Collin Banks has made treasure hunting his profession and his latest project brings him to Oasis, Arizona. He's attempting to solve the hundred year old mystery of a gold heist from the Manfred Schneider Gold Mine. However, while flying his Cessna Skyhawk over the small town and surrounding desert, something goes horribly wrong and his plane crashes!

Leedy Collins is a restaurant manager who has a dream of one day opening her own restaurant. The only thing missing is the bank loan. Terry Foster, a handsome loan officer, is the most exciting man Leedy has ever met. They both feel the electricity upon their first meeting, but when he declines her loan application - sparks fly.Leedy is furious. Obviously, this is an odious man who delights in destroying her dream. Terry feels for Leedy but it is his job to protect the bank from high risks. He is all too familiar with saving young women; he has raised his orphaned niece and feels compelled to save Leedy. When Leedy decides to enroll in his business management class, they are both in for the ride of their life. Leedy is looking for help in pursuing her lifelong dream of owning a restaurant, but she may end up with much more than she bargained for. **

At the age of twenty-four, Barbara McLean and her husband, Thomas, decided to make their home in the country, near a village called Alderney in Grey County, Ontario. Together they became homeowners, farmers and, eventually, parents. They called their farm Lambsquarters, and they remain there today, twenty-six years later.Life on a farm is a cycle of neverending work and discovery. Barbara and her family develop close relationships with every living thing: the hearty lambs and the fragile ones, the pumpkins and the potatoes and the hollyhocks in the barnyard, a family of bluebirds with problems of its own. What at first seems an intensely independent act -- having one's own land and space -- becomes more meaningful once it becomes possible to connect with the larger community. Strong bonds are formed with neighbours who share both in grief and in celebration.In striking portraits that are intensely intimate and yet reverberate with the universal hum of life,...

In WORLD CUP RUGBY TALES, World Cup-winning rugby legend Lawrence Dallaglio shares his favourite stories from his time at International rugby's greatest tournament. With razor-sharp wit and good humour he lets the reader behind the closed doors of the tournament, to see what happens on and off the pitch when the cameras aren't looking.All the great names are here - Blanco, Lomu and Pienaar among them - and in his time Dallaglio has shared pints or blows (or both) with them all and has lived to tell the stories.Funny, frank and fully loaded with quick-fire banter these are the best of the best tales of the legends of the International stage.

In the years since the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace , the Republic has continued to crumble, and more and more, the Jedi are needed to help the galactic government maintain order. As Star Wars: Attack of the Clones opens, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker have just returned from a mission on a world called Ansion. Written by beloved Star Wars veteran Alan Dean Foster, and starring a new character from the upcoming movie, The Approaching Storm tells the story of that daring mission. The Republic is decaying, even under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who was elected to save the galaxy from collapsing under the forces of discontent. On the tiny but strategic planet of Ansion, a powerful faction is on the verge of joining the growing secessionist movement. The urban dwellers wish to expand into the prairies outside their cities — the ancestral territory of the fierce, independent Ansion nomads. If their demands are not met, they will secede — an act that could jump-start a chain reaction of withdrawal and rebellion by other worlds of the Republic. At the Chancellor's request, the Jedi Council sends two Jedi Knights, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luminara Unduli, to resolve the conflict and negotiate with the elusive nomads. Undaunted, Obi-Wan and Luminara, along with their Padawans Anakin Skywalker and Barriss Offee, set out across the wilderness. Many perils lie waiting to trap them. The Jedi will have to fulfill near-impossible tasks, befriend wary strangers, and influence two great armies to complete their quest, stalked all the while by an enemy sworn to see the negotiations collapse and the mission fail…

Tanya spends hours at a time painting renditions of the masculine—and very nude—glory that is Joe, her gorgeous blue-eyed model. When he offers to help her learn how to improve her work, simple lessons in touching and learning his body, she’s willing to suffer that much more. But what began as erotic lessons in art becomes a study in love and perseverance that Joe will never let her forget.

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Connie is the teasing, naughty neighbor next door you only wish you had. She fantasizes about an erotic spanking from her neighbor and his friend. She gets more than she bargains for in this sexy short story.

Summer of 1988. Leavenworth, Kansas: a town with four major prisons, gripped by the recent escape of a convict. Yet for two young brothers, all that matters is the pool in their apartment complex. They spend their blissful days practicing dives while their divorcée mother works her day shift at the golf course and their policeman father patrols the streets. But when a mysterious stranger appears poolside and creates a rift between the brothers, the younger one wonders just what these visits to the pool might ultimately cost. Based on Cote Smith's well-received short story of the same name, Hurt People will hold you in its grip to the very last page. Eerily atmospheric, lean, and forceful, this is a debut from a slyly talented new writer.