![]() ![]() But protecting her own, long-neglected heart? That’s the hardest thing she’s ever done.Ĭontent Warning: violence, hostage situation Because it’s easy for Hannah to protect Jack. But the more time she spends with Jack, the more real it all starts to seem. Even though her ex, like a jerk, says no one will believe it. And so Hannah-against her will and her better judgment-finds herself pretending to be Jack’s girlfriend as a cover. Only one catch: He doesn’t want his family to know about his stalker. When Jack’s mom gets sick, he comes home to the family’s Texas ranch to help out. But a few years back, in the wake of a family tragedy, he dropped from the public eye and went off the grid. ![]() Jack Stapleton’s a household name-captured by paparazzi on beaches the world over, famous for, among other things, rising out of the waves in all manner of clingy board shorts and glistening like a Roman deity. ![]() But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka “bodyguard”), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his middle-aged, corgi-breeding stalker. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. ![]()
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Esther then decides to run away to join the Librarians in the hope that the company of such “ chaste, morally upright women” would rid her of the wrongness inside her.īut Esther soon discovers how absurdly, ridiculously naïve she has been. ![]() Esther wonders, not for the first time, what reason it is to cling so stubbornly to her defiance when the current is pulling so hard in the other direction. 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The internationally bestselling author of Into the Wilderness makes her highly anticipated return with a remarkable epic about two female doctors in nineteenth-century New York and the transcendent power of courage and love.The year is 1883, and in New York City it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. ![]() ![]() ![]() Was Darlington a good guy, or an out-and-out Nazi?Īs the story moves along, we know that he isn't open about his feelings, even to himself. Details, after all, were his life.īut we also wonder about his biases… like his loyalty toward Lord Darlington and his professionalism. It's as though he's admitting to an employer that he forgot whether the guests wanted roast or baked chicken, or admitting to a colleague that he forgot to inform them that a spare bedroom needed airing. 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Bestselling novelist Rowan O’Sullivan, one of two narrators of this mesmerizing psychological thriller from Sise ( Open House), has it all: a handsome, successful husband, Gabe, and a baby on the way. ![]() ![]() Like other shared worlds and alternative histories, the fun is not just the story and the outstanding, well informed art by Paul McCaffrey, but in picking out the recognisable characters from the literature of the era, or looking them up online for clarity and for a better understanding of their inclusion and/or their pedigree. ![]() ![]() He even now, in this collected edition, still has the time to introduce even more gothic-drenched vampires, villains and vagabonds. Moore did so in his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) such as the aforementioned Count Vlad, Lord Ruthven, and other such fanciful figures, has been over two decades in the making. His love for all things gory and gross knows no bounds, but the character and the novel, Dracula, seems to be something of a healthy obsession with him and after over 25 years of the novel series, Newman released his first comic book series earlier this year.īuilding a world in which his own inventions cross paths with other more better known Victorian literary figures (and long before a certain Mr. ![]() ![]() Kim Newman is something of an expert on horror and along with his Anno Dracula series of novels, he has written academically on the subject for many, many years. ![]() |