Un bon secret, ça se partage ! Coup de grâce pour Alison : son père a disparu. De toute évidence Tamara Diamond, sa grand-mère, y est pour quelque chose. Et si la famille entière s'était liguée pour détruire la jeune fille ? Décidée à découvrir le secret de son père, Alison mène son enquête. Mais à qui peut-elle se fier ? De qui doit-elle redouter une nouvelle traitrise ?
In the days before the cell phone, Facebook, i-pads, and mass electronic communication, there was Alexi. She lived in a suburb called Lockridge, in the USA, and she had a credo: "I don't want to do anything really." But change crept into Alexi's Autumn of 1982, twisting her existence. New people appeared at school. She was forced into a job (Halloween Carnival chairman) she didn't feel comfortable with, she found dealing with her divorced parents trying, and feelings emerged that were totally new and unexpected ... could it be LOVE?
The story about Shurm, the young Scorpion scribe of Sumer, was written more than fi ve decades ago. Th e manuscript unpublished remained in its folder, lately in a briefcase. At the urgings of an erudite daughter, the author is now presenting Shurm and his world in print. If some facts do not ring true with scholars of Sumer, the author apologizes. Doubtless, more is being learned every day by linguists and archeologists about this early country and its amazing contributions to society. Did Shurm really live in a country called Sumer? You bet! In the author's imagination.
Beautiful Lucia Winstone escapes distressing telephone calls and her mother's twilight world when she runs away to Boris Point, an imaginary, semi-wild island of the coast of Georgia. There, in a stormy garden, she encounters the Ghost of the island, hints of unexpected treasure, and a devastatingly attractive Pete Dulaney, who calls himself a beach bum. Amid strange occurrences, attempts to persuade her to go home, and threats of violence to her person, she discovers an important family secret and explores the dimensions of deep and sensual love. Introducing Emily Blake Vail The newest in a long line of prolific romance novelist in the southern tradition.
Trouble comes to Ole Ben's farm two years after the Williams family take possession of the house and land. The year was 1937 and the USA was still suffering from a Depression. Mother had to have an operation, rains were late arriving to make the crops grow, and a neighbor boy named Spooky was threatening the whole family with a knife, especially Jimmy's younger sister Millie. It was rumored Ole Ben, who willed these acres to his great niece Sara, had left a mysterious treasure somewhere about the place. Did he? Jimmy's pets, golden-haired Collie Nero and Nero's friend, a yellow clay-colored calf named Rosie, always play a major role in the Williams children's story.
"Bill is missing," Woody Chernault writes to Jean Bennedine Magruder who is living the Happy Hour life in an Atlanta apartment. So begins the "game" which, if brought to final reckoning, will endanger her life. Responding to the call for assistance, Jean revisits her life and times which include an unsuccessful marriage, a deceased child, and a thwarted love. With enemies all around her, the beautiful daughter of an illustrious Virginia family ventures back once again onto hallowed soil---Beyrance Springs College, a small men's school whose beginnings date back to the late 1780's. This Presbyterian community is also home to diverse human beings like Mona George and Amos Doppol, Miss Willie, Moira Davenport and the Reverend Sommers Martin who proclaims Telefax County "the greenest spot in the universe". What Jean discovers is the mystery.
