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Fallout
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Sadie Jones
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Sadie Jones, the award winning, bestselling author of The
Uninvited Guests and The Outcast, explores the theater of love, the
politics of theater, and the love of writing in this deeply
romantic story about a young playwright in 1970s London.
Leaving behind an emotionally disastrous childhood in a
provincial northern town, budding playwright Luke Kanowski begins a
new life in London that includes Paul Driscoll, an aspiring
producer who will become his best friend, and Leigh Radley, Paul's
girlfriend. Talented and ambitious, the trio found a small theater
company that enjoys unexpected early success. Then, one fateful
evening, Luke meets Nina Jacobs, a dynamic and emotionally damaged
actress he cannot forget, even after she drifts into a marriage
with a manipulative theater producer.
As Luke becomes a highly sought after playwright, he stumbles in
love, caught in two triangles where love requited and unrequited,
friendship, and art will clash with terrible consequences for all
involved.
Fallout is an elegantly crafted novel whose characters struggle
to escape the various cataclysms of their respective pasts. Falling
in love convinces us we are the pawns of the gods; Fallout brings
us firmly into the psyche of romantic love--its sickness and its
ecstasy.
'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose
yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane May 1940
There are new residents at Goodwill House - WAAF drivers Camilla
'Millie' Cunningham and Diane Forsyth, both eager to do their bit
for the war effort and excited to be helping the brave boys who
fly. And when Millie meets dashing and heroic Spitfire pilot Ted
Thorrington, they strike up an instant connection. But with Hitler
gaining more ground in Europe, there is danger brewing across the
Channel in Dunkirk and Ted is required to fly more and more
dangerous sorties, risking his life every time. With their hearts
and lives on the line, the courage of the girls in blue will be
tested like never before... Don't miss book two in the wonderful
new Goodwill House series by bestselling author Fenella J. Miller!
Praise for Fenella J. Miller: 'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J
Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another
place.' Lizzie Lane 'Engaging characters and setting which whisks
you back to the home front of wartime Britain. A great start to
what promises to be a fabulous series.' Jean Fullerton
It is 1755, and the French, accompanied by their fierce Huron
comrades, are wreaking havoc along the shores of the Ohio River
Valley, torching and destroying everyone and everything along their
murderous path. As Colton Gray, a major in the Virginia Militia and
personal scout to Colonel George Washington bravely battles the
French and their Indian allies, his new wife, Sashsa, pines for the
man of her dreams.Sashsa, a former debutante in Montreal who was
forced to run away from all she loved to avoid an arranged
marriage, never expected to fall in love with a strong-willed
soldier--let alone marry him. Haunted nightly by passionate dreams
of his soul mate, Colton attempts to concentrate on the battles
ahead without any idea that Sashsa has a plan of her own. Driven by
her intuition that Colton is in trouble, Sashsa risks everything
and heads into the battlefield with their young son to find him.
When they are finally reunited, neither is prepared for the danger
they will face or the choices they must make in order to protect
their happiness--and their hearts.In this continuing romantic saga,
a tenacious temptress and the man who loves her must stay the
course in the midst of a brutal war and sacrifice everything to
build a dynasty that will survive the ages of history.
A pretend marriage to the Earl Sharing everything-except a bed...
To uncover a ruthless killer, Arabella Roffey masquerades as the
Countess of Westray-never expecting her 'husband' suddenly to
appear! He could expose her, but instead he agrees to continue her
ruse for a week. Randolph is brooding, handsome, and Bella likes
him more than she should. Pretending to be his wife, she shares
everything with him-except a bed-but the temptation to do so is
becoming all too real...
"Men march off to war because the women are watching." So said
Socrates. In "THE HARD GODDESS," the second book of his
trilogy-"The Song of Charlemagne," the author introduces his reader
to the women behind the men on the medieval battlefield. In so
doing, one comes to understand and appreciate how French
expressions such as "Feminine Mystique" and "Femme Fatale" must
have originated and which are today, universally recognized and
understood in the international lexicon without translation. Along
the way, one also discovers a few of the ulterior motives
underlying Charlemagne's alliance with the Roman church as well as
organized religion's functional utility in the hands of potentates
(be they Christian or Muslim) as a societal control mechanism. In
the process of the troubadour's telling of the story, the reader
experiences visceral descriptions of Dark Age battle against the
gloriously detailed backdrop of a France that is still there if one
knows where to go and look. There is a reason Eleanor of Aquitaine
is always credited with having "invented" the concepts of Romance,
Chivalry and Courtly Love. She was far removed from the times in
which he actually lived. Yet somehow, she must have sensed and
understood Charlemagne's hidden agenda regarding women within the
church and the greater social order. But, in the final analysis, is
anything within the pages of this work relevant with regard to
contemporary world events and social issues confronting us all?
Sadly, terribly.
The "Serendipity of Marriage" is based on biblical scripture
teaching. Winters as a minister have been consoling men, women, and
couples for over twenty years discussing their difference in the
behavior of the opposite gender. To help them better understand
their role in their relationship, Winters would direct them to
scripture, where they are able to feel their role within their
relationship. Marriage is a sacred union before God, it does not
matter how difficult your relationship is, with your husband or
wife, because if you first have that relationship between you and
God, then your relationship between your husband or wife will be a
benefactor of your relationship with God. We should not go into
marriage, because of money or other material wants, but it should
be based on "LOVE" and only "LOVE," everything else that you
receive after marriage would be a blessing from God.
It's 1896. New York City is hardly the ideal place for a child
whose father has disappeared and whose mother has fled from reality
to the comfort of her piano. Eight-year-old Leigh Blackwell,
determined to care for her mother and make ends meet, leaves school
and takes a job in the garment district. Just as life's challenges
threaten to overwhelm her, she finds nine-year-old Tom Paterson, a
streetwise pickpocket, on her front steps.
Tom and Leigh's lives soon intertwine as he appoints himself her
protector and shares part of his meager earnings with her. After
her love of horse racing eventually leads Leigh to a job at a
thoroughbred stable, she finally attains independence and slowly
pulls away from the one who has quietly fallen in love with her.
But when Leigh leaves New York and becomes entangled with a bitter,
angry man, her desire to help him nearly costs Tom his life--and
their chance at ever finding happiness together.
In the Midst of Wolves recounts the unconventional coming-of-age
journey of a homeless pickpocket and an enterprising orphan as they
grow into adulthood in the early twentieth century despite many
obstacles, including some that are of their own making.
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