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The Trask family comes to the Hatteras West Inn to settle their late father's will. Innkeeper Alex Winston's Uncle Jase is murdered before it can be read, and the document is missing. Alex has a personal stake in solving the crime, but he has to wade through a family's secrets before he can find the killer.<

La poderosa familia de Nefertiti siempre le dio esposas a la familia gobernante Egipto y ella está destinada a casarse con Amenhotep, el faraón joven e inestable. Ambiciosa, carismática y bella, Nefertiti, adorada por las masas, es la princesa del pueblo. Sin embargo, como no puede engendrar un heredero, la posición de su familia en la corte comienza a peligrar. Al mismo tiempo, se da cuenta de que ha subestimado el descontento de Egipto respecto a su marido, que se deshizo de los antiguos dioses por decreto. Los sacerdotes y los militares conspiran en contra de él. La única persona que pone a Nefertiti sobre aviso es Mut-Najmat, su hermana menor. Reflexiva y observadora, Mut-Najmat prefiere, desde siempre, una vida simple, alejada de las intrigas de la corte. Quiere compartir esa vida con el hombre que se ha ganado su corazón. Pero Nefertiti decide que su hermana tiene que casarse por conveniencia política y no por amor. Para logar su independencia, Mut-Najmat tendrá que desafiar a su hermana, la mujer más poderosa de Egipto, y abrazar la vida que sueña para sí.<

SUMMARY: Because of a thousand-year-old alliance between humans and pegasi, Princess Sylvi is ceremonially bound to Ebon, her own pegasus, on her twelfth birthday, but the closeness of their bond becomes a threat to the status quo and possibly to the safety of the<

SUMMARY: "Enthralling...As fascinating as any novel and more so than most!"THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWAgainst the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, unfolds the magnificent story of Peter the Great. He brought Russia from the darkness of its own Middle Ages into the Enlightenment and transformed it into the power that has its legacy in the Russia of our own century.<

The Golden Days Fair comes to Hatteras West Lighthouse and Inn, and Alex Winston won't rest until it's over. When one of the town's blacksmiths is found dead on the grounds, Alex must solve the murder before more than the fair is shut down!<

On February 1, 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts, twenty-nine men and six women, were introduced to the world. Among them would be history makers, including the first American woman and the first African American in space. This assembly of astronauts would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the space shuttle program. Four would die on Challenger. USAF Colonel Mike Mullane was a member of this astronaut class, and Riding Rockets is his story -- told with a candor never before seen in an astronaut's memoir. Mullane strips the heroic veneer from the astronaut corps and paints them as they are -- human. His tales of arrested development among military flyboys working with feminist pioneers and post-doc scientists are sometimes bawdy, often hilarious, and always entertaining. Mullane vividly portrays every aspect of the astronaut experience -- from telling a female technician which urine-collection condom size is a fit; to walking along a Florida beach in a last, tearful goodbye with a spouse; to a wild, intoxicating, terrifying ride into space; to hearing "Taps" played over a friend's grave. Mullane is brutally honest in his criticism of a NASA leadership whose bungling would precipitate the Challenger disaster. Riding Rockets is a story of life in all its fateful uncertainty, of the impact of a family tragedy on a nine-year-old boy, of the revelatory effect of a machine called Sputnik, and of the life-steering powers of lust, love, and marriage. It is a story of the human experience that will resonate long after the call of "Wheel stop."<