Marissa & Jack After working her way to the top of the modelling world, Marissa Walker finds her dream turning into a nightmare - someone is targeting her life! Enter Jack Larson, Army Ranger turned bodyguard. His mission: protect Marissa at all costs - even if it means putting everything on the line for love. Lucia & Cash Her new partner makes Lucia Huntington uncomfortably hot. She must work with ex-con Cash Stone...although they couldn't be more different. Career-driven Lucia lives by the rules while Cash gleefully bends them. He's also reliable and protective, making her yearn for the passionate bond that's always eluded her. But is their entire relationship one big con? Kate & Connor Kate Squire needs Connor West. His skills are essential for her mission...but her immediate, raw attraction for the man himself is not. Stranded with the secretive blonde, Connor has nowhere else to turn. He must trust Kate if they are going to get out alive....
With risk there comes reward in these three stories of intrigue and romance.
In 1988, a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room of an East African shop.
The beautiful daughter of an Italian immigrant family in 1950 Greenwich Village, Lucia Sartori pursues her dream of a career in the fashion industry, until she falls in love with a handsome stranger, who must win over her traditional family ...
Told with soaring emotional intensity and captivating historical detail, this is an unforgettable debut: a celebration of the powerful belief that a work of art can change the world.
Newbery Honor–winning author Gennifer Choldenko deftly combines humor, tragedy, fascinating historical detail, and a medical mystery in this exuberant new novel.
As they share a journey their paths stretch out before and behind them into the personal and political turns of European history in ways neither could have foreseen. An impressive and daringly human book from novelist David Llewellyn.
Even if almost nobody knows he's there. National Book Award finalist Chris Lynch begins a new, explosive fiction series based on the real-life, top-secret history of US black ops.
Enter a world of Egyptian pharaohs and ancient curses from the Queen of Historical Fiction. London, 1922. A discovery from ancient Egypt . . . A cursed package . . . The untold story of a young pharaoh . . .
. . "A rousing historical novel." - The Akron Beacon Journal, Best Books of the Year for Churchill's Secret Messenger
The objects in the trunk have stories to tell -- stories about the Spanish Inquisition spanning nearly five hundred years and stories of secrets locked deep in the bloodlines of Jerry's ancestors.