When Awen is kidnapped from her rural village and confined at Crickhowell, where Miss Nina runs a thriving business in the muse trade, her misery eventually fades into relief. She finds a kind music teacher, discovers a new friend, and her only requirement as a student is to study the art of singing--her favorite thing in the world. However, Awen soon realizes that the goal of Miss Nina is not simply to train voices. She is trying to take them away. Determined to escape this fate, Awen becomes swept up into the intrigues of a scheming subordinate teacher, a salacious workman, a quirky artist-patron, and a handsome blond horseman. When both her own voice and the music around her mysteriously fade into silence, Awen's only hope is to turn against the very artist she was commanded to inspire.

Amanda's super awesome Max and Mina adventure.

On November 22 , 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for four days. For an entire generation, it was the end of an age of innocence. That evening, a photo ran on the front pages of newspapers across the world, showing a Secret Service agent jumping on the back of the presidential limousine in a desperate attempt to protect the President and Mrs. Kennedy. That agent was Clint Hill. Now Secret Service Agent Clint Hill commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the tragedy with this stunning book containing more than 150 photos, each accompanied by Hill’s incomparable insider account of those terrible days. With poignant narration accompanying rarely seen images, we witness three-year-old John Kennedy Jr.’s pleas to come to Texas with his parents and the rapturous crowds of mixed ages and races that greeted the Kennedys at every stop in Texas. We stand beside a shaken Lyndon Johnson as he is hurriedly sworn in as the new president. We experience the first lady’s steely courage when she insists on walking through the streets of Washington, D.C., in her husband’s funeral procession. A story that has taken Clint Hill fifty years to tell, this is a work of personal and historical scope. Besides the unbearable grief of a nation and the monumental consequences of the event, the death of JFK was a personal blow to a man sworn to protect the first family, and who knew, from the moment the shots rang out in Dallas, that nothing would ever be the same.**

There are times when the truth invites evil, and there are times when the truth can get you killed. Few residents in the secluded mountain-town of Winston, Colorado, have kind words to say about local troublemaker Sean Coleman. He's a bully, a drunk, and a crime-show addicted armchair detective with an overactive imagination. After a night of poor judgment, Sean finds himself the sole witness to the unusual suicide of a mysterious stranger. With the body whisked away in the chilling rapids of a raging river, no one believes Sean's account. When his claim is met with doubt and mockery from the people of Winston, Sean embarks on a far-reaching crusade that takes him across the country in search of the dead man's identity and personal vindication. He hopes to find redemption and the truth—-but sometimes the truth is better left unknown.

As a personal shopper, Charlene Vance values her professional association with longtime client Parker Simmons. But at the meeting to discuss the list for this year's Christmas purchases, she learns that Parker is divorced and the ex-wife is off his list. When lunch leads to dessert between the sheets, Charlene is eager to move their relationship beyond good business and incredible sex. Parker Simmons doesn't want anything more permanent than what's on the menu for today. But Charlene's enthusiasm to experiment in bed satisfies his darker appetites and suddenly he's craving more. Parker might need her help with holiday gift ideas but he's got his own shopping agenda. On his list? Gifts only for Charlene—to open in private.

Doctor Abigail Montgomery is a Professor at the University of Arizona. She, along with her team of brilliant grad students, is working to prove or disprove the hypothesis of a tenth planet. During the project, an intriguing object is discovered. As they delve deeper, they are able to confirm that the mysterious object is an asteroid of near planet proportions heading toward our solar system. Traveling at over 32 kilometers per second and with a mass only slightly less than Neptune, it would be the end of the Earth if it impacted. The race to determine its exact course is complicated by the wobble of the planetoid. Observatories from Arizona, Chili, and the Canary Islands work to determine the exact path. Rumors abound as the media picks up the story and ‘experts’ are on the air non-stop with their theories. Abigail, along with other scientists, determines that the planetoid will not impact the Earth but they soon realize a threat just as great. It very likely will impact the Moon. The resulting collision would change life on Earth forever. In a race against time, a radical new EMP emitter, still in the testing stages, is approved by the President. As the window of opportunity closes, all the world can do is wait and pray that it will work. CLOSE PROXIMITY provides non-stop action that will make the reader consider what the world may face in the future and how fragile the Earth is in this vast universe. If you like cataclysmic adventure books you will really enjoy this one.

Faced with unparalleled grief, will Jonah return to Elohim?Parents are looking for fiction that makes Christianity exciting for their kids. This series is the first Christian answer to Percy Jackson, the Kane Chronicles, the Secret Series, and other middle grade series packed with action and adventure. But the message is solidly based in Scripture, conveying that God is always in control.It has been a trying six months for Jonah, Eliza, and Jeremiah Stone. They have been grieving over the loss of their nephilim mother, who was murdered by Abaddon's forces. As part angels, the siblings have been in school with other children of nephilim to hone their special powersIn Truth Runner, Jonah has left Angel School and attempts to forget Elohim's calling by moving back to his hometown and starting high school as a "normal" kid. But Jonah can still see fallen angels—and the evil they're doing. When Jonah realizes the Fallen are attacking...

The heroic story of Robert the Bruce and his passionate struggle for Scotland’s freedom THE STEPS TO THE EMPTY THRONE THE PATH OF THE HERO KING THE PRICE OF THE KING’S PEACE In a world of treachery and violence, Scotland’s most famous hero unites his people in a deadly fight for national survival. In 1296 Edward Plantagenet, King of England, was determined to bludgeon the freedom-loving Scots into submission. Despite internal clashes and his fierce love for his antagonist’s goddaughter, Robert the Bruce, both Norman lord and Celtic earl, took up the challenge of leading his people against the invaders from the South. After a desperate struggle, Bruce rose finally to face the English at the memorable battle of Bannockburn. But far from bringing peace, his mighty victory was to herald fourteen years of infighting, savagery, heroism and treachery before the English could be brought to sit at a peace-table and to acknowledge Bruce as a sovereign king. In this best selling trilogy, Nigel Tranter charts these turbulent years, revealing the flowering of Bruce’s character; how, tutored and encouraged by the heroic William Wallace, he determined to continue the fight for an independent Scotland, sustained by a passionate love for his land and devotion to his people. “Absorbing a notable achievement’ ―  The Scotsman

Fantasy/Science Fiction. 59194 words long.