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I’ve been watching her. Calculating, biding my time, planning what I’ll do to her when I finally have her. She is the exception to the rule. I don’t chase women; they fall at my feet. But for her, I’ll use everything at my command to make her mine. I want her body. I want her screams. I want her devotion. And I won’t stop until she doesn’t recognize herself without me.

Faith Eden’s brief foray into motherhood is marked by tragedy. Distraught that her baby was ripped away from her, she is determined to get little Paula back from the wealthy family who adopted her. Her brother, Trevor, is also anxious to get the baby back and will do anything necessary to do so. But when the dark truth comes to light, this twisted family will stop at nothing to keep outsiders out and secrets in—no matter the cost.

Asher Davidson is headed home to visit his mama and sister, and to see his wayward older brother, too - and he's bringing home a surprise: Pamela Pearson, the love of his life, and the woman he intends to share his future with. But with the murder of his mother, and the revelation of past family secrets, Asher finds that he and Pamela may not go together, as sweetly as he'd originally thought.

The only thing Gryph wanted when he entered the Realms was to find his missing sister. Then he pissed off a power-hungry god, got stuck in the undead hell dungeon known as the Barrow and nearly had his soul consumed. Then things trended upwards, and with the help of a ragtag group of companions, Gryph escaped to a verdant paradise of magic and wonder. But when his exposed secrets lead to betrayal and murder, Gryph is forced to accept an insane quest or his new friends will face the headsman's axe.

Changing of the Guard (1885 to 1898) is the third book in the tale of the MacKendrick family, who live by West Point's motto of "Duty, Honor, Country." Here the reader meets the vivid offspring of James and Timothy MacKendrick. With the Indian Wars tapering down, the attention of the young nation turns to flexing its muscles. The MacKendricks are involved thoroughly with the changes facing both their country and their vivid family.

Imagine you are stranded on a strange planet which is eternally light on one side and dark on the other. Professor Edmunds, a disgruntled, underappreciated genius existing in the dingy basements of UC Berkeley's Astronomy Department, experiences this very fate. Professor Edmunds, on that historic night, not only discovered the Dark Planet - he discovered something much, much more. His discovery confirms his long-held, and largely-ridiculed, scientific speculation: that every soul on earth shares, somewhere in the universe, an exact replica - a biological duplicate - an Other.

Roaring into the 20th century, the Ethan Douglas family faces new challenges with furious weather on the Chesapeake Bay, oyster wars, Titanic and Lusitania sinkings, new changes with women's suffrage, a world at war dragging America into conflict, and drug and alcohol addiction causing dozens of states to adopt Prohibition.

Life in the Chesapeake region for the family of Ethan Aaron Douglas, from steamboats to newspapers, struggles of immigrants and the changes brought by the industrial revolution. The simple life of watermen and challenges of weather, fire and disaster in the era of 1880 to 1910 brought to life for the reader from a life-long resident of the Tidewater region. Catch up on the latest events from around the Chesapeake as told by the News Readers on the steamboats of the Old Bay Line to the passengers.

Zora del Buono hat von ihrer Großmutter nicht nur den Vornamen geerbt, sondern auch ein Familienverhängnis, denn die alte Zora war in einen Raubmord verwickelt. Ihre Geschichte und die Folgen bis heute erzählt dieser große Familienroman. Die Slowenin Zora lernt ihren späteren Ehemann, den Radiologieprofessor Pietro Del Buono, am Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs kennen. Sie folgt ihm nach Bari in Süditalien, wo sie, beide überzeugte Kommunisten, ein großbürgerliches und doch politisch engagiertes Leben im Widerstand gegen den Faschismus Mussolinis führen.