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The Man Who Hated Ned O'Leary

Author : K.A. Merikan
Publisher : Acerbi&Villani ltd
ISBN 13 : 1914921011
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Hated Ned O'Leary written by K.A. Merikan and published by Acerbi&Villani ltd. This book was released on 2021 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Because you love me no matter how much you hate me.” Seven years ago, Cole Flores was betrayed by the man he loved, and his very soul was left charred. He vowed that day that he would find Ned O’Leary and kill him, even if it was the last thing he did. But Ned disappeared, and life went on. Despite the flame of hate burning deep inside him, Cole’s hope to find Ned had dimmed. At least it left behind a lesson to never trust, never love, and never attach himself anywhere. That was the only way for a wanted man to stay off the noose in a world filled with liars and cheats. Just when Cole stops looking for Ned though, he finds the deceptive bastard, and life turns on its head again. Their reunion goes nothing as planned, and unanswered questions rise to the surface, poisoning Cole’s mind with lust and longing that have never gone away. Ned O’Leary is a traitor. Ned O’Leary is a scumbag. Ned O’Leary is everything Cole Flores craves. Torn between love and revenge, lust and sanity, Cole has to find out if the bruised and battered heart of an outlaw can ever trust again, or if he’s bound to fulfill his promise and be Ned O’Leary’s doom. * Dark, dangerous, yet desperately romantic, “The Man Who Hated Ned O’Leary” is a gritty western M/M romance novel and book 2 in the “Dig Two Graves” duology. Prepare for violence, emotional turmoil, and scorching hot, explicit scenes, as well as a Happy Ever After earned with blood, sweat, and tears. POSSIBLE SPOILERS: Themes: Enemies-to-lovers, second chances, revenge, outlaws and cowboys, crime, secrets, loyalty, betrayal, Old West, survival, angst, survivor’s guilt, snowed in Length: ~125,000 words (Book 2 in a duology) WARNING: This story contains scenes of violence, offensive language and morally ambiguous characters as well as sensitive topics of child abuse and suicide

The Man Who Hated Ned O'Leary

Author : K a Merikan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Hated Ned O'Leary written by K a Merikan and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Because you love me no matter how much you hate me." Seven years ago, Cole Flores was betrayed by the man he loved, and his very soul was left charred. He vowed that day that he would find Ned O'Leary and kill him, even if it was the last thing he did. But Ned disappeared, and life went on. Despite the flame of hate burning deep inside him, Cole's hope to find Ned had dimmed. At least it left behind a lesson to never trust, never love, and never attach himself anywhere. That was the only way for a wanted man to stay off the noose in a world filled with liars and cheats. Just when Cole stops looking for Ned though, he finds the deceptive bastard, and life turns on its head again. Their reunion goes nothing as planned, and unanswered questions rise to the surface, poisoning Cole's mind with lust and longing that have never gone away. Ned O'Leary is a traitor. Ned O'Leary is a scumbag. Ned O'Leary is everything Cole Flores craves. Torn between love and revenge, lust and sanity, Cole has to find out if the bruised and battered heart of an outlaw can ever trust again, or if he's bound to fulfill his promise and be Ned O'Leary's doom. * Dark, dangerous, yet desperately romantic, "The Man Who Hated Ned O'Leary" is a gritty western M/M romance novel and book 2 in the "Dig Two Graves" duology. Prepare for violence, emotional turmoil, and scorching hot, explicit scenes, as well as a Happy Ever After earned with blood, sweat, and tears. POSSIBLE SPOILERS: Themes: Enemies-to-lovers, second chances, revenge, outlaws and cowboys, crime, secrets, loyalty, betrayal, Old West, survival, angst, survivor's guilt, snowed in Length: 125,000 words (Book 2 in a duology) WARNING: This story contains scenes of violence, offensive language and morally ambiguous characters as well as sensitive topics of child abuse and suicide

The Man Who Loved Cole Flores

Author : K.A. Merikan
Publisher : Acerbi&Villani ltd
ISBN 13 : 1914921003
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Loved Cole Flores written by K.A. Merikan and published by Acerbi&Villani ltd. This book was released on 2021 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You want revenge? Dig two graves. Ten years ago, a vicious gang called the Gotham Boys descended on a homestead in the mountains like a pack of wolves, leaving nothing behind but death and destruction. Ned O’Leary was the only one to survive the ordeal. He lost hope for revenge long ago, but its flame erupts in his heart when the gang is spotted again. By a stroke of luck, he is recruited to infiltrate the Gotham Boys and bring them all to justice. Ripped out of his wholesome life on a ranch, he has to find his footing with a band of ruthless outlaws who challenge his morals every step of the way But the one who tests him most of all is Cole Flores. Deadly, full of himself and unpredictable, the gang leader’s adopted son should be a man easy to hate, but instead, he sparks illicit desires Ned has never felt before. Cole Flores is forbidden. Cole Flores is corruption. Cole Flores is everything Ned O’Leary craves. Torn between love and revenge, lust and loyalty, Ned has to face impossible choices that are bound to leave scars, no matter how hard he tries to do the right thing. * “I don’t know what this means, or how to do this with you,” he whispered as his heart broke into a gallop. “But I want to. I need to.” Dark, dangerous, yet desperately romantic, “The Man Who Loved Cole Flores” is a gritty western M/M romance novel. Prepare for violence, emotional turmoil, and scorching hot, explicit scenes, as well as a heart-pounding cliffhanger to book 1. The epic love story of Ned O’Leary and Cole Flores gets its HEA in book 2 - “The Man Who Hated Ned O’Leary”. POSSIBLE SPOILERS: Themes: Enemies-to-lovers, first love, revenge, undercover, friends-to-lovers, forbidden romance, outlaws and cowboys, crime, gang, secrets, loyalty, betrayal, period-typical homophobia, Old West, survival, corruption of the innocent, self-discovery, opposites attract Length: ~155,000 words (Book 1 in a duology) WARNING: This story contains scenes of violence, offensive language and morally ambiguous characters as well as sensitive topics of child abuse and suicide

The Man Who Loved Cole Flores

Author : K a Merikan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Loved Cole Flores written by K a Merikan and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You want revenge? Dig two graves. Ten years ago, a vicious gang called the Gotham Boys descended on a homestead in the mountains like a pack of wolves, leaving nothing behind but death and destruction. Ned O'Leary was the only one to survive the ordeal. He lost hope for revenge long ago, but its flame erupts up in his heart when the gang is spotted again. By a stroke of luck, he is recruited to infiltrate the Gotham Boys and bring them all to justice. Ripped out of his wholesome life on a ranch, he has to find his footing with a band of ruthless outlaws who challenge his morals every step of the way But the one who tests him most of all is Cole Flores. Deadly, full of himself and unpredictable, the gang leader's adopted son should be a man easy to hate, but instead, he sparks illicit desires Ned has never felt before. Cole Flores is forbidden. Cole Flores is corruption. Cole Flores is everything Ned O'Leary craves. Torn between love and revenge, lust and loyalty, Ned has to face impossible choices that are bound to leave scars, no matter how hard he tries to do the right thing. * "I don't know what this means, or how to do this with you," he whispered as his heart broke into a gallop. "But I want to. I need to." * Dark, dangerous, yet desperately romantic, "The Man who Loved Cole Flores" is a gritty western M/M romance novel. Prepare for violence, emotional turmoil, and scorching hot, explicit scenes, as well as a heart-pounding cliffhanger to book 1. The epic love story of Ned O'Leary and Cole Flores gets its HEA in book 2 - "The Man who Hated Ned O'Leary". (Coming out February 20th, 2021) POSSIBLE SPOILERS: Themes: Enemies-to-lovers, first love, revenge, undercover, friends-to-lovers, forbidden romance, outlaws and cowboys, crime, gang, secrets, loyalty, betrayal, period-typical homophobia, Old West, survival, corruption of the innocent, self-discovery, first love, opposites attract Length: 155,000 words (Book 1 in a duology) WARNING: This story contains scenes of violence, offensive language and morally ambiguous characters as well as sensitive topics of child abuse and suicide

Coerced

Author : Abigail Davies
Publisher : Abigail Davies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coerced written by Abigail Davies and published by Abigail Davies. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you can’t get what you want then take it with force. That’s the motto that these individuals live by. Captivated by the darkness inside them, they don’t take no for an answer. Their desire is all encompassing. Their needs overwhelming. There’s a thin line between villain and hero but these master manipulators will stop at nothing to claim what is theirs. Coerced is an extremely limited dubcon anthology of addictive stories from a collection of USA Today and bestselling authors.

Space Cadet Academy

Author : Robert G. Longpre
Publisher : Retired Eagle Books
ISBN 13 : 1989019366
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Space Cadet Academy written by Robert G. Longpre and published by Retired Eagle Books. This book was released on 2022-05-14 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benji, Sam, and Dirk are just three of sixty young students from middle schools who have been chosen by the International Space Federation to be Freshmen at the Reykjavik Campus. All three are twelve years old from different countries. Benji is from Spain, Sam is from Scotland, and Dirk is from the Netherlands. The three were outsiders who were looking for an escape from their home schools for various reasons. The ISF Space Cadet Academy would either make or break them.

The Office Rival

Author : Kat T Masen
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Office Rival written by Kat T Masen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arrogant, cocky, immature-how many ways can I describe my co-worker? I should have called in sick that day and stuck to my rule of keeping my personal life private. But like always, he got to me and pushed all the wrong buttons. Then we made one mistake. To prove just how much we hated each other... Presley Malone knew her relationship with her fiancé had run its course. The second that ring came off her finger, she didn't expect to be the pawn in an immature game played by her stuck-up co-worker. Haden Cooper enjoyed playing games, and when it came to Presley Malone, it was all too easy. Miss Know-it-all, with her over-the-top OCD, was soon going to get a taste of what it was like to live on the edge. But what starts as an innocent prank in the office soon becomes an unhealthy obsession. **This title was previously published as #JERK. It has been extensively rewritten, re-edited, and has a new cover.

Strange Wine

Author : Harlan Ellison
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497604230
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Strange Wine written by Harlan Ellison and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From “one of the great . . . American short story writers,” comes a collection of dark fantastical fiction (The Washington Post). In the Locus Award–winning “Croatoan,” a man descends into the sewers of New York City to confront the detritus of his irresponsibility. An “Emissary from Hamelin” presents humanity with an ultimatum, or everyone on Earth will have a dear price to pay the piper. And in the title story—famously written by the author in the storefront window of a Santa Monica bookshop—Willis Kaw is convinced that he is an alien trapped inside an Earthman’s body, only to discover his suffering serves a purpose. Strange Wine includes these three stories and a dozen more unique visions from the writer the Washington Post hails as a “lyric poet, satirist, explorer of odd psychological corners, and purveyor of pure horror and black comedy.” Includes: “Croatoan,” “Working With the Little People,” “Killing Bernstein,” “Mom,” “In Fear of K,” “Hitler Painted Roses,” “The Wine Has Been Left Open Too Long and the Memory Has Gone Flat,” “From A to Z, in the Chocolate Alphabet,” “Lonely Women Are the Vessels of Time,” “Emissary from Hamelin,” “The New York Review of Bird Seeing,” “The Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “Strange Wine,” “The Diagnosis of Dr. D’arqueAngel”

Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale

Author : Nancy Hale
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598536435
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Where the Light Falls: Selected Stories of Nancy Hale written by Nancy Hale and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the masterful stories of a midcentury artist whose multifaceted portraits of women were generations ahead of her time “A stunning, crystalline collection.” —Vogue Nancy Hale was considered one of the preeminent short story artists of her era, a prolific writer whose long association with The New Yorker rivaled that of her contemporary John Cheever. But few readers today will recognize her name. Acclaimed author Lauren Groff has selected twenty-five of Hale's best stories, presented here in the first career-spanning edition of this astonishingly gifted writer's work. These stories seem ahead of their time in their depiction of women--complicated characters, sometimes fragile, possibly wicked, often remarkable in their apparent ordinariness, from an adolescent girl in Connecticut driven into delirium over her burgeoning sexuality in "Midsummer," to a twenty-something New Yorker experiencing culture shock during a visit to a friend's house in Virginia in "That Woman," to a New England widow in search of alcohol while babysitting her grandson in "Flotsam." Other stories touch on memories of childhood, the intense trauma of electroshock therapy, and the spectre of white supremacy. Haunting, vivid, and subversive in the best sense, Where the Light Falls is nothing less than a major literary rediscovery.

The Architect

Author : Nikki Sloane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781949409116
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Architect written by Nikki Sloane and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, my new boyfriend is a stiff, buttoned-up architect. He plans every detail of his life while carefully maintaining the walls he's built around his heart. But when the biggest project of his career pulls him away, Clay's solution is both temporary and unconventional. It even comes with a name-Travis. This handsome stranger is sweet and thoughtful. He's only meant to be a stand-in, to fulfill my needs under Clay's watchful direction, yet these two men couldn't be more different. The one thing they share? Well, I guess that would be me. One gets off on my pain, the other on my pleasure, and it awakens a desire none of us knew existed. But it can't last. Eventually I'll have to choose. And it's going to destroy us all.

All that is Solid Melts Into Air

Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860917854
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book All that is Solid Melts Into Air written by Marshall Berman and published by Verso. This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.

Afterwards

Author : Rosamund Lupton
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307716554
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Afterwards written by Rosamund Lupton and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A GRIPPING NOVEL." —New York Times Book Review When her children's school is set ablaze, Grace runs into the burning building to rescue her teenage daughter, Jenny. In the aftermath, badly injured, Grace learns the police have identified the arsonist, but they have blamed the wrong person. Only Detective Sarah McBride, the sister-in-law Grace has never liked, is searching for the real arsonist--a hunt that becomes urgent when it's clear Jenny is still the perpetrator's target. Page-turning suspense combines with a beautiful portrayal of deep family bonds to make this a stunning and riveting read. Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content

Dark Wizard: A Dark Fantasy Romance

Author : Jeffe Kennedy
Publisher : Brightlynx Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1945367792
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Dark Wizard: A Dark Fantasy Romance written by Jeffe Kennedy and published by Brightlynx Publisher. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dark Wizard is one of my top reads ever.” ~ NY Times Bestselling Author Darynda Jones “Dark Wizard will be on my keeper shelf for freaking ever.” ~ NY Times Bestselling Author Dana Marton “Jeffe nailed what it is to write a fantasy romance. Fabulous!” ~ USAT Bestselling Author of Radiance, Grace Draven "...utterly compelling...clicked Buy right at the end of the sample and just kept reading and reading because this book is so good, with such a rich world and characters. I'm so glad I picked it up...now can it be June already so I can read more?" ~Amazon reviewer *** In The Witcher meets The Selection… *** She ran from him... but couldn't escape her heart. Lord Gabriel Phel wants one thing: to rebuild the shattered fortunes of his people and restore his ruined house to its former station in the Convocation’s highest tiers of elegant society. Fortunately, through a wild chance of birth, he was born with powerful wizard magic, the first in his family in generations. If he can obtain a familiar to amplify his magic, a highborn daughter he can marry, to be mother to his children, he’ll be that much closer to saving his family. With her by his side, he can ascend to such a position of power in the Convocation that he can destroy it forever. Lady Veronica Elal, captive in her tower, has only one way out. To her bitter disappointment, she will never be a wizard. Instead, through a twist of fate, and despite her expensive Convocation Academy education, Nic is doomed to be a familiar like her mother. Forced to participate in the Betrothal Trials, she receives a wizard suitor for one night each month. Whichever man impregnates her will bond her to them forever. With no choice but to serve the one who wins her, Nic has one hope for control over her life: a wizard she can manipulate. Gabriel Phel seems like the perfect choice for Nic’s gambit—he’s desperate and untutored in wizardry—but within moments of meeting him, she feels the bonds of magic tying them together. Afraid of losing her will to the compelling wizard who touches her heart like no other, Nic does the unthinkable: she runs. Pregnant and alone, Nic eludes monstrous hunters, searching for a safe haven. But when Gabriel catches up to her, their adventure has only begun.

The Strong Spirit

Author : Andrew Gibson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191650269
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Strong Spirit written by Andrew Gibson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly accounts of Joyce's early work have traditionally resorted to two historical keys to try to unlock it: a concept of the Dublin and Ireland in which he grew to adulthood as stagnant and backward, and an emphasis on 1904, the year of the supposedly crucial break in which Joyce quit Ireland for continental Europe and could begin his great modernist literary project. But modernist or no, Joyce's works are always about Ireland, and he remained vitally in touch with Irish historical developments throughout his life. This study aims to be the first comprehensive historicisation of Joyce's writings 1898-1915 in relation to the distinct phases and shifting currents of British-Irish history during the period. At the turn of the century, when a concept of `national resurgence' is much in the Irish air, in his earliest essays, Joyce meditates on art as an anti-colonial and emancipatory project that addresses questions of freedom and justice in its own distinctive way. His early essays produce a compelling declaration of a principle of autonomy at a specific historical moment in a colonial culture. However, successive historical events - the crises surrounding the Land Act, the United Irish League and Devolution, the election of 1906, the Third Home Rule Bill crisis - call the emancipatory project ever more sharply into question. Thus `the strong spirit' which Joyce had initially thought might transcend and even conquer the effects of history becomes indissolubly wedded to radical historical scepticism. Through Dubliners, Stephen Hero, the `Triestine Writings' and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Exiles, Joyce responds to his predicament by examining recent Irish history and the place of the intellectual and artist within it in a variety of extremely subtle and complex or, in Joycean terms, `labyrinthine' forms of writing.

You Must Remember This

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452280192
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book You Must Remember This written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-11-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Joyce Carol Oates, the bestselling author of We Were the Mulvaneys, comes an epic family novel about the division between the permissible and the forbidden, between ordinary life and the secret places of the heart. Set in an industrial, working-class town in upstate New York, You Must Remember This is the story of the Stevicks: two parents trapped in a frustrating marriage; their idealistic, ambitious son, and fifteen-year-old Enid Maria, who becomes caught up in a secret sexual relationship with her uncle Felix, a professional boxer twice her age. A true and empathetic tale that merges love and violence, it is also a brilliant re-creation of a decade that worshiped conformity, one that tells of lives that break every convention in the search for meaning and fulfillment.

The Gay Revolution

Author : Lillian Faderman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451694121
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Gay Revolution written by Lillian Faderman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian and transgender rights draws on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists and members of the LGBT community to document the cause's struggles since the 1950s.

Daddy Love

Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 080219365X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Daddy Love written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Bellefleur: A “psychologically incisive” glimpse into the mind of a deranged predator and the boy he abducts to be his son (Booklist). Robbie Whitcomb is five years old when he’s taken from his mother in a mall parking lot. In her attempt to chase the kidnapper, she’s left badly injured and permanently disfigured. Such are the methods of the man who calls himself Daddy Love—a man known to the rest of the world as charismatic preacher Chester Cash. For the next six years, Robbie is to be Daddy’s son. That means doing whatever Daddy says—and giving him whatever he wants. Soon Robbie learns to accept his new name, Gideon. He also learns that he is not the first of Daddy Love’s sons. And that each of the others, after reaching a certain age, was never seen again. As Robbie’s mother recovers from her wounds, her life and marriage are a daily struggle. But as years go by, she maintains a flicker of hope that her son is still alive. Meanwhile, Robbie approaches the “bittersweet age” with no illusions about his fate. But somewhere within this tortured child lies a spark of rebellion. And he knows all too well what survival requires. “After all these years, Joyce Carol Oates can still give me the creeps.” —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review “A lean and disturbing tale that reverberates after its ending.” —The Columbus Dispatch “Oates makes us squirm as she forces us to see some of the action through Love’s twisted and warped perspective.” —Kirkus Reviews “This unsettling tale showcases Oates’s masterful storytelling.” —Publishers Weekly