Okay, I lie. I only got halfway through this. I tried so hard - and I never, ever abandon books once I get halfway. I put it down, read other stuff, came back to it, then found other things to read...This book should have worked. On paper it sounds awesome - but on 450+ pieces of paper bound toge...
Have you ever met someone who you think is pretty fine during that crucial first meeting? But then, you know, there's other stuff to do in life so you don't really get back to them right away? You don't forget them entirely, but there's that hazy aura around them of good feelings? Yet, when you r...
In this windswept story set in the lusty fifteenth century, the enchanting Anne faces the challenge of raising her child in exile. Always resourceful, she flourishes as a merchant and is able to support her household. But the local businessmen aren't pleased about competing with a woman and her f...
Estranged as a child from her recently dead father, himself an archaeologist, Freya yearns to understand more about the man, his work on the island, and why he left her mother so many years ago. It seems Michael Dane uncovered much of Findnar’s Viking and Christian past through his search for an ...
It was warm inside, pungent and gloomy, daylight shut out by the badly cured skin walls. His eyes adjusted. The interior looked pleasing, though, considering what he’d had to work with; he’d even found sheepskins to strew over the grass as well as a number of hangings, not that Solwaer would care...
She’d slept well through the wild storm of the previous night and was determined to reclaim her husband’s attention. Edward was so robust that physical weakness in others made him impatient, so particular care went to her appearance on this brilliant, crisp winter’s morning, and not one of her se...
Jesse sits up in the chair, blinking. “That felt different.”“In what way?”Jesse’s focus shifts as she tries to catch something elusive. “Just . . .” She struggles. “It wasn’t very happy, was it? At the end, I mean. In the beginning it was different.” She doesn’t want to tell him what she felt the...