Download or read book The Great Village Bun Fight written by Debbie McGowan and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All’s fair in love and war. But not in baking. Do what you do best. So said Henry’s grandad as he handed Henry a small, red-foil-wrapped box that gave a metallic rattle when he shook it. Inside: a large bunch of mismatched keys held together by a ring the size of a bangle. The keys to the bakery. Henry’s bakery. A humorous story about baking and village life (as you might expect). Also includes a rockin’ reverend, cakes and bunting. Part of Seasons of Love Anthology.
Download or read book Perfect Tenor written by Debbie McGowan and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When his music fills your heart, note by note, beat by beat, and your harmonies entwine, effortless, complete. That’s how you’ll know you’ve found the perfect tenor. A cosy festive romance set in the world of Hiding Behind The Couch.
Download or read book Chain of Secrets written by Debbie McGowan and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of George and Josh - two little boys who became best friends...two adolescents who stayed best friends...two young adults with secrets that might change their friendship forever. Josh and George have always shared the special bond of friendship. From days in primary school, to holidays spent riding their bikes along the canal, theirs is a promise to remain best friends forever. But can that promise withstand the trials of adolescence, and the changes in their feelings towards each other? NOTE: this is a fully stand-alone story, but it contains significant spoilers for anyone reading the Hiding Behind The Couch series, and should be read after The Harder They Fall (season three).
Download or read book Meredith s Dagger written by Debbie McGowan and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Huddled in a doorway, unseen by the men passing on great horses, Meredith watched from within the hood of her cloak. The pain of the cold, wet morning impaled her, rooting her in place, even as the cat rubbed against her shins with a force that should have felled her. She shooed him away. Go home. But he would not. She wished she had died that night. She wished she had died, for to live like this was not to live at all. * * * When Richie Moorcroft takes a housekeeping position to finance his studies, it means moving back to his childhood home: an ancient, almost-derelict cottage locals claim is haunted. But he never believed those stories; he knows where they came from, and in any case, he has a job to do: keeping nineteen-year-old Julian Denby on the straight and narrow without Julian realising his wealthy parents are paying Richie to do so. Luckily, Julian’s not very astute, although the same can’t be said for their newest housemates: Richie’s bestie, Anneke, and Julian’s older sister, Tamara. Add in George, the cat who appeared from nowhere and is in no hurry to leave, and that makes five…about to uncover the sinister history of their new home.
Download or read book A Midnight Clear written by Debbie McGowan and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story from Boughs of Evergreen: A Holiday Anthology A MIDNIGHT CLEAR by DEBBIE McGOWAN It's a cold, desperate December when a young girl flees home, in search of food, shelter and the real Santa Claus. Stranded in George and Josh's hometown, she discovers that the spirit of Christmas can be found in the most unexpected of places. Includes the story of The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen. * * * * * ABOUT BOUGHS OF EVERGREEN Boughs of Evergreen is a two-volume collection of short stories celebrating the holiday season in all its diversity. Penned by authors from the UK, the USA, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, these are tales of the young and the not-so-young from many different walks of life. Themes of family, friendship and romance take readers on a journey through some of the major holidays, both past and present, including Thanksgiving, Advent, St. Lucia Day, Hanukkah, Eid, Saturnalia, Winter Solstice, Yule, Christmas and New Year. In each we find at the very least hope, and often love, peace and happiness. Proceeds from sales of this anthology will be donated to The Trevor Project. The Trevor Project is the leading national organization [USA] providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24.
Download or read book Not My Christmas written by Debbie McGowan and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-25 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas at the Davenports has never been a relaxing affair, so when the opportunity for a little alone time with a beautiful, available woman comes Charlie Davenport’s way, she takes it, breaking several family traditions and risking the wrath of her siblings. But it’ll be worth it, right? And she can always make it up to them later…or next Christmas. * * * * * For readers of the Hiding Behind The Couch series, Not My Christmas comes several months after Reunions (Season Seven) and immediately after The Advent of Reason.
Download or read book Seasons of Love written by Deven Balsam and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love follows no rules. Like sun in winter and rain in summer, love can blossom in the most unexpected places. This richly diverse collection of stories proves that love is as universal and as varied as the seasons. THE STORIES: Tourist Season - Deven Balsam Machete Betty and the Office Sharks - Neptune Flowers Once Around Seven - Ofelia Gränd Winter Blossoms - Paul Iasevoli Year of the Guilty Soul - A.M. Leibowitz The Great Village Bun Fight - Debbie McGowan A Springful of Winters - Dawn Sister Out of Season - Bob Stone Seashell Voices - Alexis Woods Courting Light - A. Zukowski
Download or read book Distractions written by Debbie McGowan and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year has passed since Rob Simpson-Stone received a photo of his nieces enjoying a night out, unaware their photographer was one Anders Folden: a psychopathic hitman Rob helped to put away while working undercover for the Met Police Special Investigations Unit. Only Gray Fisher—Rob's former boss, now his business partner—is taking Rob seriously. The powers-that-be insist Rob and Gray are being paranoid: there’s no proof the photo came from Folden, who’s stayed off the authorities’ radar long enough to have assumed a new identity and fled overseas. It takes a significant threat to Rob’s son’s life for anyone to question that assertion, but police protection is worth nothing when the target has friends in high places to bend and break the law to his will. Folden won’t stop until he’s completed his mission: to fulfil a contract or end a personal vendetta, Rob and Gray are no longer sure which. What they do know is they need to find him before he finds them—with or without help from the authorities. The final instalment in the Gray Fisher trilogy.
Download or read book The Advent of Reason written by Debbie McGowan and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekend in an ancient castle and a murder-mystery game that becomes all too real. It's safe to say Josh's plans for a romantic anniversary with George are not turning out the way he'd hoped. In spite of his cynicism, and his promise not to embark on any more life-threatening pursuits for answers, when one of the guests turns up dead, Josh can't help but put his talents to use to solve the murder. The Advent of Reason is a (more or less) stand-alone novella-length character special in the Hiding Behind The Couch series.
Download or read book Year of the Guilty Soul written by A.M. Leibowitz and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1991, and Antonia “Toni” Moskowitz is caught in the middle, always having to pick a side. Whether it’s between her family’s two religions or in her relationships, she has choices to make. Does her heart belong to the outgoing boy with the lime-green nails or the girl in the black velvet skirt? Where does she fit in when both gender and gender roles feel confining? But learning who she is and who she wants to be with has a price. Every decision has consequences, especially when some kinds of love and expression are still taboo. Sometimes it’s hard to choose between being good and being right. Four seasons. Four kisses. One year to figure out what her heart wants. Part of Seasons of Love Anthology.
Download or read book Tabula Rasa written by Debbie McGowan and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of working for the police—both as a beat bobby and undercover—Rob Simpson-Stone is moving on with no regrets. It may be too late to rescue his marriage, but his relationship with his seven-year-old son, Lucas, is back on track. Rob’s grown-up nieces might be a taller order, but he’s prepared to do whatever it takes to prove they no longer need to worry that one day he won’t come home. Fate, however, has different ideas. When Rob fails to arrive at his leaving do, his former boss/new PI business partner Gray Fisher can’t understand why nobody else is worried Rob is MIA, never mind that Gray is pointlessly missing out on a night in with Will. As the reasons behind the night’s events unfold, Gray’s past recklessness threatens to catch up with him, putting those he holds close in danger and forcing both Rob and Gray to forge reluctant alliances.
Download or read book A Springful of Winters written by Dawn Sister and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kit is a bit socially awkward. In fact, the rules of social encounters are mostly a bit of a mystery to him, but he gets by, with lots of lists and contingency plans. He doesn't have any plans in place for when he first meets Stephan, however, and he keeps bumping into the man in the most embarrassing situations. The trouble is, Stephan keeps turning up in unexpected places, arousing suspicion that this gorgeous man might just have some contingency plans of his own where Kit is concerned. Part of Seasons of Love Anthology.
Download or read book Tourist Season written by Deven Balsam and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the darkness becomes too familiar. Sometimes, love lights the way out. One of Zeus's own children has a favorite office, hidden deep beneath the streets of Asheville, NC. Hades' existence, while satisfying, is due for a surprise when his path converges with that of Korey, a gifted art student. Part of Seasons of Love Anthology.
Download or read book Goth of Christmas Past written by Debbie McGowan and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black hair and band hoodies had a lot to answer for. Eleven years ago, when Gothboy mooched into their business studies class for the very first time, Krissi had taken one look at him and thought, What a freak. He’s so cool! Now in their mid-twenties, Krissi Johansson and Jay Meyer are successful businesspeople and still best friends. But while one is moving forward with their life, the other is sliding ever backwards…revisiting the past and wallowing in regret. Between career commitments, unresolved family matters and friends springing unwelcome surprises, Krissi and Jay have more than enough drama to contend with, and not all of their own making. On top of all that, it’s Christmas. Yay. * * * * * This is a stand-alone story—the first in Front of House—featuring ‘the next generation’ of Hiding Behind The Couch characters. For those reading the main series, this story follows (more or less) chronologically from Reunions (Season Seven).
Download or read book Courting Light written by A. Zukowski and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our days were numbered but precious. Courting Light is the story of Josie, an eighteen-year-old about to leave home to start university in London. She volunteers at a summer camp for disabled children. When Josie is paired with the autistic teenager Lucian, she faces intense experiences that are truly eye-opening. To her surprise, Lucian is not the only one who captures her attention. Over the weeks, Josie develops powerful desires evoked by the camp's enigmatic young leader with a shaved head and tattoo on her skull. Part of Seasons of Love Anthology
Download or read book Out of Season written by Bob Stone and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the old, old story. Demon meets girl, demon falls for girl, demon creates a perfect summer's day in the middle of winter. What could possibly go wrong? Part of Seasons of Love Anthology.
Download or read book Winter Blossoms written by Paul Iasevoli and published by Beaten Track Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chris, a naïve twenty-four-year-old, breaks up with the first man he's ever lived with. In the months that follow, he travels from Queens to The Hamptons, Manhattan to Brooklyn to find love. In the process, he discovers more about himself and realizes the man he hoped to meet has been in front of him the entire time. Winter Blossoms will take you on a ride through the streets and subways of New York City. Every stop along the way highlights the 1980s' vibrant, gay nightlife. Part nostalgic romp, part coming-of-age story, Winter Blossoms will delight the reader as it comes into full bloom. Part of Seasons of Love Anthology.