When Ellie discovers her fiance is fraternizing with his secretary at their wedding, she flees to the only other place she can call home: a farm that her departed aunt left her in a will. She promptly steals her ex-fiances' car and burns her wedding dress in a fit of drunken rage that inevitably leads to the local law enforcement getting involved. The moment Ellie meets Sheriff Lucas McCann she immediately feels an attraction that she doesn't want. After her horrible wedding all she wants is time alone, but when danger follows Ellie to the sleepy small town she now ... Continue Reading...
Review: Freenet
Simara has spent her entire life in space living with a sexually abusive stepfather. Before the death of her mother Simara only experienced her stepfather’s abuse from afar, but now without her mother she becomes the primary target of his wrath. One day the abuse becomes too much and the naive girl who has ever lived in space flees to the Dark Zone; a planet where no digital signal can penetrate to the planet’s surface. There she meets Zen and uncovers a plot against special children like her who have a special connection to the virtual world’s AI “Mother”. Zen, a ... Continue Reading...
Giveaway/Review: The Incredible Star Portal
A crew of astronauts wake on an alien planet light years from home after a ship malfunction caused their historical exploration of a near by star system to be cut short. Once they return home to Earth they realize that a thousand years have passed and humanity is now a brutish shadow of their formerly civilized and technologically savvy selves. The crew also discovers a strange portal close to Earth that leads to other galaxies, with ancient secrets and has a tenuous relationship with an alien race. In an effort to save themselves the crew must discover what happened ... Continue Reading...
Review: Wishes for Christmas
Wishes for Christmas is a set of three Christmas cheer tales written by the prolific author Fern Michaels. In each tale we meet the cast of Fern's various groups: The Godmothers, The Sisterhood and The Vigilantes. In the first story, And The Angels Sing, Maggie reveals that she once knew a school teacher who was assaulted before disappearing. Since the day she found her teacher bruised and battered, Maggie has blamed herself for the woman's disappearance. The Vigilantes decide that they will track down this lost teacher and bring her Christmas cheer, but the task is ... Continue Reading...
Review: Depraved Heart
Okay, so first off, this book is LONG. I don't mean "this took forever to read because it was lengthy", I mean "the first half nothing happened". I haven't read a Scarpetta novel before so I wasn't sure what to expect. I knew she was a leader in her literary niche with plenty of novels under her belt but I had no idea she's wrote 23 of this series! This knowledge still didn't prepare me for all the history and past experiences the characters have under gone during the previous novels although Cornwell did an excellent job of catching me up. Depraved Heart was easy ... Continue Reading...