Author: Isabelle Goddard
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 037330661X
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Jack Beaufort, Earl of Frensham, is taking an enforced sojourn in the country. He hardly expects to confront a highwayman in this quiet retreat. Or to discover, when he lays hands on the villain, a form that is undeniably female.
Unmasking Miss Lacey
Author: Isabelle Goddard
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 037330661X
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Jack Beaufort, Earl of Frensham, is taking an enforced sojourn in the country. He hardly expects to confront a highwayman in this quiet retreat. Or to discover, when he lays hands on the villain, a form that is undeniably female.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 037330661X
Category : Man-woman relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Jack Beaufort, Earl of Frensham, is taking an enforced sojourn in the country. He hardly expects to confront a highwayman in this quiet retreat. Or to discover, when he lays hands on the villain, a form that is undeniably female.
The Major's Guarded Heart
Author: Isabelle Goddard
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373306784
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
From the moment ladies' companion Elizabeth Ingram sees the imposing major Sir Justin Delacourt, her head is full of romantic ideas--ideas that end with Lizzie being caught trespassing on his estate, mistaken for a poacher! Despite his disdain for womanly wiles, Justin can't get the lively Lizzie out of his mind. And when she joins him in his quest to investigate a friend's mysterious disappearance he realizes that a woman of Lizzie's courage and determination might also be capable of stealing his heart.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373306784
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
From the moment ladies' companion Elizabeth Ingram sees the imposing major Sir Justin Delacourt, her head is full of romantic ideas--ideas that end with Lizzie being caught trespassing on his estate, mistaken for a poacher! Despite his disdain for womanly wiles, Justin can't get the lively Lizzie out of his mind. And when she joins him in his quest to investigate a friend's mysterious disappearance he realizes that a woman of Lizzie's courage and determination might also be capable of stealing his heart.
Sweet Life of Mystery: the Misadventures of a Panicky Private Eye
Author: Steven Michaels
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595917933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Meriwether Humperdinckand yes, thats his real namewas a private detective who had never had an interesting casethat is until he met Igor Mortimer Blackheadand yes, thats his real name, too. Of course, Meriwether didnt expect that his first real client would end up dead, having been the only person to see the body of billionaire Howard W. Lacey before it suddenly disappeared. Desperate to the solve the mystery and to prove to himself that he is the big private dick he thinks he is, Meriwether must eventually risk life and ego in order to track down a killer and to change his own personal existence forever. Filled with just the right dose of wit and wisdom and capacious amounts of comedy, Meriwethers story is sure to lead readers on an entertaining journey through the mind of an inexperienced detective, not only unsure of himself but of humankind in generalsuch that, his quest for his true identity as a genuine private eye is marked by many a mysterious encounter with a myriad of oddball eccentrics and with one fine and sassy lady.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595917933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Meriwether Humperdinckand yes, thats his real namewas a private detective who had never had an interesting casethat is until he met Igor Mortimer Blackheadand yes, thats his real name, too. Of course, Meriwether didnt expect that his first real client would end up dead, having been the only person to see the body of billionaire Howard W. Lacey before it suddenly disappeared. Desperate to the solve the mystery and to prove to himself that he is the big private dick he thinks he is, Meriwether must eventually risk life and ego in order to track down a killer and to change his own personal existence forever. Filled with just the right dose of wit and wisdom and capacious amounts of comedy, Meriwethers story is sure to lead readers on an entertaining journey through the mind of an inexperienced detective, not only unsure of himself but of humankind in generalsuch that, his quest for his true identity as a genuine private eye is marked by many a mysterious encounter with a myriad of oddball eccentrics and with one fine and sassy lady.
Unmasking Love
Author: Peggy Bird
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440570418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Getting a life do-over in the small theater town of Ashland, Oregon, has suited lawyer Julie Payne to a T. After ten years in the Portland prosecutor’s office, she’s enjoying her new, easy lifestyle, and she’s not looking for any complications. Trace Watkins comes to town seeking the same refuge from life as a big city banker. A new job might make Ashland his permanent address, and he likes what he sees of the place, especially when he meets Julie one hot Halloween night. The sparks fly instantly between the costumed couple, and Julie and Trace waste no time connecting beneath the sheets while literally hiding behind their masks. But when the holiday hook-up ends, their real identities present a serious snag: Trace manages the bank Julie happens to be suing. The only way they can turn this trick into a treat is if both of them are willing to face their pasts and finally bury the skeletons in their closets. Sensuality Level: Sensual
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440570418
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Getting a life do-over in the small theater town of Ashland, Oregon, has suited lawyer Julie Payne to a T. After ten years in the Portland prosecutor’s office, she’s enjoying her new, easy lifestyle, and she’s not looking for any complications. Trace Watkins comes to town seeking the same refuge from life as a big city banker. A new job might make Ashland his permanent address, and he likes what he sees of the place, especially when he meets Julie one hot Halloween night. The sparks fly instantly between the costumed couple, and Julie and Trace waste no time connecting beneath the sheets while literally hiding behind their masks. But when the holiday hook-up ends, their real identities present a serious snag: Trace manages the bank Julie happens to be suing. The only way they can turn this trick into a treat is if both of them are willing to face their pasts and finally bury the skeletons in their closets. Sensuality Level: Sensual
Nobody Is Ever Missing
Author: Catherine Lacey
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1783780886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable life in Manhattan, her home, her career and her loving husband. As the people she has left behind scramble to figure out what has happened to her, Elyria embarks on a hitchhiker's odyssey, testing fate by travelling in the cars of overly kind women and deeply strange men, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks. As she journeys from Wellington to Picton, Takaka, Kaikoura and onwards she asks herself, what is it that I am missing? How can a person be missing? Full of mordant humour and uncanny insights, Nobody Is Ever Missing is a startling tale of love, loss, and the dangers encountered in the search for self-knowledge. It is a novel which goes far beyond the story of a physical journey and asks what it means to be human, to be a woman, and to be at the mercy of forces beyond one's own control.
Publisher: Granta Books
ISBN: 1783780886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable life in Manhattan, her home, her career and her loving husband. As the people she has left behind scramble to figure out what has happened to her, Elyria embarks on a hitchhiker's odyssey, testing fate by travelling in the cars of overly kind women and deeply strange men, tacitly being swept into the lives of strangers, and sleeping in fields, forests, and public parks. As she journeys from Wellington to Picton, Takaka, Kaikoura and onwards she asks herself, what is it that I am missing? How can a person be missing? Full of mordant humour and uncanny insights, Nobody Is Ever Missing is a startling tale of love, loss, and the dangers encountered in the search for self-knowledge. It is a novel which goes far beyond the story of a physical journey and asks what it means to be human, to be a woman, and to be at the mercy of forces beyond one's own control.
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Lacey Dancer
Author: Lacey Dancer
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821754344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821754344
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Pew
Author: Catherine Lacey
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374720134
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
WINNER of the 2021 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Finalist for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize. Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction Books of 2020. One of Amazon's 100 Best Books of 2020. “The people of this community are stifling, and generous, cruel, earnest, needy, overconfident, fragile and repressive, which is to say that they are brilliantly rendered by their wise maker, Catherine Lacey.” --Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers A figure with no discernible identity appears in a small, religious town, throwing its inhabitants into a frenzy In a small, unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives for a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless and racially ambiguous and refuses to speak. One family takes in the strange visitor and nicknames them Pew. As the town spends the week preparing for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, Pew is shuttled from one household to the next. The earnest and seemingly well-meaning townspeople see conflicting identities in Pew, and many confess their fears and secrets to them in one-sided conversations. Pew listens and observes while experiencing brief flashes of past lives or clues about their origin. As days pass, the void around Pew’s presence begins to unnerve the community, whose generosity erodes into menace and suspicion. Yet by the time Pew’s story reaches a shattering and unsettling climax at the Forgiveness Festival, the secret of who they really are—a devil or an angel or something else entirely—is dwarfed by even larger truths. Pew, Catherine Lacey’s third novel, is a foreboding, provocative, and amorphous fable about the world today: its contradictions, its flimsy morality, and the limits of judging others based on their appearance. With precision and restraint, one of our most beloved and boundary-pushing writers holds up a mirror to her characters’ true selves, revealing something about forgiveness, perception, and the faulty tools society uses to categorize human complexity.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374720134
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
WINNER of the 2021 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Finalist for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize. Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction Books of 2020. One of Amazon's 100 Best Books of 2020. “The people of this community are stifling, and generous, cruel, earnest, needy, overconfident, fragile and repressive, which is to say that they are brilliantly rendered by their wise maker, Catherine Lacey.” --Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers A figure with no discernible identity appears in a small, religious town, throwing its inhabitants into a frenzy In a small, unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives for a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless and racially ambiguous and refuses to speak. One family takes in the strange visitor and nicknames them Pew. As the town spends the week preparing for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, Pew is shuttled from one household to the next. The earnest and seemingly well-meaning townspeople see conflicting identities in Pew, and many confess their fears and secrets to them in one-sided conversations. Pew listens and observes while experiencing brief flashes of past lives or clues about their origin. As days pass, the void around Pew’s presence begins to unnerve the community, whose generosity erodes into menace and suspicion. Yet by the time Pew’s story reaches a shattering and unsettling climax at the Forgiveness Festival, the secret of who they really are—a devil or an angel or something else entirely—is dwarfed by even larger truths. Pew, Catherine Lacey’s third novel, is a foreboding, provocative, and amorphous fable about the world today: its contradictions, its flimsy morality, and the limits of judging others based on their appearance. With precision and restraint, one of our most beloved and boundary-pushing writers holds up a mirror to her characters’ true selves, revealing something about forgiveness, perception, and the faulty tools society uses to categorize human complexity.
Unmasked by the Marquess
Author: Cat Sebastian
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062820656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
One of Library Journal's Best Romances of 2018 The one you love… Robert Selby is determined to see his sister make an advantageous match. But he has two problems: the Selbys have no connections or money and Robert is really a housemaid named Charity Church. She’s enjoyed every minute of her masquerade over the past six years, but she knows her pretense is nearing an end. Charity needs to see her beloved friend married well and then Robert Selby will disappear…forever. May not be who you think… Alistair, Marquess of Pembroke, has spent years repairing the estate ruined by his wastrel father, and nothing is more important than protecting his fortune and name. He shouldn’t be so beguiled by the charming young man who shows up on his doorstep asking for favors. And he certainly shouldn’t be thinking of all the disreputable things he’d like to do to the impertinent scamp. But is who you need… When Charity’s true nature is revealed, Alistair knows he can’t marry a scandalous woman in breeches, and Charity isn’t about to lace herself into a corset and play a respectable miss. Can these stubborn souls learn to sacrifice what they’ve always wanted for a love that is more than they could have imagined?
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062820656
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
One of Library Journal's Best Romances of 2018 The one you love… Robert Selby is determined to see his sister make an advantageous match. But he has two problems: the Selbys have no connections or money and Robert is really a housemaid named Charity Church. She’s enjoyed every minute of her masquerade over the past six years, but she knows her pretense is nearing an end. Charity needs to see her beloved friend married well and then Robert Selby will disappear…forever. May not be who you think… Alistair, Marquess of Pembroke, has spent years repairing the estate ruined by his wastrel father, and nothing is more important than protecting his fortune and name. He shouldn’t be so beguiled by the charming young man who shows up on his doorstep asking for favors. And he certainly shouldn’t be thinking of all the disreputable things he’d like to do to the impertinent scamp. But is who you need… When Charity’s true nature is revealed, Alistair knows he can’t marry a scandalous woman in breeches, and Charity isn’t about to lace herself into a corset and play a respectable miss. Can these stubborn souls learn to sacrifice what they’ve always wanted for a love that is more than they could have imagined?
Man V. Nature
Author: Diane Cook
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062333127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A refreshingly imaginative, daring debut collection of stories that illuminates with audacious wit the complexity of human behavior, and the veneer of civilization over our darkest urges. Told with perfect rhythm and unyielding brutality, these stories expose unsuspecting men and women to the realities of nature, the primal instincts of man, and the dark humor and heartbreak of our struggle to not only thrive, but survive. In "Girl on Girl," a high school freshman goes to disturbing lengths to help an old friend. An insatiable temptress pursues the one man she can't have in "Meteorologist Dave Santana." And in the title story, a long-fraught friendship comes undone when three buddies get impossibly lost on a lake it is impossible to get lost on. Below the quotidian surface of Diane Cook's worlds lurks an unexpected surreality that reveals our most curious, troubling, and bewildering behavior. Other stories explore situations pulled directly from the wild, imposing on human lives the danger, tension, and precariousness of the natural world: a pack of "not-needed" boys takes refuge in a murky forest where they compete against one another for their next meal; an alpha male is pursued through city streets by murderous rivals and desirous women; helpless newborns are snatched from their suburban yards by a man who stalks them. Through these characters Cook asks: What is at the root of our most heartless, selfish impulses? Why are people drawn together in such messy, needful ways? When the unexpected intrudes upon the routine, what do we discover about ourselves? As entertaining as it is dangerous, this accomplished collection explores the boundary between the wild and the civilized, where nature acts as a catalyst for human drama and lays bare our vulnerabilities, fears, and desires.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062333127
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A refreshingly imaginative, daring debut collection of stories that illuminates with audacious wit the complexity of human behavior, and the veneer of civilization over our darkest urges. Told with perfect rhythm and unyielding brutality, these stories expose unsuspecting men and women to the realities of nature, the primal instincts of man, and the dark humor and heartbreak of our struggle to not only thrive, but survive. In "Girl on Girl," a high school freshman goes to disturbing lengths to help an old friend. An insatiable temptress pursues the one man she can't have in "Meteorologist Dave Santana." And in the title story, a long-fraught friendship comes undone when three buddies get impossibly lost on a lake it is impossible to get lost on. Below the quotidian surface of Diane Cook's worlds lurks an unexpected surreality that reveals our most curious, troubling, and bewildering behavior. Other stories explore situations pulled directly from the wild, imposing on human lives the danger, tension, and precariousness of the natural world: a pack of "not-needed" boys takes refuge in a murky forest where they compete against one another for their next meal; an alpha male is pursued through city streets by murderous rivals and desirous women; helpless newborns are snatched from their suburban yards by a man who stalks them. Through these characters Cook asks: What is at the root of our most heartless, selfish impulses? Why are people drawn together in such messy, needful ways? When the unexpected intrudes upon the routine, what do we discover about ourselves? As entertaining as it is dangerous, this accomplished collection explores the boundary between the wild and the civilized, where nature acts as a catalyst for human drama and lays bare our vulnerabilities, fears, and desires.