![]() ![]() ![]() I figured the only way I’d get those perfect endings was to write them myself. After a while I started writing my own stories. I’d basically make up my version of the perfect ending to the story and when the book’s ending didn’t gel with mine I’d be terribly disappointed. ![]() I would read a book and halfway through I’d find myself drifting off and creating dialogue and scenes for characters (I still do that). Once I started reading romance that was it: I’d found my passion. I suppose I can start with the fact that I have loved reading since I learned how and a love of writing followed soon after. Well this is the “About Me” section so I guess I should tell you something about me. I never thought I’d ever find myself in the position of having a website in my name, but here we are. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But as the cost of their wanting becomes more deadly, Finch and Selena must learn to work together to stop the horror they unleashed, before it consumes the entire island.ģ.50 Stars. It promises to grant every desire the girls have kept locked away in their insecure hearts―beauty, power,adoration―in exchange for a price: human body parts. One night Finch, Selena, and her friends accidentally summon a carnivorous creature of immense power in the depths of the school. But despite Selena's suspicion, she feels drawn to Finch and has a sinking feeling that from now on the two will be inexplicably linked to one another. Clair sees right through Finch, and she knows something is seriously wrong with her. Finch doesn't know why she woke up after her heart stopped, but since dying she's felt a constant pull from the school and the surrounding town of Rainwater, like something on the island is calling to her. But something monstrous, and ancient, and terrifying, wouldn't let her drown. ![]() Months before school started, Finch and her parents got into an accident that should have left her dead at the bottom of a river. My Dearest Darkest is a sharp, feminist horror debut, about girls claiming their power, and the price we sometimes pay for wanting.įinch Chamberlin is the newest transfer student to the ultra-competitive Ulalume Academy. And a town on the verge of being devoured. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With this shocking discovery, the next-generation Project Wildfire is activated, and a diverse team of experts hailing from all over the world is dispatched to investigate the potentially apocalyptic threat.īut the microbe is growing-evolving. ![]() A Brazilian terrain-mapping drone has detected a bizarre anomaly of otherworldly matter in the middle of the jungle, and, worse yet, the tell-tale chemical signature of the deadly microparticle. On the verge of being shut down, the project has registered no activity-until now. And the world thought it was safe…ĭeep inside Fairchild Air Force Base, Project Eternal Vigilance has continued to watch and wait for the Andromeda Strain to reappear. In the ensuing decades, research on the microparticle continued. In the moments before a catastrophic nuclear detonation, they succeeded. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. Accidental exposure to the particle-designated The Andromeda Strain-killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Fifty years after The Andromeda Strain made Michael Crichton a household name-and spawned a new genre, the technothriller-the threat returns, in a gripping sequel that is terrifyingly realistic and resonant. ![]() ![]() ![]() They now live in North Oaks MN, where Spencer enjoys gardening, cooking, playing bass guitar and electric piano, and photography. They lived in a Victorian house in Stillwater, Minnesota until selling their family home in 2011. The two had three daughters, Sarah, Amy and Beth (Beth unfortunately passed in 1990 and Amy in 2018 unexpectedly), and are grandparents to Spencer and Logan Kimball. ![]() They have just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary (married in February 1962). Shortly after her high school graduation Spencer married her high school sweetheart Dan Spencer. Spencer was born on July 17, 1943, in Browerville, Minnesota, where she was raised. She retired from writing in 1997.īiography Personal life Twelve of her books have been New York Times bestsellers, and Spencer was inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame in 1988. ![]() She has successfully published a number of books, with several of them made into movies. LaVyrle Spencer (born July 17, 1943) is an American best-selling author of contemporary and historical romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() She may be only a governess, but Devil has never met a woman like her before-one with brains, beauty, and a fearless desire to help him in his quest for justice. Matters arent helped by the distracting presence of Honoria Wetherby. even if means disgracing a member of his own blood. ![]() When the dukes young cousin is found murdered, Devil is determined to uncover the killer. Ives, known to those closest to him as Devil Cynster, comes from one of Englands most powerful families, but even a dynasty as respected as the Cynsters has its skeletons. About the Book The first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurenss legendary Cynster series-now available in a trade paperback edition for the first time-a breathtaking tale of passion and mystery involving a duke known as Devil and the governess who beguiles him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch. ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() They hail a cab, and Brett tells Jake she has been miserable. (Jake admits to the reader that her arrival with the gay men makes him angry, while Brett seems jealous of Georgette.) Brett suggests to Jake that they leave the club. ![]() Cohn is obviously attracted to Brett, who seems to have been involved with Jake at some time in the past. The group goes dancing at a nightclub, where a woman named Brett (also known as Lady Ashley, because she is a titled British aristocrat) appears in the company of a group of homosexual men. ![]() Sharing dinner at a restaurant there, Jake and Georgette are discovered by a group of North Americans: Robert Cohn and Frances, Jake's friend Braddocks and his wife, and some others. Sitting in an outdoor café, Jake picks up a prostitute named Georgette and they ride a horse-drawn cab into Paris's Latin Quarter. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This may be his one opportunity to find that missing puzzle piece he’s only been able to fantasize about. ![]() Will she be able to handle Tony’s crazy double life he’s trying to hide from her, the one he lives back home in LA? There’s a small chance it might work, that it might fit-something Tony certainly isn’t used to. Tony’s got his work cut out for him, he needs to penetrate the walls Emily’s built to protect herself and her own insecurities. Can Tony open up about his playboy-style career, and more importantly, can he overcome the insecurities that he’s shoved aside until now? How would someone possibly want his “Little Engine that could”. However, having never dated outside the industry has him second-guessing everything. Tripping over the gorgeous and upstanding, Emily Grant snapped him out of the pity-pot he was just about to take a bath in. The last place he thought his life would change was in Florida. At 38 he’s forced to find a real life where hopefully size doesn’t matter. He’s had a long career hiding behind a camera lens where his shortcomings didn’t affect him at all. Tony DiMarco, aka Ting Tang Tony, made a big name for himself- regardless of being small- in an industry where size truly does matter. What he doesn’t know is how to pursue a real relationship, one outside the industry that’s making him retire and leaving him behind. G-Strings, fake bodies, what lubricant to use, and which angle looks best on camera, these are all things Tony knows. ![]() ![]() “There is a real tension because if you look at the OBR’s fiscal sustainability reports projecting 50 years … the demographic changes and the costs of pensions is really weighing in the wrong direction. However, he said the decision still did need to be taken. ![]() There’s no reason why we need to take the decision now you can wait until the first couple of years of the next parliament, take that decision and still give people 10 years notice.” The range of dates for the moving up of the state pension age from 67 to 68 is well into the 2030s: you’re debating 2030s, 40s or thereabouts. Ultimately I took the decision because of Covid and economic uncertainties and the fact that the important thing is you give people 10 years notice of any change.” ![]() The work and pensions secretary, a close ally of Rishi Sunak, said: “I don’t think it’s in our national psyche to start rioting and burning things over the state pension. Stride made the remarks as he addressed journalists at a lunch in Westminster, when he was asked whether the government will attempt to revisit its plans to raise the pension age in future in light of riots and protests in France. He also said there were “no plans currently” to change the triple lock on raising pensions in the next Conservative manifesto but stopped short of guaranteeing it would be retained. ![]() ![]() Ellis died there 14 years later in 1828, still faithfully anticipating her captain’s return. In 1813, she purchased a parcel of farmland overlooking the river from which she would maintain her daily vigil. He even left her his beloved horse to look after in his absence.Įvery day after her captain’s departure, Ellis would ride his horse from her sister’s house, on what is now Livingston Avenue, down to the banks of the river to eagerly await a glimpse of her lover’s returning ship. ![]() The captain sailed down the Raritan and out to sea one day, vowing that when he returned, he and Ellis would be wed. Around this time she met and fell in love with a man who was a sea captain and former Revolutionary War officer. The legend of how poor Ellis came to rest beneath the asphalt of the Loews Theatre parking lot on Route 1 in New Brunswick is a romantic and ultimately tragic story, not unlike a Bronte novel.Īs the story goes, Ellis came to New Brunswick in the 1790s to stay with her younger sister, Margaret. In actuality though, Ellis had been monopolizing a prime parking space for just the better part of the 20th century. For the past 186 years, Mary Ellis has resided on what she probably thought always would be a stately piece of property overlooking the scenic Raritan River. ![]() |