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Virginia Hamilton
She loved the way the lane and her house were situated at the end of a narrow blacktop road called Union. At the entrance of the property was an enormous cottonwood tree, at the top of which Levi often sat reading his books. The cottonwood had to be the biggest tree in the world; certainly bigger...
The Defiler
"Water heat and water boil," Cathbad intoned, stirring the mighty Cú Roi with a wand of ash, "make the wheel of heaven toil! Fire flame and fire burn! Make the wheel of heaven turn!" Sláine's hair had been dyed three colours, brown at the roots using the dung of a white horse, yellow with lime to...
Almost Lovers
And what's worse, I had run out of my apartment without even thinking about why I did all of this to begin with. He dangled those keys, his sexy body filling up that door frame and I ran out the door without a second look at Robert. I knew I had messed up. I just didn't know how badly. By the tim...
Critical Failures II (Caverns and Creatures Book 2)
For a gnome, that little guy was intense. Still, Stuart had attacked first, and Cooper honestly thought he was trying to kill him. It didn’t help matters that Stuart woke up twice during the trip, and Cooper had had to punch him into submission again. It was evening when D...
Cache a Predator
Then he punched the number for the animal shelter and gave them his phone number and Max’s description. Clay had already called them, but Brett felt better doing it himself. The shelter said they’d call if someone brought a golden in that matched Max’s description, but no one had yet.He drove to ...
The Rain in Portugal (2016)
I remember how I would wince whenever a student, wishing to be respectful, would refer to “Mr. Frost,” “Mr. Hemingway,” or, worse yet, “Mr. Shakespeare.” Just write “Hemingway” or “Frost,” I would tell them, the way you would with a ballplayer like Jeter or Brady. No one writes “Mr. Jeter stole s...
Save Me: A TAT Novella
She’s so damn cute; that girl of ours. She’s managed to wrap me and the guys around her finger. I pause at that thought. Images start to flash through my mind, and they alarm me. Tay with a swollen belly. Tay in a gown walking down the aisle. Tay being mine? &n...
The Trial of Marie Montrecourt
Marie went into the kitchen to make tea for them. She needed to keep herself busy to stop herself thinking too much. There was an air of unreality about everything that was happening to her. She shivered, aware of the macabre fact that the kitchen was the place where her husband’s body was soon t...
Christmas Spirit (The Middle-aged Ghost Whisperer Book 1): (Ghost Cozy Mystery series)
I did not tell her about the word ‘Cyclops’ in case it was a code word for a police operation, or something of that nature. I thought she would be disappointed that Brady hadn’t come through, but she didn’t appear to mind in the slightest. I, on the other hand, was disappo...
Fight for Power
“Do you think it’s ever going to stop raining?” Lori asked as the three of us stomped through the forest. “It’s such bad timing,” I said. “They’re burned out of their homes and they get four straight days of rain.” “We’re only thirty-six days short of having to build an ark and gather up two of e...
Treasure Point Secrets (2014)
She’d gone home, alone, from the widow’s house that Friday, had eaten cereal for dinner and had cried herself to sleep, unable to banish the mental video of the explosion from her mind. She answered anyway. “I’m sorry, Shiloh.” &nb...
Savage Chains: Scarred (#2)
Please stay … The expression in Reyes’s clear blue eyes pierced Angelica’s heart. He was pleading for her to remain with him, to help him bring down the Starlin Group, the organization that abducted tens of thousands of humans every year and sold them into slavery. She’d been with him long enough...
A Grid For Murder (2012)
GREG SAID WHEN I walked into his barbershop twenty minutes later. There wasn’t an ounce of humor in his voice, and I knew that I was going to be fighting an uphill battle getting him to talk to me. There was a man in his sixties in the chair getting the finishing touches on a flattop, and the cro...
Lab Rats in Space (2007)
Far away from planets, other space stations and, more importantly, far away from any laws. Here, Professor Xanax was free to carry out any experiment he wanted. And the more extreme, the more horrible, the more painful the experiment, the more he loved it. He had never forgotten the joy of his fi...
Frog Hollow (Witches of Sanctuary Book 1)
Normally, thunderstorms make me feel gloomy. I’d want nothing more than to cuddle up in my bed and have a Jonathan Rhys Meyer marathon kind of day. However, there is something about today—this place makes everything around it ignite with energy, including myself. I hum sof...