A Highland Tryst

A Highland Tryst
Author: Jean Fairfax
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2023-10-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1662941323

When the great clans of Scotland shed blood for honor, Kathlyn surrendered to a dangerous love! She was the daughter of a powerful laird; a proud, wild beauty. The one man who could turn her fiery eyes as soft as the Highland mist was Alex Lindsay, a fierce warrior, passionate lover, and sworn enemy of her clan. His strength, as she ran into his arms, gave her the courage to defy her family. Before she again voiced her concern, he silenced her with a fierce and hungry kiss. “Come Lass,” he whispered. “The night is nearly done, and I fear we both tempt fate too often with our meeting.” Pausing, Kathlyn turned to him with one last question. “How much do you love me, Alex?” His look was one of many emotions. “I would give my life for you, Kathlyn, if you remain true. If you do not,” he said, holding her shoulders in his hands and looking deep within her soul, “If you do not I think I would take your life…”

Sealed With a Tryst

Sealed With a Tryst
Author: Devon Monk
Publisher: Odd House Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2021-08-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1939853249

Delaney Reed needs a vacation from her vacation town. Even on a good day, it’s a lot of work to keep the peace in a town full of gods, monsters, and magical beings. Lately all the good days have gone from bad to worse. Luckily, Delaney has a plan to steal away with her fiancé, Ryder Bailey, for a nice relaxing weekend together. Her getaway plans come to a screeching halt when Delaney discovers Crow’s garage sale is selling cursed magical items to anyone who wants one—and everyone wants one. Delaney only has a few hours to hunt down the cursed objects before a massive winter storm barrels into town and her vacation escape becomes impossible. But Delaney isn’t going down that easily. Neither rain, curse, nor killer sea monster or love-sick Bigfoot will keep her from getting three blissful days alone with the man she loves—hopefully far, far away from Ordinary, Oregon.

Signed, Sealed, Delivered

Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Author: Nina Sankovitch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-04-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1451687168

A history of letters draws on the author's personal correspondence experiences while celebrating what is special about hand-written letters, exploring the traditions of ancient and historical cultures, the practices of famous notables and her thoughts about modern-world communication habits.

The Darkest Game

The Darkest Game
Author: Joseph Schneider
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1728245052

The past is steeped in blood. Bad things happen every day. No one knows this better than LAPD Detective Tully Jarsdel. He also knows that bad things often go unpunished—all it takes is a glance at his dusty stack of cold cases to see that time is kind to sinners. A museum curator is found shot point-blank, his home torn apart. It's the sort of random crime destined to fester in an evidence locker. But it's a case tailor-made for the academic turned detective—he can't leave any question unanswered. In pursuit of an untouchable killer, Jarsdel soon uncovers a web of fraud and corruption that leads him to sunny Catalina Island, Hollywood's bygone playground. There, nothing is as it should be: the past is ever-present, and Jarsdel unwittingly finds himself embroiled in a widespread conspiracy. While reckoning with a dark legacy, he'll exhume long-buried secrets of LA's troubled past and with it, deadly consequences. A searing mystery from critically acclaimed author Joseph Schneider, The Darkest Game is a story about dread, greed, and anguish; how it spreads like rot, and how one detective struggles to keep it at bay.

Partners in Print

Partners in Print
Author: Julie Nelson Davis
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2014-12-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0824854403

This compelling account of collaboration in the genre of ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) offers a new approach to understanding the production and reception of print culture in early modern Japan. It provides a corrective to the perception that the ukiyo-e tradition was the product of the creative talents of individual artists, revealing instead the many identities that made and disseminated printed work. Julie Nelson Davis demonstrates by way of examples from the later eighteenth century that this popular genre was the result of an exchange among publishers, designers, writers, carvers, printers, patrons, buyers, and readers. By recasting these works as examples of a network of commercial and artistic cooperation, she offers a nuanced view of the complexity of this tradition and expands our understanding of the dynamic processes of production, reception, and intention in floating world print culture. Four case studies give evidence of what constituted modes of collaboration among artistic producers in the period. In each case Davis explores a different configuration of collaboration: that between a teacher and a student, two painters and their publishers, a designer and a publisher, and a writer and an illustrator. Each investigates a mode of partnership through a single work: a specially commissioned print, a lavishly illustrated album, a printed handscroll, and an inexpensive illustrated novel. These case studies explore the diversity of printed things in the period ranging from expensive works made for a select circle of connoisseurs to those meant to be sold at a modest price to a large audience. They take up familiar subjects from the floating world—connoisseurship, beauty, sex, and humor—and explore multiple dimensions of inquiry vital to that dynamic culture: the status of art, the evaluation of beauty, the representation of sexuality, and the tension between mind and body. Where earlier studies of woodblock prints have tended to focus on the individual artist, Partners in Print takes the subject a major step forward to a richer picture of the creative process. Placing these works in their period context not only reveals an aesthetic network responsive to and shaped by the desires of consumers in a specific place and time, but also contributes to a larger discussion about the role of art and the place of the material text in the early modern world.

SEAL's Deception

SEAL's Deception
Author: Elle James
Publisher: Twisted Page Inc
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2016-08-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1626950555

Navy SEAL poses as a bodyguard to a sexy CIA operative undercover as the arranged bride of a Saudi prince in search of the biological weapons sale traced to the Prince’s palace Ben “Big Bird” Sjodin, one of the biggest, baddest SEALs on SEAL Team 10 is tasked to work with a CIA operative on a special project with two of his teammates. All he knows is to meet his contact in a swanky bar in London. From there, he’ll receive instructions. Fired from the INTERPOL for an affair with a double agent, Yasmin Evans has a lot to prove in her role as a CIA agent. Her goal? Infiltrate a Saudi palace, find vials of biological weapons of mass destruction, retrieve them and save the world. All with no more support than that of three Navy SEALs. Yasmin’s plan? Go undercover as the arranged bride of a Saudi prince with her three bodyguards. Once inside the palace, they will search for and find the deadly weapons. What she doesn’t plan on, is the burning attraction she has for the bodyguard who could have been a Norse god in another time, or the Saudi familial factions determined to keep the prince from marrying his arranged bride. Inside an opulent palace, danger and passion flare.

ENGLISH - ENGLISH DICTIONARY (POCKET SIZE)

ENGLISH - ENGLISH DICTIONARY (POCKET SIZE)
Author: V&S EDITORIAL BOARD
Publisher: V&S Publishers
Total Pages: 802
Release: 2015-01-09
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9352150694

This English-English Dictionary will completely fulfil the academic and writing requirements of students, aspirants of competitive examinations, researchers, scholars, translators, educationists, and writers. This dictionary is unique in the sense that the 'Words or Terms' have been drawn from literature, science, geography, commerce & business etc to give it a touch of completeness. 'Words or Terms' come complete with grammatical details, syntax, and meaning and a sentence to improve writing or speaking. 'Words or Terms' have been serialized in alphabetical order, i.e., A-Z for ease in making searches. To the extent possible, Terms used in common parlance have only been included, avoiding less frequent ones. In the Appendices section, body parts, common ailments, apparel, cereals, fruit & vegetables, herbs & spices, household items and other useful information have been included for added utility. This dictionary will be found useful by student community besides others such as, educationists, writers, translators, aspirants of competitive exams.