![]() ![]() To Max, this fight means more than winning a championship…it means finally righting a wrong that has consumed him for years. ![]() Max has a complex tie to tonight’s opponent and he won’t be satisfied until blood streams and bones are smashed. Before his championship bout, Max sits down with a local reporter to recount a history laced with bullying, lost love, despair and death. What really happened to his mother? What lengths will Kasey go to make things right? BullDog Max Bhaltair is a bare-knuckle boxer who refuses to let go of the past. Now, thanks to strange visions during narcoleptic blackouts, Kasey discovers his father is not the man he has been led to believe. Raised by a single father, the only thing he knew of his mother was that she died giving him life. This collection Ashes of Kasey Hatcher thought he knew what life was all about. A collection of three novellas by Anthony Armstrong. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There's only one teensy problem: Mack can't fall for Landon a second time. The plan is simple: keep Landon at arm's length, manipulate him so he's the one falling in love, and then, BAM, dump him in the most epic revenge plot in the history of everdom. His most recent memory is of last summer, when they were together, so now he's calling Mack pet names and hanging all over her. ![]() ![]() Landon takes a nasty fall and suddenly he's stuck in the past - literally. Luckily for Mack, the perfect opportunity presents itself. Fast-forward a year and they're back at their summer jobs at Serenity Ranch and Spa with Mack and her best friend Bailey, spending their time fantasising about making voodoo dolls and playing childish pranks on Landon. And then he dumped her and broke her heart. Last summer, Mackenzie and Landon were the perfect couple. Fool Me Twice: An If Only novel 1st Edition is written by Mandy Hubbard and published by Bloomsbury Childrens Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shapard’s Annotated Mansfield Park brings Austen’s world into richer focus. More than 225 informative illustrationsįilled with fascinating details about the characters’ clothes, houses, and carriages, as well as background information on such relevant issues as career paths in the British navy, contemporary attitudes toward slavery, and the legal and social consequences of adultery, David M.An introduction, bibliography, and detailed chronology of events.Citations from Austen’s life, letters, and other writings.Here is the complete text of Austen’s own favorite novel with more than 2,300 annotations on facing pages, including: From the editor of the popular Annotated Pride and Prejudice comes an annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park that makes her story of an impoverished girl living with her wealthy relatives an even more satisfying read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the following conversation, we explore their creative process, the power of speculative fiction, and how letters warp time and kindle intimacy. ![]() Both are Hugo and Nebula Award-winners and are as generous as they are brilliant. The story is a shining example of the authors’ lovely definition of literature in the acknowledgements: “Books are letters in bottles, cast into the waves of time, from one person trying to save the world to another.”Īmong other wonderful things, Max is the bestselling author of the Craft Sequence, and Amal is the New York Times Book Review‘s science fiction and fantasy columnist. This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is a mind-expanding, heart-wrenching tale of dastardly intrigue and burgeoning romance that follows two supremely competent secret agents traveling through time to bend the arc of history toward their respective masters’ incompatible political ends. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J.
![]() ![]() ![]() Marriage was the only way to ensure that the families wouldn’t retaliate against one another. Should this attempt fail, then their annihilation was all but imminent.Įach family would offer up one of their daughters as a sacrifice to their enemies. As the leaders of the most influential crime families in the world, they recognized that a ceasefire was the only way to guarantee their endurance. In the most unlikely scenarios, six families came together in an undisclosed location to negotiate a peace treaty. Soldiers, kin, and innocent lives were lost on all sides, and the inevitable extinction of the mafioso way of life was fast approaching. From both sides of the globe, blood was spilled in the name of honor, while the brutal carnage each family bestowed upon the other was anything but noble. Throughout recent decades, in the midst of civil evolution, an ancient war was being fought. However, the same cannot be said when dealing with their enemies. These are the codes of conduct of every mafia family. ![]() ![]() None hold this way of life more sacred than made men. Creating chaos and bloodshed is preferable to being subjected to vapid dialogues of peaceful negotiation. The thirst for vengeance and retribution has always prevailed overturning the other cheek to one’s enemies. Since the dawn of time, waging war on those who have wronged us has been embedded in the very fiber of mankind’s true nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the present, the same leading family, the Whitings, still own half the town or more, but their holdings and their personal circumstances have been reduced by time and a town that seems almost to be eating itself in an effort to stay alive and afloat. That, as we learn in the book's prologue, was then. Peaking out with the addition of the shirt factory and when the scion of the town's leading family built an ersatz Mediterranean mansion on the banks of the filthy river his family has been polluting for three generations. It rose to the height of whatever glory it was to attain with the industrial revolution. As it is, Russo weaves the reader, quickly and tightly, into a community of personalities as easy to remember as your next door neighbor.Įmpire Falls is a tarnished Maine town. If Richard Russo's latest novel were less well plotted and engaging, you'd need a score sheet to keep track. Like most books named for cities and towns - fictional and otherwise - the cast of characters in Empire Falls is large and convoluted. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rye is certain his sassy new cook is the last woman who'd ever tempt him, but spending time with the wholesome girl next door will do wonders for his damaged public image, whether she likes being forced into the spotlight or not. The job is the answer to all her prayers: it will clear out her debt and finance the fresh start she desperately needs. But while she couldn't care less about country music or arrogant men, Rye makes her an offer she can't refuse when he asks her to be his private chef on his multi-city concert tour. He's a bad boy who indulges himself in all things, women included. When famous-and infamous-country singer Rye Crenshaw saunters into the diner where she cooks, Tory Simmons is certain she's got him pegged. Also includes thirteen country music songs and a dozen recipes. USA Today Bestselling Author Ava Miles of the #1 National Bestseller Nora Roberts Land presents the Dare River series set in the South, connected to her bestselling small town Dare Valley series, against the backdrop of country music, Nashville, foodie splendor, family, and sweet forgiveness. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was as if the sun never completely went down that night, but instead turned a dark umber and lurked beneath the bottom rim of the world, lighting up the heavens ever so slightly. The sky was purple-rather than blue or black. The night before the invasion, the whole sky looked wrong somehow. No part of this publication can be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the author. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. ![]() Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author. If you’re reading this book (not just the sample) and did not purchase it, please purchase your own legal copy. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. ![]() This ebook may not be sold or given away to other people. This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘The Betrayed’ is now available for purchase on Amazon, or at Barnes and Noble and Books A Million. See you in June with your flower crowns.” ![]() It’s been fun to spend quality time in a castle again. She wrote, “I really love the conclusion of Hollis’s story (so. ![]() On April 1, 2021, Cass announced on her website that ‘The Betrayed’ would be released on June 29. Fans of ‘The Selection’ know that Cass writes fantasy romance and castle drama like no other, and ‘The Betrothed’ certainly was no exception. Like ‘The Selection,’ I found ‘The Betrothed’ to be a light, fun read. ‘The Betrothed’ takes place in the fictional realm of Coroa, where a young noble woman, Hollis, fights to secure the hand of the king - only to realize her feelings for another. Kiera Cass, bestselling author of ‘The Selection’ series, has released the second and final installment in her ‘The Betrothed’ series. ![]() |