She remembers nothing after a blow to her head. What happened to her? Nancy claims she doesn't know where she has been. Everywhere she turns, people are telling her the same thing: We thought you were dead. Her husband is with another wife, and her children are almost grown. Now that she is back five years later, everything has changed. Before she disappeared, Nancy Henry appeared to have everything: a successful husband who adored her, two beautiful children, a modeling career, and a charming home in south Merritt Island with a heart wreath on the door. Has former FBI-profiler Eva Rae Thomas finally gotten herself in deeper than she can handle? When the body of Nancy Henry is pulled out of the water of Sykes Creek by two local fishermen, they soon realize she's not dead. Secrets lead to lies and lies to murder in this pulse-pounding mystery with lots of shocking twists.
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Gerard Skyler used his free arm to wipe the sweat from his brow before it had a chance to drip into his eyes. If you enjoy this read, please tell a friend or blog a review. I would like to thank Cliff Ball for help with the initial edit, Derek Prior for the much needed proofread/edit, and author and photoshop guru Curt Schimmel, webmaster of and for the great work on the cover image. (We retirees have a plethora of activities to fill up our days. I was thinking about all of that yesterday as I channel surfed during the afternoon. More: A lovely spring stroll around Chelsea Parade with a detour to the Lower Falls What I do recall makes me shudder and I strive to remember as little as possible for as much as possible. The old man I've been sentenced to become never existed in those fevered fantasies of the young me and I am still amazed at how well I survived that person's excesses as if that were, itself, a success. I'm grateful I don't remember more about some of those nights and the state I was in, and I am grateful beyond words for somehow not succumbing because of behavior that went well beyond "youthful indiscretion" without harming myself or anyone else. This was long before Joseph Heller's "Closing Time" was a state of mind and an attitude check. Some of us, I think, probably didn't go home, or have homes to go home to, but leave we did. The folks who ran Olde Queens, and who probably still do, were always very patient with us, and much more kind than they needed to be (considering our age and the terrible fake IDs we all had) in moving us out when it was time to close. I came to it infinitely biased in its favor, ready to love it to pieces, prepared to find in it the same irresistible allure that so many of my Goodreads friends appreciated. I did NOT come to this book with an open mind. 'I mean, what's not to like? 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Disliking this book seemed quite impossible. “Fans of Pacat’s internet-serial sensation will need no convincing of the merits of this series, but new readers should take note-this book lives up to every word of praise it has garnered. “Pacat’s powerful debut, a blend of intense erotica and political fantasy, is disturbing and intriguing in equal measure.The intricacy of the political entanglements gives depth to the novel’s erotic turmoil.Fans of Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel series will eat this up with a spoon.”- Publishers Weekly “The cumulative effect of reading them back to back is mind blowing.”-Dear Author “Have you read Captive Prince? If you haven’t, what are you waiting for?”. “You will be completely enthralled and on edge.”- USA Today 10 Books to thank your favorite teacher.Prince's Gambit : Book Two of Captive Prince Trilogy – BookaliciousMY As they battle the enemies and remnants while also trying to stay safe, they encounter dreadbeasts that plan to attack them. 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Out of this story Christoph Ransmayr has fashioned an astonishing novel about a journey of adventure that has become Europe's most recent critical and best-selling literary sensation. The poet Ovid, in his distress over his banishment from Rome, consigns the manuscript of his masterpiece, Metamorphoses, to the flames years later, when rumors of his death reach Rome, his youthful admirer Cotta follows him to the remote Black Sea port of Tomi. He believes he is fulfilling his destiny and doing good, but there is enough wild-eyed madness there to leave us in doubt. There is no doubt he believes he is the Dragon Reborn. Álvaro Morte manages to bring Logain’s terrifying power, but also his charm, to life. One thing we do learn through direct observation is that Logain is so dangerously charismatic that Rand took one look at him and fell off a wall. In the books, Logain’s story takes place almost entirely off-page and we know about it mostly through rumors. 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