Showing results for "LJ Anderson" in Literature & Fiction

At birth, Violet and Rose Flowers were identical, save for a tiny bluish-purple mark gracing Violet’s slender neck. By nineteen, their temperaments distinguish them, as different as the flowers their mother named them for—Violet, wild and outgoing, and Rose, solitary and reserved. Still, they are each other’s world. Then, on a sweltering, terrible August night in 1928, an explosion rocks Lamb’s Dance Hall in Possum Flats, Missouri, engulfing it in flames, leaving one twin among the dozens dead, and her sister’s life forever changed.

Eva never expected to be chosen by the Initiative, so few are, but when she’s whisked away to a nostalgic homestead to live out a picture-perfect, ideal life, she knows she must comply or risk getting kicked out of the only paradise left in the world. The Problem: She doesn’t get to live in paradise alone. In order to stay, she must get along with and endure Her Chosen Mate because it’s their mission to repopulate the world.

When Nadine went into her Witching Tribunal, she never expected to become an ether magi, one who controls air. But that’s not the only surprise the night holds, because when it comes time for her to take a warden, she finds herself tethered to her best friend’s intended.

I never dreamt of another life or another man...not until today. I love everything about my husband, Vassili Resnov, except for the person he is becoming. Though the fighter was never an easy man to love, that just made me love him harder. Like me, he's torn, too. Torn between the life he built for us and our baby, and his rights to the Bratva. The Resnovs split into two factions. Vassili is forced to join his father and become the devil, or his sister, the devil incarnate. His actions have left me with two choices: Keep holding on to Vassili, with all of me and live.

Through an act of heroism, a woman saves her lover, who was destined to be executed in the Tower of London at the ringing of the curfew.

Unknowingly, a man arrives on the anniversary of the “Great Tragedy” that led to his host having her large French window wide open onto the lawn on an October afternoon in the vain hope that her husband and brothers - whom he learns have been dead three years - will return through it. To his horror, the man shares in the terrors of the day.

During Christmas, four ghosts intervene in the life of an odious, greedy, hard hearted, miser to save him from eternal damnation.

A Washington, D.C., socialite, traveling in the western United States, meets an old friend, and finds herself startled to learn that his current occupation is a long way from what it was when he was in D.C.

Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight by Rosa Hartwick Thorpe: Through an act of heroism a woman saves her lover, who was destined to be executed in The Tower of London at the ringing of the curfew. Towser Shall Be Tied Tonight by Unknown: A Parody of Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight. Instead of taking place in the majestic and historic Tower of London, the story takes place on a farm in Kansas and the threat to Love is the dreaded dog Towser.