Download or read book Lanie and Zane I Belong to You written by Jeanette Raia and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A girl running from her tragic and traumatizing past, she is trying to put the pieces of her shattered soul back together when a stranger bumps into her and changes everything. Lanie: After a terrible car accident takes the lives of Lanie Peter’s mother and step-father, her evil, sadistic step-brother Patrick steps up and attains custody of her, but having a sadist as a step-brother traumatized Lanie to no end. After barely escaping him, she tries to move forward with her life and forget he exists as he rots in prison for kidnapping, raping, and torturing her. Years later, Lanie’s soul is no longer shattered. After years of therapy and soul searching, she has achieved healing from her trauma. Now with her job as a lab tech and her best friend that’s been there for her when no one else was, she is ready to embrace whatever life has in store for her. Zane: Just after finishing his tour in the Marine Corps, Zane Matthews has come home. Now a paramedic in the same emergency room as Lanie, he isn’t looking for anything serious, as his father has taught him not to trust women. He has no patience for anything serious or time consuming. That is until he bumps into Lanie Peters. Now, after dating many women, here and abroad, Zane is also ready for a relationship with a trusting woman who is a friend as well as his submissive.

Download or read book AFTER THE GULFSTREAM written by P.C. Puccio and published by BookLocker.com. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Crimes Detective John Albora is called to the murder scene of young, wealthy banker, G. Roderick Von Ness, at the mansion on Long Island’s Gold Coast. Roddy’s beautiful widow, Cherry, found his body in the early morning hours and called the police. She alone survives him. Several weeks before, five, high-powered New York bankers joined forces on a major real estate deal and now their projects could lose millions of dollars. The borrower, an underhanded Texan willing to try anything to win, forces the bankers’ hands through lies, trickery and women. So now, one banker is murdered, but only one of the five remains alive and well. Roddy was one of those five bankers. What happened to the other three? And the one who still lives? The case grows cold as Detective Albora is blocked at every turn. His FBI buddy, Bob Wilhelm, experiences setbacks in his investigation, too. Suspects come and suspects go, but old cops point the way. Dianne Goodwin enters Albora’s life, introduced by her young friend, Lanie Barnes, and Hunter Zane, Lanie’s unstable acquaintance. Zane, a broken, former CIA operative, is still willing to do things for a price, as John and Dianne are drawn together keeping secrets from the other. Their intimacy is disrupted by circumstances but neither will force the issue. Right now, it’s all too easy. As weeks pass, Roddy’s murder investigation becomes stale but good police work and the killer’s gross misjudgment brings the case to light. The story travels from New York’s Long Island to the Florida Keys with stops along the way. Who will do the right thing to get Roddy’s killer? What of John Albora and Dianne, and his old cop friends? And of course, the lovely widow and all of Roddy’s assets?

Download or read book Christmas Conspiracy written by Robin Perini and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four years ago, girl-next-door Kat Nelson had gone from being a tempting assignment to the fling P.I. Logan Carmichael never forgot. Now he'd been hired to find her by a king claiming Kat was heir to the throne. Locating her wasn't difficult. Learning he was the father of her toddler twins, however, made him ache. But his job was to protect her from a madman who wanted her dead, and keep her away from the king who needed her alive. And yet one look at his children made the steely CIA vet yearn to be more than just a bodyguard. Defusing bombs and taking out terrorists wasn't as scary as being a father—and didn't get his heart racing as much as the thought of spending every night by Kat's side.…

Download or read book The Dream written by Gilbert Morris and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lanie Freeman had to grow up fast. Her mother died when she was just fourteen and now her father is in prison. The oldest of five children, seventeen-year-old Lanie has transformed into a surrogate mother … and a beautiful young woman. Not only must she keep her family together, but lately she has drawn the attention of Roger Langley, son of the richest man in town. Tensions run deep between the Freemans and the Langleys. And on top of it all, Louise Langley accuses Lanie of trying to snatch away her handsome fiancé, Dr. Owen Merrit. Dr. Merrit has long helped out the Freeman children, but Lanie isn’t sure he even notices that she’s no longer a child. Then Fairhope is thrown into chaos when the new preacher arrives—wearing blue jeans and riding a motorcycle. In only a month, dashing Brother Colin Ryan shakes the entire town to the core of their beliefs. With the town embattled over the preacher, her family struggling to survive, and her own heart in turmoil, Lanie seeks solace in her writing. She pours out her heart to God, trusting his promises. But when things fall apart at every turn, will Lanie continue to trust? The Dream continues the inspiring saga of one woman’s struggle to hold together her family and follow her dreams in the midst of America’s darkest hour.

Download or read book The Case of the Dread Vote written by Kyt Dotson and published by Kyt Dotson. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arizona State University has become a more interesting place recently with an upcoming election of the student body president. An up and coming hopeful candidate, Emily Early, has noticed strange things happening with her campaign -- people seem just a little too eager. To call her campaign viral would be an understatement as it appears to be infectious and that's not the only weird thing. Worried about how this might affect her candidacy, and her future, she enlists the help of investigator Elaine Mercer -- an avowed geek and inventor -- who uses her spectacular intellect, knowledge of the paranormal and access to magick to suss out the details of what's going on.

Download or read book It s You Babe written by Glenna Maynard and published by Glenna Maynard. This book was released on with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Wall Street Journal & USA Today Bestselling Author Glenna Maynard It’s You, Babe A Small-Town Romance Collection Features The Weight of Us He's my fiancé’s brother. I shouldn't want to be with him, but fate is plotting against me. The man makes me crave things I shouldn't. He makes me want to live again. I know he feels it too—this attraction between us growing stronger each passing day. I try to give him up, walk away, leave him behind, but he won't let me go without a fight. Tucker My Brother’s Best Friend Evalee has always been off limits. She’s my best friend’s younger sister. I thought after all this time simply being her friend was enough for me. Watching her day after day strutting around my office in those tight skirts showing off her curves is driving me crazy. I can’t stop thinking about her but making a move on her could destroy my friendship with her brother. Tucker is completely off limits. He's my brother’s best friend. I’ve been in love with him since I was just a girl, but he doesn’t see me the way I see him. We’re just friends. That’s all we will ever be, so I decide to give online dating a try. Signing up for an account on a dating app shouldn’t be complicated but when I’m matched with my dream man everything changes. Calder & Maggie On the run and hiding in a small coastal town after committing a crime, the last thing Maggie expects is to move next door to a good-looking sheriff’s deputy. The longer she stays the more her lies begin to pile up and her relationship with her new neighbor heats up. When the past comes back to haunt her will the hunk next door be there to catch her when she falls? Making Her Mine Things are about to get Rowdy in Texas. A new start. Check. A new life. Check. Far away from my loser ex-boyfriend. Check. I don’t need a man. I think I have this running away from bad choices thing figured out until I run fast and hard into the arms of the Rowdy brothers. Two men who make it hard to resist their southern charm. One brother wants to use me, but the other wants to love me. He wants to make me his. Who do I choose? Mr. Right or Mr. Right Now. Fabricated Christmas Rule #1 - Never date your boss. Rule #2 - Under any circumstances never ever sleep with your boss. Rule #3 - Rules were meant to be broken. Finnick Wilder is rude and conceited. He's a jerk with a capital J who also happens to be devilishly handsome and my boss. I despise him, but when he says jump, I ask how high. Him dropping to one knee and proposing ranks way above how high I can jump. His demand for a fake fiancée crosses the line between fiction and reality. Yet, it seems like fate under the mistletoe.

Download or read book Making Her Mine written by Glenna Maynard and published by Glenna Maynard. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things are about to get Rowdy in Texas. A new start. Check. A new life. Check. Far away from my loser ex-boyfriend. Check. I don’t need a man. I think I have this running away from bad choices thing figured out until I run fast and hard into the arms of the Rowdy brothers. Two men who make it hard to resist their southern charm. One brother wants to use me, but the other wants to love me. He wants to make me his. Who do I choose? Mr. Right or Mr. Right Now

Download or read book Empire in Black and Gold written by Adrian Tchaikovsky and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city states of the Lowlands have lived in peace for decades, bastions of civilization, prosperity and sophistication, protected by treaties, trade and a belief in the reasonable nature of their neighbors. But meanwhile, in far-off corners, the Wasp Empire has been devouring city after city with its highly trained armies, its machines, it killing Art . . . And now its hunger for conquest and war has become insatiable. Only the aging Stenwold Maker, spymaster, artificer and statesman, can see that the long days of peace are over. It falls upon his shoulders to open the eyes of his people, before a black-and-gold tide sweeps down over the Lowlands and burns away everything in its path. But first he must stop himself from becoming the Empire's latest victim.

Download or read book Playmaker written by Jami Davenport and published by Cedrona Enterprises. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KADEN: My teammates think she's married. I think it's more than that. Other than her name, I don't know anything about her, but I can't get enough of her. She's my obsession, my world, my everything. If only she would let me in, tell me why she's terrified, why she stays in the shadows, why she can't be seen in public. Then, as quickly as she came into my life, she disappears. DELANEY: As the daughter of a powerful politician, I was my boyfriend's perfect alibi until I wasn't. My life is in danger, and I have no choice but to disappear. I met Kaden in a bar, and the attraction was instant. We can't keep our hands off each other, but I'm careful not to tell him too much. He can't know who I am or why I'm running. My safety—and his—depends on it. Then my ex's conviction is overturned, he's out of prison, and witnesses are dying. I have to run again and leave behind the one man I'll never forget. But fate has a way of interfering, and this time, leaving isn't so easy.Keywords: hockey romance, hockey novel, sports romance, Seattle, hockey, workplace, office romance, urban romance, alpha male, sports hero, hockey star, professional hockey, hockey players, bad boy romance, wealthy romance, wealthy hero, new adult romance, puck brothers, roommates, Redemption, second chance, heroine in peril, missing, mystery, danger. For fans of: Helena Hunting, Elle Kennedy, Catherine Gayle, Toni Aleo, Jami Davenport, Kelly Jamieson, Sarina Bowen, Sawyer Bennett, Carly Phillips, Kennedy Ryan, Nana Malone, Brenda Rothert, Elise Faber, Kate Meador, Victoria Denault, Mira Lyn Kelly, Odette Stone, Jennifer Lazaris, Lisa B Kamps, Cathryn Fox, Samantha Lind, Samantha Whiskey, Stacey Lynn

Download or read book Cowboy Country Christmas written by Gail MacMillan and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shy, introverted romance writer Etta Prescott is a huge fan of the number-one country singer Travis Masters, but she never dreamed she’d actually meet him, not until her twin sister gets involved. A trip to the Calgary Stampede and a romantic ride in the Alberta moonlight with handsome, affable Travis leads Etta to believe romance isn’t limited to other people or the pages of her books. Travis Masters has it all—successful singing career, top of the charts, scheduled European tour. But with all the women throwing themselves at him, he still hasn’t found the one who makes his heart sing. Not until one morning he happens on a young lady wanting to learn how to ride a horse. But why were a couple of Mounties escorting her and her sister to the airport? Getting involved with someone with a questionable reputation could ruin his clean country-boy image, as his gung-ho agent keeps reminding him…

Download or read book Wounded at Work written by Mitzi Pool Bridges and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FBI Agent Matthew Montgomery is handed a serial killer case on the same day his worthless cousin files suit for half of the sizable Montgomery Trust. His brothers, fellow retired SEALs, dig in to help find the proof needed to thwart Matt's cousin. Ex-Army Carrie Sullivan is a PI in the brothers' investigative firm. She goes undercover in a missing woman case that collides with the one Matt is investigating. He wants her to back off, as she fits the profile of the serial killer's victims. Somehow, their feelings for each other have changed from friendship to something more intense, but they have to get past obstacles, real and imagined, as they find themselves falling in love amidst a storm of evil. When Carrie is taken, she wonders if she will survive long enough to overcome the wide divide between their backgrounds to make a life together, and Matt is determined to do everything in his power to give them a chance to try.

Download or read book Sounding the Cape written by Denis Martin and published by African Minds. This book was released on 2013 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in and around the city. Musical styles and genres produced in Cape Town have therefore been assigned an "identity" which is first and foremost social. This volume tries to question the relationship established between musical styles and genres, and social - in this case pseudo-racial - identities. In Sounding the Cape, Denis-Constant Martin recomposes and examines through the theoretical prism of creolisation the history of music in Cape Town, deploying analytical tools borrowed from the most recent studies of identity configurations. He demonstrates that musical creation in the Mother City, and in South Africa, has always been nurtured by contacts, exchanges and innovations whatever the efforts made by racist powers to separate and divide people according to their origin. Musicians interviewed at the dawn of the 21st century confirm that mixture and blending characterise all Cape Town's musics. They also emphasise the importance of a rhythmic pattern particular to Cape Town, the ghoema beat, whose origins are obviously mixed. The study of music demonstrates that the history of Cape Town, and of South Africa as a whole, undeniably fostered creole societies. Yet, twenty years after the collapse of apartheid, these societies are still divided along lines that combine economic factors and "racial" categorisations. Martin concludes that, were music given a greater importance in educational and cultural policies, it could contribute to fighting these divisions and promote the notion of a nation that, in spite of the violence of racism and apartheid, has managed to invent a unique common culture.

Download or read book Veterinary Medical Terminology Guide and Workbook written by Angela Taibo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to be both comprehensive and user-friendly, the text offers easy-to-understand explanations of medical terminology and contains helpful learning features such as tips, case studies, and review questions. Describes medical terms with easy-to-understand explanations and phonetic spellings Offers an updated edition of this practical guide to veterinary medical terminology Contains real-world case studies, word lists, and review questions that are designed to promote active learning Includes new chapters on medical reports and case studies and large animals, as well as helpful memorization features Provides access to a companion website with images, audio clips, flash cards, and other helpful learning tools

Download or read book Step Beast written by Selena Kitt and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They call him Beast because he fights and f*cks like one. Because he's built like the tanks he rode in Afghanistan. Beneath Conrad "Beast" Beeston III's fierce, intense gaze, his brooding temperament, his knuckles scarred from fighting, lurks a wild man, his strong, broad back darkly inked with his own hard truths. He only has one mode, and "Beast" is it. He ripped through Tilly's life, tearing it to shreds, and then he was gone, giving a stiff middle finger to a life of entitlement. He left her like he leaves them all-with little more than a broken heart. But for Tilly, there was one more thing. He left her with an unbearable secret she's been forced to keep for years. Tilly's privileged life, after her recent graduation from Mt. Holyoke, has come to a screeching halt under tragic circumstances. Had she really believed she'd never see her Devil Dog stepbrother again? Now he's coming home-and she's forced to face his cocky smirk and arrogant swagger, to look once again into the eyes of the monster who left her. Forced to confront him, what she sees is a raw, broken, tortured man who just might be the only person she knows keeping even bigger secrets than she is. Worse, she still wants him. Even if it means breaking everything in her life wide open-even if it means unleashing the Beast.

Download or read book Storm s Fury written by Amy Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some storms destroy. Others clear a path. Military veteran Amelia Storm returns to her hometown of Chicago when her beloved police officer brother is killed in the line of duty. Now she is a special agent with the FBI. No longer a scared girl, she vows to avenge her brother and do what she can to end the city's deep wells of corruption. A television documentary puts a spotlight on a four-year-old kidnapping. Amelia and her colleagues in the Organized Crime Division know there's more to the girl's case than meets the eye. The twelve-year-old wasn't just abducted. She was targeted by a human trafficking ring. As Amelia falls deeper down the rabbit hole of Chicago's criminal hierarchy in search of the girl, she finds herself uncomfortably close to the people she left behind so long ago. This time, though, she won't run. Now, she is the storm that will unearth the city's long buried secrets. Or die trying. After all, she has nothing to lose. From the wickedly dark minds of Mary Stone and Amy Wilson comes Storm's Fury, book one of the Amelia Storm Series, where you'll be reminded that Mother Earth is wild, but humans are the most dangerous creatures. Scroll up to grab your copy today!

Download or read book That Night with My Best Friend s Brother written by Jaimie Suzi Cooper and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Prequel novella to Falling for my best friend's brother"--Title page.

Download or read book Being Hal Ashby written by Nick Dawson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2009-04-17 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the director behind Harold and Maude, Being There, and other quirky classics: “A superb biography of this troubled, talented man.” —Tucson Citizen Hal Ashby set the standard for subsequent independent filmmakers by crafting unique, thoughtful, and challenging films that continue to influence new generations of directors. Initially finding success as an editor, Ashby won an Academy Award for editing 1967’s In the Heat of the Night, and translated his skills into a career as one of the quintessential directors of 1970s. Perhaps best remembered for the enduring cult classic Harold and Maude, Ashby quickly became known for melding quirky comedy and intense drama with performances from A-list actors such as Jack Nicholson in The Last Detail, Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn in Shampoo, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda in Coming Home, and Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine in Being There. But Ashby’s personal life was difficult. After enduring his parents’ divorce, his father’s suicide, and his own failed marriage all before the age of nineteen, he became notorious for his drug abuse, which contributed to the decline of his career near the end of his life. Ashby always operated outside Hollywood’s conventions, and though his output was tragically limited, the quality of his films continues to inspire modern directors as varied and talented as Judd Apatow and Wes Anderson, both of whom acknowledge Ashby as a primary influence. In Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel, the first full-length biography of the maverick filmmaker, Nick Dawson masterfully tells the turbulent story of Ashby’s life and career.