Showing results for title "The Crossing" in Literature & Fiction

Having spent the last seven years in Texas, Border Patrol Agent Peyton Cote is returning home to northern Maine, hoping it will be a safer environment for her young son. But the criminal element has turned what was once a quiet corner of the country into an illicit trade route... and there's no telling what they'll do to protect their interests.

A wanderer with a troubled past follows a sensitivity to magic that pulls him hard to a mountain in the middle of nowhere, where he's caught up in impending apocalypse, powerful practitioners...and a blood feud.

I thought my happiness was over when I discovered my husband was having an affair. I never thought I’d find happiness in the most unlikely place!

I’ve worshipped Killian from afar for a very long time. I never expected to actually get a chance at a relationship with this sexy older man!

Marissa isn’t happy about her boyfriend taking a job that will keep him in the city while she’s back in her little hometown of Kent Crossing, but she decides to make the best of things with the three days a week they’ll have together. Of course, that all flies out the window when she surprises her boyfriend in the city and sees him right in the middle of sex with his secretary! She rushes home devastated and finds comfort in the most unlikely person, her boyfriend’s Daddy. Before she knows it, she’s right in the middle of an exciting, forbidden romance. Where will it lead?

When Emily discovers Jacob is cheating on her, she wants to get revenge. She decides she’ll tell the man Jacob respects all about his son’s behavior. When she says she’s doing it for revenge, Hubby’s Daddy misunderstands what she wants, and before long, he’s helping her with an altogether different kind of revenge. She never expects to sleep with her father-in-law, but once she starts, she just can’t stop. What will come from their forbidden romance?

Spies have come to Quail Crossings! At least that’s what Rosie Brewer believes after catching a stranger on Quail Crossings muttering foreign words in the fog. The problem? No one will listen to her! They all think it’s just a figment of her overactive imagination.

Crossing The Aether (formerly The Fantasy Sandbox) is a fantasy, story-telling podcast, where hosts Andy and Ed build worlds and tell stories across a multiverse of realities all tied together by the mysterious fabric between existence, The Aether. Follow along the journey of exploration and developmental growth while these writers work to improve their craft and construct tales of adventure and intrigue in fantasy settings, build relationships with created lands and characters and marvel in the process along the way. Season One is currently unfolding the Vaelwyn Saga; a world of beckoned ...

After a fractured childhood spent in foster homes, city girl Roni has convinced herself that she has no need of anyone - other than her not-as-tough-as-he-looks rescued street cat, Scritches, and her unborn baby. Despite facing a bleak future, Roni distrusts the news of a bequest from an unknown aunt, Marian Nelson. But, out of options, she and Scritches leave Sydney behind, bound for the 800-acre property on the edge of the wheat belt of South Australia.

Ria Martinez has found a decent job within a lingerie store called Lilacs and Vanilla. The hours are great, the customers aren't a pain, her coworkers are fun, and the atmosphere is nice. She also has her eyes on her boss, Susannah Halprin. She's intrigued by Susannah's mysterious behavior and wants to know her. However, Susannah keeps her distance which makes Ria more and more interested.

Crossing Borders and Cultural Divides is set in Europe in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, a time when it became easier to cross European borders and settle in another country. It is based on my life growing up in a French village, then working in England, and finally discovering Germany. Tradition, wine, and oysters? Rock ’n’ roll, tea, and fish and chips? Or politics, beer, and sausages? That is a testing choice and conundrum for Mimi. Can she settle for a traditional teacher’s fate, absorbed by her native culture?

Since the day that Tessa met Beth, it feels like she's been torn. Torn between the love for a man and the love for a woman, torn between her religion and her beliefs, torn between Raymond and Beth. Just as Tessa finally gathers the courage to stand up for herself and confesses to her sexual orientation, things go wrong. She kisses Raymond and Beth leaves her. Tessa doesn't know where she stands with anyone in her life anymore.

With his first invention, Mickey Campbell has already lost one legal battle. Surely this time it will be different. Joining forces with Theo Spencer, his long-time friend and a genius in neural science, they will create a device that will allow humans to access information from computers and send it directly into their brains, using a mental interface. Together, and with help from beautiful assistant Felicia Jones, they will explore how far the technology can go while testing the bonds of their friendship. And the world will be impacted by the ramifications of their choices.

When Beauregard Kennedy left the Double K Ranch on the trail of a gunslinger, the last person he expects to work hand-in-hand with is Jessica Sanders…the woman whose heart he broke a few years earlier. Jessica Sanders takes her position as a Pinkerton Agent seriously, so when she learns her partner in the Red River Crossing case is Beau Kennedy, she must push her feelings aside and get her man. Can Beau keep the woman he still loves safe? Will Jessica get her man without losing her heart?

When Evelyn finds evidence that her fiancé is cheating on her, she has a breakdown and heads to the city to get back at him with the first guy she can find. Little does she know that the first guy she finds will be a handsome, charming older man who shows her everything her fiancé can’t show her in bed. Even less does she know that this older man will end up being her fiancé's father! Now that she’s had him, though, she can’t imagine letting him go. How will she manage to keep this taboo relationship going?

Emperor Aithan has commanded his eight heirs to carry out the plans that the Alliance in Trinon has ordered, which means that they will marry into the varying realms in the Meridian. Will the heirs do as they are bidden? What secrets will be revealed? What requistions will be given as the heirs look to their futures in the Meridian?

England, September 1939: Lily Shepherd boards a cruise liner for a new life in Australia and is plunged into a world of cocktails, jazz and glamorous friends. But as the sun beats down, poisonous secrets begin to surface. Suddenly Lily finds herself trapped with nowhere to go.... Australia, six-weeks later: The world is at war, the cruise liner docks, and a beautiful young woman is escorted onto dry land in handcuffs. What has she done?

Continuing the story of Joe from A Son of War, this is the story of the rapid changes in his life from working-class Wigton to the rarified atmosphere of Oxford as he begins his studies there.

What happened to yesterday? Meet Elliott Murphy - a remarkable man, Senior FBI agent, a grateful husband, and a recovering alcoholic. Hey - nobody is perfect but this guy is set to become a legend. After one of his not so good days, Elliott is fighting for his life, coming out of a drunken stupor. Something he is capable of doing but rarely embraces. But one thing draws him back better than anything else - a good mystery. Especially when it involves chasing the mob who has involved an unknowing insurance executive in fraud. The one dose of adrenaline that Elliott needs. Will Elliott be able...

Quincy Ashford will fight for his family and community. The stakes have never been higher. The heat has never been hotter. Quincy Ashford and the resilient people of Boone County fight the evil they face. Moonshine and its brewers and runners are a part of the history and the landscape. So why is somebody killing them? The law still needs to put the pieces together. Quincy already has. That gut feeling is telling him the truth. When Quincy finds himself in the crosshairs of a killer, the heat turns up. Family, survival, and service drive Quincy Ashford to be a man of integrity. Ignorant, ...