Our classic 'Love' season
Love surely is an all year round thing, and we have plenty of love to offer you, from the classic Romantic girl-meets-boy => there are seemingly insurmountable problems => it's make-or-break in the final chapter, to experiences which are considerably more confused and complex, but love nevertheless.
Rest your beating heart here, and maybe cry a little.
Rest your beating heart here, and maybe cry a little.
From boring to wild, too wild .....
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Justine has had it with Alex. What was once an exciting relationship of mutual discovery has become routine and argumentative. Alex has to go. Anything must be better than this, even solitude. Especially solitude. Justine loves solitude.
However, as Justine settles back into her accustomed solitary lifestyle that has been interrupted for three years by her love for Alex, the 'anything' that turns up is not at all what she is expecting.
As a hobbyist songwriter, she joins a social media site for musicians and meets loads of new and surprisingly talented people who share her passion for music and who are not averse to a bit of flirtation on the side, which is very exhilarating and entertaining in its way, but also a little surreal.
The shock for Justine is that the person who ends up strumming her chords enough to rock her world is not some young male hunk but another woman, Molly, a classical violinist who lives in New York, far enough away for Justine in Australia to indulge her burgeoning wilder-side fantasies in relative safety.
Yet when the beautiful and sensitive Molly offers to fund Justine's plane ticket to see if they can bring their exquisite affair blissfully down to earth in her Manhattan apartment, Justine cannot resist seizing a new world of opportunity, a whole world she has never considered playing in before.
And new worlds can prove extremely challenging for naïve newcomers, as she is about to find out.
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Justine has had it with Alex. What was once an exciting relationship of mutual discovery has become routine and argumentative. Alex has to go. Anything must be better than this, even solitude. Especially solitude. Justine loves solitude.
However, as Justine settles back into her accustomed solitary lifestyle that has been interrupted for three years by her love for Alex, the 'anything' that turns up is not at all what she is expecting.
As a hobbyist songwriter, she joins a social media site for musicians and meets loads of new and surprisingly talented people who share her passion for music and who are not averse to a bit of flirtation on the side, which is very exhilarating and entertaining in its way, but also a little surreal.
The shock for Justine is that the person who ends up strumming her chords enough to rock her world is not some young male hunk but another woman, Molly, a classical violinist who lives in New York, far enough away for Justine in Australia to indulge her burgeoning wilder-side fantasies in relative safety.
Yet when the beautiful and sensitive Molly offers to fund Justine's plane ticket to see if they can bring their exquisite affair blissfully down to earth in her Manhattan apartment, Justine cannot resist seizing a new world of opportunity, a whole world she has never considered playing in before.
And new worlds can prove extremely challenging for naïve newcomers, as she is about to find out.
The gods are always wild
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The gods forbade her to love,
but love is a powerful force
Acacia has been created purely for Eros' pleasure but discovers within moments of being summoned into his presence that he has no interest in her whatsoever.
Rejected, she is banished to Earth to serve as Eros' minion with the task of promoting the blissful state of love among all those around her, a state she must never indulge in with a human being herself on pain of immediate destruction.
And then comes Josh, someone whose power of attraction over Acacia is so intense she will find it utterly impossible to resist him.
But is he human? Is he a god? Or is he a trick of the gods?
And what would happen should they kiss?
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The gods forbade her to love,
but love is a powerful force
Acacia has been created purely for Eros' pleasure but discovers within moments of being summoned into his presence that he has no interest in her whatsoever.
Rejected, she is banished to Earth to serve as Eros' minion with the task of promoting the blissful state of love among all those around her, a state she must never indulge in with a human being herself on pain of immediate destruction.
And then comes Josh, someone whose power of attraction over Acacia is so intense she will find it utterly impossible to resist him.
But is he human? Is he a god? Or is he a trick of the gods?
And what would happen should they kiss?
'The Eye of Erasmus' - a story of love across impossible time ....
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'The Eye of Erasmus' is the first of a series of four inter-related fables about time and fate, told in Teresa Geering's characteristic hypnotic prose.
It tells of Erasmus, a baby born during a thunder storm, who is clearly destined to be special, with his flashing black eyes and haughty ways, until he finds love.
The trouble is that the girl literally ‘of his dreams’ hasn't actually been born yet.
No problem …… Oh, but there is …….
Danger lurks ……..
Comment by George Polley, author of 'The Old Man & The Monkey' and 'Grandfather & The Raven': "'The Eye of Erasmus' is different from the books that I usually read. When I received a review copy, I wasn't sure. Now I am. It is a tale gently and beautifully told. Like the Harry Potter novels, it is a book that readers of all ages will enjoy. It is definitely a book that I will read again and again.
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'The Eye of Erasmus' is the first of a series of four inter-related fables about time and fate, told in Teresa Geering's characteristic hypnotic prose.
It tells of Erasmus, a baby born during a thunder storm, who is clearly destined to be special, with his flashing black eyes and haughty ways, until he finds love.
The trouble is that the girl literally ‘of his dreams’ hasn't actually been born yet.
No problem …… Oh, but there is …….
Danger lurks ……..
Comment by George Polley, author of 'The Old Man & The Monkey' and 'Grandfather & The Raven': "'The Eye of Erasmus' is different from the books that I usually read. When I received a review copy, I wasn't sure. Now I am. It is a tale gently and beautifully told. Like the Harry Potter novels, it is a book that readers of all ages will enjoy. It is definitely a book that I will read again and again.
Not fairytale romance - closer to the real thing
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When Daneka, the editor of a successful fashion magazine in New York, chooses professional photographer Kit’s name almost at random for a portrait session she is commissioning, she sets the scene for them rapidly to become lovers.
Their relationship is sophisticated, recklessly passionate and mutual, and Daneka is soon suggesting that they luxuriate together at her expense on a holiday romance amid the sun and glamour of Southern Europe.
Entranced by each other’s flair and style, and despite some complications, their affair seems to blossom into genuine love until Daneka suggests that they visit her home country of Denmark where the horrors of her past threaten their happiness.
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When Daneka, the editor of a successful fashion magazine in New York, chooses professional photographer Kit’s name almost at random for a portrait session she is commissioning, she sets the scene for them rapidly to become lovers.
Their relationship is sophisticated, recklessly passionate and mutual, and Daneka is soon suggesting that they luxuriate together at her expense on a holiday romance amid the sun and glamour of Southern Europe.
Entranced by each other’s flair and style, and despite some complications, their affair seems to blossom into genuine love until Daneka suggests that they visit her home country of Denmark where the horrors of her past threaten their happiness.
A gritty tale of how to deal with what romance leaves behind
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In 'Six Weeks', Jessica L. Degarmo departs from the style of her very successful Romance novels - 'Hooking Up', 'The Storm Within', 'Decisions' and 'How To Meet A Guy In The Supermarket' - to examine every teenage girl's nightmare: that she is pregnant and not certain she's ready for a child.
It is a life and death decision – not her life, but her decision - and despite the opinions of those around her, she is on her own.
In a world of gray, one thing is black and white. Six weeks is her deadline to decide.
Maybe you have been there, in which case you will understand.
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In 'Six Weeks', Jessica L. Degarmo departs from the style of her very successful Romance novels - 'Hooking Up', 'The Storm Within', 'Decisions' and 'How To Meet A Guy In The Supermarket' - to examine every teenage girl's nightmare: that she is pregnant and not certain she's ready for a child.
It is a life and death decision – not her life, but her decision - and despite the opinions of those around her, she is on her own.
In a world of gray, one thing is black and white. Six weeks is her deadline to decide.
Maybe you have been there, in which case you will understand.
She preferred to play the field and then she found herself playing with fire ....
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From the international bestselling author of 'Spoilt' …...
It may be a bit of a cliché to say that all firemen are hot, but Captain Jared Montgomery is in an intensely smoldering class of his own, which makes him somewhat explosive to
handle.
When he first met Charlotte at the vet's where she worked, he immediately judged her to be breathtakingly beautiful, flirtatious, superficial and shallow. He didn't like her but he couldn't get her out of his mind. She
thought he was aggressive and rude, but she couldn't get him out of her mind either.
Then mutual friends and family forced them together at a wedding and suddenly they had a runaway fire going between them nobody was going to put out until the day Jared discovered Charlotte locking lips with Dr Shaw, the
local vet and her boss.
She, of course, said it wasn't like that at all, but she would, wouldn't she?
And it might all have ended there if Charlotte hadn't nearly died in a fire and if Jared hadn't been the one to save
her …..
If you like your Romance as straight as your firemen, this is the one for you.
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From the international bestselling author of 'Spoilt' …...
It may be a bit of a cliché to say that all firemen are hot, but Captain Jared Montgomery is in an intensely smoldering class of his own, which makes him somewhat explosive to
handle.
When he first met Charlotte at the vet's where she worked, he immediately judged her to be breathtakingly beautiful, flirtatious, superficial and shallow. He didn't like her but he couldn't get her out of his mind. She
thought he was aggressive and rude, but she couldn't get him out of her mind either.
Then mutual friends and family forced them together at a wedding and suddenly they had a runaway fire going between them nobody was going to put out until the day Jared discovered Charlotte locking lips with Dr Shaw, the
local vet and her boss.
She, of course, said it wasn't like that at all, but she would, wouldn't she?
And it might all have ended there if Charlotte hadn't nearly died in a fire and if Jared hadn't been the one to save
her …..
If you like your Romance as straight as your firemen, this is the one for you.
The one about the fireman who arrived in one storm and created another ....
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A John's Creek Second Chances Novel
Johns Creek, New York, deep winter, and Amanda Pickett is all alone in her remote house when a violent storm erupts, devastating the neighborhood, and bringing a tree crashing down against her back door, leaving her in the freezing cold and complete darkness when the power supply is cut.
As she becomes ever more frightened and isolated by her predicament, there is a knock at the door. Amanda screams, but the visitor turns out to be Raif Weston, a very handsome off-duty fireman come to rescue her and the other residents of Johns Creek.
They attempt to get to the shelter where the residents are being evacuated, but the storm is so fierce that they only get a short way down the road before they hit a tree and are forced to turn back, and so they both end up trapped in Amanda's house.
"So, now that you have me here, what are you going to do with me?" Raif asks.
…. and the storm begins for real.
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A John's Creek Second Chances Novel
Johns Creek, New York, deep winter, and Amanda Pickett is all alone in her remote house when a violent storm erupts, devastating the neighborhood, and bringing a tree crashing down against her back door, leaving her in the freezing cold and complete darkness when the power supply is cut.
As she becomes ever more frightened and isolated by her predicament, there is a knock at the door. Amanda screams, but the visitor turns out to be Raif Weston, a very handsome off-duty fireman come to rescue her and the other residents of Johns Creek.
They attempt to get to the shelter where the residents are being evacuated, but the storm is so fierce that they only get a short way down the road before they hit a tree and are forced to turn back, and so they both end up trapped in Amanda's house.
"So, now that you have me here, what are you going to do with me?" Raif asks.
…. and the storm begins for real.
Passionate love across the divide of two races who live side-by-side but trust each other not at all .....
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A tale of love and treachery.
It is a time of uneasy truce, of two races living side-by-side, inter-marrying even, but forever on the look out for treachery among their neighbors.
They meet, they bathe together and they consort. Life is short, fun is likely to be brief, and opportunity has to be seized wherever it can be found without unleashing long-held rivalries and carnage.
Then the youthful Dane, Ragnar, falls in love with Aelfwyn the Angle who is already promised by duty to one of her own village.
Ragnar and Aelfwyn's passionate love affair is a secret which will never be hidden for long, but theirs is not the
only secret around.
When Ragnar finds himself charged with murder, he and Aelfwyn are forcibly parted. But is Ragnar really a
cold-blooded, cynical killer or is there a more sinister plot being played out?
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A tale of love and treachery.
It is a time of uneasy truce, of two races living side-by-side, inter-marrying even, but forever on the look out for treachery among their neighbors.
They meet, they bathe together and they consort. Life is short, fun is likely to be brief, and opportunity has to be seized wherever it can be found without unleashing long-held rivalries and carnage.
Then the youthful Dane, Ragnar, falls in love with Aelfwyn the Angle who is already promised by duty to one of her own village.
Ragnar and Aelfwyn's passionate love affair is a secret which will never be hidden for long, but theirs is not the
only secret around.
When Ragnar finds himself charged with murder, he and Aelfwyn are forcibly parted. But is Ragnar really a
cold-blooded, cynical killer or is there a more sinister plot being played out?
She was only in it for a one-night stand ..... he was in it for life
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Would you go out to a bar and pick up any random handsome man to spend the night with to mute the heartbreak of your long-term lover - your rock - walking out on you?
Caitlin Edison was so badly hurt by her boyfriend of ten years leaving her that she no longer wanted love, she wanted a cure for love.
After several drinks, one of her best friends suggested she indulge in a one-night stand, a mindless night of fun with absolutely no consequences, to help her heal.
At first, Caitlin scoffed at the idea, but the idea niggled at her and one reckless night, she plucked up all her courage and actually followed through.
There was only one problem - how did Caitlin end up with the one guy in town who wanted more than a one-night stand?
'Hooking Up' is romance at its best - exhilarating, surprising, passionate, witty, moving, enraging, frustrating, sly, worldly and wise.
When Caitlin gets the ride of her life, so will you. Hook up with 'Hooking Up', place yourself in the safest of hands and let yourself go.
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Would you go out to a bar and pick up any random handsome man to spend the night with to mute the heartbreak of your long-term lover - your rock - walking out on you?
Caitlin Edison was so badly hurt by her boyfriend of ten years leaving her that she no longer wanted love, she wanted a cure for love.
After several drinks, one of her best friends suggested she indulge in a one-night stand, a mindless night of fun with absolutely no consequences, to help her heal.
At first, Caitlin scoffed at the idea, but the idea niggled at her and one reckless night, she plucked up all her courage and actually followed through.
There was only one problem - how did Caitlin end up with the one guy in town who wanted more than a one-night stand?
'Hooking Up' is romance at its best - exhilarating, surprising, passionate, witty, moving, enraging, frustrating, sly, worldly and wise.
When Caitlin gets the ride of her life, so will you. Hook up with 'Hooking Up', place yourself in the safest of hands and let yourself go.
She was only meant to be on earth to collect a soul .... and then she fell in love ......
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Death is sad, love is agony.
Max was her next job. She got his name just before he died and it was for her to lead his soul to heaven. She was a Bringer.
Then Max started pleading (as they often do), but not for himself, for his son, James.
Would she look after him, would she comfort him as he grieved for the loss of his father? James was a sensitive young man. He would take his father's death very hard.
Well, Bringers don't do that sort of thing; their exclusive role is to usher souls to heaven. They are not allowed to get involved in earthly affairs.
However, when she saw James, she felt something she had never felt before – an emotion, a shock.
She was a Bringer. Bringers do not have emotions.
Yet she couldn't help herself. She found herself being drawn inexorably towards James and his life, against every instinct she had ever had, against every law of the universe.
And she fell in love.
For a Bringer, that is a terrifying fall.
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Death is sad, love is agony.
Max was her next job. She got his name just before he died and it was for her to lead his soul to heaven. She was a Bringer.
Then Max started pleading (as they often do), but not for himself, for his son, James.
Would she look after him, would she comfort him as he grieved for the loss of his father? James was a sensitive young man. He would take his father's death very hard.
Well, Bringers don't do that sort of thing; their exclusive role is to usher souls to heaven. They are not allowed to get involved in earthly affairs.
However, when she saw James, she felt something she had never felt before – an emotion, a shock.
She was a Bringer. Bringers do not have emotions.
Yet she couldn't help herself. She found herself being drawn inexorably towards James and his life, against every instinct she had ever had, against every law of the universe.
And she fell in love.
For a Bringer, that is a terrifying fall.
These bosses have all the fun - another girl who is in love with her boss, who is in love with his wife, until .....
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Tasha loves Jamie. Jamie loves Helen, his wife.
In fact he absolutely adores her. He loves his daughter, Beth, too.
Well, a girl can look, can't she?
When Helen dies in a car crash, the question arises again: can she look now?
Jamie is consumed by grief. This is a delicate situation. Jamie is in torment. If Helen was a saint in Jamie's eyes before, she is so much more now.
Maybe Tasha should go for Darren instead.
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Tasha loves Jamie. Jamie loves Helen, his wife.
In fact he absolutely adores her. He loves his daughter, Beth, too.
Well, a girl can look, can't she?
When Helen dies in a car crash, the question arises again: can she look now?
Jamie is consumed by grief. This is a delicate situation. Jamie is in torment. If Helen was a saint in Jamie's eyes before, she is so much more now.
Maybe Tasha should go for Darren instead.
In 'Saving Nathaniel', can Megan save Nathaniel from himself after his wife and baby disappear suddenly from his life?
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Nathaniel Mackie is treading an emotional knife-edge, and the abyss is beckoning. Following the deaths of his wife and baby, he has lived with unresolved guilt and grief, and it is tearing him apart.
One rainy day, Megan Thomas literally bursts into his kitchen - and into his life.
Before long, their relationship becomes more than employer and housekeeper. Under her gentle, compassionate influence things begin to change, and he starts to come to terms with his past.
When Megan's temporary secondment is over, the extent of his dependence and affection becomes apparent. He loves her and wants her back.
But will she want him and all his accumulated baggage cluttering up her life? If not, what then? The prospect of living the rest of his life without her is a prospect he cannot contemplate.
He would rather die.
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Nathaniel Mackie is treading an emotional knife-edge, and the abyss is beckoning. Following the deaths of his wife and baby, he has lived with unresolved guilt and grief, and it is tearing him apart.
One rainy day, Megan Thomas literally bursts into his kitchen - and into his life.
Before long, their relationship becomes more than employer and housekeeper. Under her gentle, compassionate influence things begin to change, and he starts to come to terms with his past.
When Megan's temporary secondment is over, the extent of his dependence and affection becomes apparent. He loves her and wants her back.
But will she want him and all his accumulated baggage cluttering up her life? If not, what then? The prospect of living the rest of his life without her is a prospect he cannot contemplate.
He would rather die.
'How To Meet A Guy At The Supermarket' - a career girl decides that it is time to get systematic about her love life and to start checking the aisles .....
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Join Quinn on a hilarious journey of self-discovery and dating. Will she find a beefcake or a rotten apple? Will Quinn find love or sour grapes at the supermarket?
Quinn is a successful journalist who has been so busy trotting the globe looking for stories that she sort of forgot to invest in her private life.
Eventually, she takes on an assignment with a nationally-syndicated travel magazine back in her hometown in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and is able to settle down. The problem is she's lonely. She's too young to be a spinster and too old to pick up a man at a bar, so what is she to
do?
Quinn sets out to find a man in the unlikely setting of the Grocery King Supermarket. She devises crazy plans to find a mate, no matter what it takes.
Cue a whole series of misfortunes as Quinn is mistaken for a prostitute, has the whole world looking for her imaginary dog, and resorts to doing the strangest of things--like fainting in the bakery section--to meet the man of her dreams. And what does she have to show for all this trauma and hard work? Yep, a hapless collection of Mr. Wrong, Mr. Wrong and Mr. WRONG.
Jessica L. Degarmo's 'How To Meet a Guy at the Supermarket' is classic witty romance/ chick lit with a difference - Quinn actually feels like a real person written by a real person. You have probably met her, and she no doubt confused the hell out of you every bit as much as she confused herself.
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Join Quinn on a hilarious journey of self-discovery and dating. Will she find a beefcake or a rotten apple? Will Quinn find love or sour grapes at the supermarket?
Quinn is a successful journalist who has been so busy trotting the globe looking for stories that she sort of forgot to invest in her private life.
Eventually, she takes on an assignment with a nationally-syndicated travel magazine back in her hometown in the Outer Banks of North Carolina and is able to settle down. The problem is she's lonely. She's too young to be a spinster and too old to pick up a man at a bar, so what is she to
do?
Quinn sets out to find a man in the unlikely setting of the Grocery King Supermarket. She devises crazy plans to find a mate, no matter what it takes.
Cue a whole series of misfortunes as Quinn is mistaken for a prostitute, has the whole world looking for her imaginary dog, and resorts to doing the strangest of things--like fainting in the bakery section--to meet the man of her dreams. And what does she have to show for all this trauma and hard work? Yep, a hapless collection of Mr. Wrong, Mr. Wrong and Mr. WRONG.
Jessica L. Degarmo's 'How To Meet a Guy at the Supermarket' is classic witty romance/ chick lit with a difference - Quinn actually feels like a real person written by a real person. You have probably met her, and she no doubt confused the hell out of you every bit as much as she confused herself.
A young girl falls in love with an exciting Italian movie star in 'Travels Through Love And Time'
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From the rocky coves of the small island of Porquerolles in her teenage years, the glamour of the Cannes Film Festival in the 60's to a café in Paris in the 80's as a middle aged woman, Christine doesn't really know if she is looking for love, or if love is looking for her.
At the terrace of a small outdoor café, she discusses Marguerite Duras with an unknown woman, and enters into a whirlwind of anxiety and desire only mitigated by good food and the magic of the city. Has Christine learned anything about love in her travels?
In Venice Beach, California, now mature, she becomes smitten with a woman 30 years her junior. As she tries to give Bethany some comfort, she will let herself descend once again into the mysteries of infatuation. Will she be able to follow the advice of her teenage years, finally be able to enjoy the good life, and recover her peace of mind?
Get ready to travel through love, space and time ....
Three stories, three aspects of love and a world of emotions make 'Travels Through Love And Time' a moving and gripping sequence of novellas that will make your spirit soar.
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From the rocky coves of the small island of Porquerolles in her teenage years, the glamour of the Cannes Film Festival in the 60's to a café in Paris in the 80's as a middle aged woman, Christine doesn't really know if she is looking for love, or if love is looking for her.
At the terrace of a small outdoor café, she discusses Marguerite Duras with an unknown woman, and enters into a whirlwind of anxiety and desire only mitigated by good food and the magic of the city. Has Christine learned anything about love in her travels?
In Venice Beach, California, now mature, she becomes smitten with a woman 30 years her junior. As she tries to give Bethany some comfort, she will let herself descend once again into the mysteries of infatuation. Will she be able to follow the advice of her teenage years, finally be able to enjoy the good life, and recover her peace of mind?
Get ready to travel through love, space and time ....
Three stories, three aspects of love and a world of emotions make 'Travels Through Love And Time' a moving and gripping sequence of novellas that will make your spirit soar.
'Descending' & 'Surfacing', two much-acclaimed Romantic novels by Catherine Chisnall .....
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'Descending' and its sequel 'Surfacing' is just the type of book we love to publish - a beautifully written quirky tale (in this case a love story) which keeps well away from any commercial formula.
'Descending' explores the reasons for an inappropriate relationship between Emily and Jamie, Emily being a support teacher in a college where Jamie is a pupil. 'Surfacing' is about what happens next.
If you like books where the language quietly dissects the mind, you will love this one.
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'Descending' and its sequel 'Surfacing' is just the type of book we love to publish - a beautifully written quirky tale (in this case a love story) which keeps well away from any commercial formula.
'Descending' explores the reasons for an inappropriate relationship between Emily and Jamie, Emily being a support teacher in a college where Jamie is a pupil. 'Surfacing' is about what happens next.
If you like books where the language quietly dissects the mind, you will love this one.
'Monday Afternoon' - two more teachers get together, celebrating their mutual love for literature and for each other .....
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Monday Afternoon is the story of Angelo Aiello, dissatisfied husband of Alice, loving father of Sophia, troubled Italian Roman Catholic and committed New Yorker who, after fifteen years of a grindingly deteriorating marriage, accidentally meets his exact match in the Stamford Nature Center in Connecticut (the state which appropriately describes itself as being 'full of surprises').
The woman he meets, Monica Richardson, is in her thirties, beautiful, smart, playful, vulnerable and, above all, a fellow English teacher with a relish for all things literary and deconstructionist.
Whereas Alice, Angelo's wife, despises his writing, Monica adores it; whereas Alice spurns Angelo's intellectualising of his dreams, Monica pitches in alongside him even before her first cup of coffee (but not before their first love-making).
But what about Angelo's daughter, Sophia? What about Angelo's parents? What about Angelo's mother-in-law to whom he has made a devout promise? What about Alice who has already had a nervous breakdown when her sister died of AIDS?
This is therefore the story of a love affair, of an adultery, of a sudden opportunity for both salvation and damnation, of a man torn between a future ideal and a historic reality.
And the writing is so intense, it is a coup de foudre for us all.
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Monday Afternoon is the story of Angelo Aiello, dissatisfied husband of Alice, loving father of Sophia, troubled Italian Roman Catholic and committed New Yorker who, after fifteen years of a grindingly deteriorating marriage, accidentally meets his exact match in the Stamford Nature Center in Connecticut (the state which appropriately describes itself as being 'full of surprises').
The woman he meets, Monica Richardson, is in her thirties, beautiful, smart, playful, vulnerable and, above all, a fellow English teacher with a relish for all things literary and deconstructionist.
Whereas Alice, Angelo's wife, despises his writing, Monica adores it; whereas Alice spurns Angelo's intellectualising of his dreams, Monica pitches in alongside him even before her first cup of coffee (but not before their first love-making).
But what about Angelo's daughter, Sophia? What about Angelo's parents? What about Angelo's mother-in-law to whom he has made a devout promise? What about Alice who has already had a nervous breakdown when her sister died of AIDS?
This is therefore the story of a love affair, of an adultery, of a sudden opportunity for both salvation and damnation, of a man torn between a future ideal and a historic reality.
And the writing is so intense, it is a coup de foudre for us all.
.... and more hypnotic tales about Erasmus ....
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'Shasta Summer' is an entrancing addition to Teresa Geering's romance / fantasy series 'Erasmus, Shasta & Merlin' in which the cunning and resourceful Erasmus continues his devilish attempts to secure the beautiful and enchanting Shasta as his own, while she and Merlin renew their enduring love for each other, impeded by the unfortunate fact that a spell from a previous century has transformed Merlin into a cat.
Written in seductive and mesmerising prose which gives it the feel of an authentic time-honoured fable, 'Shasta Summer' continues the tradition of the much-acclaimed 'The Eye of Erasmus' which records another such attempt by Erasmus when he espies Shasta across the centuries in a vision.
The books in the series can be read and enjoyed in any order and by readers of any age from six to ninety-six.
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'Shasta Summer' is an entrancing addition to Teresa Geering's romance / fantasy series 'Erasmus, Shasta & Merlin' in which the cunning and resourceful Erasmus continues his devilish attempts to secure the beautiful and enchanting Shasta as his own, while she and Merlin renew their enduring love for each other, impeded by the unfortunate fact that a spell from a previous century has transformed Merlin into a cat.
Written in seductive and mesmerising prose which gives it the feel of an authentic time-honoured fable, 'Shasta Summer' continues the tradition of the much-acclaimed 'The Eye of Erasmus' which records another such attempt by Erasmus when he espies Shasta across the centuries in a vision.
The books in the series can be read and enjoyed in any order and by readers of any age from six to ninety-six.
Some pot-boiler romance ....
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1867: Euphemia Boothby is orphaned at the age of eighteen. With no other guardian, she goes to live with her adopted uncle Tristan and his three sons: Joshua, the intense, scholarly eldest, Jacob the mild, sensual middle one and Jack the hedonistic, impulsive youngest.
Something is amiss at the Manor however. Raised voices in the night, secret conversations, strange visitors... Effie does not know who to trust. Which brother will be her friend, which her enemy and which her lover?
Adventure, romance and death ensue as she realises her new family has secrets and plans which will change her life forever.
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1867: Euphemia Boothby is orphaned at the age of eighteen. With no other guardian, she goes to live with her adopted uncle Tristan and his three sons: Joshua, the intense, scholarly eldest, Jacob the mild, sensual middle one and Jack the hedonistic, impulsive youngest.
Something is amiss at the Manor however. Raised voices in the night, secret conversations, strange visitors... Effie does not know who to trust. Which brother will be her friend, which her enemy and which her lover?
Adventure, romance and death ensue as she realises her new family has secrets and plans which will change her life forever.
.... still boiling ....
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The sequel to 'The Jewel of Maythwaite Manor'.
1870: The story continues as Sarah Scraghill is sent away from Maythwaite by her father to thwart her relationship with Jack, the most reckless of the Marriott brothers. She now lives in London with her rich cousins, the Porters.
As a result of a misunderstanding, Jack becomes engaged to Sarah's cousin Amelia, breaking Sarah's heart.
When an extremely valuable necklace goes missing, there appears to be no happy ending in sight anywhere .....
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The sequel to 'The Jewel of Maythwaite Manor'.
1870: The story continues as Sarah Scraghill is sent away from Maythwaite by her father to thwart her relationship with Jack, the most reckless of the Marriott brothers. She now lives in London with her rich cousins, the Porters.
As a result of a misunderstanding, Jack becomes engaged to Sarah's cousin Amelia, breaking Sarah's heart.
When an extremely valuable necklace goes missing, there appears to be no happy ending in sight anywhere .....
.... or cutting in a rather literal sense in this Romance / Crime cross-over which is now an international best seller and US Kindle #1 ....
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Passion turns to envy. Love to murder. One way or another, everyone is spoilt.
A sadistic killer is stalking the streets, carving his hatred into the bodies of beautiful, young women.
The murders are stirring up bad memories for Detective Lucas Huson, as he struggles to remain focused - juggling the horrors of today with horrors from the past.
When Chelsea Summerville's best friend goes missing, she's unwillingly dragged into the race to stop the killer.
As Lucas and Chelsea find happiness together, Chelsea becomes the hunted rather than the hunter.
Can Lucas shake off his demons and save the woman he loves, or will everything he holds dear be spoilt?
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Passion turns to envy. Love to murder. One way or another, everyone is spoilt.
A sadistic killer is stalking the streets, carving his hatred into the bodies of beautiful, young women.
The murders are stirring up bad memories for Detective Lucas Huson, as he struggles to remain focused - juggling the horrors of today with horrors from the past.
When Chelsea Summerville's best friend goes missing, she's unwillingly dragged into the race to stop the killer.
As Lucas and Chelsea find happiness together, Chelsea becomes the hunted rather than the hunter.
Can Lucas shake off his demons and save the woman he loves, or will everything he holds dear be spoilt?
'Belfast Girls' follows the lives of three friends into love, the fashion industry, drugs and kidnapping in post-Troubles Northern Ireland ....
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* Ulster Tatler Book of the Month March 2011 *
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'Belfast Girls' is the story of three girls - Sheila, Phil and Mary - growing up into the new emerging post-conflict Belfast of money, drugs, high fashion and crime; and of their lives and loves.
Sheila, a supermodel, is kidnapped. Phil is sent to prison. Mary, surviving a drug overdose, has a spiritual awakening.
It is also the story of the men who matter to them -
John Branagh, former candidate for the priesthood, a modern Darcy, someone to love or hate. Will he and Sheila ever get together? Davy Hagan, drug dealer, 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'. Is Phil also mad to have anything to do with him?
Although from different religious backgrounds, starting off as childhood friends, the girls manage to hold onto that friendship in spite of everything.
A book about contemporary Ireland and modern life. A book which both men and women can enjoy - thriller, romance, comedy, drama - and much more ....
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* Ulster Tatler Book of the Month March 2011 *
*As recommended by Daily Cheap Reads *
* As recommended by eReader News Today *
'Belfast Girls' is the story of three girls - Sheila, Phil and Mary - growing up into the new emerging post-conflict Belfast of money, drugs, high fashion and crime; and of their lives and loves.
Sheila, a supermodel, is kidnapped. Phil is sent to prison. Mary, surviving a drug overdose, has a spiritual awakening.
It is also the story of the men who matter to them -
John Branagh, former candidate for the priesthood, a modern Darcy, someone to love or hate. Will he and Sheila ever get together? Davy Hagan, drug dealer, 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'. Is Phil also mad to have anything to do with him?
Although from different religious backgrounds, starting off as childhood friends, the girls manage to hold onto that friendship in spite of everything.
A book about contemporary Ireland and modern life. A book which both men and women can enjoy - thriller, romance, comedy, drama - and much more ....
More life and love in Belfast
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Centred around the arrival in Belfast in 1968 of Benny Brannigan, fresh up from the provinces, 'Buying Time' is the insidiously evocative account of the loves and lives of a group of people whose fates are closely intertwined with
his, from Benny's own relationship with the love of his life, Deirdre, to the tragedy which awaits the golden couple Carol and Charlie, to the bitter-sweet story of the big-hearted Sammy and his devotion to the married Liz whom he met while out dancing one night and could never forget.
Among a pack of sympathetic and intriguing characters, the streets of Belfast play the greatest role of all as the sometimes joyous, sometimes teeming, sometimes troubled backdrop to the dreams and heartbreaks of ordinary, yet often quietly heroic, lives.
'Buying Time' has a rhythm, a wisdom and a telling accuracy which will haunt you for weeks, and maybe for years, to come.
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Centred around the arrival in Belfast in 1968 of Benny Brannigan, fresh up from the provinces, 'Buying Time' is the insidiously evocative account of the loves and lives of a group of people whose fates are closely intertwined with
his, from Benny's own relationship with the love of his life, Deirdre, to the tragedy which awaits the golden couple Carol and Charlie, to the bitter-sweet story of the big-hearted Sammy and his devotion to the married Liz whom he met while out dancing one night and could never forget.
Among a pack of sympathetic and intriguing characters, the streets of Belfast play the greatest role of all as the sometimes joyous, sometimes teeming, sometimes troubled backdrop to the dreams and heartbreaks of ordinary, yet often quietly heroic, lives.
'Buying Time' has a rhythm, a wisdom and a telling accuracy which will haunt you for weeks, and maybe for years, to come.
No holds barred on the wrestling circuit with at least some of the action in the ring
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In this punchy, romantic take on the wrestling world where only some of the physical contact takes place in the ring, sports journalist Karen Montgomery has been following for years the career of Brett Kerrigan, one of the smallest cruiserweight wrestlers in the business, and can recall in detail every bout he has ever fought, recognising his outstanding skills as a wrestler and his intuitive flair for entertaining the crowd.
She has even written an award-winning article about him. Now she desperately wants to meet him.
One night, after many failed attempts to reach him, she looks up to find him standing right there in front of her. They get talking and they immediately hit it off.
However, as they become involved and grow ever-closer, Brett loses his contract and must strike out on his own. Will their relationship survive the pressures on both of them, their differences in ages, and the other women in Brett's life?
Or will one of them decide they are not the ideal tag-team after all?
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In this punchy, romantic take on the wrestling world where only some of the physical contact takes place in the ring, sports journalist Karen Montgomery has been following for years the career of Brett Kerrigan, one of the smallest cruiserweight wrestlers in the business, and can recall in detail every bout he has ever fought, recognising his outstanding skills as a wrestler and his intuitive flair for entertaining the crowd.
She has even written an award-winning article about him. Now she desperately wants to meet him.
One night, after many failed attempts to reach him, she looks up to find him standing right there in front of her. They get talking and they immediately hit it off.
However, as they become involved and grow ever-closer, Brett loses his contract and must strike out on his own. Will their relationship survive the pressures on both of them, their differences in ages, and the other women in Brett's life?
Or will one of them decide they are not the ideal tag-team after all?
Jealousy, adultery - another cardinal sin, the one where nobody gets much fun .....
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Half novel, half theater piece, 'A Shakespearean View of Freud' entirely lives up to the innovative
intensity of its title.
At its heart (or maybe sleeve) there is Rob Conti, a typically obsessive, agonized and excruciating Stephen
Sangirardi Italian Roman Catholic character, a librarian who marries a very beautiful, unpretentious girl and thereby hurls himself into a writhing snake-pit of irrational, borderline insane, jealousy.
Rob's cousin, Carmine, predicts at the very altar on Rob and Laura's wedding day that the marriage will not last, and both their families expect and, in some cases hope, that it won't, as indeed it doesn't.
After Rob’s divorce from Laura, Rob's mother in particular wants him to marry Nancy, a much more appropriately homely girl, but Rob has no interest in her except to make an intellectual point as he devises a drama of scenes from his marriage with heavy nods to Shakespeare's 'Othello' and the 1960s social realism school of theater.
In the next part of the story, which takes place in the Midwest five years later, Rob becomes involved with another Nancy, billed as the foxy femme-fatale, who tempts Rob away from his latest marriage vows.
As Rob and Laura's family expected a divorce in New York, so should you expect a literary and dramatic tour de force.
Oh yes, and there is a death at the end.
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Half novel, half theater piece, 'A Shakespearean View of Freud' entirely lives up to the innovative
intensity of its title.
At its heart (or maybe sleeve) there is Rob Conti, a typically obsessive, agonized and excruciating Stephen
Sangirardi Italian Roman Catholic character, a librarian who marries a very beautiful, unpretentious girl and thereby hurls himself into a writhing snake-pit of irrational, borderline insane, jealousy.
Rob's cousin, Carmine, predicts at the very altar on Rob and Laura's wedding day that the marriage will not last, and both their families expect and, in some cases hope, that it won't, as indeed it doesn't.
After Rob’s divorce from Laura, Rob's mother in particular wants him to marry Nancy, a much more appropriately homely girl, but Rob has no interest in her except to make an intellectual point as he devises a drama of scenes from his marriage with heavy nods to Shakespeare's 'Othello' and the 1960s social realism school of theater.
In the next part of the story, which takes place in the Midwest five years later, Rob becomes involved with another Nancy, billed as the foxy femme-fatale, who tempts Rob away from his latest marriage vows.
As Rob and Laura's family expected a divorce in New York, so should you expect a literary and dramatic tour de force.
Oh yes, and there is a death at the end.
And finally, well, '.... at last!
