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Enslave Me Sweetly (Alien Huntress, Book 2)
Eden Black walks among humans, protecting them from the murderous evil of other-worlders who abduct and enslave And though she appears to be human herself, Eden is an alien, a Raka, distinguished by her golden hair and skin, and gifted with the ominous ability to kill without remorse -- and with total accuracy. That is, until the fateful night she has one shot to eliminate her target, a human slaver -- and misses. "Failure" is not in Eden's vocabulary. Neither is "partner" -- but that's what she is forcibly assigned after recovering from her disastrous mission. A sexy, steely-nerved human agent, Lucius Adaire enjoys nothing more than sparking the fury -- and rousing the desire -- of the fiery female assassin too proud to admit defeat. Locked in an assignment they cannot afford to lose, Lucius and Eden find themselves bound in two high-stakes, heart-pounding games: the sensual web of kill or be killed, and the erotic dance of seduction..
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Bury Her Sweetly
For funeral director Blair Emerson, tragedy and loss are part of life-professional and personal A two-year-old child abducted years ago. A marriage that crumbled in the aftermath. And now, a late night phone call that awakens anguished memories and long-buried hopes of holding her child again. But obstacles, both seen and unseen, stand between Blair and the daughter she feared was dead. The low-life kidnapper's greed. A woman addled by voices. An old man made vicious by a stroke. And when a wave of events plunge Blair into a police investigation, she finds herself a suspect in a crime that is hauntingly familiar. Driven by hope and longing, Blair risks everything to recover her child. But when she becomes the target of a deranged man's revenge, her hope is snatched away. Now Blair must face the unimaginable-that her daughter is gone again, and that this time it could be forever..
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She Smiled Sweetly: A Poppy Rice Mystery
The intrepid Poppy Rice is back with not one but two cases, separated by thirty years but connected by DNA When the body of a young pregnant woman washes ashore on a stretch of barren beach at Boston Harbor, homicide detective Rocky Patel writes to FBI agent Poppy Rice for help in identifying the Jane Doe. The crime lab comes up empty, but a year and a half later an anonymous tip to the Boston PD reveals the woman to be the wayward daughter of a prominent Irish American political family. In a separate case, more than thirty years earlier, a pregnant woman's corpse had been discovered on the Irish island of Inishmore. A group of women secretly buried the body but saved a lock of the dead girl's hair, which is just now passed along to Poppy. She agrees to set up a DNA test, which soon confirms her gut feeling that the two drownings are somehow linked-and that foul play is involved. Teaming up with the inimitable Rocky, Poppy sets out in search of truth and justice and instead finds herself snared in a web of political deceit, family intrigue, and out-and-out bad guys. As always, she rises to the occasion. .
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Together Let Us Sweetly Live: The Singing and Praying Bands (Music in American Life)
A forgotten and beautiful African American folk tradition reexaminedTogether Let Us Sweetly Live offers a rare look at the unique grassroots African American religious institutions called the Singing and Praying Bands. This folksong and ring shout tradition began in Chesapeake Bay country in the early nineteenth century, with a fusion of Methodist prayer meeting worship and African religious, danced song traditions. Although scholars have assumed ring shouts died out long ago, Jonathan C. David shows otherwise, ushering us inside tidewater communities of Maryland and Delaware where they continue to thrive. A traditional band service represents a cultural commitment to mutual aid, called "help," operating as a system of social reciprocity, as a performance aesthetic, and as the foundation of community spirituality. The book's nine chapters tell the story of the Singing and Praying Bands at these services through oral histories, each told by a different member of a group. Seventy-eight photographs along with various song notations bring the spirit of the culture to life. The author's introduction provides the historical and ethnographic context needed to understand the bands and their tradition. An accompanying CD of original field recordings provides an opportunity to hear the service as if you were there. A volume in the series Music in American Life .
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