When respectable
country widow Connstance Rattigan finds herself in a notorious London
brothel instead of at the altar, only one person can save her from the
auction block.
Alex Vernon, Lord Ripley, walked away from Connie
once before, when he discovered she was engaged. Now that her fiancé
has betrayed her, he doesn’t intend to leave her again.
Once he has made love to her, Alex feels the situation is resolved. He’ll marry her. But Connie has other ideas.
Only
three problems to solve—Connie signed a marriage contract as binding as
the marriage ceremony with someone else, she’s disgraced in the eyes of
society, and she won’t marry him until her name is cleared.
This
was quit a likeable book. The characters all worked really well together
and it was just a nice sweet story. Great book and I would happily
recommend it to my friends.
When three colleagues
die violently during a single wartime election day in Central America,
two female journalists, best friends, are hurled into a torrent of
change in their personal and professional lives and in their
relationship with each other. The author, bedeviled by stress and
feelings of abandonment, hangs on by her fingernails to reporting while
her dear friend “just can’t take another picture of a dead body” and
throws herself into teaching photography to children who live in a
garbage dump. Big questions quietly roil their lives—What is our
responsibility to history? To individuals?—until unexpectedly, they
approach an answer together, when a child from the dump goes missing.
This
is a wonderful story about friendship in time of war. It was very well
written and will keep you from putting the book down. Truly wonderful.
Lily Ivory hopes to score some great vintage fashions when she
buys an antique trunk full of old clothes. But she may have gotten more
than she bargained for.…
As soon as Lily opens the trunk, she feels strange
vibrations emanating from a mysterious velvet cloak. When she tries it
on, Lily sees awful visions from the past. And when the antiques dealer
who sold her the cape is killed, Lily suspects a supernatural force
might be behind his death.
Then Lily’s familiar, Oscar the
potbellied pig, disappears. Lily will do anything to get him
back—including battling the spirit of a powerful witch reaching out from
the past. But even with the aid of her grandmother, unmasking a killer
and saving Oscar might be more than one well-intentioned sorceress can
handle.
I love
that Lily is getting more comfortable with her powers and is becoming a
force to be reckoned with. This is the 6th book in the A Witchcraft
Mystery and these books keep getting better and better. I love the
characters and the style in which it was written. What a fantastic read.
Why is Grandpa acting
so weird? And why are there so many giant flies buzzing around? Jake
spends every summer holiday on his grandpa's farm. But this year, things
are a little weird. First, there are huge flies everywhere. Second,
Grandpa is acting kind of odd. And third, Jake's friend Kate keeps
trying to scare him with creepy stories. Last year's tale about the
swamp creature was bad enough, but this year's story about a hand that
someone found in a farmer's field is even worse. And it wasn't just any
hand either. It was a GIANT'S hand! It might just be the creepiest story
of all. But it can't be real. Can it? Jake and the Giant Hand is book
one in a new middle grade series, Weird Stories Gone Wrong.
This
was quit a good book. I loved the characters and am sure that this is a
book that boys will love. I can't wait for another.
What begins as a clever, gothic ghost story soon evolves into a wickedly twisted treasure hunt in The Supernatural Enhancements, Edgar Cantero's wholly original, modern-day adventure.
When
twentysomething A., the unexpected European relative of the Wells
family, and his companion, Niamh, a mute teenage girl with shockingly
dyed hair, inherit the beautiful but eerie estate of Axton House, deep
in the woods of Point Bless, Virginia, it comes as a surprise to
everyone—including A. himself. After all, he never even knew he had a
"second cousin, twice removed" in America, much less that the eccentric
gentleman had recently committed suicide by jumping out of the third
floor bedroom window—at the same age and in the same way as his father
had before him . . .
Together, A. and Niamh quickly come to feel
as if they have inherited much more than just a rambling home and a
cushy lifestyle. Axton House is haunted, they know it, but that's just
the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the secrets they slowly but
surely uncover. Why all the suicides? What became of the Axton House
butler who fled shortly after his master died? What lurks in the garden
maze and what does the basement vault keep? And what of the rumors in
town about a mysterious gathering at Axton House on the night of the
winter solstice?
Told vividly through a series of journal
entries, scrawled notes, recovered security footage, letters to Aunt
Liza, audio recordings, complicated ciphers, and even advertisements,
Edgar Cantero has written a dazzling and original supernatural adventure
featuring classic horror elements with a Neil Gaiman-ish twist.
I LOVED
this book. It was creepy and brilliant. I really hope this is not the
end and that there will be a second one coming. I was very pleasantly
surprised.
"Conversations with
Steve Martin" presents a collection of interviews and profiles that
focus on Martin as a writer, artist, and original thinker over the
course of more than four decades in show business. While those less
familiar with his full body of work may think of Martin as primarily the
"wild and crazy guy" with an arrow through his head, this book makes
the case that he is in fact one of our nation's most accomplished and
varied artists. It shows the full range of Martin's creative work,
tracing the source of his comic imagination from his early standup days,
starting in the mid to late 1960s through the films he has written and
starred in, and emphasizing his more recent creative outpourings as
playwright, essayist, novelist, memoirist, songwriter, composer,
musician, and art critic.
"Standup is the hardest material in the
world to write for someone else; it's like trying to condense 10 years
of experience into 20 minutes of new material.," Martin says. But
commenting on his fiction writing, he says. "I think you have to be able
to find as a writer that state where you don't know what you're going
to say or what the character is going to say or who the characters are.
That's the biggest thrill of all. When you start to trust that
subconscious thing and you don't censor yourself--just remember you can
always throw it away--that's when the good stuff comes out."
The
selected materials consist not only of pieces focused primarily on
Martin's writings, but also broader profiles and conversations that help
explain Martin's development as a writer within the larger context of
his many other accomplishments, talents, and performance skills.
I
have to say that I am a huge Steve Martin fan. This book just didn't do
him justice. I was bored from the beginning and felt like everything
was kind of thrown together.
For Sam Ryan, life began
at age fourteen. She has no memory of her parents or her childhood. In a
decade of service with the State Police, Sam has exhausted the
resources of the force searching for clues to her identity. But all
mention of her family seems to have been deliberately wiped off the
record. Everything changes the night Sam’s missing partner resurfaces as
a vampire... and forces her to kill him in self-defense. Now Sam is
charged with murder. Suspended from the force, and with no one left to
trust, Sam accepts some unexpected help from Gabriel Stern, a
shapeshifter who conceals startling secrets.
While investigating
the circumstances surrounding her partner’s strange behavior, Sam
discovers that Garbriel’s been involved with a dangerous organization
that’s planning a war on the human race. More immediate, someone is
guarding the truth about Sam’s past—someone who’d rather see her dead
than risk her knowing too much. To stay alive, Sam must unravel the
threads of her past—and find out not only who she is but what she is.
I really enjoyed this book. The plot was great and the characters meshed very well together. Great job.
Muffin maker
Merry Wynter hopes to find a buyer for the castle she’s recently
inherited. But when she throws a party to draw interest, she finds
someone who’s bought the farm instead…
Merry’s career
as a New York City stylist has crumbled, but her passion for muffins
has helped her rise upstate in Autumn Vale. Everyone in town loves the
tasty treats. Still, she would like to return to her glamorous life.
Besides, the upkeep of Wynter Castle is expensive, and Merry’s cup isn’t
exactly overflowing.
So in order to bring some prospective
buyers into the mix, Merry whisks together a spooky soiree and decorates
the castle with dashes of fabric and a sprinkling of spider webs.
Friends new and old are invited, and everyone has a blast. But as the
revelers empty out, Merry notices one partygoer who isn’t leaving—or
breathing. Now Merry must hurry to unmask a killer before her perfect
plans turn into a recipe for disaster…
I love
this series. But, I feel so bad for Merry. She has had such a horrible
time since moving. That aside, I loved this book. I was very, very
surprised at the end when the murderer was reveled. That is that mark of
a great book to me. Ms. Hamilton, once again, kept me hanging and I
love it.
Eons ago, vampires
tried to turn the dark Fae in order to harness their magic, only to
create a demonic enemy more powerful than they could have imagined. Now,
in a final push, Myst returns with a vengeance to bring the Golden Wood
forever under the rule of the Indigo Court.
Newly crowned
Fae Queens Cicely and Rhiannon have embraced their destinies and claimed
their thrones. But Myst is rising once more, and now, at the helm of
her armies, she begins her final assault on the Golden Wood. As Fae,
vampires, and magic-born alike fall under the tide of blood, Cicely and
her friends must discover a way to destroy the spidery queen before
they—and their people—face total annihilation.
Wow. I
was really torn about starting to read this book. I love the series so
much that I just didn't want it to end. Ms. Galenorn made this book
worth the wait and the angst that I was feeling. It was the perfect end
to a fantastic series. Great job.
This Highland Laird won't bow to the Crown
Laird
Ruairi Sutherland refuses to send his only son away to be educated by
the English. And he most definitely will not appear in Edinburgh to pay
homage to a liege who has no respect for Scotland. So he does what any
laird would do—he lies to the king. The last thing Ruairi expects is a
beautiful English governess to appear on his doorstep.
But this lady spy might make him...
Lady
Ravenna Walsingham is a seasoned spy who is sent to the savage
Highlands to uncover a nefarious plot against the Crown. Playing the
part of an English governess—a job easier said than done—she infiltrates
the home of Laird Sutherland, a suspected conspirator.
If she doesn't betray him first
Ravenna
soon discovers that the only real threat Sutherland poses is to her
heart. But will the proud Highland laird ever forgive her when he
discovers the woman he loves in an English spy
This was an all around great book. I, truly, cannot say anything bad about it. Run don't walk and pick up this fantastic read.
What a Widow Wants:
Everything
is going swimmingly for Kathryn Darrell. She's got an annuity of a
hundred thousand a year, her lecherous-heart breaking husband has had
the good graces to pop off, and best of all, she has her freedom--
Something she has every intention of reveling in to the fullest. And who
better to revel with than Ryder Blake, the infamous Duke of Darkwell?
A Duke's Desire:
Ryder
Blake, Duke of Darkwell, known as the Duke of Debauchery, is certain he
will never love again. His heart lies buried with his wife and he has
vowed to never give more than his body to a woman. But when Kathryn
shows up on his doorstep, quite literally, demanding he show her the
ways of London, he finds that his heart longs to love once again.
I
found this book both funny and sexy. The characters were very enjoyable
despite the odds against them(put there by the Duke). Great read.
