Download or read book Hard Secrets Soft Heart written by R. E. Blythe and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book When a teenage boy is accused of murder, one private investigator must find enough evidence to support a “justifiable homicide” defense. Hard Secrets, Soft Heart sheds light on the universal subject of child abuse, a topic is still often taboo, especially in the African American community. But no matter how shattering, if some secrets are kept, there can be even more dire consequences. About the Author R. E. Blythe is now in his fifties, but he has wanted to write a book ever since he was a young man with his dream being to become a professional author. Growing up, he was a computer geek. He left the corporate world to pursue his dream.

Download or read book Within The Light s Shadow written by Kenneth Kirkwood and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-07-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow James, John, and George as they add members to the PTF to stop the chief engineer’s mutiny on board the USS Bunker Hill CG 52. After the tragic death of Captain Silverton, George, and his team help Commander Johnstone navigate the USS Bunker Hill CG 52 through a storm and a mutiny to reach Australia safely. Once they are in port, George offi cially becomes Commander Johnstone’s assistant as they prepare for the Peace Accords.

Download or read book The Island House written by Nancy Thayer and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer evokes the shimmering seascape of Nantucket in a delightful novel that resonates with the heartache and hope of growing up, growing wise, and the bittersweet choices we must be brave enough to make. Courtney Hendricks will never forget the magical summers she spent on Nantucket with her college roommate, Robin Vickerey, and Robin’s charismatic, turbulent, larger-than-life family, in their gorgeous island house. Now a college English professor in Kansas City, Courtney is determined to experience one more summer in this sun-swept paradise. Her reason for going is personal: Courtney needs to know whether Robin’s brother James shares the feelings she’s secretly had for him. Time with the Vickerey family always involves love and laughter, and this season is no different. Vivacious matriarch Susanna Vickerey is celebrating her sixtieth birthday, but beneath the merriment, trouble is brewing. The family patriarch, Dr. Alastair Vickerey, is quiet and detached, while unspoken tension looms over oldest son Henry, a respected young surgeon. Warm and witty Robin, the most grounded of the siblings, is keeping a secret from her parents. Iris, the colorful baby of the brood, remains rudderless and in need of guidance. And the sexy, stunningly handsome, untouchable James—to Courtney’s dismay—may be in love with a beautiful and vibrant local artist. As the summer unfolds, a crisis escalates, surprising truths are revealed, and Courtney will at last find out where her heart and her future lie. Weaving the trials and uncertainty of real life into a tapestry of passion, hope, and courage, The Island House is a beautifully told story about the ties that bind us—and how the blessings of love and family heal us in ways we never dream possible. Praise for The Island House “Thayer’s latest should be filed under a Best Beach Reads of 2016 list. . . . The characters are complex and their struggles and concerns feel real. . . . Thayer has a really wonderful ability to showcase the meaning of family.”—RT Reviews “A perfect book to read while sticking your toes in the sand this summer!”—Bookish Devices “A touching story about friendship, family, and the uncertainty of love.”—Bustle Praise for Nancy Thayer The Guest Cottage “A sweet book with romance, laughter, and love after loss . . . Thayer knows her Nantucket history, and it shines in this book.”—RT Book Reviews “It’s a pleasant escape to a state of mind in which rebuilding a life is as simple as pitching an umbrella and spreading out a towel.”—Kirkus Reviews Nantucket Sisters “Thayer obviously knows her Nantucket, and the strong sense of place makes this the perfect escapist book for the summer, particularly for fans of Elin Hilderbrand.”—Booklist “Thayer keeps readers on the edge of their seats with her dramatic story spanning the girls’ childhood to adulthood. This wonderful beach read packs a punch.”—Library Journal Island Girls “A book to be savored and passed on to the good women in your life.”—Susan Wiggs “Full of emotion and just plain fun, this novel is delightful.”—Romance Reviews Today

Download or read book Wives and Girlfriends written by Nishawnda Ellis and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betraying vows for a night full of lust can lead to a lifetime full of pain. Wealthy black entrepreneur Dominic Jones’s livelihood rests on money, power and women. He enjoys splitting his time between married life and serial love affairs with his girlfriends. Suffering from depression, being overweight and having to be the disciplinarian for their spoiled rotten daughter, Dominic’s wife Donna has enough on her plate, and is not ready to deal with the kind of man she married. Although Dominic proclaims to love his family, he’s very careless with the women in his life, and is used to them falling in line. That is until he meets Tera Larou, a woman who makes a career of dating married men. She and Dominic share a lustful and erotic affair. Against all her rules, Tera falls in love with Dominic and demands he leave his family for her. Under no circumstances is Dominic willing to leave his family for any woman. Left with no other option, Tera plots to get rid of Donna and become Dominic’s wife. But When Tera’s advances threaten the safety of Dominic’s family, an already suspicious Donna is finally ready to do something about her cheating husband. Dominic has to act fast before he loses everything. Tera winds up brutally murdered and Dominic is the primary suspect. With his unfaithful ways out in the open and his ex-girlfriend death’s hanging over his head, Dominic soon realizes the consequences of living a double life between his wife and girlfriend.

Download or read book What Mother Never Told Me written by Donna Hill and published by Kimani Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parris McKay goes to France in search of her mother, but the meeting opens old wounds for both. Parris finds solace in two new friends who, like her, are coming to terms with a legacy of long-buried secrets.

Download or read book The Moonshiner s Daughter written by Donna Everhart and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman in 1960's North Carolina resents the moonshining operation her family has conducted for generations, blaming it for her mother's death. When her father insists that moonshining is in her veins, Jessie devises a plan to destroy the stills. Her scheme escalates an old rivalry and revels long-held grudges.

Download or read book Job Card written by Maurice White and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is about a man that stumbles across three credit cards he fi nds in a secret room, after being nosey walking around a Federal Government Building his company was call to do a job for by mistake. Mistaken made because the name of the company is the same name called by the State to their own demo. Given a badge to walk around the building to use the rest room when they need to. Hutch takes advantage by walking where he shouldn't and comes across another badge where he puts it on and winds up some where he shouldn't be. By dumb lucky he goes into what he thinks is a bathroom and there presses a tile in the wall, it activates another part of a wall in one of the stall of the bathroom. In that stall the 3 credit cards are displayed to him, not knowing that the Government uses these Unlimited Funded Untraceable credit card to buy whatever they need no matter how much it cost. Still being nosey after taken the credit cards, Hutch ventures into the basement where they're experimenting on some colognes and their reaction on the females that one would encounter. There are three that work with a man's sweat, the more he sweats the stronger the cologne affect is. One is black capped and that puts fear to a woman that smell it, the gold cap one makes a woman very mad at the one wearing it that she strikes at him in anger. The last one is the silver capped one that makes woman very horny and all colognes seem to have a very long lingering affect when the man sweats heavy. Using the card a few times Hutch encounters, some good people and then two unsavory men that feel he doesn't deserve to have such a thing and want it for themselves. Car chases and jealous coworkers, greedy gold digging girlfriend with vengeful spitefulness about her. Three fine healthy video type vixens that are just down to earth, best friends since little and now strip dancers making their way through college. Along with Hutch's old time friends the Grand Drunken Master, that party hard with him and always there in a heartbeat to lend a hand no matter where Hutch is. Together this story has some of the most exciting things about Hutch and how his life goes and not even on a daily run, but just saying to one self. What would you do if you came across three unlimited funded untraceable credit cards and didn't know it till late. In this three part story read how Hutch handles every situation and his tattle tale coworker.

Download or read book In One Person written by John Irving and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp comes "his most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade" (Vanity Fair). A New York Times bestselling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love—tormented, funny, and affecting—and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character of In One Person, tells the tragicomic story (lasting more than half a century) of his life as a "sexual suspect," a phrase first used by John Irving in 1978 in his landmark novel of "terminal cases," The World According to Garp. In One Person is a poignant tribute to Billy’s friends and lovers—a theatrical cast of characters who defy category and convention. Not least, In One Person is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself "worthwhile."

Download or read book The Maze written by Catherine Coulter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this FBI Thriller Special Agent Dillon Savich teams up with new agent Lacey Sherlock in a case that leads them back to the murder of Sherlock's sister seven years ago—and puts both their lives on the line. As the head of the FBI’s Criminal Apprehension Unit, Dillon Savich has developed predictive analogue programs to aid in the capture of serial killers. Enter Lacey Sherlock, a very well-qualified new agent who seems bright and eager and on the up-and-up. But is she really? When there’s a vicious murder in Boston, she’s off like a shot, lying to Savich. When Savich finds out what’s going on, he realizes they’ll all be in deep trouble, maybe even victims themselves, if he and Sherlock don’t find out who murdered her sister seven years before....

Download or read book Moments Like This written by Donna Hill and published by Kimani Press. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has fate led her to a real-life hero? Actress and model DOMINIQUE LAWS has been living the Hollywood dream—fame, fortune, a handsome and powerful husband, and adoring fans. Although her talenthasn't faded, lately good roles have been getting scarce.When Dominique learns that her business managerhusband has been cheating on her; personally andfinancially—she finds herself down-and-out inBeverly Hills. With all that's happened, now is the timefor Dominique to regroup and reconnect with whatreally matters. But a chance meeting with a Denzel-fine filmmaker may just be the opportunity to play the role ofa lifetime….

Download or read book HIS BROTHER S CHILD written by Lucy Gordon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BABY BOOM Whose baby? When Donna discovered she was pregnant, and Toni Mantini proposed, she was overjoyed. But Rinaldo Mantini wasn't. He suspected Donna of latching on to his younger brother to secure herself a wealthy life-style. Then Toni was cruelly snatched away from them all, and Rinaldo insisted that Donna become his wife—he would not allow her baby to be born out of wedlock. To marry Rinaldo was to marry her greatest enemy, but how could Donna deny him the chance of being a father to his brother's child? "Absolutely marvellous—a warm, wonderful story." —Anne McAllister BABY BOOM. Because two's company and three (or four or five) is a family!

Download or read book Brandi Nano Wolves 2 written by Donna McDonald and published by Donna McDonald. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He says they’re mates. She says they’re done. Agent Brandi Jenkins likes being a werewolf. It’s great to be stronger, smarter, and more sexual. It’s also great being part of a family group for the first time in her solitary life. As the Nano Wolves beta, she must protect the other women in her tiny pack. She can't stop until she learns the truth about who funded the crazy scientist who made them. Being a living science experiment is not easy, and it’s starting to shift her priorities. Sometimes the new awareness sucks too, like learning her former handler didn’t rescue her from Crazy Crane on purpose. Before she can leave her old job though, a new government apprehension group decides to blackmail her into working for them. She wants to kill a few backstabbers and leave for good, but she can’t. She has no choice except to take the freaking job. It’s the only way to save herself and her packmates from becoming government pets. What she can’t do though is ever forgive Gareth Longfeather. The deceptive, lying, manipulative Gray Wolf beta had almost convinced her he was a man she could love and trust. Gareth says they’re mates. She says they’re done. Topics: werewolf romance, shifter romance series, romance saga, romantic suspense, series starter, first in series, romance series, shapeshifter romance with sex, paranormal romance, shifter romance, romance ebook, romance series, top romance reads, fantasy romance, paranormal elements, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, HEA, strong heroine, alpha hero, steamy romance, emotional romance, romance fiction, romance books, USA Today Bestseller, paranormal romance shifters series

Download or read book Star Crossed written by Deborah Higgins and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 people discover that they are reincarnated lovers from seven centuries ago. Now they can continue this old love affair in the present.

Download or read book The Big Book of Ghost Stories written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a thousand pages of haunted—and haunting—ghost tales: the most complete collection of uncanny, spooky, creepy tales ever published! Edited and with an introduction by Otto Penzler. Including stories by Joyce Carol Oates, Rudyanrd Kipling, Isaac Asimov, James MacCreigh, and many more! Featuring eerie vintage ghost illustrations. The ghost story is perhaps the oldest of all the supernatural literary genres and has captured the imagination of almost every writer to put pen to the page. Here, Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler has followed his keen sense of the supernatural to collect the most chilling and uncanny tales in the canon. These spectral stories span more than a hundred years, from modern-day horrors by Joyce Carol Oates, Chet Williamson and Andrew Klavan, to pulp yarns from August Derleth, Greye La Spina, and M. L. Humphreys, to the atmospheric Victorian tales of Rudyard Kipling, Edith Wharton, and H. P. Lovecraft, not to mention modern works by the likes of Donald E. Westlake and Isaac Asimov that are already classics. Some of these stories have haunted the canon for a century, while others are making their first ghoulish appearance in book form. Whether you prefer possessive poltergeists, awful apparitions, or friendly phantoms, these stories are guaranteed to thrill you, tingle the spine, or tickle the funny bone, and keep you turning the pages with fearful delight. Including such classics as “The Monkey’s Paw” and “The Open Window” and eerie vintage illustrations, and also featuring haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore! AlsoFeaturing haunted mansions, midnight frights, lovers from beyond the grave, rapping, tapping, wailing shades, and ghosts, ghouls, and specters galore!

Download or read book Truth Be Told written by Lucinda Bassett and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This memoir is an extraordinary example of how you can survive and thrive in the face of unfair change.” —Spencer Johnson, MD, #1 bestselling author of Who Moved My Cheese? “Suicide haunts you as something to hide, something to be ashamed of, something that keeps reminding you that your family is damaged, scarred . . . It’s a dark, ugly secret that you don’t want to share.” From bestselling author and self-help guru Lucinda Bassett, comes an intimate and empowering memoir. A few years ago, Bassett’s husband and business partner, David, committed suicide after an agonizing year’s struggle with mental illness. Lucinda and her children were devastated. Unbelievably, within just a few months of his death, she lost her brother, and then her mother. And to add to the overwhelming anguish she was already experiencing, Lucinda was then forced to sell her business during an economic downturn. In this gripping account, Bassett digs deep inside herself to uncover the patterns of guilt, blame, anger, and shame she experienced throughout her life, and how they resurfaced and related to these horrific and painful recent tragedies. Her remarkable story is one of complete and candid intimacy, personal introspection, courage, pain, perseverance, and, ultimately, healing. “An intimate, powerful, and riveting story of success and loss . . . This book will be an inspiration to many, especially to anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide.” —Daniel Amen, MD “Lucinda Bassett’s life journey will inspire others to move beyond extreme pain and find peace again. I recommend this book to anyone who has experienced loss and heartbreak—and that would be just about everyone.” —Kenny Loggins, Grammy®–winning singer, songwriter, guitarist, and author

Download or read book There s a Rock in My Shoes written by Peter Geller and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darold Sanderson, a midlevel accounting supervisor for a New York-based publishing company, has always led a very quiet, unassuming life and is content to keep it that way. His only close friends have already passed away, and the only remaining "person" in his life is Rock Hard, an old-time, hard-bitten private investigator. The only problem with the relationship is that no one other than Darold has ever seen or spoken to him, and Rock will only talk to Darold! Suddenly, Darold's whole life cha

Download or read book Waking Raphael written by Leslie Forbes and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2005-04-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Muta, "the mute woman." Amidst a country rocked by scandal and corruption, inhabitants of the idyllic city of Urbino, Italy, birthplace of Raphael, are more concerned with a sudden outbreak of miracles than with politics. But what unspeakable secret lies hidden in Raphael's enigmatic painting? Its restoration will drive a living mute to a shocking act of violence and spark an investigation into a nearly forgotten war crime and a series of events that will shatter the silence gripping this community forever. Both a mesmerizing thriller and a passionate exploration of the power of truth to effect reconciliation and restore faith, Waking Raphael spins a tantalizing web of silence and lies to recreate an Italy where the romantic and the violent, the comic and the tragic, are spellbindingly interwoven.