Showing results by narrator "Jill Smith"

Do you get up every morning, spend close to an hour or more getting ready, pick out the perfect outfit, make sure your makeup is suitable, then style your hair just so? Do you slip your feet into your favorite heels, lock your modest one-bedroom apartment, climb into your practical car? Do you drive 20 minutes to downtown, find a spot in the company parking garage? If you do, then you're very much like me. However, I think our stories will differ significantly once you get to your office and I get to mine.

Armon Ellington died on Earth and was transported to Terra, a world governed by rules eerily similar to the RPG games he loved. He found he could gain levels, skills, abilities, and magic just like he could in those games. In addition to finding a way to become more powerful, he also found the friends and family he'd always longed for. Unfortunately, he also discovered the pain of losing them.

Armon Ellington is 19 year old kid that always felt out of place. He's an orphan, a gamer, and a role playing game geek. When he dies after a 72 hour gaming marathon, instead of going to an afterlife he's transported to a new world governed by rules that are eerily similar to the RPG games he loves. On this new world, Terra, he can be anything he wants, a warrior, mage, or even a crafter. Only, Armon wants more than that, he also wants friends and family.

Anthony Tinoco is just an average guy looking forward to his first day at college. Unfortunately, he gets lost on the huge campus, and when he follows a hot girl to what he thinks may be his first class, he's accidentally introduced to a new world full of action and adventure. A world that exists in parallel with our own, the System. Now, Anthony is getting new skills for doing every day tasks, gaining levels from fighting monsters, and experiencing adventures he never thought possible.

Having spent the last two and a half months with my bosses, the thought of spending the holidays alone isn’t ideal. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what I feared I would be doing. Or so I thought. I probably should’ve learned long ago not to underestimate the men I work for. They do have a way of surprising me when I least expect it. While I find myself immersed in a lifestyle I am still getting familiar with, spending time with my bosses is proving to be more than I originally anticipated.

Hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families, many depicted from a kid's-eye-view, are the theme for this compilation. Being part of a family is often trying, and stranger than any fiction, but never dull and always worth it in the end. Join these very different families as they face the shrinking of parents, the pre-emptive guilt of First Confession, the secret worlds of children, and more!

Two women. One terrible crime. Zero allies. After being raped by a superior officer, MA3 Kim Lockhoff wants to leave the whole thing in the past. A cop herself, she knows all too well that it's her word - and slutty reputation - against that of a respected Navy officer. MA2 Reese Marion, a tough cop hiding her own trauma behind a hard-as-nails exterior, has no patience for pretty little princesses who use their cleavage to win favor with the guys. But when Reese is partnered with Kim, she slowly realizes that reputations can lie.

A warehouse fire in Lawrence, Massachusetts has taken Genevieve "Genny" Copeland's livelihood, but opened a new opportunity for her. If she takes the chance, she could have the family she's always dreamed of but it would mean leaving everything she's always known. Believing that opportunity only knocks once, Genny gets on a train west to Elko, Nevada and a new life. She becomes a mail-order bride.

Wallis Jones has been played. Set up to betray her world - this girl's not playing anymore. Her small town is no longer the only thing in danger and the stakes have gone global! Will she put the pieces together in time? The Butterfly Project may be the only thing that can save them all if they can just have the courage to push that button. 

With chronic disorders among American children reaching epidemic levels, hundreds of thousands of parents are desperately seeking solutions to their children's declining health, often with little medical guidance from the experts. What's Making Our Children Sick? convincingly explains how agrochemical industrial production and genetic modification of foods is a culprit in this epidemic.

Despite the death of an undercover Circle operative close to Wallis Jones, she still wants a normal life, even as she realizes any distraction could lead to more dead bodies. She knows, deep down, that the shadow governments that surround her will never let normal happen. It’s time to stand up and fight back, and it will take the help of everyone going into the battle with her. And when someone she loves is unexpectedly taken, Wallis knows she can no longer refuse to get in the game.

“Our family will always have room for a few more Moores.” The Moore family is growing exponentially this year! All three brothers are enjoying their happily ever afters. Julian and Xander only have four weeks to plan their dream wedding and are waiting impatiently to welcome two homeless teens into their family. Amidst all the merriment, Chance discovers that he has siblings, and they need his help. He’s forced to confront his past, but he won’t have to face it alone.

Wallis Jones is a loving wife, mother, and small town attorney whose family line is entwined inside an overwhelming conspiracy, playing out in front of an unsuspecting public. Rocked by the secrets that have already been revealed, Wallis finds out more about those closest to her and it changes everything. A war has broken out in the suburbs led by a rogue cell that has long been a thorn in her family's tree. Wallis realizes she has no choice but to work from within and bring it all down before everything unravels.

When operatives move into the suburbs surrounding Wallis Jones' normal life, using secrets against her family to stay in control, Wallis Jones struggles to survive in this new and dangerous secret political world she has been sucked into. Fighting to understand the part she must play, Wallis is determined to keep some sense of normalcy, even if her kind of normal is quickly slipping away. Dragged into the war against her will, and with some hard realizations about her family along the way, Wallis has only one goal; save her family.

Wallis Jones needs to fight for her family. The happy wife, mother and lawyer finds herself at the middle of a web of conspiracy. Her clients and friends are being stalked by a shadow organization and in the end, the Black Widow's own son might be involved. When a stranger arrives in Wallis' driveway, she learned of a daring enlistment strategy known as the Butterfly Project. Caught in the crosshairs, Wallis must uncover the hidden meaning behind the names on the list the stranger provided.