home with a ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-18 | Author:Michael C. White

Chapter 11 The storm having spent its fury, the next morning broke still and exhausted, like one waking after a debauched night of revelry. Leaves and branches littered the road, ...