Strange Masks ~ The second story from “Lust and Lace”, a Victorian Romance and Erotic short story co

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Immediately, she comes to believe that Cha Ma is an avatara human incarnationof the goddess Kali, the most malevolent, destructive of all Hindu deities. Her choice hurls her parents, Paul and Marie, into a battle far beyond their wildest imagination for they must fight for their daughters life, and even her soul, as she teeters on the edge.

Books written in blood. Most are lost, their Keepers with them. A curse that befell a people. A Kingdom with no King. Or for sixteen-year-old Jules Blaze. For Jules, the heir of a Keeper, no less, suspects his family hides a forgotten secret. It was bad enough that his people, the Elfies of Reign, triggered a curse which reduced the entire inhabitants to a mere inch centuries ago. All because of one Keeper who failed his purpose. Now, Gehzurolle, the evil lord, and his armies of Scorpents, seem bent on destroying Jules and his family.

Truth that could save him and his family, and possibly even reverse the age-long curse. Oh, and that person, is the President of the United States? And, in the process of attempting to conceal his mistake, he is accused of treason and murder? Army Lieutenant Josh Davis suffers a devastating tragedy while home on military leave. Trusting God for strength, he triumphs, earning the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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But heroism comes with consequences. Years later, a conservative group asks Josh to run for the Oval Office. To his surprise, to get there, he must campaign against his father-in-law, a former one-term President. Their political, and personal, embattlement ends with a surprising twist of fate.

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Discover what happens when Josh finds himself in the highest office in the nation. Early success leads him to seek Middle-East peace. His pride increases, devours his faith and he gives into temptation. Observe as he attempts to cover up his sin. Walk with Josh, as he struggles with his own inner conflict of trusting God. Is it too late to save his marriage and his presidency? Experience the twists and turns of a life seemingly out of control. Stuck in sleepy New Smyrna Beach one last summer, Raine socks away her camp pay checks, worries about her druggy brother, and ignores trouble: The girl was self-righteous waiting to happen.

Mom served sanctimony like vegetables, three servings a day, and he had a gut full. Her dream of Africa dies small deaths. After a bitter family argument year-old Andrea runs away from home. She heads to the nearest city and rents a room in a rundown boarding house, regretting her hasty flight from the family farm but afraid to return home to face her angry father. Determined to put the past behind her and start a new life how does one turn off all those unwanted thoughts that come flooding back at odd moments?

She fakes it well in public but often cries herself to sleep at night. She becomes friends with Chuck, the manager of the diner where she eats dinner. An avid ice skater, she devotes all of her spare time to practicing a difficult jump at the local rink. The mainstay of her existence is the special bond she forms with Oliver, the oddly dressed pantomime clown she sees at the rink every Saturday.

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With only a few bumps in the road, such as fending off poorly chosen dates and fielding personal questions from curious new friends, her new life is rocking along…until unforeseen events cause her carefully built house of cards to come tumbling down around her. With her world falling apart and totally alone in a strange town, she has nowhere to turn. Until one special friend comes to the rescue…. For years Deborah Willet has been protecting her sisters without the interference or aid of any man.

Secretly, he spends most of his time wallowing in self pity, refusing to do the rehabilitation exercises the doctor has told him will restore the use of his legs. Shaff is a gifted writer that always delivers in her stories. Seeing Albert, a possible thief, had put her senses on alert, and the presence of one suspect reminded her of the purpose of being at the social with Steven. Marcie Wilhelm, another suspect, dressed in a bright red, form-fitting dress, stood a few yards away gazing at Deborah. She nodded and twirled her red and white parasol when Deborah caught her eye. Steven glanced in the direction Deborah had indicated.

She sounded and, worse yet, felt like a jealous shrew when she had no reason to be jealous at all. She and Steven were not sweethearts. Did the woman jump over the balcony or was she pushed? Jillian and her friends move through the Ritz-Carlton hotel to private mansions searching for the truth, pausing for afternoon tea along the way, of course.

The unlikely team helps the chief uncover a series of mysterious events that lead to solving several murders, both past and present. Could it be the mean spirited conference director? The daughter of Paulus and Alysia is grown now, and ready for a life of her own…but Rachel is unable to rise above her past, and something that happened in Rome, years ago. Metellus, former tribune in the Praetorian Guard, has been commissioned by the emperor to bring Rachel from Jerusalem to Rome, and it is a journey that will affect both their lives…in ways they never could have imagined.

In the space of a breath, what he thought was his life…shattered. Grant Borrows has been Shifted- in the silence between heartbeats, his whole life fundamentally altered. The players are ready. The game is in motion. And the pace is: The Dominion Trilogy Book 1. Hibbard Terreldor Press, Terreldor.

Though they pray for a solution, they find themselves unprepared for the transformation God has in store. Short story, 6, words, about 20 pages. Available without charge at Amazon US and other popular ebook sites. Princess Una of Parumvir has come of age and will soon be married. She dreams of a handsome and charming prince, but when the first suitor arrives, she finds him stodgy and boring. Prince Aethelbald from the mysterious land of Farthestshore has traveled far to prove his love—and also to bring hushed warnings of danger.

A dragon is rumored to be approaching Parumvir. Soon the Dragon King himself is in Parumvir, and Una, in giving her heart away unwisely, finds herself in grave danger. Only those courageous enough to risk everything have a hope of fighting off this advancing evil. Being that I am a year-old mother of three, not many novels can claim that these days. Foundlings was just that good. It was a story that truly impacted me, challenged me, and deepened my faith. It now holds a place of honor on my bookshelf … I will always cherish it.

It was in the days of Peleg when the world was divided. After the flood of Noah, after the Tower of Babel and the dispersion … when beasts were more numerous than men. Priests of the dragon, Baal, and the Queen of Heaven are seeking sacrifices for their false gods. In a land of giants and dragons, and men running from the knowledge of their Creator, wickedness spreads as a plague, but a remnant of faithful souls shine in the darkness.

My boys remind me several times a day that this is one of their favorite books. However, I found myself anxious each night to indulge in the lives of these notorious characters. Such an uplifting reading experience involving courage and faith … A read aloud at its best. Harding has certainly written books that have great potential to become classic pieces of literature. There is excitement with every sentence. Aliyah has different plans. And when Aliyah decides to pursue her true love in Washington, she makes a choice that will change her family forever.

But can her love endure under the most trying of circumstances? John Decker knows the words well. For John, the words mean purging Earth from the filth of demons — all the while trying to lend a helping hand of faith to those in need. As the world falls into the clutches of the War, John struggles to balance his passion for battle with the growing love he feels for Denise Gibson. Every frown and smile she sends his way draws him closer to the edge of uncertainty.

They pick her clothes, pick her friends, pick her car, pick her husband…. Even though Allison realizes it is dangerous to thwart her parents, she has no intention of marrying the man they have chosen for her. Could the beautiful Mexican Alethia be a rival for his affections? Two college students, outcast by those that surround them, find each other as an unspeakable horror descends upon their university.

At its core, a story of two young people attending a major Christian University who, through their differing approaches to faith are outcast by the others that attend. Dejected and feeling alone fate brings them together on the very night that supernatural attacks on the college campus threaten to tear it apart. He is sent to China, where an underground seminary is under siege from fanatical sword-wielding members of a local cult who still pay homage to the bloodthirsty extremists who tried to expel all foreigners from China in the nineteenth century.

But while under attack from external forces, the seminary has its own internal divisions. The director, Uncle Ling, a hero of the underground Chinese church, holds secrets that he cannot reveal. And now the tensions are threatening the marriage of idealistic young American missionaries Daniel and Jenny Westloke. This gripping thriller offers relentless suspense while raising serious questions — how far can Christians go to defend themselves?

When should they turn the other cheek? What happens when a Christian kills in self-defense? And should those who live by the sword really expect to die by the sword? Cover design by Romit Berger. This is a great book for a Christian or as a starter for a non-Christian. Ever since his father disappeared and his mother died, Ark Ipsen has had a void in his heart that he has given up on filling. But after meeting a young boy calling himself Wisdom, he is whisked away to a dreamlike future where religion is the underlying taboo.

After he is taken in by a group of misfits who claim to be from the same past he was taken, he is introduced to the global conflict raging in the shadows of society, and the two apparent supernatural beings behind it all. Amid the ensuing politics and bloodshed, Ark must determine why he has been taken from his own timeline. Against his will, he has been placed on one side of a holy war he wants no part of, but in his own mind, lifelike dreams are preventing him from finding his purpose.

However, as the other Arbiters prepare Ark for his part in their war, the sense of purpose he longed for in the past comes within reach, but visions plaguing his mind are becoming far too tangible.

What if a seed from that original Tree, from that original Garden that same Tree from which Eve was said to have partaken was discovered? What if that seed must be held beneath the tongue for a year and a day before it would sprout?

What if that sprouted seed grew into a Tree, and what if that Tree bore fruit? What if we could taste that fruit and know? In a world ravished by evil, nothing is as it seems. The Darkness beckons to the soul conjuring lilting spells to lull the world and heavens with its discordant lullaby. Only light can conquer the darkness. Only death offers a glimmer of escape. Who will protect the protectors? Who will rise to defend The Realm? Purchase the Complete Novel: An additional episode will be delivered from time to time until the book is complete.

Part 7 — A prophet prophesies. Download on Amazon — amazon. No Easy Day for Mark Owen: The Legal Brief — Download on Amazon — amazon. Book 1 of Legends of the Guardian King which follows the life of Abramm Kalladorne in his turbulent search for truth and self—a search that will transform him from a sickly, head-in-the-clouds youth to a legendary hero of strength and courage. Set in a world of swords and cloaks, of glittering palaces and mystical temples, of galley ships and ancient, mist-bound cities, his journey illustrates how God pursues and how He uses suffering to mold His children into something greater than was ever thought possible.

Written by Karen Hancock, the acclaimed author of Arena. That is until her ambition led to the massacre of an entire African village. Unaware of the secrets she carries, or the danger they could bring if exposed, philanthropist Jack Peterson and his small group of humanitarians welcome Gwen on their journey of hope with the understanding she will tell the world of the atrocities taking place amidst a civil war. The Mission is better than ever. In addition, it has a new beginning and epilogue that will be sure to capture and enthrall you into a story that stretches across the galaxy in search of the key that will free the human race.

Twenty-three years after the disappearance of the Mars I space shuttle, NASA receives a mysterious transmission from Adrian Palmer, the commander of the mission. They eventually crash-land on the planet Terrest and are thrust into a dangerous conflict. The native Terrestrians are at war against a super-race of humans called the Gnols, led by Koroan Chast. Now, the only hope mankind has may rest on a year-old prophecy discovered in an ancient temple on Terrest.

But before the prophecy can come to pass, Adrian and Jake must first stop the Gnols from attacking Earth and enslaving the human race. Worlds Without End Series. The saga of the chosen one. Suddenly catapulted to a position of status, Gwen is chosen to assassinate Ezekiah, the prophet of the Resistance.

She desires to remain faithful to the Serpent Kings, but her doubts are growing, and her time with Ezekiah has awakened feelings within her she never thought to have. Once peaceful Animals are growing fierce, and zombie-like Death Walkers are attacking entire towns as prophecies long held as mere myth come to fulfillment. I picked this book up and could not put it down! The story sucked me in and at the end of the book I was left wanting to know what happens next. It was a great read and I look forward to the next installment.

The story is full of mystery, adventure, danger and inspiration. I highly recommend it! It grabs the reader from the get-go and takes you on an intense ride through its thrilling, unstoppable trajectory! His pacing, creativity and the unique spiritual perspective he brings to his stories never disappoints. Enjoyed it from the beginning and it kept me turning the page to see what happens next.

Before I knew it, I was at the end and saying.. This novel has a very interesting premise and hooked me at the beginning. The action and suspense was non-stop and kept me turning the pages in anticipation throughout the novel. Sometimes choices are hard. Born into a family of werewolves, Zach Trewick finds himself faced with the question of whether he should accept this evil life for himself, or take the desperate and risky gamble of running away from home.

Scrambling to find a way to stay human, Zach quickly makes a bold plan to find his uncle Justin nearly a thousand miles away in Texas, the only person he can think of who might take him in. Stowing away in a septic tank, sleeping in a library, and living in a dog house on a vacant lot are among the adventures he encounters along the way. But the werewolves have no intention of letting him escape so easily. This book is NOT horror. Contains no gore, no violence, and is a thoroughly clean book suitable for all ages.

He also pushes away the attempts by his friend Dan Costain to get him to rely on God instead of his own dwindling resources. Instead, a marriage of convenience seems the perfect solution, and Celebrity Singer Maeve Collinswood the perfect sham wife, charitable to wounded soldiers like himself. How could a loving God allow those things to happen? Was CeeCee losing her faith? Had she truly ever possessed any? What if everything she had been taught up until then had simply been a lie? Transitioning into adulthood was painful for CeeCee as her anger, doubts, and despair overwhelmed her at times, but in the midst of her unwilling journey from child to woman she found the courage to face her life as well as herself with honesty and a determination to deal with the obstacles that had been thrown in her path.

Be sure and check out: How do you cope when God asks you to bury a dream? In this new series by best-selling author Angela Hunt, readers will meet Jennifer Graham, the no-nonsense chief of staff for a Virginia senator who quits her job after a divorce and finds herself an unemployed single mom. Forced to live with her mother until she can find work on Capitol Hill that does not involve her gregarious ex-husband, her efforts are stymied until she learns that she has inherited a funeral home in picturesque Mt. Jennifer journeys to the small Florida town with her two sons and her mother, never dreaming that within a mortuary she will discover she has inherited a rewarding career that teaches her far more about life than death.

Matt Brennan, a brilliant young investment banker in the City of London, is celebrating his greatest deal yet: He is rich and successful beyond his wildest hopes. John Childress is at the top of his game. His father killed in war before he was three, his mother unexpectedly dying when he was eight, Jecosan Tarres is young and poor, yet he has something not many men have: Alone for a year, but later befriended by Dalian the blacksmith, he has already beaten the odds of being destitute and forgotten, but clearly something or someone is at work in his life.

There are powerful forces interested in his journey, both to fail and succeed. Join young Jecosan as he struggles along, escaping sudden traps, facing prison and captivity, fighting pain and despair, losing and making friends. Betty Barnes finds herself hundreds of miles away from her Guymon, Oklahoma home. Since leaving for a large Bible College in Missouri, her life has been twisted around. Faced with unbearable loneliness and loss, she arrives at a diner six miles from Nashville. There, she has a chance to pick up the pieces and build a new life for herself as an independent young woman with a great future ahead of her.

The last thing Wara imagined when Alejo Martir almost killed her is that she would become his partner in the organization CI. Their first assignment is in sultry Esfahan, where they need to find a controversial Iranian rock star, rumored to have converted to Christianity and been sent to his death.

Sami of Ashavan was a project of a well-known church in the U. But every glimpse of Alejo is killing Wara, reminding her of what he has done, and why she can not trust him. Who are these people, really? Amid memories of murder and threats of execution, what kind of love is strong enough to shake the world? Has God hidden some critically important aspects of the interpretation of Christian end-times prophecies within the depths of Judaism, until this generation?

Seth Cohen spent the first several decades of his life as an extremely zealous Hasidic Jew in Jerusalem. His days were filled with studies of Torah and Kabbalah. Now, several tragic and life changing events have opened his eyes to the truth of the Christian gospel and prophecies. His unique insights are no less world changing than those of the Apostle Paul. The priest stood, walked around his desk and sat on the corner. Imagine how they would then react to the child.

There will be the crazy fringe bunch: We know for a fact these people exist. The scribe Sarah married Darius, and at times she feels as if she has married the Persian aristocracy, too. There is another point she did not count on in her marriage-Sarah has grown to love her husband. Although his mother was an Israelite, Darius remains skeptical that his Jewish wife is the right choice for him, particularly when she conspires with her cousin Nehemiah to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

Will the road filled with danger, conflict, and surprising memories, help Darius to see the hand of God at work in his life-and even in his marriage? A hidden message, treachery, opposition, and a God-given success, will lead to an unlikely bounty. This is the story of Lazarus of Bethany, told through tale and tribulation. There was a void in the world around him, without light or sound. He sensed in the darkness there had been light only moments before but he could not grasp what that light was. Suddenly he felt a pulse in his chest. Something heavy held his body firm.

Where are my sisters? What has happened to me? The world was somehow wrong. He tried to move but found he could not, could not raise the heaviness above him. Then, with a thrust, he pushed his bound arms out of the cave soil he was buried in and braced them on the earth, using his weakened strength to pull upward. Earth caved in about him as he rose from his grave, his arms and legs bound with bandages. There was a cloth over his face he could not remove.

He saw a faint light before him through the cloth. He walked slowly in his bandages toward the light and could feel a warm breeze move about him. The sun radiated in the cloth over his eyes. He felt coarse hands on his arms as bandages were unwrapped from him. Coolness came over his skin where they had been. Lazarus breathed heavily, unsure of what was happening. He had a vague memory of being sick before this. He was barely aware of who he was. The cloth over his face was pulled away and he squinted as sunlight blinded him.

A bearded man with long wavy hair stood in the light. Her soft hands grasped one of his. Tears streamed down her face. How could we doubt you are the son of God? It is him who we should praise. We are forever in your debt. Our people will soon face days when believing is much harder than it is now.

But come, let us rejoice in what God has done. Lazarus felt the warmth of the man and felt his sense of confusion change to a feeling of peace. When Jesus pulled his arms away Lazarus walked out into the sun, through the awestruck crowd toward his home. A sheep baaed as he passed.

He opened the front door to his home and headed to his room, lying down on his straw bed, closing his eyes and giving in to darkness and rest. But when a dying friend gives her an ancient scroll that purports to contain just such truths, Maggie finds the lure of understanding too hard to resist:. Leaving her hopes for peace behind, Maggie sets out to carry the ancient scroll to the far eastern city of Pravik, seeking the only man in the world who can read it.

Along the way, Maggie falls into the companionship of a charismatic young wanderer called Nicolas Fisher, who has secrets of his own that he has long been trying to keep hidden. Together, their journey plunges them into a strange new world of colourful Gypsies and ancient legends, of death-hounds and beautiful witches, of wilderness treks, unexpected love, and political rebellion.

But the price of truth may be too high: Shortlisted for The Word Guild Awards, Novel-Futuristic category, this is the classic tale of betrayal and friendship — with an evil entity thrown in to confuse and enlighten the heroine. An entity from nothing space and time, Akaesman lurks in his dominion, waiting, watching through his peephole into our world for the right prey.

And when he spots a good one, he forces himself into our space and time, evading the Akaesman patrol, invading his chosen one. He spreads his evil to everyone, one by one, male and female, changing them forever into his image. On the eve of the summer solstice, they fly home to Toronto down a local highway past slumbering fields, toward a thick starlight-sucking forest, oblivious of their destination: He comes out of a green neon wind.

Her songwriting career is dead. Her name is gone. When she learns of his presence, she resists him; she wrestles with him; she seeks help in her battle. Yet she loses ground. That is the mark of a truly talented writer, someone who tells a story that you feel as opposed to reading words on a cold piece of paper. The Judy Taylor Story. A doctoral candidate in Theological Studies accepts recruitment by a friend in the U.

State Department for an initiative to the most troublesome province in Iraq. The many challenges of nation building expand the mission from diplomacy to a survival situation as local and international interests position themselves to oppose a State Department initiative: Terrorism and counter-terror operations threaten to keep the team from leaving the relative safety of Baghdad.

Until, that is, a former USAF Special Tactics operative hunting the men who want to kill them draws duty as their protector. The simple questions posed during a tribal council threaten provincial and regional stability; the conclusions reached explode into a clash of faith, loyalty, schism and betrayal that will help shape the future of two nations. The Anvil of the Craftsman, the debut novel by author Dale Amidei, will be appreciated by fans of a broad range of fiction; from aficionados of the haunting themes of Ernest Hemingway to readers of the tightly woven plots of Tom Clancy and popular titles of authors like Vince Flynn, David Baldacci, W.

Griffin and Richard Marcinko. He wanted to bring light to the world, but knew that along with it would come darkness… Alejo is a leader in the Prism, a Muslim organization bent on fighting social injustice in his native Bolivia. When Wara and her best friend Noah collide with the Prism, she believes Noah is dead and Alejo is to blame. She should hate him. Who took everything from her. What is she supposed to do when he gives up everything to save her?

Thomas, the young King of Havilah, is drawn to a forest beyond his lands. Here he discovers seven figs, fruit from the long forgotten Eden. In the land of Cush, Princess Lilya suffers under the rule of her father, until the day when young King Thomas of Havilah invites her away to his lands. There, she hopes to find peace she has never known. But Thomas has been drawn to a foreign land, to figs he hopes are from Eden and the Tree of Life.

When he eats them to heal his wounds things change within him, distorting him in ways he could not predict. Now Lilya must make a decision. Amidst this world Lilya has befriended a dragon. There are secrets within the beast that could determine all their fates. In the beginning, the Kingdom was ruled by a wise and just King who ruled by the laws written in the ancient Book. The people were protected by the archangels and the heroic knights.

All lived in peace and prospered. Those days are gone…. Flar, the evil fire lord, and his sorceror, Murlox, have banished the King and his angels behind an energy field known as the Great Divide. The Book has been taken. The angels have fallen. The knights are gone. All that remains is the prophecy and a promise of hope. Join Marsonee the archangel and Princess Rainna as they embark on a journey to bring an innocent farm boy toward his true destiny. The Golden Knight is beautifully decorated with over 15 illustrations. Join the quest today for the Golden Knight! Would you like Marsonee the Archangel and Justin the farm boy to visit your school or church?

Celebrate the holidays with eight great excerpts from bestselling authors like David Sedaris, James Patterson, Brad Meltzer, Nicholas Sparks, and more. Marissa Green can scarcely think after the death of her parents. When her pastor urges her to an all-expenses paid vacation at a new Destin Beach resort, she agrees. Not only is he the owner of the resort, but his bachelor show is all the rage in the Florida panhandle. What started out as a publicity stunt for Seth may have turned into the real thing. When he and Marissa get together, sparks fly.

Whether or not Seth is truly interested in Marissa could be the least of her worries. After a series of misunderstandings, Marissa leaves Seth and the resort behind. Who will find her first? Formerly called Shades of Gray. This is the tale of Colonel Alexander Hunter, a dauntless and daring Confederate cavalry officer, who, with his band of intrepid outcasts, becomes a legend in the rolling hills of northern Virginia. Inspired by love of country and guided by a sense of duty and honor, Hunter must make a desperate choice when he discovers the woman he promised his dying brother he would protect is the Union spy he vowed to his men he would destroy.

Readers will discover the fine line between friends and enemies when the paths of these two tenacious foes cross by the fates of war and their destinies become entwined forever. Destined for an honored place among the classics of the American Civil War, Noble Cause is a book to read, and keep, and remember forever. Jor Thallon returns home a weary, grizzled veteran to find his people, the ones he spent his life protecting, have destroyed the one thing he held on to all those years: Once a people devoted to the All-Father, the citizens of Granite Clearing have divided their God into dozens of separate aspects.

His religion splintered almost beyond recognition, Thallon sets out on a pilgrimage to seek divine assistance. How can one old man change an entire religion torn asunder? There are only three things that I know for sure: I want to be a famous singer and dancer 2. Everything I have ever known is about to change. Exuberant fourth grader, Lake Ashley Payton also known as LA and her blended family live on a beautiful and peaceful island. One day LA is informed that her mother is going to have a baby. This life changing news rattles her world and she fears the worst.

LA captures every moment to make a video diary and uses Bible verses to help her through the emotional struggles. I wrote Big Sister Babysitter to encourage and excite my daughter about having a new baby join the family. I hope your year old enjoys this story and feels the love that comes from my writing.

The setting is Rome during the early Roman Empire. The author promises a story rather than a sermon, and there is a romantic tie between Attilius and Gwenna. The story is split into 27 chapters and five books. Edwina is a small town librarian and loves her predictable lifestyle. But her stepsister Cecilia has other plans. As they are about to board a plane for Scotland, Cecelia is suddenly called away.

Exhausted and alone in Edinburgh, Edwina collapses into the arms of a tall Scot. The only thing six-year-old Camilla wants for Christmas is a belt buckle, just like the kind her daddy wore before he died. Will her wish come true? If a day can go from bad to worse, it does for Abbey. Bruce Harrington was on his way to a very important meeting. That was until a raving lunatic with brown, bouncy hair spiraled towards him in her car and then on foot.

To make amends for causing Bruce to break a leg, Abbey becomes his chauffeur and helpmate until he recovers. When his cast is about to come off he has to face losing Abbey. There has to be some way he can keep her from walking out of his life forever. Heated Summer — Coming Summer ! Jared, the quiet loner with a past, survives the natural devastation of his neighborhood. With everything gone, Jared sets out to reestablish his life. After stumbling upon Lily, a boisterous woman with some demons of her own, Jared does everything within his power to survive and to keep her safe along the way.

In Queen of Sheba , Roberta Kells Dorr has woven historical and archaeological research with age-old legend to create a riveting tale of ancient plots and passions. Dorr tells of a beautiful, intelligent, and independent queen who constantly battles the priests and high lords of her kingdom who resent being ruled by a woman.

Bilqis, the queen of Sheba, is a woman as modern as her story is ancient. Bilqis is a woman who longs for love but is reluctant to forsake her independence, aware that she has much to lose if she makes the wrong choice. In Solomon, to her surprise, she finds both love and a new faith — the covenant between man and woman and the covenant between humanity and God. But she is still too independent to let anyone become close to her. Also, she must return to rule her own people.

How Solomon finally wins her, and how this beautiful queen resolves the conflicts among herself, her old religion, and the intrigues of her kinsmen, make The Queen of Sheba an exciting, bold novel of love and faith. An ancient secret has been hidden from you. Knowing this secret will open your eyes, but once open they will never close again. A priest who, already suffering at the tendrils of his own doubts, gets drawn into a world of mystery and a covert darkness that permeates our society after discovering a hidden letter in the depths of an old church. A successful trader who works for a city bank seems to have it all, but if you were to scratch beneath the surface, a secret burden tearing at him, becoming too much for him to bear would emerge.

Finding himself at the point of despair he asks for answers. Unusual doors begin to open revealing truths that make him wonder if his burden has just increased. Every door opened slams tightly shut as he walks to the next. Once making the decision to open the first, he rapidly realises that there is no going back. Maybe the decision had already been made for him. Like many others, one man is struggling to see the purpose of life in the rat race. Trying to find a better way is consuming his daily thoughts, but why does the system seem so geared up to stop it?

Could the appearance of a mysterious stranger link the lives of these seemingly unrelated individuals? The world is changing faster now than ever before. While we marvel at almost daily technological breakthroughs and bask in the copious amounts of readily available information, most of us are oblivious to these signs and to an ancient force that gradually increases its control over us. A dark storm is coming. Meagan Wallace is hallucinating a drop-dead gorgeous guy in her shower, and at inconvenient moments at work.

And why is he doing this? And how does he know her name? Think back to your school days. Do you remember the kid in the back of the classroom? That quiet one who was different from everyone else? Maybe he had a different haircut or liked different music. Perhaps he came from a poor family and his clothes were often dirty. You picked on him for being different. It was no big deal; everyone else did it. You giggled at him and called him names. You knocked his books off his desk and pretended it was an accident. You shot spit-wads at him.

You excluded him from games at recess. Gatheck has been at relative peace for over a thousand years. When Angel-Mexis escapes captivity and falls in with a pair of undesirables, she will find herself falling deeper into darkness. Revenge will drive her. When a nameless man pulls himself out of an unmarked grave, with little recollection of his past, he will do anything to find his wife. Events will be set in motion.

When Kellum-Herbst witnesses a terrible future, he will do everything in his power to stop it. Sacrifices have to be made. When a goddess abandons her faithful and turns her back on those that need her, a change will begin. The world will turn on her. The Witch and the Sunflower Girl is a unique fairy tale with a timeless enchanting story of how kindness and karma can overcome tyranny, and free will can overcome fate. His search for his lost Arab brother might end in slavery, torture, and death. Excerpt from Benny and the Bank Robber Benny finds the drunken cart driver who killed his father on a rainy Philadelphia street.

So why do they still have to leave city life for a frontier farm? But John Clancy gives Benny a bigger mystery to solve. A bully named Marjean, a mangy dog named Donut, and southern Georgia in August: Nine year old Gordy will need all of these to overcome the life-changing moment headed his way. Excerpted from Benny and the Bank Robber 2: For all who have suffered great loss of heart, home, health or family; true home and genuine lasting love can be found. When a horrific battle rips through Gettysburg, the farm of Union widow Liberty Holloway is disfigured into a Confederate field hospital, bringing her face to face with unspeakable suffering-and a Confederate scout who awakens her long dormant heart.

In the wake of shattered homes and bodies, Liberty and Bella struggle to pick up the pieces the battle has left behind. Will Liberty be defined by the tragedy in her life, or will she find a way to triumph over it? Inspired by first-person accounts from women who lived in Gettysburg during the battle and its aftermath, Widow of Gettysburg is the Book 2 in the Heroines Behind the Lines series.

These books do not need to be read in succession. And who finds their Prince Charming on a speed bicycle on the other side of the cul de sac? And then one day Julianne is on her way to court, and runs right smack dab into Prince Charming. But when she looks again, all she finds is a metaphoric sign she is certain came straight from Heaven: What better way for God to grab the attention of a Cinderella-in-training than to show her a glass slipper… errrr, work boot? So she sets out to track down the mysterious Prince Charming.

Surely he must be the soul mate God has prepared her for. No matter how she tries to romanticize him, he just keeps tumbling down off that dumb pedestal. And with the Bar Association dinner coming up that will honor her for her outstanding charity work over the year, Julianne wants so much for her friends and colleagues to see her with someone besides her best friend Will. To make matters worse, Prince Charming has no designs on wearing a penguin suit and attending a stuffy old dinner. With her pride pressing in on her like sticks from a cactus, Julianne sinks to the bottom of the proverbial barrel and actually offers to pay Paul to be her date.

Imagine waking up in a strange pace. What causes brother to rise up against brother? Can men, nations, and families ever experience true unity and peace? Will racism and hatred finally be eradicated? When a Civil War chaplain finds himself dodging death-stamped mini balls and dismembering shrapnel, he realizes there is a better way, a final, lasting hope.

During the golden age of Hollywood, actresses Vivian Vogel and Constance Montgomery, actor Luke Sanders, and producer Jack Morgan each pursue their own dreams of success. When they struggle to see some of their dreams become reality, they find themselves in a different kind of dream factory — one in which God and his angels challenge them to transform their dreams. Vivian, Constance, and Luke all dream of stardom. As Christians, they dream of bringing hope and joy to audiences, yet they also struggle with less pure dreams of fame and fortune.

Jack is in the business of helping others make their dreams come true, but at a cost. When he becomes obsessed with one of his own dreams and tries to force it into reality, he pays the ultimate price for it. Horoscope Compatibility for Cancer now and discover more about yourself, your sweetheart, and your romance? Furthermore Cancer reading this step-by-step guide will probably prove to be like holding a mirror up to yourself.

So, are you ready to try something new? Grab a copy of this no-nonsense dating guide now, and start having some more fun with your relationships. Tristan rescues the beautiful child-woman Mayra from sexual slavery. Will she help him prepare for a staggering collision with the near and distant past? As a man of determination, independence, and masculine pursuits he suddenly becomes blind and his world ends.

Pride causes him to abandon the upcoming marriage to Eden Derington and seek medical care in San Francisco. Through an associate he sends a letter to Eden telling her he left Honolulu to find himself again. Hurt and angry that Rafe has walked out of her life, Eden knows about his eyesight loss but she never received the letter Rafe sent to her. In heartbreak she goes with her father Dr. Jerome to Molokai to set up the clinic for lepers. Eden hopes to pick up the shattered pieces of broken plans and begin life anew.

He is hard at work with the other anti-Royalists to depose the Hawaiian queen and to bring the Hawaiian Islands under the Stars and Stripes. While her lost love affair with Rafe is as painful to her as ever, he is cool and distant, avoiding her to the point of arrogance. Nor has he been romantically idle. Eden is both hurt and angry. The clouds of political disaster have arrived overhead. Eden must decide which side of the upcoming Revolution she is going to support.

Plus she must discover the painful lessons God wants her to learn, and if she will ever find healing for her bruised heart with or without a life that includes Rafe. Burrell writes very well, and with a great deal of invention. In an attempt to protect his son from further emotional damage, Raj asks Moslin to stay away from Emret. He returns hours later to find them both missing. He searches the fairytales for clues to where they may have gone and stumbles upon stories that, strangely, he already knows.

He saw them in a vision just before his son disappeared. The rich man is the one who listened. Through out history God has chosen a Champion to stand against the forces of evil. Now two thousand years after world devastating nuclear war, from the remnants of America has risen the Kingdom of Light. One man, however has corrupted the religious system that leads worship for his own dark goals, thus awakening a thousand year old prophecy.

Through that encounter in an offer will be made. This is the tale of that change. Will a war-torn America, split in two, put the nation on a path toward healing and recovery? Or is futuristic America destined to remain bipartisan and deeply divided? Serena Wilcox and her family have destroyed their old home and faked their deaths to go off the grid under new identities, after obtaining insider information about a threat to the United States.

The threat results in a geographically divided America, with two governing presidents: Conspiracy, greed and a lust for power are at the root of this plot-twisting thriller about corrupt American government; when the future of the nation depends on former private detective Serena Wilcox and her unlikely crew.

Revolting and oddball characters, quirky humor, shocking dialog and events: Book 1 in the Dystopian Thriller Trilogy [The Serena Wilcox Mysteries] is inspirational, humorous, and clean no graphic violence or language. The series is cross-genre: NOTE to clarify any confusion: Angels Mark has been revised and has a new book cover. If you have already purchased Angels Mark bearing the cover with the child angel on it, you do not need to purchase this 2nd edition. Jonah Devlin arrives at an isolated fishing village in Labrador to serve as pastor of a community church the Anglicans had abandoned years earlier.

Gabrielle Pye, one of his congregation, is a young waitress struggling to raise her two brothers in the depressed economy of maritime Canada. Just as Devlin attempts to help her, reports of his troubled past reach Passup. At a former parish, Devlin had been accused of unspeakable acts against his parishioners. Will the quirky citizens of Passup and surrounding villages fire him too, or will they reveal their own convictions anchored in love and community?

Follow Willow through the first months of motherhood. She learns to battle schedules, work, teething, and of course, the postpartum bulge. Chad and she hit a hard place that sends them to their parents for counsel—and one of the biggest arguments they have ever had. Each chapter is a condensed scene making the flow pleasant and easy to follow. Science and the Bible are good things, but in the hands of an evil genius, they are deadly weapons.

He is well-known as a man of God but he is actually a mafia godfather who uses his knowledge of science and scripture to rob, rape, kidnap and kill. His name is Munokori but he calls himself The Thirteenth Disciple. He has a huge following among the poor and the uneducated. Itai, a young electronics technician, has fallen desperately in love with the beautiful Chipo. Itai goes home a happy man. But Munokori also wants Chipo and plans to use Itai as a pawn. Senator Darren Richards, is a behind-the-scenes, narcissistic alcoholic. None of that changes when he becomes the leading Democratic candidate for President of the United States.

How can she support his candidacy, even if it will mean becoming First Lady? His charm and leadership pave the way for him to become a national hero and a real threat as the leading Republican presidential candidate. Should she try to stop Leif, which may ruin his chances but save his soul?

Keep the defib paddles handy! The Lotto is fast-paced, converging several story lines and combining moral dilemma, fast cars, expensive scotch, casinos, marriage, gangs, guns and church. It is arrhythmic drama, a palpitating alchemy of events and personalities that mashes the throttle of theology to the floor.

All that and humor too! You will wonder how you would have responded. You will ask where a fleeting dalliance with the devil might take you…what is true repentance and can we ever presume upon grace? Readers have learned to be cautious with unknown writers as it can often be a waste of time. There must be a meeting of the minds somewhere along the line. This eBook is offered free as it can be a big time saver for readers. Feel free to skip around and kick it off your e-reader if it comes to that. There are no werewolves and vampires here. Watchdogg is the central character, a kind of political James Bond, and dastardly pirates appear in this novel.

This Best selling book will have Part 2 out October. All novels in the series are stand-alone stories that can be read in any order. Why do we all love money so much? Note that this book is presented in the final pages of this book. If none of the above is promising, you can drop out here and save a lot of time. Cold and miserable, they have to lie close together under a couple of horse blankets.

And a kissing game gets out of hand…. In Bath, a young painter is hired to paint the portrait of the wife of Mr Elliott. Mrs Joan Elliot, a petit and beautiful woman from France, is shy and correct and despite the fact that she is almost twice his age, Basil becomes infatuated with her. Then, suddenly, during one of the painting session, a small accident occurs which will have unforeseen and erotic consequences. After a family argument he goes to sleep half-drunk, however, in the middle of the night he receives an unexpected nightly visitor in his bedchamber.

Curious to read more? Jennings and contains five Victorian romantic and erotic short stories. Would you like to read more? Reader, would you like to continue? There he meets Baron Carl Whitmore, a private gentleman who has withdrawn from society and with no intentions whatsoever of involving himself in a forbidden liaison, especially not with an infamous rake Tempted to continue, reader? Curious to find out more?

Nights in Vienna Ever since the opening night of Don Giovanni at Vienna Court Opera, someone is sending Hugo Farrell a dozen red roses anonymously after every performance, which leads to jealousy and speculative gossip among the rest of the orchestra A young bachelor who leads a solitary life in London. Broken Hearts This is a romanic story about two young gentlemen who are searching for rare wild orchids in the forest outside Oxford, and about a young man falling in love for the first time without even realising it himself Temptation Oliver Sanders, a young scholar from Oxford, arrives at the isolated Wycliffe Castle to work as a private tutor.

However, his new student turns out to be not quite what he had expected Will they be able to see beyond the social boundaries? And will they be able to resist their mutual attraction? Tempted to read more? His elderly master decided to change his will and has sent for a solicitor from Manchester. However, the solicitor, Mr Norbert Pritchard, is absolutely nothing that Ewan expects Gentlemen under the Mistletoe Lieutenant Alastair Norton has vowed to never let his feelings or desire rule his heart again.

After five years, he has come back to Haworth, to celebrate the Christmas holidays with his family. However, his visit brings both old and painful memories to the surface, as well as dangerous temptations My Valentine Branded a social outcast and shunned by the Victorian society, Lord Richard Archerton leads a solitary life at his large estate in the heart of Devon.

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No one could be more unlike him than Valentine, a prisoner sentenced to the gallows and who just have managed to make his lucky escape. An Extraordinary Evening William Heatherton and his closest friend, Robin Crawley, are two of the most notorious rakehells in London, infamous for breaking hearts and creating scandals wherever they go; however this evening is worse than ever, on so many different levels Seduced by a Dandy Nathaniel Wyndham is instantly attracted to the handsome stranger, dressed like a dandy, and who was standing in a corner at the yearly Autumn Ball in Corby.

And why was he watching him so intently? Captured by Him Milton Huntington, the oldest son of Duke Huntington, should consider himself a happy man since he just got his marriage proposal to Miss Constance Bradwardine accepted, however he is not. To make things worse, his carriage is stopped by a gang of highwaymen on his way home and from there things are rapidly turning worse.

The Old Rose Garden There is an old rose garden across the fields behind Halifax manor in Yorkshire where no one ever comes. Abandoned for years, moss and climbing ivy vines have long ago claimed the wooden pergolas and overgrown the white marble statues around the forgotten pond in the middle of the garden. No one ever comes there except Georgina; a young woman who everyone thinks is a little bit peculiar ever since that strange accident.

Ewan decides to follow after her and make sure she is unhurt, however rash actions has unforeseen consequences. Nightly Hunting Lady Eleanor Jameson from Warwickshire is not like the other noble ladies who attend the autumn hunting expedition at Harrington Park. Granted, she is similar to the other well-bred ladies in some aspects: She is wealthy, well-connected, and overall agreed to be rather beautiful in a sensual and slightly plump way, but shockingly, she still has remained unmarried over the years.

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