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Second in the Bryce series. It's Ann and Stephen's special day. Family and friends gather to help them celebrate, each with a story to tell. Peter's memories of Susan; the discovery of Elliston House, derelict, holding echoes of its previous occupants. Sisters, Alice and Audrey, one having raised children apparently abandoned by the other. Peter's difficult childhood with a father figure harbouring double standards. The consequences of his sister's naivety. Trust betrayed and a disappearance lead to an underground nightmare. Can happiness be sealed for more than one generation of the Bryce family?
An ingenious thriller that follows a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries—from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse. "[A] fantastic hybrid of Highlander and The Terminator…. It reads like classic steampunk on steroids." —Ernest Cline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Ready Player Two Present day: When a young anthropologist specializing in ancient technology uncovers a terrible secret concealed in the workings of a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll, she is thrown into a hidden world that lurks just under the surface of our own. With her career and her life at stake, June Stefanov will ally with a remarkable travel...
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England, 1792 Revolution rages in France, and war with England is imminent. But Nathan Kennett is fighting his own battle. An undercover spy catcher, he's after an unknown informant who's supplying valuable secrets about the English coastal defenses to the French. When he discovers a dead body in his employer's house, with Sir Peter Ross hunched over it, he has his suspect. Lean, strong and firm, Peter is Nathan's ex-lover—and a member of the aristocracy. He represents everything Nathan hates and has the arrogance to match. Peter broke off their affair with no explanation, but is he capable of murder, and treason besides? Trying to keep one step ahead of his enemies, Nathan has only two days to identify and deliver the informant to his superiors in London. Peter swears his innocence and offers to help find the true culprit, but as riots swell in the streets, Nathan can't be sure he can trust him. Or himself, when they're together. 71,000 words
In a violently divided Northern Ireland, two families confront fear, survival, and their fragile hope for something more . . . Belfast, 1972. On the Crumlin Road, the sectarian Troubles have forced Tom Martin to take drastic measures to protect his family. Across the divide, William McManus pursues his own bloody code, murdering for a cause. When both men underestimate the power of love and the belief in right and wrong it threatens to shake the lives of both families with greater impact than any bomb blast. This compelling, challenging, historical novel tells a timeless story of conflict between and within families, driven by religion, loyalty, and love. Praise for the novels of Deirdre Quiery “Sinister, mysterious, redemptive.” —Rose McGinty, author of Electric Souk “A beautifully conjured story of the depths of the human heart.” —Richard Rohr, New York Times–bestselling author of Breathing Under Water
Notes of Caring offers a collection of thoughts, warnings, encouragements, and reactions to life itself. Augustines writings were his reactions to the belief system he came to know and embrace. He did not create it, but simply explained his understanding of it and how it worked itself out in his life. This collection of articles is much the same in being an explanation of ideas as I understand them. It is one persons perspective, and that is all.