A widower finds a runaway whore in a collapsed sod house on his Kansas ranch. She's splattered with blood - not her own - and he's not interested in taking her in or helping solve her problems; but Jake can't leave Mary to who- or whatever is chasing her. By the time he realizes it's too late, his wife's ghost and the Dakota Territory sheriff who'd like to send Mary to join her make it impossible for Jake to let Mary go. That leaves just two problems: how can Jake make the sheriff abandon his obsession without killing him? And how can he convince Mary - and himself - that it's possible to be...
A widower finds a runaway whore in a collapsed sod house on his Kansas ranch. She's splattered with blood - not her own - and he's not interested in t...
It was the history of an age, the story of a kingdom. It involved the destruction of a religion and the fall of a queen. It was set in a time of extremes: wealth, poverty, obsession, fear, love, hatred, complexity and utmost simplicity, and it could only be controlled and manipulated by those with the greatest of evil intent. It was the life of Henry Tudor and his Anne, and their tale has been told many a time in many a fashion from many an angle, yet there is but one truth. Let us tell it.
It was the history of an age, the story of a kingdom. It involved the destruction of a religion and the fall of a queen. It was set in a time of extre...
Obedient and naive Julianna Fletcher does a daughter's duty and travels from India to Gull Arc, Land's End, Cornwall, married by proxy to a dangerous imposter whose plan it is to use her as his means to a wealthy end. At Gull Arc, surrounded by his mother and his sister, she discovers many things and many people are not what they seem; love is not the 'ever-fixed mark' the poet wrote about; and her dreams are not to be had at any price. Julianna must find the strength to save herself as well as absolution for loving the wrong man before she can love again. Can the memory of one month's...
Obedient and naive Julianna Fletcher does a daughter's duty and travels from India to Gull Arc, Land's End, Cornwall, married by proxy to a dangerous ...