6/29/2023 0 Comments Hot Head by Mika NixNico is grumbly, possessive, and has a temper. The character development is also seriously lacking. Guess how much world building we get here? That would be ZERO, negative, nada. Except for a dragon book to be satisfying, we need complex world building. I wasn't expecting much and got even less.įirst of all, DRAGONS. **Drake Security features dragon shifters with NO MPREG** It features a dragon bodyguard with anger issues, a fabulous human with more money than friends, an ex on the loose, and fated mate goodness. Hot Head is book one in the exciting new series, Drake Security. If anyone hurts him, it’ll be the last thing they do. In the meantime, my only focus is Lake and his safety. I never claimed to be the level headed one. If it unleashes all out war with the wolf packs, so be it. I’ll move mountains to keep him safe and delight in tearing the wolf apart with my bare hands if he gets too close to my mate. To say my protective instincts are on overdrive is an understatement. The one thing I never expected was for Lake to be my fated mate. Just another day in the life of a dragon body guard. The unhinged wolf shifter he unknowingly dated will stop at nothing to get Lake in his clutches. Drake Security, my firm with my brothers, was hired to protect him from a stalker ex, but what Lake doesn’t know is that he’s not dealing with your average unhinged human. Lake Forrester III entered my life like a wrecking ball. Finding out he’s my fated mate wasn’t part of the assignment.
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His intervention will be decisive in the resolution of a crime for which there are no suspects.ĭeath in the vicarage, published in 1930, was the first appearance of one of the most important characters in the work of Agatha Christie, the spinster and insightful Miss Marple, whose cases have been adapted several times both to the cinema and in Form of television series. Mary Mead, the most meddlesome, observant and shrewd person is Miss Marple. Mary Mead, where the main entertainment is tea and gossip. The murder of Colonel Protheroe shocks the town of St. The local inspector and Miss Marple sort through to the truth. His wife Anne admits newly arrived artist Lawrence Redding is an old flame, and both confess to murder. Colonel Protheroe, magistrate universally despised, was shot in his study, unheard. Miss Jane Marple is a village busybody who applies human nature to crimes. Miss Jane Marple is a village busybody who applies human nature. Murder at the Vicarage (1930)is the first Miss Marple mystery book by Agatha Christie. Murder at the Vicarage (1930)is the first Miss Marple mystery book by Agatha Christie. Roderick and Madeline are the only remaining members of the Usher family. It is revealed that Roderick's sister, Madeline, is also ill and falls into cataleptic, deathlike trances. As he arrives, the narrator notices a thin crack extending from the roof, down the front of the house and into the adjacent tarn, or lake. The story begins with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country, complaining of an illness and asking for his help. The short story, a work of Gothic fiction, includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities. " The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. First appearance in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine (September 1839) 6/29/2023 0 Comments Scarlet angel st abby read online“I am in love,” I immediately blurt out, then grimace. I believe you actually think you’re in love.” You had no idea I was there, obviously, so that wasn’t a show. And to your other question, it’s because you told the Boogeyman you were killing him to keep Logan safe. “I’m not here to hurt you,” I tell her, and she snorts out a laugh. I do as the gun-wielding girl silently beckons, sitting down, and she steps back, sitting across from me on the other bed, never lowering her weapon. She slowly backs up, and she gestures for me to sit on the bed closest to the door. “Don’t pretend that’s why you’re here right now,” she says, an edge to her tone. “Logan wants to know if you’re up for a case. Remaining calm, I stare at her with my coldest expression. “I actually expected you a lot sooner than this,” she says, her eyes watching me, as though she’s waiting on an excuse. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph FinkFollowing a line of clues, Keisha takes a job as a long-haul truck driver and begins searching for Alice. Alice isn’t dead, and she is showing up at every major tragedy and accident in the country. Fans of eerie suspense will find much to like. 4.1 49 Ratings 13.99 13.99 Publisher Description. Creator of the popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast, Fink (It Devours! with Jeffrey Cranor) fills his world with fully realized characters, from Keisha, who uses her grief and anxiety to give herself strength, to Sylvia, the runaway teenager who fights against the Thistle Men who killed her mom. Along the way, she's threatened by monsters called Thistle Men and discovers a vast conspiracy that protects them as they prey upon people along the highways. Thus begins her search, crisscrossing America after getting a job as a long-distance trucker, following up leads culled from Alice's notes and papers. Then, six months after the funeral, Keisha sees Alice in the background of a news report. Keisha Taylor believed her wife, Alice, dead after she disappeared without a trace. Based on the podcast of the same name, Fink's thrilling first solo novel follows a woman thrown into the middle of a secret war that takes place in the vast, empty stretches of America. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Dead is the new blackAnd with a little sleuthing help from Ryan, an old friend (who may be turning into something more), Daisy not only reveals the identity of the vamp, she also discovers powers that she never knew she had. Is looking dead just another fashion trend for pretty, popular Samantha, or is there something more sinister afoot? Daisy will stop at nothing to find out - she even joins the cheerleading squad. And when she discovers a vampire may be the culprit, Daisy suspects head cheerleader Samantha Devereaux, who returned from summer break with a new "look." She looks a little. But she takes matters into her own hands when she learns the victim has lots of company - teenage girls are being attacked all over town, including at Nightshade High School, where Daisy is a junior. When her mother, who uses her power to solve crimes, enlists Daisy's older sister to investigate a teenage girl's mysterious death, Daisy feels utterly useless. Everyone in the Giordano family is psychic-except for Daisy. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Red Fox by Karina HalleWhen Perry decides to explore an old abandoned lighthouse on her uncle's property she gets a lot more than she bargained for. Visit Karina Halle's website for more information Her uncle’s haunted lighthouse provides the perfect catalyst and backdrop for a horrific mystery that unravels the threads of Perry’s fragile sanity and causes her to fall for a man who, like the most dangerous of ghosts, may not be all that he seems.Īnd With Madness Comes the Light (Novella) Even though the show’s budget is non-existent and Dex himself is a maddening enigma, Perry is instantly drawn into a world that both threatens her life and seduces her with a sense of importance. Luckily for her, that all comes in handy when she stumbles across Dex Foray, an eccentric producer for an upcoming webcast on ghost hunters. For one thing, there’s her past which she likes to pretend never happened, and then there’s the fact that she sees ghosts. Perry Palomino is not what you would call ‘ordinary’. A supernatural journey with two unlikely ghost hunters who must battle not only spirits but their attraction to each other. 6/29/2023 0 Comments Arkady and boris strugatsky booksPlease be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery and due to various reasons, the delivery may take longer than the original estimated timeframe. Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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Tulipmania is an interesting theme – how much bulbs were bought and sold for, how much trade and double dealing went on down by the docks. Comely women are tulips their skirts are petals, swinging around the pollen-dusted stigmas of their legs” “Everything he sees speaks Tulips to him. One of the painters describes the bulbs of the Tulip like a man possessed – Deborah Moggach’s painting could go alongside any of those artists she admires and includes in the book – Rembrandt, Vermeer amongst others. It’s the literary equivalent of lots of rapid brush strokes smacked and sprayed across a blank canvas of a world poised between religion and secularism, tradition and trade. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Not since Patrick Suskinds Perfume has a work of fiction so vividly evoked a time, a place, and a passion.In 1630s Amsterdam, tulip fever has seized the populace. Amsterdam is beautifully evoked as is the setting and atmosphere of the dirty noisy canals and the excited panic and greed of the traders.Īlthough historical and quite serious, Tulip Fever is the equivalent of sitting on the knee of a bawdy character in a backstreet bar whilst swigging and spilling their beer as they jolt you up and down. Read Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach with a free trial. In Tulip Fever, acclaimed author Deborah Moggach has created that rarest of novels-a literary tour de force that is also brilliantly, compulsively readable. 6/28/2023 0 Comments The unspoken name csorweIn their search for the Reliquary, Csorwe meets young mage Adept Shuthmili. They both pledge to help Sethennai recover the Reliquary of Pentravasse. Tal and Csorwe despise one another, and their mutual hatred drives many of their actions. Sethennai takes the nephew of the previous Chancellor, Tal Charossa, as another pupil. She helps him to regain his position as the Chancellor of the city of Tlaanthothe. Oranna, a necromancer from the House of Silence, becomes jealous that Sethennai did not rescue her from the temple and vows revenge.Ĭsorwe trains under Sethennai, gaining skills as a spy and assassin. On the day of the ritual, a traveling Tlaanthothe wizard named Belthandros Sethennai convinces her to abandon her vows and become his apprentice. On her fourteenth birthday, she is destined to be sacrificed to the god. Thirteen-year-old Csorwe is an Oshaaru living in a temple called the House of Silence, where she is pledged to be the Chosen Bride of the Unspoken God. The Unspoken Name is the first in the planned Serpent Gates series. An unexpected encounter with a young mage calls Csorwe's loyalties into question. She becomes his assassin and spy, dedicating her life to the search for a missing artifact. Csorwe, an Oshaaru, is pledged to be sacrificed to the Unspoken God before she is rescued by the wizard Sethennai. The Unspoken Name is a 2020 fantasy novel, the debut novel by A.K. |