Download or read book Guilt by Degrees written by Marcia Clark and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harrowing, smart, and riotously entertaining, Guilt by Degrees is a thrilling ride through the world of LA courts with the unforgettable Rachel Knight. Someone has been watching D.A. Rachel Knight -- someone who's Rachel's equal in brains, but with more malicious intentions. It began when a near-impossible case fell into Rachel's lap, the suspectless homicide of a homeless man. In the face of courthouse backbiting and a gauzy web of clues, Rachel is determined to deliver justice. She's got back-up: tough-as-nails Detective Bailey Keller. As Rachel and Bailey stir things up, they're shocked to uncover a connection with the vicious murder of an LAPD cop a year earlier. Something tells Rachel someone knows the truth, someone who'd kill to keep it secret.

Download or read book Bear Cheek written by Neil Raffan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We are all misfits. There is no such thing as normal. It is just that some are better than others at hiding their peculiarities.' So opens this latest collection from Neil Raffan. Whilst it may be too simplistic to say the content falls into two categories; either travelogues or displays of heart-on-sleeve; it contains the least fiction. The universal themes carry with them a sharp personal edge, however obvious the attempt to deflect it with humour. Travel to Mali or Zambia, Iowa, Mississippi and beyond.

Download or read book The Widow s Unexpected Suitor written by Lenora Worth and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She thought she’d never find love again Until he built a foundation for it… Amish widow Lilah Mehl wants to make sure her daughter has the wedding she’s always dreamed of—even if it means building a new gazebo. Hiring widowed carpenter Noah Lantz to work on the project is easy, but ignoring their attraction proves more challenging than expected. As the gazebo takes shape, so do new feelings…but is love more than they bargained for? From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope. Pinecraft Seasons Book 1: Pinecraft Refuge Book 2: The Widow's Unexpected Suitor

Download or read book True Endings written by Caylen McQueen and published by Caylen McQueen. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Lilah's first job, and she's pretty sure she's going to mess it up. To be fair, her work is pretty complicated. Lilah is employed by a company that alters the memories of the terminally ill, giving them one more chance at life. Diving into a client's memory is like diving into a dream world where time stops, and anything is possible. Lilah enters the memories of Theodore, whose biggest regret is losing the love of his life, Abigail Morley. Lilah's goal is to get Theodore and Abigail back together, but being a matchmaker isn't as easy as it sounds. Constant obstacles stand in her way. One such obstacle is Frank, Theodore's bad boy older brother. Frank is both a hindrance and a help as Lilah struggles to reunite Theodore with his lost love. He teases her, constantly smokes, never brushes his hair, and he refuses to believe she's a matchmaker from the future. Even so, Lilah finds herself falling for him... but is he even real? One part time travel romance and one part Matrix, True Endings is a different kind of science fiction romance.

Download or read book A Dog Between Them written by Daly Thompson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find your Happily Ever After with two feel-good stories of dogs unleashing romance in small-town settings. Wanted: A place to belong One of a Kind Dad by Daly Thompson Veterinarian Daniel Foster knows what it’s like to feel unloved. That’s why he became a foster dad. Now he wants new housekeeper Lilah Jamison and her son to be a part of his extended family. Except the skittish single mom is hiding something. Daniel has to find a way to win her trust. But what happens when Lilah’s past catches up with her? Her Cowboy Dilemma by C.J. Carmichael Cassidy Lambert traded in Montana’s big sky country for the big-city lights—forever. Until a potentially devastating equine illness threatens her family’s ranch, and Cassidy is needed at home to help. She thinks she knows what she wants from life, but the more she’s around sexy veterinarian Dan Farley, the more uncertain she is…

Download or read book Lila and the Dream Weaver written by Robin Wickens and published by Rob's Books. This book was released on 2024-11-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the edge of a quiet village, where the stars seemed to hang lower than anywhere else, eight-year-old Lila lay awake, staring out her window at the night sky. The world was still, the kind of silence that felt magical, as if all of creation were holding its breath. Lila clutched a small, silver pendant her grandmother had given her. “This pendant will guide you to your dreams,” her grandmother had said, smiling mysteriously. Lila had often wondered what those words meant. Tonight, the stars were unusually bright, sparkling like diamonds scattered across a sea of dark velvet. And then, as she gazed into the sky, something strange happened—a soft light appeared near her window, swirling gently like a tiny wisp of starlight. Mesmerized, Lila watched as the light began to move, drifting toward the edge of the village as if beckoning her to follow. With her heart pounding, Lila slipped out of bed, wrapping herself in her favorite woolen blanket and sneaking quietly out the door. Her parents were asleep, and the house was silent, save for the gentle ticking of the old clock in the hall. Barefoot, she followed the light through the village streets and out to the meadow, feeling as if she were stepping into one of her grandmother’s magical stories. At the center of the meadow, bathed in the moon’s soft glow, stood a figure unlike any she’d ever seen. He was tall and graceful, with flowing robes that shimmered like threads of stars, and his face was kind and wise, as if he held all the secrets of the universe. This was the Dream Weaver, a being her grandmother had often spoken of in hushed, reverent tones—the guardian of dreams. “Hello, Lila,” he said in a voice like a gentle breeze. Somehow, he already knew her name. “Are you…are you the Dream Weaver?” Lila whispered, half-afraid he might disappear if she spoke too loudly. The figure nodded, his gaze warm. “I am. I watch over the dreams of all who sleep, guiding them through the night.” Lila’s eyes sparkled with excitement and wonder. “Why are you here?” she asked. The Dream Weaver’s face softened as he reached out his hand. “I have come to show you a place few ever see—a world beyond the stars, where dreams are born. If you’re brave enough to follow, I’ll show you the magic hidden within your own dreams.” Lila hesitated, glancing back at her village, at the tiny rooftops and softly glowing windows of the homes around her. But curiosity and a yearning for adventure tugged at her heart. She reached out, placing her small hand in the Dream Weaver’s, feeling an unexpected warmth spread through her. In an instant, the meadow and village faded away, replaced by a world unlike anything she had ever imagined—a realm woven of stardust, moonlight, and endless possibilities. As they drifted into this dream realm, Lila felt a thrill of wonder, knowing that tonight was just the beginning of a journey that would change her life forever.

Download or read book On the Steamy Side written by Louisa Edwards and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lilah Jane Tunkle fled her dull life in Virginia for the bright lights of New York City, she didn't expect to wind up a nanny to a gorgeous celebrity chef's ten-year-old son. Working for the delectable Devon Sparks is a sure-fire recipe for disaster, especially after Lilah gets a tantalizing taste of his perfectly seasoned kisses ... Devon's not sure he can handle one more surprise ingredient in his life—he quit his popular TV show, his culinary reputation is on the line, and now the son he barely knows is back for seconds. Lilah's Southern sass is supposed to keep the boy in line, but soon enough she's teaching Devon a thing or two about homespun food...and turning up the heat.

Download or read book Oaths Dragon Blood Book 8 written by Lindsay Buroker and published by Lindsay Buroker. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General Ridgewalker Zirkander is getting married. Sardelle—the woman who’s battled dragons, shamans, and countless enemy soldiers at his side—has accepted his proposal, and it’s the perfect time for a wedding. It’s been two months since any dragons or sorceresses attacked the city, the Cofah haven’t come after their kidnapped emperor, and King Angulus has stopped yelling at Ridge for his inadvertent role in destroying the castle. Yes, it’s the perfect time for a wedding. Never mind that the resident dragon who thinks he’s a god is pressuring Ridge to build a temple for him, or that the pirate-turned-scientist Tolemek has disappeared. Or that Ridge’s mother is on the verge of discovering that magic exists and her future daughter-in-law is a sorceress. These are small hiccups, and the wedding will go smoothly. Ridge is sure of it. Really.

Download or read book Then Came the Night written by Rachael Huszar and published by Rachael Huszar. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The smoke may have cleared, but in a town like Three Willows, things never stay peaceful for long. As Jessalyn Joy works to uncover the secrets left behind by the Bordeauxs, a new sheriff arrives, bringing the law and a bad attitude, threatening to disrupt the order Jessalyn has carefully crafted. On top of that, former star student Lilah Templeton has returned home and refuses to explain why. And as luck would have it, Jessalyn, Sam, and Roger’s run-ins with the supernatural are far from over. A strange, haunted gunslinger calling himself Zedekiah challenges Jessalyn and her friends to a series of deadly midnight duels, the prize being their very lives. With the battles getting tougher and the nights running out, it will take all their courage and determination to make it to the next morning. Then Came the Night is the bewitching third installment of the Three Willows series - a tender historical romance interwoven with a thrilling supernatural mystery.

Download or read book Love Inspired June 2024 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Lenora Worth and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. This box set includes: THE WIDOW’S UNEXPECTED SUITOR (A Pinecraft Seasons novel) by New York Times bestselling author Lenora Worth Amish widow Lilah Mehl wants to make sure her daughter has the wedding she’s always dreamed of—even if it means building a new gazebo. Hiring widowed carpenter Noah Lantz to work on the project is easy, but ignoring their attraction proves more challenging than expected. As the gazebo takes shape, so do new feelings…but is love more than they bargained for? HER SON’S FAITHFUL COMPANION (A K-9 Companions novel) by Jill Weatherholt Ex-barrel racer Caitlyn Calloway wants her epileptic son to have everything—even if it means selling her family home. Problem is the place is in disrepair. Her former crush, service dog trainer Logan Beckett, offers to help. But letting Logan and his dogs into their lives makes the past almost impossible to leave behind…especially when it opens the door to love. HER SUMMER REFUGE by Gabrielle Meyer Jobless and alone, mom-to-be Jessa Brooks returns to the resort she once called home—only to find the man she left a decade before. New owner Will Madden offers his pregnant ex a cabin, a job…and a silent vow to keep his distance. But working together makes it impossible to stay away. As old feelings resurface, could they find the refuge they both need in each other? For more stories filled with love and faith, look for Love Inspired June 2024 Box Set – 2 of 2

Download or read book False Prophet written by Faye Kellerman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L.A.P.D. Detective Peter Decker doesn't know quite what to make of Lilah Brecht. The beautiful, eccentric spa owner and daughter of a faded Hollywood legend, Lilah was beaten, robbed, and raped in her own home -- and claims to have psychic powers that enable her to see even more devastating events looming on the horizon. With his heart and mind on his pregnant young wife, Rina Lazarus, at home, Peter finds it hard to put much credence in the victim's outrageous claims, or to become too deeply involved with her equally odd brothers and aging film star mom. But when Lilah's dark visions turn frighteningly real, Decker's world will be severely rocked -- as the "false prophet's" secrets and obsessions entrap the dedicated policeman ... and point a killer toward Decker's own vulnerable family.

Download or read book The Ferrante Letters written by Sarah Chihaya and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like few other works of contemporary literature, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels found an audience of passionate and engaged readers around the world. Inspired by Ferrante’s intense depiction of female friendship and women’s intellectual lives, four critics embarked upon a project that was both work and play: to create a series of epistolary readings of the Neapolitan Quartet that also develops new ways of reading and thinking together. In a series of intertwined, original, and daring readings of Ferrante’s work and her fictional world, Sarah Chihaya, Merve Emre, Katherine Hill, and Juno Jill Richards strike a tone at once critical and personal, achieving a way of talking about literature that falls between the seminar and the book club. Their letters make visible the slow, fractured, and creative accretion of ideas that underwrites all literary criticism and also illuminate the authors’ lives outside the academy. The Ferrante Letters offers an improvisational, collaborative, and cumulative model for reading and writing with others, proposing a new method the authors call collective criticism. A book for fans of Ferrante and for literary scholars seeking fresh modes of intellectual exchange, The Ferrante Letters offers incisive criticism, insouciant riffs, and the pleasure of giving oneself over to an extended conversation about fiction with friends.

Download or read book Detour written by Kit Bladegrave and published by . This book was released on with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fierce witches. Necromancers. Soul reapers. Mysterious shifters. Secret councils. Forbidden alliances. The Overlook Arcane Academy awaits. Kate Devereaux’s summer just hit a detour. A great-grandmother she didn’t even realize existed sent her a letter inviting her to visit the Crescent City before she went off to NYU. What Boston girl wouldn’t want to visit New Orleans? Kate’s stunned to find a whole family she didn’t even know existed. Her mother’s side of the family. A family of witches. And Kate’s a witch too! Except she hasn’t the first clue what to do with witchcraft. She’s not even sure she believes it exists. Until she witnesses it. Now she’s been invited to attend Overlook Arcane Academy. An academy for supernatural types to train. What can she do other than let NYU know she’s going to be delayed in appearing for her classes. Now she’s at Overlook with her cousin Magda, who’s quick to warn her away from a necromancer student named Lucas Grey. Except Lucas seems to have the answers to the strange happenings which seem to follow Kate around. Not to mention, Lucas is hot. So, what’s Kate to do when Lucas tells her that the answers to her questions lie in the Underworld? And that together they can create a portal to take them there. Caution: Cliffhangers, violence can be found in this series of action-packed fantasy including necromancers, hot dragons, and fierce witches.

Download or read book No One You Know written by Michelle Richmond and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle Richmond dazzled readers and critics alike with her luminous novel The Year of Fog. Now Richmond returns with an intensely emotional, multilayered family drama—a woman’s search for her sister’s killer that spirals into a journey of secrets, revelations, and damaged lives. All her life Ellie Enderlin had been known as Lila’s sister. Until one day, without warning, the shape of their family changed forever. Twenty years ago, Lila, a top math student at Stanford, was murdered in a crime that was never solved. In the aftermath of her sister’s death, Ellie entrusted her most intimate feelings to a man who turned the story into a bestselling true crime book—a book that both devastated her family and identified one of Lila’s professors as the killer. Decades later, two Americans meet in a remote village in Nicaragua. Ellie is now a professional coffee buyer, an inveterate traveler and incapable of trust. Peter is a ruined academic. And their meeting is not by chance. As rain beats down on the steaming rooftops of the village, Peter leaves Ellie with a gift—the notebook that Lila carried everywhere, a piece of evidence not found with her body. Stunned, Ellie will return home to San Francisco to explore the mysteries of Lila’s notebook, filled with mathematical equations, and begin a search that has been waiting for her all these years. It will lead her to a hundred-year-old mathematical puzzle, to a lover no one knew Lila had, to the motives and fate of the man who profited from their family’s anguish—and to the deepest secrets even sisters keep from each other. As she connects with people whose lives unknowingly swirled around her own, Ellie will confront a series of startling revelations—from the eloquent truths of numbers to confessions of love, pain and loss. A novel about the stories and lies that strangers, lovers and families tell—and the secrets we keep even from ourselves—Michelle Richmond’s new novel is a work of astonishing depth and beauty, at once heartbreaking, provocative, and impossible to put down.

Download or read book Geek Charming written by Brynn Paulin and published by Supernova Indie Publishing Services LLC. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bronte: I have a secret. I have a huge crush on my brother’s best friend. I mean, frankly, I have zero chance with him. I have curves, not computer keys. So I’ll just be over here, pretending not to look and dying to touch. Problem is, we just got assigned to the same project. Shoot me now. Harrison: Shoot me now. I’m about to break the bro code. How am I going to get through this project without making Bronte mine? You’re right. I’m not.

Download or read book Up Down Strange Charmed Beauty and Truth Lila on the Wall and Mafia on Prozac written by Edward Allan Baker and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORIES: UP, DOWN, STRANGE, CHARMED, BEAUTY, AND TRUTH. A pair of teenage sisters struggle to escape their drug-addled mother with help from their favorite down-on-his-luck uncle. Thanks to a series of wholly organic yet startlingly unexpected plot twists, neither the characters nor their situations are how they seemed when the play began. (1 man, 2 women.) LILA ON THE WALL. Journalist Lila must investigate a three-month-old story about a woman who saw Jesus’ face on a graffiti-laden wall. But the woman who saw it is off on a tour in Italy, and Carl, a young cameraman who prides himself in figuring out “emotional landscapes,” is determined to make Lila believe in something again. (1 man, 1 woman.) MAFIA ON PROZAC. Jay and Tee are a couple of hit-men sitting by the ocean and reflecting on how their lives turned out. Their intended victim, Matt, awaits his fate in a burlap sack. When Al Capone visits in a dream, the outraged and desperate Matt gets dragged into refereeing the hit-men’s argument about the mob’s future. (3 men.)

Download or read book Sky City written by Sfc Science Fiction Cirklen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Denmark, the science fiction short story is a thriving genre, though mostly as a subculture. Since 2007, The Danish science fiction association, Science Fiction Cirklen, has published an annual anthology of original science fiction short stories written by Danish authors. The present volume contains a selection from the first two of these annual anthologies. Many Danish authors place their stories in a local setting, and all of them have something to say in addition to "just" being entertaining. You will find philosophical parables, time travels, space yarns, alternate history and much more, as well as stories which in different ways come close to the literary mainstream. The huge Anglo-American influence on Danish culture since the Second World War is noticeable in the way the authors use the tropes and language of the genre in its modern, international vein. In making these stories available in English, our aim - besides entertaining the readers - is to demonstrate that science fiction truly is an international genre and that it is being written, even in small European countries like Denmark. With these words we hope you will enjoy this collection of the "best of the best". Contents for Sky City New Science Fiction Stories by Danish Author Preface Manfred Christiansen: Sky City Niels Gjerløff: Departure Richard Ipsen: The White Bear Glen Stihmøe: Helium Loves Company Flemming R. P. Rasch: The Last Astronaut Morten Brunbjerg: The Organism on Maneo Patrick Leis: The Tourist Dan Mygind: Know Your Target Audience Camilla Wandahl: The Red Parakeets Kenneth Krabat: The Short Arm of History Søren Elmerdahl Hemmingsen: A Contribution to the History of Denmak A. Silvestri: When the Music's Over Nikolaj Højberg: The E-Puzzle Ellen Miriam Pedersen: Leading, Feeding Camilla Fønss Bach Friis: You are my Best Friend Brian P. Ørnbøl: Dreams of Stone Gudrun Østergaard: The Green Jacket Sara Tanderup: In the Surface Lars Ahn Pedersen: Interrogation of Victim n