![]() White Hot Holidays Sealed With a Wish By Lora Leigh For Cara Montgomery, Christmas is just like any other time of year. ![]() But when the evil demigoddess returns for revenge, Fiona has to discover a way to keep the loves of her life free… Then Cas reveals he doesn’t mind sharing or watching her with Pol, and Fiona revels in her newfound sexuality. Pol, more outrageous and daring, teaches her erotic games she’d never known existed. Cas, the more serious and quiet, begins to teach her about slow sensuality. Fiona has her hands full trying to keep the fun loving demigods out of trouble, and also trying to stave off the wild sexual attraction she forms for both of them. By freeing them, Fiona earns their undying devotion. They are Castor and Pollux, the Gemini, trapped in the broken vessel for thousands of years by an evil demigoddess. ![]() The night Fiona sets in the final piece back together, she awakens to find two identically gorgeous men on either side of her bed. While on an archeological dig in Greece, Fiona McCarty finds a broken vessel depicting two attractive men performing a blatantly erotic act with a woman. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In present day London, Caroline spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, running from her own demons after finding out about her husband’s infidelity. But Eliza makes a mistake that will have lasting consequences. Her newest patron, Eliza is a twelve-year-old, where an unexpected friendship develops. Nella sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. One timeline is set in eighteenth-century London where a secret apothecary shop caters to clientele with ulterior motives. This is also a great one for book clubs and that’s why I included it in my must-read book club picks list for 2021. The storyline is so original and I really enjoyed the mystery components-plus this features a gorgeous cover. The Lost Apothecary is a dual timeline story set in both the 1700s and present day London. And while I love WWII historical fiction stories, there is something special about novels that take place in other time periods. Historical fiction is such a great genre. ![]() ![]() Soon, Maya suspects her life is in danger. Desire…īut Akaran has its own secrets-thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. As Amar’s wife, she finds something else entirely: Compassion. Neither roles are what she expected: As Akaran’s queen, she finds her voice and power. Soon Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. ![]() ![]() Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of death and destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. ![]() What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen? ![]() ![]() ![]() Vashti is confused, and Kuno admits that he wants to go to the earth’s surface and see the stars again. Kuno is inspired in the airship, for that is where he notices the patterns of the stars and discovers the constellation Orion. ![]() Vashti complains to her son that she hates the airship: “I dislike seeing the horrible brown earth, and the sea, and the stars when it is dark. Kuno urges her to take the airship-a two-day journey to see him on the other side of the world-but Vashti does not want to travel. Kuno’s face appears he wants to speak to his mother in person instead of through the Machine. She is happy to hear from her son Kuno but is impatient because he is slow to respond and she has to give a lecture in five minutes about “Music during the Australian Period” (1). Her chair, which “like the music, was worked by machinery” (1), takes her to the other side of the room to answer the call. A small, pale woman named Vashti is listening to music and becomes annoyed when a bell rings-she knows thousands of people and is interrupted often. ![]() “Part One: The Airship” begins in “a small room, hexagonal in shape, like the cell of a bee” (1). ![]() ![]() ![]() Tiburon, where I grew up, used to be a working-class town where the trains still ran. ![]() You could see the Golden Gateīridge over to the right behind Belvedere, where the richer people lived the anise was said to have been brought over at the turn of the century by the Italians who gardened for the people of Belvedere. The buildings rose up out of the water on the other side of the bay, past Angel Island, past Alcatraz. The railroad yard below our house was ringed in green, in grass and weeds and blackberry bushes and shoulder-high anise plants that smelled and tasted of licorice this wreath of green, likeĪ cell membrane, contained the tracks and the trains and the roundhouse, where engines were repaired. Yet each step brought me closer to the verdant pad of faith on which I somehow stay afloat today. The soft armchair of the Christian Science mom, adoption by ardent Jews-I can see how flimsy and indirect a path they made. When I look back at some of these early resting places-the boisterous home of the Catholics, ![]() Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then ![]() My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. ![]() ![]() By pure happenstance the grandmother sees in the newspaper a photograph of the recently escaped killer called the Misfit. The family in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” are just ordinary folks going on a vacation from Tennessee to Florida. Inspired by Poe’s equal bloodthirstiness, O’Connor (who attended Catholic mass regularly) with raw irony ripped from the newspaper headlines shows us the snake in the garden of Eden. ![]() A normal, everyday family (a father, a mother, three children and a grandmother) becomes involved in blood-drenched horror when they encounter a stone-cold killer on a vacation trip. ![]() ![]() The above quote comes near the end of Flannery O’Connor’s shockingly brutal short story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” That story, from the early 1950s, defines the modern Southern Gothic sensibility in American fiction. Ground and took off his glasses and began to clean them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just below the surface, darkness lurks, both the paranormal world the characters are about to discover and a series-long exploration of the darker parts of American history. The first book introduces readers to a wild and fun New York City in the 1920s, bright, shiny and teeming with opportunities-at least at first glance. I read the first two books in this series, The Diviners and Lair of Dreams, many years ago and reread them recently in order to read Before the Devil Breaks You and the final book in the series, The King of Crows, that was just released earlier this month. The Diviners is a YA paranormal fantasy series set in New York City during the Roaring Twenties that focuses on a group of teens and the threats they face as they realize their powers and explore the paranormal world existing alongside their own, uncovering secrets and histories they couldn’t have dreamed up. 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During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. ![]() ![]() With the arrival of a new boy in town, James Van Curen, who is causing problems between Alex and her best friend, Peter, Alex feels like her entire world is on the verge of chaos. But that’s just a coincidence, right? Alex isn’t so sure, especially after a local girl, who supposedly dabbled in witchcraft, was killed in the nearby forest.Īlex knows something strange is happening. On a few occasions, when her emotions have spiraled out of control, inanimate objects have shattered around her. ![]() Alex is haunted by bizarre recurring nightmares of a man chasing her through the Hazel Cove Cemetery. Modern day witches in Hazel Cove, Massachusetts? Unlikely, but strange things are occurring in the weeks preceding Alex’s seventeenth birthday. Grandma Claudia claims Alex descends from a long line of New England witches. ![]() Innocent people were persecuted at the hands of a few overzealous Puritans, but what if real witches existed during those colonial hunts? What if there are witches in present day New England? That’s what Alexandria Ramsey’s crazy grandmother believes. ![]() The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were an embarrassing stain on America’s revered past. 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