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Doctor Quentin Trimble's inveterate hypochondria renders his temporary suspension from work-and relegation to "gardening duty"-all but inevitable. As he struggles to adjust to his new routine, the fairy Fion appears in Quentin's toolshed, ushering him into a world of life-changing possibilities, and making him the catalyst for a series of adventures involving his family, his colleagues and a motley crew of strangers, which unfold against the backdrop of a pandemic of global magnitude. Underpinning the story's entire fabric is a quirky take on romance, whose tongue-in-cheek tone belies a serious appreciation of the redeeming power of love.
Detective Mark Forbes and his wife, Sarah, find themselves immersed in the hunt for an interstate serial killer. Mark's assigned to the first victim's investigation. Sarah is interested in the skeletal remains of a young female found on the second victim's property. The bones are 1000 years old and likely the result of human sacrifice. Two additional murders take place in a bridal shop and the hunt for the killer intensifies. When Sarah discovers the link between the long-dead sacrifice and the crimes, she knows she could be the next victim.
The city of El Paso, Texas is under siege. A Quiet Street in El Paso may be a fiction thriller but reads like today's headlines. We read every day about the immigration problems, the wall, and about families being separated. Not to mention the endless stream of illegal drugs crossing the border from Juarez, Mexico.
Unwed at thirty-five, Kate has settled for a life of service to her family. They loved and appreciated her, didn't they? Of course, they did. She was sensible and knew that no one had everything she wanted. Perhaps marriage wasn't that great. After all, her brother's ten-year marriage had ended in divorce. Henry came home to live, and after their father's death managed the family's import/export business. They never involved Kate in business matters. Even when her mother was alive, Kate managed the domestic chores. When Henry was murdered, Kate's world exploded. It destroyed her past and put her future in doubt.
Frank Quick arrives at his office one day to find a glamorous blonde waiting for him. The blonde hires him to find her missing husband, only she forgets to tell Frank that her missing husband is in deep trouble with two sets of mobsters who are also looking for him. The White Jamaican is a step back in spirit to the detective noir novels of the 1950s, fully of bad guys, smoking guns, and a femme fatale you'll never forget.
After generations of isolation, a small community has deteriorated into stifling sameness. Determined to escape its oppression, Seren explores the surrounding forbidden territory, only to discover that she and her people face imminent destruction.
The photo took Matt Steele off guard, jerking him back to a time he'd done everything to forget, to emotions he never wanted to relive. In the midst of a hotly contested race for the White House, the photo and the man who brought it to him will challenge everything Matt thought he knew about himself. The choice he faces to put honor on the line could change the outcome of the election and the fate of a nation.
Two hundred years after an alien attack cripples Earth, mutations are frequent but Egart's metalskin is unique. The Church-State of Florida exterminates mutants but employs Egart because he's a powerful healer. Individual lives versus purity of race, a precarious balance. En route to becoming a priest, Egart is summoned to heal Kali, his former lover who betrayed him. He cures her, meets Farrell, and learns that the Fall was caused by an alien attack. Surviving a perilous quest for a lightship, Egart bonds with it, reunites with Kali and his long-lost father...but can he rescue Farrell?
As Jennet Ferguson drives home after attending a play at her school, a fallen tree forces her to detour from her usual route. When she encounters an old-time horse-drawn sleigh on an isolated country road and realizes it is going to collide with her, she steers to the side, hits ice, and goes hurling off the road and down a deep slope.Did the driver of the sleigh intend to kill her? And why does she keep seeing the sleigh in various parts of Foxglove Corners?
Written as a Civil War memoir, The Hag Rider explores fifteen-year-old Jack Benson's transition to manhood as he tells his soldier's account of life in the Confederate cavalry, a life convoluted by the spectral manipulations of Vanita, an old witch-woman who is sworn to protect him. Her hidden presence seems to protect Jack throughout the war in amazing ways, across countless miles, through patrols, battle, and capture.
When Lady Flora's twin daughters, Clio and Calliope, declare they will marry only twins, she is at a loss on how to proceed. However, her son, James, knows of a pair of young men living in a crumbling castle by the sea. Besotted by the gothic novels they have been reading, the girls could not be happier. An invitation to Castle Blackwater is soon forthcoming. It has everything they desire: hidden passages, an evil lord, and handsome heroes. But, who will marry the heir and which must settle for the spare is entirely another matter.
What would lead ordained minister and Vietnam veteran, Kyle Weston, to commit suicide by hanging himself in the church-and wearing a T-shirt proclaiming 'Death from Above?' Why would he send letters to both his best friend, Rev. Jon Braddock, and his 'enemies' prior to his death, arranging for all of them to find his body at the same time?It is these questions and more that Jon seeks to answer in the wake of his loss. And the journey is more unsettling than he could have imagined. No Good Deed examines America's two great conflicting passions: war and religion, and their interaction over four decades.
Brownie Terwilliger looked at his opportunity to run for mayor of Philadelphia as a chance to right the wrongs of a city. Boy was he ever wrong!
Stephen Travis is a prison chaplain who is approached by inmates with evidence of criminality by the prison's staff-which has a direct effect on the inmates and their families. The problem is, no one in the "chain of command" within the system wants to know about the wrongdoing. Travis finds himself not only being reprimanded for reporting the crimes to his superiors, but ultimately having to go outside the system in order to see justice done. He finds support in two colleagues, as well as in the woman with whom he is romantically involved. But the search for justice also becomes a matter of life and death.
Mankind has fled to the Asteroid Belt to escape its bloating red sun. Humanity has evolved-it had to in order to survive...and now? Now there's a new threat. Human beings from a parallel universe have discovered how to create and use gateways-portals-between universes to travel. To make contact. To attack. To steal the dark energy which buffers one universe from another. This story is not about the future of one world, but rather the fate of an infinite number of worlds, all parallel to our own.
Joshua, the second son of the Duke of Bellevue, reneges on a promise to marry Kate Morely because of an incident that occurred when she was twelve. Instead, he intends to pursue the rich and beautiful prize of the Season, Lady Camilla. Kate takes up the challenge and intends to attract Harold Brumley, heir to a duke. Unfortunately, he is addicted to taking snuff. She must convince him she loves the habit to gain his attention. When Joshua starts to look her way again, Camilla plots to remove Kate from the competition which may prove fatal.
Revolutionary War veteran sharpshooter Stephen Davis searches for the reality of the old saying, that all it takes is, "Two people and a piece of ground." He finds himself caught in a web of violent criminal activity instead, is hunted, must use his deadly skills too often. All while courting a planter's stunning daughter, overlooking a gifted farm girl. He rescues a stolen ex-slave, they wipe out a sophisticated robbery ring, but he is betrayed by his betrothed, then loses the other girl. Maybe.
The excitement, romance, and horrors of WWI as seen through the eyes of Karl Schiller, a German poet whirled off the streets of Paris in those momentous summer days of 1914 and thrust into the front lines of battle. Violets for Sergeant Schiller reveals, from the perspective of an ordinary German, why Germany believed war was necessary, and the day-to-day unfolding of the supposedly infallible von Schlieffen Plan.
The war between Azania and New Persia erupts as a biochemical seed storm blows out of the Northern Waste. Basir Turani gains rank as a commander of Persian forces, but the challenges he faces are greater than ever. Suri Pahlavi is offered an opportunity to serve her country. Nasrin Avesta comes into her own, but what sacrifices is she willing to make? Farad Hashemi fights the enemy in the air and under the waves. The storm of war breaks across the world of New Persia.
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