Download or read book The Contract written by C.J. Lea and published by Brakelight Press. This book was released on with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She wants her husband gone. The hit man she's hired is just the man to make that happen...or is he? From the minute he walks in the place, she has her reservations. Maybe she should have waited. Maybe she should have paid the other guy. Now it's too late and her husband is the last of her problems. Now there's only one way out. The Contract--It's time to rewrite the small print. A Quick Read short story crime thriller.
Download or read book Stray Bullets written by Robert Rotenberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Old City Hall comes Robert Rotenberg’s third intricate mystery set on the streets and in the courtrooms of Toronto. In The Guilty Plea and Old City Hall, critically acclaimed author Robert Rotenberg created gripping page-turners that captured audiences in Canada and around the world. In Stray Bullets, Rotenberg takes the reader to a snowy November evening. Outside a busy downtown doughnut shop, gunshots ring out and a young boy is critically hurt. Soon Detective Ari Greene is on scene. How many shots were fired? How many guns? How many witnesses? With grieving parents and a city hungry for justice, the pressure is on to convict the man accused of this horrible crime. Against this tidal wave of indignation, defense counsel Nancy Parish finds herself defending her oldest and most difficult client. But does anyone know the whole story?
Download or read book The Rules of Us written by Jennifer Nissley and published by Ember. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come out. Break up. Stay friends? In this heartwarming queer love story about love of all kinds, exes navigate new crushes, new feelings, and a newly uncertain future after unexpectedly coming out to each other on prom night turns their lives—and their friendship—upside down. Can they figure out how to move on without losing each other? Jillian and Henry are the kind of couple who do everything together. They take the same classes, have the same hobbies, and applied for the same super-competitive scholarship so they can go to the same dream college. They even come out as gay to each other on the same night, after junior prom, prompting a sudden breakup that threatens their intertwined identities and carefully designed future. Jillian knows the only way to keep everything on track is to approach their breakup with the same precision and planning as their scholarship application. They will still be “Jillian and Henry”—even if they’re broken up. Except they hadn’t planned on Henry meeting the boy of his dreams or Jillian obsessing over a cool girl at school. Jillian is desperate to hold on to her best friend when so much else is changing. But as she and Henry explore what—and who—they really want, it becomes harder to hold on to the careful definitions she has always lived her life by. Stuck somewhere between who she was with Henry and who she might be on her own, Jillian has to face what she can’t control and let go of the rules holding her back.
Download or read book True to the Game II written by Teri Woods and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRUE TO THE GAME II will pick up where True to the Game left off-- with one difference, Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay. Little does Gena know that the man she has fallen in love with, so soon after Quadir's death, is his archrival, Jerrell Jackson. Unfortunately, Jerrell is determined to get his revenge against Quadir's crew and he'll start with Gena.
Download or read book Evening Star written by Floriminda Reid and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Memory of Angel Clare written by Christopher Bram and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA group of worldly New Yorkers inherit a friend’s last lover/divDIV A year after the AIDS-related death of filmmaker Clarence Laird, known to friends as Angel Clare, his young boyfriend, Michael, is still in deep mourning. Clarence’s older, sophisticated friends—male and female, gay and straight—find themselves the custodians of Michael, a callow kid they never liked much to begin with. What follows is a dark, intimate comedy about real grief and false grief, misunderstanding, friendship, love, and forgiveness./div
Download or read book Gestalt Therapy written by Dave Mann and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gestalt Therapy: The Basics provides an accessible and concise overview of the approach and its substantial theory. Experiential exercises, clinical vignettes and examples from everyday practice are included to enrich understanding of gestalt’s theory and its clinical application. This book explores: the history of gestalt therapy, gestalt maps, philosophical beliefs, creative experimentation and ethical considerations. Useful chapter summaries are featured throughout to aid comprehension. This book is essential reading for gestalt trainees, as well as counsellors and psychotherapists wanting to learn more about the gestalt approach.
Download or read book The Devil You Know Books 1 3 written by Christine Pope and published by Dark Valentine Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When these demons try to make new lives in L.A., they discover there’s a lot to learn about the human heart. This boxed set includes the first three books in the “Devil You Know” series. Sympathy for the Devil The Devil is bored and ready for Heaven. But there’s a catch: he must fall in love, and his lady surrender her heart. How hard can it be? A little charm, a little magic, and Heaven will be his. But the road to love can turn into a slippery slope. Charmed, I’m Sure Allan’s got only three weeks to win a human woman’s heart before he’s kicked back to his old job in Hell as Asmodeus, object of eternal derision. Men who fall for a Carson witch are doomed, but Belinda indulges in a holiday fling with Allan…and her heart can’t let go. A Wing and a Prayer Beelzebub is banished to live out a mortal life in L.A., complete with an annoying dog that won’t stay off his lawn. One look at her new neighbor, and Jillian plans a subversive quest to win his heart — for her foster Chihuahua. But along the way, she loses her own. demon, devil, witch, holiday romance, Christmas romance, boxed set, Los Angeles, dog lover heroine, fallen angel, romantic comedy
Download or read book Black Cat written by C.M Reay and published by C.M Reay. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's no running from it. No hiding. And god forbid, if you run it over, all you can do is pray...
Download or read book All of Which Remains written by C.M Reay and published by Cailum Reay. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James looked at the woman and blinked and the world waited for him to do so, and then it waited a little longer..." Reay's newest work is a collection of the fantastical and macabre, an expansive tapestry of stories demonstrating the range of his ferocious talent. Charting the absence of time to demonic cats, Wimbledon summers to mushroom tea, the semi-autobiographical to the surreal, All of Which Remains is the icing on top of what has become the tour-de-force breakout year for Britain's best and most reclusive underground author.
Download or read book Show Pen Promise written by Carly Kade and published by Carly Kade Creative. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part Three of the In the Reins series Just when everything is starting to come together in life and love, fate throws a curveball at wannabe cowgirl Devon Brooke. She has some tough decisions to make regarding cowboy McKennon Kelly, her future plans and her beloved horse Faith. Devon is devastated when a simple mistake causes serious consequences for her horse, and she falls hard back to square one losing hope she can ever amount to the equestrian she wants to be. No longer running from his past, McKennon is desperate to bring Devon back to the saddle and honor his show pen promise, but he soon finds that Devon is ready to hang up the reins and her dreams of a buckle for good. Can McKennon convince Devon that another horse will be able to take Faith’s place in the show pen? Should he? Will the suggestion bring them together or push them apart? Show Pen Promise, the highly anticipated third installment of the award-winning In the Reins series, follows McKennon’s quest to help Devon believe she has the strength to be the cowgirl of her dreams. Can Devon love a horse as much as she loves Faith? Will her relationship with McKennon and his show pen promise ever become reality? Is fate a friend or a foe?
Download or read book Crush written by Crystal Hubbard and published by Genesis Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sportswriter Miranda Penney knows all about men with balls and big sticks, but she hits all the wrong notes when she finds herself reluctantly falling for rock star Lucas Fletcher. No stranger to the pitfalls of dating a celebrity, Miranda would rather shun true love than risk having her heart broken by the one man with whom she might find it. The daughter of an African-American baseball player who frequently cheated on her beautiful, accomplished Brazilian mother, Miranda also bears the wounds of having been cheated on by the ballplayer she herself dated. Although she can't deny her attraction to Lucas, Miranda can't force herself to accept the love the handsome Welshman wants to give her. Their careers keep them surrounded by gorgeous, wealthy men and women of every color and description, but for Lucas and Miranda, when it comes to love, race doesn't matter. . .but fidelity and trust do,and those are the two things Lucas is determined to teach Miranda to believe in.
Download or read book The Diver and The Lover written by Jeremy Vine and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The lives of the characters get entangled in this powerful read' WOMAN'S OWN 'A pacy, gripping tale... written with skill and colour. It gave me enormous pleasure to read such a satisfying novel.' SANTA MONTEFIORE 'If you're in desperate need of a far-flung getaway, indulge in this slice of escapist fiction' HEAT 'Being transported to a Spanish summer in 1951... I feel the cool of the shadows under the trees and hear the sea as it glistens in the rippling heat.' FERN BRITTON 'This absorbing, poignant rollercoaster of a read is utterly satisfying and will stay with you long after you've put it down.' PATRICIA SCANLAN 'Keeps up the pace and excitement to the very end.' JOAN BAKEWELL Soaked in sunlight, love and the mysteries surrounding a famous artist The Diver and the Lover is a novel inspired by true events. It is 1951 and sisters Ginny and Meredith have travelled from England to Spain in search of distraction and respite. The two wars have wreaked loss and deprivation upon the family and the spectre of Meredith's troubled childhood continues to haunt them. Their journey to the rugged peninsula of Catalonia promises hope and renewal. While there they discover the artist Salvador Dali is staying in nearby Port Lligat. Meredith is fascinated by modern art and longs to meet the famous surrealist. Dali is embarking on an ambitious new work, but his headstrong male model has refused to pose. A replacement is found, a young American waiter with whom Ginny has struck up a tentative acquaintance. The lives of the characters become entangled as family secrets, ego and the dangerous politics of Franco's Spain threaten to undo the fragile bonds that have been forged. A powerful story of love, sacrifice and the lengths we will go to for who - or what - we love.
Download or read book Irredeemable written by Eleazar Medina and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you could get away with any crime and get away with it? Would you still be a law-abiding citizen? Or would you take a more malicious approach doing whatever you want, whenever you want? Follow Logan as his life changes completely after turning into a vampire. See how a normal man develops into what some people believe to be a monster. His pack of vampires thinks it’s normal, though. To them, who cares if you kill, rape, or torture humans? Because vampires are superior to them. How does Logan cope with his new powers? How does he adjust to his new reality? No one knows.
Download or read book The Nature of Truth written by Sergio Troncoso and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graduate student at Yale University, Helmut Sanchez has discovered an ugly truth about his boss, a world-renowned German professor. In a letter written more than fifty years ago, Professor Werner Hopfgartner absolved Austria of any guilt for its participation in the Second World War. What kind of sick mind would rationalize away the murder of millions of Jews, gypsies and other subversives, Helmut wonders. And how can it be that he has been helping, and even admiring, such a person? As the young researcher continues his quest for answers, he uncovers something even more horrific, something that fuels a dangerous obsession for justiceand a murderous plan. But he isnÍt the only one who hates Hopfgartner. Regina Neumann, a colleague in the department, is determined to nail the aged scholar for his sexual involvement with young co-eds, something everyone knows about but ignores. And there are former lovers and the students he has taken advantage of. Award-winning author Sergio Troncoso has penned a suspenseful novel that explores right and wrong, good and evil, and the murky borders in between. Ultimately, we are left to ask: what is the nature of truth?
Download or read book Simon Says written by Dawn Grace Laroza and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon, a deaf boy, is adopted and brought to Canada by two loving and culturally diverse parents. With a little sister who has Down Syndrome, the family learns to communicate. As a teen boy, Simon uses all of his senses that he is able to use in order to live life as normally as possible. He falls in love and impregnates a girl, who then dies during childbirth. Simon then finds out that his daughter has a rare disability called Cri Du Chat Syndrome. Learning to be a teen father and puts Simon in a situation where he is tormented with the choice to give up his daughter.
Download or read book New York written by Luke Richardson and published by Richa Books. This book was released on with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★★★★★ "If you're missing travel and love a good thriller, READ THIS SERIES!" A serial killer stalks the streets. The city lives in fear. The winter of terror is here. Heading to New York for a much-needed holiday, Andy and Emma hope some quality time will put their relationship back on track. But, when Andy wrecks his car in the Lincoln Tunnel and then disappears, it’s clear the city that never sleeps has other plans. Teaming up with New York P.I. Niki Zadid, Leo and Allissa search the city. But this isn’t just another case, Emma's Leo's sister, he knew they were having problems, and should’ve done more to help. When their investigation entangles with the plans of an unhinged killer, things become more complex and dangerous than any had imagined. The trio must navigate the city, from elite hangouts to dingy back streets, without falling foul of a murderer with a sickening endgame in mind. New York is Luke Richardson’s fifth fiery international thriller. Grab your copy to continue this series today! What readers think about New York: ★★★★★ “Luke Richardson has pulled this one out of the bag.” ★★★★★ “I love this series. New York is my favourite.” ★★★★★ “A superb thriller” ★★★★★ “I love the work of this author and recommend all of his books.”
