Stolen Dove
Stolen Dove

Author: Carina Blake

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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I'll never be him. I tell myself that as I positioned myself to take his place. Year by year, I've grown more ruthless, but I'd still never treat women like he did. Then she had to just show up, a diamond teardrop pendant on her neck, drawing attention to herself, causing me to take notice. I refused to degrade myself by paying for her. My anger grew when I knew that I didn't have a choice. Buy her or lose her. Then she gave me a look, tempting me to take her. And I did...I'm his wife now...he hates me. I'm his property, and yet I can't force myself to stop giving my heart and body to him. Night after night, I cling to the hope it's more than just a need for an heir, but morning after morning, my hopes are dashed. I've had enough. No one defies him, but I did...

The Stolen Throne
The Stolen Throne

Author: Harry Turtledove

Publisher: Del Rey

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780345380470

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THE BORDER WARS An uneasy peace had prevailed these last few years between the Empire of Videssos and rival Makuran. But now Makuran's King of Kings alerted his border holdings--even the small fortress where Abivard's father was lord--to prepare for barbarian raids. But Abivard himself received a warning of a different sort: an eerie prophecy of a field, a hill, and a shield shining across the sea. Before a season had turned, his father and his King lay dead upon the field of battle--the very place foreseen in the vision. Abivard hastened home to defend his family and his land. To his dismay, the most urgent danger came not from marauding tribes, or from Videssos, but from the capital. An obscure and greedy bureaucrat had captured the crown; the rightful heir had disappeared, and no mortal man would say where he might be found. Abivard's strange fate would lead him to his King, though, and on through peril to the very brink of greatness--and of doom! FIRST TIME IN PRINT

The Clue on the Crystal Dove
The Clue on the Crystal Dove

Author: Carolyn Keene

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2001-08-30

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 0743427653

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A cunning thief is desperate to wreck the opening of a historic landmark -- and Nancy is his target! On Gramercy Park in New York City, the magnificent Van Hoogstraten mansion with its priceless collection of glass birds is about to open to the public. Nancy, Bess, and George are invited, but a series of sinister events puts everything in chaos. When the centerpiece of the collection, a beautiful crystal bird, is stolen, Nancy gets on the case. From family members with motives to keep the house, to an antiques dealer with a personal grudge, suspects abound. And when Nancy goes to the family's abandoned camp in the Adirondack forest, she zeroes in on the truth. In a violent nighttime thunderstorm on a solitary lake, Nancy confronts the culprit. The case is solved -- if she can get to shore alive!

Stolen Wife
Stolen Wife

Author: Carina Blake

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-18

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13:

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I'll do whatever it takes to get her in my arms, even kill my brother.I'll do everything in my power to destroy all who came between us.The second I held the wedding photo of Giada with my brother, my revenge became tainted with possessiveness so profound that I grew colder. Calculating. Obsessed.I'd do anything to get my desire. To taste her.Giada is mine, and it didn't matter the how or why, because she just is. I'll play her name in my head-my sirens song-as I remove her from my brother's grasp and take her for my own.One by one, I'd get my revenge on those who sent me away while claiming what was never theirs.

A Bandit's Request
A Bandit's Request

Author: Micki Miller

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc

Published: 2019-09-18

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 150922730X

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He'd been caught with a woman in his arms. In the woman's bedchambers. By the woman's furious husband. The Viscount, Lord Andrew Worthington, stands on the wrong side of a pistol. Drew's problem had always been his deep adoration for women, in all their varieties. It was just a matter of time before he found himself in deep trouble. Being murdered in cold blood, however, went beyond his worst imaginings. But moments before certain death, he is rescued by the scourge of London's elite, the infamous Creeping Bandit. Lady Dove Barrow could have cursed the rake straight to Hades. But even though he's spoiled her night's mission, even though he no doubt deserves it, and even though she will be risking her own neck, Dove cannot abide murder. As repayment for her good deed, Drew vows to help her with her mission. Little does he know how far it will take them.

Pacific Heights
Pacific Heights

Author: Paul Harper

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2011-07-05

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1429995262

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A San Francisco detective becomes entangled with a private intelligence agency as he investigates what appears to be a traceless form of murder A couple meets in a seedy hotel room for an illicit affair, the rules of which are simple: no names, no personal details, the specifics of their lives off-limits. It's all very exciting to Lore Cha—the wife of a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur—who thinks their forbidden meetings and taboo sexual encounters are exactly the escape she's been looking for: every single detail is as she imagined. But that's the problem. Phillip Krey anticipates every thought before she has it. He plays out her untold fantasies down to the last detail. His insights are beyond intuitive; they're invasive, even frightening. It's as if he has access into her mind. Across town, Elise Currin, wife to one of San Francisco's most powerful businessmen, is also seeing Krey, and is slowly being driven insane by his ability to tap in to her most private desires. When it's revealed that these women are also seeing the same therapist, a chilling scenario unfolds, and the quiet, plotting detective Marten Fane is called in. Slowly Fane uncovers a plot that goes beyond Krey to reveal a powerful private sector, secret government involvement, and one of the most elaborate and monstrous psychological experiments imaginable: a traceless form of murder. " ... Harper succeeds in sympathetically portraying Elise and Lore as they face genuine danger. " - Publishers Weekly

Stolen Memories
Stolen Memories

Author: Lynda Everman

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-06-25

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1532683359

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Dementia steals memories--creative stitchery crafts can hold memories. Stolen Memories: An Alzheimer's Stole Ministry and Tallit Initiative describes the use of hand-sewn, individualized stoles and stole-style tallitot in advocacy for Alzheimer's and related dementias. These beautiful pieces of liturgical art can increase awareness, prompt discussion, begin an educational process, promote dementia-friendly faith communities, and give honor to those affected by Alzheimer's. Pastors wear them in the pulpit or as they conduct services, particularly during national days of awareness or remembrance of those affected by dementia or their caregivers and loved ones. Chaplains wear them in pastoral visits or special services for people in assisted living or memory-care units. Advocates wear them as they speak at churches, synagogues, conferences, or training sessions, or as they make visits to their representatives in Congress to lobby for increased funding for research, as well as treatment and care for persons living with dementia and their care partners. Included are simple step-by-step instructions and photos on how readers can piece and sew their own stoles and tallitot, along with many photos of clergy wearing them and their personal reflections on the stoles/tallitot and their meaning to them.