A Betrayal of Time is a story about Vivienne and Ray, who loved each other even before they knew what love was. They belonged together. They knew it, and everyone who knew them knew it. But time didn't. Or maybe time just didn't care. It ripped them apart. Vivienne was left alone, without the one thing -- the one person -- she needed. Worse, she was the sole survivor of an unexplained cosmic event that folded time, transporting her 20 years into the...

Dust from the demolished Berlin Wall has barely settled, the East German police state is teetering on the edge of collapse, and Stasi General HOLGER FRANTZ will stop at nothing to save it. Caught in his intrigue are two unlikely heroes: American lawyer ROLF KELLER, recently divorced, fresh off the bottle, and mysteriously dispatched by his senior law partner to coordinate document drops by a defecting Stasi agent, and aspiring opera diva SYLVIA MAZZONI,...

"A hidden, sacred canyon. Eight women. Twelve centuries. And a mystical song that connects it all. This is the layout of Robert DeMayo's new novel, "The Sirens of Oak Creek", a gripping tale that intertwines local myths with historical facts and the author's vibrant imagination. The story is also about the different people who passed through Arizona's magical Oak Creek Canyon over the centuries: Ancient hunter-gatherers, Mayan visitors, Spanish conquistadors,...

"A folkloric portrait of a woman waiting by various gates for her beloved who may never arrive. The locations depicted in the text are considered in a visionary and fictional manner. Part dream, part reverie the quilt of stories supports tribal voices heard in the region of Moorish ƯƯƯSpain."--Back cover.

"These recent poems by Elizabeth Martina Bishop merge plot-lines of story poem with the crescendo offered by the lyric narrative. Each poem has a mystical quality and evidences a search for the ineffable and inexpressible in language fraught with imagery, metaphor and allusion. Enjoy the latest volume which contains poems about family, poems about work, and poems about every day existence of an elder living in community with other artists interested...

"June, 1947. Charleston is poised to celebrate the biggest wedding in high-society history, the joining of two of the oldest families in the city. Except the bride is nowhere to be found ... Unlike the rest of the debs she grew up with, Vada Hadley doesn't see marrying Justin McLeod as a blessing--she sees it as a life sentence. So when she finds herself one day away from a wedding she doesn't want, she's left with no choice but to run away from the...

"This poetic evocation of spirit is part of a controlled semiotics ultimately contrasting with the force of a wind that can suddenly blow through a field, changing everything in an instant. The flowing of the wind of spirit can surrender a harvest consisting of many days or even a few days whereby we can enjoy the sound of the wind and the soughing touch of the wind on the body. While the wind of spirit may know how to touch us, perhaps we will never...

"It's mid-July and Dr. Kate Pomeroy is in town for the final fitting on her wedding gown. She and Jeremy plan to marry the following weekend, an event that Kate is looking forward to with all her heart. But unbeknownst to her, she is being stalked and, as she walks to the water taxi stand, is accosted, incapacitated and stolen away to an uncertain and dangerous future. Will she survive the mental and physical torture she will be forced to endure?...