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Hungry for Love
When the phone rang, she answered it without thinking, not even bothering to look at the caller I.D. “Hello?” “Thank God you’re home,” said Kevin, sounding particularly harried. Laura didn’t bother to wonder why. Chances are he hadn’t screwed any other women tonight and if he were being held up...
She's Got Game
This meant that, despite the fact that Alicia, Carmen, Jamie, and even Gaz were dressed to the nines in their favorite outfits, they were still having trouble getting inside. “Join the line, my friends,” said a tall guy who looked not unlike an FBI agent in his dark gray pinstriped suit. It was o...
Morgan’s Run
Thistlethwaite’s concern for him, Richard returned to the Habitas workshop and settled to make Brown Bess for the soldiers fighting in the American war.A gunsmith made a gun, but not its component parts. These came from various places: the steel barrel, forged into a tube by a hammer, from Birmin...
Puppet Pandemonium (2006)
Franklin won the draw. We were ready. The costumes had been made, the scenery was in place, and we'd learned our lines. Bubba had agreed to be stage manager and, to my surprise, had engineered a fantastic set. He'd chosen his own workers, and they had nailed, painted, sanded, and built the best b...
You Don't Know Me
As Connor pulled his bag from the plane’s overhead compartment, he reminded himself that he was wasting time. Carolyn Lenton’s address was a long shot. One Derek Sather had dimly remembered only after Connor had used near bullying tactics. Derek Sather was a tired story. Quick track to stardom. H...
Saving Sloan (Sloan Series Book 2)
RAY handed Sloan a glass of water and sat at the table next to her. She drank a huge swig of it, trying to figure out what to say next.“I don’t remember exactly. It happened so fast.”“Try.” Aaron said from the opposite side of the table. His bedhead and clingy black T-shirt suited him. At twenty,...
War of the Undead (Day One): The Apocalypse Crusade (A Zombie Tale)
Yes, he was interrupted three different times as troopers went berserk and had to be restrained, and then there were the endless, tedious phone calls from his boss and his boss’s boss, and this mayor and that dignitary and even someone from the governor's office, all wanting to know what was goin...
Cooking Up Trouble (2016)
“You’re awfully quiet this morning.” “I’m talked out.” “Really?” He frowned at a pasture, filled with alpacas. “People don’t raise and eat those, do they?” Tessa smiled. “That’s Bob Thorton’s farm. His wife, Ester, dyes and weaves the wool.” “Into what?” “All sorts of things, but mostly wall hang...
The Cross of Mithras Vol. 1: EOD Operation Welcome to Hell
Instead of putting the lab complex on high alert for the impeding attack that will sure to come, Dawson called for the lead scientist to meet him in the garage. From Dawson’s demeanor, the lead scientist could tell that there was either something wrong, or there was something wrong with Dawson. ...
Bay's Mercenary [Unearthly World Book 1]
She was sitting on the furniture fixture she called a couch. She called the furniture fixture in his room a bed, and though she knew what drawers were, she also called the furniture fixture that held them a dresser. Her words in her language were interesting, and the way she spoke in her own tong...
Her Baby and Her Beau (2014)
Beau said softly as he reached the side of Immy’s crib at sunrise on Wednesday. Seeing him, hearing his voice, the infant went from crying to a whimper and then she put her fist in her mouth to suck on it, letting him know she was hungry. Or at leas...
The Price of Love and Other Stories
DCI Alan Banks sat down at the breakfast table and made some notes on a lined pad. If he was doomed to spend Christmas alone this year, he was going to do it in style. For Christmas Eve, Alastair Sim’s Scrooge, the black-and-white version, of course. For Christmas Day, Love Actually. Mostly it wa...
Liberty Street (2015)
Snow HER PARENTS FIGHT when they think Frances isn’t listening. Her mother brings up the truck over and over. How could Basie have done that, bought the truck without telling her? She keeps harping at him. Maybe, she says, that was Joe Fletcher’s plan all along—to marry Frances, an only child, an...
Dealer and his Bestowed Bride (The Rossi Family Mafia Book 2)
As soon as I slid into Robert’s getaway car, he put a black bag over my head. “A precaution.” he said. It seemed more like a kidnapping to me. But I kept my mouth shut. Oh, I wanted to chew Robert out, like I had done at the gala, but it was not the time to anger the man who was in control of m...
The Goodbye Girl (Red Market Series Book 2)
And when it was night, So sad was their plight, The sun it went down, And the moon gave no light. They sobbed and they sighed, and they bitterly cried, And the poor little things, they lay down and died. And when they were dead, The Robins so red Br...