Showing results by author "A.K. Alexander" in All Categories

Alexander Kuprin prefaced his novel The Pit about the lives of early 20th century Russian prostitutes as follows, "I know many people will find this novel amoral and inappropriate, but nevertheless I dedicated it from the bottom of my heart to mothers and young people" Indeed, the novel's publication was followed by an explosion of outrage. The "good" society accused Kuprin of slander and forever exiled him from its sitting rooms, charity auctions, and holiday balls. Progressive intellecutals winced and shuddered, but could not help admitting Kuprin had a point.

When Jack and his family moved into their new house, he thought his life was getting an upgrade. A manor, rather than his old small apartment? He could have many adventures, even if his family did move from the city to a tiny town. Except, he's started seeing the ghost of a young girl holding a teddy bear at the edge of his vision. Following him. Everywhere he turns, he sees her. Getting slowly closer.

Chelsea has now traded places with her evil twins... and finds herself trapped in a ghost space while Angelica takes over. Is it possible for her to get her life back?

A series of a different color: the first Horse Lover's mystery. Quarter horse trainer Michaela Bancroft's husband is divorcing her for a 22 year-old beauty. Stunned, Michaela is trying to rein in her life when she finds her Uncle Lou murdered. And when she's nearly run off the road, she suspects she's on the fast track to being the next victim.

Chelsea has now traded places with her evil twins... and finds herself trapped in a ghost space while Angelica takes over. Is it possible for her to get her life back?

Kylie is an audial psychic who can hear conversations from far away. Noah can see into the past. Ayden can see into the future. Kylie’s sister, Hope, can time travel. John was once PSI’s psychic healer…and Kylie’s true love. But Ky’s world is torn apart when damning evidence implies that John betrayed the team. But did he? Kylie wants to save a group of psychics — many are children — who are being held captive at a secret compound and forced into training to become psychic weapons.

A couple found brutally murdered in the Coronado Cays pulls San Diego CSI Holly Jennings from a bliss-filled morning with her new baby and husband into a twisted maze of cheating spouses and Hollywood gore. As Holly and her team track the bloody trail left by the killer, the questions and the body count continue to rise like the damned who've been drowned. The killer fits the profile of a professional. But Holly can feel the rage and need for redemption behind these deaths that tells her that for the killer - or killers - this is all intimately personal.

What began as an innocent love affair for one young woman, Marta Pea, in Mexico in 1969, sets in motion a series of events that spans the next 30 years. This is the story of South American drug lords Antonio Espinoza and Javier Rodriguez, and their violent quest for power. In a sweeping family saga, we meet the women who love them and the children they vow to protect at any cost. With a complex web of interconnected families, this gritty novel delves into the lives of a power hungry clan, following the rise of their business, the destructive path of their torrid and erotic love affairs, and the struggle to balance greed with family loyalty.

A fairy tale for grownups, Alexander Kuprin's lovely The Blue Star is a wonderful study in human perception.

Naomi is petrified of the talent show her school is putting on. She can't be out there alone in front of all those people... not without serious stage fright. How will she manage? The answer arrives in a mysterious box -- a ventriloquist's dummy that transforms Naomi from a shy girl into a natural performer. It all goes well... until Naomi starts to want the stage for herself. When the dummy strikes back it raises the question -- who's controlling who?

Lanie’s a teenage girl running on bad luck and breaks. She spends more time with her earphones in than out, and spends most of her days dodging her pervy foster dad as well as the kids at school. She’s a total loner except for a homeless woman inhabiting the neighborhood park, and a certain Hummer-driving mystery boy. All she dreams of is finding her place in this world. She has no idea she belongs in another world entirely.

A beautiful collection of female archetypes from the author of The Garnet Bracelet and Sulamyth.

Best known for his poetry and historic novels in the style of Sir Walter Scott, Alexender Bestuzhev-Marlinsky takes a turn down a different path with A Terrible Prophecy and delivers classic spooky tale on the dangers of having one's wishes fulfilled to the letter.

"Upon a Cloudy Shore" is a strange and fascinating tale about human relationships, greed, honor, and commitment, written in Alexander Grin's typical beautifully fanciful style.

Imagine if one man devised a way to gain control of one vital resource no one can live without. What would you do then?

A new tack shop and a gala polo match are reasons to celebrate for horse trainer Michaela Bancroft - until equestrian Sterling Tabor is found clubbed to death with a polo mallet. Worse yet, suspicion falls on Michaela.... The weapon belongs to Michaela, her prints are all over it, and rumors of her alleged affair with the victim aren't helping. With her boyfriend, Detective Jude Davis, out of town, Michaela doesn't stand a chance of proving her innocence and clearing her name unless she delves into Tabor's mysterious life - and death - on her own.

Psychic spy John Herrel was once a healer. Now he’s a weapon. Captured, restrained, and experimented on by his own agency, John learns the horrifying truth: PSI has transformed his gift of healing into the power to kill with a single touch. Betrayed by his mentor Grant Simms and sold out to the ruthless Orlenda Kobach, John is slated to become the prototype for a new breed of psychic assassin. Even worse, Simms has ensured John’s team—Kylie, Noah, and Ayden—believe he’s turned traitor. Cut off from the woman he loves and haunted by visions of killing her with his deadly new gift, ...

Stories, essays and histories of protests and protesters. The importance of protesters cannot be understated. America is a nation born of protester. To that fact we owe our soul, be it the Abolitionist, the Suffragettes the Civil Rights Marcher, the, Pink Pussy Hats, or the Black Lives Matter Stalwarts. The true conscience of America is demonstrated by these heroes. They are the power that moves the line and eventually pushes our country across it to achieve moral victories. This book is dedicated to them, about them, and because without them, we would be less.

Be careful what you wish for when you say you want someone to love you to death. Such is the warning by Alexander Kuprin, issued in this beautifully written and poignant story.

Michaela Bancroft is expanding her training and riding business by buying four new horses from colleague Audrey Pratt. Then Audrey is found in the stalls, strangled to death with a pair of reins, and it's up to Michaela to corral a killer-or she's next.