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You attract what you fear - or something far worse... Inspector Terry is drawn into a world of phobias and perversions as a highly intelligent, dangerously devious killer who calls himself Shadoe starts to single out the clients of renowned psychologist Dr. Joy Canova, torturing them to death with their own phobias. Patricia Miles, Joy's newest client, suffers from an intense fear of butterflies. Stranded in a pointless marriage and unaware of the dark secrets held by the people closest to her, she seeks the thrill of an affair and falls for Lionel Croft. What she doesn't know: he's one of Joy's former lovers and the main suspect in the case. Then Patricia's husband is found beaten to death - his mouth full of exotic butterflies. Is Patricia the next on Shadoe's list?
First in the Hackney McTrite Series. Murder Adultery Conspiracy Wrap these treacheries with a web of intrigue and this enticing PI adventure boils. Add the charm and uniqueness of New Orleans and Paris and enchantment is spawned. Sprinkle it with Letitia, a saucy Italian-American seeking a divorce from her mob-boss husband Alphonse Infantino, and you have cunning and deceit. Complete the characters with a down on his luck private dick who uses cliches with every breath and your funny bone gets tickled. Add it all together and Walker Jackson's fast moving thriller portraying McTrite's close encounters with the New Orleans Mob leap from the pages. My first agent said, I was taken by it. So will you. Get hooked.
Characters: Do your characters have no obvious signs of life, nothing that gives them unique personality, perspective, and passion? Plots: Are plots and conflicts created spur of the moment with no set up, build up, curiosity, or tension? Relationships: Are your characters merely going through the motions with each other? All of these and more are signs of dead or lifeless stories. The three core elements of story--Characters, Plots, and Relationships (CPR)--need to be developed three dimensionally. To truly be living, characters aren't simply existing and going through the motions. They possess fully developed external and internal conflicts. They're interacting in dynamic, realistic, and b...
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Tori Bertoletti, librarian and planet cataloger, and Raze Salen, mankind's emissary, aboard the Human spacefaring liveship the Aero have convinced their government of the dire need to negotiate formal alliances with the other cultures in the galaxy. The monumental task they're undertaking and the consequences of failure are mind-rattlingly clear. Complications muddle the mission in the form of uneasy truces and frustrating stalemates, long-held enigmatical cosmologies suddenly called into life-altering question, along with immediate and imminent threats that could tear apart the fabric of the entire universe and everything living in it.
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Over 150 exquisite color illustrations and text make this account of one of North America's finest South Asian art collections an invaluable guide.
Newlyweds Tori Bertoletti and Raze Salen--the heart and soul of the Human spacefaring liveship the Aero--are separated. Ambassador Raze continues to negotiate formal alliances while Tori and the best scientific minds in the galaxy try to figure out how to stop the organic menace swallowing the universe in darkness. Meanwhile, civil war threatens to erupt between Earthers and Spacers and the leader of the Napoleonic Sinshe has defected. But can he convince his people...including his own sons leading the armada against all other worlds and cultures...that they've been indoctrinated and enslaved to lies against their will?
A collection of six enchanting novellas of contemporary India. A surprising journey into the world of well-to-do, well-travelled, well-educated people, who are at the same time bound by ancient traditions. At the heart of each story is a young woman caught in the cross-fire of those old ways, which demand her subservience, and those of modern life, which call on her to declare her independence. Confronted with the opportunity to defy the ancient traditions, the women are faced with terrible choices. Laced with snatches of Hindu mythology, epic scripture, philosophy and poetry, A Wounded Tigress is destined to be a true classic.
An invaluable help book for people in pain, with dramatic case histories of real people