The day Jingo rode into Tower Creek, the town was busy celebrating its twentieth anniversary. The big event of the festival was a high-stakes poker game in Joe Slade's saloon with Wally Rankin holding most of the chips. But it didn...
Revenge
- Author:Brand, Max.Summary:
- Author:Lawson, MichaelSummary:
Congressional fixer Joe DeMarco is dispatched to Boston to help Elinore Dobbs, an elderly woman fighting against a real estate developer intent on tearing down her apartment building. But when Elinore suffers a horrible "accident,...
- Author:Kalteis, DietrichSummary:
Levi Hayes is out for gold — and blood — in this high-magnitude historical tear through the mean streets of San Francisco
In the days before the great earthquake and fire of 1906, Levi Hayes returns from San Quentin...
- Author:Poe, Edgar AllanSummary:
First published in a 1849 edition of The Flag of Our Union, Hop-Frog is a revenge tale akin to The Cask of Amontillado. Told from the perspective of a crippled jester who was taken from his homeland and has been abused by the king he...
- Author:Sitomer, Alan LawrenceSummary:
Seventeen-year-old Teddy Anderson, who is known on the streets as T-Bear, decides to seek revenge on the person responsible for his little sister's death, which was caused by a stray bullet from a semiautomatic handgun.
- Author:Brown, SandraSummary:
For Paris Gibson, her popular late-night radio show is both an escape and her one real contact with the outside world. But when a listener who identifies himself as "Valentino" tells her that her on-air advice to the girl he...
- Author:Shakespeare, WilliamSummary:
After seeing the ghost of his murdered father, Hamlet realizes that his new stepfather was the killer and plots revenge and ponders the value of life.
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
William Shakespeare's The Tempest retold as Hag-Seed Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he's staging a Tempest like no other...
- Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:
When the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful niece Estella draw orphan Pip into the decayed luxury of their world, he begins to form desires above his station. An unexpected fortune from a mysterious donor grants Pip a chance at...
- Author:Fallon, JaneSummary:
Two women seek revenge on the man who has wronged them. Stephanie discovers a text message from a mystery woman on her husband James' cell phone. The other woman, Katie, is just as surprised to learn of Stephanie's existence....
- Author:Grant, DonnaSummary:
To live in the light, they hunt in the dark. The power of Helena's magic has made her a target for the Coven. She wanted no part in the war of the witches, but it's out of her hands now. She has to make a stand - and she does...
- Author:García Márquez, GabrielSummary:
De jóvenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un médico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino está anonadado, y aunque sostiene 622 pequeños romances, su corazón...
- Author:Sallis, JamesSummary:
Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there’d be no...
- Author:Massey, BrandonSummary:
A woman concealing many dangerous secrets, Rachel has taken great pains to flee from her troubled past. But now a figure from long ago has returned and will stop at nothing to make her suffer for her sins.
- Author:Ames, John EdwardSummary:
When Cas Everett, lightning fast on the draw and deadly as a nest of rattlers, returns home and finds his ma, pa, and siblings planted in fresh graves, he vows to call down the thunder on all those responsible.
- Author:Neggers, CarlaSummary:
As a Deputy U.S. Marshal, Juliet Longstreet has locked up quite a few violent ciminals. When one of Juliet's enemies is released, he's on a mission to kill--and she's first on his list. She must team up with hunky Special Forces agent...
- Author:Johnstone, William W., Johnstone, J. A.Summary:
On the wagon road toward the untamed Oregon Territory of 1845, the Colter family is ambushed by a kill-crazy gang of cutthroats. Fifteen-year-old Tim Colter manages to escape and hide, only to find his parents butchered, his sisters...
- Author:Gosselin, MelSummary:
Roman Steampunk (Gaslamp fantasy) Le 29 août 1907, le pont de Kébek s'écroule. Parmi les victimes, Francis Cudworth, le frère aîné de Jacqueline. Pour elle, ce n'était pas un accident... On a voulu assassiner son frère. Une pharmacienne...
- Author:Lansdale, Joe RSummary:
Richard Dane has killed a man. Everyone in the small town of LaBorde, Texas knows Dane acted in self defense--everyone except Ben Russel, the father of the criminal who invaded Dane's home. When Russel comes looking for revenge...
- Author:Quirk, MatthewSummary:
When John Byrne is arrested in a case of mistaken identity, he is picked up by Thomas Hayes. Hayes, a special ops commander, claims his team has been wrongly accused of terrorism. Byrne must decide where his allegiances lie--or he and...