Download or read book Twisted Ties written by Cheryl Clayton Waters and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put your running shoes on, and get ready to go on a marathon through Macys tumultuous life! Macy works hard and loves harder, all while enduring the whelms of life that are a bit foreign to some. As time transcends, witness the likes of her and others dealing constantly with battles of love and deceit. Witness the command of subjects that define the core of human emotion, logic, reason, and suspense. While navigating through the pages, follow Macy as she encounters excessive baggage of disloyalty, which weighs heavily upon her heart, soul, and mind. One can view Macy clearly as a twenty-first century damsel in distress who finds herself surrounded by loved ones who are oblivious to her need for solace in troubled times. Macys quest to desperately find joy takes a turn for the worst and leaves her devastated to the core. Her life becomes so turned upside down that she wont be able to discern friends from foes. Will Macy lose her mind before she reaches the finish line, or will she win in this game called life?

Download or read book Last Night in Twisted River written by John Irving and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County—to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto—pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River depicts the recent half-century in the United States as “a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course.” What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author’s unmistakable voice—the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller.

Download or read book TWISTED EMOTIONS written by Jenna Smith and published by Jenna Smith. This book was released on 2024-05-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged marriage, it doesn't occur as much in this modern society. Or so people think. In reality, it would shock you how high the numbers are. It just so happened to occur between two complete strangers. 

Download or read book Twisted Tango written by Richard J. Walter and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Benton arrives in Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 1945 to investigate possible fraud in the local office of a foreign film distributor. In Buenos Aires, he reunites with his partner from his days in the OSS, who has been posted to the U.S. embassy. His friend recruits him to spy on the most powerful figure in Argentina, Colonel Juan Pern, and his young mistress, Eva Duarte. Complicating the assignment is the simultaneous arrival of a former Germany army officer who is on a secret mission to deliver gold to Pern that will help pave the way for the re-birth of the Third Reich. Benton soon finds himself caught up in a dangerous game of high-stakes diplomacy, political intrigure, deceit, and betrayal, a game that not only puts his own life in danger but one that threatens the life of the young Argentine beauty with whom he falls in love. This story of suspense and romance is told against the realistic backdrop of a major turning point in the history of Argentina and its relations with the United States.

Download or read book Twisted Surprise written by Emery Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the most wonderful time of the year...Or at least it's supposed to be. With the holidays quickly approaching, Jovie is looking forward to spending some quality time with her boyfriend Jack.First a family Thanksgiving in Brownsboro, Georgia with her parents, followed by a magical Christmas with their friends back in Houston. But Jack's disappearing act leaves Jovie wondering if their relationship will even survive the holidays. Ready for a Twisted Surprise? Unwrap this romantic Christmas tale to find out what Jack's been hiding! This book is intended for readers 18 years and older.Twisted Surprise is not a standalone novella. Twisted Fate should be read first.

Download or read book Twisted written by R. L. Stine and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 1987 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a pledge of a sorority, Abby Wallis becomes part of a prank that goes wrong.

Download or read book Unimagined Tales Some From Twisted Minds written by PJ Ramírez and published by Ibukku LLC. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here you have a variety of stories, some of abhorrent mentality and mystery, some supernatural. All are short for a quick reading satisfaction. Some are spiced with erotic scenes, suggested or lived, when relevant to the styles and lives of the characters. Intrigue is part of some when cunning is the way to get selfish results. They all expose human nature in the good and the worst. Enjoy.

Download or read book TWIST written by Louree Ware and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is full of Love, Mystery, Deception and heartache. It will make you laugh, and sometimes cry. The heroin in this story is Shelleen Porter. She didn't wait until she was an adult to become her brother's keeper. She started when she was just nine years old. This young girl was destined to be a leader. Little Jake was her neighbor, and because he had polio, and walked different from most twelve year olds, and talked different, some children had the tendency to pick at him in some way. But not when Shelleen was around. One evening she had detention, which meant she had to stay after school for an hour. When she got home her sister told her that Morey had pushed Little Jake down. She went to Jake's house, got him and proceeded to Morey's house. When his Mom answered the door. Shelleen told her she needed to see Morey. His mother asked her the reason. She told her she came to beat his butte for pushing Jake down. Morey's mother, shocked and surprised, said that if he needed punishing she was the one to do it. Shelleen said well go ahead and punish him, because if she didn't she was going to get him going to school tomorrow morning, or at school, or coming home from school tomorrow afternoon. Because Shelleen believed she should look after her neighbors and her friends, she had the reputation of being a troublemaker. Her mother had to constantly visit her school. This went on all through elementary school and into high school. One of her most troubling times in high school was when she got a baseball bat to beat seven guys who had raped five girls in her classroom. In the eleventh grade, Shelleen and her sister Greta coned there way into an adult nightclub. There she met Lou Buckbinder. They fell in love. Hence, began a long love story. She was seventeen, he was twenty-six years old. This would end up being one of the most controversial love stories you have ever read. Lou was a married man, whose wife took their daughter and left home. He was looking for someone to hang with; Shelleen was looking for her first love. While she had a lot of self-control issues, he had friends he was concerned about that had many problems. Johnny his best friend was married to a woman that had turned out to be a drunken alcoholic. David had an ex-girlfriend that was pretending to be pregnant in order to get money from him. His sister-in-law, Shandon was one of the five girls who were raped by seven guys. She was being investigated, because two of those guys had been mysteriously killed. She was a suspect in their murders. Lou was a college graduate who wanted to build a real estate business. That was his goal. Now, he had a girl friend that was constantly having problems that was affecting him and his work. In Shelleen's second year of college she was enticed into having a sex act with another girl. Afterwards, she felt dirty and ashamed, and then she attempted suicide. Lou coached her into letting it go. After this incident, she began to change. Her whole attitude and outlook on life changed. She started making good grades, and kept an A average throughout the rest of her college experience. When she graduated, she and Lou were supposed to get married, but a strange thing happen. She told Lou that they were going to have to put their marriage on hold for a while. She said she had joined the Army Nurses Corps, and had accepted an assignment in Iraq. When Shelleen was sixteen years old, she said that the most important thing in life to her was, what she could do to make life better for all people. That seemed to be the creed she was living by. Lou was devastated. He felt like the whole world was against him. He finally picked himself up, and started planning for his future without the person he loved more than life itself. Shelleen had been in Iraq a little more than a year when he decided to go there to see her. She told him he shouldn'

Download or read book Twisted River written by Siobhan MacDonald and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping debut psychological thriller for fans of The Silent Wife and The Wicked Girls about two families in crisis and a holiday house swap gone terribly wrong “She would never have fit as neatly into the trunk of his own car.” Limerick, Ireland: the O’Brien family’s driveway. American Oscar Harvey opens the trunk of his hosts’ car and finds the body of a woman, beaten and bloody. But let’s start at the beginning. Kate and Mannix O’Brien live by Curragower Falls in Limerick, in a lovely house they can barely afford. Their son Fergus is bullied at school, and their daughter Izzy blames herself, wishing she could protect him. Kate decides that her family needs a vacation, and is convinced her luck’s about to change when she spots a gorgeous Manhattan apartment on a home-exchange website. Hazel and Oscar Harvey and their two children live on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Though they seem successful and happy, Hazel has mysterious bruises, and Oscar is hiding things about his dental practice. They, too, need a change of pace. Hazel has always wanted her children to see her native Limerick, and the house swap offers a perfect chance to soothe two troubled marriages. But this will be anything but a perfect vacation. And the body in the trunk is just the beginning.

Download or read book Twist Like a Goddess written by A.M. Canavan and published by Canavan Novels LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Goddess doesn‘t have to be perfect … She just has to be true. Olympus isn’t the only thing causing problems for the gods. In the face of everything she’s been through recently, Evangeline Lewis is struggling to find her place in Surprise. When someone she cares about goes missing, Eva doesn't have a choice. She needs to help, and it leads her on a new adventure with old friends. Still plagued by visions and visitors from Tartarus, Eva's powers are almost out of control. Eva soon learns that even Olympus still has secrets. Not everything is what it seems, leading Eva into a world where she must use powers that she’s never explored before. While Eva is determined to solve the mystery and save the day, her world is turned upside down. Not only that but her visions are put to the test in ways she'd never imagined possible. The other gods don't stand a chance, and Eva is left alone to pull everything together. If she can’t, Olympus will be exposed and everything they’ve worked for will cease to exist.

Download or read book The Twist written by Lee Silver and published by Siren-BookStrand. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [BookStrand Fantasy Romance] Zane Tollison's wife is running through their cash faster than he can make it. A "Hail Mary" contract with Clearwater Tobacco arrives in the nick of time to keep his fledgling consulting firm afloat, and to unchain him once and for all from his narcissistic wife. Beautiful, brilliant, and estranged Kathy Davis is desperate for a new beginning. The feisty post doc bio-geneticist jumps at an offer from Clearwater, pouring her soul into a development that will revolutionize the tobacco industry. The two are unwittingly reeled into a convoluted plan to steal $12 million. Zane is changing into a carbon copy of Kathy, a pawn in a bizarre genetic metamorphosis, entangling Kathy in a sinewy web of seduction and deceit. Forging a bond that will set the course of their destiny, they fight to overpower the diabolic hold that has taken over their lives. ** A BookStrand Mainstream Romance

Download or read book Twist My Charm the Popularity Spell written by Toni Gallagher and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Random House Children's Books, 2015.

Download or read book The Twisted Ones written by T. Kingfisher and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods in this chilling novel that reads like The Blair Witch Project meets The Andy Griffith Show. When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with useless rubbish. That would be horrific enough, but there’s more—Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather’s journal, which at first seems to be filled with nonsensical rants…until Mouse encounters some of the terrifying things he described for herself. Alone in the woods with her dog, Mouse finds herself face to face with a series of impossible terrors—because sometimes the things that go bump in the night are real, and they’re looking for you. And if she doesn’t face them head on, she might not survive to tell the tale. From Hugo Award–winning author Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher, The Twisted Ones is a gripping, terrifying tale bound to keep you up all night—from both fear and anticipation of what happens next.

Download or read book Twist written by Tom Grass and published by Orion. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with action, love and betrayal, Tom Grass's electrifying heist thriller is a gripping reinvention of the Dickens classic, OLIVER TWIST. Now a major film starring Michael Caine, Lena Headey, Rita Ora and Raff Law. Eighteen-year-old Twist doesn't have much. No money, no home and no family. All he has is his reputation as one of the most daring street artists in London - whose unique skills are matched only by his infamous talent as a climber and freerunner. But when he finds himself on the run from the police, he knows that he could be about to lose the last thing he has left - his freedom. Until he is saved by the mysterious Dodge. When Dodge introduces him to con artist and art 'collector' Cornelius Faginescu, Twist realises that he finally has the chance to be part of something. All that he has to do is put aside his moral objections and learn to steal...

Download or read book Twist written by Sarah Cannon and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of gifted kids must band together to save their town and a fantasy world from horror-story monsters come to life in Sarah Cannon's imaginative middle-grade novel, Twist... Eli has a dream. He's going to be the next Stephen King, and he's just created his best monster yet! Neha has a secret. Her notebook is filled with drawings of a fantasy world called Forest Creeks, and it's become inhabited by wonderful imaginary creatures. But her new friends are in danger . . . Court has a gift, both for finding trouble and for stopping it. And when she accidentally ends up with one of Neha's drawings, she quickly realizes that the monsters raiding Forest Creeks are coming from Eli's stories. When these three creative kids come together, they accidentally create a doorway from Forest Creeks into the real world, and now every monster that Eli ever imagined has been unleashed upon their town! Praise for Sarah Cannon's Oddity: "This book grabbed me from page one. Wild, whacky, and yet utterly believable." —Sage Blackwood, author of Jinx "Readers will be hooked from the first page. . . . Featuring a diverse cast of characters, this fantasy is chock-full of adventure and agency, making it a must-buy and a must-read for most middle graders." —School Library Journal

Download or read book A Royal Twist written by Barbara Howard and published by Barbara Howard. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When renowned chef Raphael plans an extraordinary proposal for his girlfriend Harper under the guise of a royal event, misunderstandings and secrets threaten to derail his perfect plan. As Harper's suspicions grow and her nemesis returns with sinister plots, their love faces its ultimate test. In a heartwarming twist, Raphael's true intentions are revealed, promising a fairy tale proposal if they can overcome the looming dangers together. When renowned chef Raphael Parera decides to propose to his girlfriend, Harper, a powerful tabloid reporter, he knows the moment must be as extraordinary as their love. With her birthday just around the corner, Raphael crafts a grand plan: he will surprise Harper with a magical proposal under the guise of preparing a lavish event for a crown princess secretly visiting the United States. However, time isn't on their side. Harper's boss challenges her to uncover the details of the royal princess reception, warning her that failing to deliver could cost her the job she has worked so hard for. As Harper helps Raphael set up for the so-called royal affair, she begins to notice peculiarities that make her suspicious. Is Raphael really hiding a royal guest, or could he possibly be infatuated with this mysterious princess? Fearing the worst, her journalistic instincts kick in, leading her to question Raphael's loyalty at the worst possible moment. To complicate matters, Harper faces a menacing threat from her nemesis, Robert Gaines, who has returned with a vengeance. Following Harper’s exposé on his shady business practices, which led to a class action lawsuit that nearly shuttered his company, Gaines is determined to make Harper pay. His sinister plots not only threaten her career but also put her life in jeopardy, adding a layer of danger to an already complicated situation. In a heartwarming twist, Raphael’s true intentions come to light, revealing a proposal that’s straight out of a fairy tale. But with Harper's doubts and the looming threat from her vengeful adversary, will love be enough to overcome the obstacles in their path? Can they triumph over heartbreak and danger to forge a future together, or will the shadows of betrayal and revenge tear them apart? BONUS Short Story included. Contains mild profanity, violence, and high sensuality.

Download or read book Soulmate and Other Stories with a Twist written by Ranjit Kulkarni and published by Athena Creations. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten stories that will haunt you and provoke thought, with the proverbial twist in the tale. A young woman not willing to settle for anyone less than a Soulmate in marriage finally finds one, or does she? Two garbage workers find a diamond ring in, well, the Garbage, only to discover that it is garbage, after all. The 50th Wedding Anniversary of the Singhs reveals more secrets than it hides, but can the old, happily married couple handle them? In Confession, find out what happens when long lost Parikshit Sharma returns home to visit his dying mother who can't move or speak one last time. When a corporate manager Rajat is asked by his colleague to Help someone, he thinks he does provide it, or does he? For lovers of short fiction with surprise endings, this is a not to be missed quick read collection. Give it a try!