Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West’s most vital secrets?įour years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the twin sister she hasn’t seen since their catastrophic parting in Rome in the summer of 1940, as war engulfed the continent and Iris fell desperately in love with an enigmatic United States Embassy official named Sasha Digby. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devotion. "A captivating Cold War page-turner." - Real Simple
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Determined to do right by his family name, he immediately begins searching for a suitable bride. and has urgently reminded him of his duty to marry a well-bred lady and produce an heir. His close brush with death has opened his eyes to his self-imposed emotional isolation. and besides, as a widow, she knows love only leads to heartbreak. But anything between lord and servant is impossible. Cassandra is surprised by glimpses of a kind and thoughtful man beneath her employer's hard façade-and even more surprised when she develops tender feelings for him. As he slowly heals from his burns, their friendship blossoms, and the class walls between them start to crumble. But when Henry is injured in a horrible fire, his pretty housekeeper Cassandra nurses him back to health, throwing them together day and night. Cold, arrogant, and demanding Henry Eldridge, Marquess of Riverton, would never dally with a mere servant. Tough love is our way.īeing tough on myself isn’t working now, though. They’d tell me to quit indulging myself and snap out of it. I haven’t told my family because I know they wouldn’t understand. I took a leave of absence because I can’t perform when I’m stuck playing in loops like this. I navigate the steep streets and weave through the pedestrians, wondering if any of these people are going to the symphony tonight. Outside, the air smells of car exhaust and restaurant cooking, and people are out and about, bicycling, shopping, catching late lunches at the cafés. Somehow, these are considered more appropriate in public even though they’re more revealing. I remove the pajamas that I’ve been wearing all day and pull on exercise clothes that I don’t plan to exercise in. My parents would be disgusted by the waste of money if they knew, but I’m desperate and they can’t mourn dollars they don’t know I’m spending. Attempting to muddle through things on my own hasn’t helped, so I’m determined to give this therapy thing a try. Still, I drag myself into my bedroom to change. It doesn’t help that I think my therapist secretly dislikes me. The alarm notification on my phone screen says THERAPY, and I turn it off with a grimace. There she rides for the rich clientele, including twins June and Wade Fisk. It’s 1993, and Rory Ramos works as a ranch hand at the stable her stepfather manages in Topanga Canyon, California, a dry, dusty place reliant on horses and hierarchies. “In this rugged and ravishing debut, a tragic car accident upends the lives of multiple Southern California families-particularly three teenage girls, whose lives and desires intersect in ways none of them could have imagined.” - Oprah DailyĪ bold, riveting debut novel of desire, betrayal, and loss, centering on three teenage girls, a horse ranch, and the accident that changes everything. And Kate Milliken knows her stuff when it comes to horses.” -Jeannette Walls, author of The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses “ Kept Animals is a darkly beautiful book, tender yet powerful, an exquisite exploration of hurt and desire, the why of wanting, taking, and giving. Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.A Reader’s Digest Quarantine Book Club Pick.Named a most anticipated novel by Oprah Daily, Vogue, Parade, The Millions, and Electric Lit She has yet to look back, and will not ever do so.įrazier writes romantic suspense novels. Her first novel, called “The Dark Light of Day”, was published in the year 2013. She always wanted to be a writer (more than anything else), and with her husband cheering her on, not to mention staying up late a lot of nights she was able to do so and accomplish her life’s dream. She went to Florida Gulf Coast University and wanted to become a reporter (which she had every intention of doing, at least at first, anyway) before being pulled into real estate, where she would work in sales for more than ten years of her life. She did not know it then, but life would come full circle later on in her life. In this group that she was a part of, her and other little girls worked on writing fiction together. When she was only eleven, she was with a group of writers that was called AUTHORS CLUB. Living in Southwest Florida, she has no clue how to dress for the cold. Her novel “Preppy Part One” was a finalist for having the Best Romance novel of the year in 2016 from Goodreads Choice Award. She is best known for writing the “King” series and her work has reached the top of the USA Today Bestseller list. Frazier was born Septemand she enjoys writing male anti-heroes and strong female protagonists. Someone forbidden.When a shocking secret threatens to tear the vampire world - her new world - apart, Sydney's loyalties are tested more than ever. Someone that forces her to question everything the alchemists believe in. She has grown close to those in Jill's royal circle - and to someone in particular. Sydney Sage protects vampire secrets - and human lives.WILL LOVE LOSE HER EVERYTHING SHE KNOWS?In hiding in a Californian boarding school, Sydney's life has become irrevocably intertwined with Jill Dragomir, the vampire Moroi princess she has been tasked with protecting. A pulse-pounding world of magic, alchemy, vampires and true love awaits. Descripción - Bloodlines: The Golden Lily is the second book in the bestselling Bloodlines series by Richelle Mead, set in the world of Vampire Academy - NOW A MAJOR FILM. I've never been one to deplore my lack of quality education in public school. Invisible Man is not only a great triumph of storytelling and characterization it is a profound and uncompromising interpretation of the Negro's anomalous position in American society. With them he becomes involved in an amazing series of adventures, in which he is sometimes befriended but more often deceived and betrayed-as much by himself and his own illusions as by the duplicity of the blindness of others. The many people that the hero meets in the course of his wanderings are remarkably various, complex and significant. It is a book that has a great deal to say and which is destined to have a great deal said about it.Īfter a brief prologue, the story begins with a terrifying experience of the hero's high school days, moves quickly to the campus of a Southern Negro college and then to New York's Harlem, where most of the action takes place. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal, some of them pitiful and touching-yet always with elements of comedy and irony and burlesque that appear in unexpected places. Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time The appropriation of Dracula has resulted in – among others – a counting Count on Sesame Street, Disney’s Ducula, a breakfast cereal called Count Chocula, Drac Snax to munch on and a filmmaking oeuvre that’s kept turnstiles ticking over since Nosferatu in 1922. What then is the novel’s perennial appeal 100 years after publication? One word – eroticism – and its subtle blend (sometimes brazen) with the ‘gothic’ has cast Stoker’s protagonist as the quintessential moniker of all that encapsulates vampirism.ĭracula’s subject and theme have been adapted by playwrights, screenwriters, advertisers and various cults since the caped seducer was ‘conceived’ (along with Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein) at a dinner party hosted by Lord Byron in 1816. His was not the first, nor will it be the last reference to the sinister world of the ‘Un-dead’. No, not a letter to a men’s magazine, but an edited extract from English literature’s most enduring vampire novel – Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Then I could feel the soft, shivering touch of her lips … just touching, pausing. I closed my eyes in languorous ecstasy – and waited.” “The girl advanced and bent over me… went on her knees. She arched her neck … Lower and lower went her head … I could hear the churning sound of her tongue … Now I felt the hot breath … the sensitive skin on my throat began to tingle. But a storm is brewing, and the Haint of All Haints is awake. From the glorious cover and the hook in the back of book text, The Ballad of Perilous Graves gets off on the right foot: a failed magician, a New Orleans that runs on the magic of song, and a quest that requires facing off against the Haint of all Haints. Unwilling to watch his home be destroyed, Perry will sacrifice everything to save it. Nine songs of power have escaped from the piano that maintains the city’s beat, and without them, Nola will fail. So when the city’s Great Magician starts appearing in odd places and essential songs are forgotten, Perry realizes trouble is afoot. In a world of everyday miracles, Perry might not have a talent for magic, but he does know Nola’s rhythm as intimately as his own heartbeat. To those from Away, Nola might seem strange. A place of sky trolleys and dead cabs, where haints dance the night away and Wise Women help keep the order. You can also find him goofing around on Instagram: is a city full of wonders. His debut novel, The Ballad of Perilous Graves is due out from Redhook in 2022. He’s going a little nuts shut up in his Central City apartment, but thankfully he has two of the best roommates on earth (one of whom is a beautiful beautiful dog named Karate Valentino. He constantly devours pop culture and writes mostly jokes on Twitter He loves music, film, comix, and even some TV. He was born in Wiesbaden (Germany) and raised in Gaborone (Botswana), Tunis (Tunisia), Paramaribo (Surinam) and the United States. Alex Jennings is a writer/editor/teacher/poet living in New Orleans. A year later at a memorial service for Drew, she sees a figure watching from the shadows and wonders who it is and why they are there. The bartender, Harper Flynn, tries to move her injured boyfriend, Drew, from the line of gunfire only to lose him to the devastation of the blaze that followed. Gardiner opens PHANTOM INSTINCT with a shoot-out and deadly fire in a trendy nightclub. From there it was a small leap to follow Harper Flynn in PHANTOM INSTINCT, Gardiner’s latest release. In my recent introduction to Meg’s stand-alone novels, RANSOM RIVER and SHADOW TRACER, I found what I consider true thriller, kick ass heroines: Rory Mackenzie and Sarah Keller. That is, until I discovered Meg Gardiner. Yes, I was getting action, but in my experience, most of the kicking ass was done by men. Then I found thrillers, starting with David Morrell and Jon Land’s Blaine McCracken. I remember reading Nancy Drew and quickly moving on to the Hardy Boys because I craved more action. I’ve been a reader for as long as I can remember. |