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Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - Over the Hill - Part 2


Declining: (p.502) ...couldn't remember ever declining one for anybody.
Effete: (p.336) ...that effete little aristocrat tell him to do anything.
Entrenched: (p.62) ...to lead entrenched, conservative societies...
Factual: (p.170) His cousin was factual, as always.
Inactive: (p.209) ...but recorded as inactive...
Nubile: (p.113) ...to go looking for something nubile and pneumatic...


Tumble-down: (p.14) The cars would tumble down the hill into a stream...


Outmoded: (p.177) ...abide by a set of restrictive, outmoded laws.


Not Young: (p.112) He was stocky, not young but not old, either.
Unfashionable: (p.145) ...over the unfashionable dark tan...


Dyed-in-the-wool: (p.107) Like a true, dyed-in-the-wool prostitute...
Timeworn: (p.200) A living fragment of a timeworn myth...


Long in Tooth: (p.154) "A bit long in the tooth."


Deep-rooted: (p.25) ...a deep-rooted, old and strange type of magic...


Patriarch: (p.93) ...the image of a staid and respectable patriarch.
Quick-witted: (p.326) ...Bennett resembled the dashing and quick-witted rogue...


Clichéd: (p.178) ...to ask all the clichéd father-of-the-bride questions...
Debilitated: (p.370) Or he could've debilitated her, restrained her.


Old hat: (p.80) Tate nodded as if this was all old hat to him.


In the Know: (p.246) ...or somebody in the know still alive.


Ripened: (p.15) ...their off-duty relationship eventually ripened into love...


Fusty: (p.35) ...he was under the fusty blankets...


Inexhaustible: (p.219) ...as though from some inexhaustible supply.


Estimable: (p.79) It keeps you on your very estimable toes.


Hoary: (p.22) ...found a couple of hoary logs in the wood carrier...


Lot of Mileage: (p.159) ...and I’ve earned a lot of mileage out of chocolates...


Past One's Prime: (p.109) She was certainly past her prime...


Verifiable: (p.372) ...offer verifiable evidence of where they were...


Passé: (p.30) "Passé." Cece waved her hand.


Sapient: (p.33) A sapient gaze surveyed her from head to toe.


Fallen-In: (p.61) ...and Bentley was sorry for having fallen in with it.


Conversant: (p.65) ...Tucker seemed so conversant with the members...


Primordial: (p.115) ...police officers were barely out of the primordial ooze.


Olden: (p.162) “People in olden times must have had little feet,” Antonia said.


Masterly: (p.59) ...Tilda’s reaction to his masterly speech.


Long-lasting: (p.150) ...long-lasting entanglements virtually nonexistent.


Superannuated: (p.200) ...killed by some superannuated ace trying to show off.


Anile: (p.65) Kevin was a fool-fey, anile and gutless.


Outworn: (p.31) ...I kind of think we’ve outworn our Fifth Avenue welcome.


Antediluvian: (p.258) ...or what is called an antediluvian civilization.


Along in years: (p.35) He’s getting along in years now, but a fine gentleman.


Centenarian: (p.242) ...the centenarian who had passed away in her sleep.


Oldish: (p.198) You had nearly made the oldish lady believe...
Sagacious: (p.216) But their calm and more sagacious Commander...


Enfeebled: (p.225) ...and its vivifying qualities were considerably enfeebled.


Sexagenarian: (p.244) James Bond as a sexagenarian and recast as a woman.


Old-fangled: (p.899) ...because it was Old World, and old-fashioned, and old-fangled...


Perdurable: (p.81) ...habitable and inhabitable, durable and perdurable...


Uncared For: (p.56) It smelled old, musty, uncared for.


Obsolescent: (p.329) ...the Vitaphone technology was actually already obsolescent.


Quondam: (p.10) ...distinguished quondam Oxonian with the evocative name...

Choose Your Own Adventure
Peer Pressure Books - Peer Pressure

1. Ransom by Julie Garwood - 5: Lisa Kay, Vallsykes, Amanda The Book Slayer, Sherrie, Gen
2. Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost - 5: ~Leslie~, Christa, Vanessa
3. Solitude Creek by Jeffery Deaver - 4: Foxy Grandma
4. Hot Six by Janet Evanovich - 5: Turtlecollector, Christa
5. Natural Born Charmer by Susan Elizabeth Phillips - 5: Lisa Kay, Jane Stewart
6. Shock & Awe by Abigail Roux - 5: ShoSho
7. Her Vigilant SEAL by Caitlyn O'Leary - 5: Sally906
8. Inferno by Dan Brown - 5: Fenia, Arnis, Sallie
9. Hell & High Water by Charlie Cochet - 5: Danielle Gypsy Soul
10. Celebrity in Death by J.D. Robb - 4: LJ, ~Leslie~, Sallie(GeorgiaGirl)
11. Dead Beat by Jim Butcher - 4: Arnis, LJ
12. Bone Crossed by Patricia Briggs - 5: Alex is The Romance Fox, Ezinwanyi
13. Dark Desires After Dusk by Kresley Cole - 5: Lisa Key, Ezinwanyi
14. Ghost Hunter by Jayne Castle - 5: Melody, ~Leslie~
15. The Geek Job by Eve Langlais - 4: ShoSho, Shannon
16. Going Once by Sharon Sala - 4: Jane Stewart
17. Lover at Last by J.R. Ward - 4: Ezinwanyi, ShoSho
18. The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles - 5: Jayne dArcy, Wren, Remus
19. Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver - 4: Foxy Grandma
20. The English Assassin by Daniel Silva - 5: Carolien
21. Tender Is the Storm by Johanna Lindsey - 4: Lauren (Sugar & Snark)
22. Chasing Magic by Stacia Kane - 5: Amanda The Book Slayer, Ezinwanyi, Shannon
23. Sex Machine by Marie Force - 5: Sherrie
24. The Duke by Gaelen Foley - 5: Lauren
25. Ral's Woman by Laurann Dohner - 5: Christy
26. The Many Sins of Lord Cameron by Jennifer Ashley - 5: Leslie, Brittany

Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - Quests & Legends

1st June 2017 - ?


Act: (p.38) You act like you and Marlo are the only ones...
Action: (p.114) That’s real action.”
Amusement: (p.184) ...more for amusement than need.
Art: (p.5) ...but without art, stories, and the people...
Audit: (p.277) ...regretfully testified was the threat of internal audit.”
Benevolent: (p.23) ...that carved-by-benevolent-angels face...
Bold: (p.118) She wore bold black hoops at her ears...
Calling: (p.17) ...and calling him all the time.
Chase: (p.148) Many of these stories will chase the star angle.
Company: (p.11) ...operator of Good Times—party planning company.”
Course: (p.8) ...she suggests I take an assertive course.
Creation: (p.20) ...both been murdered by their own creations.
Crew: (p.5) ...and it’ll make the cast and crew happy.
Crossing: (p.189) Mimed by crossing her arms...
Crowd: (p.23) ...bumped elbows, and more, with the Hollywood crowd.”
Drive: (p.36) With that intensity and drive...
Enterprise: (p.182) Another would be engaging in free enterprise.
Fancy: (p.26) ...clamped on the bracelet, the fancy wrist unit.
Fantasy: (p.196) ...who’ll buy into the fantasy.
Fiction: (p.119) ...outside fiction—murder is a fucking coward’s game.
Fleet: (p.300) ...which believe me Steinburger will have a fleet of...
Follow: (p.68) ...details to fucking follow.”
Fun: (p.6) “It’ll be more fun than you think.
Game: (p.119) ...murder is a fucking coward’s game.
Goal: (p.186) “Hurting you wasn’t the goal—or an option.”
Grand: (p.161) ...a cash payment of a hundred grand to Triple A.
Gritty: (p.91) Some sort of gritty, back-beating rock...
Heroic: (p.59) “And see each other as heroic.”
Hike: (p.320) But I’ll be damned if I’ll hike in them.”
Hunt: (p.234) ...keeping a low profile due to the media hunt.
Illusion: (p.75) ...but he gives the illusion of being a lot like him...
Imagination: (p.195) Imagination’s essential to the healthy human...
Inquiry: (p.313) ...was there when the police made the inquiry.
Investigation: (p.2) ...given her during the Icove investigation...
Job: (p.4) Nadine did a brilliant job of merging the reality...
Journey: (p.193) ...to offset the brief journey into bad dreams...
Keen: (p.383) ...and maybe wasn’t as keen on having you marry...
Key: (p.46) ...an undetermined amount of cash, and a key card.
March: (p.204) ...the opposite direction in kind of a quick march.
Mission: (p.248) It seems she made it her mission...
Obsession: (p.159) Matthew’s the current obsession.
Oral: (p.113) Knowing he expected at least a general oral report,
Plan: (p.64) I’m told you plan to have her taken to the morgue.
Progress: (p.195) ...for progress, for art, even for police work.”
Prying: (p.160) ...Eve tried prying, poking, jimmying.
Perusal: (p.303) After a brief perusal, he selected a conservative glazed...
Pursue: (p.43) ...and you had to pursue that.
Question: (p.6) It’s probably a stupid question...
Race: (p.90) She popped up to race him to the bedroom.
Range: (p.190) “We can go downstairs to the range.”
Reality: (p.4) Nadine did a brilliant job of merging the reality...
Research: (p.31) I know from my research clothes aren’t your thing...
Round: (p.42) That bit of business got a round of applause...
Route: (p.6) Dallas and Peabody, Detective Delia, en route.”
Run: (p.29) That’s a good run for anybody,
Search: (p.143) “I could take the search now...
Securing: (p.210) ...requested uniforms for securing the scene...
Shot: (p.2) “And cut! That’s the money shot.”
Sifting: (p.212) ...Peabody stopped sifting through the debris...
Sport: (p.114) “When I have time to watch any screen, I like sports.
Stroll: (p.269) ...then stroll away on dry land.”
Swing: (p.95) “We’re going to swing by to talk to Mavis and Leonardo...
Team: (p.49) ...household and the outside catering team...
Tour: (p.29) “We were getting the tour of the house...
Trace: (p.82) And traces of a burned rag in the fireplace.
Tragedy: (p.277) It was the tragedy and scandal...
Trail: (p.143) PIs who break-and-enter don’t like leaving a trail.”
Travel: (p.184) “I’ve no yearning to travel about on a boat.
Trip: (p.145) ...like bratty children on a school field trip.
View: (p.4) “They’ll CGI in the view—buildings, air traffic,”
Vision: (p.359) ...he thought as his mind and vision blurred.
Visit: (p.10) “A visit to a vid set, a DB, and dinner with celebrities.
Weakness: (p.188) She had a weakness for leather and rich colors...


Accomplishment: (p.260) That the remarkable accomplishments...
Altruistic: (p.258) "Gosh. That's so altruistic of him."
Birthright: (p.343) The power had been a birthright...
Campaign: (p.331) ...he was preparing a campaign for the presidency...
Chivalrous: (p.340) ...damn his chivalrous eyes...
Circuit: (p.240) All circuits were busy.
Cruise: (p.35) He was wearing Tom Cruise sunglasses...
Daring: (p.76) ...daring them to meet my gaze.
Delusion: (p.203) ...necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood...
Distraction: (p.89) ...we might not be anything but a distraction to him.
Elevated: (p.169) "Keep your leg elevated.
Epic: (p.31) ...their own epic production of Fahrenheit 451...
Exaggerated: (p.54) Or maybe exaggerated it in the remembering.
Examination: (p.34) ...I mean, examination rooms...
Exploit: (p.273) "But they waited to exploit them...
Exploration: (p.253) ...there was a sense of exploration to her mouth...
Extract: (p.201) "I can extract the information from him myself."
Fearless: (p.292) ...or a fearless foe of evil...
Genius: (p.217) "I'm not some kind of genius."
Glorious: (p.297) ...and the glorious thrill of the chase...
Lore: (p.72) It was supposed to deal with the lore around the Erlkoenig...
Noble: (p.15) ...the vampire noble who bought it for me...
Notable: (p.69) One of the notable exceptions was Elementary Magic...
Patrol: (p.45) ...ambulance rather than patrol car.
Prey: (p.4) Those the White Court chose as their prey...
Pursuit: (p.226) ...and the pursuit of your own heart's purpose."
Puzzle: (p.259) "See, Kumori, you're sort of a puzzle," I said.
Raid: (p.294) ...sticks Kincaid had given me before our raid...
Roaming: (p.129) ...if they saw you roaming around.
Rune: (p.17) ...a length of solid oak hand-carved with flowing runes...
Shtick: (p.78) ...I still get sick of that I-know-and-you-don't shtick.
Seeking: (p.336) ...each seeking to grasp and kill the other.
Sideline: (p.232) I just don't like the idea of sitting on the sidelines...
Sorcerer: (p.7) ...in trolls or vampires or evil sorcerers...
Specialty: (p.217) We've got different specialties.
Stalwart: (p.149) Bock might not have been a stalwart companion...
Stunt: (p.233) This stunt is going to cause havoc.
Superstition: (p.53) In error about dismissing magic as superstition?"
Tradition: (p.177) Mouse is the sort to respect tradition.
Travelers: (p.324) ...locations of restaurants and hotels for travelers...
Trek: (p.323) "You've watched too many Trek reruns, Butters.
Trial: (p.61) ...bring criminals in for a trial...
Unafraid: (p.160) ...the sound high and furious and totally unafraid.
Vast: (p.291) "It's a waste of my vast intellect and talent,"
Wisdom: (p.49) I wasn't blessed with the wisdom of Solomon...
Witch: (p.332) ...manacles on wizards and witches for centuries.
Wizard: (p.6) "Just because you're a wizard doesn't mean you know...


Adventure: (p.88) But that old Trickster dies in his adventures...
Commission: (p.231) ...were only knocked out of commission...
Experiment: (p.256) “No. It was the boy, James’s little experiment.”
Gallant: (p.103) ...no matter how chivalrous and gallant Stefan appears.
Gutsy: (p.10) ...Adam didn’t know many people gutsy enough...
Intrepid: (p.129) ...we intrepid explorers climbed into the attic...
Meddling: (p.46) ...felt free and easy meddling in one of my cars.
Myth: (p.25) I thought it was supposed to be a myth...
Quarry: (p.127) ...the quarry marks on the granite stone blocks...
Survey: (p.198) ...just ran his eyes over me in a quick survey.
Trailing: (p.214) ...trailing her around like a lost puppy...
Valiant: (p.218) ...valiant defenders of his lawn...
Whim: (p.151) ...I couldn’t leave Amber to die at Blackwood’s whim.
Yip: (p.82) ...and gave him an “all’s well” yip.


Fib: (p.351) “I did tell a fib, but only so the fates would align...
Foretelling: (p.137) “She doesn’t get foretellings wrong—ever,” he said.
Occupation: (p.91) Simply learning her father’s occupation...
Oracle: (p.12) “Groot’s oracles have been searching for her.
Outing: (p.97) “For millennia, the witches kept outing themselves...
Probe: (p.158) You might be able to block his probes...
Soothsayer: (p.12) Nïx, the half-mad Valkyrie soothsayer...
Tale: (p.91) ...found herself growing enthralled with the tale.


Concoction: (p.164) ...glass filled with a frothy concoction...
Diary: (p.325) That's one of the privet diaries that Griggs trailed down.
Expedition: (p.105) ...botanists on the Second Tropical Expedition.
Nervy: (p.97) ...and nervy excitement hit her full force...
Penetrate: (p.309) Then the water began to penetrate the leafy celling.
Probing: (p.50) ...probing for the pattern with his psi senses.
Rummage: (p.170) She pretended to rummage around...
Scrutiny: (p.156) ...he was under close scrutiny by the pair.


Bunk: (p.49) We appreciate being able to bunk here...
Grandiose: (p.154) ...because of a grandiose ego...


Excursion: (p.40) ...might see their excursion as opportunity...
Grope: (p.32) The vamp tried to hug her, grope her and bite her...
Indomitable: (p.125) ...beneath the veneer of her indomitable will...


Diversion: (p.57) ...his injuries were another fantastic diversion.
Fallacy: (p.286) ...a stretch of the truth, but not a total fallacy.
Figment: (p.565) ...the soldier was not the figment of his mind...
Harbinger: (p.54) ...on the peach harbinger of daylight...
Migration: (p.113) The process of migration had been incremental...
Sojourn: (p.116) ...after a sojourn to the cabin...
Squadron: (p.150) ...waiting for another squadron to make an appearance.
Transit: (p.9) ...anything from the Caldwell Transit Authority...


Adage: (p.57) ...the adage about certainty in life should not be limited...
Caravan: (p.79) A black car was parked near the largest caravan...
Crock: (p.342) The old woman picked up a ceramic crock of beer...
Inflated: (p.204) ...glistening face inflated with the power of small officialdom.
Itinerary: (p.149) ...Bond’s whereabouts and planned itinerary.
Melodious: (p221) The faint accent was melodious.
Narrative: (p.46) M did not tolerate a muddled narrative or padding.
Prosecution: (p.414) ...I’ll let the prosecution know that you helped me...
Ramble: (p.54) ...past the ramble of Canning Town and Silvertown...
Reconnaissance: (p.318) ...for any future reconnaissance at Green Way?
Snooping: (p.36) Sexed-up dossiers, invasion of privacy, political snooping...
Traverse: (p.451) ...there was a series of steep but smooth traverses...
Voyage: (p.373) ...maiden voyage could go forward without interruption.


Delving: (p.169) ...but paused before delving into it.


Inquisition: (p.217) ...he tilted his head with inquisition.

Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - Quests & Legends - part 2



Clamor: (p.167) ...again the clamor of the piazza intruded upon the silence...
Crusade: (p.247) Jacobi’s one-man crusade against the financial oligarchy...
Inquest: (p.252) “According to the inquest, there was no note.
Outcry: (p.338) The outcry would have been deafening.
Scour: (p.48) ...to scour his dusty archives.


Audacious: (p.156) ...but paying your bills is downright audacious.
Pierce: (p.78) ...turning to pierce her once more with those bright green eyes.
Saunter: (p.28) Sharisse watched him saunter to the back of the stage...
Tramp: (p.14) Ano-good alley tramp.


Elicit: (p.137) ...would elicit that particular reaction.


Allegory: (p.66) ...that would well suit an allegory...
Constitutional: (p.135) ...for it was the hour of their daily constitutional.
Jaunt: (p.47) “I fear after that jaunt down Rotten Row...
Laureate: (p.146) ...poet laureate would have something inspiring to say...
Promenade: (p.22) Far from the Promenade and the bathing machines...
Unearth: (p.23) ...tonight at last he might unearth the key he sought.


Feat: (p.104) ...if he was capable of that feat...


Rhyme: (p.106) Do the damned things know the rhymes?”
Yarn: (p.15) ...a lengthy yarn involving rats the size of dogs...


Fable: (p.27) To my mind, the old fable has been disproved...
Sonnet: (p.212) ...collecting snuffboxes or writing sonnets.
Undertaking: (p.95) ...she goes on an undertaking that makes long skirts inadvisable.


Uncover: (p.25) ...after helping Burke uncover information about a man...


Safari: (p.277) ...all the equipment females take on sex safaris.
Wayfarers: (p.16) ...what was billed The Historic Wayfarer's Inn...


Hounding: (p.24) ...Lord Crane had set about hounding his parents...


Quatrain: (p.246) ...giving the button a quatrain of long, insistent pushes.


Lyric: (p.34) ...a lighthearted argument over lyrics.
Mythology: (p.81) ...the mythology of lycanthropy and vampirism...
Whimsy: (p.53) In a moment of whimsy during the summer...


Posse: (p.133) This time without her posse.


Whopper: (p.258) ...a Whopper with cheese, a large fries, and a Diet Coke...


Kismet: (p.272) “Yes. So perhaps it was kismet… destiny.
Lament: (p.115) He physically felt Mac’s hushed lament...
Limerick: (p.331) “Maybe a limerick or two.


Fabrication: (p.2) ...the events of the book are sheer fabrication.
Folklore: (p.27) ...all too happy to dismiss as folklore?"


Magnanimous: (p.218) ...to point out to her how magnanimous he was...


Avocation: (p.118) Sure, it’s not our vocation or our job—more like an avocation.


Pilgrimage: (p.239) ...people considered the journey itself to be part of the pilgrimage...
Saga: (p.187) “The Saga of the Seasick Giant,” Gray was calling his stories...


Steeplechase: (p.114) It was half obstacle course, half steeplechase.


Cavalcade: (p.297) A burst of a cavalcade came trotting out on horses.


Blubber: (p.212) ...Mr. Tumtrinkle began to blubber in an excess of emotion.


Dissection: (p.37) ...settling down to the dissection of the first three chapters...


Bard: (p.6) These dreary dumps I call my life, as the bard would say.


Odyssey: (p.92) The Odyssey offers a spectacular view of the San Fernando Valley...


Junket: (p.255) “This junket should be amusing. What's our cover story?”


Parable: (p.104) Philip had always been drawn to the parable of the lost sheep.


Peregrination: (p.34) They continued their peregrination...


Hogwash: (p.306) ...but in reality a complete and utter load of hogwash.


Ode: (p.172) ...to be rubbed down with ode de chimp or fox musk.


Quixotic: (p.70) ...it was exactly the sort of quixotic thing his brother might do.
Vagrancy: (p.52) ...and hoped it had been for no more than vagrancy...
Wayfaring: (p.36) He was obviously a wayfaring rogue...


Clairvoyant: (p.64) I have a talent for psychometry, but I'm not clairvoyant.
Fad: (p.149) ...with every trendy fad that comes along...


Portend: (p.39) ...presence of Griffin’s cousin and what it might portend.


Hooey: (p.323) Coincidences were hooey.


Iambic: (p.67) “From iambic pentameter to Little Bo Peep?”


Ransack: (p.277) ...somehow managed to ransack a weapons unit at some point.


Forewarn: (p.74) I feel compelled to forewarn and forsake.


Assay: (p.71) ...an objective assay of the facts warrants it.


Bestiary: (p.12) ...little creature drawn from the pages of a medieval bestiary.


Stouthearted: (p.213) ...neat as clockwork, stouthearted and very well trained.


Yam: (p.293) Thanksgiving was turkey, yams, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.


Presage: (p.479) ...a dull haze which felt like the presage of some thunderhead...
Voyagers: (p.373) We are the Unhomed— lost voyagers of the world.


Villanelle: (p.37) ...wrote page after page of villanelles and sonnets.


Valorous: (p.424) Then help me prove just how valorous he was.


Forage: (p.57) ...he pretended to be distracted by his futile pocket forage...


Doughty: (p.73) ...a doughty band of prospectors from Leadville braved the threat...


Entrada: (p.299) ...we lifted off the ship at Punta Entrada outside of Santa Cruz.


Vagary: (p.85) ...the slightest vagary of wind could blow it away.


Dauntless: (p.147) ...with their classical fatalism and dauntless will to struggle...


Haiku: (p.48) “Hamilton lives just about ten miles past it in Haiku-Pauwela.”


Lifework: (p.121) There’s a lifework for you!
Winnow: (p.117) Waste of time to winnow that out.


Mythos: (p.45) He concentrated specifically on the mythos...


Ululate: (p.278) They began to ululate again, rolling their tongues...


Prevision: (p.202) None of us have really strong powers of prevision...


Recapitulation: (p.126) His evidence was a mere recapitulation...


Pursuance: (p.450) ... proceeded in pursuance of an order from Sir James Saumarez Bart.


Lion-hearted: (p.429) The lion-hearted Guillermo Sanchez...
Venery: (p.134) And he was sacked for venery.


Transmigration: (p.171) They also believed in the transmigration of souls...


Apologue: (47%) ...exactly the opposite of the apologue fables which amuse...


Vagabondage: (p.31) ...accompanying Lord Easterhouse to Austria constitutes vagabondage...

2017 July Monthly Challenge



1. 'J' is for July​​: Read a book whose author's first or last name starts with 'J'. - Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb

​​2. Happy Anniversary!​ ​Read a book that was published in July of any year - Crying For The Moon by Sarah Madison​

​​3. Featured Author Challenge (FAC) author​ ​- ​Jennifer Ashley​: The Many Sins of Lord Cameron by Jennifer Ashley

4. Independence Day: a book with a cover that's at least 50% blue - Flight of Magpies by K.J. Charles

5. World Population Day: MC of significant wealth, a book with more than one person on the cover - A Case of Possession by K.J. Charles

6. "Vive la France!", Bastille Day: Read a page count that includes a 1 or 4 - Impact by Douglas Preston

​7. National Ice Cream Day: Read a book by your favorite author - Remember When by Nora Roberts

​8. International Day of Friendship: MCs who are close friends - Marked in Flesh by Anne Bishop

9. Mutt's Day:Read a book that includes a Pet - Love in the Afternoon by Lisa Kleypas

​10. Reader's Choice: Read any book of your choice.​

Choose Your Own Adventure
Reread Rewind

3 July 2017 - ?


Age: (p.25) He’d learned at a young age...
Bit: (p.10) Salt, sweet, a little bit of spice.
Breath: (p.4) ...his tallness had taken Ainsley’s breath away...
Chapter: (p.62) Cameron had contributed chapters or essays...
Clock: (p.126) ...a delicate little table with a gilt clock on top.
Continue: (p.59) He turned away and continued through the crowd...
Draw: (p.156) Before Ainsley could draw a ragged breath...
Examine: (p.16) ...dropped to her knees to examine the lock.
Follow: (p.95) ...why did Cameron follow you to Edinburgh...
Go again: (p.295) He’d not let her go again, not for the Queen...
Go back to: (p.335) He’d go back to Balmoral...
Hand over: (p.39) ...she clapped her hand over her corset.
Hour: (p.29) ...or staring for hours at a Ming bowl,...
Interruption: (p.73) He wasn’t sure what to make of Daniel’s interruption.
Investigate: (p.248) ...and investigate the scary new landmarks...
Life: (p.11) ...Lord Cameron coaxed to life sensations...
Mend: (p.223) ...and he seemed to mend...
Mirror: (p.206) Cameron’s gaze met hers in the mirror...
Mock: (p.240) She gave him a mock scowl.
Model: (p.46) Don’t look to me as a model for fatherhood.
Moment: (p.4) At this moment, Cameron’s gaze was reserved...
Month: (p.23) A new mistress every few months...
Occasion: (p.105) ...I’ve rousted my brothers on many occasions...
Pace: (p.246) Cameron watched him driving up the road at a snail’s pace...
Paint: (p.129) ...wiped the rest of the scarlet paint from his mouth...
Past: (p.15) Six years between that day and this rushed past Cameron.
Point: (p.3) ...the point of fire of his kiss.
Practice: (p.10) ...and with the ease of practice...
Present: (p.273) ...he gave them some expensive present.
Quarter: (p.24) ...each about three quarters of an inch in diameter.
Quit: (p.86) ...as Cameron quit the stables for the house.
Remake: (p.225) Don’t try to remake me in one night.
Repeat: (p.46) ...but could repeat the words in their precise order.
Scan: (p.78) A quick scan of the room told Cameron that Ian and Beth were...
Season: (p.32) ...is never seen out and about during the Season...
Second: (p.2) ...giving Ainsley a few more seconds to panic.
Show: (p.11) ...the outline would show against her bodice.
Space: (p.22) ...filling every space of him.
Stage: (p.133) Cameron thought he vaguely recognized him from the stage.
State: (p.24) ...to pull him out of his groggy, hungover state.
Steal: (p.14) ...all to steal a stupid necklace for some ridiculous feminine intrigue.
Study: (p.61) “There’s my study next door.”
Tide: (p.121) ...carrying Ainsley with them like the tide.
Tour: (p.188) They take walking tours of far-off countries...
Track: (p.296) Hooves pounded on the track, mud flying...
Undo: (p.36) Cameron poked the top button with his gloved finger. “Undo this.”
Unload: (p.246) ...as Angelo started to unload her.
Week: (p.3) She’d known for weeks that Phyllida had stuck her claws...
While: (p.3) ...while Cameron leaned down and pressed leisurely kisses...
Wink: (p.230) She gave him a smile and Daniel a wink.
Year: (p.2) ...the first new gown she’d had in years that wasn’t mourning black.


Ape: (p.99) ...so nobody feels any great urge to ape its ways.
Chant: (p.51) “Good enough to remember and repeat a chant?”
Chorus: (p.58) The chorus of incredulous mockery that erupted...
Feature: (p.10) Crane kept his features still and calm...
Future: (p.81) Stephen’s life and future depended on the secrets...
Meantime: (p.122) “In the meantime, resonance.”
Register: (p.78) It took him half a second to register...
Span: (p.44) “Oh, for—” Esther span away...
Spell: (p.118) “He doesn’t need a spell, look at him.”
Staccato: (p.26) ...to take on the staccato pulsing beat that Crane knew well.
Stretch: (p.127) Crane began to stretch his arms,...
Summary: (p.52) ...and Esther gave her a rapid summary of events.
Trace: (p.19) There was no trace of that wild, crazed widow now...
Travesty: (p.114) A real one, not a fucking travesty...
Version: (p.50) “You’re getting the abridged version,” Crane told him.


Brace: (p.162) Reaching beneath the straps of his trouser braces...
Cycle: (p.331) ...talk for hours about migration patterns, plant cycles...
Duration: (p.131) For the duration of the season...
Echo: (p.127) ...along with the luminous echo of her words...
Extent: (p.127) The extent of his own need stunned him.
Generation: (p.23) ...notice that throughout the generations represented...
Instance: (p.258) Demanding them, in some instances.
Likeness: (p.157) “I see a likeness between them,” Catherine said reflectively.
Lull: (p.38) During the lulls, I try to imagine being in some other place.
Moderate: (p.8) These moderate attractions, however, were nothing...
Pirate: (p.85) ...which gave him the appearance of a miniature pirate.
Prolong: (p.245) He made no effort to prolong it.
Underscore: (p.83) ...it only seemed to underscore their strangeness.
Wane: (p.118) It feels like a place where things wane...
Withdraw: (p.329) Christopher made to withdraw...


Allotment: (p.105) ...we receive our full allotment of gasoline.
Imitate: (p.288) ...and piled the bodies to imitate the Wolf packs...
Recap: (p.281) “And now here’s a recap of the photographs...
Stimulate: (p.136) ...as play to stimulate the urge to mate.
Take another look: (p.127) “We’ll take another look when we get back...


Analyze: (p.320) "Computer, analyze data on two current case files...
Bout: (p.332) ...for a ten-minute bout and felt limber...
Cancel: (p.335) "Sure. But I can cancel if you just want to kick back."
Carbon: (p.359) "They're carbon-based stones, Peabody. Inanimate objects."
Clone: (p.283) "And you might invest in a remote clone...
Din: (p.337) ...aim it toward Roarke's ear to be heard over the din.
Ditto: (p.173) "May I say, ditto."
Double back: (p.202) ...then he'd double back for the rest...
Epitomize: (p.265) ...and somehow had come to epitomize home to her.
Era: (p.60) ...and bric-a-brac to try to identify the type and era.
Fake: (p.141) Figured I'd swallow his fake names and fairy story whole.
Freshen: (p.73) ...she'd come into her bedroom to freshen up and change.
Lineup: (p.472) "Yes, I don't believe I heard my name in today's lineup."
Move back: (p.483) "Or in this case, we move back.
Phony: (p.405) Public places, public access. Phony accounts.
Quote: (p.113) "There's probably a quote somewhere...
Rehash: (p.468) Just a rehash of family stories...
Skim: (p.352) "I have some new data and need to skim over it.
Stint: (p.13) ...at least one stint alongside her father.
Summarize: (p.353) Summarize the case, Detective...
Transcribe: (p.5) Laine didn't need to transcribe the code...


Dupe: (p.153) ...Fairley was making you his dupe!


Annal: (p.43) ...part of the greatest event in the annals of exploration...
Capsize: (p.158) “When it sinks, it’ll capsize us, pull us under.”
Depict: (p.283) They depict an alien weapon at the bottom of Voltaire crater...
Eternity: (p.269) After what seemed like an eternity...
Flip-flop: (p.70) ...untucked, baggy pants, and flip-flops...
Incarnate: (p.137) You are mediocrity incarnate.
Inspect: (p.130) “How’d you handle the soldier who came to inspect?”
Periodicity: (p.58) ...he overall background noise—a faint periodicity.”
Spruce: (p.51) ...a dense forest of black spruce rose up.
Velocity: (p.197) ...moving at faster than escape velocity.
Zenith: (p.48) At noon, the sun was at its zenith...


Juncture: (p.123) ...then teased at the juncture of his thigh.
Tempo: (p.31) ...time to the increasing tempo of their thrusts.


Portray: (p.33) ...watching people accurately portray catlike behavior...
Remodel: (p.42) ...let alone remodel his house.


Flaunt: (p.198) “I don’t flaunt my connection with the top.
Rethink: (p.376) She has to rethink.”


Epoch: (p.118) ...coming back into style from some earlier epoch.
Lacuna: (p.50) I must have just walked through a lacuna...
languish: (p.147) ...and I shall languish here until we meet again.
Rehearse: (p.45) ...a woman home to watch him rehearse.
Revert: (p.245) Perhaps their metabolism will revert...
Timetable: (p.195) ...but either she was on a timetable...
Welsh: (p.36) Or we might have been Welsh...


Culmination: (p.168) The culmination of everything I’ve planned.
Embody: (p.353) So will the woman I choose to embody her.
Mimic: (p.535) ...lifestyle up to this point closely mimic mine.
Photocopy: (p.444) “Why don’t you make photocopies of your notes...
Sham: (p.699) ...canopy of lime-green silk, with matching pillow shams.
Stat: (p.70) He teaches math and stats.


Litany: (p.94) ...a litany of words to describe the gorgeous man...
Peruse: (p.330) ...taking his sweet time to peruse Mac’s body...


Occurrence: (p.180) This wasn’t an uncommon occurrence for a woman bartender.


Circle back: (p.163) I expected the guards to circle back around any minute.
Intermission: (p.320) We stood in the Grand Foyer at intermission.
Rote: (p.253) ...rather than rattling off a rote list of prepared questions.


Dismantle: (p.488) They need to dismantle the operation, they lose big.
Verbalize: (p.260) ...didn’t verbalize his greeting, he just lifted his chin.


Bounce back: (p.97) He'd seen her bounce back from shock...
Reign: (p.247) She had characterized Tate's reign of terror...


Invert: (p.116) Maybe invert it —owo? As in, "owo is me"?
Parrot: (p.125) Like parrots playing off each other...


Double-check: (p.185) “I just wanted to double-check something.”


Redesign: (p.90) I did the redesign on his dining room.


Playtime: (p.2) ...keep paying the bills, playtime was over.
Typify: (p.337) ...typify/differentiate continental and oceanic volcanos...


Paraphrase: (p.101) ...there’s a line from it I’m going to paraphrase...
Revise: (p.99) “So, you revise what you get from your readings?”


About-face: (p.121) They snapped to attention, did a quick about-face...
Facet: (p.108) ...each facet giving off its own unique color.


Renovate: (p.45) They were determined to renovate it.


Alliteration: (p.58) “Simonton’s. I like the alliteration,” she said.


Null and void: (p.218) ...had on Gray Leynham were now null and void.


Facsimile: (p.20) ...records for Navy SEALs were never, repeat never, sent via facsimile.


Ascendancy: (p.8) ...the Regent’s men in ascendancy.
Delineate: (p.328) Laurent leaned in, let his thumb delineate a small, wet circle.


Overturn: (p.15) ...as though seeking to overturn a stone...


Infinity: (p.213) ...an illustration of the soul’s perpetual struggle with infinity...
Many a moon: (p.312) Haven’t sent her out in many a moon.


Life span: (p.109) The life span of the Chess Club itself had been brief...

Choose Your Own Adventure
Reread Rewind - Part 2


Illustrate: (p.326) ...and as though to illustrate his point...


Reminisce: (p.81) ...did not choose to reminisce in public about the good times...
Time-out: (p.102) ...I wondered if he had deliberately called for a time-out.


Retrograde: (p.77) ...Back to the Future emotional retrograde on this visit home.
Vacate: (p.45) He tried to insist that you had to vacate the premises.


Abeyance: (p.309) There was warmth here, albeit in abeyance...
Redecorate: (p.403) ...and bear your children and redecorate your house...


Look back on: (p.67) I can close my eyes now, and look back on it...


Quail: (p.56) Perhaps she expected me to quail in fear...
Simulate: (p.161) ...the best way to accurately simulate dragging a body...


Recur: (p.227) “We had no idea that old memories would recur in some of the implants,”


Limn: (p.37) ...just enough light to limn all it touched in silver...


Pipeline: (p.265) It was like driving a pipeline straight into that intensity...


Upend: (p.25) He hadn’t expected him to upend his world...


Persist: (p.71) If you persist, I’ll have your goddamn badge.


Doldrum: (p.77) The things they bet on to beat back the doldrums.


Enumerate: (p.200) ...to describe the fugitives and enumerate their misdeeds.


Parody: (p.23) ...what should have been an alarming parody.


Logbook: (p.389) ...the existence of a logbook or security tapes.


Turn the tables: (p.153) ...and turn the tables by taking Zeiler hostage.


Give ground: (p.366) ...but they do tend to give ground.
Overhaul: (p.275) ...your whole situation with livestock badly needs an overhaul.


Chronology: (p.36) ...it described in strict chronology the police career...
Parenthesis: (p.223) ...he wrote `The General’ and, in parenthesis, `Jackson/DIA?’...


Hash over: (p.331) ...to hash over the afternoon’s catastrophe.


Plagiarize: (p.247) Who will he plagiarize next?


Sequester: (p.164) King could happily sequester them both in a room upstairs...


Engrave: (p.149) ...then she shut her eyes to engrave this moment on her memory.


Belabor: (p.116) No need to belabor the point.


Narrate: (p.69) ...and could narrate many a strange tale of fortunes...


Recapitulate: (p.166) To recapitulate all the evidence would be merely tiresome.


Continuance: (p.53) He asked the lawyer to ask Judge Keyes for a continuance...


Modernize: (p.236) “Yeah. You know—modernize it. Change it.”


Layoff: (p.266) “We may have another round of layoffs.”


Personify: (p.25) Many young people attempted to personify the bleakness...


Transpose: (p.123) He’d play a fall of notes, transpose it up or down...


Look at again: (p.275) “Is there anything else you wanted to look at again...


Run up the flagpole: (p.22) ...when it needed to be run up the flagpole for approval...


Revamp: (p.815) ...had to be done to restore it and revamp its antiquated equipment.


Forswear: (p.82) ...forget, forgo, forbid, forbear, forlorn, forsake, and forswear,...
Itemize: (p.160) ...-ize spellings for words such as characterize, itemize, and the like...
Iterate: (p.81) ...flammable and inflammable, iterate and reiterate...


Interregnum: (p.257) And in this interregnum the samurai metamorphosed slowly...


Invalidate: (p.20) ...a scandal outrageous enough to totally invalidate him as a candidate.


Quiescence: (p.113) Her quiescence infuriated him.


Tautology: (p.23) That is nearly a tautology.


Mimeo: (p.23) ...same institutional smells of flesh, sweat, disinfectants and mimeo ink.


Perseveration: (p.64) ...Max’s continued perseveration upon suicidal ideations...


Engross: (p.198) ...become proprietors of the whole nation, and engross the civil power...


Hark back to: (p.27) ...hark back to a time in the first third of the previous century...


Emend: (p.68) ...reworking and revising, mentioning “the flames which emend.”


Evert: (p.13) ...Elizaveta von Evert-Kolokoltseva, aged seventeen...


Furbish: (p.187) ...to furbish up any that were "passees," and to air and arrange the new.


Gentrify: (p.43) An attempt had been made to gentrify the mills...


Retrace steps: (p.315) There was nothing for it but to retrace steps...

Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - Super Bowl Season

1st August 2017 - ?


air: (p.3) ...like a fish suffocating for air.
attempt: (p.116) ...it was sturdy enough to withstand my fruitless attempt...
audible: (p.260) "She did," I replied, my voice barely audible.
back: (p.3) ...standing and setting me back on my feet as well.
ball: (p.256) "It's kind of like a costume ball.
block: (p.315) Instead, the screen was segmented into many different blocks...
blocking: (p.171) I didn't move from the doorway, blocking his entry.
bomb: (p.353) ...is thick enough to withstand explosives, bombs...
box: (p.70) ...and he no doubt needed a litter box as well.
bust: (p.321) "I'm here to bust you out," I continued.
Buffalo: (p.360) ...like a water buffalo scaling Mount Everest.
bye: (p.291) "Bye, Blane," I said simply.
carry: (p.333) ...to get someone to carry our luggage...
center: (p.2) ...my face flushed at being the center of attention.
chain: (p.410) ...the chain of the necklace biting painfully into my skin...
Chicago: (p.303) "He'll be traveling to Chicago tonight...
contain: (p.93) ...trying to contain my excitement.
cover: (p.154) ...I slipped under the covers...
counter: (p.53) There were dirty dishes on the kitchen counter...
cut: (p.3) ...like a marionette with it’s strings cut...
defense: (p.20) Defense attorneys and trial lawyers had a reputation...
dive: (p.44) It was a nice bar, not a dive...
down: (p.1) ...had me face down in the lap...
drive: (p.20) ...no one questioned his ambition and drive.
puppies: (p.14) ...he would be to drop kick puppies.
East: (p.147) ...when we moved here from back East...
flag: (p.125) I celebrated everything from Fat Tuesday to Flag Day.
flat: (p.64) My TV wasn't one of the new flat kinds...
game: (p.39) Playing games wasn't really my thing.
guard: (p.14) ...one of the security guards at the courthouse.
holder: (p.15) ...wishing I had a ponytail holder with me.
holding: (p.13) I was practically holding my breath in anticipation.
Indianapolis: (p.1) I was a Runner at the prestigious Indianapolis law firm...
inside: (p.11) ...I got out of my car and headed inside.
interference: (p.94) "Thanks for running interference for me, Clarice,"
Jack: (p.19) "Jack and I were supposed to have dinner tonight.
kick: (p.14) ...he would be to drop kick puppies.
linebacker: (p.319) ...at least six feet tall and built like a linebacker.
loss: (p.64) ...and at a loss as to anything else...
Monday: (p.72) Monday morning dawned cloudy and gray.
motion: (p.83) ...forever overloaded with typing up briefs, motions...
option: (p.229) It didn't seem like I had a lot of options.
package: (p.14) I dropped off the packages for the law firms...
pass: (p.75) ...and moved to pass by him to the elevators.
pick: (p.7) Kathleen can pick him up.
play: (p.205) He had been the one who wanted to play doctor.
pocket: (p.27) I shoved my hands into the pockets of my coat...
point: (p.5) ...at any point in the foreseeable future.
possession: (p.152) ...new thing in my possession was Mark's backpack...
pulling: (p.10) Pulling into the parking lot...
quarter: (p.179) ...and only about a quarter inch thick.
radio: (p.59) ...talking on the radio while the other cop...
reception: (p.302) The girl at the reception desk couldn't have been older...
return: (p.41) I was anxious to return our relationship...
run: (p.4) “Maybe when he runs out of rich socialites to date...
running: (p.8) ...running into my neighbor on the way.
rush: (p.63) I felt the blood rush to my face...
rushing: (p.54) ...I couldn't hear properly for the blood rushing in my ears.
sack: (p.89) I only had two paper sacks...
safety: (p.61) ...even if it was for my own safety.
scramble: (p.2) In my scramble to right myself...
screen: (p.141) The glass of my television screen had been smashed.
season: (p.81) Autumn was my favorite season...
secondary: (p.365) ...it just installed a secondary path for the traffic.
shift: (p.44) ...I had to go in for my shift at The Drop.
shooting: (p.37) ...hit what I’m shooting.
slot: (p.175) ...there was a slot for what could only be a DVD...
snap: (p.84) Diane's mouth shut with a snap.
sneak: (p.21) "You shouldn't sneak up on people."
South: (p.25) ...he headed south on Meridian toward the center of the city.
spike: (p.290) ...sending a spike of pleasure through me.
split: (p.16) ...a split second later, he collapsed...
spot: (p.11) ...to where the partners' parking spots were reserved.
spread: (p.372) ...his arms braced on his spread knees as he leaned forward...
steal: (p.217) "To steal an election," I said.
strip: (p.36) "I'll have the strip, medium-rare," Blane ordered.
strong: (p.3) He was a strong guy and he quickly picked me up...
stuff: (p.38) ...to talk more about personal stuff with Blane...
Sunday: (p.71) Today was Sunday and the one day a week I had off...
tackle: (p.14) He was no more likely to tackle a bad guy...
television: (p.71) ...watched sitcom reruns on television until I fell asleep.
Thanksgiving: (p.405) "We missed you and Kade at Thanksgiving,"
Thursday: (p.132) Thursday was busy and I was grateful for that.
Tie: (p.10) ...wearing a dark suit and tie and carrying an expensive leather briefcase.
ticket: (p.349) "She's our ticket inside," Kade answered.
trap: (p.181) It could be a trap with them waiting for someone...
try: (p.42) He made no move to try and come in...
victory: (p.388) ...to go with him to a victory dinner/fundraiser tonight...
voice: (p.6) ...I winced at the irritation in his voice.
Washington: (p.403) A lot of important people in Washington are watching...
weak: (p.4) ...with a face that made women weak in the knees...
West: (p.243) I parked on the street on the west side of the house.
wide: (p.10) ...trees and wide expanses of green lawns.
win: (p.218) They're going to use the software to make sure he wins.
winning: (p.405) ...even winning the election for Indianapolis District Attorney.
yard: (p.145) ...even though the yard was full of trees...
zone: (p.20) ...I felt myself sort of drop into a zone.


blitz: (p.35) ‘He was killed in the Blitz,’ said Dad.
bootleg: (p.95) I did half a bootleg turn into Glasshouse Street...
clipping: (p.80) I leafed through some of the clippings;
face mask: (p.251) ...NHS-issue face mask made of pink hypoallergenic plastic.
football: (p.10) ...he kids kicked a football on the beach.
incomplete: (p.98) ...I was an anatomically incomplete person...
jumbo: (p.82) ...space rockets and computers and jumbo jets,...
kneel: (p.183) ...I saw Nightingale stop and kneel down...
North: (p.28) ...communications both north and south...
playing field: (p.64) ...and using magic on the playing field...
punter: (p.48) Judging from the punters in the queue...
running back: (p.8) ...blurry figures running back and forth...
scout: (p.117) ‘I never knew Casanova was a Boy Scout,’ she said.
score: (p.167) ...used to do proper scores back in the old days.
shotgun: (p.168) ...kept a sawn-off shotgun by the front door...
spiral: (p.225) I heard her heels clanging down the spiral staircase.
sprint: (p.193) ...I’m fit and I used to sprint at school.
statistics: (p.38) ‘I’ve been collating mortality statistics for jazz musicians...
sweep: (p.212) ...and she can sweep in like the cavalry.
Team: (p.57) ...that a Major Investigation Team is on the scene.
trips: (p.131) We had to do three more trips for the amps and the speakers...
vanilla: (p.65) ...it was strictly English Heritage vanilla Georgian...
veer: (p.192) I’d seen her veer right down Savile Row...


Carolina: (p.617) ...from New York to Conway, South Carolina...
Cleveland: (p.35) “We worked together in the Cleveland field office.”
completion: (p.186) My research is cutting-edge, and close to completion.
coverage: (p.346) ...in spite of the media coverage.
fantasy: (p.525) But I’m also giving him an amazing fantasy to savor.
goal: (p.144) Her goal there was to talk to the woman...
hike: (p.396) Penny loved apple picking, nature hikes...
kicker: (p.148) That’s the kicker.
mike: (p.12) ...the moderator stepped away from the mike...
New York: (p.30) “Which field office handled the case—New York or Newark?”
offense: (p.153) She took no offense.
pancake: (p.239) The right front tire looked like a pancake.
red flag: (p.31) ...raise any red flags at Harper’s Bazaar?
reverse: (p.118) ...once to reverse the damage done by her initial surgery...
sideline: (p.253) ...while you stayed behind and coached from the sidelines.
starter: (p.535) “For starters, all the victims we’re trying to find or protect...
sticks: (p.413) Yes, the bank was in the sticks.
Tennessee: (p.413) ...held up several banks in Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee...
unbalanced: (p.397) “We’re dealing with an unbalanced offender.
utility: (p.31) ...with her landlord, her bank, and her utility companies.
wingback: (p.28) ...sank onto the edge of a wingback chair...


Atlanta: (p.144) ...she’d discovered him in Atlanta five years ago...
Dallas: (p.160) “They got lots of people and even a hockey team. The Dallas Stars.
draft: (p.135) Next order was just draft beer.
game plan: (p.113) He didn’t have a game plan anymore...
Houston: (p.91) ...and most famous club in not only Houston...
Miami: (p.300) Subject: Ever been to Miami?
New Orleans: (p.213) ...Remy had asked him to come along to New Orleans...
red shirt: (p.94) Mac buttoned up his short sleeved, dark red shirt...
rookie: (p.87) ...Logan had been twenty-three and a rookie.
San Francisco: (p.125) ...day of class at the San Francisco Art Institute...
Seattle: (p.75) “Only a Seattle native would think Starbucks’ pseudo-coffee is fine.”


fumble: (p.266) Fear and panic made me fumble my keys...
Pittsburgh: (p.3) “Saw what you left for us in Pittsburgh,”
quarterback: (p.90) ...a lot easier to play armchair quarterback...
rover: (p.52) ...exchanged his Jaguar for a Range Rover...


Baltimore: (p.201) "Ray from Baltimore, thanks for calling."
broadcast: (p.7) ...I'd broadcast out of Denver.
Denver: (p.7) ...I'd broadcast out of Denver.
Los Angeles: (p.13) I'd end up in Los Angeles, and that sounded like an adventure.
stunt: (p.19) ...and make it a publicity stunt...


eligible receiver: (p.262) All the eligible receivers scrambled...
end zone: (p.262) ...heavily defended son in the end zone.
fourth down: (p.262) ...it was fourth down and for some asinine reason...
goal line: (p.(p.262) The ‘dogs were fifteen yards out from their goal line...
huddle: (p.78) We had a huddle before you arrived...
kickoff: (p.92) ...you might miss kickoff and I haven’t had dinner yet.
referee: (p.263) ...the referee and Cosgrove’s eyes went to Colt.
slant: (p.182) She slept in the middle of it, on her belly, on a slight slant...
Super Bowl: (p.97) ...the game in the last seconds of the Super Bowl.
tight end: (p.103) ...but Jasper did it playing tight end.
touchdown: (p.97) ...like he’d scored a touchdown to win the game...
turnover: (p.264) ...to translate their turnover to points on the board...
wide receiver : (p.103) He was playing wide receiver...
yard line: (p.100) ...she could sit front row, fifty yard line...


forward progress: (p.231) ...Mac's forward progress began to slow.


Minnesota: (p.7) I was sick of winter, and this was Minnesota...


NFL: (p.125) ‘Come play in the NFL and get money and women!’
stadium: (p.193) ...domed stadium clearly visible in the distance.

Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - Super Bowl Season - Part 2


New England: (p.10) It was classic New England. Pretty and quaint.


Philadelphia: (p.212) “Sailing to Philadelphia.”
San Diego: (p.108) He had graduated from San Diego State University’s School...


formation: (p.39) Rob sighed as he fell into formation.
Playoffs: (p.66) ...and Haney High is in the playoffs.


gunslinger: (p.246) ...Cassandra throwing off bad vibes like a cornered gunslinger...
punt: (p.249) Once I saw him punt a chihuahua twenty yards...
Zebra: (p.24) Like a lion on a zebra...

Never Have I Ever...

1. … injured myself while trying to impress a girl or boy I was interested in.
❒ No - Read a book with an aloof character
The Mermaid Murders by Josh Lanyon

2. … had to run to save my life.
❒ No - Read a book where there are people walking on the cover
Love Me to Death by Allison Brennan

3.… taken food out of a trash can and eaten it.
❒ No - Read a book with food on the cover
Undead and Unpopular by MaryJanice Davidson

4. … cried / flirted my way out of a speeding ticket.
❒ No - Read a book with a car on the cover
When the Devil Drives by L.J. Hayward

5. … taken part in a talent show.
❒ No - Read a book where the characters attend a circus, the theater, etc.
His Wicked Kiss by Gaelen Foley

6. … made money by performing on the street.
❒ No - Read a book with money on the cover
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

7. … broken something at a friend’s house and then not told them.
❒ Yes - Read a book with something broken on the cover
Among the Living by Jordan Castillo Price

8. … snooped through a friend’s bathroom or bedroom without them knowing.
❒ Yes - Read a book that is MPG Crime
Winter Kill by Josh Lanyon

9. … ruined someone else’s vacation.
❒ No - Read a book with a "vacation spot" like cover
Never Say Never by Geralyn Dawson

10. … walked for more than six hours.
❒ Yes - Read a book with tennis shoes on the cover
Her Last Holiday by C.L. Taylor

11. … jumped from a roof.
❒ No - Read a book with a roof on the cover
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

12. … shoplifted.
❒ No - Read a book tagged at least 10 times as Crime
Fatal Shadows by Josh Lanyon (152)

13. … set my or someone else’s hair on fire.
❒ No - Read a book with a MC with red hair
Tricked by Kevin Hearne

14. … ridden an animal.
❒ Yes - Read a book with that animal type on the cover.
On a Wild Night by Stephanie Laurens

15. … had a bad fall because I was walking and texting.
❒ No - Read a book where the characters exchange letters, email, text, etc
Six Degrees of Lust by Taylor V. Donovan

16. … been arrested.
❒ No - Read a book with a "goody two-shoes" character
Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

17. … pressured someone into getting a tattoo or piercing.
❒ No - Read a book with tattoos on the cover
Silver Borne by Patricia Briggs

18. … gone surfing.
❒ No - Read a book with Gone in the title.
When All the Girls Have Gone by Jayne Ann Krentz

19. … walked out of a movie because it was bad.
❒ No - Read a book that was based on a movie
Mr. Kiss and Tell by Rob Thomas, Jennifer Graham

20. … broken a bone.
❒ No - Read a book with Bone(s) in the title
Them Bones by Carolyn Haines

21. … tried to cut my own hair.
❒ No - Read a book with long hair on the cover
Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz

22. … completely forgot my lines in a play.
❒ No - Read a book where the MC is in the arts (theater, singer, writer)
Death of a Pirate King by Josh Lanyon

23. … shot a gun.
❒ Yes - Read a book with any other type weapon on the cover
The Two Gentlemen of Altona by Lisa Henry

24. … had a surprise party thrown for me.
❒ No - Read a book with Me in the title
Turn to Me by Tiffany Snow

25. … cheated on a test.
❒ Yes - Read a book with Cheat in the title
Couldn't Cheat Death by A.P. Eisen

26. … dined and dashed.
❒ No - Read a book with a chef character
Robbie by Ella Frank

27. … gotten stitches.
❒ Yes - Read a book partially set in a hospital
Rev It Up by Julie Ann Walker

28. … fallen in love at first sight.
❒ No - Read a book with "First" in the title
First Do No Evil by Carey Baldwin

29. … had a paranormal experience.
❒ Yes - Read a book tagged at least 10 times Paranormal
Kitty Goes to Washington by Carrie Vaughn

30.… woken up and couldn’t move.
❒ Yes - Read a book with Move in the title
The Last Move by Mary Burton

31. … accidentally said “I love you” to someone.
❒ No - Read a book with You in the title
The Hell You Say by Josh Lanyon

32. … hitchhiked.
❒ No - Read a book tagged at least 10 times as Travel
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness (14 times)

33.… been trapped in an elevator.
❒ Yes - Read a book with an agoraphobic character
Strong Signal by Megan Erickson

34. … sung karaoke in front of people.
❒ No - Read a book with a musical instrument on the cover
Echo by Chani Lynn Feener

35. … been on TV or the radio.
❒ Yes - Read a book with a character who Is famous
A Reason To Believe by Diana Copland

36. … pressed send and then immediately regretted it.
❒ Yes - Read a book with a envelope on the cover
You're Invited by Amanda Jayatissa

37. … been so sun burnt I couldn’t wear a shirt.
❒ Yes - Read a book with a shirtless person on the cover
The Monet Murders by Josh Lanyon

38. … had a crush on a friend’s parent.
❒ No - Read a book with hearts on the cover
Almost Like Being in Love by Steve Kluger

39. … been awake for two days straight.
❒ Yes - Read a book with Sleep in the title
Sleep No More by Susan Crandall

40. … thrown up on a roller coaster.
❒ No - Read a book with Roll in the title
The California Roll by John Vorhaus

41. … snuck into a movie.
❒ No - Read a book that was made into a movie or TV show
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

42. … accidentally sent someone to the hospital.
❒ No - Read a book with a first responder character
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

43. … dyed my hair a crazy color.
❒ Yes - Read a book with someone bald on the cover

44. … had a physical fight with my best friend.
❒ Yes - Read a book tagged at least 10 times as Sports
Him by Sarina Bowen

45. … had someone slap me across the face.
❒ No - Read a book with a single face as the focus of the cover
Shades by Jaime Reese

46. … worked with someone I hated with the burning passion of a thousand suns.
❒ Yes - Read a book with the Sun on the cover
Golden Trail by Kristen Ashley

47. … danced in an elevator.
❒ No - Read a book where the characters attend a dance
Carry Me Home by Rosalind James

48. … cried in public because of a song.
❒ Yes - Read a book with Cry in the title
Cry No More by Linda Howard

49. … chipped a tooth.
❒ Yes - Read a book with fangs on the cover
Burn Bright by Patricia Briggs

50. … gone hunting.
❒ No - Read a book with a bow and arrow on the cover
Forever Moore by Riley Hart

51. … had a tree house.
❒ No - Read a book with a landscape on the cover with no visible trees
Bay of Sighs by Nora Roberts

52. … thrown something into a TV or computer screen.
❒ No - Read a book with an electronic device on the cover
The Quick Red Fox by John D. MacDonald

53. … been to a country in Asia.
❒ Yes - Read a book tagged at least 10 times as Asia
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

54. … been screamed at by a customer at my job.
❒ Yes - Read a book with a character who has your dream profession
Melting the Ice by Jaci Burton (fashion designer)

55. … spent a night in the woods with no shelter.
❒ No -Read a book with woods on the cover
Wild Justice by Kelley Armstrong

56. … read a whole novel in one day.
❒ Yes - Read a book with a bibliophile character
Brute by Kim Fielding

57. … gone vegan.
❒ No - Read a book with Green in the title
The Girl with the Long Green Heart by Lawrence Block

58. … lied about a family member dying as an excuse to get out of doing something.
❒ No - Read a book about a tight knit family
Falling for Rachel by Nora Roberts

59. … been to a country in Africa.
❒ Yes - Read a book tagged Africa at least 10 times
The Triumph of the Sun by Wilbur Smith (22)

60. … seen an alligator or crocodile in the wild.
❒ No - Read a book set in Louisiana or Florida
Victim by Gayle Wilson

Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - Time to Kill

2nd September 2017 - ?



Arrow: (p.16) ...with arrows pointing to randomly placed spots...
Blade: (p.11) ...replacement scraper blades for the soil saver...
Choke: (p.106) The concern in her voice made Amy choke up more.
Crush: (p.127) Boy, I’m glad I never had a crush on him, huh?
Dump: (p.164) All he’d have to do was dump her clothes and he’d be golden.
Dynamite: (p.248) “Yep,” Rochelle said happily. “Dynamite.”
Execute: (p.148) Decide, plan, and execute.
Finish: (p.17) She was the last to finish.
Gun: (p.142) ...“you’re supposed to turn in your guns for the day...
Hang: (p.12) “Nothing yet. I got it. Hang on.”
Hit: (p.5) When she hit it, she didn’t even realize what it was.
Overcome: (p.309) ...and he was laughing with her, both of them overcome
Pistol: (p.21) Oh, yeah, honey, and I can tell he was a pistol.
Sacrifice: (p.19) Which probably wasn’t any big sacrifice...
Shotgun: (p.298) ...the shell sliding into the chamber of a pump-action shotgun...
Torture: (p.40) ...and not crying had been torture.
Wipe Out: (p.208) You can’t just wipe out five years together, can you?
Wreck: (p.157) ...taking off toward the wreck again.
Zip: (p.71) His fingers found the reassuringly jagged edges of the zip ties...


Bludgeon: (p.189) “I want to bludgeon you to death with it!
Knife: (p.76) Aidan went after him with a steak knife...
Murder: (p.26) “There is no closure for the families of murder victims.
Revolver: (p.14) ...the holster holding his service revolver...
Spear: (p.125) ...a kosher dill spear on Matt’s plate.
Torment: (p.109) ...to torment him as much as possible.


Ammunition: (p.106) The bad news was, he still had plenty of ammunition.
Bomb: (p.107) “It looks like he’s building a bomb shelter.”
Butcher: (p.121) “The Butcher Baker,” Zeke answered.
Cannon: (p.124) He’s a loose cannon.”
Carbine: (p.109) The black hole of the sniper’s carbine barrel...
Drown: (p.131) I’m not going to slip under and drown.”
Injure: (p.193) If he could mark Berkle somehow, injure him...
Rifle: (p.99) ...a fucking assault rifle taking potshots at us.”
Slaughter: (p.53) ...you could look at the slaughter of a woman...
Smother: (p.93) ...and for a few dazed seconds he feared he was going to smother.
Spike: (p.132) ...his hair was wet and curling in spikes.
Tear Gas: (p.104) ...we’re going to have to shoot him or tear gas...


Battle-ax: (p.280) This one had, not a sword, but a two-handed battle-axe.
Bazooka: (p.188) ...a metal detector carrying a bazooka...
Crossbow: (p.1) ...a vampire standing beside the bed, holding a crossbow.
Dagger: (p.268) Three primitive stone daggers protruded from the top of the skull...
Dirk: (p.97) Dirk Tredd is a true blue war hero.
Erase: (p.160) ...I'd never been able to erase that feeling.
Flamethrower: (p.240) ...to wipe the smug expression off his face—with a flamethrower.
Gag: (p.26) Gag. I squeezed my eyes shut, took my vision back to normal.
Javelin: (p.271) "For javelin."
Lynch: (p.270) ...if the angry mob the Deganites were becoming didn't lynch him first.
Missile: (p.274) The missile flew off course, missing Aidyn completely...
Overpower: (p.55) ...I heard ribs crack before they overpowered him.
Poison: (p.122) ...but why would they poison your blood?
Shatter: (p.10) If he ever truly smiles his face is going to shatter.
Suffocate: (p.62) ...he'd suffocate before he could fire me.
Switchblade: (p.56) I felt rather than saw, the switchblade flip open in his right hand.
Sword: (p.11) ...it could comfortably hide a shotgun, or a sword...
Uzi: (p.38) ...unless you would rather pop out an uzi...
Venom: (p.269) ...as if the ceremony had filled her with venom.


Firearm: (p.84) The boss says that private investigators no longer carry firearms.
Neutralize: (p.313) ...to be enough to neutralize Webster.
Slay: (p.24) ...the logical response from decent people would be to slay the beast.
Throttle: (p.159) Jack tried to throttle back the rage that clawed at his insides.


Gunpowder: (p.325) ...there would’ve been a darker stain of gunpowder.
Strangle: (p.350) ...Amun Mopat will strangle the life out of you...
Wallop: (p.161) “You pack quite a wallop for a little girl,” he said.


Archery: (p.179) ...this week they had been practicing archery...
Shrivel: (p.14) ...he suspected that he’d shrivel up and die without them.
Squelch: (p.7) ...where it landed with a soft squelch.


Annihilate: (p.367) Its form was dead; there was no way to annihilate a demon.
Blow up: (p.290) ...will blow up in our faces."
Dart: (p.321) She pulled out what Rico called a poisoned dart...
Dispatch: (p.254) She'd called dispatch and learned about the false fire alarm...
Eradicate: (p.51) "And they didn't completely eradicate the symbols.
Garrote: (p.80) "A garrote?" Skye asked.
Martyr: (p.184) "I don't want to be a martyr!"
Massacre: (p.21) The town wasn't far from the mission massacre...


Knock off: (p.157) “Knock off the comedy routine, St. John,” Joe muttered.
Machine Gun: (p.21) ...he carried an M60 machine gun as if it were a large loaf of bread...
Marksman: (p.43) He’s also an expert marksman...
Noose: (p.93) ...this emotional noose that had somehow curled itself around his chest.
Open Fire: (p.133) The terrorists become aware of your presence and open fire.
Ordnance: (p.43) ...sharpshooter with damn near any ordnance he can get his hands on.
Pike: (p.271) “I’m wondering what your head would look like—on a pike.”
Stiletto: (p.62) ...put on some little black sequined number with stiletto heels...


Assassinate: (p.206) ...‘for your part in the plot to assassinate the Crown Prince.
Blight: (p.75) Bastards were a blight, Jord said.
Panoply: (p.131) ...a panoply of luxurious embellishment and carved wood.
Quell: (p.3) Guion tried to quell his reaction as he turned his gaze back to the slave.


Obliterate: (p.377) Kastor had been so careful to obliterate every piece...


Cudgel: (p.83) It warms the cudgels of my heart to hear you say such a thing.
Munitions: (p.43) ...especially when munitions were involved.
Musket: (p.186) ...and produced a prop musket triumphantly from within.
Rapier: (p.277) ...he did take one of the rapiers...
Snuff: (p.236) ...finding it was English run and quite up to snuff...


Billy Club: (p.116) A billy club right between the eyes.
Immolate: (p.188) ...a soft desperate sound as it fought to immolate itself.
Put to Death: (p.190) You are an abomination and shall be put to death...
Torpedo: (p.128) I woke with a boner the size of a small torpedo.


Blow Away: (p.34) ...it tends to shrivel up and blow away.
Scythe: (p.160) Scythe in one skeleton hand, hourglass in the other...


Wither: (p.113) ...was a motive that age could not wither nor custom stale.


Brass Knuckles: (p.210) You can take the brass knuckles off.
Cleaver: (p.105) ...as…wholesome as June and Ward Cleaver.


Demolish: (p.88) Crack by crack, she would demolish that wall.
Lance: (p.17) Sharp as a lance, it rested heavily on him...
Saber: (p.245) He could use it like a saber, and frequently had - on her.
Scimitar: (p.398) Jules, a scimitar gleaming in his hand...


Behead: (p.306) I will behead the serpent.
Shank: (p.193) ...while Hel richly deserves a shank between the ribs on her hot side...


Gun down: (p.148) Put that gun down or I’m going to call the police.


Harpoon: (p.172) ...in cannons, machine guns, harpoons, and missiles.
Professional Killer: (p.256) They’d had a second team of professional killers...


Machete: (p.108) “A machete.” His voice was easy enough...


Baton: (p.163) ...passing the baton in their carefully orchestrated argument.
Vanquish: (p.320) The ability to vanquish those who’d dared threaten her.


Exterminate: (p.185) ...I’d been sent there to exterminate—an indiscriminant killer.


Pull the Trigger: (p.303) ...to make me pull the trigger on my own kind...


Crucify: (p.70) She was here to crucify someone...


Catapult: (p.19) ...the second note would catapult her into cooperation.


Hatchet: (p.13) Knowing she’d drawn Judge Hatchet-Face Snyder...


Booster: (p.274) It was a huge confidence booster...


Guillotine: (p.180) ...before he cut the rope on his own guillotine.


Dispense With: (p. 250) It was time to dispense with European reason...


Slingshot: (p.312) What a rush! Rock-in-a-slingshot time.


Detonate: (p.100) ...the plan to detonate an atomic device in an American city...
ICBM: (p.102) ...warning that an inbound ICBM would give us...
Nuclear Bomb: (p.61) A nuclear bomb. Do you doubt that?
Nuke: (p.62) ...if they knew we were going to nuke them...


Halberd: (p.181) ...weapons like halberd and spear and crossbow.


Liquidate: (p.256) ...he quietly began to liquidate his assets...


Subjugate: (p.218) They want to subjugate everyone who isn’t a familiar or witch.


Lancet: (p.24) Faith hissed “Shit” as the lancet pierced her finger...


Bowie Knife: (p.33) Like that old Bowie knife I won from Perkins.


Hunting Knife: (p.140) ...his cousin collapsed his hunting knife.


Boomerang: (p.70) As if it were a boomerang, Killfeather throws his stick...
Clobber: (p.203) But I clobber that thought and hold out a hand for her.
Stamp Out: (p.22) ...I know opulence doesn’t stamp out ignorance...


Persecute: (p.145) He couldn’t bring himself to really persecute her.


Nix: (p.376) ...slap him on the back and nix any harm Nicholas might inflict...


Vaporize: (p.64) Disintegrate. Vaporize.


Snuff Out: (p.219) So easy to snuff out — had Crispin’s passion died as easily?


Gunnery: (p.311) ...who was a gunnery sergeant deployed in Iraq.


Partisan: (p.200) ...had apparently become a warm partisan of Anne's.


Howitzer: (p.20) ...I’d rather take on a fifth generation Howitzer with a toy gun...


Harrow: (p.81) A young man from Harrow deigning to notice a child.


Asphyxiate: (p.250) ...if Fischer could stop his heart or asphyxiate him with pressure.


Assegai: (p.50) Two more came up behind him, assegais raised.
Shiv: (p.142) “Sent someone to shiv you,” he shouted over his shoulder.

Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - Time to Kill Part 2



Bayonet: (p.137) ...surrounding them on the beach with guns drawn and bayonets...
Blowgun: (p.47) ...while Jack examined a long, native blowgun hanging on the wall.
Cutlass: (p.82) ...heir weekly training with pistols and cutlasses from gruff...
Epee: (p.187) He thrust the button-shaped safety guard onto the point of the epee...


Trigger Man: (p.223) ...assuming the trigger man doesn’t want to get the death penalty.


Electrocute: (p.224) “The fucking thing tried to electrocute me.”


Markswoman: (p.216) Her dossier said she was a markswoman...


Nunchaku: (p.251) Dragon whipped out his nunchakus...


Guided Missile: (p.95) ...but the arrow adjusted course like a guided missile...


Ballista: (p.331) A ballista missile smashed into the middle of the three and exploded.


Strangulate: (p.188) ...in such a manner as to strangulate a grown and fighting male.


Cut to Pieces: (p.416) He grew new shoots from vines Quentin had cut to pieces...


Nerve Gas: (p.3) ...it released extravagant quantities of the nerve gas sarin...


Lay Waste: (p.400) ...that could wreak havoc and lay waste to a village.


Drop the Hammer: (p.279) Someone gets shot, you drop the hammer.


Lacerate: (p.370) ...the incessant itching cause her to lacerate her skin.
Vitiate: (p.664) It did not vitiate in any way the danger he felt himself to be in;


Rainmakers: (p.67) He’s a real rainmaker. And, yeah, he’s bent some rules.


Arbalest: (p.431) Remind me to teach you how to use an arbalest.


Fusil: (p.63) ...the guards with their shouldered fusils frowned...


Throw Lead: (p.136) ...a frontier trained gun fighter at readiness to draw and throw lead.


Maraud: (p.48) He continued to maraud the captive breast...


Banderilla: (p.129) ...he bumped into a wooden rack stocked with banderillas.


Extirpate: (p.198) ...I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love...


Decollate: (p.96) The decollate snail, Rumina decollata, has also been introduced...


Bilbo: (30%) ...kind of like what you’d expect Bilbo Baggins’s house to look like...


Quelch: (p.142) She lifted one hand in annoyance to quelch this little rebellion.

Finish This Sentence...A Reading Challenge Part 2

2nd September 2017 - 6th October 2019

I checked to make sure that The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks - Josh Lanyon
Cats are good pets; they are The Truth About Love - Stephanie Laurens
Christmas is Winter - Josh Lanyon
Wow, does that Scandal's Bride - Stephanie Laurens
He ran out of money so he had to Rev It Up - Julie Ann Walker
The book is on The October List - Jeffery Deaver
Everyone was busy, so I Hide and Seek - James Patterson
It was getting dark and Evil Under the Sun - Agatha Christie
She advised him to Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover - Sarah MacLean
Yes, I think it's a good environment for Enemies of the State - Tal Bauer
How was the Three in Death - J.D. Robb
Should we start class now, or Unleash the Night - Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sometimes it is better to just Call Me Irresistible - Susan Elizabeth Phillips
He got a small piece of Flint - Paul Eddy
She always speaks to him: 'First Do No Evil' - Carey Baldwin
If I don't like something About That Night - Julie James
Malls are great places to Murder and Mayhem - Rhys Ford
I would have gotten the promotion, but Murder Takes the High Road - Josh Lanyon
I currently have The Rogue Not Taken - Sarah MacLean
He did his best to The King - J.R. Ward
The waves are Her Last Chance - Toni Anderson
She was too short to The Raven Prince - Elizabeth Hoyt
A song can make you Silver Borne - Patricia Briggs
I want Wild Justice - Kelley Armstrong
She wrote him "The Hell You Say" - Josh Lanyon
We have never been to Bay of Sighs - Nora Roberts
Let's all be Freefall - JoAnn Ross
They got there early and Proven Guilty - Jim Butcher
I plan to spend 2 weeks on White Mountain - Dinah McCall
I love eating Where Death Meets the Devil - L.J. Hayward
It's not really as bad as Old Poison - Josh Lanyon
Why did they Fake Out - Eden Finley
The dog jumped over the Threshold - Jordan L. Hawk
I saw a Murder at the Vicarage - Agatha Christie
I really want to go After the Night - Linda Howard
I am too sick to Death and Destruction - Patricia Logan
I'd rather be a Captive Prince - C.S. Pacat
He said he Never Say Never - Geralyn Dawson
Many people saw A Reason To Believe - Diana Copland
The lake is A Dangerous Thing - Josh Lanyon
Sometimes, all you need to do is Love Me to Death - Allison Brennan
When I was little I had Tricked - Kevin Hearne
I still remember Wild Fire - Nelson DeMille
He said goodbye to Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
She made the Gift of Fire - Jayne Ann Krentz
I often see The Merchant of Death - Lisa Henry
I hear that Once Bitten, Twice Shy - Jennifer Rardin
Has anyone asked Prince Joe - Suzanne Brockmann
Are you happy about The Pursuit - Janet Evanovich
Life isn't so Fair Play - Josh Lanyon
There was no Original Sin - Allison Brennan
Someone I know recently Crash & Burn - Abigail Roux
They got really good Innocent Blood - P.D. James
Let me help you with your Secret Sisters - Jayne Ann Krentz
The mysterious diary records The Unspoken - Heather Graham
She plays the Prince's Gambit - C.S. Pacat
The memory we share is Island of Glass by Nora Roberts
This is an Angel Rogue - Mary Jo Putney
He comes asking for The Two Gentlemen of Altona - Lisa Henry
I am counting Them Bones - Carolyn Haines
I think I will buy the Ball & Chain - Abigail Roux
My Mom tries to be cool by Animal Magnetism - Jill Shalvis
I am never at home on Badlands - Morgan Brice
I'll stay away from Fatal Shadows - Josh Lanyon
The roads were In the Wreckage - Hailey Turner
We need to rent A Ferry of Bones & Gold - Hailey Turner
She borrowed the Honeythorn - Marina Vivancos
My attendance was Claimed - Evangeline Anderson
We have a lot of Sin Undone - Larissa Ione
I am happy to take your Beautiful Sacrifice - Elizabeth Lowell
In 3 weeks time The Magician Murders - Josh Lanyon
I saw a spotted Steel's Edge - Ilona Andrews
Many people saw Death of a Pirate King - Josh Lanyon
Two seats were Undone - Karin Slaughter
Don't step on the Dangerous Ground - Josh Lanyon
He told us a very Bad Judgment - Sidney Bell
Her reason was Him - Sarina Bowen
He turned in The Devil You Know - Liz Carlyle
He would not pass On a Wild Night - Stephanie Laurens
Over the fence was Necropolis - Jordan L. Hawk
They flew The Shadows - J.R. Ward
In the middle of the night The Ghost Had an Early Check-Out - Josh Lanyon
He hasn't returned the Shades - Jaime Reese
They got really good Single Malt - Layla Reyne
Any amount will be Melting the Ice - Jaci Burton
The sky is A Study in Scarlet - Arthur Conan Doyle
The stars are Kings Rising - C.S. Pacat
He folded his Seven Up - Janet Evanovich
We are all Falling for Rachel - Nora Roberts
Our party is Off Campus - Amy Jo Cousins
This is the last Tempest - Lisa Henry
I am going to stop The Dark Tide - Josh Lanyon
I thought it would be Timeless - Gail Carriger
Check back The Last Move - Mary Burton
I will see if It's in His Kiss - Julia Quinn
I will never be Brute - Kim Fielding
The old man revels in Cemetery Dance - Douglas Preston
She tiptoes by a Shadow's Edge - Brent Weeks
Would you mind Fair Game - Josh Lanyon
I have never Haunted - Heather Graham
Have you ever Stolen Seduction - Elisabeth Naughton
Next summer we Sleep No More - Susan Crandall
He was afraid to Carry Me Home - Rosalind James
They are very Restless Spirits - Jordan L. Hawk
He carries an Archangel's Viper - Nalini Singh
You are always Defending Angels - Mary Stanton
I don't own a Dead Lagoon - Michael Dibdin
Five weeks ago, When All the Girls Have Gone - Jayne Ann Krentz
Why can't the Winter Kill - Josh Lanyon

NBRC 26 Alphabet 8: Herbs & Spices: A-Z (Spell-it-Out)

15 September 2017 - 20 July 2019

A: The Adrien English Mysteries #1 - Fatal Shadows by Josh Lanyon
L: Lanyon Josh, The Hell You Say
L: Lanyon Josh, Death of a Pirate King
I: The Iron Druid Chronicles #4 - Tricked by Kevin Hearne
G: The Guardians Trilogy #2 - Bay of Sighs by Nora Roberts
A: The Adrien English Mysteries #2 - A Dangerous Thing by Josh Lanyon
T: Timeless by Gail Carriger
O: Once Bitten, Twice Shy by Jennifer Rardin
R: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

P: Prince Joe by Suzanne Brockmann
E: Evanovich Janet, The Pursuit (reread)
P: Pacat C.S. , Captive Prince
P: Prince's Gambit by C.S. Pacat
E: Evangeline Anderson, Claimed
R: Rev It Up by Julie Ann Walker



B: Brute by Kim Fielding
A: The Adrien English Mysteries #7 - So This is Christmas by Josh Lanyon
S: Secret Sisters by Jayne Ann Krentz
I: Ilona Andrews, Steel's Edge
L: Lanyon Josh, The Dark Tide



C: C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising
A: Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis
R: Roberts Nora, Falling for Rachel
D: Dinah McCall, White Mountain
A: Armstrong Kelley, Wild Justice
M: The Merchant of Death by Lisa Henry
O: Original Sin by Allison Brennan
M: Melting the Ice by Jaci Burton



D: The Devil You Know by Liz Carlyle
I: In Death #7.5, 12.5 & 22.5 - Three in Death by J.D. Robb
L: Laurens Stephanie, The Truth About Love
L: Lisa Henry, The Two Gentlemen of Altona

H: Henry Lisa, Tempest
E: Elisabeth Naughton, Stolen Seduction
R: Reyne Layla, Single Malt
B: Barrel Proof by Layla Reyne



E: Eddy Paul, Flint
L: Layla Reyne, Cask Strength
D: Dangerous Ground by Josh Lanyon
E: Enemies of the State by Tal Bauer
R: Rebecca Musser, The Witness Wore Red
F: Fair Play by Josh Lanyon
L: Lanyon Josh, Winter
O: On a Wild Night by Stephanie Laurens
W: Widdershins by Jordan L. Hawk
E: Euripides, Medea
R: Rhys Ford, Murder and Mayhem



F: Fair Game by Josh Lanyon
E: Elle Kennedy, Him
N: Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover by Sarah MacLean
N: Necropolis by Jordan L. Hawk
E: Elizabeth Hoyt, The Raven Prince
L: Lanyon Josh, The Ghost Wore Yellow Socks



G: Gift of Fire by Jayne Ann Krentz
I: It's in His Kiss by Julia Quinn
N: Nelson DeMille, Wild Fire
G: Gaelen Foley, Her Only Desire
E: Eden Finley, Fake Out
R: The Rogue Not Taken by Sarah MacLean



H: Hawk Jordan L., Threshold
A: Angel Rogue by Mary Jo Putney
W: Wynette, Texas #5 - Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
T: Them Bones by Carolyn Haines
H: Hexbreaker by Jordan L. Hawk
O: Old Poison by Josh Lanyon
R: Roux Abigail, Ball & Chain
N: Night Angel #2 - Shadow's Edge by Brent Weeks



I: Iris Johansen, The Ugly Duckling
N: Never Say Never by Geralyn Dawson
D: Defending Angels by Mary Stanton
O: Off Campus by Amy Jo Cousins
N: Night Fall by Cherry Adair
E: Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
S: Stormhaven by Jordan L. Hawk
I: In the Wreckage by Hailey Turner
A: Allison Brennan, Love Me to Death
N: Night of the Blackbird by Heather Graham

B: Burton Mary, The Last Move
A: Archangel's Viper by Nalini Singh
Y:

L: Laurens Stephanie, Scandal's Bride
E: Elizabeth Lowell, Beautiful Sacrifice
A: All Kinds of Tied Down by Mary Calmes
F: Freefall by JoAnn Ross



J: Jordan L. Hawk, Hexmaker
I: Island of Glass by Nora Roberts
M: The Magician Murders by Josh Lanyon
B: Briggs Patricia, Silver Borne
U: The Unspoken by Heather Graham



K: The King by J.R. Ward
A: Anderson Toni, Her Last Chance
F: First Do No Evil by Carey Baldwin
F: Fabulous Beast by Stephanie James
I: Ione Larissa, Sin Undone
R: Reese Jaime, Shades

L: Lanyon Josh, Murder Takes the High Road
I: In the Ruins by Hailey Turner
M: Michael Connelly, The Concrete Blonde
E: Edge of Midnight by Leslie Tentler

L: Laurens Stephanie, What Price Love?
E: Elizabeth Jennings, Darkness at Dawn
A: After the Night by Linda Howard
V: Void Moon by Michael Connelly
E: Evenfall: Volume 1: Director's Cut by Ais, Santino Hassell
S: Sleep No More by Susan Crandall



L: Linda Howard, Cry No More
A: Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
V: Vivancos Marina, Honeythorn
E: Eternal Rider by Larissa Ione
N: Night's Landing by Carla Neggers
D: Death and the Devil #1 - Where Death Meets the Devil by L.J. Hayward
E: Evanovich Janet, The Big Kahuna
R: Rice, Lisa Marie, Woman On The Run

NBRC 26 Alphabet 8: Herbs & Spices: A-Z (Spell-it-Out) Part 2


M: Morgan Brice, Badlands
A: Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage
R: Rita Herron, Dying to Tell
J: Jordan L. Hawk, Hexslayer
O: The October List by Jeffery Deaver
R: Restless Spirits by Jordan L. Hawk
A: Ashley Jennifer, The Duke's Perfect Wife
M: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett



N: Never Lie to a Lady by Liz Carlyle
J: Jayne Ann Krentz, When All the Girls Have Gone
A: Abigail Roux, Crash & Burn
N: The Necromancer's Dance by S.J. Himes
G: Gaelen Foley, His Wicked Kiss
S: The Shadows by J.R. Ward
A: All Souls Trilogy #2 - Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness



O: Opposites Attract by Nora Roberts
R: Risky Business #1 - Power Play by Tiffany Snow
E: Elisabeth Naughton, Wait for Me
G: The Ghost Had an Early Check-Out by Josh Lanyon
A: Aurelio Zen #4 - Dead Lagoon by Michael Dibdin
N: Night Watch by Josh Lanyon
O: Oliver Lisa, BBQ, Bikes, and Bears



P: Preston Douglas, Cemetery Dance
E: Earl Derr Biggers, The House Without a Key
P: Patricia Logan, Death and Destruction
P: Patterson James, Hide and Seek
E: Enigma by Dee Davis
R: The Rake by Mary Jo Putney



Q: The Quick Red Fox by John D. MacDonald
U: Undone by Karin Slaughter
A: A.J. Thomas, A Casual Weekend Thing
S: Stephen R. Donaldson, Lord Foul's Bane
S: Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I: Innocent Blood by P.D. James
A: Andrea Kane, A Face to Die for



R: Roberts Nora, The Liar
O: Once Upon Stilettos by Shanna Swendson
S: Sandra Brown, Lethal
E: Evanovich Janet, Seven Up
M: Maya Banks, The Darkest Hour
A: Agatha Christie, Five Little Pigs
R: The Rising by Morgan Brice
Y:



S: The Stranger You Know by Andrea Kane
A: Angels Flight by Michael Connelly
F: A Ferry of Bones & Gold by Hailey Turner
F: A Fine Passion by Stephanie Laurens
R: Riven by Roan Parrish
O: Object of Desire by Dal Maclean
N: Nunn P.L., Bloodraven



T: Tami Hoag, Cry Wolf
U: Unleash the Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon
R: Roberts Nora, Come Sundown
M: Megan Derr, The High King's Golden Tongue
E: Exhale by Joel Abernathy
R: The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper
I: In the Shadows by Hailey Turner
C: Child Lincoln, Blue Labyrinth



V: The Venetian Betrayal by Steve Berry
A: Amy J. Fetzer, Damage Control
N: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
I: Ivy Alexandra, Kill Without Shame
L: L.J. Hayward, When the Devil Drives
L: L.J. Hayward, Devil in the Details
A: The Absent One by Jussi Adler-Olsen



W: White Fire by Douglas Preston
A: Archangel's Prophecy by Nalini Singh
T: Turner Hailey, All Souls Near & Nigh
E: Elliott Rinda, Psycho Romeo
R: Riley Hart, Forever Moore
C: Callihan Kristen, Winterblaze
R: Rollins James, The Doomsday Key
E: Ella Frank, Robbie
S: Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dark Side of the Moon
S: Salt Magic, Skin Magic by Lee Welch



X:
A: Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler
N: N.R. Walker, Cronin's Key
T: Thomas Sherry, A Conspiracy in Belgravia
H: Hayward, L.J., Why the Devil Stalks Death
A: About That Night by Julie James
M: May Archer, Pros & Cons of Vengeance

G: Grant M.A., Prince of Air and Darkness
U: The Unruly Chaperone by Elizabeth Rolls
M: Martin Kat, Gypsy Lord



Y:
O: O'Neill Lisa Clark, Forbidden
H: Haunted by Heather Graham
I: Ilona Andrews, Magic Binds
M: Michaelides Alex, The Silent Patient
B: Beverly Barton, The Fifth Victim
E: Erickson Megan, Strong Signal



Z: Zanetti Rebecca, Sweet Revenge
E: Evans Misty, Fatal Courage
D: The Dresden Files #8 - Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher
O: Off the Grid by Monica McCarty
A: Andrews Keira, Kick at the Darkness
R: Ruckus by L.J. Shen
Y:

NBRC 26 Alphabet 8: Herbs & Spices: A-Z (Spell-it-Out) Part 3

Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - Underwater


Below: (p.24) ...lay just below his left collarbone.
Beneath: (p.4) Beneath her, blood began slowly to spread out over the marble floor.
Bewitched: (p.168) Because he’s bewitched you, Damen thought.
Bloody: (p.63) ...that had easily enough force to bloody a mouth...
Buried: (p.6) ...buried beneath these a new emotion that twisted...
Captive: (p.148) ‘He’s the captive Kastor sent you to train?’
Caught up: (p.145) ...courtiers caught up in their own amusements...
Caught up in: (p.145) ...courtiers caught up in their own amusements...
Coerced: (p.238) ...coaxed or coerced into the employ of the Regent.
Collapse: (p.69) ...he would simply collapse onto his hands and knees...
Crash: (p.183) There was a crash on the far side of the room...
Cut down: (p.129) ...a lashing for me to cut down someone you care for...
Decline: (p.49) He declines his services.
Diligent: (p.74) ...and how diligent in his service...
Distant: (p.155) ...as though they were very distant.
Done for: (p.235) ‘That’s done for appearance’s sake only.
Drown: (p.146) ...as he surrendered himself to drown in deep water.
Duck: (p.147) If I duck he’ll hit Torveld.
Engaged: (p.104) ...the impression of a mind somewhat engaged...
Force down: (p.207) ...Damen had to force down a breath...
Frightened: (p.174) ...I will be a little frightened, but so obedient...
Frustrate: (p.60) ...and seemed designed to frustrate and impede...
Go down: (p.52) It did not go down well.
Gripped: (p.102) Damen gripped the metalwork of the bower...
Gutter: (p.48) Damen saw his chances of returning to Akielos gutter...
Immersed: (p.30) Damen immersed himself in the water...
Impede: (p.60) ...and seemed designed to frustrate and impede...
Incapacitate: (p.198) ...if the intent had been only to incapacitate.
Injured: (p.89) ...a wide-eyed expression of injured innocence.
Jump: (p.48) Jump through his hoops.
Knock out: (p.52) ...to knock out the Regent’s favourite thug.
Mastered: (p.8) To be mastered by—who—Adrastus?
Overrun: (p.13) The walls were overrun by decoration.
Overwhelm: (p.61) ...that this one would not overwhelm either his pride...
Overwhelmed: (p.5) Overwhelmed by numbers...
Quell: (p.3) Guion tried to quell his reaction as he turned his gaze back...
Required: (p.60) ...that was required for his purpose.
Revolting: (p.209) What a revolting suggestion.
Ruined: (p.99) It’s a shame his back is ruined...
Sink: (p.52) ‘. . . the Regent’s what?’ said Damen, feeling his stomach sink.
Sound: (p.10) He could make no more than a muffled sound...
Sympathetic: (p.103) Damen wondered if he should feel sympathetic...
Tied up: (p.96) He was once again tied up.
Tumble: (p.6) ...towels were arranged in an appealing tumble
Underground: (p.30) The water comes from a great underground river that is hot.
Urged: (p.88) Damen was urged onto his feet by his handler.
Wash: (p.61) ‘Wash me.’
Waste: (p.24) ‘The Bastard King disposes of his waste by tossing it at my feet.
Worry: (p.58) ‘Don’t worry, I won’t hit you unless I have a good reason.’
Wreck: (p.108) That would wreck you.
Yawning: (p.124) ...yawning and trailing bed linen.


Absorbed: (p.34) Laurent absorbed that. But: ‘I can’t turn him off,’ said Laurent.
Agog: (p.358) ...agog with the shock of what they had seen and heard.
Broad: (p.61) ...or quite so broad across the shoulders.
Compelled: (p.63) ...the machinery that confronted and compelled them...
Consumed: (p.102) He looked at the log that was half consumed...
Descend: (p.217) ...Damen waited for the sword to descend...
Destroyed: (p.173) ...an Akielon attack had destroyed the village of Breteau.
Lurch: (p.356) Damen felt a sickening lurch of his stomach...
Penetrate: (p.92) It took a moment for those words to penetrate.
Rooted: (p.41) ...and how deeply rooted was his antipathy for Laurent...
Subjugated: (p.258) ...or you will come after we have subjugated your men.
Subside: (p.300) ...waiting for the feeling to subside.
Thrown down: (p.197) ...whose attack on Breteau had thrown down the gauntlet...
Trickle: (p.147) The trickles of trade swelled in the warmer months...
Unnerve: (p.350) He didn’t know why that should unnerve him.
Weaken: (p.117) ...his own return would temporarily weaken Akielos even further.


Cascade: (p.287) The ringing sound of his sword had triggered a cascade of action.
Coast: (p.272) The hills rolled down to a distant coast...
Dip: (p.207) ...from the curve in his back to the dip of his lowered head.
Fated: (p.224) It had a fated quality that appealed to him.
Flood: (p.267) The flood of heat that came at that wasn’t comfortable.
Riveted: (p.315) ...as all of the hall’s attention riveted on Loyse.
Slough off: (p.258) It felt good to slough off the dust and dirt of the road.
Subterranean: (p.40) Blood, welling up from some newly bandaged, subterranean place...


Crouch: (p.64) Lady Maccon looked up from her crouch at Major Channing.
Cursed: (p.309) ...cursed by extreme inebriation or emotional instability.
Enthralled: (p.102) I am enthralled by the concept of a society named after an accessory.
Fascinated: (p.102) Biffy was fascinated. “What kind of consortium?”
Indentured: (p.15) ...sentencing Genevieve to a decade of indentured servitude.
Licked: (p.66) Countess Nadasdy licked her lips.
Profound: (p.33) That would require an even more profound apology...
Rapt: (p.397) He hadn’t anticipated such a rapt audience...
Submerged: (p.11) ...Prudence remained at least mostly submerged...
Sunken: (p.64) ...were sunken with exhaustion.
Swoop: (p.80) Alexia let Conall swoop her up...
Unfortunate: (p.6) ...she had been the unfortunate victim...


Gush: (p.141) He opened his mouth and blood spilled out in a gush.
Hamper: (p.117) ...I dug through the hamper seeking something...
Hung up: (p.7) No sooner had I hung up on Claude than the phone rang again.
Ill-fated: (p.96) ...had anything to do with romance, ill-fated or otherwise?
Vanish: (p.129) Then she winked at me and strolled off to vanish into the bathroom.


Cave in: (p.112) ...what appeared to be a cave in the hillside;
Damned: (p.149) “Damned if I know.”
Grieved: (p.125) ...I still felt shocked and disoriented. Grieved.
Heavily into: (p.1) He was heavily into the S/M scene.
Monopolized: (p.62) ...monopolized by a pugnacious senior...
Sluice: (p.168) ...some awkward moments around the sluice boxes.
Slump: (p.18) ...a body to fall from the closet or slump out of the cupboard-sized shower.


Bugged: (p.109) It just bugged me that everyone seemed to take it for granted...
Discomfited: (p.61) For a split second she looked discomfited.
Kiss of death: (p.158) ...coming out as openly gay is the kiss of death in Hollywood...
Wrapped up: (p.35) ...did me give an incentive in seeing this investigation wrapped up...


Bottomless: (p.279) ...roaring in from the bottomless deep...
Reprobate: (p.102) “Yeah, you're a little reprobate.”


Baptize: (p.326) Abby, I'd like to baptize you.
Captivated: (p.198) Moira listened, captivated...
Deep-seated: (p.260) ...her deep-seated need to understand the unknowable...
Fathomless: (p.201) He stared at her, his dark eyes troubled, fathomless.
Hexed: (p.309) ...tell her someone was practicing witchcraft--or was hexed.
Vault: (p.345) ...Father Philip had taken it from St. Michael's vault...
Wring: (p.112) I will wring your soul dry until it's begging for mercy...


Convicted: (p.381) You were hauled away, essentially convicted of the crime...
Douse: (p.134) ...his features was enough to douse her reaction.
Gravitate: (p.260) ...who would gravitate here as the evening wore on.
Lave: (p.211) ...so he could lave the thudding pulse...
Moisten: (p.142) She saw the moisten them...
Noose: (p.255) ...if not to tighten the noose a few notches...
Plummet: (p.304) "The temperature here will plummet in the next few hours."
Plunge: (p.78) ...to plunge into the heart of the fire...


Handicap: (p.302) I must have watched her many times in the handicap race...
Head over heels: (p.247) ...down he came, head-over-heels, cursing and laughing.
Loathsome: (p.218) ...the expression on her face, loathsome, triumphant.
Luckless: (p.145) 'Better you than the luckless Robert.'
Overflow: (p.105) Except when there was an overflow.
Sop: (p.49) ...as a sort of sop...
Thrush: (p.104) A thrush flew across the lawn to the magnolia tree...


Keel: (p.239) ...they ain’t gonna step on one and keel over dead.
Swamp: (p.149) ...everything south of Lake Okeechobee was a swamp...


Cataract: (p.216) “Does he still have cataracts?”
Foiled: (p.239) And yet, he’d been foiled by a spider...
Routed: (p.204) ...with all the utilities you’ll need already routed in.
Submarine: (p.154) ...like a watertight hatch from a submarine.


Engulf: (p.322) ...trying to engulf her and draw her back...
Enslaved: (p.182) ...and in so doing enslaved him.
Vanquish: (p.320) The ability to vanquish those who’d dared threaten her.


Withering: (p.53) Especially when she slid him a withering look.


Dribble: (p.97) She could see dribbles of sauce...
Impaired: (p.78) ...worried her judgment was definitely impaired.
Menaced: (p.17) ...was menaced in the forest by a large lupine predator?


Sentenced: (p.65) ...RASNICK SENTENCED TO THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS.


In the cards: (p.46) I told Tinkie Bellcase what I saw in the cards.


Washed-up: (p.249) He felt washed-up and finished, like a loser.


Go under: (p.185) ...but before he could go under completely...


Nose dive: (p.82) ...Ethan’s mind had taken a nose-dive into the gutter.


Deluge: (p.221) ...a tall female form stepped out into the deluge...
Taken up with: (p.293) ...the blond mountebank his niece had taken up with.


Overthrown: (p.37) In 1806—French occupation overthrown by the English.


Abysmal: (p.322) Even Mrs. Naffles’s menu had been abysmal...
Rest in peace: (p.276) ...so that his spirit might rest in peace.


Glut: (p.121) “You’ll die if you glut yourself on me.”


Predestined: (p.180) ...you'll see that a union between Jonas and myself is predestined.


Thunderstruck: (p.339) ...as if he were thunderstruck.


Impregnate: (p.189) ...to poison, falsely impregnate, abuse, or annihilate people.


Duty bound: (p.54) Owen tried not to imagine his future, duty bound...


Abyssal: (p.136) ...I was in an abyssal city of nightmare.
Undersea: (p.131) “I thought I was in an undersea city.”


Bedeviled: (p.37) ...her bedeviled senses had reported accurately on the man...
Quench: (p.99) ...so hard to hold the fire in, to quench it, tame it...
Saddle with: (p.362) ...holding himself in the saddle with his usual indolent grace.

Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - Underwater Part 2


Have no alternative: (p.358) You have no alternative but to surrender.
Toboggan: (p.212) With the grace of a toboggan...


Up to Here: (p.145) Fucking gorgeous. Red hair, legs up to here.


Vex: (p.33) “It will vex him.”


Drench: (p.21) Kylar had managed to drench Uly’s face completely.


Misfire: (p.374) ...afraid that it was some kind of internal misfire—


ill-omened: (p.22) Number 3, Lauriston Gardens wore an ill-omened and minatory look.
Inmost: (p.16) ...to fathom a man's inmost thoughts.


Assiduous: (p.86) He had been far more assiduous in keeping Tilda in sight...


Jinxed: (p.199) “Now you’ve jinxed us,” Donovan said.


Doggone: (p.91) "Sure did. Damn--pardon, Miss--doggone TV.


In extremis: (p.506) ...the three medical professionals were likewise in extremis...


Inundate: (p.233) ...they seemed to inundate him with terrifying implications.
Weigh down: (p.239) ...frown that seemed to weigh down his forehead.


All wound up: (p.32) ...they all wound up in that black hole on your desk.


Execrable: (p.293) From his sour expression, Piero found that execrable behavior...


Foreordained: (p.117) ...pierce the pig’s heart, almost as a foreordained event...


Davy Jones: (p.169) We’ll send that son of a cur back to Davy Jones.


Star-crossed: (p.111) ...star-crossed lovers, from feuding families...


Under compulsion: (p.78) ...by sending him into Vamp HQ under compulsion.


Encumber: (p.224) Their bodies, now without fur to encumber, fit together intimately.


Kaput: (p.348) Finished. Kaput. Nothing more.


Que sera sera: (p.73) ‘And that was Doris Day with her classic hit “Que Sera Sera”.’


Dead duck: (p.117) Rows and rows of dead ducks, all of their beady eyes watching him.


Give up the ghost: (p.960) ...pepper tree he'd planted seemed about to give up the ghost.


Kick the bucket: (p.164) ...to move like greased lightning, to kick the bucket,...
Whelm: (p.19) When you are overwhelmed, where is the whelm that you are over...


Miscarry: (p.371) So tell me, Claire, did you miscarry?


Voodooed: (p.372) Had Lissy voodooed him?


Quieten: ...he occasionally consorted to quieten his appetites...


Obligate: (p.464) It might even obligate you in ways you wouldn't like very much.


Souse: (p.145) He was, it appears, a hopeless souse.


Subaqueous: (p.336) ...what might be called her subaqueous gun-room...


Eighty-sixed: (p.149) “Eighty-sixed.”


KO: (p.136) The fight could only end with a submission, a KO or TKO, or a forfeit.


Sedulous: (p.161) Not sedulous by nature to indite


Prolapse: (p.34) “Damn ewe had a prolapse.


Etherize: (p.75) ...to rob his father of all his dignity and to actually etherize him...


Unredeemed: (p.212) ...they had been burned unredeemed in a green...


Submersed: (p.214) He was completely submersed in her.


Lose balance: (p.129) ... causing both men to lose balance as they fell back.


Subaquatic: (p.371) ...and a subaquatic fire burned everything away.

Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - Vanguard

5th November 2017 - ?


Beginning: (p.51) I was beginning to wonder if I was going to have to kick your ass...
Center: (p.27) ...sprawled flat on his back in the center of their greeting room...
Director: (p.68) “You’re the director.”
Focus: (p.163) She tried not to focus on his words...
Front Line: (p.108) ...she thought about Brady out there on the front line...
Genius: (p.45) It didn’t take a genius to figure out who he was unhappy with...
Ideal: (p.1) Brady Miller’s ideal Saturday was pretty simple...
Lure: (p.16) ...so do you ever lure women into your truck...
Novelty: (p.99) A novelty. A diversion.
Pilot: (p.13) ...became a pilot for hire in places that weren’t safe...
Pioneer: (p.46) The Bell 47 was a legendary and pioneer flying adventure.
Source: (p.29) Their only source of income.
Spark: (p.24) ...had still carried enough spark to jump-start his engines.
Whistle: (p.149) ...the high-pitched whine and whistle of a chopper...


Ambassador: (p.174) ...we had hoped you might consent to act as ambassador.
Creation: (p.14) ...embraced the fantastical creation...
Delegate: (p.271) And then there were the household duties to delegate.
Detachment: (p.263) ...so he could with greater detachment better view her body...
Encouragement: (p.100) ...Jacqueline had given him no encouragement to dally...
Escort: (p.12) ...you’d oblige and escort her darling about town...
Façade: (p.78) ...to see beyond any superficial façade...
Forefront: (p.136) ...the question hadn’t left the forefront of his brain.
Industrialist: (p.390) Miss Cowley was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist...
Journey: (p.22) I hope your journey down was pleasant...
Lookout: (p.67) ...I daresay you’ll be on the lookout for other...
Mentor: (p.149) That he enjoyed his role as mentor...
Origin: (p.371) You often rib me about my county of origin...
Portent: (p.11) He didn’t believe in portents.
Primary: (p.167) ...his primary and most important contribution...
Principal: (p.4) ...let alone being my principal heir...
Quest: (p.366) ...all he’d done so far in his quest to own Hellebore Hall...
Superior: (p.32) ...precociously superior gentleman in his mid-twenties...
Symbol: (p.102) ...the perfect symbol of what held her trapped...
Temptation: (p.147) ...then he gave in to temptation and slid both hands down...
Unconventional: (p.5) ...yet his unconventional hobby set him apart.
Unique: (p.9) The area’s unique...
Usher: (p.23) ...to usher the two gentlemen to the chaise...
Veritable: (p.248) A veritable horde...
Vestige: (p.127) The last vestige of color drained from Jacqueline’s face...
Vital: (p.24) ...a subject who embodied the vital thing...
Wellspring: (p.5) ...be a wellspring of joy, or a creative disaster?


Bulge: (p.38) She’d take one look at his growing bulge...
Commander: (p.8) ...wouldn’t risk opening fire on their esteemed commander.
Scout: (p.179) “Shell, I just want to talk to you. Scout’s honor.”
Token: (p.180) ...to put up some sort of token resistance.
Wink: (p.20) “I won’t,” he assured her with a wink.


Kindred: (p.10) Because of the Kindred.


Carrier: (p.49) We’re waiting on the carriers to provide us with their records.
Conductor: (p.71) ...and waving his fingers like a conductor.
Dispatcher: (p.145) ...only half listening to the guy as he spoke to the dispatcher.
Kingpin: (p.91) “Know a lot of drug kingpins and slave traders, do you?”
Omen: (p.145) That had to be an omen.
State of the art: (p.37) ...a state-of-the-art biometrics identification system.
Trailblazer: (p.136) “Well look at that. I’m a trailblazer.”


Heavyweight: (p.75) Harris was hardly a criminal heavyweight.
Manager: (p.11) Carrying on an affair with his campaign manager...


In the Beginning: (p.35) ...he’d failed to notice in the beginning.


Developer: (p.250) The request was filed by Aubrey Malone, real estate developer.
Discoverer: (p.97) ...Delo Wiley, discoverer of Hamilton the Fourth's corpse...
Formative: (p.71) ...where Hamilton Garrett had spent his formative years.
Spark Plug: (p.171) ...wiggled one of the spark plug wires.
Stimulating: (p.195) ...not something I found sexually stimulating.


Breakthrough: (p.65) She saw the suggestion only as a breakthrough in trust...
Mediator: (p.214) I’ll be mediator.


Catalyst: (p.142) Carolina was the catalyst for that.
Prophecy: (p.252) Then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.


Shepherd: (p.78) ...sixty pounds of very excited German shepherd.


Leading Edge: (p.171) ...and beneath the order lay the leading edge of alarm.


Generator: (p.116) A lot of shoe tracks in the dust and a generator...
Harbinger: (p.106) ...his ex looked like an angelic harbinger of doom.
Messenger: (p.54) ...a messenger bag over one shoulder, a coat tossed over the other...
Ringleader: (p.166) Marcus Smith was the ringleader.


Extraction: (p.10) ...difference between recon, extraction or an all-out firefight.
Founder: (p.60) Founders and funding up the chain.
Immigrant: (p.27) Like a natural, like a pro, not like an immigrant’s son...
Precursor: (p.45) ...bankers had used a precursor system to share information.


Ingenious: (p.103) An ingenious argument.
Invention: (p.198) But you're doing such a good job of invention...
Quixotic: (p.70) ...it was exactly the sort of quixotic thing his brother might do.


Grandiose: (p.51) ...in stark contrast to Blackbyrne’s grandiose monument.
Judicious: (p.135) ...through the judicious application of oil.
Magnate: (p.112) ...and is the son of a railroad magnate to boot—”
Prophet: (p.189) ...the truth lurking behind the ravings of the mad prophet...
Settler: (p.51) Here lay the earliest settlers of Widdershins...


Auspice: (p.153) ...under the auspices of their controlling brothers.
Cutting-edge: (p.12) But instead she wanted to be on the cutting edge...
Guru: (p.80) ...Jayne Morgan, the RCK research guru.
Paramount: (p.451) ...but getting her out of the burning house was paramount.


Explorer: (p.93) ...some of my kind lured men, sailors and explorers.
Voyage: (p.210) We’ll keep it simple for the maiden voyage.


Herald: (p.92) Every shift of the trees seemed to herald an attack.
Theoretical: (p.159) ...everyday convenience apparently trumping theoretical danger.


Chaperone: (p.40) ...for she was a notoriously lax chaperone...
Divination: (p.301) I will perform for you a divination.
Rector: (p.44) Bentley Rutledge stood opposite the rector...


Controller: (p.11) And since when are you an air traffic controller?
Go-between: (p.211) ...only needs a few trustworthy go-betweens...
Optimum: (p.256) ...the wings in the air were at an optimum distance.


Criterion: (p.57) The most important criterion for a Renaissance house...
Manifestation: (p.2) ...a manifestation of the quiet power within him.


Emissary: (p.72) She’d been Chase’s emissary...
Foreground: (p.357) Georgiana’s attention fell to one of the men in the foreground.
Outrider: (p.50) ...her outrider—a massive man who had no doubt been hired...
Precocious: (p.60) “You are what is referred to as ‘precocious.’”


Governor: (p.99) ...PARDON BY THE GOVERNOR OF LOUISIANA.


Right up Front: (p.393) But you need to establish who the alpha male is right up front.


Bona Fide: (p.107) The guy is a bona fide homophobe...
Visionary: (p.235) I think we’re dealing with a visionary type of killer...


Limelight: (p.59) ...he did not want to be in the limelight again.
Paradigm: (p.15) Or concepts or paradigms.
Zealot: (p.73) I believe your father was and is a misguided zealot...


Prime Example: (p.223) She was a prime example of that.


Guiding Light: (p.166) ...without a guiding light or moral code.
Prolific: (p.2) ...with a majority of prolific Mormons...
Superintendent: (p.245) ...was the superintendent of the schools in Short Creek...


Squatter: (p.97) What if there are squatters in the park?


New Wave: (p.68) ...sent a new wave of unease through him...


Upstart: (p.71) Upstarts like him delude themselves into thinking...


Prototype: (p.154) ...or this was some sort of prototype of the form.”


Antecedent: (p.49) ...Richard Cynster's antecedents sounded even worse...


Forewarning: (p.267) Devereaux’s forewarning skittered through his head...
Indigenous: (p.30) ...plants not indigenous to southern Florida...
Rudder: (p.96) The rudder pedals under his feet sped in opposite directions...
Skipper: (p.235) ...she ran off with an itinerant yacht skipper...


Dignitary: (p.152) Daniels slowed at the Prague Castle dignitary entrance.
Envoy: (p.44) ...conversations between American diplomats and Chinese envoys...
Spearhead: (p.192) ...the country spearhead a relief operation,...
Spotter: (p.62) “He needed a spotter.”


Avant-garde: (p.136) Hanging nearby was an avant-garde dress...


Derivation: (p.291) They’re doing all the derivations on his name...
Exemplar: (p.248) ...exemplars of an average retired couple.
Navigator: (p.111) She was at times his navigator, his buffer...


Recruiter: (p.378) Just to be like the recruiters, who tend to be beautiful...
Zealous: (p.502) ...and most zealous in his service of Khali.


Go-getter: (p.163) Apparently our girl Madge is quite the go-getter.


Docent: (p.142) ...she'd worked here as a docent.


Genie: (p.235) The Diaper Genie, and the rubber ducks...


Frontage: (p.62) ...floor-to-ceiling glass frontage that faced West Broadway.


Endemic: (p.85) ...overrode the staleness endemic to all motel rooms...


Commissionaire: (p.19) “Commissionaire, sir,” he said, gruffly.
One in a million: (p.9) The proportion of blood cannot be more than one in a million.
Vanguard: (p.62) ...galloping up to reinforce the vanguard.


Protagonist: (p.43) ...her protagonists came from all walks of life.
Sleuth: (p.108) ...I had not only caught the amateur sleuth bug...


Groundbreaker: (p.46) Weston was a groundbreaker.


Top Spot: (p.13) Nazari had held the top spot in the MDF...


Innovation: (p.199) Each new innovation generated more demands and requirements.

Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - Vanguard Part 2


Peerless: (p.2) ...a peerless blue sky arcing over it.


Archetype: (p.333) ...the survivor generally fall into the same archetype.


Originator: (p.186) It was the originator of ‘yellow journalism.’


Coinage: (p.89) ...there was a chart listing all the English coinage in use...


Quantum Leap: (p.43) ...feeling of anticipation was elevated by several quantum leaps...


Augury: (p.243) The day might earlier have seemed an augury of spring...


Gofer: (p.44) ...not only performing my songs but acting as a gofer...


Presage: (p.479) ...a dull haze which felt like the presage of some thunderhead...


Lightning Rod: (p.23) Lightning rods jutted from various points around the house...


Vicissitudes: (p.203) She had experience enough of life’s vicissitudes to appreciate...


Ventral: (p.359) ...it relied on a ventral–mounted, swiveling twenty–millimeter cannon.


Key Player: (p.268) And Rand was a key player in keeping that strategy on track.
Maverick: (p.151) She was also the president of a maverick investigative team...


Jejune: (p.53) There is never a shortage of jejune murders out there...


Obverse: (p.43) The obverse showed the warrior, now a calvaryman...


Prognostication: (p.36) ...all the prognostications of medicine...


Eminence: (p.126) If Australians lack one thing in their lonely eminence Down Under...


Proscenium: (p.795) ...the proscenium arch for this little drama to be fully appreciated.


Frontispiece: (p.49) ...smiled out at him from the frontispiece of a little red volume...


Embryonic: (p.69) ...the exact formation of the branchial arches in an embryonic chicken?


Fountainhead: (p.225) I read The Fountainhead—that philosophy was all about...


Prequel: (p.143) I’M GOING TO—of course—ignore the prequels.


Lodestar: (p.194) All his life it had seemed enough, been his lodestar.


Nonconformist: (p.20) ...a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake...
Whilom: (p.195) As it happens, the whilom Lieutenant; ...


Exhibitor: (p.323) ...exhibitors might be compelled to take as many as fifty...
Pathfinder: (p.14) ...a Keystone Pathfinder built in Bristol, Pennsylvania,...


Coxswain: (p.18) ...a captain changing ships might take his coxswain...
Rare Bird: (p.26) ...I do not know, by the by, such rare birds they are.


Title Role: (p.418) ...version of Don Giovanni, with Groucho in the title role.


Notability: (p.169) ...a charming young lady who assists and aids an elderly notability...


Forepart: (p.207) ...which involves throwing its foreparts vigorously into the air...


Boding: (p.212) ...Nanette said, her tone boding no good for Cal.


Colonizer: (p.158) ...the country’s Asian location, its Spanish colonizers...


Suzerain: (p.107) You forget, I am your suzerain as well as your father.


Quondam: (p.10) ...distinguished quondam Oxonian with the evocative name...


Reconnoiterer: (p.206) I suspect for a signal from the forward reconnoiterer...


Trendsetter: (p.223) “So what is it tonight, oh great trendsetter? Gucci? Prada? Armani?”


Guiding Spirit: (p.205) ...Eleanor has been the majority shareholder and guiding spirit.


Begetter: (p.255) ...no distinctions made between host and parasite, begetter, begotten.
Primogenitor: (p.196) ...it is the primogenitor of chaos.


Mantic: (p.44) “Can the Mantic Anastomosis Be Cleansed Through Human Intervention?”


Pacesetter: (p.184) Sometimes that pacesetter is a single leader, someone like David...


Affluently: (p.93) He was bearded, though not so affluently as James;


Vatic: (p.223) Wherever he was, Grisamentum was pining for Billy’s opaque vatic insight.


Helmsperson: ...and the helmsperson is an officer tasked with a serious duty.

2017/2018 READING ROULETTE

BL/HR: July 1, 2017: Read the SECOND book on your TBR whose title starts with F (disregard A, An and The) Falling for Rachel by Nora Roberts - 24/11

HR : Jul 15, 2017 : Read the FIRST book on your TBR that is about any type of sport; tell us the sport - Melting the Ice by Jaci Burton - hockey - 26/11

BL/HR : JUL 29, 2017 : Read the FIRST book added to your TBR in February of any year; tell us the year - Wild Justice by Kelley Armstrong (04 February 2014) - 28/11

HR : Aug 12, 2017 : Read the THIRD book on your TBR by an author whose FIRST name (or initial) starts with E - Stolen Seduction by Elisabeth Naughton - 03/12

BL/HR : AUG 26, 2017 : Read the FIRST book on your TBR originally published prior to the year 2000; tell us the year it was published - Angel Rogue by Mary Jo Putney (1990) - 06/12

HR : SEP 9, 2017 : Read the FIRST book on your TBR whose cover shows a road of any kind; post the cover - Love Me to Death by Allison Brennan - 10/12
Can be any kind of road – highway, gravel, dirt, etc. – but must clearly be a road and not just a path or driveway

BL/HR : SEP 23, 2017 : Read the SIXTH book on your TBR that you own a bound copy of - Bay of Sighs by Nora Roberts - 13/12

HR : Oct 7, 2017 : Read the SECOND book on your TBR whose title is in cursive (not just italics); post the cover - The Devil You Know by Liz Carlyle - 16/12

BL/HR : OCT 21, 2017 : Read ANY book that you added to your TBR in the last six months - Archangel's Viper by Nalini Singh - 02/01

HR : Nov 4, 2017 : Read the FOURTH book on your TBR whose title contains the word NEVER - Never Judge a Lady by Her Cover by Sarah MacLean - 10/01

BL/HR : Nov 18, 2017 : Read the FIFTH book on your TBR whose title contains a word that starts with E - Steel's Edge by Ilona Andrews - 21/01

HR : Dec 2, 2017 : Read the FIRST book on your TBR whose title is printed in purple; post the cover - Scandal's Bride by Stephanie Laurens - 14/02

BL/HR : Dec 16, 207 : Read the FIFTH book on your TBR by an author whose LAST name starts with P - Call Me Irresistible by Susan Elizabeth Phillips - 20/02

HR : Dec 30, 2017 : Read the SECOND book on your TBR with a one-word title; ALL words count - Undone by Karin Slaughter - 24/02

BL/HR : Jan 13, 2018 : Read the FIRST book on your TBR whose title begins with a five-letter word - Gypsy Lord by Kat Martin

HR : Jan 27, 2018 : Read the FOURTH book on your TBR by an author whose LAST name starts with E - Flint by Paul Eddy - 17/02

BL/HR : Feb 10, 2018 : Read the SECOND book on your TBR whose title contains a color word - A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle - 14/04

HR : Feb 24, 2018 : Read the FIRST book on your TBR that is an anthology or collection of short stories by at least three different authors - Three in Death by J.D. Robb - 28/02

BL/HR : Mar 10, 2018 : Read the LAST book on your TBR with a six in the total page count; tell us how many pages - The Unruly Chaperon by Elizabeth Rolls (296 pages) - 13/05

HR : Mar 24, 2018 : Read the FIRST book on your TBR with a beach scene on the cover; post the cover - The Reef by Nora Roberts

BL/HR : Apr 7, 2018 : Read the THIRD book on your TBR that was originally published in 2007 - Her Only Desire by Gaelen Foley - 01/05

HR : Apr 21, 2018 : Read the FIRST book on your TBR whose title contains a "question" word : who, what, where, why, when, how - What Price Love? by Stephanie Laurens - 26/05

BL/HR : May 5, 2018 : Read ANY book between position #11 and #20 on your TBR; tell us the position - Cry No More by Linda Howard - 10/06

HR : May 19, 2018 : Read the SECOND book on your TBR with a square object shown prominently on the cover; post the cover

BL/HR : Jun 2, 2018 : Read the SIXTH book on your TBR by an author whose FIRST name (or initial) starts with G - Devil Takes a Bride by Gaelen Foley

HR : Jun 16, 2018 : Read the FIRST book on your TBR that somehow fits the challenge you're closest to finishing (other than this one!); tell us the challenge (can be from any group) - Cemetery Dance by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child - 30/06

Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - White Elephant

3rd December 2017 - ?


Adventure: (p.11) ...one of her many Indiana Jones adventures...
Blessing: (p.12) ...that was probably a blessing in disguise.
Bout: (p.14) “Hey, copper. How ‘bout a cold one?”
Christmas: (p.19) My sister Keira gave me this espresso machine for Christmas...
Cocky: (p.51) Cocky where Rafe was sure.
Competition: (p.175) “Competition,” she finally said.
Compliment: (p.280) “I’ll take that as a compliment.”
Controversy: (p.95) It’s been engulfed in controversy for years.
Courtesy: (p.271) “Just…do me the courtesy of at least not lying about it now.”
Distraction: (p.73) What if it was simply a distraction?
Favor: (p.31) Do me a favor, would you?
Gift: (p.57) ...he thought that gift was a piece of crap...
Go For It: (p.257) “Go for it,” he said.
Hand Out: (p.70) He held a hand out to help her up.
Holiday: (p.23) Holidays basically suck in the Maxwell house-hold.
Impulsive: (p.273) Competent but impulsive.
Joke: (p.34) “What about time of death?” Tony asked, ignoring her joke.
Kick In: (p.131) And wasn’t that just a kick in the pants?
Kicks: (p.292) “You’ve got a little over ten years until your pension kicks in.
Kidding: (p.76) “I’m not kidding,” Tony said.
Nerve: (p.13) ...as her nerves slid back to the normal range...
Offer: (p.156) ...wished she hadn’t passed up his offer for popcorn...
Offering: (p.102) Be smart and take the hand I’m offering.
Prank: (p.177) Maybe the note was nothing but a prank.
Present: (p.28) ...that jolt from past to present was sometimes so overwhelming...
Put Out: (p.22) ...some kind of snack to put out with the coffee...
Reckless: (p.141) ...wild and reckless and in his prime inhis thirties.
Relief: (p.41) A shot of relief raced through Hailey...
Scheme: (p.175) ...in the grand scheme of things, meant very little to his life.
Zing: (p.103) She tamped down the zing of arousal...


Allowance: (p.65) While I will make allowances for your concern...
Amusement: (p.32) "Oh, no," Robin said with a flicker of amusement.
Bequest: (p.366) ...illegitimacy would not necessarily have invalidated the bequest...
Bestow: (p.146) ...she was no sheltered English miss, raised to bestow her body...
Concede: (p.150) ...she was unwilling to concede that aloud.
Contribution: (p.207) ...bringing warm spiced buns as a contribution.
Daredevil: (p.73) ...so I confined myself to daredevil riding tricks.
Evasion: (p.128) ...he was made of tangled strands of humor and evasion...
Gritty: (p.73) ...the horses kicking up clouds of gritty dust.
Hazard: (p.38) ...but the closer you get to London, the greater the hazard...
Hilarity: (p.78) ...they surrendered to the uninhibited hilarity of relief.
Jest: (p.101) "Your jests are getting worse and worse, Lord Robert,"
Lark: (p.64) ...but might he have taken off on a lark with a young...
Legacy: (p.21) The legacy question is nearly resolved...
Melodrama: (p.342) ...would obliterate the foolish melodrama of his words...
Mirth: (p.380) ...there was tenderness and understanding and mirth...
Provision: (p.30) He sighed and hitched his bag of provisions...
Reward: (p.13) ...quietly doing the difficult tasks with little reward or recognition.
Salty: (p.79) The salty taste made him seem sharply real...
Speculate: (p.120) ...but he preferred not to speculate about it to Maxie.
Tenacious: (p.179) The pursuit is amazingly tenacious.
Token: (p.97) As a token of reconciliation...
Transaction: (p.130) ...that she knew what the real transaction was.
Undertaking: (p.69) ...to imagine a gently bred female undertaking such a journey
Wager: (p.49) I'll wager sixpence that you can't get it back together...
Warfare: (p.189) ...the most dangerous and unrespected kind of warfare...
Whimsy: (p.101) He was back in the realm of impenetrable whimsy again...
Wile: (p.30) ...so more feminine wiles had been exercised on Lord Robert.
Zeal: (p.61) The zeal with which the villagers described his exploits...
Zest: (p.28) The zest for life that had been Robin's most vivid characteristic...


Daring: (p.13) The book lay at the edge of the desk where I had put it, silently daring me.
Donation: (p.220) I’m sure the museum will be most grateful for your donation.
Finesse: (p.177) There was no finesse to what I did...
Impart: (p.145) ...as if he strove to impart some message.
Merry-go-round: (p.83) ...was still hurtling about like a merry-go-round.
Premium: (p.10) My time is at a premium...
Revelry: (p.166) From outside came the sounds of revelry...
Venture: (p.174) ...too sick to venture out.
Winnings: (p.81) I scraped my substantial pile of winnings off the table...


Allot: (p.460) ...but please allot extra time.
Enterprise: (p.76) And depending on the criminal enterprise...
Escapade: (p.2) ...to lay blame for that escapade on someone else.
Gimmick: (p.66) ...they can lure men in with their falsities and gimmicks...
Remembrance: (p.41) ...not in remembrance of what Morton had done...
Souvenir: (p.339) Adam Scott kept souvenirs from all his victims.
Subscription: (p.119) ...maintaining a subscription to a physical newspaper...


Dice: (p.210) “I can slice him, dice him, clip off his thumbs, put out his eyes.
Fearless: (p.62) Fearless, Sawyer thought.
Feint: (p.139) Jabs, feints, kicks, a punch.
Gutsy: (p.55) Sloppy form, but gutsy.
Hardy: (p.112) Annika clambered over and around them, as hardy, it seemed...
Tournament: (p.84) My intel is, every three years he holds a tournament.


Bounty: (p.36) ...up to the task of containing her bounty.
Earnings: (p.103) Once the man left with his earnings...
Windfall: (p.86) He seems the type of have celebrated a windfall...


Apportion: (p.151) ...they apportion Frederica’s rather significant dowry...
Boon: (p.391) Perhaps because hopelessness had been his boon companion...
Boxing Day: (p.13) On Boxing Day, he had caught her beneath the mistletoe.
Crusty: (p.212) ...cold chicken, fruit, cheese, and crusty bread.
Gaiety: (p.125) ...nothing but the laughter and gaiety below.
Godsend: (p.362) ...so Bentley’s offer was a godsend.
Jesting: (p.243) He had not been entirely jesting...
Rivalry: (p.213) ...did not feel anything like sibling rivalry...
Romping: (p.57) ...and romping with Anaïs and Armand, her twin toddlers.
Subterfuge: (p.90) Perhaps we should engage in a little subterfuge.


Cheeky: (p.88) ...had been cheeky in setting up shop...
Dramatics: (p.180) ...without him throwing any dramatics.
Entrust: (p.345) “Entrust her to me, Venom.”
Gallant: (p.45) “Oh, sir, how gallant of you.”
Giveaway: (p.290) Sunglasses pre-dawn would’ve been a dead giveaway.
Honor with: (p.235) Dmitri loved Honor with a passionate devotion...
Joie de vivre: (p.168) ...had the most joie de vivre of the Seven...
Playfulness: (p.172) ...intelligent and generous and with a warm playfulness to him.


Craftiness: (p.281) A twisted craftiness appeared in Slade's eyes.
Fun and games: (p.95) You know damn well I'm not going to Mexico for fun and games.
Goodie: (p.7) ...once they got their hands on the goodies...


Benevolence: (p.44) You own them thanks to my benevolence.
Gusto: (p.342) ...throwing the dice with gusto.


Decode: (p.489) ...and for them to properly decode.
Foolhardy: (p.214) “Well, they were foolhardy, but brave.”
Tribute: (p.293) “I think that might be a fitting tribute to Harry.”


Lavish: (p.251) That lavish appreciation of detail seemed odd...


Championship: (p.155) ...she took part in the 1969 World Archery Championships.
Recreation: (p.44) ...the painstaking recreation of old battles.
Santa Claus: (p.22) ...belief in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and John F. Kennedy.


Confer: (p.91) ...didn’t confer any special benefits.
Good Fortune: (p.343) ...Brennan’s good fortune brought his own shortcomings...
Pittance: (p.46) But Charlotte healed them all for a pittance...


Endowment: (p.260) ...to receive the first temple endowment...
Hand-me-down: (p.1) ...socks, and hand-me-down clothing.


Christmas Eve: (p.100) “Tomorrow is Christmas Eve.” Sloane lifted his glass.
Decree: (p.232) My first decree would be for more naps.
Mania: (p.18) ...even less to think his sudden attack of mania...


Elation: (p.111) A strange elation surged through him at the sensation...
Unafraid: (p.116) The killer moved toward him, unafraid, lifting one claw-tipped hand.


Allocate: (p.87) ...the director’s absurd decision to allocate more funds...
Pastime: (p.102) Bathing in the ocean seems to be a popular pastime here;


Dish Out: (p.125) “And also, you don’t deserve whatever she was about to dish out.”
Dispensation: (p.56) ...what the dispensation was on our two runaways.
Plucky: (p.49) ...the heroine is one of the sweet plucky virginal ingénues...


Machination: (p.8) ...fodder for their matrimonial machinations.
Merriment: (p.210) ...through all the merriment and laughter...
Stalwart: (p.147) He'd done a stalwart job of defending Catriona and her vale.
Yuletide: (p.210) ...and all the manor celebrated yuletide...


Distribute: (p.83) ...to receive and distribute funds in support of covert operations.
Gratuity: (p.378) ...with a small gratuity and muted thanks.
Nirvana: (p.54) The Lawrence Islands may be the nirvana of every doper...


Christmas Day: (p.4) Christmas Day, and the parties still raged.


Shindig: (p.132) Torie here invited us both to a little Fourth of July shindig.


Tug-of-war: (p.22) This case was turning into a jurisdictional tug-of-war.


Loophole: (p.6) ...techniques, manpower, organizations, and loopholes.
Out on a Limb: (p.234) ...I’m going to go out on a limb and say, yeah.


Lightheartedness: (p.41) ...Tom was so full of play and lightheartedness...


Stratagem: (p.118) ...to let your enemy launch fully formed stratagems on you...


Largesse: (p.153) ...comfort abovestairs thanks to my largesse...
Soiree: (p.2) ...the Liverpool Summer Soiree was oddly China-themed...


Shenanigan: (p.76) One of the lab guys called shenanigans on it.


Joviality: (p.355) Turning away from the joviality, Xcor said...
One on One: (p.114) ...which was when he’d met her properly, one-on-one.


Delectation: (p.304) She lay all warm and sleepy and naked for his delectation.
Romp: (p.52) ...romp all night with alluring, sophisticated creatures.


Indomitable: (p.71) ...were wiped out by admiration for her indomitable spirit.
Undaunted: (p.232) She was undaunted by his anger.


Nervy: (p.142) “Oh, Bree. That is nervy.”


Dog Eat Dog: (p.30) ...and was just as dog-eat-dog.

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Endow: (p.129) But don't endow me with any false virtues.
Noel: (p.309) I'm Noel Tillinger, and this is my wife, Maria.


Chicanery: (p.63) “Chicanery and shenanigans,” Jason supplied, smiling.


Festivity: (p.87) ...and other signs of festivity.


Oomph: (p.263) I’m so done with your—oomph!’


Cunningness: (p.16) ...I’ve lost all respect for your cunningness.


Brassy: (p.81) The bold, brassy notes sounded the herald a second time...
Libation: (p.128) “It is a favorite libation amongst men of our land.”
Oblation: (p.159) ...the holy statues required various oblations and sacrifices...
Venturesome: (p.257) ...when Ian suddenly captured her venturesome hands.


Annuity: (p.221) Your 401(k) or annuity?’


Ante: (p.53) Which was one of the reasons he'd decided to up the ante.
Rat Race: (p.290) ...and escapes the rat race to return to her hometown.


Offertory: (p.3) ...she put a pound note into the offertory bag.


Jollity: (p.152) Precious little jollity about it.


Gambit: (p.262) ...the only reason Jack’s gambit worked.


Fete: (p.307) I was raised to pour tea, organize fetes...


Nativity: (p.409) ...a few leftover wooden figures from a nativity scene...
St. Nicholas: (p.155) The next day was the Feast of St. Nicholas...
Yule: (p.187) There was even a strand of Norse Yule running through the mix...


Toss Up: (p.55) It was going to be a toss-up, he decided...


Effervescence: (p.401) Passion, edge, maturity, effervescence.”
Jamboree: (p.133) ...the World Cup makes Mardi Gras seem like a Girl Scout jamboree.


Philanthropy: (p.276) Giving back to the country by way of philanthropy...


Stouthearted: (p.213) ...neat as clockwork, stouthearted and very well trained.
Vivacity: (p.306) ...and was every bit the creature of sparkle and vivacity...


Festal: (p.858) ...like entryways to grotesque festal halls-turned...


Horseplay: (p.142) ...she knew she could recall the horseplay.


Tomfoolery: (p.195) Philip Blake exclaimed: ‘What tomfoolery is this?


Chanukah: (p.227) I’ll come for Christmas, though— sorry, Chanukah.


Valorous: (p.424) Then help me prove just how valorous he was.


Back-slapping: (p.284) ...but the older man’s back-slapping hugs were still the same.


Doughty: (p.73) ...a doughty band of prospectors from Leadville braved the threat...


Hoopla: (p.173) Matt had stayed late at work, hoping to avoid most of the hoopla.


Go for Broke: (p.136) Kyle decided to go for broke.


Shell Out: (p.340) ...he’d go for more medicine, shell out the money for feed, for hay.


Bequeath: (p.26) So he decided to bequeath you all, collectively...


Zippy: (p.19) Her old Volkswagen handled zippy hills better than heavy traffic.


Merrymaking: (p.169) ...this elaborate, stylized merrymaking, had figured prominently...


Alms: (p.284) ...or on the steps of the churches to gather alms.
Dauntless: (p.147) ...with their classical fatalism and dauntless will to struggle...
Fiesta: (p.42) ...it was like trying to talk to people who were drunk at a fiesta.
Frolic: (p.49) ...its owner returned for it, perhaps dishevelled from her frolics.
Keenness: (p.275) He felt the blade for keenness and then sliced across her belly...


Remittance: (p.153) ...the fact of no more letters with remittances...
Skylarking: (p.197) ...besieging the soda fountains, skylarking on the trolley-cars.


Liveliness: (p.58) Sven had never met someone with so much liveliness.


Clambake: (p.261) ...Parker remembered the clambake buffet in July two years ago...


Christmas night: (p.582) ...face powder and cream rouge and Christmas Night perfume.


Honorarium: (p.176) ...honour and honourable but honorary and honorarium;...
Vim: (p.69) ...hale and hearty, peace and quiet, vim and vigor, pots and pans...


Sprightliness: (p.246) ...and sprinted away with un-mummy-like sprightliness.


Junketing: (p.31) How much could he know of their junketing?


Benefaction: (p.96) ...dare cast disapproving looks at the source of their benefaction.
High Jinks: (p.45) And as with most of Zoë’s high jinks...


Bestowal: (p.227) ...was undermined by the bestowal of his affections elsewhere.


Clowning: (p.37) ...he almost always gave in and laughed at Finn’s clowning.


Render To: (p.423) "Let your riches be offerings that you render to His glory."


Fork Out: (p.20) I felt like swooping down and snatching the fork out of his hand...


Subsidy: (p.93) ...it would require a second subsidy to bring down the price...


Hanukkah: (p.102) ...so I get both Hanukkah and the occasional trek to Midnight Mass...


One-upping: (p.127) Blake and I have been one-upping each other since we were kids.


Foolery: (p.76) If he pulls this coup off, he’ll have no leisure for foolery...


Lots of laughs: (p.278) ...they gave me lots of laughs and happy tears.
Ugly Sweater: (p.219) ...and a wrinkled button-up under an ugly sweater vest...


Counteraction: (46%) You faced a craving, and you sought a positive counteraction...


Buffoonery: (p.401) ...for ‘moronic buffoonery, barbaric crime...
Fairing: (p.97) ...when someone leaned too heavily against a fairing strip.
Jubilee: (p.228) ...to attend that country’s diamond jubilee celebrations...


Monkeyshines: (p.233) The many monkeyshines with Allie.


Lionhearted: (p.232) Jo was a delightful and lionhearted young person...


Wingding: (p.295) “Still, we could all use a wingding about now...


Temerarious: (p.39) ...not at times without that temerarious combination of aloofness...


Whoopee: (p.350) Sort of a royal whoopee cushion.


Divertissement: (p.247) ...he would have waited for me to begin the divertissement...


Concours: (p.361) ...the annual Capital Concours de Beaux Moteurcar was primarily...


Regalement: (p.80) ...this served as their only opportunity for regalement.


Allurement: (p.147) ...for the first time was an added allurement to me.


Tempt Fortune: (62%) ...and do not seek to tempt fortune a second time.


Christmastide: (98%) Yet as Christmastide approaches...


Joyousness: (p.596) A gentle joyousness—a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness...


Lagniappe: (p.160) Don’t we all expect a little lagniappe with our deals?

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Acute: (p.105) His sense of smell was more acute than hers;
Bruised: (p.154) None of her bones broke, nothing bruised...
Brutal: (p.31) ...had told her brutal truths about what would happen...
Burning: (p.79) ...but he couldn’t give up these burning hot showers.
Caustic: (p.98) ...her voice caustic because otherwise, she might cry.
Chafed: (p.35) ...no matter how much the extra leash chafed...
Critical: (p.44) ...a slow and critical once-over.
Cruel: (p.111) ...how cruel immortals could be.
Deadly: (p.9) ...that her deadly boss made no effort to hide.
Desperate: (p.21) Only the stupid or the desperate would go after a woman...
Disturbing: (p.104) ...to look at her with disturbing intensity...
Enormous: (p.301) It had taken enormous courage for her...
Exaggerated: (p.46) She put on her seat belt with exaggerated care.
Excellent: (p.49) ...that gave an excellent appearance of being blood.
Excruciating: (p.200) ...Vivek had become excruciatingly sensitive...
Exquisite: (p.187) ...the exquisite fabrics she’d made her mother donate...
Fierce: (p.291) ...small and fierce and strangely gentle with him.
Flamboyant: (p.207) ...he pulled off the flamboyant outfit with aplomb.
Forward: (p.16) “I am looking forward to fresh blood.”
Glacial: (p.167) ...the recording progressed at a glacial pace for him...
Grave: (p.328) ...somehow found a way to return from the grave.
Guts: (p.340) Agony twisted at her guts...
Heinous: (p.358) ...an act as heinous as the Falling...
Highest: (p.251) A flag flew from the highest point of the highest tower.
Insane: (p.6) ...a violently powerful and deeply insane archangel...
Intense: (p.10) ...so intense it had threatened to set her hair on fire.
Keen: (p.327) The whisper held so much hope it was a keen of sound.
Leading: (p.40) Dmitri was leading Ash and Janvier through a series of moves...
Lethal: (p.16) ...the lethal wildness of his scent blew across her skin.
Monstrous: (p.9) No blood that craved the monstrous.
Mortal: (p.28) ...it was a deranged mortal who’d abducted her friends...
Needless: (p.177) Needless to say, the consort had never again had to deal...
Noxious: (p.107) Other, more noxious body fluids.
Ornate: (p.68) ...so ornate and covered with ivy...
Out of Sight: (p.318) ...hiding in the forest out of sight of the sentries...
Pluck: (p.69) ...pluck off each and every one of his feathers.
Pressing: (p.66) ...pressing her face to his chest.
Scandalous: (p.352) ...it wouldn’t be considered scandalous.
Severe: (p.25) ...incapacitate the older with severe pain.
State-of-the-art: (p.211) My protections are state of the art.
Stratospheric: (p.47) ...such stratospheric price tags...
Strict: (p.71) Holly had been placed on a strict blood regime...
Struggling: (p.35) ...struggling past her desire to obey Dmitri...
Tearing: (p.16) ...Holly had been tearing herself apart.
Terrible: (p.41) ...it wasn’t just a terrible echo of trauma.
Ultimate: (p.251) ...Uram and Michaela made the ultimate “power couple.”
Utmost: (p.55) He’d served his hundred years with utmost fidelity...
Vast: (p.102) ...glimpsing a vast world of earth-shattering power...
Verge: (p.18) She pulled over onto the verge.
Vicious: (p.18) ...his speed vicious.
Violent: (p.11) All of the Seven were violent powers.
Vivid: (p.8) ...nearer to the vivid green of the archangel...
Way out: (p.6) ...frustrated drivers on every side, with no way out...
Weird: (p.37) All for a weird Chinese girl who had the bad luck...
Wicked: (p.96) Venom’s grin was a wicked, wild thing.
Wild: (p.8) ...and her nails painted in a wild mix of colors.
Wildness: (p.16) ...the lethal wildness of his scent blew across her skin.


Arctic: (p.133) ...set out on an expedition to the Arctic?"
Boundless: (p.179) It is a matter of boundless love;
Crisis: (p.36) "Rick was busy handling a crisis in the bar."
Drastic: (p.156) "This is a rather drastic way to do it," Verity muttered.
Eccentric: (p.32) ...reconstructed by an eccentric relative of our late uncle...
Exotic: (p.71) ...Elyssa's gleaming rings and exotic bracelets.
Extreme: (p.271) With an extreme effort of will...
Flashy: (p.217) ...to write a flashy ad for a big real estate deal.
Indulgence: (p.240) He opened one eye and regarded her with lazy indulgence.
Infamous: (p.270) ...she was heading for the infamous torture chamber...
Jumbo: (p.219) Some mumbo-jumbo herb treatment?
Major league: (p.246) ...lose you to a major-league research institution.
Notorious: (p.167) "Maybe he was there before you became notorious."
Overboard: (p.53) ...had a heart attack and fell overboard.
Quaint: (p.133) Let's try one of those quaint little bed-and-breakfast places...
Raging: (p.15) ...he was in the grip of his own raging desire.
Unbelievable: (p.179) The woman's effrontery was unbelievable.
Willpower: (p.78) ...he gathered every ounce of his willpower...


Apex: (p.264) His gaze fell to the apex of her thighs.
Extravagance: (p.35) ...but without the extravagance.
Flagrant: (p.32) ...so thoroughly destroyed with such a flagrant lie.
Foremost: (p.149) But she’s Chase’s whore first and foremost.
Implausible: (p.373) “I don’t think those things sound so implausible,” Pippa said.
Insufferable: (p.206) He was an insufferable man.
Manifest: (p.203) ...each light made manifest as a golden orb of glass.
Mettle: (p.109) ...the one that proved their mettle.
Precocious: (p.60) “You are what is referred to as ‘precocious.’”
Preposterous: (p.100) ...the statement as preposterous as she did.
Prodigal: (p.32) The aristocracy’s prodigal daughter is returned.
Resolute: (p.239) ...it had made her strong and resolute when Caroline was born.
Shocking: (p.230) You’re shocking the ladies.
Transcendent: (p.262) ...the dark waters of his transcendent swimming pool...
Yearning: (p.287) ...and he heard the yearning in her young voice.


Arduous: (p.49) ...arduous task of hauling it back up the rickety stairs.
Harrowing: (p.82) It had been an exhausting evening. Harrowing.
Jazz: (p.123) ...with a young jazz musician Baton Rouge way.
Nefarious: (p.28) ...euphemism for all nefarious and underhanded doings.
Oppressive: (p.59) ...but the heavy oppressive atmosphere was gone.
Over One's Head: (p.51) ...white blankness closed over my head.
Racking: (p.69) ...racking my brain, trying to remember.
Self-indulgence: (p.44) I had no time for self-indulgence.


Brim: (p.277) ...filled the glasses to the brim.
Capital: (p.79) Included on the A-list are almost all the capital cities of the Mideast...
Dizzying: (p.486) ...in the box was spinning a dizzying array of red LED letters...
Frenzied: (p.504) ...frenzied about the way she was shooting.
Harebrained: (p.94) ...so stupid, so moronic, so harebrained, so reckless, so—”
Maximum: (p.11) ...which insures minimum sunlight and maximum stress.
Pricey: (p.170) Pretty good, but a little pricey.
Profound: (p.90) ...to have a profound influence on my life...
Queer: (p.145) ...and also a teetotaler, making him an Irish queer...
Radical: (p.63) ...he’d interrogate left-wing radicals...
Titanic: (p.272) ...the ladies on the Titanic stopped at the ship’s apparel shop...
Unreal: (p.110) This was so unreal that Harry himself began to forget...
Valor: (p.442) ...discretion is the better part of valor.”


Baritone: (p.156) “I knew you didn’t call just to hear my seductive baritone.”
Domineering: (p.130) ...that she’s the classic domineering female.
Ferocity: (p.181) Tucker embraced him with something close to ferocity.
Grueling: (p.222) Tucker was in for a grueling night...
Imperative: (p.182) Biological imperative.
Lavish: (p.251) That lavish appreciation of detail seemed odd...
Lewd: (p.190) Ordinarily he’d have made some lewd joke.
Reddened: (p.92) Elliot’s face reddened.
Resonant: (p.251) The deep, resonant heartbeat triplets...
Supreme: (p.122) ...to indicate anything but supreme confidence.


Booming: (p.174) He had a deep, booming laugh.
Ludicrous: (p.175) “What? That’s ludicrous,” Blewe exclaimed.
Superfluous: (p.19) There was not one superfluous ounce of flesh...
World-class: (p.155) She was a world-class competitor.


Cutting-edge: (p.289) ...what they consider to be the cutting-edge trend.
Fanaticism: (p.144) No, perhaps not insanity. Fanaticism.
Garish: (p.94) It is a noisy, garish hive of a city.
Grandiose: (p.168) ...its grandiose sails spread wide.
Imaginative: (p.256) “Not really an imaginative guy.”
Pinnacle: (p.82) ...to be one of the pinnacles of Adrianglian literature.
Raunchy: (p.335) ...it was erotic, explicit, and raunchy.
Stamina: (p.368) George knew Richard had ungodly stamina...
Willful: (p.192) I call it willful ignorance.
Zing: (p.301) An electric zing of excitement dashed through her.


Headstrong: (p.28) Taylor was a little headstrong and he was a little arrogant...


Breakthrough: (p.306) I had one of the biggest breakthroughs of my entire life...
Consummate: (p.68) “Jason pressured me to consummate our marriage,”
Debauchery: (p.113) ...senselessly imbibing in debauchery...
Egregious: (p.224) Willie Jessop’s behavior was the most egregious.
Exceptional: (p.17) She had exceptional skills that local doctors and nurses respected...
Fervor: (p.28) He spoke with great fervor...
Plight: (p.175) ...oblivious to my sister-wives and their plight.
Showy: (p.42) ...think of most music as being worldly and showy.


Atrocious: (p.215) “Your timing is atrocious,” Rook said.
Spunk: (p.75) ...coated with Cicero’s spunk...


Ghastly: (p.90) “How ghastly,” Mother exclaimed.
Unconventional: (p.91) ...unconventional in his thinking about familiars.


Deplorable: (p.55) ...she began lecturing on the deplorable state of archaeology...
Fortitude: (p.69) ...such strength of character, such inner fortitude!
Gaudy: (p.39) ...with the gaudy, stylized W on the side of every car.
Heavy-handed: (p.10) “Mr. Flaherty isn’t some heavy-handed strike-breaker,”
Nonsensical: (p.126) ...its spiky towers and nonsensical angles...
Sonorous: (p.152) ...carried on the sound of Zeiler’s sonorous tone...


Fanciful: (p.32) Forgive my fanciful talk, Dr. Whyborne.
Ostentatious: (p.5) Like everything in Whyborne House, it was absurdly ostentatious...
Zenith: (p.145) But as the sun reached its zenith...


Die Hard: (p.76) He fell asleep halfway through Die Hard...
Exigent: (p.194) “There are exigent circumstances here, sir...
Overkill: (p.95) It would have been considered overkill...
Tenacity: (p.69) ...something about him: a fierceness, a tenacity...


Grievous: (p.158) ...but the intent to do grievous bodily harm had been there...
Hallucinatory: (p.21) The night was taking on a hallucinatory quality.


Importunate: (p.73) The Lady has ways of dealing with importunate suitors...
Pestilential: (p.393) "That pestilential man!"
Vehement: (p.43) Her vehement question broke the spell;


Draconian: (p.42) ...his eternal obligations under the draconian sanctions...
Exorbitant: (p.75) ...a Whirlpool imported from America at exorbitant cost.
Frontier: (p.219) ...when she crosses the frontier near Mons.
Open-air: (p.228) ...one of the open-air restaurants on the quayside...

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Limitless: (p.294) If Ethan hadn’t known the limitless love...


Avant-garde: (p.136) Hanging nearby was an avant-garde dress...
Laborious: (p.73) ...began the laborious process of dragging all her possessions...
Low-pitched: (p.10) He greeted his bride’s family in a low-pitched, pleasant voice.
Tormenting: (p.296) “How could tormenting Meg show your so-called love?”


Ulcerated: (p.349) That would explain why Zabel’s stomach was so ulcerated.
Up to Here: (p.145) Fucking gorgeous. Red hair, legs up to here.


Smarting: (p.29) ...who was still smarting over the loss of her cane.
Whimsical: (p.235) It was delicate and whimsical...


Zealous: (p.502) ...and most zealous in his service of Khali.


Alto: (p.133) ...leaving behind a watery alto.
Wacky: (p.109) There’s no wacky sidekick...


Progressive: (p.34) ...and edicts that had been progressive...
Sky-high: (p.190) ...it was more than enough to blow the facility sky-high.
Voluminous: (p.363) ...he went to pull the voluminous wieght fabric...


Semitropical: (p.173) ...after two hundred years of Savannah’s semitropical weather.


Acme: (p.294) He'd had his oil changed at the Acme Garage...
Overdoing: (p.117) ...complaining to Joel that she was overdoing it.
Single-minded: (p.91) ...that single-minded determination and unrelenting will.


Outré: (p.53) ...without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments...


Oomph: (p.263) I’m so done with your—oomph!’


Clamorous: (p.463) ...the clamorous want, the throbbing confusion.
Knavish: (p.96) ...Derek turned and greeted their old nurse with knavish affection.
Nadir: (p.165) That would be the nadir of decorum and would only give offense.
Profligate: (p.105) ...if I lived like a profligate for the rest of my life...
Pugnacity: (p.23) ...yelling at him in various dialects with renewed pugnacity...


Arrant: (p.85) ...but I would be an arrant fool to think...
Vexatious: (p.199) There is nothing more vexatious than actresses...


Dissipation: (p.444) Their faces already bore the stamp of dissipation...


Dogmatic: (p.239) Hawes's sermons are dull and dogmatic.


Tortuous: (p.135) ...always says you have a damned tortuous mind.


Xavier: (p.271) “James Alejandro Xavier Diaz, if you want the American version.”


Standout: (p.255) “Not much, but one of the standouts was how I must be conflating...


Peerless: (p.2) ...a peerless blue sky arcing over it.


Zest: (p.13) Once upon a time Hart had tasted that eagerness, her zest for life...


Nuts For: (p.479) You don’t think that it might be seriously fucking nuts for you...


Saturnalia: (p.128) “It is Saturnalia, madame,” Pierre said...


Leading edge: (p.9) ...was too close to the leading edge of the slab...


Superabundant: (p.62) ...the surly arrogance of its superabundant staff...


Contralto: (p.55) That sultry contralto of yours.
Matchless: (p.107) ...had been restored to its matchless splendor.


Jungle like: (p.368) ...the natives weaving through the jungle like snakes, watching Lina.


Credulous: (p.230) ...soon learned that they were infinitely credulous.
Purlieu: (p.28) ...so typical of the grey purlieus of any large city...


Swan Song: (p.422) She wanted the ton to remember this night, her swan song...


Moxie: (p.25) He would much rather deal with a little moxie than bawling and begging.


Immoderate: (p.301) Wealth, power, and immoderate self-confidence.
Trenchant: (p.342) Then Carl put his head in the doorway and gave her a trenchant look.
Unsurpassed: (p.77) ...he’d created another new, unsurpassed collection...


Dire Straits: (p.131) Eight years before, she had been left in dire straits...


Spendthrift: (p.101) ...except that he was a spendthrift and a womanizer.


Apogee: (p.387) ...the fetch reached the apogee of its reflexive leap.


Rashness: (p.191) She tried not to consider the rashness of her actions...


Illusive: (p.212) ...almost illusive combination of sandalwood soap...


Pestilent: (p.161) Then, pestilent fever, malaria, and silt clogging its canals...


Keenness: (p.275) He felt the blade for keenness and then sliced across her belly...


Full-toned: (p.294) ...iron nerves scarce rendered deep and full-toned as common.


Intemperance: (p.102) See, friend Ned, see the monstrous effects of intemperance!


Prodigality: (p.146) ...even at such a moment, scandalised him by its prodigality.


Chastening: (p.176) The recitation of his many plagues might be sufficiently chastening.


Bravura: (p.86) Her bravura disappeared. “Are you okay with it?”


Climacteric: (p.194) ...this is a critical time for him, a lesser climacteric...


Pleonastic: (p.110) There, in pleonastic detail, was a greatest hits version...


Recherché: (p.241) “All that real recherché shit,” puts in Sandwichgrrl.
Vertex: (p.255) Repeated messages from her Vertex, or does she mean Vortex...


Ferociousness: (p.148) ...haunted my hearing with a ferociousness I’d not thought...


Unrestraint: (p.60) Haveland – and with a trace of unrestraint – thrust it aside.


Monomaniacal: (p.358) But you know how he gets this monomaniacal focus...


Exorbitance: (p.161) ...their own governor, and other the like exorbitances.
Unmeasurable: (p.51) And so unmeasurable is the ambition of princes...


Mondo: (p.244) ...how to explain it to the brothers, because it is mondo weird.


Rampageous: (p.33) ...the rampageous British female at her clumsiest...


Contumacious: (p.11) ...contumacious Alaskans with a special fondness for driving...


Maximal: (p.102) Maximal sterilization procedures: total immersion in four baths...


Lion-hearted: (p.429) The lion-hearted Guillermo Sanchez...


Unexcelled: (p.116) ...one whose greatness is unexcelled in every possible world.


Clamant: (p.170) They were a symbol of the clamant fact...


Dauntlessness: (p.62) Struck by his desperate dauntlessness...
Plethoric: (p.462) Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming misanthrope...


Xtreme: (p.273) The words “Xtreme $$$ing” appeared at the top of the screen...


Suppositious: (p.177) Look, Dr. Lanning, let me present you with a suppositious case.

Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - Yellow Submarine

2 February 2018 - ?


Band: (p.54) ...and a military band in red coats performed in the garden.
Below: (p.31) ...directly into the wall below a porthole.
Beneath: (p.5) ...and its boughs hung low beneath the weight of ornaments...
Blue: (p.78) The western wall of the canyon cast a blue shadow...
Brisk: (p.36) ... she snapped her fingers and issued orders in brisk Arabic.
Buried: (p.41) ...and buried himself in it.
Cheerful: (p.7) ...the atmosphere was a bit more cheerful...
Club: (p.103) If I took you to one of the decadent clubs in Chicago...
Dashing: (p.190) ...dashing the arrow from the air a foot from her head.
Distant: (p.22) ...to demand my presence in so distant a place.
Dynamite: (p.125) “We could dynamite the wall.
Fanciful: (p.32) Forgive my fanciful talk, Dr. Whyborne.
Floating: (p.31) ...as if our brief consignment to a floating prison made us intimates.
Folk: (p.70) ...in order to learn more about the ordinary folk...
Hearts: (p.100) ...a string of broken female hearts everywhere he goes.
Immersed: (p.123) ...being too immersed in the thrill of discovery.
Lonely: (p.32) ...to go mad in the lonely dark of the labyrinth?
Melodramatic: (p.106) “Good gad, you’re so melodramatic,” Christine exclaimed.
Monsters: (p.21) ...especially if I kept running into monsters...
Nonsense: (p.42) The tales are superstitious nonsense.
Nothing: (p.13) “Nothing seems to be broken,”
Ocean: (p.21) ...I have to go jaunting off across the ocean...
Pier: (p.35) Scores of men and boys crowded the pier...
Profound: (p.119) ...which even I knew was a profound breach of Egyptian etiquette.
Quick: (p.28) A quick pat of his vest pockets yielded a watch but nothing else.
Radical: (p.37) ...her working outfit proved even more radical than I’d supposed.
Revolver: (p.61) ...he’d concealed his revolver inside the dresser.
Science: (p.41) ...the importance of applying proper science...
Swell: (p.34) ...and phosphorescence edged the long swells.
Time: (p.6) ...I couldn’t recall the last time she’d set foot across the threshold.
Underground: (p.48) ...took place in a catacomb of sorts, deep underground.
Waves: (p.27) ...and a strange rushing sound, like waves...
Yellow: (p.173) “And its eye...burning yellow, with a misshapen pupil.


Boogie: (p.133) The Jungle Boogie car had recently been sold...
Dude: (p.80) “Gross, dude, there’s thongs in here,”
Far Out: (p.30) “How far out are you?”
Flashy: (p.23) “They’re flashy.”
Freaky: (p.160) ...with the freaky cold snap...
Funky: (p.150) “You should drink some water, your voice sounds funky.”
George: (p.110) I’m headed to George’s diner two blocks away...
Holes: (p.120) “It’s like a condom, Min, holes happen,”
John: (p.13) ...my now scuffed-up John Varvatos cap-toe boots.
Musical: (p.239) We played musical chairs with the seating...
Number One: (p.78) ...that his job is his number one priority...
Optimistic: (p.95) I hoped he would, but I wasn’t optimistic.
Pepper: (p.239) ...where they had actual glass salt and pepper shakers.


Animated: (p.136) Verity Lane was small and blonde and animated.
Ardent: (p.97) ...but the ardent gratitude was right below the surface...
Chipper: (p.106) “Jesus, you’re chipper in the morning,”
Dork: (p.17) Nick Reno was staring at him like he was a dork.
Fantasy: (p.89) ...that foolish little fantasy of cozy domesticity...
Fervent: (p.132) ...Oswald Hennesey was a fervent abolitionist.
Hallucinatory: (p.21) The night was taking on a hallucinatory quality.
Marine: (p.8) His eyes were blue, marine blue...
Merry: (p.215) “Merry Christmas,” he said...
Motley: (p.94) ...that motley collection of pajamas...
Nimble: (p.195) ...Miss Dembecki was nimble enough to escape unscathed.
Submerged: (p.208) Nick submerged into the water.
Watery: (p.29) ...surprised himself with a watery chuckle.


Bustling: (p.334) Bustling to the bed, she tucked Richard in.
Consciousness: (p.83) ...she regained full consciousness.
Deep-seated: (p.163) ...Algaria possessed a deep-seated distrust of dominant men...
Foothills: (p.29) ...which is a valley in the foothills of Merrick.
Keen: (p.67) Muting a scream of keen frustration...
Nonchalant: (p.182) She watched as, with nonchalant grace, Richard rose;
Political: (p.8) ...sent to McEnery House to douse Seamus's political fire...
Provocative: (p.25) ...deliberately arrogant, deliberately provocative.
Vibrant: (p.26) ...framing eyes of vibrant green...
Vivid: (p.112) ...the more vivid it became, refusing to fade...


Coastal: (p.302) ...army patrols deploying along the coastal road...
Elated: (p.332) ...what seemed inevitable and he had been elated.
Enlivened: (p.221) ...had become enlivened by the pauses and gestures...
Gaudy: (p.193) ...a couple of punters checking out the gaudy come-ons...
Kaleidoscope: (p.89) ...a kaleidoscope of strident sounds and haunting images.
Liverpool: (p.254) ...take a second ferry from Belfast to Liverpool.
Nautical: (p.73) Fifteen nautical miles due south of Miami...
Plethora: (p.110) Faced with a plethora of competing claims...
Sergeant: (p.110) ...only to have the sergeant bark at her...
Soundtrack: (p.15) The soundtrack picks up the noise of a door opening...
Subterranean: (p.38) Within its gloomy subterranean chambers...
Vietnam: (p.354) ‘… in Vietnam.’


Fireball: (p.179) ...a 600-foot-wide fireball incinerated everything around...
Flippant: (p.239) ...he sounded something other than flippant and arrogant...
Perky: (p.78) ...perky nipples, and round lips that begged for desecration.
Rooted: (p.19) His feet were rooted to the floor...
Underwater: (p.122) ...but they sounded far away, as if underwater.


Bottomless: (p.278) ...again underestimated his bottomless ego.
Carefree: (p.222) ...she somehow managed a carefree shrug.
Dynamic: (p.151) Dynamic load balancing.
Haight-Ashbury: (p.287) ...hip-hugging shorts and a retro Haight-Ashbury T-shirt.
Multicolored: (p.272) ...above it hung a multicolored sombrero.
Whiz: (p.37) ...he was already a hugely successful financial whiz.


Hippie: (p.129) ...aging hippie who would use the word “pigs.”
Insulated: (p.316) In civilian units, fifteen feet of insulated...
Sensational: (p.98) ...Sara had watched too many sensational cases on the news...


Catchy: (p.7) Always spouting catchy sayings.
Mind-bending: (p.58) ...Palmer looked as if she didn’t mind bending a rule or two.


Seashore: (p.294) ...took off to Bimini to sell seashells by the seashore.
Spry: (p.274) But you’d have to be pretty spry...


Paul: (p.188) ...a post-bar drunken search for Paul Revere’s grave.


Jaunty: (p.82) ...he said, giving her a jaunty half smile.
Sea: (p.19) ...with the same excitement she might show a sea urchin...
Sprightly: (p.241) ...pasting a sprightly smile on her face.
Whimsical: (p.235) It was delicate and whimsical...


Zealous: (p.502) ...and most zealous in his service of Khali.


Jolly: (p.124) “Mrs. Matthew!” the surgeon said, all jolly humor.
Replete: (p.2) ...and waved one arm replete with silk fins.


Woodstock: (p.186) ...Janet was more subdued Woodstock fertility goddess...


Electrifying: (p.105) His pale turquoise eyes were hot and electrifying.
Surf: (p.332) ...sitting on his beach, watching the surf roll in.


Experimental: (p.129) ...Kelly concluded with another experimental squeeze.
Seaside: (p.30) ...the picturesque seaside near the larger ferry landing.


Brine: (p.389) ...dancing in their little pool of sweet brine...
Chromatic: (p.171) ...squat bowls of chromatics for her lips and her eyes...
Spirited: (p.467) ...he had spirited to the maple...


Submarine: (p.90) ...a half feet of loaded submarine sandwiches.


Bummer: (p.123) I’m sober now, which is a bummer.
Hectic: (p.346) Now that the hockey season is underway, life is hectic as fuck.


Maritime: (p.177) A frigid wind cutting down from the Maritimes...


Energetic: (p.14) ...Scottie wasn’t as energetic as usual,...
High-spirited: (p.55) ...unending day had forever sealed away that high-spirited kid...


Light-hearted: (p.138) ...as well as peculiarly light-hearted.


Inmost: (p.16) ...to fathom a man's inmost thoughts.


Ringo: (p.199) ‘‘The Dobermans? George and Ringo?’’


Vivacious: (p.193) Max smiled at her bright, vivacious tone.


Chirpy: (p.411) ...and carrying on a chirpy monologue...


Seafaring: (p.45) ...as well as seafaring memorabilia and lanterns and fishing gear.


Buoyant: (p.243) ...her mood buoyant as they raced toward the cottage.


Amphibian: (p.45) ...that idea than she'd been by the idea of him gigging amphibians.
Psychedelic: (p.3) ...lit up the sky in a psychedelic, pink, yellow, orange, and purple...


Briny: (p.121) She smelled the sea, cool and briny...
Standout: (p.255) “Not much, but one of the standouts was how I must be conflating...
Wowzer: (p.23) Not just the size—though wowzer—but the style...


Doozy: (p.103) I’m sure you’ve got a doozy of a theory, so lay it on me.
Gnarly: (p.45) ...the gnarly old tree looked like an upended alligator...


Out of this World: (p.186) ...but wow, she’s out of this world looking.”


Eye-opening: (p.466) Prague has been an eye-opening experience for all concerned...


Littoral: (p.44) ...from the docks to the breach in the littoral sandbar at Porto di Lido...


Psychotropic: (p.49) ...as are mushroom and other psychotropic substances.


Bodacious: (p.75) ...he called out, loud enough to be heard, “who’s the bodacious babe?”


Jazzy: (p.163) ...a bright, jazzy blonde with a sharp, triangular face...
Undersea: (p.168) A dim, undersea light filtered through the slits of the cellar windows.


Variegated: (p.152) ...she wiped dust off the dampened variegated spikes.


Ebullient: (p.64) He was disinclined to allow anything to dim his ebullient mood.


Mirthful: (p.184) ...Rider said in a singsong way that was not mirthful in any way.


Groovy: (p.290) His bed would stand right where your groovy bass speaker is right now.


Navigational: (p.428) No confidence in your aircraft commander’s navigational abilities?
Oceanic: (p.257) He’s meeting with the director of the National Oceanic...
Seagoing: (p.216) ...had left the submarine almost unrecognizable as a seagoing vessel.


Sixty-six: (p.31) The road was lined with three hundred sixty-six beech trees...

Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - Yellow Submarine Part 2


Beatles: (p.13) She was oohing over his Beatles collection...


Animate: (p.287) It didn’t keep track of animate objects...


Peppy: (p.95) The music gave way to a bright, peppy voice announcing...


Zippy: (p.19) Her old Volkswagen handled zippy hills better than heavy traffic.


Pelagic: (p.232) ...like a great pelagic fish carried upon the circular currents...


Zingy: (p.211) ...and gave off a citrus scent which was fresh and zingy...


Hydrogen bomb: (p.111) ...debris of the first hydrogen bomb test in the Eniwetok atoll...


Abbey Road: ...was shaped by the lyrics to Abbey Road...
Eye-popping: (p.121) ...she was wearing an eye-popping summer dress...


Frolicsome: (p.105) A frolicsome tune flushed from beneath his fingers.


Abyssal: (p.382) ...behind the throne and into the abyssal depths below.


Subaqueous: (p.336) ...what might be called her subaqueous gun-room...


Davy Jones's Locker: (p.140) It’s an old tradition, burial at sea. Davy Jones’s Locker.


Neptunian: (p.23) ...over six hundred additional Trans-Neptunian Objects...


Natatory: (p.205) ...“admirers of the natatory arts may obtain...


Dingbat: (p.35) ...and then some dingbat craps all over it.


Hydrographic: (p.552) ...a hydrographic survey of known underground water systems.


Jocund: (p.119) ...unpleasantness had vanished, and she was now surprisingly jocund.


Vitalized: He felt more than rested; he felt vitalized.


Subaquatic: (p.371) ...and a subaquatic fire burned everything away.


Rememberable: (p.60) Twins are too noticeable and rememberable.

Choose Your Own Adventure
Scavenger Hunt Freestyle - Answer the Question


Address: (p.2) ...discovered the address was even better than she’d hoped for;
Bewilderment: (p.115) ...she said, to his further bewilderment.
Blast: (p.98) The vision disappeared with a blast of wind.
Carrying On: (p.138) ...carrying on except, of course, our victim...
Contradict: (p.253) “Miss McFarland’s statement directly contradicts yours...
Deliberate: (p.16) The dog looked up at her, as if to deliberate.
Demand: (p.80) If she did, she’d demand the rent check back.
Dispute: (p.155) ...the nature of the dispute between you and Mr. Skinner.
Doubt: (p.43) That’ll put a spring in his step, no doubt about it.
Dubiety: (p.175) “Guess?” Bree let her dubiety show.
Duty: (p.71) A lawyer has an absolute duty to defend her client...
Function: (p.58) The global search function alone saved hours.
Go For It: (p.236) ...that stuck-up bitch Jennifer wouldn’t go for it.
Grill: (p.177) A stainless steel outdoor grill held pride of place in the center...
Inquest: (p.258) They’ll hold an inquest this time, for sure.
Inquiry: (p.75) ...the resources to do a private inquiry into Skinner’s death.
Interrogation: (p.142) Bree ran her mind over the transcript of the police interrogation.
Investigation: (p.90) ...investigation into the death of Benjamin Skinner.”
Knot: (p.43) ...hair piled into a knot on the top of her head.
Loose End: (p.282) ...anything else that doesn’t leave some loose ends.
Moot: (p.37) ...dived over the desk at that guy in moot court?
Perplexity: (p.168) ...genuine perplexity temporarily overcame her annoyance.
Question: (p.6) “You got to ask that kind of question, I don’t need to tell you.
Rebus: (p.7) My nephew, Rebus, made me get caller ID years ago.
Secrecy: (p.263) “Why the secrecy?” Bree demanded suddenly.
Skepticism: (p.122) She raised both hands to forestall the storm of skepticism.
Urge: (p.89) ...heart was rapidly turning into a large urge toward violence.
Want to Know: (p.160) “And when they want to know why you’re here...
Wonder About: (p.230) But she did wonder about the lie.


Be Curious: (p.119) ...he would at least be curious enough to start searching...
Burrow: (p.103) ...the rabbit offering the hospitality of its burrow to the wolf.
Examination: (p.69) ...she made a more leisurely examination of the square...
Flap: (p.196) Faith pushed the little flap open, and angled her head to look inside.
Hot Water: (p.292) He turned on the hot water in the sink...
Lookout: (p.11) ...already on the lookout for any hard cock she could get.
Object To: (p.82) ...why should she suddenly object to it?
Predicament: (p.118) "All the other stores in town are in the same predicament,"
Proposition: (p.181) I went to her house the other night to put a proposition...
Puzzle: (p.122) ...but the answer to the puzzle was there...
Recourse: (p.240) ...so that her only recourse was silence.
Rhetorical Question: (p.14) It was a rhetorical question,...
Scramble For: (p.36) ...could only scramble for balance as Gray shoved him...
Squawk: (p.35) ...he gave a squawk of protest.
Stand Up For: (p.100) ...she had grown up and learned how to stand up for herself.
Talk Over: (p.44) A personal matter he wanted to talk over with me.
Tangle: (p.137) He felt her legs tangle with his...
Wariness: (p.152) ...wariness at battle with a dizzying spurt of elation.


Be Wary Of: (p.279) No need to be wary of him.
Bellyache: (p.190) The only thing that may be wrong with him is a bellyache.
Jump On: (p.264) I'm not going to jump on you.
Nag: (p.123) Then I'll tell Tania she doesn't have to come in and nag you.
Negotiate: (p.93) Do you want me to try to negotiate...
Refer: (p.66) Next time have your secretary refer him...
Rummage: (p.233) ...Society is having a rummage sale this Saturday.
Stake Out: (p.89) "I don't stake out goats to attract the tiger."
Uncertainty: (p.262) ...she'd passed through that valley of uncertainty.


Debate: (p.28) The debate over his meals defused a lot of Jason’s frustration.
Outcry: (p.82) ...gritted his jaw against any outcry.
Overture: (p.82) ...but he couldn’t rebuff Sam’s overture.
Proposal: (p.39) ...Jason would ultimately jump on his proposal.
Question Mark: (p.78) There are a lot of question marks.


Call Upon: (p.13) ...I had no friends who would call upon me...
Confound: (p.53) It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
Entreaty: (p.61) ...entreaty to that dread being with whom they were face to face...
Have a Look: (p.21) However, we may as well go and have a look.
Hornet's Nest: (p.80) ...I put my head into such a hornet's nest.
Misgiving: (p.72) The very friend to whom you communicated your misgivings...
Oppose: (p.74) ...dreadful stories about those who oppose the Prophet...
Smell A Rat: (p.44) I began to smell a rat.
Solicit: (p.76) ...the advice of our fathers to solicit the hand...


Assignment: (p.96) "Even when I’m on assignment, I’ll take photos that interest me.
Indecision: (p.79) Indecision drifted across his face like a cloud, raising her hopes.
Mediate: (p.263) ...attempted to mediate a marital fight...
Supplication: (p.121) ...she breathed in relief, in supplication...
Wiretap: (p.197) ...wiretaps and covert surveillance and gadgets that do neat stuff.


Commune: (p.136) The year I was ten, we ended up on a commune run by Zane.
Qualm: (p.1) ...there would be at least a few qualms.
Stickler: (p.6) He tended to be a stickler for the rules.


Zap: (p.159) ...pleasure zaps down my spine.


Compare Notes: (p.73) ...and we could compare notes.”
Enigma: (p.166) ...and the woman remained an enigma.
Fishing Expedition: (p.191) ...the earlier accusations had just been a fishing expedition?
Goings-on: (p.111) “Are there any more recent ghostly goings-on?”
Hassle: (p.28) Later was going to be a huge hassle for everyone.
Huddle: (p.74) “Maybe we should huddle together to conserve body warmth.”
Labyrinth: (p.103) And as with ancient Celtic labyrinths...
Resort To: (p.142) ...too self-possessed to ever have to resort to violence...
Solicitation: (p.149) “Or maybe she takes the No Solicitation thing very seriously.”
Whodunit: (p.157) ...is secretly hosting a make-believe whodunit?”
Yearn: (p.154) ...to yearn for someone’s touch with an almost physical ache.
Zing: (p.118) “Zing,” I breathed, and John huffed a sound of amusement.


Clamor For: (p.205) If we’re to give ’em the victories they clamor for...
Mistrust: (p.82) The maharajah’s rugged face darkened with mistrust.
Petition: (p.186) ...petitions, judgments, endowments, deeds, and various schedules.
Plea: (p.266) His silken plea set her on fire.
Query: (p.225) ...was engaged in answering queries about their cargo.
Think Twice About: (p.12) ...any spy would think twice about coming too close.


Beeswax: (p.218) ...and the best way to make beeswax polish.
Cross Swords: (p.34) ...it didn’t pay to cross swords with St Ormond!
Discredit: (p.81) ...all the things she knew to his discredit.
Gainsay: (p.169) ...he was in no position to gainsay everyone’s assumption...
Submission: (p.25) ...she was to be manipulated and bullied into submission...


Conundrum: (p.242) A reminder of the conundrum he’d mentioned earlier.
Quiz: (p.208) ‘Time for a pop quiz. Now, what’s the most important ground rule?’


Application: (p.92) After an hour of steady application...
Crux: (p.132) Holding his gaze, Pris found herself facing the crux of her problem.
Gnaw: (p.308) ...staring straight ahead, start to gnaw a fingernail.
Goad: (p.33) ...he intended to goad her to it...


Shoot For: (p.169) "Maybe you could shoot for a middle ground," he suggested.


Cross-question: (p.239) "You won't let the police cross-question me, will you?"
Disprove: (p.197) "Facts disprove your theory," I said.
Riddle: (p.130) ...to read the answer to a riddle that perplexes him...
Sphinx: (p.27) There was something Sphinx like about her face...


Debrief: (p.125) Jamie ignored his vitals in favor of the Director. “Debrief, sir?”
Put Through the Wringer: (p.294) ...they’d been put through the wringer...
Ransack: (p.277) ...managed to ransack a weapons unit at some point.
Wrangle: (p.72) “It’s not very often we can wrangle soldiers of your caliber...
Wringer: (p.294) Both looked as if they’d been put through the wringer...


Adjuration: (p.141) ...Poirot hardly looked like responding to this British adjuration.


Fish For: (p.169) ...he wasn’t a big enough fish for anyone to go to that much trouble...
Legwork: (p.319) A lot of legwork remained...
Moratorium: (p.3) ...and the postbirth moratorium on sex was driving him crazy.
Quandary: (p.197) If he didn’t kill Lola at that point, he was in a quandary.


Dig Into: (p.124) “I don’t dig into people’s secrets.”


Talk Back: (p.122) “Don’t talk back. Now, come on, outside.”


Requisition: (p.407) ...he was going to requisition one.”


Brainstorm: (p.276) ...I could help plot the best route and brainstorm a plan for later.”
Sixty-four Thousand Dollar Question: (p.41) The sixty-four-thousand dollar question.


Bandy: (p.356) ...I don’t have any more time to bandy words with you...
Implore: (p.118) I implore you to stop further investigations.


Turn Inside Out: (p.155) ...the umbrella that threatened to turn inside out in the wind...


Read Differently: (p.199) ...waves would read differently than his on a CAT scan.


Powwow: (p.218) “We’ll powwow one more time...


Delve: (p.157) We must delve deeper for the truth,” Champier said.
Put the Screws To: (p.327) ...they’d put the screws to him the next time...
Scrutinize: (p.395) This remark only made Rudolf scrutinize me with greater interest.


Catechism: (p.104) Compared to most of the stuff from my catechism class...


Closed Book: (p.191) Simon wasn’t just a closed book;
Unreliability: (p.211) She could only imagine how the unreliability would impact him.


Frisk: (p.172) You’re not going to frisk me.


Gordian Knot: (p.62) ...it had cut through the Gordian knot of the postal service...
Hanky-panky: (p.78) ...I knew there was no question of any hanky-panky.
Take Account Of: (p.261) ...distance between them to take account of the situation...


Cliffhanger: (p.145) Less than three minutes to play in what was suddenly a cliffhanger.
Perjury: (p.366) “Do you know what perjury is?”


Q and A: (p.140) ...walked fifty feet away and began the Q-and-A process.


Nettle: (p.255) ...and stuck to our mother like a nettle...
Parable: (p.100) In the old parable, the lion never forgot the kind deed...