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Josie and Kevin. Two strong willed and passionate individuals who share a night of unexpected romance.A night that shocked them both and left them with more questions than answers leads them to a moment between life and death.A split decision that will change everything.Kevin needs help and Josie makes a choice. She is trained for combat, not a parking lot attack. She does what she needs to do, but what happens next has everyone scrambling.Josie is...
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Destiny is a lonely city girl, cautious about letting just anyone into her life. Carmelo is your average guy searching for love at all costs. Swans Amidst the Lake is a compelling, fictional tale about two complete strangers, who meet out of the blue on a Sunday afternoon. This contemporary short story illustrates the possibilities of running into love when it's least expected.
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Samuel Forrest enjoys his life as a ski instructor. His only regret is how his previous relationship ended; suddenly and out of the blue.Then Samantha Walker shows up at the resort, full of sexy confidence but also infuriating arrogance.When his old girlfriend shows interest in reconnecting, Samuel must pick between the burning hot passion of a new experience and the warm comfort of something familiar.
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Georgia and Ben are just starting a new life together. Georgia is slowly coming out of her shell and she's even started a new band with Ben, Bones, and Jake. The most important thing in the world right now seems to be finding the perfect name for their band, and Georgia has almost completely banished Alex Harris from her mind.
Then he turns up out of the blue.
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Glory never thought that she would see the man of her dreams again. He courted her with gusto but then left out of the blue. Now three years later, he's back...More handsome than ever, but Glory can't trust him and doesn't want to go through that heartache again. But he's back to redeem his past. With an orphaned boy at his side, Parker seems willing to do anything to win back the heart of Glory. Can she resist his charms and overlook his sins of...
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From out of the blue Neil is given a cancer diagnosis. It's bad news because, like anyone else, he doesn't want to die. There's also the question of who he should tell. For a few weeks he tries to stay occupied by helping out an old student and working for CISC, but in the end he decides that he needs to escape to Spain.In Spain he is trying to escape from thoughts of his own death. Events in the village where he goes, however, conspire to distract...
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All Over the Road is a fun collection of short stories-some with a dark twist. In "James J. Burton's Wizard of Oz," Horace Richardson is enjoying his retirement when out of the blue a ghost from his past comes to confront him-and he wants answers. Things online are easy until you meet the human behind the pain. The "Human" will show you the darkest parts of humanity. And, in "A Most Unusual Stickup," what kind of man is able to convince would-be robbers...
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That there is a universal energetic flow, and when we align with it through finding our true nature, our true path, we begin to live in magic and flow, with so much less physical effort, mental stress, and spiritual angst.
The most common ways that this magic shows up as coincidences, synchronicities, perfect timing, unlooked-for opportunities, and out of the blue (re-)connections.
This book tells of how this lesson came to me through the events...
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Why is Elvin such a lightning rod for people trying to improve him?For as long as Elvin can remember, it's been just him and his mom, the only blood relative he knows. But out of the blue, his supposedly dead uncle, Alex, shows up. Elvin learns that years ago, Alex stole the money his dad had left to him and his mom-but now Alex wants to make amends with Elvin. He wants to improve all sorts of things, offering to fix Elvin's hair and get him a gym...
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Now a young woman of social standing, Fanette still holds out hope of finding her sister. One day, out of the blue, she receives a letter from Amanda and a mysterious request to meet in secret. But Amanda's troubled past catches up with her and ruins their reunion. A matter of revenge to which both sisters are inextricably linked, unbeknownst to them, proves to have unexpected repercussions. Journeying back in time, parallel to Fanette's story, the...
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The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out of the blue that was gone as quickly as it came. Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Ronald Asmus contends that it was a conflict that was prepared and planned for some time by Moscow, part of a broader strategy to send a message to the United States: that Russia is going to flex its muscle in the twenty-first century. A Little War that Changed...
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Refusing to suffer the humiliation of her husband flaunting his mistress at Society events, the newly married Duchess of Wallingstead, Ella Lennox, takes control of her life. She leaves London for the family's country seat in remote Yorkshire.A woman alone, Ella spends the next four years turning a cold, grim house into a home, and transforming the fortunes of the estate. Not afraid of hard work, she soon earns the respect of those around her with...
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Out of the blue, you lose your temper and break up with your boyfriend. However, some time passes and you end up regretting your attitude, after all, deep down in your heart you know that you still really love each other. But now that the 'shit' is done, is there any point in groveling after him? Or do you decide to humiliate yourself all the time by phoning or sending countless messages, even if he doesn't reply? I think you already know the answer...
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Now the whole world knows of the existence of World Shadows and espers. As the desire for power within the unconscious mind of the general public swells at the knowledge of this new form of power, the World Shadows grow stronger, marking a new turning point in the war between them and Amaterasu. (Blame Shouta, he got too OP.) But, entirely out of the blue, a new character shows up and crashes the secret organization, bringing with her a shocking backstory....
17) Last One Alive
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Dr. Emily Hartford is back in Chicago, ready to move forward and leave the past behind, until an unexpected request for help sends her deep into an investigation-and into the path of a killer.
Seventeen months after the Parkman case, Dr. Hartford has returned to Chicago to finish her surgical residency. But when she is contacted out of the blue by Solange McClelland, the only survivor of a decade-old triple homicide, Emily is compelled to dig deeper....
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The One-Armed Whiskey Man of Jackass Canyon daylights a newly excavated vein in the Golden State of mind. It follows the unbelievably true life and times of accidental California pioneer Thomas D Carneal III. His prominent Northern Kentucky clan carved an ironic notch into the whiskey rebellion of 1790's and beyond. Out of the blue, tragedy struck, and the family legacy ricocheted off to the wilds of 1850's Northern California, landing on a historic...
19) The Wedding Pact
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AITA for turning up out of the blue and demanding that he marry me because of some teenage promise we made fourteen years ago? Emma St. James needed to get away. Her career, her impending marriage, her…mother. Birch was just…a convenient excuse, a soft place to land, a…very…bad…idea. Those pesky unrealised teenage fantasies were such a pain in the butt. Seeing Emma again was a dream come true for Birch Forest, although he knew the proposal...
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"The Sound of Sirens" is a humorous tale told by the primary character Mike Chandler a recently retired business executive, who after a long stressful career found peace and solace playing on his computer and/or watching television. His wife Helen feels isolated in their large suburban home where her social life has all but disappeared as a result of their life long friends relocating to various retirement communities around the country. Mike is dead...