Download or read book They Call Me Tess written by Darlene J Gage and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sara Richardson, a middle-aged clergyman’s wife, wakes up one morning with the thought that something out of the ordinary was going to happen. As she carried her coffee into the family room, the thought from earlier almost made her spill her coffee. She was told to go to the window near the front door, and look out. Not wanting to disobey what she thought might be a message from God, she does what it asked. The spot nearest the door was still in the shadows. As her eyes adjusted, she made out what appeared to be a body lying just feet from her door. Not believing what she saw, she closed her eyes then looked again. Sure enough, there was a body! It was an old woman, lying face down, her long white hair spread around her face. Who was this old woman and what was she doing on Sara’s front lawn? Was she alive, or God forbid dead? Follow Sara’s journey as she takes a leap of faith into doing what God asked of her, with no questions asked.

Download or read book The Bone Garden written by Tess Gerritsen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unknown bones, untold secrets, and unsolved crimes from the distant past cast ominous shadows on the present in the dazzling new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen. Present day: Julia Hamill has made a horrifying discovery on the grounds of her new home in rural Massachusetts: a skull buried in the rocky soil–human, female, and, according to the trained eye of Boston medical examiner Maura Isles, scarred with the unmistakable marks of murder. But whoever this nameless woman was, and whatever befell her, is knowledge lost to another time. Boston, 1830: In order to pay for his education, Norris Marshall, a talented but penniless student at Boston Medical College, has joined the ranks of local “resurrectionists”–those who plunder graveyards and harvest the dead for sale on the black market. Yet even this ghoulish commerce pales beside the shocking murder of a nurse found mutilated on the university hospital grounds. And when a distinguished doctor meets the same grisly fate, Norris finds that trafficking in the illicit cadaver trade has made him a prime suspect. To prove his innocence, Norris must track down the only witness to have glimpsed the killer: Rose Connolly, a beautiful seamstress from the Boston slums who fears she may be the next victim. Joined by a sardonic, keenly intelligent young man named Oliver Wendell Holmes, Norris and Rose comb the city–from its grim cemeteries and autopsy suites to its glittering mansions and centers of Brahmin power–on the trail of a maniacal fiend who lurks where least expected . . . and who waits for his next lethal opportunity. With unflagging suspense and pitch-perfect period detail, The Bone Garden deftly interweaves the thrilling narratives of its nineteenth- and twenty-first century protagonists, tracing the dark mystery at its heart across time and place to a finale as ingeniously conceived as it is shocking. Bold, bloody, and brilliant, this is Tess Gerritsen’s finest achievement to date. This ebook edition contains a special preview of Tess Gerritsen’s I Know a Secret. "The story, which digs up a dark Boston of times long past, entices readers to keep turning pages long after their bedtimes."—Kirkus Reviews (starred)

Download or read book Rizzoli Isles Listen to Me written by Tess Gerritsen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Rizzoli & Isles are back! From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, this “shocking and fast-paced” (Karin Slaughter) thriller has Jane and Maura investigating a brutal murder with dire implications, and this time, with Jane’s intrepid mother, Angela, looking into a mystery of her own. “An utter pleasure to keep readerly company with.”—The New York Times Mothers know best . . . But who will listen? Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by her neighbors, lies bludgeoned to death in her own home. But anything can happen behind closed doors, and Sofia seemed to have plenty of secrets in her last days, making covert phone calls to traceless burner phones. When Jane finally makes a connection between Sofia and the victim of a hit-and-run from months earlier, the case only grows more blurry. What exactly was Sofia involved in? One thing is clear: The killer will do anything it takes to keep their secret safe. Meanwhile, Angela Rizzoli hasn’t had a decent night’s sleep in all the years since her daughter became a homicide detective. Maybe the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree: Nothing in Angela’s neighborhood gets by her—not the gossip about a runaway teenager down the block and definitely not the strange neighbors who have just moved in across the street. Angela’s sure there’s no such thing as coincidence in her sleepy suburb. If only Jane would listen—instead she writes off Angela’s concerns as the result of an overactive imagination. But Angela’s convinced there’s a real wolf in her vicinity, and her cries might now fall on deaf ears. With so much happening on the Sofia case, Jane and Maura already struggle to see the forest for the trees, but will they lose sight of something sinister happening much closer to home?

Download or read book Tess written by Edward K. Norris and published by E-Books Publisher. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book PRESUMED GUILTY written by Tess Gerritsen and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fan-favorite novel by internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen Miranda Wood thinks she has seen the last of Richard Tremain, her rich and married ex-lover—until she discovers him stabbed to death in her bed. With her knife. Miranda is the obvious suspect, and she looks even guiltier when her bail is posted by an anonymous donor. Was this an act of kindness designed to buy her time to clear her name? Or is someone trying to manipulate Miranda and draw her into the dark and secret world of a murdered man, where everybody's presumed guilty? With her world falling around her, Miranda is determined to discover who killed Richard. But proving her innocence may become secondary to staying alive.…

Download or read book Emma and Tess written by Jon Randel and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tess is an incomparable beauty with unimaginable wealth. Emma is lower middle class who is now one step above homeless. Tess, educated at Stanford, lives in the fast lane. She is the definition of chic. Emma lives day to day in the abysmal world of druggies, the homeless, hookers and pushers. Theirs is a world divided by wealth, power, education and social status. Their lives could not reflect a greater contrast. That their paths cross is amazing in itself. What transpires is a story that will make you look at addiction and the pathos it creates in a new light. And it will give you hope Jon Randall was born in New York City in 1945. He graduated from Columbia University with a degree in creative writing in 1968. He graduated from Harvard with a PhD in English in 1972. He has written seven books, all published under the penname of Marvin Hunter. His books run the gamut from mystery and intrigue to a textbook of English. Mr .Randall is married and has three children. He lives on a small farm in Rhode Island.

Download or read book Meet My Sister Tess written by Kristin Billerbeck and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clark is everything Tess Ellison thinks she wants in a husband. He is stable, a good provider, the kind of man who can allow Tess to fulfill her mother's dying wish: that her mentally-handicapped brother, Robby, will never be put into an institution. Robby loves to introduce his sister to every new person he meets, including Greg Wheaton, the new social worker in town. It is obvious that Robby is encouraging Tess and Greg to become friends. Soon Tess is forced to admit a marriage of amiable partenership may not be for her. Can she trust God to keep her mother's dying wish and give her the man she loves?

Download or read book A Just Reckoning written by Joan Merriam and published by Joan Merriam. This book was released on 2021-02-20 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slicing into the poisonous underbelly of the global sex trade, prize-winning investigative journalist Tess Alexander finds herself catapulted into an unspeakable world that she barely knew existed. It also puts a target on her back. Driven by a tragedy in her own past to hunt down and expose the worst of human corruption and brutality, this isn’t the first time Tess’s work has put her in danger—but this new investigation puts her in far worse peril than anything she’s faced before. It begins after she meets Katia Voitenko, who as a small child living along the Black Sea coast of Crimea was kidnapped and sold into decades of sex slavery. Hearing Katia’s appalling story, Tess becomes determined to unmask the ruthless sociopaths behind the international sex trafficking ring that enslaved the young woman. Her search for the ringleaders behind the conspiracy drives her thousands of miles from the safety of her northern California home to the streets and alleyways of Ukraine, Crimea, and Great Britain. During the course of her investigation—and with the help of a collection of characters that includes a Ukrainian revolutionary, an officer with London’s Metropolitan Police Department, and one of the leaders of a transnational organization dedicated to rescuing victims of the sex trade—Tess uncovers the sinister extent of the trafficking operation, and almost pays with her life.

Download or read book Maverick written by Jenna Myles and published by Myles High Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-27 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day I met Cadence, I was drunk, lying on the floor of her rescue singing Twinkle Twinkle to a dog. The second time I met her, she was waitressing at a club. She was a dream, and the way she lit up around me, I thought I found my future. Until my brother let it slip that I own the club and was technically her boss. The third time I saw her, I was drunk again, mostly naked, upside down on a stripper pole. Then I fell off. Of course she’s able to resist me. But when I find her and her grandma sleeping in the rescue? Well maybe forcing them to come live with me wasn’t the best plan, but now that they’re here, I don’t want to let them go. So I’m going to work like hell to prove to her that she can trust me with all of her.

Download or read book The Fraudulent Fiance or Saving Grace written by and published by N. R. McCarthy. This book was released on with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Plan for Darkness written by Daron Malmborg and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plan for Darkness never rests. It sees through the electronic darkness of the electromagnetic pulses and the Infection’s Revenge Plague delivered by a terrorist army to bring powerful nations around the world to their knees. Within days, everything that has ever been produced for consumers has been hoarded, spoiled, traded, stolen, or eaten. Drug-dependent people watch their life-saving medications dwindle, fearing the future. They understand that their destiny will be like those lurking behind the other side of a locked door. The dead rise while the living struggle in a world that’s devoid of modern conveniences. The enemy refuses to die, let alone stay dead. Survivors struggle against their fears of the unimaginable, the unknown, the breakdown of civilization, and time. The Plan for Darkness follows Tess, a brave young woman determined to survive; Sani, a young man hoping to keep his family safe; Ratner, a man faced with horrors beyond his imagining; and Jimmy, an old man who finds a new lease on life as he fights for those around him. Together, these allies fight against a menace unleashed on the globe, but can they survive the terrible fallout?

Download or read book Forgiving Tess written by Kimberly Miller and published by Pelican Ventures Book Group. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tess Carson has finally turned her life around. After a string of bad decisions, she's making amends, paying debts, and working to bring her family back together. But when Tess’s childhood crush re-enters her chaotic life, she’s certain it’s the worst time for romance. Even if he still has those mesmerizing dimples.In Tess’s eyes, Josh Thorne has it all. As a youth pastor with a thriving ministry, he’s exactly what she needs. He’s stable, kind, confident, and not afraid of Tess’s troubled past—even if she still has an entire town that insists her sins will never be forgotten or forgiven.But when the demons of her past collide with the incredible promise of her future, Tess wonders if it’s possible to forget and forgive. Does she have enough courage

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Download or read book Tess of the Road written by Rachel Hartman and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning Rachel Hartman's newest YA is a tour de force and an exquisite fantasy for the #metoo movement. "Tess of the Road is astonishing and perfect. It's the most compassionate book I've read since George Eliot's Middlemarch." --NPR In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess is none of these things. Tess is. . . different. She speaks out of turn, has wild ideas, and can't seem to keep out of trouble. Then Tess goes too far. What she's done is so disgraceful, she can't even allow herself to think of it. Unfortunately, the past cannot be ignored. So Tess's family decide the only path for her is a nunnery. But on the day she is to join the nuns, Tess chooses a different path for herself. She cuts her hair, pulls on her boots, and sets out on a journey. She's not running away, she's running towards something. What that something is, she doesn't know. Tess just knows that the open road is a map to somewhere else--a life where she might belong. Returning to the spellbinding world of the Southlands she created in the award-winning, New York Times bestselling novel Seraphina, Rachel Hartman explores self-reliance and redemption in this wholly original fantasy. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * BOSTON GLOBE * The Chicago Public Library * KIRKUS REVIEWS Four starred reviews! "The world building is gorgeous, the creatures are vivid and Hartman is a masterful storyteller. Pick up this novel, and savor every page." --Paste Magazine

Download or read book Guiding Tess written by Carole Borthwick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His name was Chance, a powerful German Shepherd Dog. She holds the handle fastened to his harness, for he is her eyes. She was terrified in her dark world, but his dedication calmed the bitterness and fears. He gave her confidence. She learned to trust and together they make this journey to fulfill a young womans quest for love and purpose. There must be a reason to exist? As Tess feels a new life is within her grasp, she is unaware of the ever threatening shadows in her darkness. This guide dog has to go beyond his training.

Download or read book After written by Anna Todd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Book one of the After series--the Internet sensation with millions of readers. Tessa didn't plan on meeting Hardin during her freshman year of college. But now that she has, her life will never be the same"--

Download or read book Sins of the Sisters written by Faith A. Keahey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One winters day during the Great War, two adorable little girls watched out the window of the landing between the first and second floors of the three-story brick Victorian home. From their perch, they could see the American soldiers struggle with a steel-gray metal box against the fierce Chicago wind. The children tried to be as invisible as possible as the men entered the house and deposited the military casket in the front parlor. They had overheard the servants and knew inside the coffin was the body of Uncle John. This day was the beginning of the end. Albert Meyers had been quick to put his old life as Augie Steinmetz of Germany behind him. Ill-gotten money had gained him the education he lusted after as though it were a seductive woman. Before long, he was living his American dream in the stately home situated in the elite South Shore Drive neighborhood. With Attorney-at-Law tacked on the end of his name, he had married the frail Harriet, the most beautiful woman he had ever met. Soon two daughters, Molly and Sally, completed his perfect world. Unfortunately for his wife and the two darling little girls, Albert paid for his sins with his own life. Over the next decade, it seemed the family was cursed. By the time the stock market crashed in 1929, only the daughters and two of their domestics had survived to tell the story. Even the stately brick home was reduced to rubble and ashes. Molly continued to step in one mud puddle after another as she struggled to fight off the wolves in sheeps clothing that hid around every corner and lurked behind every bush. She rationalized there must be gods and goddesses somewhere in the heavens playing games with peoples lives. Sometimes you won the trophy, and sometimes you were the prize. Her enemies often made the mistake of assuming Molly was nave. She was young and inexperienced, but she was extremely intelligent and tenacious and would go to any length to protect the people and the things she loved. She had no equal when it came to dispersing justice and extracting revenge, that is to say, except, possibly her sisters. When Molly looked for a quiet place to lick her wounds, she settled on the small mountain community of Brown Bear City. She quickly learned there were no walls strong enough to keep away pain and sorrow, but she had a valuable weaponshe was wealthy. You will get caught up in Mollys colorful life and become endeared to the people she collects along lifes pathway. You may well agree with her assessment; some people just deserve to die.