Destiny is a woman with a big heart to help those who are in need. She is owner of a thriving Help Center in a crime infested community. She gives hope to those who are lacking in faith and a helping hand to those who needs it the most, no matter who they are. But there is just one problem.her boyfriend Terrance. Her boyfriend Terrance works with an intimating monster name Boss. No one can understand why she would link herself to the communitys notorious criminals but Destiny is in love and always been in love with Terrance. While Destiny was helping others, who is helping Destiny? Her boyfriend Terrances life is dwindling and hes bringing her down with him. Only shes so deep in love to see that he is setting her up to bring her down and destroy her reputation. But a long-time friend appears to rescue Destiny, but is it too late? At the end, someones blood will be shed.
Mike "Tiny" has a secret. One he's been keeping from his teammates over the past several months. He'd met someone. It was quite by accident. He's suffered from one of his too often perils with bullets and went to a nearby hospital and that's where he met her. He's instantly fallen head over heels for her. He started faking injuries to see her. There was only one problem. He was shy with women. True, he was almost seven feet tall and wasn't afraid to take on an insurgent with his bare hands. But being around Destiny he was tongue-tied and always felt out of sorts. There's also the deflating knowledge that Destiny only sees him as a friend and nothing more. He couldn't ask his friends for advice. They would only tease him. So he selfishly keeps quiet about her and buries his love for her deep inside. Destiny had been drawn to Mike since the moment he walked into her grandma's hospital room. He became an anchor for her and a best friend. He reminds her of a gentle giant and treats her like the finest china. The more time she spends with him she realizes her feelings are much deeper than friendship, but Mike doesn't see her that way. She's just the woman he always hangs out with out of pity because of her sick grandma. When Destiny's mom and her lastest beau breeze into town their relationship will be put to the test and a growing danger to her grandma. Will they finally be able to tell each other how they really feel about each other or will a dangerous foe intervene before they can explore their true feelings.
"[Kolata] is a gifted storyteller. Her account of the Baxleys... is both engrossing and distressing... Kolata's book raises crucial questions about knowledge that can be both vital and fatal, both pallative and dangerous." —Andrew Solomon, The New York Review of Books New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata follows a family through genetic illness and one courageous daughter who decides her fate shall no longer be decided by a genetic flaw. The phone rings. The doctor from California is on the line. “Are you ready Amanda?” The two people Amanda Baxley loves the most had begged her not to be tested—at least, not now. But she had to find out. If your family carried a mutated gene that foretold a brutal illness and you were offered the chance to find out if you’d inherited it, would you do it? Would you walk toward the problem, bravely accepting whatever answer came your way? Or would you avoid the potential bad news as long as possible? In Mercies in Disguise, acclaimed New York Times science reporter and bestselling author Gina Kolata tells the story of the Baxleys, an almost archetypal family in a small town in South Carolina. A proud and determined clan, many of them doctors, they are struck one by one with an inscrutable illness. They finally discover the cause of the disease after a remarkable sequence of events that many saw as providential. Meanwhile, science, progressing for a half a century along a parallel track, had handed the Baxleys a resolution—not a cure, but a blood test that would reveal who had the gene for the disease and who did not. And science would offer another dilemma—fertility specialists had created a way to spare the children through an expensive process. A work of narrative nonfiction, Mercies in Disguise is the story of a family that took matters into its own hands when the medical world abandoned them. It’s a story of a family that had to deal with unspeakable tragedy and yet did not allow it to tear them apart. And it is the story of a young woman—Amanda Baxley—who faced the future head on, determined to find a way to disrupt her family’s destiny.
Family ties can heal the past. Or drag you straight to hell… Isaac Zamora, my significant other and a talented user of magic, insists I’m a powerful witch. But when my bio-grandmother sends demons to kidnap me to her monstrosity of a Victorian house in Boulder, I can’t exactly fight back. Against Virginia Powers, who’s been wielding the dark arts since before I was born, there’s no point. I need a plan. Someone who uses that much magical Botox has a blind spot somewhere, and I intend to find it. But she finds mine first — a half-sister named Destiny. I’ve always longed for a sister, someone with a connection to the mother who died so young. But not if it means giving up my freedom. Like the objects my lodestone ability brings to me, that connection seems to draw the truth out of gentle, seemingly innocent Destiny — Virginia’s secret plan to summon the prince of Hell. Our grandfather. This revelation answers so many questions, and gives me a valuable tool to foil good ol’ grandma. But once Isaac learns the truth about my demon blood, the love we’ve slowly, carefully nurtured over time could go up in flames…. Note: Finding Destiny is the fourth and final book in USA Today bestselling author Christine Pope’s “Unexpected Magic” series.
History tells the story in print and film of the greatest sea disaster of a dynamic luxury liner, the RMS Titanic, but history has omitted this story of the other greatest loss of the RMS Titanic's ancestor of the White Star Line. the SS Atlantic. Although the passenger compliment was less the percentage of loss was greater than the Titanic and equally horrific. You will take a journey about the first of the White Star Line's luxury, steel hull steamships which still carried her sails. Why did the Atlantic divert her voyage to New York to sail to Halifax, leading her to crash on Nova Scotia's granite shore. This story tells of the Destiny of not only the ship herself but of her passengers who made fatal decisions to be on board. Like the RMS Titanic the SS Atlantic carried eleven multi-millionaires, leaders of industry, Learn why Mrs. Rowden insisted on leaving the ship in Queenstown, Ireland where 160 Irish citizens boarded for the new America dream, and the carpet baggers revolt. The loss of all women and children except young John Hindley. The heroism of the Anglican Priest, Reverend Ancient. This journey will make you reflect upon your own path to Destiny. It is not just about a shipwreck but the web creating the destiny of a mighty ocean liner and over one thousand souls in her care. The SS Atlantic the ancestor of the RMS Titanic
Alix was a happy bride five years ago. However, everything she believed about their love turned out to be a lie. Pierce, her husband, married her only to get revenge on Alix’s family and announced their divorce after taking her grandfather’s company the next morning! When Alix starts to heal from the pain in her heart, Pierce cruelly comes back. Surprisingly, he shows up to offer financial aid when Alix’s father’s company is on the verge of bankruptcy, but with one condition: “Only if you become my wife again.” How heartless! Did he come back to torment her?
When a gigantic damaged spaceship suddenly appears over Ottawa requesting assistance the world is thrown into confusion. Why are they really here? If they are having problems, what caused the damage? Then there is the Thorncroft family: Paul is feeling depressed and gets sucked up into a spaceship. Lucile and her ex-military girlfriends are bored and looking for a fight, romance, or something to break up the monotony. Their mother, Martha, is trying to hold the family together while she deals with her husband’s PTSD and alcoholism. Everyone else is trying to discover the alien’s secrets and befriend them or destroy them and anyone who has dealings with them.
A romantic thriller set on a snowy mountaintop. During a blizzard, Andrew’s dog, Shadow, finds Destiny—a beautiful woman left for dead, but very much alive. With her she brings mystery, danger and passion to the little cabin.
Destiny's Journey is a memoir reconstructed partly from notebooks that Döblin kept from the time he worked in the French Ministry of Information in the spring of 1940 and partly written without notes in Los Angeles where he took refuge during the Second World War. It tells the personal and generational story of the flight of Jewish and anti-Nazi intellectuals from Europe to America, their fear and frustration, isolation, and inability to work. Döblin’s story differs from that of other Jewish intellectuals and artists in that his family converts to Catholicism in Los Angeles. Unlike most of them, he returns to Europe as an officer with the French forces and works on denazifying German literature. The conversion narrative bridges the departure from and return to Europe. To critic John Simon, “the latter part of the book often reads like a shrill piece of Christian homiletics. But even this is not without interest, as it traces the transformation of an anarchic outsider into a dogmatic insider.” “The first part of ‘Destiny's Journey’ [about] Döblin's departure from Paris [in] 1940... is magisterial: acidly observed, saturated in telling detail, grimly comic and harrowing... with an exemplary introduction by Peter Demetz... an important, nourishing book” — John Simon, The New York Times
