![]() ![]() even though I hadn't read the first two books in this series I had no problem falling right into Morgan and Nate's story."― Love to Read for Fun on HAVEN CREEK " 4 out of 5 roses! I loved how Morgan was a strong individual who wouldn't compromise about things that were important to her."― Seduced By a Book on HAVEN CREEK "Rochelle Alers is the rock star of romance and proves it with each new book in this series."― The Reading Reviewer on HAVEN CREEK It is a gentle moving story that lets love find its way through the tangles and troubles of life and the flaws of characters." ― Long and Short Reviews on HAVEN CREEK ![]() " 4/5 stars! Enticing and a pleasure to read, HAVEN CREEK invites the reader in and entertains so well one doesn't want to leave. ![]() "Haven Creek is a lovely, warm-hearted romance sure to please those who love a happily-ever-after style ending! Nicely done, Rochelle Alers!"― Crystal Book Reviews on HAVEN CREEK ![]()
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Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). ![]() Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in a complex world, Poppy, our Maiden and Heroine, bears the future of an entire kingdom on her shoulders as well as satisfying gods who have abandoned her people. Oh you do, huh? □ Well, then we’ve got your enemies-to-lovers TBR covered! 1. And sometimes start new ones!ĭo you love that juicy smolder of two people who hate each other, tension so thick you can cut it with a knife? Do you relish the anticipation of when that thin line between love and hate blurs, and all that intensity turns from hate to love? They fall in love and usually end the conflict. We’ve been in a love/hate mood these past couple of weeks at Romantic Fantasy Shelf, and it’s because we’ve been debating the enemies-to-lovers trope! They hate each other, they don’t love each other, and then they do… Enemies To Lovers stories involve two characters usually on opposite sides of a conflict, making them clash. ![]() ![]() Each of the guests had a motive to kill her, including Arlenas new husband. Ever since Arlenas arrival the air had been thick with sexual tension. But strangely, there was no sun and Arlena was not sunbathing.she had been strangled. ![]() From the Back Cover The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. But Hercule Poirot suspects that this apparent crime of passion conceals something much more evil. The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. ![]() Book Synopsis In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, the fastidious sleuth is on the trail of the killer of a sun-bronzed beauty whose death brings some rather shocking secrets into the light. About the Book When a shrewish stage star is found strangled at a posh island resort, detective Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate. ![]() ![]() "Your attorney's here," the policeman said. He remained motionless, on the side that wasn't painful, the hangover throbbing like a disease through his body.įootsteps in the corridor outside, a key turning in the lock of the gray steel door, the grating of metal slicing through his head. The provocation, the annoyed faces, the anger-such normal, predictable motherfuckers, such decent, conventional pillars of the community. Jigsaw pieces of the previous evening floated into his mind. Then the swollen eye and upper lip, the antiseptic, musty smell of the cell, the sour odor of his body, the salty taste of blood and old beer in his mouth. He awoke abruptly out of an alcohol-sodden sleep, the pain in his ribs his first conscious sensation. Similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and The characters and events in this book are fictitious. ![]() ![]() ![]() Visit our website at First eBook Edition: October 2009 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. ![]() Translation copyright © 2000 by Madeleine van BiljonĪll rights reserved. ![]() ![]() They are set at odds by their worldviews, but bound together by a powerful attraction.Ī rich, literary novel set in the Victorian era that asks big questions about science, faith and fear is an unlikely contender for the breakaway hit of the year, but that is exactly what The Essex Serpent has become. So begins Sarah Perry's new novel, The Essex Serpent.Īt its heart are two people trying to discover what really lives in the river: woman of science, who believes the serpent belongs to a previously undiscovered species, and a man of God, who sees the rumours as proof the members of his flock have lost their way. ![]() Perhaps it is a sign from God, or the devil. The marshy landscape they live in seems to be rising against them. School girls experience mass hysteria, and the whole community is gripped by a restless fear. A man washes up with his neck twisted the wrong way around. ![]() ![]() It is 1893, and there is strange news out of Essex.Ī mythical serpent, believed to have terrorized the area three centuries earlier, has been spotted again in the river. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She shows how guilt can expose the fault lines in the most seemingly strong relationships, how what we don’t say can be more powerful than what we do, and how too often we don’t appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it’s too late. Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty takes on some of the most fundamental relationships in our lives: marriage, sex, parenthood, and friendship. It’s a quiet Sunday afternoon in the suburbs. They could so easily have said no.īut she and her husband Sam said yes, and now it’s two months later, it won’t stop raining and they can never change what they did and didn’t do that beautiful winter’s day. It was just an ordinary backyard barbeque on a Sunday afternoon. Big Little Lies is now an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning HBO series, produced by and starring Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon. ![]() Her novels have sold more than twenty million copies worldwide and been translated into over forty languages. What if they hadn’t gone? That’s the question Clementine Hart can’t stop asking herself. Truly Madly Guilty is as brilliantly accomplished as it is dark, twisty and compulsive. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 15 years later, in 2015, Angels have suddenly appeared once more - which is where the story begins. ![]() The world is also very much a traumatised one, where in the year 2000, a traumatic event dubbed The Second Impact, wiped out almost half of the world's population. So he's had to deal with parental rejection by shielding himself (and his heart) in a shell of apathy so that no one could ever hurt him emotionally. ![]() Compounding the rejection from his father, his mother is also no longer in the picture. He's been living with his aunty and uncle, who has been caring for him since his father, Gendo Akari, foisted Shinji onto them. Shinji Akari, the protagonist of this series, starts out as a very apathetic young man of 14 years (coincidentally, the same age as I was when I first delved into the world of anime). So, reading the manga pretty much elicited the same feelings of excitement, though tempered with a more adult view of things. I would be hooked on that show, and others of the medium from that point onwards. Possibly their second show (after "Akira") happened to be a post-apocalyptic anime named "Neon Genesis Evangelion". I have an old memory, as a 14 or 15-year-old, when a channel in Australia called SBS started airing subtitled / subbed anime. ![]() ![]() ![]() Q: Is this story MM? Or is it a MMF / MFM / menage? Q: Have we met these characters before in another book?Ī: No! These guys are brand new, and we can't wait for you to meet them. LobsterShorts: Now wouldn't that be life-changing. Right? Just promise you won't fall in love with me. It's not like we'll ever have to see each other again. ![]() LobsterShorts: Tell that to my control-freak father. SinnerThree: Hey, nothing wrong with pushing your boundaries. LobsterShorts: I might want it a little more than I'm willing to admit. ![]() Oh, and I live next door to the most annoying dude in the world. LobsterShorts: Have you done this sort of thing before? With another guy? SinnerThree: Then you've come to the right hookup app. ![]() For her birthday, my girlfriend wants…a threesome. Summary Bestselling authors Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy return with their first Male / Male romance in 3 years. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! Top Secret Elle Kennedy, Sarina Bowen We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sequel to This Mortal Coil picks up right where it's predecessor left off and let me tell you, it is every bit as excellent as the first book And while Lachlan is always two steps ahead, the biggest threat to Cat may be the secrets buried in her own mind. Their search takes them to Entropia, a city of genehackers hidden deep in the desert that could also hold the answers about Cat’s past that she’s been searching for.īut when confronted with lies and betrayals, Cat is forced to question everything she knows and everyone she trusts. ![]() When news arrives that the Hydra virus might not be as dead as they’d thought, the group is pushed into an uneasy alliance with Cartaxus to hunt down Lachlan and fix the vaccine. But she’s failing-Cat can’t even control her newly regrown panel, and try as she might to ignore them, she keeps seeing glitching visions from her past everywhere she turns. ![]() Camped in the woods with Cole and Leoben, she’s working day and night, desperate to find a way to stop Lachlan’s plan to reprogram humanity. ![]() The nightmare of the outbreak is finally over, but Cat’s fight has only just begun.Įxhausted, wounded, and reeling from revelations that have shaken her to her core, Cat is at a breaking point. Cat thought the Hydra epidemic was over, but when new cases pop up, Cat must team up with an enemy to fix the vaccine before the virus spirals out of control. ![]() |