6/10/2023 0 Comments Raintree by Linda Winstead Jones![]() ![]() ![]() Will Dante’s strength be enough to win the fight of his life? In HAUNTED by RITA® award winner Linda Winstead Jones, homicide detective Gideon Raintree must draw upon the gifts he’s kept hidden to stop a relentless serial killer unleashed by dark Ansara wizards. As king, it’s up to Dante Raintree to protect his clan, but when Lorna Clay walks into his life, suddenly fire, always his to control, defeats him, leaving him wondering whether Lorna is to blame. NYT bestselling author Linda Howard heads up this trilogy with INFERNO. Two hundred years after the Raintree clan defeated them, the Ansara wizards are rising up again to take on their bitterest foes. Sanctuary by New York Times bestselling author Beverly Barton Haunted by RITA® Award winner Linda Winstead Jones ![]() Inferno by New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard Raintree: Haunted by Linda Winstead Jones ![]()
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Secreted in rural France, first in underground bunkers then in cottages in the care of a brutal overseer, Lira’s cohort must take pills daily to tolerate extraterrestrial conditions. Facing extinction, Lira’s world sends children to the other Earth, where they’re hidden and trained to kill and replace their alternates and then, in sleeper cells, assist the stealth invasion. At age 6, Lira was plucked from an orphanage and sent to a duplicate of Earth, with one crucial difference: unlike her current planet, that Earth is not disappearing, along with all the life it contains.Įach person on each Earth has a counterpart on the other, an alternate. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Martha wells murderbot order![]() She just doesn’t do that very often in this book. ![]() ![]() The Goodīut wait – it’s not all bad, I promise! Wells is a skilled writer, and she’s more than capable of creating a well-built world for us to explore. 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Now Ellie must delve into Gloria's secrets and plunge back into the world of hucksters, lowlifes, and fakes. Still, she can't refuse the final request of the only other true psychic she has known. She specializes in miraculously finding lost items. Now she's been murdered at one of her own séances, after leaving a message requesting the help of her former friend and sole rival, Ellie Winter.Įllie doesn't contact the dead-at least, not anymore. Glamorous medium Gloria Sutter made her fortune helping the bereaved contact loved ones killed during the Great War. ![]() The award-winning author of The Haunting of Maddy Clare and Silence for the Dead, presents another mesmerizing gothic story of intrigue. ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Watership down book![]() Set in England’s Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage, and survival follows a band of very special creatures on their flight from the intrusion of man and the certain destruction of their home. ![]() We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.Ī phenomenal worldwide bestseller, Richard Adams’s Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. 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