Bøger af Laura Anne Ewald

Many call her half-breed, but there is no one more loyal to the Commonwealth and Fleet than Kat, whose Rojan sire had returned to murder her mother all those years ago. But when someone from the Empire recognizes Kat's blood ties, a lifelong mystery turns into terror, when she is kidnapped and taken across the border for unknown political purposes. Jak Trent just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and doesn't appreciate being used to kidnap a Commonwealth citizen. But when he learns she is Fleet, he vows he will do anything to get her back where she belongs-whatever the cost.

Jane Warren writes heroic science fiction adventure stories, but her fantasies become reality when the real bad guys decide she knows more than she should about life beyond Earth's atmosphere, and her dreams become a living nightmare when she is kidnapped and ruthlessly interrogated about her sources for one of her books, the details of which too closely mirror a real-life military coup in progress. But when a group of real good guys comes to her rescue, Jane learns the true meaning of heroism as what starts out as a daring rescue of an innocent victim turns into a race to save an entire commonwealth of worlds.

Enjoy three heartwarming romances these ladies never saw coming. Jenna desperately needs rescuing, when she finds herself stranded in a ditch in the middle of a snowstorm. Mel needs a job and only needs the chance to prove her woodworking skills are the best, but it's a long shot in a man's world of Victorian home restoration. Berti is doing fine, or so she thinks, until a babel of voices move into her head, leaving her sanity in question. All three ladies find that the right man can not only solve their immediate problem but can also offer a future full of promise. Read In a Cabin in a Wood: A Snowbound Romance and Woman's Work? A Renovation Romance for the first time in print.

Shipwrecked on a primitive, "Closed" world on the fringes of the Commonwealth, Kitianna Tomar must choose between survival and duty, but the man who finds her has no such qualms. On the run from a powerful political adversary, Alastair Ross is happy to join forces with the odd woman he finds injured and unconscious in the forest on a dark, stormy night, and Kit quickly realizes doing so is her only hope to stay out of trouble. Professionalism and duty vie with a growing attraction to this new world the natives call Earth and the man who saved her life, but when Fleet finally tracks her down, the stars of home beckon...

Sometimes people just connect. That is the way librarian Kate Murray feels when she meets Maggie McCallum, a lonely, troubled young teen. And when she meets the girl's father, Dr. Michael McCallum, Kate fears she may fall hard for them both. But there is a mystery to the McCallums: a missing mother and wife, whose death left both daughter and husband heavily burdened with guilt. It takes a shared interest in Shakespearean theater, a horrendous thunderstorm, and a willingness to let go of the past for these three to finally become a family.

THE POWER OF STORY III is intended help writers and storytellers think strategically about story topics in a way that can give them direction on where to start. One of the questions asked often of writers is, "How do you begin a story?" This is, of course, much like asking an artist how he paints what he paints or how she sculpts what she sculpts. Where do songwriters begin-with the music or the lyric? Creativity comes from many sources, and for most writers I know, a story can come from any number of places, with most writers citing more than one, depending upon the story...But have you ever picked up a book or a magazine article that looked interesting then started to read it only to find the author was more interested in preaching than storytelling? This can happen all too easily, if we're not careful. Most writers have something important to say, whether writing fiction or nonfiction, but it is just as important to think strategically about our subject matter lest we become so immersed in whatever issue we're tackling that our story gets lost in the argument. Writing can change minds and hearts, just as performance drama can, but beware of biting off more than you can comfortably chew and letting the topic eclipse the story rather than letting the story illuminate the topic...

An anthology of four adventures of Detective Cahal "Mac" MacAlastair and his sometimes art consultant, shapeshifter Catherine "Cat" O'sullivan, as they work together to solve crimes on the dark side of Seattle's Pioneer Square. In "Eyewitness," three young female artists have been found brutally murdered in the back alleys of Seattle's Pioneer Square, and Police Detective Cahal "Mac" MacAlastair must find a serial killer, before someone else dies. But the only eyewitness is a black cat apparently left for dead by the killer, and Mac doesn't have a lot of confidence in her ability to identify the killer-until he learns she is far more than she seems. In "Vanished," when a wealthy young heiress vanishes in the night, her mother-who is unsatisfied with police efforts-hires Mac, a newly minted private investigator, to find her daughter. And when Mac finds a mysterious silver ring at the scene of the woman's disappearance, he once again brings in art expert Catherine "Cat" O'Sullivan to help him track the heiress down. But with no ransom demands and nothing more than the ring to go on, Mac quickly realizes this vanishing act is not necessarily what it seems. In "Ambush," an unknown gunman puts Mac in the emergency room, leaving the Seattle PD scrambling to find his would-be killer-or identify the one who might have hired him. Cat's only concern is Mac's life, and when he leaves the hospital, her family steps in to settle Mac in his office, the studio apartment just downstairs from Cat's apartment over the family's gallery, which is loaded with state-of-the art security. But when the killer's image is picked up by hospital security cameras, and INTERPOL identifies him as a well-known international assassin, the FBI is called in, because this is no ordinary killer, and his reputation guarantees he will try again. And in "Darkness," when Mac is hired to investigate the theft of some artifacts depicting demons and human sacrifice owned by the late husband of a wealthy widow, he enlists Cat's help in investigating the artifacts' origins and meaning-and in finding the possible motivation behind the theft. But what starts out as a straight-forward home robbery becomes downright terrifying the closer Cat and Mac get to the madman who has absconded with these images of darkness.

THE POWER OF STORY is intended to give writers and storytellers a boost to their creativity by a thought-provoking look at the importance of story through history and how it might be used today to affect change in peoples hearts and minds.WE DO, AS a species, like our stories. It's in our DNA, I am convinced, to always give more than Joe Friday's "just the facts, Ma'am." We not only want to hear and tell what happened, but we also want to know the complete who, when, where, why, and how that goes along with the what... From the days of living in caves, man has presented a whole lot more than "just the facts" when talking about anything going on in the world. Even in those pictures painted in the dark, deep inside the caves of Europe and elsewhere, man was telling a story, for the artists did not only illustrate the hunt, they created a pictorial narration of what went on... The storyteller has been revered since long before we could read and write for just this reason. It was the storyteller, the bard, who kept traditions alive from one generation to the next. Their stories not only entertained; they educated. They gave us, as a people, a center and an identity. It was the storytellers, traveling from town square to village green, from stage to campfire, who told the stories that kept us connected-to one another, to our past, and to our future...And if you think the importance of story has been lost over the centuries, then you haven't attended a John Grisham book-signing event or waited in line at an opening of a new Star Wars movie...!

When a porcupine and a pig meet in the wood, they think they know all there is to know about porcupines and pigs, but sometimes what "everyone" knows can be deceiving-and what we might learn by being just a little bit brave and a little bit open-minded can change everything.

A lonely little girl is comforted by a warm fuzzy, who changes her life forever.