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“Sentence of Marriage” is the first book in the three-volume “Promises to Keep”. The entire work covers twenty-five years; this first volume takes Amy from the ages of twelve to sixteen. Amy is a bright and imaginative girl who dreams of an exciting life in the world beyond the farming valley where she lives. But in nineteenth century New . . .
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Aeterna is a kingdom ruled by order, where everyone knows their place. The shy Miss Grace Ainsworth never expected to find herself to flung into a world of chaos, but after her marriage to Lord Frey, everything changes. Soon, Grace is torn between her love for the cosmic order of the stars and a coven that seeks to take power . . .
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The intense, complicated, intriguing, journal of a noble lady. . . .
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To friends and family there is nothing remarkable about Justin Cade. Seeing only an awkward, sometimes isolated high school sophomore they would never suspect that he lives a double life as Milestone City’s protector: the holographic heroine known as Glimmer Girl. Juggling school, superherodom and his own skewed sense of self Justin starts down the road of transition into . . .
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One day Maria finds an odd package sitting on the front step of her home. Opening it leads to an odd boy materializing in her bedroom claiming to be an immortal being. Of course her first thought is that he’s nothing more than a loon and tries to shoo him off, but days go by and he doesn’t go away, . . .
Unusual Florida is a YA mystery/coming of age serial with some supernatural/fantastical elements. It is the story of one very strange summer spent at Holden Point Resort in northwestern Florida, where the year is 1997 and nothing is as it seems. Where wonders and dangers lurk near the pool and beneath the palm trees. Where the unexplained happens just . . .
Survivor’s Trust is a legal drama about a hotshot young attorney who wants the high-powered career she trained for, despite some terrible choices. Now a single mom, she’s returned to her Southern hometown to build a life and provide for her daughter. Outwardly, she’s full of ambition and hustle, but the shameful secrets in her past make her vulnerable in . . .
Hazel and Holly are two witch sisters trying to find a way to free their mother’s soul trapped by their necromancer father. In need of help, they team up with a pair of warlocks–Hemlock and Hawthorn–and embark on a journey that’s magical and whimsical, humorous and playful, and just a little bit dark. . . .
A young but retiring international hitman returns home after a decade to lie low after a botched hit, but soon finds that the only family he has left, his younger brother, needs him to be the man he dearly wants to leave behind – the masterful ruthless killer. . . .
Young business tycoon Raktim Choudhari’s family receives an anonymous call about his death in a road accident. Within minutes, an unknown young woman Aparajita (Apu) walks into the house, introducing herself as Raktim’s widow. Ape’s agony of sudden widowhood becomes multifold, because other than Raktim’s loving stepmother Madhumita, everyone in the family suspects her credentials and intentions. One by one, . . .
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Of Vice and Virtue is soap opera in the form of a blog. It focuses on three main families, the Bains, the Falcones, and the Gardners. The Falcone family is the root of all the problems of the other two. The story shows the interpersonal relationships between the families, and includes several soap elements, such as love, betrayal, mystery, suspense, . . .
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Seventeen-year-old Sidonie Ardash is leaving her home in Uptown Rivalie, headed for the Bromian Ghetto, a forbidden place she has only read about in the pages of a book written by her mother. She finds a new home, a new family, and a new life in the haunted world of the Broms, a people displaced and cursed by unknowable . . .
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Ten-year-old Luke has always idolised his mother. She is strong and defiant and unafraid. She never lies to him, even about the things that matter. She couldn’t be more different from his soft and doting foster family. When his mother arrives unexpectedly at his bedroom window one winter night, Luke doesn’t hesitate. He joins her, and together they run . . .
Apr 21, 2017: I’m not sure what prompted me into reading this serial, but I’m glad I did – it is my best new find in awhile. The title is a little misleading, although there is a coven, this is not about Wicca or an urban fantasy. What is it? it reads somewhat like a Victorian novel, but either in an alternate reality, another planet, or even a post apocalyptic world.
The setting is a dystopian theocracy, where a young woman who is an [more . . .]
Nov 28, 2009: Leaving aside for the moment that "Uncle Buddy’s House," offers the most pleasurable and habit-forming dialogue I have ever encountered, the story centers on Buddy Best, a successful director of grade "B" Hollywood movies. His second wife has recently left him for a hilariously affected dramatist and drama teacher, nicknamed, after an especially bad recitation, the Ancient Mariner. Buddy’s house, "the homestead/mance," originally built in 1931 for comedian Joe E. Brown, makes room for Buddy’s grown son, who has found himself suddenly jobless and partnerless; Buddy’s daughter, whom he [more . . .]