Many years ago, Johnny Conroy was forced into a shotgun wedding with a Manchester gangster's daughter. He's never even begun to love her, but can't leave without being killed by her vicious father. He turns out to be a success in the car-theft...
Pregnant, hunted, and alone, a young woman turns to the only man who can help
Faith has just enough time to dodge the speeding car. She leaps backwards and falls onto the sidewalk, breaking her thumb in an attempt to protect her pregnant belly. When...
Novembre à Londres. Pluie battante, bien entendu. Deborah Saint-James, qui fait des fausses couches à répétition, est déprimée... A la National Gallery, la vision d'une radieuse Vierge à l'Enfant de Léonard de Vinci lui sape définitivement...
All he remembered was the furtive encounter, the terror of discovery, the burning cigarette. . . and the voyeur on the fire escape plummeting to his death. For twenty years, Todd Mills was safe, closeted, building his career as a two-time Emmy...
The Lithuanian-German mathematician Hermann Minkowski has a moment of clarity in a conversation with his friend David Hilbert, walking through a flower garden, as a train passes by. A short story from the award-winning writer Stella Duffy, with an...
Del's a small time crook with a moral conscience-robbing convenience stores only for tuition and academic expenses. Brash and sassy Louise goes from being a holdup victim to Del's lover and accomplice. All they want is a fresh start, an honest life,...
Le manoir écossais de Westerbrae, à plusieurs kilomètres de toute habitation, est transformé en hôtel. Une troupe de comédiens de Londres répète sa nouvelle pièce, sous la direction du producteur Lord Stinhurst. Dès la première nuit : un...