Showing results for "The Rector" in Literature & Fiction

Charlotte, daughter of Reverend Percival Hatton, has been content to follow the path laid out for her. Charlotte has an understanding with Captain Nicolas Paget - every inch the gentleman - who she expects someday to marry. But then she meets Josiah Martyn, and everything changes. A driven and ambitious Cornish mining engineer, and the complete opposite to Captain Nicholas, Josiah has come to London to help build the first tunnel under the river Thames.

To keep the light of his life, he'll have to do some dark things. After Matt Caine loses his wife in a car accident, all he has left is his daughter, Anna. But just as the little girl - who survived the accident - finally starts thriving, Matt's former in-laws threaten to take her away via a bitter custody battle. Desperate to keep Anna and in debt to some dangerous local thugs, Matt has no good options. But he does have Jay, one very bad friend.

In John Rector’s dark and fascinating psychological thriller, The Grove, farmer Dexter McCray becomes both detective and suspect. He is a man fighting to escape a troubled past, but after waking from an alcoholic blackout to discover his tractor stuck in a ditch and the body of a teenage girl in the cottonwood grove bordering his cornfield, he wonders if it’s a fight he cannot win. In the hopes of proving his innocence, he sets out to find the truth.

Эта кошмарная адептка ворвалась в мою академию, словно бешеный дракон. Она нарушает установленный годами порядок, подбивает студентов на шалости, опасные магические животные пляшут под ее дудку. И даже я — Амадор Тори, ректор Провинциальной академии — готов ради нее на безумства. Но чувства — удел слабых, а любовь мешает карьере. Разлюблю, отпугну, приструню, стану самым плохим ректором и выживу девчонку из академии!.. Главное при этом — выжить самому.