Sweet America

The door itself bent out of the frame with a soft squeal of metal. Mike started forward into the small circle of light when the odor from inside the space suddenly leapt out to assault him. At the same time, a distinct sound reached his ears, the sound of dozens of buzzing flies. Mike moved back quicker than he had thought to and nearly tripped over the others as he did. Ronnie stepped forward, snagged what was left of the door and pushed it shut. The broken lock mechanism jammed in the steel door unit and held it closed. Ronnie’s face was gray. Sweat popped out along his brow. He had ...

“A magnificent piece of writing, a beautiful tapestry of prose in which the stories of two of Atlanta’s most celebrated families have been woven densely into the history of the city itself.” —The New York Times The Intersection of Peachtree Street, historically the residential and...

John watched as Bear helped the girls move their sleeping bags and back packs over to a clear space on the factory floor. He didn’t see what Madison saw in Cammy, but it was her choice, and she wouldn’t get a second chance with him. He came close to slamming his fist into the cement floor. Not frustrated at all, he told himself. Not even a little. He was about to roll out his sleeping bag and go to sleep, maybe tomorrow would have a different spin, he thought briefly, when Bear walked over and dropped down in a squat next to him. He moved so fast and easy for a big man. “Hey,” John ...

America The Dead Survivor Stories One contains the first two books of the America The Dead series. Begins The End: When a catastrophic natural disaster looms on the near horizon, the government releases an airborne virus designed to make the human race better able to survive. Those that do survive are picking up the pieces of their world, and those that have died lay in their death sleep, but in their bodies the virus works on, mutating, setting the stage for a second catastrophe far worse that the first. Los Angeles: An apocalypse of epic proportions has shaken the Earth to it's core. In ...

The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken hearts, ruined friendships, and destroyed reputations. But fifteen years have passed, now she's come home -- broke...

Exciting! Romantic! Adventure! If you love Pride and Prejudice, and sweet and clean regency romance, you'll love this series! If you love stories like Bridgerton, North and South, Persuasion, with a dash of Sherlock Holmes thrown in, you're in the right place! Elizabeth sailed from America to find her family in the beginning of our story and found her true love along the way. We fell in love, once again, with our favorite characters from Pride and Prejudice, but now it's time to continue the story and have brand new adventures! This second compilation, of books seven through ten, will take ...

Teresa July has led a hard life, but now she has a chance to put her train robbing past behind her. Armed with a new job as a cook to one of Philadelphia's elite families, Teresa is determined to start her life anew, and nothing––not even her boss's stuck–up (and far too handsome)...

The smell hit them before they reached the woods. “Jesus,” Ronnie said, “What in ...” “Bad, right?” Jeff said. “That's why I wanted you to come along.” He moved his eyes to include Mike, and then further to include Candace and Patty. “That hit me hard, just like it did you.” He walked to the edge of the woods and peered in. “Come on,” he said. “Take a look at this.” He stepped into the tree line and disappeared from sight almost entirely. Just another shadow in the shadows that made the tree line their home. Candace stepped into the shadowed woods, and her eyes ...

Exciting! Romantic! Adventure! If you love Pride and Prejudice, and sweet clean Regency Romance, you'll love this series! If you favor JAFF authors like Reynolds, Wells, Kendig, and Salier, these books are meant for you! Do you love stories like Bridgerton and North and South? You are in the right place! Elizabeth, at the tender age of 19, finds herself an orphan. Her father's final wish is for her to sail to England to reconnect with the family he and her mother ran away from. Along with her faithful companions, she arrives at the coastal town of Ramsgate, where the very first person she ...

Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage. She remained enslaved throughout the Civil War, giving birth to a son in Mississippi and never forgetting who had put her in this position. By 1869, Wood had obtained her freedom for a second time and returned to Cincinnati, where she sued Ward for damages in 1870. Astonishingly, after eight years of litigation, Wood won her case: In 1878, a Federal jury awarded her $2,500.

If you love Pride and Prejudice, and sweet, clean Regency Romance, you'll love this series! What if Elizabeth wasn't a Bennet? What if Elizabeth was an American? What if Elizabeth sailed to England to find her Bennet family? What if Miss Darcy met Elizabeth at Ramsgate before she could get into trouble? What if there are a dozen new characters who were not in the original Pride and Prejudice? (but of course we'll see many of our old favorites) What if Mr. Darcy doesn't like Americans? Come visit this new Jane Austen Fan Fiction series and see what other "what if's" there are as Elizabeth ...

In Sweet Land of Liberty: A History of America in 11 Pies, food writer Rossi Anastopoulo cracks open our relationship to pie with wit and good humor. She traces the pies woven into our history, following the evolution of our country across centuries of innovation and change and examining how America’s relationship with this iconic dessert impacted culture across eras—and vice versa.

The virus begins to infect the world starting in Ecuador when it is accidently released. But that will gain speed slowly at first. In the United States a top-secret military panel authorizes releasing it on the general public starting in America and then spreading out from there to the entire world. While it is slowly spreading from Ecuador, it is soon spreading from several places in the world and the fall of humanity is begun. This book follows that start and a few survivors who attempt to outrun their destiny and flee the northern New York town where the virus was developed and released ...

On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives.

When the world crumbles, a broken man finds hope where he least expects it in the grit and quiet strength of a small Montana town. Cole Ramsey thought he’d left rural life behind for good. He poured his soul into big tech solutions for a cutting-edge smart city, only to be cast out as a scapegoat amidst corruption and scandal. He's blacklisted and adrift when a letter about his grandfather’s death pulls him back to the family ranch he had long abandoned. What he finds in Bridger’s Pass isn’t a simple homestead in disrepair. It’s a community clinging to old ways. Neighbors who ...

Action! Adventure! Romance! That's what you find in the Elizabeth from America series! If you love stories like Pride and Prejudice, but with more adventure, you just have to try this one! In our last episode, a battle with pirates concluded with a ship sinking, and Mr. Darcy being hurt. They rushed back to London where he was operated on and saved, but it will be a long recovery. We also found out Elizabeth Darcy is expecting! And then there was our newest love affair. What happens with Clifford and Jessica? A contingent of Network operatives is being sent to Nova Scotia to try and find ...

Donita: New York: The fires smoldered but no longer burned. Donita walked down Eighth Avenue towards Columbus Circle. Behind her a silent army followed, numbering in the thousands. From the circle they would take the park. There were thousands of the living camped out in the park. She could smell them on the air that flowed past her face as she walked. They had believed they were safe in their numbers. They had believed that nothing could touch them with their barricades. And for a time that had been true, but that time was passed now. She had left rapid city and begun her walk with only ...

If you love Pride and Prejudice, you'll love this series! Elizabeth from America is a serial series, with new episodes every few weeks. Join us for an entertaining romp around Regency England in this sweet and clean romance. In this episode we find out what happened to Katherine (Kitty) Bennett! Need we say more? Of course we do! Will Elizabeth go to Pemberley as scheduled? Will the two engagements lead to marriage, or will something else happen? Will Mr. Darcy put his foot in it again and ruin his chances forever? What happens when Elizabeth comes of age? Will she return to Boston ...

Donita: The hunger was terrible, all consuming, and it came in crashing waves. The impulse to feed seemed to be the only coherent thought she had. It was hard to think around, hard to think past. It was all she could do not to rush from the trees, find the smell that tempted her and consume it. Eat it completely. Leave nothing at all... It was about an hour and a half past sunset when Mike took over one of the perimeter guard posts from Susan. It was simply the far corner of the garage complex that overlooked a field and the highway beyond it. “Quiet?” He asked. “Pretty much. The dog....

Andrea Zurita had been alive for the second time for more than three days. The men who had left her body had done so carefully: Senor Prescott would be very angry to find them on his land: Transgressions had been met with violence in the past, the bodies dumped into the ocean. Andrea Ivanna Zurita had taken I'll three days before in the small village near to Prescott's property. She worked for Prescott, someone allowed on and off the property with ease. She had taken ill at work suddenly, no one knew the why of it and her family was poor: A doctor, other than the local clinic was out of the...