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Lying Eyes
"Is Detective Demetri always like this?" Susan shrugged noncommittally. Marsha grinned. "Sometimes he's worse, but his heart is in the right place. It's obvious he's worried about you." "He has never lost a victim on his watch," Susan added, warming to the topic. "Captain Samson once staked his l...
Grendel (1971)
It’s one thing to listen, full of scorn and doubt, to poets’ versions of time past and visions of time to come; it’s another to know, as coldly and simply as my mother knows her pile of bones, what is. Whatever I may have understood or misunderstood in the dragon’s talk, something much deeper sta...
Not So Silent Night
It appeared she was literally allergic to Christmas. Her first Christmas working in the flower shop she had inherited from her grandmother, and she turned out to be allergic to the greenery and the poinsettias this season required. “I always knew there was a reason I hated this stupid holiday,” s...
An Angel for Ms. Right
Right Chapter 4 Denise placed a small hand to her forehead as she felt her stomach turn over and she prayed the moment of dizziness and nausea would pass. This day was going from bad to worse to hell in only a few short hours. She suddenly understood when people she knew often commented they w...
Ballistics (2011)
No wonder she kept cocking her head as I went on about “summer movies” and the intolerable poetry of my compatriots. I was standing and she was sitting on a dim street in front of a butcher shop, and come to think of it, she could have been waiting for the early morning return of the lambs and th...
Dangerous Attraction: Part Three (Aegis Group) (2015)
Wendy huddled in the back seat of yet another car. She’d lost count around the second or third. Time blurred together. She had no idea where they were, except she could still see the casinos in the distance. All she knew was that Carlos was in the trunk, safe and unhurt. What had Priscilla ...
Glasswrights' Test (2003)
Her argument with Mair had made her late returning to the guildhall for her afternoon session. Despite her vow to her Touched friend, Rani had not dared to seek out Crestman that day—she had work that she must complete. She had sketched out her drawing of Lor the night before, but she found that ...
Trigger
Simon Truths “That’s enough. Judy’s had enough.” Simon is upset with the trembles he feels in her body and the sweat that is pouring off her. Steven and Deidre stop immediately and Steven spends the next ten minutes taking care of her, checking vitals and inserting a short drip of muscle relaxant...
Always
Before I could get all the way out, Sylvia pulled me back in. “You’ll have to ask Silango yourself,” she whispered. I shot a panicked look to Marcus, but he already had his back to me. “What do I say?” I asked Sylvia. She shook her head. “It isn’t going to matter what you say.” “What?” “Come on, ...
Ghosts of the SouthCoast
Ghosts of the Southcoast ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Big thanks go out to Christopher Balzano and Jeff Belanger, who convinced me I could chronicle the ghosts of the SouthCoast and helped me to do so; to my Spooky Southcoast cohosts Matt Costa and Matt Moniz, for being at my side while investigating and tal...
Alpha Sin (mind control erotica)
She liked the way his weight felt above her, pinning her to the satin sheets of her marital bed, the way his rough stubble felt against her shoulder-blades, the way his scent -- Old Spice and engine grease, grass clippings and sweat -- overpowered her, surrounded her, entered and filled her. The ...
Love's Crazy Twists
She dialed the number and it began to ring. He answered the phone. “Matt?” She said. “Yeah, what do you want now?” He asked. “Do you want to tell me that you are sleeping with Shane right now?” He snapped. ...
The Space Guardian (2013)
Rumors buzz. The staff wonders. Even your most accustomed companions are shocked. Now thumb the cancellation of your withdrawal from the Institute.” Twelve cold gray eyes of the Guardian Institute’s Director glared into the mild brown ones of a very attractive humanoid fem...
Odds on Oliver
Edna went too. Edna liked to bark at the fish. Sometimes the fish barked back. Those were the dogfish. “I can’t miss with this,” Oliver said, waving his new rod. “Hand me a marshmallow, Arthur.” “We ate all the marshmallows,” Arthur said. “All we got left is worms.” “Marshmallows are better bait,...
Empyrion II: The Siege of Dome
Yarden heard herself asking the question. It was her voice, the voice of her conscience, and yet it wasn't. I am in control! she answered, and instantly felt shame wash over her in waves. You see? Your heart knows better. Yarden, surrender. Again, the old-fashioned word. Surrender. What will I ge...