Who could ignore the beautiful day for a ride? Sure, her husband made her promise not to go out without him. Sure, she could call friends. But the day couldn't be resisted and she donned her helmet. On her return she never thought she'd end up in a ditch, unable to finish her ride home without a stop by the hospital.He was going to blow his cool over this one.As soon as he got back to the duty station they called home.

Keaton couldn't get off the carrier fast enough. The flight into Virginia took way too long. Selena was taking her sweet time getting to him. He'd been away from her before, but never this long. At this point he was ready to blast the sand into glass and end the entire war. What he wanted was his wife and the escape she provided. The softness to his hard side, the welcome to his hungers. He wasn't going to make it home before she yielded to him. He couldn't wait for her sweetness, for her ...

Sabrina hasn't seen her husband in too long. The call from the phone tree telling her the submarine her husband's on is coming in, starts a tumble of events. Led along the sexy way of a returning ship, her friend knows all the secrets and shares them with Bri. She's ready and steady on those high heels, but not so sure about the rest. For Bri there's no turning back. For Deke, the long absent husband, there's no place like home with a wife willing to wear next to nothing to greet the subma...

Dante gets ready for her first homecoming, with a little help from her very pregnant friend, June. They put together the right things for a true welcome home for her sailor, Mike. Her outfit barely covers what's there and she still has to cross through gangways and ladders on the breezy shore to reach her husband's arms. Screwing up her courage, Dante takes her first steps in an erotic welcome Mike will never forget.

Anything that could go wrong, did. Rebel wasn't ready for the warning this time. Besides, it manifested the day the husbands deployed. Right? Anxious to have Doug home, all hell breaks loose. With her friend, Ricka, they have a photo shoot in the morning and thanks to Ricka, Rebel has a whole new wardrobe to show off. Doug will love these pictures. If she can screw up her courage and pose in front of the photographer.For his part, Doug's been grounded with his team just two hours aw...

What happens when a story refuses to end with the final page?Chicago is gripped by a string of mysterious murders. At first glance, the crime scenes—and the victims—appear to have only two things in common: books and a strange bookmark. Detective Andrew Hudginson and his partner, Ben Turner, soon discover that it is no ordinary object. The bookmark reveals what its reader desires most—then brings to life what should have remained trapped between the pages.The investigation ...

From the mountains of Algeria to the squats of South London via sectarian Northern Ireland, Ten Thousand Apologies is the sordid and thrilling story of the country's most notorious cult band, Fat White Family. Loved and loathed in equal measure since their formation in 2011, the relentlessly provocative, stunningly dysfunctional "drug band with a rock problem" have dedicated themselves to constant chaos and total creative freedom at all costs.Like a tragicomic penny dreadf...

There were 231,000 men and 10,000 women who served in the Coast Guard during World War II. – and 1,918 of them did not return home. At its height, the Coast Guard manned 802 ocean going cutters, 351 naval vessels, 288 Army watercraft, smaller vessels assigned to escort and port security, and 165 aircraft. Stephen C. Stripe, an amateur historian whose father, Max E. Stripe, served in the Coast Guard during World War II, tells the fascinating story of LST 791 and her Coast Guard crew, from c...

Writing is the hardest thing I've done. It's a grind. You see me up here and you think I've made it. But it's not all it's cracked up to be.The Beacon, Buttershaw 1990. Andrea Dunbar, acclaimed writer of Rita, Sue, and Bob Too, mum, sister, best friend, is struggling with her latest work. Her aching head is full of voices, stories from her past which have to be heard…A bittersweet tale of the north/south divide, it reveals how a shy teenage girl defied the...

HE WAS THE UNDISPUTED KING OF THE CAGE. NOW HE IS LEVEL ONE IN A WORLD THAT WANTS HIM DEAD.Stripe had it all. The heavyweight belts. The wealth. The perfect family. His fall from grace led him to alcohol addiction and homelessness. Consumed by trauma, Stripe drank until his liver rotted, dying as a beaten and broken vagrant underneath a park bench.But death is just a reset.Stripe awakens in a savage fantasy realm with a frail Level 1 body and a sentient artifact bou...

"I told you these aren't stories. They are memories."In the dead of night, a mysterious man wearing a plastic baby-doll mask gathers a group of missing children around a campfire. He warns them that the tales he is about to share are not fiction, but the lived experiences of the people he has encountered. The Masked Man is a primordial, multiversal parasite, a cosmic hive mind that spreads not through bites or blood, but through the simple, inescapable act of story...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Book 2 of the "Taterskin & The Eco Defenders" series (“Tell it to Future Generations”) takes up with the Eco Defenders following up on their earlier adventures by 1) Preventing the American Civil War in 1861, after which a slave they free joins them; 2) Saving the Indians from being massacred at Wounded Knee in 1890, following which Chapawee, a Sioux Indian, joins the Eco Defenders; 3) Putting an end to the practice of vivisection (expe...