Ash Return of the Beast - By Gary TenutaDedication:To Julie, for always being there and listening to me rant about how I was going to get over the next stumbling block in the story and for offering helpful suggestions to ke...
Ascendants of Ancients Sovereign - By Phillip JonesPROLOGUETHE FLAMES ENGULFING AN eternal prison encompassed a vast area that stretched beyond the horizon. The shoreline of the lake, caked with brimstone and ash, cracked beneath...
As the Pig Turns - By M.C. BeatonChapter OneAgatha Raisin wearily turned on to the road leading down into her home village of Carsely in the Cotswolds and then came to an abrupt halt. Cars stretched out in front of her. Sh...
As Sweet as Honey - By Indira GanesanPART ONEMarriageSo that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and awoman looking at a girl throwing a ball.—To the Lighthouse1Our aunt Meterling stood over six feet tall, a giantess, a tree. F...
Armageddon - By James PattersonOneI HAVE NEVER felt so alone in a crowd.I was penned in, crushed by a horde of seriously evil thugs who, fortunately, didn’t realize I had infiltrated their ranks. I surged with the teemin...
Are You Mine - By N.K. SmithChapter 1SaigeHuman connection.Who needs it? I sure don’t, especially if it means I have to associate with the likes of those around me. Sure, every once in a while I wish I could have a r...
Arcadia's Gift - By Jesi Lea RyanPrologueOur bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences bet...
Angora Alibi A Seaside Knitters Mystery - By Sally GoldenbaumChapter 1These are the glory days. A unique and special time in your life.You’re glowing, Izzy.Radiant with life.Izzy pulled the blue fleece tight across her heav...
All That Is - By James Salter1BREAK OF DAYAll night in darkness the water sped past.In tier on tier of iron bunks below deck, silent, six deep, lay hundreds of men, many faceup with their eyes still open though it was near...
Alien Cradle - By Jeff InloRumbling, shaking, unsettling turmoil; Rath Scampion hated atmospheric entry. Despite the presence of heat casters, the bright orange flares bursting across the viewshields convinced him that he was abou...
Angels at the Table_ A Shirley, Goodness - By Debbie MacomberOctober 2012Dear friends,They’re back! For the last three years I’ve read every form of communication available asking me when I was going to write another...
Ancient Echoes - By Joanne PencePart IThe TravelersChapter 1MongoliaMICHAEL REMPART FLUNG back the thick, musty brown quilt, rekindled the metal stove's dying dung fire, and dressed in heavy woolens and an insulated jacket bef...
An Order of Coffee and Tears - By Brian Spangler1Miserable Mondays. That is what I called days like these – gray skies and a cold northeast wind biting at your skin. Thick sheets of rain drummed against the glass front...
American Tropic - By Thomas SanchezWhere the brooding Atlantic meets the moody torrent of the Gulf Stream, water and darkness give birth to the rip tides of fate roaring up through murky underwater canyons. Far above, on the ...
American Elsewhere - By Robert Jackson BennettCHAPTER ONEEven though it is a fairly cool night, Norris is sweating abundantly. The sweat leaks out of his temples and the top of his skull and runs down his cheeks to pool arou...
Already Gone - By John RectorPART 1– 1 –I put up a good fight.But once they get me on the ground, facedown, with the big guy holding my arms and pressing his weight into my back, there isn’t much I can do...
Almost Never A Novel - By Daniel Sada1Sex, as an apt pretext for breaking the monotony; motor-sex; anxiety-sex; the habit of sex, as any glut that can well become a burden; colossal, headlong, frenzied, ambiguous sex, as a ga...
All You Could Ask For A Novel - By Mike GreenbergPART IBROOKEWHOSE ASS IS THIS?It certainly isn’t mine.That’s what I was thinking as I looked. I mean really looked.I have a great ass. I’ve always had a great...
All the Things You Never Knew - By Angealica HewleyPROLOGUEBridlingtonLeon Heartily cursed under his breath as he and his siblings stood, staring at their broken down estate.Well, this is a beautiful sight, said Jack, the second...
All in Good Time (The Gilded Legacy) - By Maureen LangACKNOWLEDGMENTSMY RESEARCH of 1880s Denver was made easy and enjoyable because of the work and help of Jay Moynahan, retired professor from Eastern Washington University. Not...
Against the Edge (The Raines of Wind Can - By Kat MartinOneHouston, TexasHis head was pounding. Too much Jack Daniel’s last night. When Ben Slocum pulled his big black SUV into the driveway in front of his garage, the ...
Aftershock - By Jill SorensonCHAPTER ONELAUREN BOYER CLIMBED into the passenger seat of the ambulance, nodding hello to the EMT behind the wheel.Joe arched a brow. I thought Alanis was working.We switched a couple of shifts, sh...
Aerogrammes and Other Stories - By Tania JamesLion and Panther in London• • •The Sensation of the Wrestling WorldExclusive Engagement of India’sCatch-as-Catch-Can Champions.Genuine Challengers of the Universe.All Co...
Adrenaline - By Jeff AbbottPART ONENOVEMBER 14–APRIL 10In the flux that defines the world of the illegal, beginnings are often endings and vice versa… Trillions of dollars move around the world outside of legal channels…...
Ad Nauseam - By C. W. LaSartSIMPLE PLEASURESJimmy squatted by the garden, his elbows resting on dirty knees. He pushed back his ball cap to scratch his receding hairline, squinting in the early morning sunlight at the small p...
Accidents Happen A Novel - By Louise MillarCHAPTER ONEIt was one of those days when you didn’t know what was going on. Just that something unexpected had happened. You could tell by the maverick puff of dark grey smoke...
Above World - By Jenn ReeseALUNA SWAM TOWARD the abandoned outpost, her heart pounding, her breathing necklace pulsing at her throat. She kicked her legs harder, wishing it were tomorrow. Wishing she already had her tail. With...
Abigail's New Hope - By Mary EllisOneJuneCome help us, mamm! The excited voice of six-year-old Laura floated across the lawn. Abby grinned, watching her daughter and four-year-old son, Jake, chase lightning bugs through the g...
Abdication A Novel - By Juliet NicolsonCHAPTER ONEOn a gloomy February afternoon in 1936 a young woman of nineteen years brought the dark blue Rolls-Royce slowly to a halt. Managing the mahogany steering wheel with surprising e...
A Winter Dream - By Richard Paul EvansACKNOWLEDGMENTSThis book came to me at a difficult time. I would like to thank all those who helped me through it, beginning with my long-suffering and beloved wife, Keri, who dealt with...
A Whisper of Peace - By Kim Vogel SawyerChapter OneNEAR FORT YUKON, ALASKAMAY 1898Not once in all of her twenty-one years had Lizzie Dawson seen a moose behind her cabin. The dogs’ noise always kept wild game at bay. E...
A Vision of Loveliness - By Louise LevenePart OneChapter 1Wear gloves whenever you can bear to;go without a handbag as often as possible.‘Bag bag bag bag bag bag BAG.’It was the old woman in the greasy tweeds. As ...
A Trick I Learned from Dead Men - By Kitty AldridgeAbout the BookAfter the disappearance of their father and the sudden death of their mother, Lee Hart and his deaf brother, Ned, imagine all is lost until Lee lands a traine...
A Touch Mortal - By Leah CliffordCHAPTER 1Eden dug her hand into the damp sand, black polish chipping off the tips of her fingernails. The sand was cold, the beach pockmarked by late afternoon raindrops. A gust of wind ruffl...
A Toast to the Good Times - By Liz ReinhardtChapter 1I swipe a wet rag over the black laminate bar top, sending stray popcorn and mixed nuts flying across the room and onto the freshly swept floor.Idiot.Well, that seems coun...
A Time to Heal - By Barbara Cameron1Free.They couldn't keep him caged up any more. He took a deep breath of the summer air, warm and fragrant with the scents of earth and the crops growing in the fields on each side o...
A Thousand Pardons - By Jonathan Dee1HELEN TRIED NOT TO LOOK AT HER WATCH, because looking at your watch never changed anything, but it was already a quarter to seven and her husband’s headlights had yet to appear at t...
A Summer to Remember - By Jessica GunhammerCHAPTER 1How can what was supposed to be one of the best days of my life turn into one of the worst days in just a matter of hours?Today was the day I’d been working toward...
A Story of God and All of Us - By Roma DowneyAUTHORS' NOTEIn the spring of 2011 we began work on a ten-hour television miniseries: The Bible . It would begin with the Book of Genesis and end with the Book of Revelatio...
A Spear of Summer Grass - By Deanna Raybourn1Don’t believe the stories you have heard about me. I have never killed anyone, and I have never stolen another woman’s husband. Oh, if I find one lying around unattended...
A Rural Affair - By Catherine Alliott1If I’m being totally honest I had fantasized about Phil dying. Only in a mild, half-baked, Thursday morning in Sainsbury’s sort of way. I’m not talking about lying awake at...
A Red Sun Also Rises - By Mark HodderA WORD FROM THE AUTHORThose of you familiar with my Burton & Swinburne tales might also be aware that I live in Valencia on the east coast of Spain. Among my friends, I count a few m...
A Pound of Flesh - By Alex GrayCHAPTER 1It wasn’t always easy to see the moon or the stars. This city’s sodium glow rose like yellow fog from its streets, blotting out any chance of star gazing. But she knew it...
A Perfect Square - By Vannetta ChapmanChapter 1Shipshewana, IndianaLate OctoberLESS THAN TWO WEEKS UNTIL THE WEDDING. Deborah Yoder glanced once at Esther, then focused again on the dirt lane, her horse Cinnamon, and guiding the...
A Perfect Christmas - By Lynda PageCHAPTER ONEThe ragged man woke with a sudden jolt, sitting bolt upright, all his senses screaming danger at him. Urgently shaking off sleep, he fought to accustom his eyes to the dark as he...
A Novel Way to Die - By Ali BrandonONEMADISON, THIS IS A GREAT RESUME.Darla Pettistone tossed her single auburn braid over her shoulder and scanned the page again. Not only do you have a brand-new degree in English literature...
A Nearly Perfect Copy - By Allison AmendPart OneSpring 2007ElmSometimes when she closed her eyes, Elm could see the wall of water moving toward her. The hissing of the wave’s retraction burned her eardrums, and she shiver...
A Murder at Rosamund's Gate - By Susanna Calkins1A great pounding at the door startled the chambermaid bending to light the morning hearth. Jerking upright, Lucy Campion swore softly as a bit of hot beeswax stung her wrist...
A Matter of Trust - By Lis WiehlCHAPTER 1If life was like a play, then the director had the ultimate power. The power to blight men’s lives, or to give them what they most longed for. Even the power to utter the ult...
A Killing in the Hills - By Julia KellerPart One1The old men sat around the little plastic table in the crowded restaurant, a trio of geezers in shiny black jackets, mumbling, chuckling, shaking their heads and then blowing a...
A Killing in China Basin - By Kirk RussellONEWhitacre’s salt-faded Buick faced the Golden Gate Bridge from a corner of the Marina Green lot, a blue handicap placard hanging from the rear-view mirror. Whitacre brushed the ...
A Firing Offense - By George PelecanosONETORN LOTTERY TICKETS and hot dog wrappers—the remnants of Georgia Avenue Day—blew across the strip. At the district line a snaggle-toothed row of winos sat on the ledge of a coffee sh...
A Different Blue - By Amy HarmonPrologueAUGUST 1993The heat was stifling, and the little girl tossed in the back seat. Her face was flushed, and the blanket she laid on had ridden up and her cheek lay against the plastic se...
A Delicate Truth A Novel - By John Le Carre1On the second floor of a characterless hotel in the British Crown Colony of Gibraltar, a lithe, agile man in his late fifties restlessly paced his bedroom. His very British feature...
A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked - By Magnus MillsChapter 1As the clock struck ten, Smew opened the register.‘Let us begin,’ he said. ‘Chancellor of the Exchequer?’‘Present,’ said Bramblin...
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena - By Anthony MarraCHAPTER1ON THE MORNING after the Feds burned down her house and took her father, Havaa woke from dreams of sea anemones. While the girl dressed, Akhmed, who hadn’t slep...
A Christmas Bride - By Susan MalleryCHAPTER ONEPOLISH OR NO polish? Carina Fiore held up two bottles of pet-friendly OPI nail polish. I think the traditional choices would be best. Fire-Hydrant Red or Bow-Wow Green.Eight-year-old...
A Change of Heart - By Beth Wiseman.Chapter OneLEAH FOLDED HER ARMS ACROSS THE SPIRAL NOTEBOOK and held it close to her thumping chest. She was late for supper. Again.She eased her way up the front porch steps of the farmho...
A Cast of Killers - By Katy MungerCHAPTER ONENaturally, the phone rang just as Tyrone enveloped Camilla in his massive arms and drew her closer to him. T.S. sighed. He had been waiting for this kiss for two weeks now, endur...
A Brand New Ending - By Stephanie RollsChapter 1PhoenixI dig my fingernails into the cold, steel beam, my eyes watching the masses of people and cars rushing behind me. It's Tuesday night. Just another ordinary day. Everybo...