A sizzling romantic thriller from bestselling author JANET EVANOVICH. For fans of WICKED APPETITE & SIZZLING SIXTEEN. Beaumont South Carolina has mint juleps ladies who lunch good ole boy politics & Jamie Swift. Shes running her familys newspaper & getting ready to marry the towns most eligible bachelor. Then mysterious high-tech crime-stopping wonder boy Max Holt comes to town. Hes got a case in Beaumont & a reason to look up Jamie Swift. He finds her impossible. She calls him infuriating. Theyre a perfect couple...except for her fiance & the arrival of two hitmen. Someone wants to kill Max. Someone else wants a town bigwig rubbed out. & suddenly Jamies caught in the crossfire of her own emotions Maxs secrets & the most irresistible desire... ...

Ed returns to Resemboul & meets his father Hohenheim for the first time in many years. Although his father is happy to see him Ed harbours intense feelings of resentment for being all but abandoned many years ago. However anger gives way to intrigue as Ed & Al discover an important fact about the human transmutation ritual they attempted years before. What they thought was a partial resurrection of their mother was something else entirely--a revelation that could change their destiny forever. ...

The hunters become the hunted when the Elric brothers & Prince Lin set a trap for the homunculus with the insatiable appetite
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In the midst of a heated battle Ed & Prince Lin of Xing are swallowed whole by the homunculus Gluttony. Will they survive the depths of Gluttonys gullet like Jonah inside the whale or has Al lost his brother for good? & the political power structure of the military may be irreparably shattered when Colonel Mustang confronts Fuhrer President King Bradley with his horrifying suspicion that Bradley is a homunculus! ...

Containing volumes 7 8 & 9 of Fullmetal Alchemist. Where did Alphonse Elric go during the few short minutes he was wiped from existence body & soul? From a secret lair in the city of Dublith a group of outcasts kidnaps Alphonse to find the alchemical secrets of his creation! It's up to Ed (and a certain housewife) to go into the Devil's Nest & rescue his brother. But the criminals of the Devil's Nest aren't exactly human either. Now Al must fight a homunculus
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Accompanied by their bodyguard Alex Louis Armstrong our heroes seek out their closest childhood friend Winry Rockbell to fix their battered auto-mail" bodyparts. Soon their quest for the Philosophers Stone takes them to the great central library where the Stones formula may be hidden...if the mysterious figure named Lust doesnt get there first! But the secret of the Philosophers Stone may be even more frightening than the beings who guard it..." ...

Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world; something between magic art & science. When two brothers Edward & Alphonse Elric dabbled in this power to grant their dearest wish one of them lost an arm & a leg...and the other became nothing but a soul locked into a body of living steel. Now Edward is an agent of the government a slave of the military-alchemical complex using his unique powers to obey orders...even to kill. Except his powers arent unique. The world has been ravaged by the abuse of alchemy. & in pursuit of the ultimate alchemical treasure the Philosophers Stone their enemies are even more ruthless than they are... ...

Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world; something between magic art & science. When two brothers Edward & Alphonse Elric dabbled in this power to grant their dearest wish one of them lost an arm & a leg...and the other became nothing but a soul locked into a body of living steel. Now Edward is an agent of the government a slave of the military-alchemical complex using his unique powers to obey orders...even to kill. Except his powers arent unique. The world has been ravaged by the abuse of alchemy. & in pursuit of the ultimate alchemical treasure the Philosophers Stone their enemies are even more ruthless than they are... ...

The horrors of the Ishbalan extermination campaign had serious repercussions which set the tone for the complicated dealings of present-day state politics. Lieutenant Hawkeye reluctantly tells Ed all the dreaded details of the role Colonel Mustang & the other state alchemists played in this tragic event. ...

Contains volumes 4 5 & 6 of Fullmetal Alchemist. Alchemy: the mystical power to alter the natural world somewhere between magic art & science. When two brothers Edward & Alphonse Elric dabbled in these powers to grant their dearest wish one of them lost an arm & leg...and the other became nothing but a soul locked into a body of living iron. Now they are agents of the government slaves of the military -alchemical complex using their unique powers to obey their orders...even to kill. But their powers aren't unique. The world crawls with evil alchemists. & in pursuit of the ultimate alchemical treasure the Philsopher's Stone their enemies are even more ruthless than they are. ...