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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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In October 1929 Berlin, Germany, a young but brilliant detective begins to investigate a series of bizarre and gruesome murders. As he delves deeper, he finds himself drawn into a literal underworld populated by demons, both mythological and otherwise. . . .
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“When Angels Travel” is the story of an international business trip in the 1960,s. It is based on fact. . . .
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Isaac Chavez (Zac) just turned eighteen, maybe. He was born on February 29th of the year 2058, a leap day in a non-leap year. How did this happen, how is he here and where does he belong? Searching for answers, a sense of purpose and a place to fit in, he joins History Corp. Each weekend, the History . . .
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The Nevsky Wall is a story that spans a year in the city of Leningrad, starting on the first day of summer, 1941, the day prior to the German invasion of the Soviet Union. It follows the lives of two brothers, Alex and Viktor Rostov, and those closest to them. Alex is a newsreel cameraman who also works at Lenfilm . . .
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Hard times and poverty in rural Norway, early 1800′s. Based loosely on some poor folks who had the misfortune to be my ancestors. One of them stole some potatoes and other food to feed her family of seven. For this she received 8 months in prison, where my great-grandfather was born. These are the facts. The rest, as they say, . . .
“The House of Sever” is a light-hearted historical romance novel, following the journey of Rhema de Frees, a tomboy baroness living in fictional 19th century Gallia. Though Rhema would like nothing better than to remain happily obscure with her family and her childhood crush, Jonathan, circumstances beyond her control thrust her into the world of society, politics, revolution, and love. . . .
Portillo, TX is a city of industry, fuelled by chemicals and ambition. It smells like money. Its citizens seek fortune, love, and truth. Rex is a freelance cameraman who discovers a secret. Heather is high school teacher who doubts the intentions of her holistic psychiatrist, but desperately needs to overcome a childhood trauma. Portillo is a city with two sides. . . .
Five dollars to mail a letter seems like a lot of money to shy farmgirl Lily MicMillian. And when she’s hired by Old Man Lynch as a cook for his stagecoach and Pony Express station, she finds out why it’s so expensive. Dropped into a whirlwind of rowdy men and boys, fast horses, and frightening conflict, and she . . .
In 1989 the Soviet Union officially fell and once the prestigious Soviet athletic programs began selling their players to the highest bidders. Martin Ostrowski is a hockey player, and also Polish. He never belonged in Russia in the first place and now that Russia offers him no future and Poland offers him no past, if he wants to continue to . . .
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The novel follows the adventures of a pirate crew under Captain Abigail Sanders, a woman of considerable skill, ability and ferocity. The tale picks up when her vessel, the Raging Gale, seizes a captive, a young woman named Hope Harvey on her way to the New World, who goes from hostage to ship’s musician as the brigands plunder the sea . . .
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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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When a fire burns down the historic Bartlett House, the body of young activist, Emmy d’Angelo is found inside, dressed in bondage gear. Her older lover, professor Will Adelhardt, is under suspicion, but the manner in which Emmy is found is incomprehensible to Adelhardt, who is devastated by her loss. Now he must take a dark voyage through the . . .
I have to say, this novel really got under my skin. Six months after reading, I’m still haunted by it.
The first part of this novel is like reading about Laura Ingalls Wilder’s autobiographical stories of a pioneer girl’s life; it’s the same farming and family life, but among the exotic [more . . .]
"The Nevsky Wall" is a solidly written story. The subject matter, the lives of two brothers in 1940s Russia, is a bit of a surprise from web-fiction. Online stories seem to be dominated by science fiction and fantasy. Historical drama with political overtones isn’t common, but Mark Eckard does it well.