![]() ![]() ![]() But as she becomes more entangled with him, she finds she's drawn to Reeve and his depravity despite her growing conviction that he may be the one responsible for Amber' s disappearance.įirst review for 2016!!What better way to start, than with a book that blew me away! I freaking loved this book!!!It had everything I wanted and even more!!I was hooked from the beginning till the end.And the ending left me speechless, desperately needing more!!First Touch is a compelling story, the mystery and the characters make it fantastic.Įmily wants to find her friend Amber, who has disappeared. Now, in order to find Amber, Emily must return to her playgirl ways to uncover his secrets and track down her friend. ![]() Determined to track down her friend, Emily follows a chain of clues that leads her to Reeve Sallis, a gorgeous and equally dangerous hotelier known for his power games and shady dealings. One thing is clear from the message, Amber is in trouble. Until she receives a cryptic voicemail from her former friend that sends her spiraling into the darkness she thought she had outrun. OBSESSED BY DESIRE.Īfter a string of shameful relationships and reckless partying with her best friend Amber, she's now a successful voiceover actress, her wild past and everyone in it firmly behind her. ![]()
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![]() From there, he moved to the Washington Evening Star, where he gained a reputation for the quality of his writing. “This venture lasted about a year and did not succeed, as it does not for many people.” He then moved to Pathfinder Magazine, a general news magazine. Īfter leaving United Press, he free-lanced for a year, writing a column for local papers in the West. Roosevelt and his contentious relations with the Senate.” The journal was published in 1963 as A Senate Journal 1943-45 after Drury had experienced great success with his 1959 novel Advise and Consent. Truman from junior senator to President of the United States, and also covered “President Franklin D. Drury’s journal followed the career of Harry S. ![]() I came back twenty years later, finally.” įrom 1943-45, Drury worked as the United States Senate correspondent for United Press which, as he wrote, gave him the opportunity “to be of some slight assistance in making my fellow countrymen better acquainted with their Congress and particularly their Senate.” He worked as a reporter, but also kept a journal in which he recorded the events of Congress as well as his impressions and views of individual senators and the Senate itself. ![]() “I went East and wound up in Washington, which fascinated me, and I thought I would get a job for about a year for experience before coming back to the coast. He wrote the 1959 novel Advise and Consent, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1960. Allen Stuart Drury was an American novelist. ![]() ![]() But some Hunters are better than others, and some bring their own kind of danger with them. Every village wants a Hunter - one of the warriors who have pledged their laser guns and their swords to the eradication of the Nobility. The war against the vampires has taken its toll cities lie in ruin, the countryside is fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms that still struggle against nightly raids by the fallen vampires - and the remnants of their genetically manufactured demons and werewolves. Humanity is just crawling out from under three hundred years of domination by the race of vampires known as the Nobility. Painted cover and interior art by YOSHITAKA AMANO. "Vampire Hunter D!" Written by HIDEYUKI KIKUCHI. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, the treacherous human queens who returned to the Continent during the last war have forged a dangerous new alliance, threatening the fragile peace that has settled over the realms. The fire between them is undeniable, and only burns hotter as they are forced into close quarters with each other. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites. The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre's Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta's orbit. ![]() ![]() Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. Maas's sexy, richly imagined series continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery sister, Nesta. ![]() ![]() In a prologue, Tanya finds a strange girl and an even stranger child in the tunnels inside her grandmother's manor. But the deeper she goes, the more dangerous it becomes. ![]() Upon her stay, Tanya becomes embroiled in the mystery of the missing girl who disappeared in Hangsman's Woods 50 years ago. After a particular incident with the same four fey who are always watching her, she is sent to stay at her grandmother Florence's house, Elvesden Manor in Ticky End. She has an ability that plagues her and gets her into trouble she has the second sight, the ability to see faeries. ![]() Tanya Fairchild is not like other children. The 13 Treasures is the first book in the trilogy of the same name. ![]() The American cover of 13 Treasures, the first book in the 13 Treasures trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their co-workers are people from across the spectrum and that is awesome without being contrived. They work together at an LGBTQ support program called Rainbow Futures. And, to the shock of both men, the anti-social Social Media Manager accepts. Having overindulged at the office Christmas party, Rudy winds up leaning on his standoffish officemate Zac and instead of leaving well-enough alone, Rudy – realizing Zac will be alone for Christmas, invites the young man home with him. If he can get over his past rejection and let Rudy inside his armour, he might get more for Christmas than he ever imagined.īook Links: Audible | Amazon | Add to Goodreads Zac’s suffered enough rejection in his life already and is afraid to risk his heart. It’s not a chore for Zac to pose as Rudy’s boyfriend, but the pretence makes him want things that scare him-things like a real relationship with Rudy. ![]() ![]() it bursts with a sick, carnivorous glee in its fiendish games The New York Timesīrace yourself for Harry Potter in Gorky Park. a chiller thriller from cold of Russia, this one's been selling like hot cakes around the world Sunday Sport This modern day mythical fantasy is Anne Rice on an epic scale, a hugely imagined world. compelling urban fantasy Publishers Weekly ![]() sceptical, intelligent thriller The Telegraph When he comes across Svetlana, a young woman under a powerful curse, and saves an unfledged Other, Egor, from vampires, he becomes involved in events that threaten the uneasy truce, and the whole city. ![]() As a Night Watch agent he must patrol the streets and metro of the city, protecting ordinary people from the vampires and magicians of the Dark. The Night Watch, first book in the Night Watch series, follows Anton, a young Other owing allegiance to the Light. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world existing in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance either to the Dark or the Light. Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. First of the Night Watch Trilogy, gloriously readable vampire novels set in a richly realised post-Soviet Moscow that have sold for huge advances accross Europe ![]() The phenomenal Russian bestseller (over a million copies sold in hardcover). All that stands between darkness and light is The Night Watch. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or the murderous urges he brought out in her. Nothing could have prepared her for the man she got to know. So she isn’t prepared for this version of Reiner Kulti who shows up to her team’s season: a quiet, reclusive, shadow of the explosive, passionate man he’d once been. Sal had long ago gotten over the worst non-break-up in the history of imaginary relationships with a man that hadn’t known she’d existed. It didn’t take a week for twenty-seven-year-old Sal Casillas to wonder what she’d seen in the international soccer icon-why she’d ever had his posters on her wall, or ever envisioned marrying him and having super-playing soccer babies. ![]() ![]() When the man you worshipped as a kid becomes your coach, it’s supposed to be the greatest thing in the world. Genres & Themes: New Adult, Contemporary, Sports Romance ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was always thinking of England, and she built and furnished her new home to give her memories of the home she had left. She married and left England shortly after the death of her father, the Prince Consort, having been the Queen's support and comfort during the time of the Prince's illness. She was intensely English her attachment to her own country never wavered. The Princess Alice went to Germany as a very young girl. In that palace the future Empress was born.Ībove: ClockwiseElizabeth, Grand Duke Louis with May in his arms, Alix, Alice, Victoria seated, Ernest Louis kneeling, Irene. It was built according to the Princess's own taste and was made by its owner as much like an English house as possible. For a town house the New Palace had a lovely garden, the site having originally been that of the Botanical Gardens. It was the house Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland," the second daughter of Queen Victoria, wife of Prince Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt, had built for herself when her first home proved too small for her rapidly increasing family. ![]() In the middle of the small, old-fashioned town of Darmstadt, surrounded by quiet, dignified streets, belonging to a time long gone by, stands the New Palace. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve only been in the military for six months, but now I’m part of a unit tasked with trying to stop and capture him. He appears every three years, making his way across the country and slaughtering humans randomly, sucking them dry until they’re nothing but husks. A lawless, desolate and dangerous place, teeming with monsters that have claimed the land for their own. One where humans live in military-controlled, cramped and dirty cities along the coasts, and the majority of the United States is known as the Wastes. Twenty years ago, monsters rose on earth and began a new age of civilization. ![]() |