In The Arms Of A Stranger
Автор: Kristen Robinette
Год издания: 0000
The scene was one she'd long fantasized but fate had denied: a strong, handsome man protecting her, a gurgling baby gazing adoringly at her. Yet, snowbound with police chief Luke Sutherlin and a rescued infant, Dana Langston had never felt so alone. For she knew this precious taste of family was as fleeting as the melting snow…and as fragile as the life a killer sought to extinguish.Then she and Luke became lovers.She would have settled for passion-filled memories, yet, despite the danger, Dana found herself imagining a future with her beloved lawman. But that was before the mystery baby's identity was revealed, and she became Luke's prime suspect–for murder.
The Three Strangers and Other Stories
Автор: Томас Харди
Год издания:
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West.
On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd’s cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night…
In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives of shepherds and hangmen, dukes and teachers. But rich or poor, young or old, they all have the same feelings of fear, hope, love, jealousy…