To Bloom Like a Tulip - format ePub

If you think YOUR family is nuts, wait until you read about this one!  An ominous cloud full of questions has hung over Bethany Barrows' wildly dysfunctional family ever since her little cousin Ashley...

It's the 1920s.  Song-and-dance man August La May, formerly known as Avram Landenberg of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, thought he was living a grand life on the Orpheum Circuit in vaudeville, traveling...

It's June 1939.  Three young Jewish girls, Rosi, her sister Anni, and their cousin Emilie, wait to board the Kindertransport train that will take them away from Nazi Germany, and a life of discrimination,...

A bad private school.  The boomerang of corruption!  Amanda Conway has been haunted for twenty-one years by the emotional abuse she endured as a child at an "exclusive" but unscrupulously run private...

Selena had long realized her old school friend Mila was quite a toxic character and was becoming increasingly worse.   When two incidents that can't be ignored take place in a row, Selena decides she...

The last thing Jazz Kenneally ever expected was to inherit the fortune of her mother's half-sister, Lysandra Somersby.  However, there was no one else for Lysandra to leave it to because she'd alienated...

It's 1944 and World War II is raging in Europe and Asia.  On the American homefront in the Keighry Head neighborhood of Elizabeth, New Jersey, Irish Catholic brothers Benny and Timmy Finnegan watch from...

"Fate can toss a boomerang."  It's a cryptic message scrawled on a scrap of paper—left at the scene of a brutal murder. The victim? Petra Turkett: beloved teacher, respected coach… and, as Detective Knox...

Found abandoned in a Colorado mall when she was too young to say how she got there, the little three-year-old girl wearing a bracelet with the name "Amanda" on it doesn't know anything about herself,...

War only separates friends if you let it.  Boisterous 11-year-old aspiring singer Ruby Carol Rafferty's happy life in Seattle is turned upside-down after the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in December 1941....

He's a high school English and Theater teacher who always secretly wanted to be a cop.  So when Monty Farraday is summoned, for reasons unknown, to meet with principal Reginald Brandenburg prior to the...

What's a nice down-to-earth girl from Brooklyn doing in a place like Hollywood?It's 1964, and Katie Hathaway, almost but not quite twenty-one, has been living in sunny Southern California with her television...

Belinda and Jonathan O'Malley always wanted a sibling for their daughter, Holly.  When the opportunity arose in 1975 to adopt two Vietnamese orphan girls from Operation Babylift, they were overjoyed to...

Nola has no sooner retired to the Florida Keys, where she begins wto write a book about a cold case from her childhood and what she witnessed way back then, when a hot case lands on her dock.  Before...

Someone is robbing the Golden Sunrise International Foundation blind!  Golden Sunrise builds schools in third-world countries, and one of the New York employees in the executive office has already made...

Jasmine works for a talent agent so tyrannical she's looking forward to the day she can quit when she enters the office and finds him dead on the floor.  That narcissistic agent is one of the most hated...

Richard's life is shrouded in the mystery of his birth and a peculiar heritage involving a rare book. As he matures, he navigates a path of spiritual discovery that leads him through illness, restoration,...

An orphan obsessed with his history uncovers an ancient sword and a tragic destiny intertwined with his ancestors. Wilfrid's introspective journey is marked by intense friendships, unrequited love, and...

Emma finds the reality of provincial marriage suffocating compared to the romance novels she devours. Her desperate pursuit of passion and luxury leads her down a destructive path of adultery and financial...

Felicite devotes her entire existence to serving others, her life a series of losses borne with quiet, heartbreaking resignation. From a broken engagement to the worship of a stuffed parrot, her story...

In the aftermath of war, mercenaries revolt against Carthage, led by a warrior obsessed with the holy veil and the high priestess. The narrative drips with exotic opulence, brutal violence, and the mystique...

This triad of stories showcases the breadth of human experience, from the sainthood of a medieval hunter to the tragedy of a servant. Each tale is a distinct jewel, polished to perfection, exploring themes...

A rare orchid of immense value lures Quatermain and his companions into the heart of unexplored territory. Guarded by a recluse and a terrifying gorilla deity, the prize demands a high price in blood...

Allan Quatermain recounts a thrilling hunt that turns into a desperate rescue mission when his son is imperiled. The legendary hunter must face the kings of the beasts in the African veldt to save his...

Grieving the loss of his son, the legendary hunter seeks one last adventure in the heart of unexplored Africa, discovering the hidden civilization of Zu-Vendis on the brink of civil war.

Before the famous expeditions, a younger Allan Quatermain encounters a mysterious woman raised by baboons, their haunting love story unfolding against a backdrop of Zulu mysticism and the harsh realities...

A hunt for Portuguese gold buried deep within the ruins of Zimbabwe turns into a nightmare of hypnosis and betrayal as Benita navigates the obsession of a madman and the lingering spirits of the past.

Decades after the fire consumed her, the immortal She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed calls from the snowy peaks of Central Asia, drawing Leo Vincey and Holly into a spiritual journey to find the reincarnated soul...

An Egyptian priest plots the downfall of the Greek Ptolemaic dynasty through the assassination of the legendary Queen, but finds himself torn between sacred duty and the seduction of Cleopatra's charm.

The beautiful and ambitious Mameena weaves a web of intrigue that threatens to tear the Zulu nation apart, while Allan Quatermain witnesses the tragic consequences of desire and political manipulation...

A desperate search for a missing brother leads a trio of adventurers across a burning desert to the fabled mountains of the Kukuanas, where they are trapped between a tyrannical king and a witch-doctress.

In the turbulent era of the Great Trek, Allan Quatermain falls for a brave Voortrekker girl, their romance tested by the machinations of a villainous rival and the bloody massacre at the hands of Dingaan's...

Seeking vengeance for his murdered family, Thomas Wingfield pursues a Spanish villain across the ocean to the heart of the Aztec Empire, rising to power within Montezuma's court just as Cortes arrives...

The outcast Umslopogaas and his wolf brethren carve a path of blood and honor through the rise of Shaka's empire, while the beauty of Nada sparks a war that consumes the greatest warriors of the land.

As the Hyksos shepherd kings oppress the land of the Nile, a secret princess is raised among the pyramids to reclaim her throne, uniting a fractured Egypt under the rightful banner through prophecy and...

In the hidden caves of Kor, an immortal queen waits two thousand years for the return of her lost love, confronting two English explorers with a power that defies nature and an obsession burning brighter...

To save a girl believed to be the white spirit of the skies, Allan Quatermain ventures into the misty forests of the Tree-worshippers, outwitting the terrifying mother of trees in a labyrinth of superstition.

Seeking to restore his family's fortune, Leonard Outram accepts a dangerous mission to rescue a woman from a lost race who worship a giant crocodile, turning a quest for rubies into a battle for survival.

Shipwrecked on a remote island, survivors discover a subterranean chamber housing beings from a technologically advanced past, where the awakened lord Oro holds the power to alter the planet's axis and...

The origins of Ayesha are revealed as she navigates the courts of Egypt and Arabia in search of ultimate truth, rejecting the love of mortals for the pursuit of divine wisdom that eventually binds her...

A young aspiring journalist navigates the bustling literary world of New York City while seeking a partner who shares his progressive ideals. Through his courtship and eventual marriage, the novel examines...

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania...

So long a time had passed that Dorothy C. had grown to be what father John called "a baker's dozen of years old"; and upon another spring morning, as fair as that when she first came to them, the girl...

To speak of "Don Quixote" as if it were merely a humorous book would be a manifest misdescription. Cervantes at times makes it a kind of commonplace book for occasional essays and criticisms, or for the...

The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging...

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with...