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If Looks Could Kill (2012)
One look at the scene should have told anyone how useless that would be. She was pumping, though, breathing into wherever the mouth had been and yelling as if with just her own will she could force life back into the stiff, mutilated figure that hung off the edge of her foldout couch. He made it ...
A Mother's Wish
Meg cried, her voice raised. Steve could see that he hadn’t done a very good job of breaking the news, but he was as shocked as she was. “If you didn’t send them, who did?” Meg demanded. It wasn’t difficult to figure that one out. “I can make a wild guess,” he said with heavy sarcasm. He jerked h...
THE ONE YOU CANNOT HAVE
I know I am supposed to act cool and busy and tell Aman that I will get back to him in three-four days. But I just am not able to do that. I am elated that he has actually called in response to my text. (I just couldn’t resist texting him one last time. I was dying and I just had to know where we...
Just Another Pretty Face (HT 459)
Meet the Kingston family—box-office legends in front of and behind the cameras. Share in the revelation of intimate secrets and the struggle for success in this behind-the-scenes blockbusting mini-series.Meet film star and sex symbol Pierce Kingston this month as he vetoes his overprotective sist...
Survival Paranoia (Survival series)
They’d gotten a mere thirty miles away, nowhere near either of their homes, before pulling into a development. They’d scouted nearby homes and found one that had only one person in it… or rather, what used to be a person. Jeff took it out with a knife he’d snatched from the butcher block on the i...
Uncle John’s Briefs
To conserve valuable space, writing it was soon shortened to qo, which caused another problem—readers might mistake it for the ending of a word. So, they squashed the letters into a symbol: a lowercase q on top of an o. Over time the o shrank to a dot and the q to a squiggle, giving us our curren...
Coach and Four: Allisandra's Tale
OH. Coach and Four: Allisandra’s Tale Copyright © 2011 by Linore Rose Burkard ISBN-13: 978-0-9792154-1-4 Published by Lilliput Press, Cincinnati, OH All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form, stored in any retrieval system, posted on any websi...
The Fly Guy
If she wanted to watch something on TV that he didn’t like, whereas before he would have stayed on the sofa with her telling her what a waste of time the programme was, now he could go up to his writing room and close the door.In the six months that had passed since they moved in, Alison noticed ...
Crimson Dawn
I had a few choice words for my fearless leader. He answered on the first ring and I wasted no time laying into him. "Why in the hell did you not tell me that the C.O. here was a Djin, Marcus? A friggin’ Djin!" Marcus's voice was the epitome of calm when he spoke. "Sentinel C.O.s must maintain ...
The Silent Girls
Besides, who gave a shit if someone used their mobile phone in a car – Sam knew what he was doing, even if Johnno was gritting his shit by being his usual idiot self. ‘Don’t fucking argue with me, and don’t ask questions – just fucking do it!’ he yelled. The traffic was intense, everyone seemed t...
First Kiss (Heavy Influence)
I now stood at the shallow end of the pool and stared dumbly at everyone. What the hell was Jake doing here anyway? Nadine waved eagerly for me to get out of the pool, but my feet were stuck to the bottom as if encased in cement. “Yeah man, Aly said she’d be ...
Step Scandal - Part 1
at Harper’s insistence. Evidently she was ready to get the show on the road. Dressed in a black skintight number that barely covered her ass and the pinks of her nipples, we sat in the VIP lounge with candles illuminating our table and bottles of Moet and Chandon on ice. Apparently this was her p...
Anne Barbour
It was just a week after Amanda’s confrontation with the jinni with the spectacles, or whoever he, she, or it might be, and Serena was bubbling over with gratification as she stood at the head of the stairs with her husband and daughter. “All the world is here tonight, and I shouldn’t wonder if t...
Harlequin Heartwarming May 2016 Box Set (2016)
or “toss” bins. He’d talked about the ranch and his family, and reminded her that the invitation to share in the big Marshall Thanksgiving feast was still open. Finn wanted to go, partially because the trip would let her see how he interacted with his parents, siblings and...
Tokyo Hearts: A Japanese Love Story
when Takashi returned to his apartment. The room was cold, and he changed into an old grey sweater and turned on the kotatsu under the coffee table. He placed his hands under the thick cover that spread over the table and held his hands close to the warmth of the kotatsu’s heater to heat up his f...