![]() ![]() ![]() They have a very short time to pack what they want to keep, but only what will fit in a duffel bag. He gives a book to Ben on small engine repair because Ben will be the engineer and a book on navigating by the stars to Dylan since he will be the navigator. Without telling the boys, he puts the house up for sale and purchases a sailboat which they will pick up down in the Florida Keys and then sail around the Caribbean for a year. With THAT as an introduction, you start off the book with a deep sense of foreboding, alert for the coming disasters.Īfter their mom dies in a car accident, Dad goes off the deep end. I don't talk about-I never will talk about-when I left Gerry alone, standing there on the empty beach of that desert island with Dylan dying at his feet." "I don't tell about the morning when we woke up and Dad was gone. Much better is the paragraph on the second page of the prologue: ![]() The summary for this book says: "Still mourning the death of their mother, three brothers go with their father on an extended sailing trip off the Florida Keys and have a harrowing adventure at sea." While that is factually correct, it does nothing to prepare you for this book. You know how some books have a short one or two sentence summary? You usually see in on the back of the title page, and in library catalogs. ![]()
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![]() My friends and I can’t trust anyone and nothing is as it seems on the surface-not even me. every time he touches me or looks at me with those dangerous golden eyes he seems to pull me further in under his spell, despite my better judgment. Oh-did I mention that he is absolutely sex-on-a-stick gorgeous and he makes me feel things that I never ever wanted to feel for a Fae. ![]() ![]() He’s a rude, overbearing egotistical ass with a compulsive need to possess, dominate and control me. My friends and I are set and determined to find out who is killing off Fae and Witches alike.Ĭouple of problems in the way – I hate the Fae and the Prince of the Dark Fae is bound and determined that I work for him. What started out as a strange assignment, led to one of the most gruesome murder mysteries of our times. Have you ever heard of the old Celtic legends of the Fae-beautiful, magical, and deadly creatures that have a love of messing with humans just for kicks and giggles? ![]() Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fairies, Vampires, Magicįind the Author: Website, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads Fighting Destiny Published by Amelia Hutchins by Amelia Hutchins ![]() ![]() ![]() His law practice and occasional forays into government failed to match his ambitions. When the drama subsided, Wallace grew bored by his life in Indiana. ![]() The stigma stuck with Wallace even as he went on to sit on the tribunal for Lincoln’s assassination, and to a later career as a lawyer in his native Indiana. The mistake cost Wallace his command and damaged his reputation. When he was a young general during the Civil War, he made his regiment late for the Battle of Shiloh, which the Union won despite enduring heavy losses of life. Army struggled to suppress local Apaches while a consortium of corrupt businessmen dominated the region and almost all of its commercial interests. Range wars ripped the territory into pieces. ![]() If General Lew Wallace, the author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, came to the Territory of New Mexico in 1878 in search of a writer’s retreat, he came to the wrong place. And, while the 1959 film never shot a day in New Mexico, the story came to life on the Santa Fe Plaza. The film won all but three of those statues, and tied a record that had stood for 38 years until Titanic, no other film could match Ben-Hur at the Oscars. JAMES CAMERON'S EFFECTS-LADEN TITANIC was 1997’s biggest box-office smash, sailing into the 70th Academy Awards with 14 nominations and expectations the size of icebergs. ![]() |