In an old man’s worst nightmare, the FBI drops two little girls, products of a fifty-year-old tryst, into the custody of a retired small-town attorney while exploiting their mothers for an investigation into an international crime syndicate.
As Midnight Approaches There Is An Aura Of Expectation In Cherrapunji . . . For A While Even The Pinpricks Of Light Scattered Here And There In The Village, Like Stars In A Constellation, Seem To Stop Flickering. And Then The Rains Begin. It Is Rain That Has Made Cherra Famous, And Binoo S Mission Is To Unravel The Mystery Behind The Curious Phenomenon Which Brings This Area As Much Rain In Three Months As The Rest Of The Country Might Not Get In A Whole Year. But As He Makes His Way Into Each Corner And Crevice Of Cherrapunji, He Discovers That It Is Much More Than The Wettest Place On Earth . After The Bustle And Tension Of Guwahati And Shillong He Finds In Cherrapunji A World Of Mesmerizing Beauty Peopled With Unusual Characters, From Uncooperative Bureaucrats And Friendly Auto Drivers To Women Who Run Their Own Enterprises And Forward-Looking Individuals Who Want To Bring The Sleepy Little Village From Under The Cloud Into The Modern World Of Telephones And Tourism. And He Takes A Quick And Curious Walk Down The Lanes Of Cherra S Chequered History-A Story Of Nineteenth-Century Evangelists And Proselytization, The Beginnings Of Education, The Fierce Earthquake Of 1897 Which Almost Obliterated The Town, And Battles Against The Colonizers. Ranging With Consummate Ease Over Topics As Varied As Religion, Cuisine And Meteorology, Under A Cloud Paints An Evocative Picture Of Life In One Of The Most Unusual Places In India.
A pediatrician fresh out of residency returns home to join his parents’ medical practice. The challenges he faces have less to do with medicine than with life and love.
A young pianist and his new-found singer girlfriend use their music to rescue a historical resort from bankruptcy and reverse their small town’s economic downturn while falling in love.
Victim advocate Abby Davis wants a new job. One that involves shorter hours and less stress. But she's never been able to ignore a family in trouble. And the handsome cowboy waiting outside her office with his two little girls has a story that touches her heart. A robbery at an ATM has left his ex-wife dead and brought huge changes to Tom Butler's life. Overnight he's gone from single man living a simple ranch life to single parent trying to cope with two grieving daughters. Abby can tell he's reluctant to seek help, but he'll do it for his kids. Now, instead of a new job, Abby has a new case. And spending time with the Butler girls means getting to know their father. It means discovering that to know Tom Butler is to love him.
Standing in the blood of the man who tried to kill him, the boy, almost a man, froze, horrified at what he had done. The head, separated from the body, lay face down in the forest undergrowth. Blood flowed from the open neck onto the mat of decaying leaves. There had been no time. There had been no time to think. No time to plan. Only one would walk away from that confrontation in the woods. The boy had gotten the better of this man who had killed many before him. When the woman, dressed to blend into the forest, emerged from behind the trees to admire his handiwork pointing her crossbow at him, he thought he might have killed for naught. Little did any of the handful of people standing in the forest that day know the changes that this one death put in motion.
MANAGING MONEY CAN BE MURDER All Anderson Crown wanted to do was pick one good stock. Or maybe two or three. He could put them into clients' portfolios and sit back and let the investment advisory fees keep rolling in. Crown's clients had other ideas, though. An old client wanted access to trust funds while a new client needed an estate plan the heirs wouldn't know about. Then the beatings began. Not only did Crown have to convince the police that his client was not a killer, he had to keep the cops from looking in his own direction, too. HOMICIDE IS A CAPITAL IDEA