epub |eng | 1986-05-01 | Author:Victoria Thompson [Thompson, Victoria]

Chapter 9 When Maggie awoke, the sun was already good and up, and the street noises told her that the day had fairly begun. Bathing in the cold water still ...

epub |eng | 1985-02-01 | Author:Victoria Thompson [Thompson, Victoria]

Dusty had lain awake for hours, his thoughts divided about equally between cattle and women, or rather a woman. He was remembering an old dream, a vision of the ranch ...

epub |eng | | Author:Calle J. Brookes

Jude tried to listen as Hughes interrogated the boy, but he’d led the boy into the smaller room off to the side where house goods were kept. She wasn’t just ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-09 | Author:Michelle McLean

Chapter Eleven When Richard saw Brynne walk into the clinic, her arms full of bags and parcels, his pulse quickened as it always did when he saw her. But anger ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-22 | Author:John Jakes

Shambling, weakened, Brak turned around. He lurched back to where Mardela lay. Her silver hair was afire in the luminescence of the night. She was breathing lightly, soundly. Slowly Brak ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-06 | Author:Cynthia Thomason [Thomason, Cynthia]

When Gabe’s shirt lay on the floor, Livvy reached for the waistband of his trousers. Her hands trembled so that she fumbled with the buttons. He chuckled and helped her ...

epub | | 0101-01-01 | Author:Melez Prens

epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Cathy Marie Buchanan [Cathy Marie Buchanan]

Father arrives home from Buffalo well after sunset and, without removing his frock coat, takes the stairs two at a time. “Come on up, Bess. I have news.” “Well?” Mother ...

epub |eng | 2010-05-11 | Author:Charlene Sands [Charlene Sands]

Seven Rena snuggled deeper into her bed, rebelling against thin rays of dawn creeping into the room. She closed her eyes tighter, rolling away from the light and into familiar ...

epub |eng | 2018-04-20 | Author:Nicole René [René, Nicole]

Leawyn stared at the door. The wood was thick, matching the hut it served as the blockade to what was within. It’s been days. They haven’t looked at each other, ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Shana Galen [Galen, Shana]

ANGELETTE HADN’T WANTED to believe Daventry. Even if the conversation he’d overheard at the shop was true, surely it would not come to fruition. Attack the Bastille? The idea was ...

epub |eng | 1988-01-01 | Author:Catherine Cookson [Cookson, Catherine]

He evidently surprised her by saying, ‘Yes; yes I know. That’s why I’m here.’ ‘You know about him…I mean, who he is, the Mister Birkstead, as he calls himself, when ...

epub |eng | 1989-05-02 | Author:Catherine Cookson [Cookson, Catherine]

‘What the hell does he mean by it! Going to stop us renting the land come Michaelmas.’ Jake Yorkless appealed to his three sons who were standing round the kitchen ...

epub |eng | 2022-02-05 | Author:Kerrin Willis [Willis, Kerrin]

Chapter 23 Kit 1 July 1675 In the abject monotony of Kit’s life, Verity Parker was an enigma. She was a puzzle in miniature that he could take out of ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-01 | Author:Deborah Camp [Camp, Deborah]

Chapter 14 “Maybe that grave doesn’t hold that Jeffers woman,” Orrie Dickens said. She sat by the window, where a reading lamp cast sufficient light on the book she held ...