Magic will bring them together.Will destiny tear them apart?After a failed attempt to end her life, Alia Carter leaves her childhood home to become a waitress in the state's most prominent hotel. Traumatized after her mother’s death, she silently grapples with her pain until she saves the life of a mysterious man who reveals to her a world of true magic, and terrifying wonder.Eric Wynter is a vampire Ward sworn to protect the creatures of the city. After centuries o...

Read by Jake Wood, featuring Ronnie O'Sullivan. This audiobook includes an exclusive interview between Ronnie and Tom Fordyce.In a career spanning over three decades, Ronnie O'Sullivan's journey to becoming the greatest snooker player of all time has been filled with extremes.A teenage snooker prodigy, Ronnie turned professional with the highest of expectations. This pressure, together with a challenging personal life, catapulted Ronnie int...

The Ambassador Art Heist was the near perfect crime just outside Paris, France. Nobody was ever charged and the only witnesses left alive seemingly vanished. Then a marque painting turns up in Miami 25 years later and the prime suspect lends no clues. Sinjin Jones is the newest CIA asset who has been assigned to work with the FBI taskforce investigating this international conflict. Fresh out of Special Forces he is eager to show his worth. Around every corner is an investigation sabotaged ...

Forty-four year old Jake Kingsley is a Minneapolis trial lawyer who became dissatisfied with the practice of law or at least the way some lawyers practiced it, and "retired" early to live aboard a sailboat in the Apostles Islands of Lake Superior. Occasionally handling a case for friends or relatives the way he thought they should be handled has kept the creditors at bay.While at a mid-summer costume party in Bayfield, a woman is murdered a few feet from where Jake is standing with ...

The historic Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is the scene of deception and controversy surrounding the Hermit Island Casino, an Indian Gaming Casino owned by the Chequamegon Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, when a discovery is made that could change the Islands forever.Retired lawyer and sailor, Jake Kingsley, and his friends Professor Charles Stanton and the Hansons agree to help Band members Pete Cadotte and Mary Pelletier to come to the aid of the Casino. They encounter unexpec...

The Ambassador Art Heist was the near perfect crime just outside Paris, France. Nobody was ever charged and the only witnesses left alive seemingly vanished. Then a marque painting turns up in Miami 25 years later and the prime suspect lends no clues. Sinjin Jones is the newest CIA asset who has been assigned to work with the FBI taskforce investigating this international conflict. Fresh out of Special Forces he is eager to show his worth. Around every corner is an investigation sabotaged ...

This issue, we have mysteries. Lots of ’em. Originals from Floyd Sullivan, Janice Law (a Sherlock Holmes Impersonator story), Michael Haynes, and the ever-popular “Anonymous” (with a Sherlock Holmes parody). Plus, of course, we have a new solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles. And our mystery novel is the 1912 classic Larry Dexter and the Bank Mystery, by Raymond Sperry.But wait! There’s more!We also have original science fiction and fantasy from Phyllis Ann K...

From the open waters of Lake Superior to the quiet of the Apostle Islands; from the Raspberry Island anchorage to the dock at Presque Isle Point on Stockton Island and across to the Singing Sand Beach; from Junior's Restaurant to Maggie's on Manypenny; from the hair snakes at Rocky Island to the agates on the beach on Cat Island; from the caves and "howls" of Devil's Island to the solitude of York Island beach; from the vagaries of the practice of law to the Ultimate Resolution. At age 42,...

Another Jake Kingsley Apostle Islands mystery! A body is found on Stockton Island! The victim is a friend of retired Minneapolis trial lawyer Jake Kingsley and his colleague, Professor Charles Stanton. Who killed her and why? Their investigation leads through the high societies of Duluth, Minnesota and Lake Superior's Apostle Islands. Big money and greed, scorned love and pure cussedness are among the motives driving the various suspects. Sabotage and danger threaten to stop Jake and Charl...

How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region, Southerners share their lives in food, with a complex mix of stories of belonging and not belonging and of traditions that form identities of many kinds.Cornbread Nation 7, edited ...

Jakes engelJake Garnier – en sorgløs livsnyder fra Los Angeles – er mildest talt skeptisk over gaven fra sin farmor. Hvad skal han med endnu en gård med heste? Men han går alligevel med til at tage et kig på gården, Hickory Hills.Hvis man synes, at gården er noget helt særligt, er det intet i forhold til gårdens forvalter Heather McGwire. Utrolig lækker! Men hvorfor ser hun så sur ud? Og er der ikke noget bekendt over hende? Da Jake møder hendes lille datter...

For fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Big Nate comes the second book in the side-splitting series about a class clown faking his way to comedy stardom from comedian and film star Craig Robinson, #1 New York Timesbestselling author Adam Mansbach, and NAACP History Maker recipient and cartoonist Keith Knight."An absolute riot!" --LINCOLN PEIRCE, author of the BIG NATE seriesJake cracks up the crowd as a budding comedian at the Music a...