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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Melinda La Rose
Ten years ago they brutally killed his wife while he was tied up, forced to watch, then they got off scot-free.A decade he's been planning his revenge. One phone call, and now everything's changed. They're after her twin sister, and Theo's the only one who can help her.
Luca has had his eye on the woman who eats at his restaurant with her friends each week. When his delivery driver is late, he fills in and discovers her drunk, lonely, and in dire need of something only he can give her.Too bad Luca doesn't have time for romance. He's too busy working to take down the kingpin of the underworld, with his cronies, a group of like-minded guys. When they find out she's digging around in their business, they want her to disappear.Heidi Jones wants romance with Luca, but she always picks the wrong guy. Based on the research she's doing on the city's changing crime patterns, this time, she picked the worst.It's too late, though. He's already got her and he's not letting go. He says he's protecting her, but she thinks it's something else.
Charlie Delmonico is a fixer. It's what he does for a living. He fixes all the city's problems.For a fee.He wants to fix Amelia's problems. Or use her for a fix, whichever works best.Amelia works in the lobby of a building, until Charlie offers her a job she can't refuse. Does she want to be fixed, though?Or does she just want Charlie to see her? To know her?When Charlie gets involved with a deal involving four other guys, to ruin the city's leader of the underworld, Amelia gets stuck in the middle.She sees his true colors, and it tears them apart.Even though Charlie is her perfect drug.This is the first book in a series of standalone books about men who are going about doing the wrong things for all the right reasons, and finding love in the process.
Mack has planned his part in the takedown of Bascom Forrester to the last detail, even the gorgeous IT director at the bank he's hacking into. He knows her past and is ready to use it against her.But he doesn't anticipate her fire. Her loyalty to her job. Her utter hatred of him. and he finds that he loves every bit of that.Greer has spent her adult life overcoming her past and dealing with it. along comes Mack, who undermines her at every turn. When she finds she can't get away, she tries to lull him into complacency, but that backfires in a big way.She can't seem to extricate herself form the web he's drawn around her, and the more she discovers of his motivations, the less she wants to.
Dean's wife was murdered, while leaving him so she could be with Forrester. Forrester decided it would be less hassle to kill her than keep a mistress. Dean has blamed the other man for ruining his life ever since, so when he finds the rest of the guys trying to wreak vengeance on Forrester, he's alal in. Unfortunately, his talents are few and far between. He's good for brute force, and that's about it.Emma is a bank teller, in the unfortunate position of catching Dean's eye during his first robbery. As she's taken hostage and stripped of all control, she ends up finding something she didn't realize she'd lost.Sometimes, to be put back together, you must first come undone.
Rebel Summers watches her best friend Daisy die, suddenly, horrifically, and in the most traumatic way. She's also the only one who knows why she was killed. Her best friend's brother, whom Rebel has had a crush on for a while, is also missing. Rebel suspects he's been taken by the man Daisy was about to blow the whistle on, and she's the only one who can help him now.Unfortunately, Po is in an alternate reality, a constant dream state, and his guards are experimenting on him with a new drug that's about to hit the streets. Po no longer understands what is real and what isn't. He only knows his baser needs and desires. Fighting, f*cking, and food. This new woman who says she's here to help can only be plotting his demise.Trust is tested, pain endured, when the monsters we've been trying to hide eventually come out to play.
Soul food. Transcending and transformational.-Reverend Anthony R. "Tony" Pompa, Dean and Rector of The Cathedral Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, PAA magnificent, magnifying view of a seemingly ordinary life Melinda Rizzo's Late Snow and Hellebore begins with "It all comes down to this..." and ends with "There will be more...It is not such a bad deal after all." From field to table, family to faith, all is fair game. She aims for both the head and the heart...piercing and playful. "And the head of a pin will be crowded by angels/in black leather boots tied at their ankles." In Late Snow and HelleboreMelinda Rizzo takes the reader to "toes testing how far the edge extends" and dares to lean forward.-Patricia Goodrich, author of Stone Hunting in Transylvania, Woman With A Wandering Eye, How the Moose Got To Be, Verda's House and Red MudMelinda Rizzo's Late Snow and Hellebore begins with blackberries, " luscious, plum-colored, nubby and nested," but it isn't just a crafted and compelling book "about nourishment," the nourishment of the earth and its bounty, the nourishment of language and its own kind of abundance, the nourishment of faith and family and the fertility of the imagination. It is a book that nourishes. We feast on artichoke and alphabet. We are sustained by Jersey peaches, Savon de Marseille, and soup, a Lenten spirit and an Easter promise, the music of pear blossoms and wintering bluebirds, the sounds of color and the taste of Perugia chocolate. " It's not a bad deal" are the very last words of this startlingly beautiful volume that offers us a way to live in a fallen world and find nourishment there, joy and meaning. I echo the poet's own words: D' accord -Christopher Bursk, author of The First Inhabitants of Arcadia
Through musically muscular verse at once tender and unflinching, Melinda LePere leads us along the fault lines of a seasoned life into spare domestic spaces, rooms populated by ghosts and puppets, Sunday gravy and severed limbs. Here, the music of the riptide competes with a cathedral's pipe organ and the slap and scratch of cars with a vacuum's roar. And to all of it, a child is always upstairs, listening. These poems know their weight. And they know us, too, how we sometimes wonder if every family is "a kind of prison." Listen, "someone is rhyming a ball against the house." Here we are, skittish as horses, a "flailing animal fighting for release." Here, we are heard; here, we are seen.Jennifer Sperry Steinorth, author of A Wake with Nine Shades and Her Read, A Graphic Poem
Billy May Platte is a half Irish, half Cherokee Appalachian woman who learned the hard way that 1940s West Virginia was no place to be different.As Billy May explains, "We was sheltered in them hills. We didn't know much of nothin' about life outside of them mountains. I did not know the word lesbian; to us, gay meant havin' fun and queer meant somethin' strange."In 1945, when Billy May was fourteen years old and orphaned, three local boys witnessed an incident in which Billy May's sexuality was called into question. Determined to teach her a lesson she would never forget, they orchestrated a brutal attack that changed the dynamics of the tiny coal mining village of Cedar Hollow, West Virginia forever.Global Ebook Gold Medal Winner in 2013, a finalist for the University of North Carolina-Wilmington's Synergy Program in 2013, and voted Sapphic Readers Book Club Book of the Year in 2011 (under a different imprint), Appalachian Justice is a work of southern fiction that delves into social issues such as poverty, domestic violence, misogyny, and sexual orientation. Ultimately, however, Appalachian Justice delivers a message of hope.
As recounted in Appalachian Justice, Jessie is an adult survivor of horrendous childhood abuse. At the age of thirteen, she was rescued by reclusive mountain woman Billy May Platte. Now forty-seven, Jessie is outwardly successful but inwardly struggles to reconcile the broken pieces of her past. In honor of Billy May, Jessie has offered Crutcher Mountain as a location to build the Platte Lodge for Children, a wilderness retreat and respite program designed for children with disabilities. Everything comes together beautifully until a series of strange events threatens to shut down the retreat. To save the lodge, Jessie must open her heart to the truths she discovers and place her trust in a lonely little boy.
Beth Sloan has spent the majority of her life trying to escape the memories of a difficult childhood. Born into the infamous Pritchett family of Cedar Hollow, West Virginia, she grew up hard, surrounded not only by homemade stills and corn liquor, but by an impoverished family that more often than not preferred life on the wrong side of the law. After the mysterious death of her brother Luke at the age of thirteen, seventeen-year-old Beth and her younger sister Naomi ran away from home, never to return. As the years passed, Beth suppressed the painful memories and managed to create a comfortable, if troubled, life with her husband Mark and their two children in an upscale suburb outside of Memphis, Tennessee. But the arrival of an unwelcome letter threatens to change all that.Against her better judgment, and at the urging of her sister Naomi, Beth agrees to return to Cedar Hollow, to the memories she's worked so hard to forget. When old resentments and family secrets are awakened, Beth must risk everything to face the truth about what really happened to Luke that long-ago summer night.
On the anniversary of her husband's death, forty-nine-year-old Emily Holt runs away, leaving an unmade bed, an unlocked house, two college-aged sons, and an overabundance of bad memories.Struggling to make peace with the death of a husband who'd been lost to mental illness, she vows to drive to the end of the road, which, she's surprised to find, is just outside the tiny mining town of Cedar Hollow, West Virginia.As Emily struggles to redefine and rediscover herself, the good folks of Cedar Hollow are more than happy to help.
On a beautiful fall evening, in the middle of a game of hide-and-seek, five-year-old Bobby Clark is kidnapped by his estranged father, a shiftless man with a history of domestic violence and drug abuse. Bobby's twin brother Ricky watches, terrified, from his hiding place behind the bougainvillea, while mother Tabby, who also struggles with addiction, lies inebriated on the living room floor.Bobby isn't seen by his loved ones again until a fateful morning twenty-five years later, when video of his arrest dominates the morning news. He has been charged with the murder of his father, but before the trial can begin, he manages to escape.As Tabby and Ricky absorb the news of Bobby's return and subsequent escape, Tabby is convinced he'll come home to the quiet Florida street from which he was taken so long ago. But when events begin to spiral out of control, she's left to wonder: is a child born to be evil, or shaped to be evil? And in the end, when it's time to make amends, does it really matter?
Blessed Are the Wholly Broken is the harrowing story of a modern family in the midst of self-destruction.After the heartbreak of losing their newborn son to a previously undiagnosed genetic condition, Phillip and Anna Lewinsky manage to pick up the pieces of their broken lives and move forward, filling the emptiness with friends, work, and travel.When Anna unexpectedly finds herself pregnant again at the age of forty-three, Phillip is thrilled to have a second chance at fatherhood in spite of Anna's objections. But the scars from their long-buried grief run deep, and as desires clash, misunderstandings abound, and decisions are irrevocably made, the fractured foundation of their marriage begins to crumble until only tragedy remains.
On a sweltering July morning in rural Tennessee, fifty-year-old Rebecca Reynolds visits the family farm, where she literally stumbles across the dead bodies of her parents and younger sister, a sister who spent life in a wheelchair after a birth fraught with complications.Rebecca's first thought is to call 911. Her second is to find her estranged sister, Lena, who was disowned by the family years before. Her third is to wonder how long it will be before Lena is arrested for the murder of their family.Attorney Brian Stone works hard to prove Lena's innocence, but in a family ripped apart by dysfunction, is anyone truly innocent?
When fourteen-year-old foster child Johnathan Thomas Woods is suspected of murdering his foster mother, an old letter and a tacky billboard advertisement lead him to the office of attorney Brian Stone.
This booklet is a comprehensive genealogical study of our branch of the Hayner family. We've traced our history from Leonhart H ner, who died in Weinheim, Germany around 1597, to current day U.S.A. Along the way, we've discovered barber-surgeons, farmers, carpenters, and coal miners, and learned that throughout the generations, Hayners have been tough, stoic, innovative people who, through hard work and determination, helped shape both their descendants and this country to be who and what we are today.