9 Ergebnisse.

The villages of High Wallop and Lesser Wallop have graced either end of the Wallop valley since Medieval times. And competition between the two has never ceased since, especially over the famous Cheese and Beer festival.As festival manager, Jane Swallow has always struggled to maintain peace and equanimity within the community she loves, but this year everything is wrong. Her irascible father has just been released from jail, her job is on the...

Maya Davis is done hiding. It's left her empty and out of touch with her family. Now she's a young woman on a mission: getting rid of residual feelings for her former best friend from college. Her plan is to put herself through a wringer by being in Nina's upcoming wedding and burning away whatever emotions are left, so she can start anew. Her plan, however, has big holes, and everything she's been feeling rushes through and leaves her thinkin...

Coven politics are tricky, and when a magical critter begins syphoning off The Plague Tree Coven's hard cash, novice witch Astral Projector is chosen to hunt it down.Her mission takes her to Black and Blacker Finances, a gloomy office where everyone has something to hide, especially Abby Black, the brooding, enigmatic CEO, who weaves a magic all her own that Astral finds all too alluring.But storm clouds are gathering, and betrayal is in the a...

In 1971, teenager Penny Taylor ran away from home and straight into the British Army at Guildford, the training camp for women who wanted to be soldiers.Homosexuality had only just been decriminalized in England in 1967, and the first British gay pride rally was held in London in 1972, a year after Taylor joined the military. The UK's feminist movement still battled for reproductive rights, equal pay, and employment protections. This was the c...

Sex, adventure, and wild rides-some literal, some journeys of the mind and heart. How about a mechanical bull at a country-and-western bar in 1980s Amsterdam? An army jeep in Vietnam in the 1960s? A Chinese pirate ship far out in the Pacific in the 1930s? A hot air balloon soaring over post-Civil War Wyoming?These rides transport you through time as well as space. In more contemporary settings, find pent-up passion behind prison walls, a reuni...

Building a house, rebuilding a relationship, finding your purpose, learning archery, relearning the piano, discovering your family lineage, going on a journey, learning to face tragedy, teaching a kid to play ball, uncovering a truth in your heart, paying your dues on a ski slope. These are all themes that can be found in Learning Curve, and they are all lessons of one kind of another. The characters in these stories learn skills, life lessons...

Vera Kennedy, widow of Professor James Kennedy, wants to be a scientist, but in Victorian Boston, that isn't an option for women. Nevertheless, after assisting her husband in the laboratory with his experiments, she has learned everything she could through his unintended tutelage. After his death, she continues his work until she veers off onto a different path with her own experiments, which threaten to consume her to the exclusion of all els...

Outlaw Torri Rendego, Captain of the Far Seek, travels to the mining colony of Newburg on Old Earth. Along with her crew, she has to smuggle out rare black opals, in fulfillment of their latest contract, which skirts the edges of legality. Everything goes as planned until Torri discovers that the hated Coalition is increasing security and that Kai Tinsdale, her former bunkmate at the presitigious martial training institution known as the Acade...

When Sam Marconi packs up her home and leaves Las Vegas behind her, she pictures an idyllic life waiting for her and her daughter, Beth, in Bitterroot, Idaho. After saving for years, Sam finally has enough to chase her dream of owning and operating a small roadside motel. When she arrives, she finds her new business in a derelict state that makes Sam second guess her decision to move. For Olly Jones, home has always been in the stretch of road...