Download or read book Ransom My Heart written by Meg Cabot and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When beautiful, spirited Finnula Crais kidnaps the dashing knight Hugh Fitzstephen, she has no idea that she's ensnared the new Earl of Stephensgate on his way home from the Crusades. Nor does she realize that Hugh is quite happy to be kidnapped by an enchanting tomboy, and will do anything it takes to avoid being rescued. With Finnula determined to hold Hugh to ransom, and Hugh equally determined to steal Finnula's heart, it isn't long before the fireworks start! And just when it looks as if there might be a happy ending, disaster strikes. When an attempt is made on the new Earl's life, there is only one suspect – and even if he loves her dearly, Hugh can't let her get away with it . . . Ransom My Heart is a risqué historical romance written by Princess Mia Thermopolis of Genovia (with a little help from Meg Cabot), as featured in The Princess Diaries series.

Download or read book Ransom written by David Malouf and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer’s Iliad—one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.

Download or read book A East Coast Billionaire Took My Heart For Ransom written by Jazz E and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tru Amor is no stranger to this cold world. After being abandoned by her father when she turned eighteen she has been getting it on her own ever since. She has dreams of leaving her small city and opening her own business so she won't become a product of her environment. Her and her best friend Kartier are like two peas in a pod both of them with big dreams and they have no plans to let anyone come in between them. Until a brush with death walks right into her life because of the actions of someone she least expected. Her entire existence is wiped out and she is left feeling lost and alone with no one to turn to. What happens when love sneaks in and breaks her down? Will she run for cover and live in fear constantly watching her back? Or will she allow love to take her soul straight to a billionaire's heart? Quinzell "Quincy" Jones's life has already been planned for him. Since he was a child his father already had his next move planned out. He has a seat at the Marchetti Cartel because of an arrangement his father made on his behalf even though he was against it. He deals with it head on like he's always done. He is given an assignment but when he gets there he is put in an compromising situation and he doesn't know what to do. Should he do what he is trained to do or go against everything that he lives by? Kartier is straight forward and gets to the point. She thinks that a man is only good for one thing and that's money! Because of her past she has a guard up and she never lets anyone get closed to her but when she meets a guy everything that she has ever known is tested and focuses her to reevaluate her entire life but will he stay when things get hard? Quinton Jones is on a straight and narrow path. Choosing to get into business instead of the street life. He is sent on a job and he ends up falling for an unsuspecting person, putting his skills to the test and bringing his dark side to the light.

Download or read book RANSOM MY HEART written by Gayle Wilson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HOME TO TEXAS The three McCullar brothers once stood strong against the lawlessness and trouble in their territory. Then the events of one fateful night shattered their bond and sent them far from home. But their hearts belong to the land—and the women—they left behind. And now all three are coming… HOME TO TEXAS SHE'D NEVER TOLD HIM… The night before he'd left town, Chase McCullar and Samantha Kincaid had finally shared a long-simmering passion. But Chase's brother's death had sent him on a mission that consumed him—leaving Samantha behind. For five long years, she'd guarded her secret…and sung lullabies and kissed tiny toes. Now little Amanda is missing…. NOW HE HAD TO KNOW… And there's only one man to bring her home. But what will Chase say when the "baby" turns out to be a little girl with his own unmistakable blue eyes?

Download or read book A King s Ransom written by Sharon Kay Penman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharon Kay Penman follows up her acclaimed novel Lionheart with this vivid and heart-wrenching New York Times bestseller about the last event-filled years in the life of Richard I of England, Coeur de Lion. November 1192. After his bloody crusade in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Richard and his crew are overcome by a sudden storm, its fierce winds propelling the ship onto the Sicilian shore. But this misfortune is just the beginning. Forced to make a dangerous choice, Richard finds himself in enemy territory, where he is captured—in violation of the papal decree protecting all crusaders—and handed over to the Holy Roman Emperor. Imprisoned in the notorious fortress at Trifels, from which few ever leave alive, Richard, for the first time in his life, experiences pure, visceral fear—while his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, moves heaven and earth to secure his release. Amid betrayals, intrigues, infidelities, wars, and illness, Richard’s courage and intelligence will become legend.

Download or read book Passion s Ransom written by Betina Krahn and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestselling AuthorNo one gets the better of Blythe Woolrich, who manages to run Woolrich Mercantile and keep her virtue intact among Revolutionary Philadelphia's unsavory characters. But Pirate captain Raider Prescott is intent on making quick money, and ransoming a proper Philadelphia lady seems the perfect scheme - until he discovers that her family has no money. Now he's stuck at sea with the headstrong "Woolwitch," a creature as vexing as she is lovely.

Download or read book Piece of My Heart written by Mary Higgins Clark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancé, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show Under Suspicion, are just days away from their midsummer wedding when Alex's seven-year-old nephew, Johnny, vanishes from the beach. Witnesses recall Johnny playing in the water and collecting shells near an ice cream shack, but when his new sitter turned her head, he had vanished. As the sun sets, Johnny's skim board washes up on shore, and everyone realizes that he could be anywhere, even in the ocean. Could the abduction be related to the wedding? Was Laurie's ten-year-old son, Timmy, the intended target? Or was Johnny abducted by a stranger? Laurie and Alex, along with Johnny's parents and Leo Farley, Laurie's father and a retired NYPD detective, are determined to track down every lead." -- Page [4] cover.

Download or read book Portrait of My Heart written by Meg Cabot and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of My Heart is another passionate novel by Meg Cabot, originally writing under the name Patricia Cabot—released as an e-book for the first time! They parted in disgrace... Years ago, in one explosive instant, childhood rivalry turned into wild passion for Jeremy, handsome young Duke of Rawlings, and Maggie Herbert, the object of his affections. Unfortunately, the ensuing scandal found them banished to separate corners of the world. But desire will bring them back together. Now fate has joined Jeremy and Maggie again—for a long-overdue dance of desire as uncompromising as the lovers themselves. Jeremy, a decorated soldier, is determined to claim Maggie at last. And Maggie, engaged to be married to another man, finds her secret fantasies of Jeremy spinning out of control. All that stands between them and the steamy passion the years can no longer chain is the past-- and a present steeped in jealousy, intrigue, and danger...

Download or read book Project Princess written by Meg Cabot and published by Perfection Learning Prebound. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand-new 48-page Princess Diaries story continues the adventures of Mia Thermopolous as she learns the ropes as Princess of Genovia.

Download or read book Going Green written by Heather S. Ransom and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heather S. Ransom's stunning debut, the YA dystopia Going Green, tackles issues like GMOs, citizens filming acts of police brutality, and political extremism in a fun, fast-paced coming-of-age adventure.

Download or read book Ransom written by Rachel Schurig and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **The first book in a brand new romance series from USA Today bestselling author Rachel Schurig.**Daisy Harris has no reason to suspect that her day will be any different than usual. She'll get through it the way she always does—alone. She won't speak or make eye contact. She'll do her best to go completely unnoticed. That's what life is like for Daisy now—an endless cycle of loneliness and fear. A life lived hiding behind the walls she so faithfully maintains.Then she sees it. A magazine, left behind on a table. A simple picture—just his face. And it changes everything.It's been a year since she's seen Daltrey Ransome. A year since he and his brothers left town to pursue their dreams of rock and roll superstardom. A year since he left Daisy behind—left her to watch as everything she knew crumbled around her. She's been running from Daltrey ever since, desperate to keep her secret.But she can't run anymore. And now that Daltrey has found her—the girl he's loved his entire life, the girl he'd give up everything for—he's determined never to let her go again.

Download or read book Ransom of the Heart written by Susan Page Davis and published by Christian Series Level III (24. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Police Captain Harvey Larson's brother-in-law Peter is kidnapped when he witnesses a murder at his car dealership shortly after closing and the Portland, Maine, Priority Unit must solve the murder to find clues to the kidnappers and rescue Peter before his time runs out"--

Download or read book Ransom Canyon written by Jodi Thomas and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas comes the first book in a compelling, emotionally resonant series set in a remote west Texas town – where family can be made by blood or by choice Rancher Staten Kirkland, the last descendant of Ransom Canyon's founding father, is rugged and practical to the last. No one knows that when his troubling memories threaten to overwhelm him, he runs to lovely, reclusive Quinn O'Grady...or that she has her own secret that no one living knows. Young Lucas Reyes has his eye on the prize – college, and the chance to become something more than a ranch hand's son. But one night, one wrong decision, will set his life on a course even he hadn't imagined. Yancy Grey is running hard from his troubled past. He doesn't plan to stick around Ransom Canyon, just long enough to learn the town's weaknesses and how to use them for personal gain. Only Yancy, a common criminal since he was old enough to reach a car's pedals, isn't prepared for what he encounters. In this dramatic new series, the lives, loves and ambitions of four families will converge, set against a landscape that can be as unforgiving as it is beautiful, where passion, property and pride are worth fighting – and even dying – for.

Download or read book Ransom My Heart written by Gayle Wilson and published by Harlequin Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ransom My Heart by Gayle Wilson released on Feb 20, 1998 is available now for purchase.

Download or read book The Amazing Dr Ransom s Bestiary of Adorable Fallacies written by Douglas J. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book makes discovering informal fallacies (fallacies of content, rather than form) fairly simple...book is modeled after medieval bestiaries. Each fallacy is drawn as a caricature of a mythical beast.The beast is described, as well as its appeal. Then, the authors use anecdotes to show how each beast behaves "in the wild." Each "adorable fallacy" is discussed in a matter of just a few pages....Each fallacy is followed up with a few short discussion questions, and an opportunity to identify these beasts in the field"--Web review.

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Download or read book Ransom My Heart written by Judy Gerlach and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One romance fostered in freedom, another shackled by slavery-both tormented by one common foe... Cheapside Auction Block, 1859 Lexington, Kentucky With America's slave trade at an all-time high, itinerant preacher Timothy Locker makes it his mission to help fugitive slaves escape to freedom. When he's not transporting runaways on the Underground Railroad, he's busy saving souls. He has no time for romance. But after a pretty nurse assists him with an injured slave who escaped during an auction, all bets are off. He's hopelessly smitten by Haven Haywood's beauty and compassion. The trouble is Haven's pa owns slaves. Career-minded Haven Haywood isn't the least bit interested in courtship-until Timothy stirs her heart with feelings she can't ignore. With a budding romance in the making, it's not long before differing views on slavery come between them. After Haven's pa learns of Timothy's secret missions, Haven finds herself torn between love for Timothy and loyalty to Pa. When an unexpected twist of fate threatens Timothy's friends, the slave preacher Micah and his wife, Ruth, Timothy turns to Haven for help. Will Haven risk a confrontation with Pa in an attempt to save them? With Cheapside waiting to stake its claim, Haven must decide where her loyalties lie.