In the first volume of an intended series, seasoned storyteller Q Taylor shares seven tales or landings of a mind that explore an imperfect world in which reality reveals the ugly truth and a diverse band of characters face unique and sometimes horrifying challenges. After a thumping noise awakens a man in his house, he and his cat spring out of bed to investigate. Whoever it is, whatever it is, he is prepared to face it. But when he finds nothing, he returns to bed only to be awakened again by footsteps. Now he is left wondering if what he hears is all in his imagination or real. As another man falls asleep next to his future wife, a dark figure with a machete in hand meets him in his dreams. He thinks it is just a nightmare, until he wakes up. Jake Lawnmeyer, a hard-working father of two, will do anything to make his boys happy, including climbing an old mountain. But it is what they find at the top that will change all of them forever. 19 Landings: Book 1 is the first installment in a collection of short tales that cleverly twist thoughts and emotions within intriguing scenarios that encourage all of us to question our own realities.

This instant national bestseller, for readers of The Nightingale and Lilac Girls, is a dazzling novel about a spy and a pilot who fall in love but are wrenched apart during World War II, and must find their way back to each other. When Billy Coke steps onto the streets of London one December evening in 1940, he has no idea he is stepping to his fate. As Hitler's bombers come close to burning the city down, Billy meets the woman who will change the course of his life: Ilse Magnusson, a musician from Norway, but also something more--a spy in training. Escaping the Blitz for three days, she and Billy drive, quarrel, conceal, reveal . . . and fall finally, fully, in love. Now they must part, each to fight the war their own way. Billy, a Canadian Spitfire pilot, to duel with the Luftwaffe over North Africa and the Med. Ilse to return to her conquered country, ingratiate herself with the Nazi elite--which includes her beloved father--and send vital intelligence back to Britain. They know that the odds of both of them surviving are poor. All they can hope is that the other does survive--and that someday they find each other again. From decadent pre-war Berlin to the atrocity at Guernica, from dogfights over Sicily to an Oslo ground under the German jackboot, through small victories and bitter losses, this is the story of a man and a woman at war. A tale of causes and compromises, heroism and betrayal. Of choices made, with consequences unforeseen. And finally, how sometimes . . . love can give you a second chance.

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