Showing results for "Running" in Literature & Fiction

For as long as she can remember, Phoenix Fraser has been stuck. Stuck in the wrong body, losing both friends and family, and no future to plan for. So when a mysterious entity known as the Night Witch appears in her room, offering her a new start in a strange land, she can't believe the opportunity to fulfill her ever-elusive potential.

Junior Agent Nash Running Bear may be a baller on the baseball mound, but the stir on Capitol Hill over her actions on the field means she needs to be taken down a notch. The deputy director has no choice but to send her out to the fuzzy belly button of the mid-west. A bank has been suffering massive cash shrinkage from its vault, and nobody can figure it out.

Left with scraps from several broken relationships, carpenter Avery Greene builds herself a safe and steady life in upstate New York. No love. No loss. No problem. But when she makes a jarring discovery in her grandmother's attic, it cracks her stable life at its vulnerable foundation. In search of a permanent fix, Avery finds herself at the Sea Springs Inn, a bed and breakfast in the Outer Banks - where rip currents roll, sand dunes shift, and her strikingly gorgeous hostess throws her plans completely off course.

Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dreams of earning enough money to afford citizenship in Salt Lake City—a utopia where the testosterone and surgery he needs to transition are free, the food is plentiful, and folks are much less likely to be shot full of arrows by salt pirates. But earning that kind of money is a pipe dream until he meets the exceptionally handsome Osric.

"Holding onto the past can hurt more than letting it go". People say six years is long enough to mourn the death of his husband but for Ross Miller, the pain is as fresh as if it happened yesterday. Trapped by his past and needing to escape his well-meaning friends, he rents a cabin in the secluded Adirondack mountains. A reclusive man moves in next door and piques Ross’s interest, but his persistent attempts at friendship are rebuffed. That doesn’t stop him because the one rule Ross Miller has always lived by is to never take no for an answer.

Sean Rush is an adrenaline junkie. That's why he was in the Army, why he steals and races classic muscle cars, and why he can't stay away from bad boy Ryker, a Havoc Motorcycle Club lieutenant. Fortunately, Ryker can't seem to stay away from Sean - he's spent the last eight months breaking into Sean's apartment and stealing into his bed, leaving Sean physically satisfied but increasingly restless.

Along the Intracoastal waterways of North Florida, Daniel and Aubrey navigated adolescence with the electric intensity that radiates from young people defined by otherness: Aubrey, a self-identified "Southern cracker", and Daniel, the mixed-race son of Jamaican immigrants. When the news of Aubrey's death reaches Daniel in New York, years after they'd lost contact, he is left to grapple with the legacy of his precious and imperfect love for her. At ease now in his own queerness, he is nonetheless drawn back to the muggy haze of his Palm Coast upbringing.

When someone threatens a congressman's family and career, he seeks the FBI's best. They give Special Agent Nash Running Bear no choice. She scoffs at the babysitting job in the high desert of New Mexico, but it becomes a deadly game of cat and mouse. And the cats are four international assassins. So to get the job done, Nash reaches out to her alphabet team. Hopefully, in time…

Nash is okay with things staying simple and small-town, until the person of interest shows up in a city of seven million, with old friends and older scores to settle. And then the war begins.

Fort Mojave, CA—Ft. Mojave citizens woke horrified this morning to learn that they discovered nineteen bodies in a nearby compound. The alleged victims are possibly members of a religious cult known for mass suicides. Investigations are ongoing. FBI Agent Nash Running Bear has more important things to focus on than the daily media frenzy. That is, until her work takes her to Fort Mojave, and an anonymous caller on a talk radio, claims that what appears to be a suicide pact is actually something much worse—a mass murder.

A shooting in New York is a daily occurrence—unless it's an upscale elderly woman in a high-end car. Then maybe not daily. Nash is taking care of other business, like presenting a class at Quantico for Women in Federal Law Enforcement group members. The lessons taught take on extra meaning when another killing is brought up. This one is rural in Upstate New York. And it wasn't a hunting accident.

Once upon a time, Corrie Marsten fell hard and got dumped. Now, her only loves are sailing, and power. By day, she works as the head instructor for the University of Rhode Island's Sailing Center. Once night falls, she indulges in frequent casual sex with her friends, all of who know that like the wind, she can't be tethered. When Corrie meets vet student Quinn Davies, an enrollee in the summer sailing course, she senses Quinn's attraction and comes on strong.

The lifeless form of a spaceman lies sprawled amidst the remains of a ghost town's saloon. The local sheriff wants nothing to do with it. He doesn't want to get that close to Ship Rock and his troublesome mother. But he's willing to go gather the body and ship it to the FBI.

A twisted act of cruelty and prejudice drives Billy Joe from his Mississippi home, and he makes it as far as Pennsylvania - where his car breaks down just as the year’s first snowstorm blows in. Fortunately, Carlos is there to lend a hand. Carlos is no stranger to hardship. His family rejected him for being gay, but with determination, he put himself through school and became a librarian. Carlos sees the same willpower in Billy, and he wants to help Billy and his son succeed in a new life that is very different from the one they left behind.

With the final confrontation between the island and mainland Ea factions looming, Taren and Ian sail with Odhrán to investigate a lost colony of merfolk in the Eastern Lands. Upon their arrival, the King of Astenya welcomes them as friends. Odhrán, however, isn't so quick to trust the descendent of the man who held him prisoner for nearly a decade, especially now that he has someone to cherish and protect - the mysterious winged boy he rescued from the depths.

Josh is an overachiever whose only competition is Erin, his coach's daughter. Erin is striving to win at all costs, until she finds out that she might have feelings for Josh. Jane, Erin's best friend, is struggling with her identity and balance of friends and family. In a twisted, true-to-life story, these characters find out more about themselves, each other, and their beliefs.

The Howard sisters weren't pretty. Sarah and Christine had buck teeth like white building blocks, capped off by wide noses, hoop nostrils, and Alabama-black skin. Justin used to throw rocks at them while they walked to school and called them voodoo witches. They'd hold hands with their heads pointed down to the dirt road and step faster, trying to out-walk him. But Justin was fast, and he wouldn't let up.