Maureen: 1404 books

A turn from faith. A mother’s decision. A father’s loss. A daughter’s demise. A love denied. Fear and desperation lead to secrets and lies. Attractive, twenty-eight year-old single mother, Celia Joseph, is forced to betray Mark Ramsey, the father of her 5 year-old daughter, Marissa. However,...

Le démon des Highlands, de Maureen Child A Edimbourg où elle passe l’été, Emma est attaquée par un individu inquiétant. Par miracle, un inconnu surgi de nulle part met son agresseur en fuite et lui fait cette stupéfiante révélation : elle serait la descendante d’un clan des Highlands...

This book is a fun book for the reader as it displays a handful of emotions, a bit of quirkiness, perhaps some knowledge, some lessons to be learned and the feelings of pride and commitment. The colorful illustrations provide the perfect visual that definitely makes this story come to life. Also,...

Suzanne believes she knows who she is: a former wild child, neither virgin nor virginal as a teen; someone who pulls for the wayward girls and troubled boys she now teaches in Minnesota. She has learned to survive good love and bad love and people who don't care at all. At her rented cabin, she gathers...

When the co-founder of a pharmaceutical giant is found dead on the slopes of Jackson Hole, his partner is accused of murder and hires Mary MacIntosh to defend him. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the community. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Mac battles to save her client's freedom; yet, betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting for her own life.

The prosecution believed the Landers file was a case of Munchausen’s by Proxy - child abuse in which a parent with deep psychological problems induces symptoms of illness in his or her child. As Mac delves deeper into the dynamics of the family, she is horrified by the web of conspiracy and betrayal...

A brutal struggle in the cutthroat oil and gas industry in a quaint Wyoming town between ranch owner Butch Anderson, a born-in-the-saddle cowboy world famous on the rodeo circuit vs. a coalbed methane gas company. When sludge oozes from the “Well from Hell” contaminating the groundwater, destroying...

A serial killer is on the loose using the deadly strain of the H5N1 virus as a murder weapon. His selected targets are young, beautiful women with a connection to a European sex trade. His signature is a strange, hand-drawn tattoo on each woman's inner thigh which taken together, lead Mary MacIntosh and the FBI to clues of sacred burial grounds around the world.

A serial killer, who commenced his murderous rampage before the ripe of age 12, but due to a loophole in the law, is released from juvenile detention. Mac hosts a reunion for her four college roommates at her family cabin in Colorado, and the killer shows up and captures each of the five telling them that one of their husbands hired him to kill her. Each must convince him that she's not it.

Middle school can be tough! Especially when Alex's best friend moves away and his dad loses his job. Then a new boy moves in next door and a bully starts picking on the new kid. Alex feels caught in the middle. If he defends the new kid, he may become the bully's next target. Alex soon finds out that...

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our...

Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of...

When Alice looks up and sees Tom staring at her, everything closes down around them and becomes very still. No one is breathing. No one else is in the room. Tom feels as if he can see right into the soul of Alice Wishart. It lies open before him, like a wide, long pane of glittering glass. So delicate...

She’s a social outcast and he’s someone only a very few have known for a very short time. For a few predestined moments this unlikely pair find each other in "Soulmates" — a tale from "The Grey Forest” short story collection.