Cornwall, 1817.Hester Harewood has washed up on the shores of Cornwall. She has narrowly escaped the French soldiers who murdered her father and planned to sell her.Meanwhile Jack 'Crow' Crowlas, a former intelligence officer under the Duke of Wellington, is haunted by his part in the defeat at Waterloo. He desperately seeks redemption from the commander he failed.Hester is headstrong and...Read more
Two stories of plane crashes in the Oconee County mountains are among the many stories from past issues of the Keowee Courier that are contained in this, the twelfth book in the Looking Back series. This book also contains some commentaries by Courier editor Ashton Hester, and highlights from the years 1938, 1948, 1958, 1988, 1998 and 2008. It is the author's hope that the Looking Back books will...Read more
Hester and Harriet are back and ready for more adventures!The gentle humour and relaxed pace make this an enjoyable read. - Daily MailHester and Harriet lead comfortable lives in a pretty cottage in an English village. Having opened their minds, home and hearts to Daria, a mysterious migrant, and her baby son Milo, the widowed sisters decide to further expand their own horizons by venturing forth...Read more
Hester and Harriet are reluctantly driving to visit relatives on Christmas Day when they come across a young woman hiding with her baby in a bus shelter. Seeing the perfect excuse for returning to their own warm hearth, the sisters insist on bringing Daria and Milo home with them. But the arrival of a sinister stranger looking for a girl with a baby, Hester and Harriet's carefully crafted peace...Read more
Hester and Harriet lead comfortable lives in a pretty cottage in an English village. Having opened their minds, home and hearts to Daria, a mysterious migrant, and her baby son Milo, the widowed sisters decide to further expand their own horizons by venturing forth to Italy for their annual holiday. With a huge secret hanging between the sisters, an unlikely new love on the landscape for Hester...Read more
The gentle humour and relaxed pace make this an enjoyable read. - Daily MailSisters Hester and Harriet are reluctantly driving to visit relatives when they come across a young woman hiding with her baby in a bus shelter. Seeing the perfect excuse for returning to their own warm hearth, the pair insist on bringing Daria and Milo home with them.But with the arrival of a sinister stranger looking for...Read more
“I WAS MEANT TO COME TO BARLEWIN, BUT I WAS NEVER MEANT TO STAY.”The half-forgotten streets of Barlewin, in the shadow of the High Track, are a good place to hide: among the aliens and the couriers, the robots and the doubles, where everyone has secrets.Like Eva, a 3D-printed copy of another woman, built to be disposable.She should have disintegrated days ago... and she hasn’t.And now her creator...Read more
Mo lived alone and he liked it that way.He had a house to protect him.And a wall.Mo trusted his wall.It kept everything out he wanted kept out.A beautiful story about breaking down barriers and discovering the joys of friendship, from the brilliant creative team of Jo Kasch and award-winning illustrator Jonathan Bentley....Read more
When Angelina Grimke meets Edgar Allan Poe at a séance, he mocks her attempts to contact her dead fiancé, but hints that he knows a "scientific" way to raise the dead. Tormented by her grief for her lost love, she seeks out Poe who proposes to use "electro-magnetism" to bring her lover back. Can passion raise the dead?...Read more
The web of deception surrounding Kiyoshi intensifies when he goes missing, but Michael Black is determined to hunt down his elusive Asian lover and win him back. With no idea of where Kiyoshi has fled, Michael turns to Sensei Ichiro Kimura for answers, only to learn that his lover is engaged in lethal game of vengeance against the Japanese Yakuza.Detective Masato Takahashi and his former nemesis,...Read more
