Maybe Lucy Hutton doesn’t hate Joshua Templeman. So why is she suddenly having steamy dreams about Joshua, and dressing for work like she’s got a hot date? After a perfectly innocent elevator ride ends with an earth shattering kiss, Lucy starts to wonder whether she’s got Joshua Templeman all wrong. If Lucy wins this game, she’ll be Joshua’s boss. Lucy can’t let Joshua beat her at anything-especially when a huge new promotion goes up for the taking. Trapped in a shared office together 40 (OK, 50 or 60) hours a week, they’ve become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous never-ending game of one-upmanship. Everyone except for coldly efficient, impeccably attired, physically intimidating Joshua Templeman. She’s charming and accommodating and prides herself on being loved by everyone at Bexley & Gamin. Lucy Hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. Nemesis (n.) 1) An opponent or rival whom a person cannot best or overcome. Now a movie starring Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell, USA Today bestselling author Sally Thorne’s hilarious and sexy workplace comedy all about that thin, fine line between hate and love.
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Not a romance but rather an ensemble piece, this book is based in a rambling old estate in Sussex, run by lesbians and now a lesbian retreat. Here are my picks for a lesbian Christmas tale, best served with mulled wine and a Lindt Santa… Been summoned home to deal with a family crisis, and whaddayaknow, you bump into your first love? Tick, tickety, tick! But much as I love Christmas movies, what I wouldn’t give for one with two women in the starring romantic roles – and that’s where queer Christmas books come in! Festive stories abound this time of year, so if you want your fix of yuletide love with some women at the helm, step this way. Stuck in a picturesque cabin with an impossibly good-looking stranger? Tick. But late November and all of December are my absolute faves – and the thing I love most are Christmas movies. I adore the run-up to Christmas, it’s just the day itself that’s a bit of an anti-climax. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! For me, that’s true. Ugghhhh I haaaaate when I’m in the minority. Then a little disappointed when he didn’t. I was a little worried Garrett would try to give me a boost again by grabbing my ass. With scorching-hot tension and high-octane humor, First Grave on the Right is your signpost to paranormal suspense of the highest order. But what does he want with Charley? And why can't she seem to resist him? And what does she have to lose by giving in? In fact, he might be something else entirely. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she's been having about an entity who has been following her all her life.and it turns out he might not be dead after all. And it's her job to convince them to "go into the light." But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (like murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. This whole grim reaper thing should have come with a manual.Ĭharley Davidson is a part-time private investigator and full-time grim reaper. First Grave on the Right ( Charley Davidson #1) Johansen starts strongly, with a forceful, memorable heroine immediately thrust into a series of intense situations and forced to make dynamic, if overly idealistic, decisions. Her first acts as ruler break a treaty with neighboring Mortmense and anger the unaging sorceress called the Red Queen Kelsea rallies her allies and prepares for war. Finally come of age, 19-year-old Kelsea Glynn must evade assassins and her uncle’s nefarious plans in order to take her place as rightful queen of the nation known as the Tearling. The resultant society resembles medieval Europe, with modern technology all but forgotten, and magic is subtly present. Johansen makes an impressive debut with this ambitious fantasy adventure, which takes place several centuries from now following the collapse of civilization and mass migration to a newly discovered continent. The mystery deepens when the will is read: given that the deceased was a cleaner it seems unlikely that she would have had the millions which she bequests at her disposal. Another villager from Three Pines is also a liquidator, but the third is a stranger to them both. It came as something of a surprise when Armand Gamache was named as liquidator in the estate of a woman he'd never met. In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. I guessed some of the twists, but it didn't spoil my enjoyment of the read. Summary: It's the 14th novel in the series and this time we move outside the village of Three Pines. It has complex characters, and a fast-paced plot. This is a murder mystery that reads like a thriller. The author Sasscer Hill is a former Maryland racehorse breeder, trainer, and rider, so she can write realistic stories and use her knowledge as a backdrop for her mysteries. Discovering money laundering and some “enforcers” she knows that not only other film crew members, but her life as well, is in danger.Īfter another incident where the main actress is injured, Nikki replaces her because of her riding experience as a jockey. Her sleuthing unearths a trail of corruption and when she must lie to Will to protect his life, she’s on her own. After a sniper’s bullet kills a cameraman with her standing nearby, she goes into an investigative mode. Nikki’s ex-lover Will hires her to protect the horses used to film a movie at Santa Anita Racetrack, trying to keep thoroughbreds safe from a director who doesn’t know a horse from a hamster is tricky. The plot has horse racing but from a Hollywood film angle, showing how Hollywood treats the animals used in a film. In this book readers are back in the saddle with the main character, Nikki Latrelle. Shooting Star by Sasscer Hill is another one of her “edgy cozies.” As with all her books her plot combines greed, evil, and courage into a mystery thriller. The novel begins on Christmas Eve in the home of Marie Stahlbaum and her brother Fritz. Many subsequent adaptations of the story have been based more closely on the ballet than on Hoffmann's original novel. It was Dumas' adaptation which formed the basis for the 1892 Russian ballet The Nutcracker with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In 1844, the novel was adapted by the French author Alexandre Dumas, best known in the English-speaking world as the writer of The Three Musketeers. Further battles between the Nutcracker and the Mouse King take place before the rodents are defeated and the curse is finally broken. The following day, Marie finds out that the Nutcracker was once a young man who was cursed by the Mouse Queen. That night, Marie witnesses a battle between her dolls, under the leadership of the Nutcracker, and mice whose king has seven heads. The story concerns a girl named Marie, who is given a nutcracker which looks like a soldier on Christmas Eve. The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (German: Nußknacker und Mausekönig) is a children's fantasy novel of fourteen chapters by the German author E.T.A. Decorative nutcracker in the shape of a soldier. OL5731780W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 90.28 Pages 364 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1416541306 Nora Gavin, American pathologist, stars again in this follow-up to Harts Haunted Ground. Urn:lcp:lakeofsorrows00hart:epub:3c026492-4620-404f-97c2-fdfc5fcf5df9 Extramarc University of Pennsylvania Franklin Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier lakeofsorrows00hart Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7np2td7z Isbn 0743247965ĩ780743247962 Lccn 2004052234 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:18:15 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA120218 Boxid_2 CH100901 Camera Canon 5D City New York Containerid_2 X0001 Donor Lake of Sorrows Erin Hart Wheeler Pub. Besides his own mental health, I get the impression that he also recognized that this would be good for MegaMind too. He’s been working with this guy all his life. He wastes no time in coming clean once the cat’s out of the bag. But Metro Man? He’s not surprised to see him and Roxanne working together, he doesn’t act like there’s any kind of threat beyond his cover being blown. The rest of Metro City treats MegaMind like a real, sincere, serious threat once he’s unopposed, and it takes them a while to learn otherwise. He knew his nemesis wouldn’t actually hurt anyone if he won, he knew that this universally reviled pariah never really had any more choice than he did. One of the things that always jumped out to me about this reveal is that it implies that Metro Man was also the very first person to recognize that MegaMind wasn’t really evil. Wood brings to life the experiences of the black majority in colonial South Carolina. Using a wide variety of source materials, Mr. In this first book to focus so directly upon the earliest Negro inhabitants of the deep South, Peter Wood brilliantly lays to rest the notion that the Afro-American past is unrecoverable and makes it clear that blacks played a significant and often determinative part in early American history. most Americans would find it hard to conceive that the population of one of the thirteen original colonies was well over half black at the time the nation’s independence was declared. Dust jacket shows some wear around edges.Īfrican slaves, if taken together, were the largest single group of non-English-speaking migrants to enter the North American colonies in the pre-Revolutionary era. Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stone Rebellion |