![]() He’s an ex-cop, ex-Marine, ex-mercenary who owes a bad man a favor, and that favor is to keep the uncontrollable Larkin alive. ![]() Pike lives a world away from the palaces of Beverly Hills. And when the US Marshals and the finest security money can buy can’t protect her, Larkin’s wealthy family turns to the one man money can't buy - Joe Pike. ![]() But in doing so she becomes the target for a relentless team of killers. ![]() Then suddenly she sees another car’s metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident and, dazed, finds herself the single witness in a secret federal investigation.įor maybe the first time in her life, Larkin wants to do the right thing. Young and staggeringly rich, she speeds through the city during its loneliest hours, blowing through red after red in her Aston Martin as if running for her life. Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. When Joe Pike is charged with safeguarding a wealthy heiress, he discovers protecting the sole witness to a crime is nothing compared to protecting an LA party girl from her own self-destruction. At last, the enigmatic partner of Elvis Cole ( The Two Minute Rule) takes center stage in this pulse-racing thriller. ![]()
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![]() ![]() These stories consider a range of creatures-the household pets we dote on, the animals we raise to end up as meat on our plates, the creatures who could eat us for dinner, the various tamed and untamed animals we share our planet with who are central to human life. ![]() Now, in On Animals, she examines animal-human relationships through the compelling tales she has written over the course of her celebrated career. Since the age of six, when Orlean wrote and illustrated a book called Herbert the Near-Sighted Pigeon, she’s been drawn to stories about how we live with animals, and how they abide by us. “How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and naturalists for ages,” writes Susan Orlean. Susan Orlean-the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Library Book-gathers a lifetime of musings, meditations, and in-depth profiles about animals. ![]() ![]() Includes excerpts from Queen Song and Steel Scars, novellas set in the world of Red Queen Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever? ![]() But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. Pursued by the Silver king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red and Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from the prince and friend who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. ![]() Mare's blood is red - the colour of common folk - but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. ![]() |