In this full-length novel by Van Allen, a young couple hopes to rekindle their relationship in a remote mountain cabin. Their get-away from the city quickly turns into a desperate fight for survival when they run into a vicious killing machine, a natural predator.The local hunting professional has this to say:"I spect grizzlies would kill more people if it were true that grizzly bears wanted to eat people. That's what city folk thank. There ain't no truth to that. Grizzlies...

After writing a pioneering TV drama series in the nineties and knowing nothing but success afterwards, Adam Donovan mysteriously abandons Hollywood for his hometown of Redmond, Washington.When attorney Natalie Summers asks him to take in three roughed-up orphan girls from L.A., Adam is as surprised as anyone when he says yes. The oldest is rude and shrewd--she threatened to kill him the first night they met--but maybe that's why he's drawn to her.Natalie soon develops misgi...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • USA TODAY BESTSELLER“Reader to reader, knitter to knitter: You’re going to love this book.”—Debbie Macomber**For fans of Jennifer Chiaverini and Sarah Addison Allen, The Wishing Thread is an enchanting novel about the bonds between sisters, the indelible pull of the past, and the transformational power of love.The Van Ripper women have been the talk of Tarrytown, New York, for centuries. Some say they’re angel...

For fans of Sarah Addison Allen, Aimee Bender, and Alice Hoffman, The Night Garden is a luminous novel of love, forgiveness, and the possibilities that arise when you open your heart.Nestled in the bucolic town of Green Valley in upstate New York, the Pennywort farm appears ordinary, yet at its center lies something remarkable: a wild maze of colorful gardens that reaches beyond the imagination. Local legend says that a visitor can gain answers to life’s m...

A peaceful, international scientific research base orbiting Alpha Centauri-A.A military coup aboard a starship headed to resupply that base.A terrible, dark secret concealed on the moon of Amphion.General Thomas Jefferson Davis and his UN commando squad have just jumped head-first into a hornets' nest of cosmic proportions. But—are they the good guys in this story… or the bad?ALPHA/OMEGA: A new serialized near-future space opera adventure from Van Allen Plex...

John McConnell has killed three men. Granted, they had it coming. Reconciled with his daughter, dating a beautiful woman he doesn't deserve, stolen money in the bank, McConnell's ready to hang up his guns. But the American Doctrine for Democracy are still murdering Americans. The reclusive hacker Hammurabi convinces McConnell to return to the shadowy highways and byways of America one more time to try and rectify that. Killing bad people for good reason is still murder and FBI agent Oral D...

Susan Van Allen, author of100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go,is back with an entertaining collection of adventuresSavor stories filled with passion, rich memories, and laughs, that blend to bring you an authentic portrait of one woman's experiences in the Bel Paese.Come along with this savvy traveler, as she revels in Roman wine bar flirtations, climbs Sicily's Stromboli volcano, and hunts for truffles in Umbria. Each story weaves together an authentic,...

A peaceful, international scientific research base orbiting Alpha Centauri-A.A military coup aboard a starship headed to resupply that base.A terrible, dark secret concealed on the moon of Amphion.General Thomas Jefferson Davis and his UN commando squad have just jumped head-first into a hornets' nest of cosmic proportions. But—are they the good guys in this story… or the bad?ALPHA/OMEGA: A new serialized near-future space opera adventure from Van Allen Plexico,...

Although a novel, Hidden Destruction is Allen van der Linde's seamless account of a history that dragged a country into a long, bloodied conflict.Laurence lived on a farm in an area then known as the Northern Transvaal in South Africa. Discipline, good ethics and hard work were drummed into his young mind and from an early age, his elders nurtured his hunting and tracking skills. His great love and passion for Africa's pristine wilderness dug its roots deep into his psyche.At...

A brilliant team unlocks the power of cold fusion—only to spark a global power struggle between a shadowy government and a ruthless corporation. Some technologies are too dangerous to be owned.Just as one man prepares to destroy the Engine to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands, an interdimensional being intervenes— alters the fate of them all.Fifteen years later, haunted by loss and armed with a radical new invention, The Zone Engine, he takes one shot to rewrite ...

Following the critically acclaimed 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go, Susan Van Allen adds new gems to her selection of the best spots for female travelers in Italy's most popular cities, (Rome, Florence, and Venice), along with enticing Golden Day itineraries to make vacation dreams come true. Like a savvy traveler girlfriend whispering in your ear, she guides readers to masterpieces where women are glorified — from Rome's Pieta to Florence's Birth of Venus

In Music for the Millions, author Van Allen Bradley tells the story of a firm which, at the time of this book's original publication in 1962, had endured for 100 years.But the Kimball Piano and Organ Company accomplished more than simply surviving a century—it played a dominant role in the development of the industry of which it was a part.The company started as a piano dealership in Chicago in 1857 as W.W. Kimball and Company by William Wallace Kimball (1828-1904). In 1864, ...