Melanie Gordonstone, a cherubic six-year-old, was Daddy’s favourite in every way. So Margaret, her jealous 12-year-old sister, drowned her in a backyard pool. Inexperience led young Detective Bliss to attribute the girl’s death to accident, but Melanie’s mother drives herself mad believing her husband to be the killer. Margaret taunts her deranged mother for 10 years before putting her out of her misery, hanging her from a chandelier in a faked suicide. Now, frightened for his own safety,...
Lucky Strike is a light-hearted laugh-out-loud mystery with a cast of characters who epitomize life Down East. Eric Spratt, a conservative accountant from Toronto, is forced to flee to the remote Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia and there, become Charles Trenchant, reclusive writer. He knows that anonymity and discretion are the only weapons he has to protect himself from the retribution of the Mafia dons whom he helped to send to jail. Surely, fifty years of a quiet, unassuming existence would...
Being promotions director of a large shopping mall isn’t the most stress-free job on the planet, but Jenny Turnbull enjoys it and is darn good at it. But her job becomes quite a bit more gruesomely stressful when an unseen gunman goes on a spree in a bloody food court massacre during her special Hallowe’en promotion. And the situation gets totally out of hand when it turns out that the surviving victim, whose life is hanging by a thread in hospital, is the deadbeat son of a powerful, vindictive...
In the midst of a dream venture you're unable to know its limits. When a rock star becomes the scientist in research the idea of creating him music becomes easier. The guarantee that it came from knowledge was not the guarantee. The increase in working and other more physical motivations would create a future suitable for such a venture. As the wheels fall off there is no end in mind. Instead the start of the actual beginning for more of a need for the knowledge to be used. This would...
If you close your eyes and take a few deep breaths can you remember falling in love for the first time? What it felt like when innocence surrounded your world and you believed anything was possible and that dreams did come true? For Corey Phillips his childhood dreams not only came true but they became his entire life. Falling in love with his childhood sweetheart and then getting to marry her years later – his life couldn’t have been any better. But as we all so bitterly learn – love is...
The near future. Earth has been invaded by the L'zuhl, an aggressive, imperialistic alien race who have laid waste to the galaxy for centuries. The few human survivors have been evacuated to the farthest reaches of space to rebuild and fight back against the L'zuhl onslaught. <br><br>There, on the distant planet of Palangonia, in a large, walled compound that houses the new human colony, lives the former Newcastle United and England boss Kevin Keegan, now manager of...
From the acclaimed author of Trouble Loves Company comes a smart, sexy, heartfelt new novel about friendship, love, lust–and a whole lot of trouble in between. After finding her husband in a compromising position, romance author Renee Moore goes back to her hometown, hoping to start over. But once again, she finds herself looking for love in all the wrong places. To make matters worse, just as she decides a healthy relationship may not be her destiny, her ex delivers shocking news that could...
Mr. Gregory is a reclusive information scientist who serves as a trusted advisor to the president of the United States and other heads of state around the world. He possesses a seemingly innate talent for predicting events that no one else can—thanks to his recent discovery. Mr. Gregory has invented a device that allows him to access the Prime Network, an eleven-dimensional fundamental structure that transmits and channels information to every location across all of space-time. Although he is...
Goshen Road is an elegiac, unvarnished, and empathetic portrait of one working-class family over two decades in rural West Virginia, with sisters Dessie and Billie Price as its urgently beating heart. Bonnie Proudfoot captures them, their husbands, and their children as they balance on the divide between Appalachia old and new, struggling for survival and reconciling themselves with past hurts and future uncertainties as the economy and culture shift around them. The story opens in 1967 with a...