I am a writer of poetry and fiction and an avid reader. Here, I think 'out-loud' about books, movies, stories, writing and other fictions.
I lost the whole site at one point and am rebuilding old posts from my backups.
Jamie returns to Scotland to his clan, welcomed with mixed feelings. His father wants his son to swear loyalty and serve the clan. The war chieftain wants him gone. And the mysterious Claire, thought by Jamie’s godfather is sent by the Old Ones, seems drawn to Jamie.
A follow-up to Child 44, Stalin is dead and those struggling for power will use any means necessary to replace him. Khrushchev writes a secret speech indicting Stalin as a corrupt tyrant, promising change in the Soviet Union. Leo Demidov has to deal with the consequences of what he has done before. He and his wife are raising two girls they rescued, but at the cost of the death of the girl's parents. And someone is intent on vengeance against them all.
Paranormal fantasy romance. A woman, whose brother is the king of dragons, is thrown into a dungeon. There is a man chained to the wall. She has no voice and cannot speak the magic that could save them, but still, she unchains him, and they escape. Only she is attracted so strongly to him it is a distraction as they run for their lives.
The human condition in modern China. Every year, a doctor in the Chinese Army visits the village where he was born, hoping to end his arranged marriage. Each year he returns to the nurse he loves, having to postpone his engagement once again. They have been waiting eighteen years.