Three generations of the Frost Family come together to celebrate the holidays on their maple syrup farm in Carol Falls Vermont…only to be thrown into turmoil when a baby is found abandoned in their outdoor nativity scene. This anthology includes three connected romance stories involving the Frost family and the abandoned baby, plus a bonus short story. Jacked into the construct and primed for combat, Pterax is on a desperate mission to save his capital ship. On his approach to the enemy Dreadnought, the commanding voice returns.Can he resist its demands or will he succumb to its bidding, and cause reality to unravel in ways unimaginable?Hypercage<\/i> is a cyberpunk techno-thriller that features gripping and tense action, dark and vivid horror and a slice of future technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Poppy McGuire has always been a curious soul, but it’s her life that’s usually the topic of conversation in the small town of Sunset Ridge. But now one of the town’s most important citizens has been found murdered, and everyone’s life is suspect.<\/p>\n What begins as a friendly wager with her old friend Officer Derek Hampton soon becomes far more for Poppy, and she turns to Alex Montero for help, but the enigmatic former Baltimore cop’s quiet way hides as many secrets as each suspect they encounter.<\/p>\n Everyone in Sunset Ridge has something to hide, but Poppy and Alex are determined to uncover the identity of the murderer. They just have to watch that they don’t become the next victims.<\/p>\n We want the traditional holidays we had with our grandparents \u2013 the one pictured in Norman Rockwell\u2019s art, but putting on these affairs has become expensive, complicated and stressful. We have less time and money than our parents and grandparents, but our expectations are still the same.<\/p>\n In this book I am going to show you how to put on a delicious, welcoming, stress free holiday meal, even if you aren\u2019t a cook, have little time, and are on a tight budget.<\/p>\n As a lifelong cook, I\u2019ve made dozens of holiday meals, from the casual to the ultra-formal, from a simple buffet, to sit down 12 course meals for 24. In every one, I\u2019ve found the best ways to keep things simple, save money, save time and serve the most delicious food.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s THE party of the season. Socialites, artists and A-list stars have been invited to Morgan Ward\u2019s birthday bash, including Angelina\u2019s boss, Delilah. For months, Angelina has been looking at the preparations from afar, but never did she imagine that, come the day, Miss Delilah would put her in a gorgeous gown and bring her along as her \u2018plus one.\u2019<\/p>\n Wandering from crowded room to crowded room in the sumptuous mansion, Angelina grows overwhelmed and escapes onto a balcony, only to find it occupied by her host. That first meeting leaves her struggling for her very life, but she soon gets an unexpected do-over.Meeting Morgan Ward for the first time all over again, Angelina finds herself falling into his arms\u2026 But is it all only a fantasy?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Welcome to the shadow world of Blood Courtesans\u2026where vampires are real and blood is a financial asset. This is the world I live in.<\/p>\n Being the baby sister in a family chock-full of slayers isn\u2019t easy. My entire life, I\u2019ve watched my brothers venture out into the darkness to hunt the things that prey on the innocent. Vampires are evil, they tell me, but they refuse to let me fight.<\/p>\n Now, my best friend\u2019s life is in danger. She\u2019s racked up quite the debt, and the vampire she owes has come to collect. To save her, I need to go undercover as a blood courtesan and sell myself to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Where does art start or reality end? Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job \u201con the grubby edge of the literary world\u201d at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance \u2014 or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association\u2019s pompous director steals Fleur\u2019s manuscript, fiction begins to appropriate life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n DCI Brendan Moran, world-weary veteran of 1970s Ireland, is recuperating from a near fatal car crash when a murder is reported at Charnford Abbey.<\/p>\n The abbot and his monks are strangely uncooperative, but when a visitor from the Vatican arrives and an ancient relic goes missing the truth behind Charnford\u2019s pact of silence threatens to expose not only the abbey\u2019s haunted secrets but also the spirits of Moran\u2019s own troubled past . . .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When heart surgeon Adrian Douglas and Megan Haggarty, RN, meet at the hospital where they work, neither has any idea of the scorpion’s nest into which they’ve stumbled. Strange and frightening events begin happening to each of them; someone is after them both\u2014and the stalker not only is brilliant and crafty but vows to exact revenge for the ultimate betrayal. As things spin out of control, Megan and Adrian fight for their lives.<\/p>\n When a spine-tingling trial for attempted murder is resolved, things return to normal\u2014or so it seems. But more chilling surprises await the couple as Love Gone Mad rockets to a conclusion that brings the legal, medical, and psychiatric communities to their knees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n When night falls over the Yucatan, the archaeologists lay down their tools. But while her colleagues relax, Elizabeth Butler searches for shadows. A famous scientist with a reputation for eccentricity, she carries a strange secret. Where others see nothing but dirt and bones and fragments of pottery, Elizabeth sees shades of the men and women who walked this ground thousands of years before. She can speak to the past\u2014and the past is beginning to speak back.<\/p>\n As Elizabeth communes with ghosts, the daughter she abandoned flies to Mexico hoping for a reunion. 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