Download or read book A Splendid Wife written by Amber Dermont and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short story is excerpted from the upcoming collection of stories Damage Control by Amber Dermont, to be published in March 2013. One by one, the wives of Portsmouth, Rhode Island are disappearing from Darling Vista Park. Detective Mitchell Landry searches for the rhyme, reason, and meaning behind each of these disappearances by investigating their husbands and trying to find the missing connections between them. But are there connections to be made, or are these random similarities merely coincidences? Who had the means, motive, and opportunity to steal the wives of Portsmouth? What happened to them, and more importantly, why? As Detective Landry delves deeper into the lives of these women, he tries to makes sense of his own wife's suicide, and wonders why some questions simply have no answer.

Download or read book An Observant Wife written by Naomi Ragen and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rich and compassionate novel, An Observant Wife, Naomi Ragen continues the love story between newly observant California-girl Leah and ultra-Orthodox widower Yaakov from An Unorthodox Match. From the joy of their wedding day surrounded by supportive friends and family, Yaakov and Leah are soon plunged into the complex reality of their new lives together as Yaakov leaves his beloved yeshiva to work in the city, and Leah confronts the often agonizing restrictions imposed by religious laws governing even the most intimate moments of their married lives. Adding to their difficulties is the hostility of some in the community who continue to view Leah as a dangerous interloper, questioning her sincerity and adherence to religious laws and spreading outrageous rumors. In the midst of their heartfelt attempts to reach a balance between their human needs and their spiritual obligations, the discovery of a secret, forbidden relationship between troubled teenage daughter Shaindele and a local boy precipitates a maelstrom of life-changing consequences for all.

Download or read book The Caretaker s Wife written by Vincent Zandri and published by Polis Books. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when you’ve been betrayed by those closest to you? When ex-con and novelist JA Kingsley loses everything he ever cared about, including his wife and teenage daughter, he abandons his home in order to start anew, write a new book, and most of all, restart his fractured life. Traveling to the Adirondack Mountains, he checks himself into The Loon Lake Inn, a peaceful, lake-side resort. For a brief moment, he feels at peace with himself and a world that has seemingly turned its back on him. But what he doesn’t expect is the lurid attraction that ignites between him and the wife of the owner of the Loon lake Inn, who has connections to some of most dangerous people imaginable. And what begins as a torrid affair turns into something much more sinister when they decide that nothing will stand in the way of their love--including murder. For readers of Michael Connelly, Robert B. Parker, Ace Atkins, Lawrence Block, and more, Thriller Award and Shamus Award-winning New York Times Bestselling author, Vincent Zandri, brings you an unputdownable novel filled with suspense and deadly romance. Scroll up to purchase this tantalizing thriller!

Download or read book Ambulance Girl written by Jane Stern and published by Crown. This book was released on 2004-04-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis for the movie starring Kathy Bates, Ambulance Girl is an inspiring story by a woman who found, somewhat late in life, that “in helping others I learned to help myself.” Jane Stern was a walking encyclopedia of panic attacks, depression, and hypochondria. Her marriage of more than thirty years was suffering, and she was virtually immobilized by fear and anxiety. As the daughter of parents who both died before she was thirty, Stern was terrified of illness and death, and despite the fact that her acclaimed career as a food and travel writer required her to spend a great deal of time on airplanes, she suffered from a persistent fear of flying and severe claustrophobia. Yet, this fifty-two-year-old writer decided to become an emergency medical technician. Stern tells her story with great humor and poignancy, creating a wonderful portrait of a middle-aged, Woody Allen–ish woman who was “deeply and neurotically terrified of sick and dead people,” but who went out into the world to save other people’s lives as a way of saving her own. Her story begins with the boot camp of EMT training: 140 hours at the hands of a dour ex-marine who took delight in presenting a veritable parade of amputations, hideous deformities, and gross disasters. Jane—overweight and badly out of shape—had to surmount physical challenges like carrying a 250-pound man seated in a chair down a dark flight of stairs. After class she did rounds in the emergency room of a local hospital. Each call Stern describes is a vignette of human nature, often with a life in the balance. From an AIDS hospice to town drunks, yuppie wife beaters to psychopaths, Jane comes to see the true nature and underlying mysteries of a town she had called home for twenty years. Throughout the book we follow her as she gets her sea legs, bonds with the firefighters who become her colleagues, and eventually, comes to be known as Ambulance Girl.

Download or read book Bound to the EMT written by Vivian Murdoch and published by Vivian Murdoch. This book was released on 2024-09-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best laid plans of naughty little omegas… It wasn’t supposed to be like this. I just wanted a taste of what I’ve been missing. Of the pleasure my friends speak of in hushed whispers. What I got instead was a humiliating visit from the hottest Alpha I’ve ever seen in my life. It’s just my luck the first man to ever see me naked is only there to help me remove a foreign object from my… peach. And my humiliation doesn’t end with that single emergency phone call. No. Now I’m standing at the end of the aisle, about to pledge myself to the same man who bore witness to my lowest, most depraved moments. My parents want me to resist him. To hold out for someone “better”. But how can I resist the man who promises to be both my salvation… and my ruin? Bound to the EMT is a darkverse arranged marriage story with themes that might be appropriate for some readers. Please read the front of the book to see if this story is right for you. (but let's be honest, this is probably the least dark book in the series.)

Download or read book The Part Time Wife written by Maureen Child and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At some point during the time Luke Talbot arrived late at the high-society soiree, then hurried her home for safeguarding, Abby realized her husband truly was living a double life. His secrets, however necessary, tore at her insecurities. How could she have married this man, slept in his arms, given him her heart…never knowing who he truly was? His lies left her no choice. She filed for divorce. And discovered that Luke wasn't about to let her go without a fight.

Download or read book IN HIS WIFE S NAME written by Joyce Sullivan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BACK FROM THE DEAD…? Sexy lawman Luke Calder was honor bound to keep his wife's two-year-old murder case alive. And though evidence would have him believe Mary had returned from the dead, this eagle-eyed cop knew better.Who was the beautiful impostor? Whoever she was,she was in trouble.And Luke vowed to blow her cover before whoever was trying to kill her succeeded. Except, while Luke's protective cop instincts served him well in unraveling this mystery, his physical responses to this stranger were proving problematic. Luke hadn't been able to safeguard his wife two years ago, but he'd be damned before this unsuspecting woman suffered the same fate!

Download or read book Kodachrome written by Adam Szymkowicz and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2019 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Colchester, a small town where everybody knows each other and the pace of life allows the pursuit of love to take up as much space as it needs. Our tour guide is Suzanne, the town photographer, who lets us peek into her neighbors’ lives to catch glimpses of romance in all its stages of development. A play about love, nostalgia, the seasons and how we learn to say goodbye.

Download or read book Married by Contract written by Noelle Adams and published by Noelle Adams. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years into a five-year marriage of convenience, Jenn finds herself wanting something she never thought she'd want from her laidback, ex-military husband. Sex--as a much needed release of tension from her high-stress job. But weekly sex with Nick, despite their careful parameters, is likely to get messy eventually. Ever since her father walked out on her as a child, Jenn knows never to assume the people she loves will stick around, so she's not about to trust Nick with her heart. She vows to stay strong, no matter how much intimacy develops between them in bed. But what starts as a tension-reliever soon becomes so much more, until it threatens both their practical arrangement and the heart Jenn has worked so hard to keep safe.

Download or read book The Texan Takes a Wife written by Charlene Sands and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA Today–Bestselling Author: It was just supposed to be a temporary tryst with a sexy Texan . . . All it takes is a daring out-of-character ride on a mechanical bull to send Erin Sinclair straight into the arms of one fine-looking cowboy. With Royal, Texas, on edge over the criminal targeting their secrets, she needs to blow off steam. Dan Hunt is happy to give the ex-nanny the time of her life, but the rich rancher insists he doesn’t do relationships. And Erin’s fine with that—though she can’t help the stirring in her heart as she discovers Dan’s penchant for rescuing animals. But with Erin leaving Royal in a matter of weeks, it can only be a no-strings affair. Even if it feels like it could be the commitment of a lifetime . . .

Download or read book The Kaleidoscope of Gender written by Joan Z. Spade and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, timely, and stimulating introduction to the sociology of gender, The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities, Third Edition, provides a comprehensive analysis of key ideas, theories, and applications in this field as viewed through the metaphor of a kaleidoscope. This collection of creative articles by top scholars explains how the complex, evolving pattern of gender is constructed interpersonally, institutionally, and culturally and challenges students to question how gender shapes their daily lives. Like the prior edition, the Third Edition maintains a focus on contemporary contributions to the field while incorporating classical and theoretical arguments to provide a broad framework. Integrating a cross-cultural focus and intersectional inquiry, this unique text/reader vividly illustrates that gender is a malleable continuum of prisms, patterns, and possibilities.

Download or read book Wife on His Doorstep written by Patricia Johns and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visitor he never expected… Can the differences that drove them apart… ignite a love to make her stay? When Miriam Lapp arrives unannounced at her estranged husband’s house, she has no intention of staying. But she can’t walk away when Amos’s ailing grandmother needs a woman’s support. She’ll help temporarily, then leave to start her own Amish business. But spending time together makes Miriam and Amos question their past mistakes. Can a once mismatched couple find love ten years later? From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope. Redemption’s Amish Legacies Book 1: The Nanny’s Amish Family Book 2: A Precious Christmas Gift Book 3: Wife on His Doorstep

Download or read book The Sculptress written by John K. Potter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scultptress is about a prominent woman plastic surgeon who thinks she's God and finds out she's not. Goaded by a reporter into doing pro bono work, she selects, as her patient, a homeless, scarred man. A terrible mistake.From the moment she meets him, to the moment she falls in love with him, to the moment he . . . This suspense novel of murder, mystery and mayhem is a roller coaster of thrills.

Download or read book Taking Charge Missy s Way written by Patricia Bullock and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-12-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Missy learned not to depend on anyone but herself at a young age. She found friendship and family. She was taught that you don’t have to be blood-related to belong. When an unexpected brother came into her life, everything changed. She became a mother, but she had her best friend there, always helping her. As life happened, her best friend passed away, and her life fell apart. But she had her guardian angel watching over her and guiding her toward her chance at real love and having the real family that she has always wanted.

Download or read book The Other Woman written by Eric Jerome Dickey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-06-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey presents one of his most intimate and emotionally resonant novels—a story about marriage, infidelity, and sweet and savage revenge. She works nights. He works days. Their sex is routine. Their conversations are empty. Something’s got to give. It does, when she discovers her husband’s affair. The delicate fabric of their increasingly tenuous marriage is torn asunder—but neither is prepared for what happens next. An unforgivable betrayal is about to yield the most unexpected surprises, as a husband and wife face a challenge of trust, faith, and the staying power of love.... “Dickey has developed a knack for creating characters who elicit both rage and sympathy…The nameless narrator, a routine-bound suburban Californian, learns of her husband's philandering ways. But this dame is no hapless victim of infidelity: She takes charge…Dickey taps the intimate emotions of a woman whose hurt we feel viscerally.”—Entertainment Weekly

Download or read book Desert Woman written by Kathleen St. Clair and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Kelsey Herring loved the stories her father always told; her favorite was a ghost story known as ?The Desert Woman.? When life-changing events occurred, Kelsey and her brother Skyler found themselves moving from the forests and lakes of Michigan to the hot, arid, and rugged country of an Arizona cattle ranch. Here, Kelsey meets the Desert Woman she had always imagined in her father's story. What she discovers is a truth she could never have gleaned from a mere story. What is the message to be learned from the true Desert Woman, and can the amazing things Kelsey learns from her help to heal a heart shattered by tragic events?

Download or read book A Warrior s Heart written by Tim Mehl and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-02-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Warrior's Heart is the "spiritual autobiography" of Tim G. Mehl. In it, he shares about his struggles with ADD/ADHD as a child, in a time when schools and parents did not know how to handle a child with these issues. This along with a difficult home life created feelings of self-worthlessness and a low self-esteem that led him toward the hippie movement of the '60s. His story takes you through those hippie years, along with the beginning of drug use and eventually dropping out of high school to enlist in the United States Navy. He goes into great detail of the verbal abuse he sustained by his father as well as the serious respiratory illness of his mother, who passed away just five days before his fifteen birthday. When suicide seemed to be the only answer for his pain and hurt, he found the love of God on the very day that he decided to kill himself. He shares the incredible things that the Lord did in him, for him and through him which eventually led him to become a peace officer with almost a thirty-year law enforcement career. He shares stories of God's protection, even when he wasn't walking his Christian witness. Near death experiences and how God protected him and kept him safe on the streets throughout his career as well as during his 10 year assignment working undercover. Tim also shares his healing from the wounds and scars left by his feelings of failure, rejection and worthlessness, that penetrated deep into his heart. By learning to forgive and receive forgiveness, Tim takes you through his discovery of understanding and knowing God as his heavenly Father, who has never rejected him or thought of him as a failure or worthless. Becoming an ordained minister in 2004, God is using Tim and his wife, Myrth, in various areas of ministry within their church. "I have no doubt whatsoever, that there are young people out there who are going through some of the exact things that I went through. If this book about my testimony can reach just one person for Jesus Christ, then everything that I ever went through was worth it. I'd do it all over again, if just one person comes to know Jesus as Lord and Savior."