Author: Benjamin Percy Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1555977596 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 185
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"In fifteen essays that challenge the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive turns to Cormac McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, and others to discover how contemporary writers engage plot, character, dialogue, and suspense"--Page 4 of cover.
Author: Stephen Dolginoff Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc ISBN: 9780822221029 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 78
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THE STORY: Relationships can be murder. THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD & LOEB STORY is a two-character musical drama that recounts the chilling true story of the legendary duo who committed one of the most infamous and heinous crimes of the twentieth centu
Author: Susan Mallery Publisher: HQN Books ISBN: 0373788983 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 363
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When she is hired to promote a new slogan for her California hometown, Maya Farlow is unexpectedly reunited with her former flame Del Mitchell, who intends to avoid having his heart broken a second time.
Author: Susan Mallery Publisher: HQN Books ISBN: 1460384016 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 363
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Meet the Mitchell brothers of Fool's Gold, California—five gorgeous men who've left a trail of broken hearts in their wake… Maya Farlow learned the hard way to depend only on herself, so when she fell too deeply for the bad-boy charms of Del Mitchell, she did the only thing she could—she ran. Stunned, Del left Fool's Gold to make his name and fortune in extreme sports. Now ten years later, Maya's been hired to promote her hometown's new slogan, The Destination for Romance. The celebrity spokesman is none other than Del, the man she dumped but never forgot. Awkward! Although Del's not the type to hold a grudge, he's determined to avoid falling a second time for the woman who broke his heart. He's a daredevil, not an idiot. Trouble is, in all his adventures, he never found a rush as exhilarating as Maya's kiss. Maybe risking his heart will prove to be the biggest thrill of all… Look for Best of My Love, the next title in Susan Mallery’s Fool’s Gold series.
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Accused of being boring when she was dumped by her boyfriend, May decided to prove the world wrong by accepting a rich man’s invitation to stay in a luxurious Manhattan hotel for five nights! But in the end, he never showed up. She came all the way to New York…only to be alone? The despairing May is encouraged by a friend to go on an adventure, so once May has bolstered her courage, she puts on high heels, goes into a fashionable bar and pretends to be a completely different person, cool and urbane. There she meets local author Beck Desmond. It’s decided?this plain country flower is going to become a bright city light!
Author: Roxanne St. Claire Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1416525505 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 373
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A hot-blooded bodyguard must protect an heiress worth a cool billion from a killer in this romantic suspense tale by a New York Times–bestselling author. He knows all her secrets . . . Max Roper never lets emotion get in the way of his job—not since the tragic shooting that killed his fiancée’s father. Now the former DEA agent is a Bullet Catcher, and he’s managed to block out Cori’s bitter goodbye—and their sizzling passion. Those dangerous desires come back with a vengeance when Max is assigned to protect a recently widowed heiress: who turns out to be Cori. But Max must also discover his ex’s dark secret . . . and they both know she can’t hide anything from him. . . . and how to use them against her Her luxury lifestyle suggests that Cori has gone from being a trophy wife to a merry widow, but nothing could be further from the truth. Suspicious of her billionaire husband’s sudden death, she hires a bodyguard. But her protector is the one man who can melt her every defense—the one man she blames for her deepest sorrow, the one man whose six-feet four-inches of solid muscle ignites reckless passion in her. And as they close in on a killer who hides in plain view, their high-stakes affair could cost her everything . . . including her life. Praise for Thrill Me to Death “St. Claire’s ability to evenly match sultry romance with enticing suspense make this novel a superior entry into the romantic suspense game.” —Publishers Weekly “St. Claire, who writes fast-paced, sexy romantic suspense . . . has once again penned a book that will keep the reader engrossed in the story from cover to cover.” —Booklist
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Accused of being boring when she was dumped by her boyfriend, May decided to prove the world wrong by accepting a rich man’s invitation to stay in a luxurious Manhattan hotel for five nights! But in the end, he never showed up. She came all the way to New York…only to be alone? The despairing May is encouraged by a friend to go on an adventure, so once May has bolstered her courage, she puts on high heels, goes into a fashionable bar and pretends to be a completely different person, cool and urbane. There she meets local author Beck Desmond. It’s decided—this plain country flower is going to become a bright city light!
Author: Samanta Schweblin Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0399184619 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 194
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“A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” –Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.
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Accused of being boring when she was dumped by her boyfriend, May decided to prove the world wrong by accepting a rich man’s invitation to stay in a luxurious Manhattan hotel for five nights! But in the end, he never showed up. She came all the way to New York…only to be alone? The despairing May is encouraged by a friend to go on an adventure, so once May has bolstered her courage, she puts on high heels, goes into a fashionable bar and pretends to be a completely different person, cool and urbane. There she meets local author Beck Desmond. It’s decided—this plain country flower is going to become a bright city light!
Author: Faith Summers Publisher: Bliss Romance Publishing ISBN: 1915383331 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 406
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Thrill Me is a standalone, full-length friends to lovers DARK Billionaire Mafia Romance in the Dark Odyssey series. If you love a filthy-mouthed, possessive Alpha you will love this. Time to break the rules and make her submit to me… We dance like devils, except we wear masks. Every night a different one. Dancing on the edge. Dancing with danger. Me and her, for years. I’ve allowed her to think she doesn’t already belong to me. Time to change that up and claim her. Possess her, dominate her, own her. Heart. Body. Mind. Soul. I’m Salvatore Giordano and I always get what I want. I want her to be mine. Submitting to my every command. Fulfilling our wild fantasies. I’ll make her cave to temptation. I thought it would be simple. Until the day when the past and present collide. Skeletons tumble out of the closet whispering secrets on their lips. I get caught in a blood war with a target on my back. And, she sees something she shouldn’t have. My enemies come for me and know she’s my weakness. They want her. Heads roll, and the streets fill with blood. It’s kill or be killed. The ruthless against the heartless. I have to become both to protect her. Even if it costs me everything. CAUTION: Be prepared for one wild, steamy ride. Read at your own risk.
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