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Skip Rock Shallows
Most of the time, he was on his knees, leaning his upper body inside the crawl space, keeping Elbows company. But right now, he was sitting outside the narrow tunnel, resting his cramped legs and working the splinter out of his hand. Man, he thought when at last the sliver was free, that feels be...
Vamp-Hire
It had been two weeks since he'd seen them, three days after he'd been brought to this place. It hadn't been as bad as he would've expected and Nick suspected Dolph may have had something to do with that. He couldn't help the smile creeping up the corner of his mouth. Nick had a flash of memory o...
Beautiful Death (Bella Morté Trilogy Book 1)
Dani stretched and yawned, rolling over in a ball before opening her eyes. It took her a few minutes to realize she was still in a cell. Groaning, she rolled over on her back, trying to get her bearings. Sitting up slowly, she looked around, dragging a hand through her hai...
Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations
Nicholas Theater Company, at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont, in 1972, with the folělowing cast: EMIL VARěC Pablo Vela GEORGE S. ARONOVITZ Peter Vincent It was directed by David Mamet; set and lighting by Jim Drake. It was first produced off-off Broadway at St. Clements Theatre, New York Cit...
Mike's Wager: Short Story (The Camerons of Tide's Way #3.5)
“I never saw a homeless person until I landed here at Harvard.” “What? You think Cambridge, Massachusetts has a corner of losers?” His roommate, Troy, asked. “That’s not what I said,” Mike replied. “I said I never saw anyone living in a box in Tide’...
SwitchMeUp (2012)
Upstairs he tossed some clothes lying around his bedroom into the hamper, smoothed the bed that didn’t need fixing and turned on the bedside lamp. He was about to have sex with a complete stranger. Something so totally out of character for him it made him nervous. He might be apprehensive but he ...
His Garden of Bones (Skye Cree Book 4)
If they wanted to catch the man responsible for mutilating three young women, they had a lot of work to do. From its inception, the foundation had been set up with one purpose in mind—to locate and bring back the missing: those who’d disappeared under questionable circumst...
Healer's Ruin
Even the Krune seemed disturbed by the mass of entrails and organs nailed high to a tree, crowned with a pallid severed head, the eyes stitched shut and what appeared to be a rodent stuffed into the mouth, the tail hanging limply over the putrid red mass of gore beneath. C...
Out of the Shadows
If we’re strong when it hits, we pick up the pieces and move on. If not, we throw up our hands and demand “Why, Lord?” But Christians are taught “Don’t ask why. Just have faith.” Easier said than done! Because suffering tests more than our mettle, it burrows into the foundation of our faith, maki...
Sparks Fly: A Novel of the Light Dragons
Again.” I gave my hair an annoyed flip while passing Baltic, who was seated in the chair in the hallway, a newly purchased laptop on his knees. “You’re the only one who thinks that checking on Brom is insulting to you.” “I will not allow harm to come to my son again.” He looked up from the laptop...
Bucking the Rules (2013)
She turned and smiled genuinely. Not her you’re a paying customer and I’m in a bad mood, but I’ll pretend I’m not smile, but the real deal. “Hey, Jeff. Back for lunch today?” He grinned and put his worn Marshall High ball cap on the bar in front of him. “Couldn’t help it. You convinced me to come...
Beauty and the Brit
They had jump standards and rails in rainbows of amazing, bright colors, but Rio only knew that pain was back with a vengeance. The only thing that gave her pleasure was Kate being in the same world of hurt. Such pettiness also caused guilt since Kate was perfectly nice. It was just that Stella w...
Tracers (2014)
Crushed under a bus: what a way to go. This wasn’t how Cam’s day was supposed to play out, although he’d stopped expecting much of anything—good, anyway—a long time ago. The morning had started like any other: hot run, bike whizzing through the cars and taxis like they were standing still, back t...
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Many commentators have gone overboard in poking fun at economists’ models, deriding them as oversimplified. Others wonder about the excessive mathematical complexity of some modeling, and yet others combine the criticisms by arguing that human behavior is too complex to be captured by mathematica...
Queen Bitch of the Callowwood Pack (Siren Publishing Classic) (2012)
She blinked a few times, trying to bring her mind, and her eyes, into focus. Why is everything fuzzy? She rubbed one hand over her face. No glasses. That’s why her eyes couldn’t focus. Groaning, she straightened and dragged herself to her feet. Twigs and bits of leaf litte...