Download or read book Have Thine Own Way written by Alexander Lawrence and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HAVE THINE OWN WAY is the fourth volume of THE GOINS BRICOLAGE, a saga of Tecumseh and Stonewall Counties in the State of Indiana. In this volume Lamar Ainsley Goins, an inept, middleaged minister of the Gospel who despite himself achieves national and international success, is driven from the pulpit of The Temple of Holy Truth & World Outreach Center of Aschburgh by his arch-enemy The Reverend Doctor Carter Bald. After a prolonged period of depression Lamar Ainsley begins a second career in Philately as the Assistant Editor For Oddities and Rarities (AEOR) of Mingold Philatelics, Ltd. of Wapakeneta, Ohio. Frustrated in this new career by the indecisiveness and personal agendas of his employers, Lucius and Mindy Mingold, Lamars life comes to an abrupt end under murky, if not suspicious, circumstances. As Lamars life and careers are spiraling out of control, his wife Starla Leanne and his sister Step Goins Perkins are busy reinventing and reinvigorating the town of Aschburgh. When Starla Leanne gives birth to Hans Ainsley Winslow Goins, the heir to the entire Goins Empire, she is prophetically declared both the Blessed Mother and the Handmaid of the Lord, and begins to move decisively into the position of head of the Goins Family and fortune.

Download or read book Silver Lining written by Wanda B. Campbell and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordained Minister Wanda B. Campbell (Illusions) serves up another strong story of loss and redemption sure to invoke a sense of joy and hope that no matter how bad things get, there's always a "silver lining." ?The "honeymoon glow" isn't even off blushing new bride Marlissa Scott-Jennings' face when the dark demons of inadequacy emerge from her past. The pressure of living a dream existence with prominent physician Kevin is a life she doesn't feel worthy of. So she soon finds solace in alcohol, which seems, to her, to quiet the insecurities of her soul. But her drinking and the behavior it sparks is ruining her marriage, and soon Kevin's had enough. . .. ?Leon Scott had everything a man could hope for—a beautiful wife, Starla, a loving family, a thriving business. But when his younger brother's murdered, the pain is unbearable, and he, like Marlissa, takes refuge in a bottle. It isn't long before he sabotages his business and his family life, even though his dearest wish is to get back on track again. An unlikely pair, Marlissa and Leon meet up one night and make a pact to work together to stay sober and win their loved ones back—even if Kevin and Starla seem to have moved on without them. . ..

Download or read book Mist Island written by A. Keener and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Little Thing Called Destiny Whenever destiny is involved, one's life is completely changed. Trixie Rose is no exception. After receiving a phone call from an estranged uncle, Trixie finds herself whisked away to Mist Island, a place filled with mystery and superstition. While there, Trixie stumbles upon a portal and makes a discovery far beyond her wildest dreams: the world of Quarteze. But, every discovery has its flaws. An enemy from Quarteze's past has come for revenge, and the war of light and dark has begun anew. With the powers of magic gone, the world is slowly falling into the grasp of the Shadow One. With the help of her two new friends, Trixie must find the fabled Twilight Falcon and destroy the Shadow One once and for all. The clock is ticking

Download or read book The Witch and the Dead written by Heather Blake and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national bestselling author of Gone with the Witch returns as wish-granting witch Darcy Merriweather uncovers dangerous skeletons in the closet—and the garage.... When Darcy moved to Salem, Massachusetts, she never expected her life to change as drastically as it did. But within a short time, the Enchanted Village has become her home, its mystical residents have become her family, and As You Wish, the personal concierge business formerly run by her Aunt Ve, has become her calling. Still, the time has come for change—and for Darcy to move out of Aunt Ve’s house. Darcy’s belongings are stashed in Aunt Ve’s garage, alongside a mess of memories, forgotten possessions, and, to both Ve and Darcy’s horror, a pile of old bones. It turns out they belong to Ve’s long missing second husband. Now Darcy must unpack old secrets to solve a cold case—and make sure her aunt isn’t looking at a spell behind bars.

Download or read book Black Water Rising written by Attica Locke and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Orange Prize, nominated for an Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize On a dark night, out on the Houston bayou to celebrate his wife's birthday, Jay Porter hears a scream. Saving a distressed woman from drowning, he opens a Pandora's Box. Not the lawyer he set out to be, Jay long ago made peace with his radical youth, tucked away his darkest sins and resolved to make a fresh start. His impulsive act out on the bayou is heroic, but it puts Jay in danger, ensnaring him in a murder investigation that could cost him is practice, his family and even his life. Before he can untangle the mystery that stretches to the highest reaches of corporate power, he must confront the demons of his past. A provocative thriller with an exhilarating climax, Black Water Rising marks the arrival of an electrifying new talent.

Download or read book Poor Starla written by Teresa Sines and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poor Starla, what did she do to deserve being locked up in this cage? Nathaniel is so big and scary. She misses her mother so much. Held in captivity since an early age, will she ever escape this world that she is in? Is there anybody out there that can help her? Is she destined to live the rest of her life like this? When will the recurring nightmares stop? All she can do is curl herself into a ball in the corner and cry herself to sleep. Nathaniel is so big and scary. The richest man in Carlisle. No one questions him or anything he does. He owns most every business in town, which makes most of the town employees of his. How much longer can he keep this girl a secret? If only her mother would not have refused his love. There was no mistaking that Sarah and Starla were mother and daughter. Sarah devoted her life to the little one. It was so easy for her. Everyone loved Sarah with her sparkling personality. When Starla's daddy died, Sarah swore to her that she would never leave her. A promise she intended to keep. Nathaniel is so big and scary.

Download or read book The Form of Things Unknown written by Robin Bridges and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natalie Roman isn’t much for the spotlight. But performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream in a stately old theatre in Savannah, Georgia, beats sitting alone replaying mistakes made in Athens. Fairy queens and magic on stage, maybe a few scary stories backstage. And no one in the cast knows her backstory. Except for Lucas—he was in the psych ward, too. He won’t even meet her eye. But Nat doesn’t need him. She’s making friends with girls, girls who like horror movies and Ouija boards, who can hide their liquor in Coke bottles and laugh at the theater’s ghosts. Natalie can keep up. She can adapt. And if she skips her meds once or twice so they don’t interfere with her partying, it won’t be a problem. She just needs to keep her wits about her. Honest, nuanced, and bittersweet, The Form of Things Unknown explores the shadows that haunt even the truest hearts . . . and the sparks that set them free.

Download or read book 2Nd Victory in Jesus written by Alexander Lawrence and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2nd VICTORY IN JESUS is the third volume of THE GOINS BRICOLAGE, a saga of Tecumseh and Stonewall Counties in the State of Indiana. It is the second part of the tale of Lamar Ainsley Goins, an inept, middle-aged minister of the Gospel who despite himself achieves national and even international success in the late 1970s and early 80s as pastor of The Temple of Holy Truth & World Outreach Center of Aschburgh. Lamar Ainsley Goins, the youngest child of the late Wilton Fox Goins, the greatest man ever to emerge from Aschburgh, has now settled into his unanticipated success, and sets his eye on ministering to a better educated and more affluent clientele to the north of Indianapolis. He puts in motion a plan to get rid of his Pentecostal ties, his grubby, down-at-the-heels Prophetess OnFire, as well as his working-class Board members and song-leader, while improving his grammar and adding the Rabboni Barry Wolfowitz, a dynamic trumpet-playing and yarmulke-wearing ersatz Christian-Jew. As Lamar finally achieves the Victory for which he seems to have been destined, the ever conniving founding pastor of the Temple, Doctor Carter Bald, no longer pursued by the FBI and IRS, returns to Tecumseh County with a plan to take back the church and destroy Lamar's ministry.

Download or read book Moonbeams And Magic written by Janelle Taylor and published by Pinnacle Books . This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MOONDUST AND MADNESS. . . STARDUST AND SHADOWS. . . STARLIGHT AND SPLENDOR. . . Master storyteller Janelle Taylor takes romance to a new dimension with her tales of intergalactic adventure and heartsoaring desire. Now she brings is the dazzling tale of two star-crossed lovers. . .players in a dangerous game of intrigue and seduction. Starla and Dagan cannot reveal their true identities. . .even as they surrender to passion beneath the moon-kissed skies. Enemies or allies, they are a man and woman who will fight for their forbidden love-and seek their dangerous destiny in a universe a-shimmer with. . .

Download or read book The Goodbye Witch written by Heather Blake and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Enchanted Village’s resident Wishcrafter, Darcy Merriweather has the power to make other people’s wishes come true, but what she really wishes is that she had the power to uncloak the invisible man who’s stalking her best friend... Darcy’s closest friend and fellow witch, Starla Sullivan, hoped she’d never see her ex-husband, Kyle, again. Two years ago he tried to kill her, and he has been a fugitive ever since. Now Starla claims to have seen him back in Enchanted Village, but it seems she’s the only one who can see him. To everyone else, her ex is invisible. Darcy only wishes his motives were as transparent as the rest of him. Since the police can’t arrest someone they can’t see, it’s up to Darcy to find the secret behind Kyle’s latest disappearing act—before he does something they can’t see coming...

Download or read book The Sierra Pride The Complete Series written by Liza Street and published by Liza Street. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All 8 Sierra Pride books, with a bonus prequel story! These novellas, set in the gorgeous, rustic Sierra Nevada mountain range in Northern California, feature a group of shapeshifting mountain lions with fierce desires and big hearts. Each book contains liberal use of naughty language and sexytimes. Fierce Wanderer Fierce Heartbreaker Fierce Protector Fierce Player Fierce Dancer Fierce Informer Fierce Survivor Fierce Lover Ava & Jude (a bonus story featuring the characters from Fierce Heartbreaker) additional keywords: shapeshifter, shifter, werewolves, mountain lion, cougar, paranormal, steamy, boxed set, anthology, omnibus, collection, California, foothills, Nevada, strong heroine, alpha

Download or read book Straight To The Heart written by Bettye Griffin and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When newly single Monique Oliver arrives in Washington, North Carolina, to run a bed-and-breakfast, she soon has men knocking down her door, but she only has eyes for gorgeous but aloof construction foreman Russell McDonald. Original.

Download or read book Brass Ring written by Diane Chamberlain and published by Diane Chamberlain. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire Harte and her disabled husband, Jon, run a foundation to help people with spinal cord injuries. Claire witnesses a woman leap to her death, and the tragedy sparks long-buried memories from Claire's childhood that now change her life. Library Journal called BRASS RING "well-written and suspenseful." Formerly published by Harper Collins. BRASS RING was a Literary Guild alternate selection.

Download or read book Murder Motherhood and Miraculous Grace written by Debra Moerke and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Once you start reading this book … you won’t be able to put it down.” Ruth Graham A child disappears . . . a foster mom faces an impossible choice . . . a baby’s future hangs in the balance. When Debra Moerke and her husband decided to become foster parents, they never imagined how their lives would change. Debra became especially close to one little girl: four-year-old Hannah. She loved her and did everything she could to help Hannah learn to trust and teach her to feel safe. But when Hannah went back to her birth mother, Karen, it wasn’t long before one of Debra’s worst fears came true. Overwhelmed with horror and grief, Debra didn’t think she could take anymore, but then she received a phone call from prison. Karen, facing a life sentence, was pregnant, and she had a shocking question to ask . . . Murder, Motherhood, and Miraculous Grace is an incredible true story of faith, family, and a journey toward seemingly impossible forgiveness. A story that tests the limits of the human heart, it’s ultimately a life-affirming testament to how unconditional love and relentless obedience can transform even the darkest nights into mornings of hope.

Download or read book Pressure Point written by Jessie Kwak and published by Jessie Kwak. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace demands its price in blood. Jaantzen may have brought stability to the city of Bulari, but not everyone’s grateful. Allegiances are shifting sand, and he’s made a miscalculation that earned him a deadly new enemy — one who plays a viciously different game than the one Jaantzen is used to winning. Jaantzen and his crew fight to gain the upper hand, but secrets buried in shallow graves are coming back to haunt them. And as Starla and Toshiyo edge closer to understanding the growing mystery that’s been dropped in their laps, their search is awakening darker things than any of them can imagine. Peace comes at a price, and this Pax Bulari could cost Jaantzen everyone he loves. The Bulari Saga series is part of Jessie Kwak’s Durga System universe, a fast-paced series of gangster sci-fi stories set in a far-future world where humans may have left their home planet to populate the stars, but they haven’t managed to leave behind their vices. And that’s very good for business.

Download or read book Eternal Lover written by Lynsay Sands, Jackie H. Kessler, Richelle Mead, Hannah Howell and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yearning: Alpin has lived for centuries with a lust that can never be quenched with mere physical pleasure. And then he meets Sophie whose own search for lasting love binds them together in a cloak of shimmering sensuality. A Hell of a Time: Jesse's immortal life as a soul-stealing succubus is over. And now that she is human, she longs to tempt her lover with all her persuasive powers of total sexual seduction. City of Demons: Seth cannot resist the intense sexual allure of his demon lover Georgina. Yet their love reaches beyond the physical, into a place of complete untamed surrender. Bitten: Keeran's existence as a vampire has taught him to accept a life without love ... until he saves Emily from certain death. And suddenly he discovers the soul-searing passion he thought he'd lost forever.

Download or read book Furry High written by J. L. Jensen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of furries! Theyre students just like you, but they are fun and furry. Working together, this group of friends overcome everyday struggles while also learning valuable life lessons. What are you waiting for? Come join in the fun today!