Download or read book The Blessed Bones written by Kathryn Casey and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She could hear nothing but the sound of her own heartbeat. It was dark and the rough ground scraped against her as she tried to move. Being alone was strange to her-she was so used to her big family, to the noise, the warmth, but the last thing she wanted was for the woman to return... When Detective Clara Jefferies returned home to Alber, Utah, she knew it would take a long time to convince the closed community to trust her. So she is surprised to be called to private land up in the mountains, until she hears that the bones of a young girl have been found. And hidden in the dark depths of the grave are the remains of a baby too... Digging into the town's missing persons files, Clara is shocked to discover that pregnant girls have been going missing for years. And when she spots Ash Crawford, the first cop on the scene, praying over the bodies, she begins to suspect that he knows more about the victim than he's letting on. With Crawford staying silent, and the identity of the girl still unknown, Clara's only choice is to visit every family living on the mountaintop, desperate to find what they might be hiding. But doing so means facing the man she was once bound to, and the tall iron gates of the ranch she ran away from all those years ago. Then another pregnant girl is reported missing, and Clara ramps up her search, racing to find her alive. But can she uncover the town's dark secrets in time to save both the girl and her unborn child? A heart-pounding crime thriller that twists and turns like a rollercoaster, leaving you on the edge of your seat. Readers of Lisa Regan, Linda Castillo and Kendra Elliot will be completely addicted. What readers are saying about Kathryn Casey: "WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW!... Kathryn Casey has written an amazing book... I cannot wait to pick up where this novel left off! You will not be able to put this book down-fabulous!" NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars "I could not put it down! I rarely give a book 5 stars and can't put it down but this one deserves it!... I read it in three days only because my iPad was running out of battery so I couldn't read it sooner. This was the first book I have ever read by Kathryn Casey and I can't wait to read more!" Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars "I absolutely LOVED this book... The book jumps right into the story and catches your attention from page one and holds it throughout." Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars "I loved this book!!... It's absolutely brilliant... A compulsive read." Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars "I was absorbed in the story from page one until the explosive and exciting ending... Intense and heart-pounding... I'm excited to read more in this series, and I want more!" Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars "I was sucked in from page one and couldn't put it down... I am very much looking forward to the next book in the series!... A cracking read." Bonnie's Book Talk, 5 stars "Wow... Kept me interested from page one. I didn't want the book to finish. Brilliant mystery... Can't wait to read more by this author." NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars

Download or read book These Beautiful Bones An Everyday Theology of the Body written by Emily Stimpson and published by Emmaus Road Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was Blessed John Paul II’s greatest gift to the Church: The theology of the body. A window into who we are, the theology of the body is a theology for the rooms where we make love. But it’s also a theology for the rooms where we work, where we eat, where we laugh, and where we pray. These Beautiful Bones takes you on a walk through those rooms. With both humor and practical wisdom, it sheds light on what the theology of the body has to say about life beyond the bedroom, about the everyday moments of life, helping you discover how to let grace enter into those moments and make of them something extraordinary.

Download or read book Blessed Bones written by K. R. W. Treanor and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book in the Geneva Bradford mystery series

Download or read book The Killing Storm written by Kathryn Casey and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a quiet afternoon in the park, four-year-old Joey plays in the sandbox, when a stranger approaches looking for his puppy. While Joey's mom, Crystal, talks on her cell phone, the stranger convinces the child to help search. By the time Crystal turns around, her son has disappeared. Yet her reaction is odd, not what one would expect from a distraught mother. Is Crystal somehow involved in her son's abduction? Meanwhile, on a ranch outside Houston, Texas Ranger Sarah Armstrong assesses a symbol left on the hide of a slaughtered longhorn, a figure that dates back to a forgotten era of sugarcane plantations and slavery. Soon other prizewinning bulls are butchered on the outskirts of the city, each bearing a similar drawing. The investigations converge at the same time a catastrophic hurricane looms in the Gulf. Finally, as dangerous winds and torrential rains pummel the city, Sarah is forced to risk her life to save Joey.

Download or read book River Bones written by Mary Deal and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-01-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A serial killer is on the loose in Sacramento River Delta. When Sara Mason returns to her hometown to start a new life, she learns that a murderer is terrorizing its residents. Despite battling difficult childhood memories, Sara is determined to make peace with her past. But she soon learns that the elusive psychopath is now stalking her. Sara's attempt to rebuild her life is hindered even more by the discovery of skeletal remains on her property. As the investigation focuses on several suspects, Sara discovers critical clues and bravely volunteers to be a decoy for the sheriff's department. Sara's destiny has brought her back home, but will her decision lead her down a path lined with danger... and straight into the arms of a madman?

Download or read book Dreaming of the Bones written by Deborah Crombie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the call Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid never expected -- and one he certainly doesn't want. Victoria, his ex-wife, who walked out without an explanation more than a decade ago, asks him to look into the suicide of local poet, Lydia Brooke -- a case that's been officially closed for five years. The troubled young writer's death, Victoria claims, might well have been murder. No one is more surprised than Kincaid himself when he agrees to investigate -- not even his partner and lover, Sergeant Gemma James. But it's a second death that raises the stakes and plunges Kincaid and James into a labyrinth of dark lies and lethal secrets that stretches all the way back through the twentieth century -- a death that most assuredly is murder, one that has altered Duncan Kincaid's world forever.

Download or read book The Crown of Gilded Bones written by Jennifer L. Armentrout and published by Blue Box Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bow Before Your Queen Or Bleed Before Her… From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes book three in her Blood and Ash series. She's been the victim and the survivor… Poppy never dreamed she would find the love she’s found with Prince Casteel. She wants to revel in her happiness but first they must free his brother and find hers. It’s a dangerous mission and one with far-reaching consequences neither dreamed of. Because Poppy is the Chosen, the Blessed. The true ruler of Atlantia. She carries the blood of the King of Gods within her. By right the crown and the kingdom are hers. The enemy and the warrior… Poppy has only ever wanted to control her own life, not the lives of others, but now she must choose to either forsake her birthright or seize the gilded crown and become the Queen of Flesh and Fire. But as the kingdoms’ dark sins and blood-drenched secrets finally unravel, a long-forgotten power rises to pose a genuine threat. And they will stop at nothing to ensure that the crown never sits upon Poppy’s head. A lover and heartmate… But the greatest threat to them and to Atlantia is what awaits in the far west, where the Queen of Blood and Ash has her own plans, ones she has waited hundreds of years to carry out. Poppy and Casteel must consider the impossible—travel to the Lands of the Gods and wake the King himself. And as shocking secrets and the harshest betrayals come to light, and enemies emerge to threaten everything Poppy and Casteel have fought for, they will discover just how far they are willing to go for their people—and each other. And now she will become Queen…

Download or read book Bones of the Dragon written by Margaret Weis and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with heroes and heroines and spanning locales of exotic adventure in a magic-forged world, the Dragonships of Vindras series fully illustrates the mastery of world-building and storytelling that has made Weis and Hickman into the bestselling fantasy co-authors of all time. In Bones of the Dragon, Skylan Ivorson is a sea-raider of the Vindras and eventually becomes the Chief of Chiefs of all Vindras clans, an honor he truly feels he deserves as one who has been blessed by Skoval, the god of war. But sometimes a blessing is a curse in disguise. Skoval and the other ancient gods are under siege from a new generation of gods who are challenging them for the powers of creation... and the only way to stop these brash interlopers lies within the mysterious and hidden Five Bones of the Vektan Dragons. It will be up to the Vindras people, as the dragon-goddess's champions, to undertake the quest to recover all Five. The fate of the Old Gods and the Vindras rests on their recovery--for this is not only a quest to save the world. It is also a quest for redemption. Welcome to the World of Dragonships! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Fallen Girls An Absolutely Unputdownable and Gripping Crime Thriller written by Kathryn Casey and published by Detective Clara Jefferies. This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She didn't notice the corn stalks shiver a few feet to her right. By the time she looked up, the man towered above her. In a single movement he wrapped one thick hand around her waist, the other he clamped over her mouth, muffling her screams. Detective Clara Jefferies has spent years running from her childhood in Alber, Utah. But when she hears that her baby sister Delilah has disappeared, she knows that the peaceful community will be shattered, her family vulnerable, and that that she must face up to her past and go home. Clara returns to find that her mother, Ardeth, has isolated her family by moving to the edge of town, in the shadow of the mountains. Ardeth refuses to talk to the police and won't let Clara through the front door, believing she and her sister-wives can protect their own. But Clara knows better than anyone that her mother isn't always capable of protecting her children. When Clara finds out that two more girls have disappeared, all last seen around the cornfields near her family's home, she realizes it's not just Delilah who's in danger. And then she gets a call that a body has been found... Clara will have to dig deep into the town's secrets if she's going to find Delilah. But that will mean confronting the reason she left. And as she gets closer to Delilah, she might be putting her more at risk... Gripping and spine-chilling, readers will love Detective Clara Jefferies, reading The Fallen Girls deep into the night. Fans of Kendra Elliot, Lisa Regan and Melinda Leigh won't stop turning the pages of this unforgettable new series from bestselling and award-winning author Kathryn Casey. What readers are saying about The Fallen Girls "WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW!... Kathryn Casey has written an amazing book... I cannot wait to pick up where this novel left off! You will not be able to put this book down - fabulous!" NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars "I absolutely LOVED this book... The book jumps right into the story and catches your attention from page one and holds it throughout." Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars "I loved this book!!... It's absolutely brilliant... A compulsive read." Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars "I was sucked in from page one and couldn't put it down... I am very much looking forward to the next book in the series!... A cracking read." Bonnie's Book Talk, 5 stars "Wow... Kept me interested from page one. I didn't want the book to finish. Brilliant mystery... Can't wait to read more by this author." NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars "The start of a new series and I can't wait to read more... This book kept me reading late into the night I HAD TO KNOW THE TRUTH. Full of tension and suspense." Goodreads reviewer "First I've read by this author and it will not be the last. I thoroughly enjoyed this book from beginning to end. It had a great storyline that kept you guessing until the end. Could not put this one down." Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars

Download or read book The Map of Bones written by Francesca Haig and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Book Two in the critically acclaimed The Fire Sermon trilogy--The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined post-apocalyptic series by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is born with a twin. Of each pair, one is an Alpha--physically perfect in every way; and the other an Omega--burdened with deformity, small or large. With the Council ruling an apartheid-like society, Omegas are branded and ostracized while the Alphas have gathered the world's sparse resources for themselves. Though proclaiming their superiority, for all their effort, Alphas cannot escape one harsh fact: whenever one twin dies, so does the other. Cass is a rare Omega, one burdened with psychic foresight. While her twin, Zach, gains power on the Alpha Council, she dares to dream the most dangerous dream of all: equality. For daring to envision a world in which Alphas and Omegas live side-by-side as equals, both the Council and the Resistance have her in their sights"--

Download or read book Walking the Bones written by Randall Silvis and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When long-buried secrets come back to the surface... The bones of seven young girls, picked clean and carefully preserved, discovered years ago... that's all Sergeant Ryan DeMarco knows about the unsolved crime he has unwittingly been roped into investigating during what is supposed to be a healing road trip with his new love, Jayme. DeMarco is still reeling from the case that led to death of his best friend months ago and wants nothing more than to lay low. Unfortunately, the small southern town of Jayme's idyllic youth is not exactly a place that lets strangers go unnoticed—especially strangers who have a history of solving violent crimes. And if there's anything DeMarco knows, it's that a killer always leaves clues behind, just waiting for the right person to come along and put all the pieces together... Walking the Bones is a story about things buried—memories, regrets, secrets, and bodies. Acclaimed author Randall Silvis delivers another heart-stopping investigation as DeMarco finds himself once again drawn into a case that will demand more of himself than he may be willing to give.

Download or read book Golden Bones written by Sichan Siv and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the United States battled the Communists of North Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s, the neighbouring country of Cambodia was attacked from within by dictator Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. The Khmer Rouge imprisoned, enslaved, and murdered the educated and intellectual members of the population, resulting in the harrowing "killing fields"–rice paddies where the harvest yielded nothing but millions of skulls. Young Sichan Siv–a target since he was a university graduate–was told by his mother to run and "never give up hope!" Captured and put to work in a slave labor camp, Siv knew it was only a matter of time before he would be worked to death–or killed. With a daring escape from a logging truck and a desperate run for freedom through the jungle, including falling into a dreaded pungi pit, Siv finally came upon a colorfully dressed farmer who said, "Welcome to Thailand." He spent months teaching English in a refugee camp in Thailand while regaining his strength, eventually Siv was allowed entry into the United States. Upon his arrival in the U.S., Siv kept striving. Eventually rising to become a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Siv returned with great trepidation to the killing fields of Cambodia in 1992 as a senior representative of the U.S. government. It was an emotionally overwhelming visit.

Download or read book Her Final Prayer written by Kathryn Casey and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her pulse pounded in her ears as she scanned the house. Her eyes traveled over the porch where three empty chairs lazily rocked in the breeze, surrounded by scattered children's toys. In the yard, there were mounds of earth. Graves. Only big enough for children... When Detective Clara Jefferies is called to a family ranch just outside of Alber, Utah, she's horrified to find two innocent young children murdered alongside their mothers. But she arrives at the scene quickly enough to rush their father, Jacob Johansson, to hospital where he begins fighting for his life, and to save his two-month-old son Jeremy, left untouched in his crib. As Clara begins to investigate, nothing she finds out makes sense. Though she uncovers photos of one of Jacob's wives in his best friend's trailer, her flower necklace underneath his bed, there are rumors that she was in love with a different man altogether. And as the close-knit community comes together to support Jacob, Clara's own family shut her out of the investigation... But Clara won't give up. With the killer still at large, baby Jeremy is at risk, and every moment her family are helping Jacob they are also in danger. To earn her family's trust, Clara finally has to face the past, but can she do it before it's too late? Impossible to put down, Her Final Prayer is perfect for readers of Lisa Regan, Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot. You'll race through the pages until the final heart-pounding twist. What readers are saying about Kathryn Casey: "WOW, WOW, WOW, WOW!... Kathryn Casey has written an amazing book... I cannot wait to pick up where this novel left off! You will not be able to put this book down - fabulous!" NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars "I could not put it down! I rarely give a book 5 stars and can't put it down but this one deserves it!... I read it in three days only because my iPad was running out of battery so I couldn't read it sooner. This was the first book I have ever read by Kathryn Casey and I can't wait to read more!" Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars "I absolutely LOVED this book... The book jumps right into the story and catches your attention from page one and holds it throughout." Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars "I loved this book!!... It's absolutely brilliant... A compulsive read." Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars "I was absorbed in the story from page one until the explosive and exciting ending... Intense and heart-pounding... I'm excited to read more in this series, and I want more!" Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars "I was sucked in from page one and couldn't put it down... I am very much looking forward to the next book in the series!... A cracking read." Bonnie's Book Talk, 5 stars

Download or read book A Garden of Thieves written by Dean Frederick Unger and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eve Walker, Canada's first female journalist, discovers the body of Ernie Tsan, a powerful labour activist washed ashore at high tide. Heidi Tsan, Ernie's surviving Salish wife, warns that Ernie's death was racially motivated, and is merely the harbinger of a darkness that is yet to come. Based, in part, on actual historical events.

Download or read book Bone written by Fae Myenne Ng and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This emotional story about family and community follows a young woman living in San Francisco's Chinatown as she navigates lingering conflicts and secrets after her sister's death. "We were a family of three girls. By Chinese standards, that wasn't lucky. In Chinatown, everyone knew our story. Outsiders jerked their chins, looked at us, shook their heads. We heard things." In this profoundly moving novel, Fae Myenne Ng takes readers into the hidden heart of San Francisco's Chinatown, to the world of one family's honor, their secrets, and the lost bones of a "paper father." Two generations of the Leong family live in an uneasy tension as they try to fathom the source of a brave young girl's sorrow. Oldest daughter Leila tells the story: of her sister Ona, who has ended her young, conflicted life by jumping from the roof of a Chinatown housing project; of her mother Mah, a seamstress in a garment shop run by a "Chinese Elvis"; of Leon, her father, a merchant seaman who ships out frequently; and the family's youngest, Nina, who has escaped to New York by working as a flight attendant. With Ona and Nina gone, it is up to Leila to lay the bones of the family's collective guilt to rest, and find some way to hope again. Fae Myenne Ng's luminous debut explores what it means to be a stranger in one's own family, a foreigner in one's own neighborhood—and whether it's possible to love a place that may never feel quite like home.

Download or read book The Blessed Cornelius written by Joseph Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Room Full of Bones written by Elly Griffiths and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a curator is found murdered, Ruth Galloway and Detective Inspector Nelson track down links between the murder, Aborigine skulls, and a drug-smuggling operation that forces Ruth to question her loyalties.