epub |eng | 2019-03-22 | Author:Peter Tremayne [Peter Tremayne]

TEN The rider turned out to be Ballgel, Fethmac’s wife. ‘My husband is delayed,’ she explained as she swung down from her horse. ‘A dispute in the village has required ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kathleen O'Neal Gear

Twenty-five Tsilu Crane tenderly picks up a pair of small moccasins. The predawn sky is shading from black to blue, but the footprints of the dead still sparkle across the ...

epub |eng | 2008-09-04 | Author:Kane, Ben [Kane, Ben]

Chapter XVII: The Brawl Late that night, they left the Thracians snoring in the cell. Creeping into the unlit training yard after Brennus, Romulus closed the door quietly. The ludus ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Lee Martin

Day by day, autumn settled in. The Fall Festival took place in Lawrenceville on a glorious Indian summer weekend. A small carnival set up on the streets around the courthouse ...

mobi |eng | 2001-05-21 | Author:Wilbur Smith

Trok’s bulk forced his wheels to sink deeper into the loose sand than those of the other vehicles, and though his horses strained under the whip, he fell back behind ...

mobi |eng | 1994-08-14 | Author:Agatha Christie

Poirot knew the name as that of one of the best-known and most reputable private detective agencies in New York. “Now, Mr. Hardman,” he said, “let us hear the meaning ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-01 | Author:Lindsey Davis [Davis, Lindsey]

36 The woman who had reported her friend missing lived in a one-room rental in a quarter inhabited by waterfront workers. Here were the dangerous glass and pottery kilns, watermills ...

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 |eng | 1988-12-31 | Author:Lindsey Davis [Davis, L.]

epub |eng | | Author:Malerba, Luigi;Heise, Douglas Grant;

PENELOPE I put on my most elegant clothes, a linen cloak from Elis and a mantle the color of the sea and embroidered with gold, and I once again wore ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2019-06-30 | Author:Sam Taw [Taw, Sam]

CHAPTER SIXTEEN It was my only chance to rest. Tallack pulled in the oars and allowed the current to wash us down the Exe to the sea. The warmth of ...

mobi |eng | 2017-07-02 | Author:Vincent B. Davis II

SCROLL X DECEMBER 28, 648 AB URBE CONDITA; ONE DAY UNTIL ELECTION. When I returned home from Marius’s tent that evening, I received a most welcome letter. It was from ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-26 | Author:Paul M.M. Cooper

Aurya Aurya woke up feeling as if she were suspended on ropes, swinging in the breeze, and her eyes swam. She found that she was being carried in a piece ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Irene Kessler

Sleep remains elusive. It is not long before my curtain is rustling. My eyes open. I am so frightened I cannot move and turn hot, then cold. My body shakes. ...

epub |eng | 2019-09-26 | Author:Patrick W Carr [Carr, Patrick W]

Myrad spent his days in the company of Aban and Storana, riding close to Roshan, hoping by proximity to subdue his doubts. He occupied himself with the bow. After several ...