![]() ![]() It’s been a wee while since I’ve listened to a Melanie Moreland book and it wasn’t until the first words were spoken that I realised how much I’d missed the dreamily dulcet tones of John Lane. I'd previously read this book, but listening to the story made it SO MUCH BETTER!!!! Read or listen to this book!! You won't regret it!! I received an ALC for my honest review. Both narrators, John Lane and Maxine Mitchell, brought the story to life in such a way, I barely wanted to stop listening. Cause not only was she seen at the airport, but she has a baby with her that looks just like Julian!! I received an audible version of this book and listening to the story was absolutely enthralling. Until one day when an employee spots her at an airport and the gloves come off. and the man who can find anyone is unable to find her. ![]() Can she ever forgive him? So she runs away. yeah his wife!!!! She worked at the office as his secretary even though he knew better than to hire her!! Their whole romance is so sweet, but she has some stuff in her past that ends up biting Julian in the backside since he's been hiding so much from her. ![]() His past, the way he acts as he does, why he's involved, his wife. He is the Commander of the group and we get to learn so much about him in this book. ![]() The Commander is part of the Hidden men of justice series, and it focuses on Julian. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As a character, he is a delightfully crotchety storyteller and as a storyteller, he is a magnificent lens into the observations and insights of the other characters around him. All throughout, Chant regals you with vivid and concise images of those around him. Each of them is complete in their own way. The structure of ACOT is such that you’re really getting several stories for the price of one. So, when Alexandra Rowland posted an excerpt from her novel A Conspiracy of Truths and I found Chant to be a whole, flawed and clever and opinionated, character I was willing to let him take me anywhere. ![]() I will follow a well-made character into any setting. For me, Character is the single most essential element of creating a binge-worthy and fandom-ready story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Funding sources were not involved in any aspects of study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation, writing of the report and decision to publish. This work was supported by a British Trust for Ornithology research grant (jointly awarded to Ed Drewitt and Brandon Mak), and grant funding from King's College London Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Policy (awarded to Brandon Mak). ![]() ![]() The large screened porch, with its floor to ceiling window frames, provides a seamless transition to the outdoors. ![]() The upper part of the home contains two bedrooms, both with abundant windows tucked below the home's projecting Prairie Style roofline. ![]() The Master Bedroom boasts built-in window seats, a spacious walk-in dressing area, and access to a covered terrace. Special use areas, such as the parlor, are physically separated from the rest of the main level for privacy. This design provides for an open yet intimate feel in the center of the home. This gives the home an integrated and complete feel. This curve is a theme throughout the home, and is repeated in strategically placed windows, and curved ceiling lines. 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Then a new client is shown in: young, beautiful, and expensively dressed, she wants Marlowe to find her former lover, a man named Nico Peterson. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde.It is the early 1950s, Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. ![]() Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. 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Known as the Monument, the artifact is inscribed with data so complex, only a posthuman mind can decipher it. The chance to help usher in that future comes when Montrose is recruited for a manned interstellar mission to investigate an artifact of alien origin. But Montrose is also a mathematical genius-and a romantic who dreams of a future in which humanity rises from the ashes to take its place among the stars. Hundreds of years in the future, after the collapse of the Western world, young Menelaus Illation Montrose grows up in what was once Texas as a gunslinging duelist for hire. ![]() ![]() ![]() 5 months and 6 jobs later there’s a period of “serious self-analysis,” (Levin’s ironic touch adds to this tale) with the result that Bud “took out his fountain pen and made what he considered to be a completely objective list of his qualities, abilities and talents.” He finds a rich, older widow and easily slips into the role of gigolo, but the widow has a series of toyboys all with a short shelf life. Starter jobs aren’t good enough and college “would only be an unnecessary stopover on the road to the success he was certain awaited him.” He moves to New York, but the world does not shower him with the recognition he thinks he deserves. ![]() ![]() One of the most enthralling, creepiest books I have ever read, Ira Levin’s A Kiss Before Dying is a chilling journey into the mind of psychopath, Bud Corliss, a good-looking, decorated WWII veteran who returns to his hometown as a hero but then finds that the normal, difficult slow paths to money and success are ‘beneath’ him. ![]() ![]() ![]() Joseph's father, Hosteen, a full-blooded Navajo and Alpha of the Salt River Pack, wants Charles to save Joseph's life by turning him into a werewolf, but Joseph doesn't want the bite, and Charles refuses to force him into the change. Joseph and Charles spent a lot of time together when Joseph was in his teens and twenties when they were both itinerant range riders in the Southwest. Joseph Sani is a human in his eighties who is dying from lung cancer, but he has kept his illness a secret from Charles. Charles decides that he will take Anna on a vacation to his old friend's horse ranch in Arizona to pick out a gift horse. Charles and Anna Cornick have now been married a little over three years, and it's Anna's 26th birthday. ![]() ![]() It's been a long wait between books in this series, but thankfully, this one can be read as a stand-alone. ![]() |