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Leaving Home: Short Pieces (2014)
There I was, in the middle of a class IV hurricane a month before my due date, packing a bag for the hospital between contractions, as gusts of rain rattled the house. There was your father, videotaping through the windshield as he drove; the eerie bank of tollbooths on the highway unmanned and f...
A Kiss Like This
Leaning against the railing, without giving it any thought, I pull her in closer and we both turn to face the sliding glass window, toward the scene unfolding inside the house. Stephan and Weston yell at each other in the middle of the living room floor, fingers pointed in...
Runaway Model
Jacobsen followed them out and watched Bryce's crew load a sleeping Kyle into the Mercedes. "Mr. Auburn." She touched him lightly on the arm. "Bryce." "Bryce. Listen, the drug affects the brain. Sometimes the victim... imagines things. Says things. ...
Harder (Stark Ink Book 1)
He had not so much woken up as given up on the idea of sleeping altogether. He’d heard once that lack of sleep for an extended period of time drove you crazy. He was probably more than halfway there. His boots were propped up in the corner. He tugged them on and swiped his car keys off the counte...
Touch
It was right before he dropped out of school. He was seventeen and a junior, having been left back at one point in grade school, and I was a sophomore. Honor student, bookworm, good girl—these were all terms used to describe me back then. I was shy and kept to myself—didn’...
Girlfriend Material
I forced myself to sit on the deck and write. Ms. Baker had said that real writers write every day, and I hadn’t written in almost a week. I kept thinking about Natasha and how angry she was, but I didn’t want to write a story about an angry teenage girl. I could just see Ms. Baker or someone rea...
Cold Courage
After reviewing all the headlines, she goes back and rereads the information Maggie has unearthed about the Baltic shops and nightclubs in London that Lia intends to visit. She thinks of the Eastern European population of London, its customs and sense of humour, the unemployment and jobs and the ...
Model Mystery Trilogy 01: Model Crime
But it was obvious that it had Sydney on the edge of a breakdown. “It’ll be okay,” Bess said, hurrying over and putting an arm around her. “My mom knows Mrs. Rayne over at Blossoms and Bows pretty well. I’m sure if we just call her and explain…” “That’s what I’ve been telling her,” Ellie Marvin a...
Cursed (Book 1, The Watchers; Young Adult Paranormal Romance)
I nodded because I had been thinking the same exact thing. Brand drove me to the chemistry building and told me he wouldn’t be able to make it to physics class that day. He said he had to do something for his cousin Abby. When he reached for my books sitting on the back seat, I stopped him. ...
What No One Else Can Hear
I didn’t even want to think about how other prisoners might have treated me if they thought I was a child molester. Man, I couldn’t believe this was happening. I couldn’t think of anything they might have that would seem like evidence of something like this. I did know, or thoug...
Killer Women
Hummingbirds hovered silently as they homed in on the bird-of-paradise plants that provide them with a tasty breakfast. Overhead, the constant high-pitched tone of single-engined light aircraft sweeping through the skies was a noisy reminder of the metropolis of Los Angeles which lay just twenty ...
Unjustified Demands (Filthy Florida Alphas Book 2)
I haven’t been able to be rational about this whole thing since seeing Ana with the one man I despise above all others. Seeing his hand on her and touching what is mine only made that feeling more intense. I’m charging at her instead of giving her time to talk and be rational. But being rational ...
Veretti’s Dark Vengeance
I’m going to make sure of that if it takes me the rest of my days!’ Salvatore Veretti took one last look of loathing at the photograph in his hand before pushing back his chair and going to stand by the window overlooking the Venetian lagoon, where the morning sun was clear, brightening the deep ...
To Marry a Prince
Conscious of her own jobless state, Bella protested at the extravagance. But her friend was adamant. ‘These shoes are meant for dancing, not pounding the London Underground,’ she said firmly. ‘You’ll thank me later. Besides, it’s cold out there.’ That was undoubtedly true. Reluctant to spend her ...
The Wolf
Klaus Marni sat to his left and pointed toward the huge spires of the Cathedral de Notre Dame.“Impressive,” Marni said. “One of the guidebooks say it was built by hand and designed with little idea whether it could even be completed.”“This boat runs every hour on the hour until eleven tonight,” V...