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What are the key elements to writing a time-slip novel? Where do you start in your plot? How do you weave together multiple storylines?In A Split in Time, time-slip authors Melanie Dobson and Morgan Tarpley Smith help fellow writers navigate and then master the challenges of writing a novel with two or more storylines. Within these pages you'll find:· Thirteen key components for split time fiction· Practical tips on building the time-slip structure· Interviews with bestselling novelists like Lisa Wingate and Susan Meissner· Analyses of multi-storyline techniques· Resources to build compelling split time characters, craft your ideas, and weave together multiple timelinesWhether you are a...
Best friends Zoe and Elle share a secret. Every day after school, they sneak into the ominous woods surrounding their small town. The isolation of the remote wilderness shelters them from the chaos at home, but it also brings dangers of its own. Something wicked watches the girls from a rotting Victorian mansion. Zoe and Elle will soon discover the mansion's decaying walls hide centuries-old secrets and a family whose bloodline is stained with violence and insanity. In order to escape, the girls' friendship and inner strength will be tested. The house's clutches are strong, and both friends will be caught in a struggle they may not be able to win.
Lurking in the shadows is a dark tale of murder and intrigue set in Oxford and the sleepy village of Chipping Norton in 1987. It is mainly set around the University area of Oxford a professor named John Logan is brutally murdered just before he was about to deliver a controversial speech about illegal pesticides used by some gardeners in the area especially in the Chipping Norton garden competition that is held every year.
Reproduction of the original: Raiding with Morgan by Byron A. Dunn
John Morgan is back! Barely recovered from his encounter with neo-Nazis seeking revenge Morgan is now faced with protecting the family of his murdered friend. Confronted by the intransigence of the Gardai, the ruthlessness of rival drug gangs and a web of lies and deceit Morgan risks his life to protect his dead friend’s wife and children. The brutal murder of Morgan’s friend Rob O’Dwyer is only the beginning of a nigthmare for his wife and children with Morgan facing a race against time to find the hidden drugs cache that is his only hope of saving the family. Combining gripping, fast-paced action with a clever well developed plot, No End to the Lies draws the reader in. The harsh and brutal reality of Ireland’s criminal underworld and the fate of those who are unwittingly caught up in it are brilliantly recounted. Can Morgan prevent further bloodshed and the loss of innocent lives? To do so he must first dismantle the web of lies, deception and betrayal spawned by greed. The second installment of the riveting new series of John Morgan novels – a new hero to thrill readers of all ages.
In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, “a wilderness,” he wrote, “of two thousand miles diameter.” During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry and later for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, “the mild and Christian young man” blazed the trail westward through South Pass; he was the first to go from the Missouri overland to California, the first to cross the length of Utah and the width of Nevada, first to travel by land up through California and Oregon, first to cross the Sierra Nevada. Before his death on the Santa Fe Trail at the hands of the Comanches, Jed Smith and his partners had drawn the map of the west on a beaver skin.
'THOROUGHLY ENTHRALLING' Booklist A young witch must choose between love and loyalty, power and ambition, in this magical novel set in Gilded Age New York and London. In 1692, Bridget Bishop was hanged as a witch. Two hundred years later, her legacy lives on in the scions of two very different lines: one dedicated to using their powers to heal and help women in need; the other, determined to grasp power for themselves. This clash will play out in the fate of Annis, a young woman in Gilded Age New York who finds herself a pawn in the family struggle for supremacy. She'll need to claim her own power to save herself - and resist succumbing to the darkness that threatens to overcome them all. 'A...
John Marion Porter (1839--1898) grew up working at his family's farm and dry goods store in Butler County, Kentucky. The oldest of Reverend Nathaniel Porter's nine children, he was studying to become a lawyer when the Civil War began. As the son of a family of slave owners, Porter identified with the Southern cause and wasted little time enlisting in the Confederate army. He and his lifelong friend Thomas Henry Hines served in the Ninth Kentucky Calvary under John Hunt Morgan, the "Thunderbolt of the Confederacy." When the war ended, Porter and Hines opened a law practice together, but Porter was concerned that the story of his service during the Civil War and his family's history would be l...