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CHAPTER 1   Ruth 1990   I don’t think I had ever felt so piled with gifts as I did that first...
Through my work in and around the world of food and cooking, the contribution I would like to offer to the community...
Chapter 1   I felt her fear before I heard her screams.   Her nightmare pulsed into me, shaking me...
Chapter 1   There's a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person...
Shadow Kiss   His fingertips slid along my back, applying hardly any pressure, yet sending shock waves over...
CHAPTER 1   I don't like cages.   I don't even like going to zoos. The first time I went to...
Prologue Things die. But they don't always stay dead.   Believe me, I know.   There's a...
CHAPTER 1   I was being followed.   It was kind of ironic, considering the way I'd been...
    In this sneak preview from Chapter One of Jack of Diamonds, the new – and final – book...
WILL DENNISON       The bars close at 3 a.m on Saturday nights so I got home about 3:45 after...
Prologue On Sundays the bells would peal out, God's ringtone to a material world. They implored those still...
June 2011 Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania Professor Gabriel Emerson stood in the doorway of his study, hands in his pockets,...
CHAPTER ONE   My name is Marina, as of the sea, but I wasn't called that until much later. In the...
CHAPTER ONE   My name is Marina, as of the sea, but I wasn't called that until much later. In the...
CHAPTER ONE   My name is Marina, as of the sea, but I wasn't called that until much later. In the...
  6A. Seriously? I look at the boarding pass in my hand, its large type announcing my seat assignment, and...
  6A. Seriously? I look at the boarding pass in my hand, its large type announcing my seat assignment, and...
Introduction   Every author, I suppose, has in mind a setting in which readers of his or her work could...
'His Lordship is at home, my lady.'   For a great many women such a statement was a common utterance...
'Eliza…' Jasper came to sit beside her.   The air around her became charged with his energy...

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