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Book Synopsis The Twisted Laird by : Cherime MacFarlane
Download or read book The Twisted Laird written by Cherime MacFarlane and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle of Culloden is over. They must leave the glen or starve. Those who stay will die. But would Glasgow be a safe haven? He doubts his ability to take care of those now his responsibility. His brother’s widow doesn’t believe he is capable. The woman who chose Edan knows he is able. The lowlands of Scotland in the year 1746, is a dangerous place for refugees from the Highlands. With women and children to care for, Edan Campbell MacGrough needs to keep certain secrets buried deep or he might hang. For a lame young man it is a difficult road to walk.
Download or read book Swift to Chase written by Laird Barron and published by JournalStone. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Paul Tremblay Publishers Weekly top ten list for most anticipated horror/Scifi Fall 2016 releases. Laird Barron’s fourth collection gathers a dozen stories set against the backdrops of the Alaskan wilderness, far-future dystopias, and giallo-fueled nightmare vistas. All hell breaks loose in a massive apartment complex when a modern day Jack the Ripper strikes under cover of a blizzard; a woman, famous for surviving a massacre, hits the road to flee the limelight and finds her misadventures have only begun; while tracking a missing B-movie actor, a team of man hunters crashes in the Yukon Delta and soon realize the Arctic is another name for hell; an atomic-powered cyborg war dog loyally assists his master in the overthrow of a far-future dystopian empire; following an occult initiation ritual, a man is stalked by a psychopathic sorority girl and her team of horrifically disfigured henchmen; a rich lunatic invites several high school classmates to his mansion for a night of sex, drugs, and CIA-funded black ops experiments; and other glimpses into occulted realities a razor’s slice beyond our own. Combining hardboiled noir, psychological horror, and the occult, Swift to Chase continues three-time Shirley Jackson Award winner Barron’s harrowing inquiry into the darkness of the human heart.
Book Synopsis The Twisted Forest by : J. F. Danskin
Download or read book The Twisted Forest written by J. F. Danskin and published by Inkpot Books. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malevolent magic rises in the forest. Will Donnell’s own growing powers be enough to meet the threat? It has been a few months since the Battle of Cardhu. Donnell is preparing the villagers, anticipating further incursions from the Norse encampment on the coast. But the attacks, when they come, are from Donnell’s beloved forest. What is causing normally peaceful beasts to behave in this way? Who is equipping the boggles with bows? Healer Fenella wants to retrieve the stolen white stone of Lugh. Balance won't be restored until her circle of druids is reformed. Donnell is torn – Cardhu is vulnerable. The stone lies in the hands of the enemy Iohric: retrieving it will be a perilous mission. But when they find out what he intends to do with it, there doesn’t seem to be much choice at all. The thrilling second instalment of the Druid Stones Saga.
Download or read book The Laird written by Grace Burrowes and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Grace Burrowes delivers another passionate Regency romance... He left his bride to go to war... After years of soldiering, Michael Brodie returns to his Highland estate to find that the bride he left behind has become a stranger. Brenna is self-sufficient, competent, confident—and furious about Michael's prolonged absence. Now his most important battle will be for her heart Brenna is also hurt, bewildered, and tired of fighting for the respect of those around her. Michael left her when she needed him most, and then stayed away even after the war ended. Nonetheless, the young man who abandoned her has come home a wiser, more patient and honorable husband. But if she trusts Michael with the truths she's been guarding, he'll have to choose between his wife and everything else he holds dear. Captive Hearts series: The Captive (Book 1) The Traitor (Book 2) The Laird (Book 3) "Burrowes delivers powerful and moving romance." —RT Book Reviews Praise for The MacGregor's Lady: "Consistently excellent writing, deep and layered stories." —Publishers Weekly "Engaging, deliciously sensual, superbly written romance." —Library Journal "Absolutely enchanting." —Romance Junkies
Download or read book Fallen Lake written by Laird Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1971, the place is California, and what never seemed possible suddenly becomes irresistible. Camping on the shores of Fallen Lake in the high Sierra, two couples swap partners and glimpse paradise. That night changes the course of their lives and their children's as the two marriages become one. The families move in together in suburban Pleasant Valley, the exhilarated adults pursuing their four-sided relationship and their dream careers. At first resentful of this upheaval, the children find unexpected advantages. But the door flung open by the sexual revolution is starting to close. Too late the lovers realize what they will have to pay for living out their fantasies.
Book Synopsis The Imago Sequence by : Laird Barron
Download or read book The Imago Sequence written by Laird Barron and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title story of this collection — a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s model” — was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while “Probiscus” was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story.
Download or read book Glover's Mistake written by Nick Laird and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful and drolly satirical novel about contemporary romance--"the kind of book Jane Austen would've written had she been male and hipper." -Chicago Tribune Look out for Nick Laird's new novel, Modern Gods, coming in June 2017 With his debut novel, Utterly Monkey, Nick Laird won acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for his deft humor and sharp-eyed powers of observation. In this new novel, disaffected thirty-something college teacher David introduces his former teacher, American artist Ruth Marks, to his friend and flatmate James Glover, unwittingly setting in place a love triangle loaded with tension, guilt, and heartbreak. Set in the London art scene awash with new money and intellectual pretension, Nick Laird's insightful and drolly satirical novel explores the nature of contemporary romance among damaged souls whose hearts and heads never quite line up long enough for them to achieve true happiness.
Download or read book Modern Gods written by Nick Laird and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended, from an award-winning author with “a wonderfully original and limber voice” (The New York Times) “[Nick Laird’s] kinetic prose, full of insight about politics, history and religion, dazzles eye and ear." –The New York Times Book Review “Nick Laird takes two experiences poles apart and unites them in gorgeous language…[with] fierce tenderness. ” –Dave Eggers, author of Heroes of the Frontier Alison Donnelly has suffered for love. Still stuck in the small Northern Irish town where she was born, working for her father’s real estate agency, she hopes a second marriage will help her get her life back together. Her sister Liz, a fiercely independent professor who lives in New York City, is about to return to Ulster for Alison’s wedding, before heading to an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea to make a TV show about the world’s newest religion. Both sisters hope to write their own futures, but the past has other ideas. Alison wakes up the day after her wedding to find that her new husband has a past neither of them can escape. While Liz, in a rainforest on the other side of the planet, finds herself increasingly entangled in the eerie, charged world of Belef, the charismatic middle-aged woman she has come to film, the leader of a cargo cult. As Modern Gods ingeniously interweaves the stories of Liz and Alison, it becomes clear that both sisters must learn how to negotiate with the past, with the sins of fanaticism, and decide exactly what the living owe to the dead. Laird’s brave, innovative novel charts the intimacies and disappointments of a family trying to hold itself together, and the repercussions of history and belief.
Book Synopsis Laird Cregar by : Gregory William Mank
Download or read book Laird Cregar written by Gregory William Mank and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1944, Laird Cregar played Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, giving one of the most haunting performances in Hollywood history. It was the climax of a strange celebrity that saw the young American actor--who stood 6' 3" and weighed more than 300 pounds--earn distinction as a portrayer of psychopaths and villains. Determined to break free of this typecasting, he desperately desired to become "a beautiful man," embarking on an extreme diet that killed him at 31. This first biography of Cregar tells the heartbreaking story of the brilliant but doomed actor. Appendices cover his film, theatre, and radio work. Many never before published photographs are included.
Book Synopsis In Pursuit of Cheese by : Cherime MacFarlane
Download or read book In Pursuit of Cheese written by Cherime MacFarlane and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cat and CoDee are ready to make modifications to their ship. The shipyard on Greenhouse II is their destination. They find the Bond and one other ship are the only ones queuing up. A huge planet-wise disaster had every available trader hauling materials to the stricken world under contract to the Mercenary's Union or the Life Foundation. Greenhouse II was one world where Cat could be herself. But the official of the Life Foundation stranded on Greenhouse II is a telepath. He senses CoDee and Cat are different. They are trying to avoid the man, but another menace lurks on the warm jungle planet, one neither of them sense as they struggle to communicate without using their bond. Cat's obsession with cheese may prove her undoing. The planet Caleta which issued a call for help has two major exports; a fantastic cheese and wine.
Download or read book Weirdo written by Zadie Smith and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Maud: a guinea pig who inexplicably wears a judo suit - and not everyone understands or approves. When Maud is thrown into a new and confusing situation, it takes brave decisions and serendipitous encounters for her to find her place and embrace her individuality. The charming characters of Magenta Fox, whose work is evocative of Raymond Briggs and Janet Ahlberg, perfectly offset Zadie and Nick's warm, wry prose. Weirdo is an endearing story about the quiet power of being different by two veteran writers, and introduces an exciting debut illustrator. Together they have created a picture book that adults and children alike will treasure.
Book Synopsis Wired For Sound by : Cherime MacFarlane
Download or read book Wired For Sound written by Cherime MacFarlane and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1988 and Bushmaster is about to become history in the worst way possible when the front man is electrocuted during sound check. Someone had enough. All the band members had a motive. MacGrough: I didnae ken what tha lament tried tae tell me. Vince is dead, and tha band's done for. I understand more than tha polis, someone killed tha arse. But who and why now? If they look too close at Lori, I'm worried about what they may find. Someone burned my wife before we met. It's all circumstantial, she lived in Brighton and Vince had ah woman there. It couldn't have been her. But, she's never said, and I canae get that out of my head. Lori: We must get back to Glasgow. If Hamish doesn't get the album done in time, he will lose the backers. The cops have us trapped here. Hamish is acting strange. Yes, I understand it's a murder investigation but we should stay out of it. This is Hamish's family, when they find the killer, it will hurt him.
Book Synopsis Woman Inside by : Cherime MacFarlane
Download or read book Woman Inside written by Cherime MacFarlane and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second chance Alaska romance. Trudy worked full time and a major side hustle to get enough money for her own slice of the American dream, land. Not just a box she slapped money down on, but acreage. Only problem, it’s in interior Alaska, where the temperature can fall below minus 25. Her next-door neighbor doesn’t think this cheechako will make it without a man. Trudy has no choice, there is no backup plan. Deak has problems of his own. His wife died in an accident and he can’t move forward. Still, something about his new neighbor is appealing. Maybe it’s the dark hair she can’t seem to keep tamed that has his fingers itching.
Book Synopsis Valley Girl Wars by : Cherime MacFarlane
Download or read book Valley Girl Wars written by Cherime MacFarlane and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poacher is an ever-present threat to Ally as captain of Tore Olson's boat, Valley Girl. She doesn't understand why he refuses to go to the Alaska State Troopers. She agreed to help him by taking over the captain's chair when Tore broke his leg. She didn't sign on to evade a poacher, scramble to catch enough fish to make the balloon payment and dodge the big Swede. Fishing on Lower Cook Inlet southwest of Homer is stressful enough without the added tension of wondering how Rurik will react to her wanting to return as captain of the family fishing boat. Her younger brother is doing fine without her. Marriage has settled the man down and Ally fears it isn't fair to ask him to give up his new position as captain of the Arina. When she does turn the Valley Girl back to Tore, what is she going to do with herself?
Book Synopsis Planet Crisis: An Adar Genn - Cat and CoDee Story by : S.P. Gallatin
Download or read book Planet Crisis: An Adar Genn - Cat and CoDee Story written by S.P. Gallatin and published by Paper Gold Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A planet in trouble needs all the help it can muster. The Mercenary Union and the Life Foundation from Stellar United Nations have mobilized every available hand and transport available. Both CoDee and Cat are to get a short training course. The union and the foundation need the couple too much to send them off for basic training. Adar isn’t happy about babysitting CoDee. The boy knows next to nothing about working with a crew of tough men. But the boy and his cat are interesting. Then Adar finds he may need CoDee’s help on a little matter for a goddess.
Book Synopsis The Border Laird's Bride by : Allison Butler
Download or read book The Border Laird's Bride written by Allison Butler and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-02-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To fulfil his father's dying wish, border laird Jamie Graham must marry and sire a legitimate heir. But his marriage will be one of convenience, for he has vowed never to open his heart to betrayal. While guarding his cattle from thieves, Jamie catches the spirited daughter of a neighbouring laird stealing his horse. Despite viewing an arranged marriage as a death sentence, feisty Kenzie Irvine has no choice but to wed the domineering Jamie. But she has sworn an oath never to bring a child into an uncaring world. And Kenzie also has a dark secret she has no intention of giving away - even if she finds herself her on the wrong side of the law...
Book Synopsis The Whisky Laird's Bed by : Donna MacMeans
Download or read book The Whisky Laird's Bed written by Donna MacMeans and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spirited woman and a Highland laird learn that attraction is the most intoxicating drink of all in the second novel in the Rake Patrol series. Claire Starke has no illusions about her future. As her father repeatedly reminded her, her looks would never win a husband, and her poverty makes her an even less suitable wife. Luckily, her comrades at the Rake Patrol have given her joy and comfort—enough to quell the dull ache for a family of her own. So, when fellow member Faith runs off to the Highlands, investigating a whisky distiller advertising for an English wife, Claire sees no choice but to save her friend from this intemperate and lustful man. But she didn’t expect the laird to be so intriguing, or to begin questioning her own restraint... Still reeling from the distillery accident which left him scarred and shaken, Cameron MacPherson has no plans to marry, even if his mother is determined to tie him to one of the British milquetoasts parading through his castle. But when Claire bursts upon the scene, hurling accusations about alcohol and ruin, he finds the reformer fascinating. The fact that she stands up to him when others shrink away is more than charming—this one has spirit and, to be honest, he wouldn’t mind drinking a deep draught of her...
