frank zane

Everything about thirty-five-year-old Stone Acres hardware store owner Frank McCord is old-fashioned -- from his bow tie and overalls to the way he happily makes house calls. He dreams of lasting romance, true love, and marriage.<br><br>Frank’s ancestors have run the store and been mainstays in the small California town for over a century. While genial Frank upholds tradition and earns the respect of friends and neighbors, he fears he’s too dull and old to attract a husband. Maybe it’s time to break out of his mold.<br><br>Then handsome thirty-six-year-old electronic games designer Christopher Darling and his fifteen-year-old son, Henry, come into his life. Christopher has everything Frank could want in a potential partner: charm, kindness, and compatibility. Also, he’s a terrific father to Henry.<br><br>When their Stone Acres home turns out to be uninhabitable, Frank offers the Darlings temporary lodging in his ancestral farmhouse, where he and his tenant Emil reside. Since Emil thinks Frank is his, sparks fly.<br><br>Suddenly, Frank’s monotonous life promises to explode with love and change him forever.

If you had a secret, who would you tell? For Eugene, his secret had only been revealed to one other person. He's lived his life around this secret, doing everything he can to keep it guarded. However, things that are locked away in a closet, eventually, find a way of getting out. With the cat out of the bag, Eugene will have to make choices that might change him forever, and he must choose a side to be on. Will his friends come to his aid, or will he commit to his dark secret?

Di dunia di mana sihir adalah kekuatan tertinggi dan penyihir dipuja layaknya dewa, sebuah revolusi terjadi. Raja kerdil Borin menciptakan Magical Item, benda-benda yang memampukan siapa pun mengeluarkan sihir instan hanya dengan mana. Penemuan ini memicu era perang besar selama lima abad, mengubah tatanan dunia dan melahirkan legenda Gear Master, sang pencipta Magical Item terkuat. Lima ratus tahun kemudian, dunia berangsur damai, namun intrik kekuasaan tetap bergejolak. Zane Orion, seorang bangsawan muda berbakat yang bercita-cita menjadi creator item dan petarung ulung, harus menghadapi takdir kejam. Dalam sebuah duel memperebutkan cinta dan kehormatan, ia dikalahkan oleh rivalnya, Mark Azu, dan kehilangan tangan kirinya. Terpuruk dalam keputusasaan, Zane mengurung diri, merasa masa depannya hancur. Namun, di tengah kegelapan, seberkas cahaya muncul: sebuah buku usang berjudul "Living with Electricity" dari dunia tanpa sihir. Penemuan aneh ini membangkitkan rasa penasaran Zane. Ia mulai menyelami konsep listrik, menghubungkannya dengan sihir petir, dan perlahan menyadari bahwa ada jalan baru untuk kekuatan. Dengan tekad membara, ia mulai bereksperimen, menggabungkan sains dan sihir, dan berhasil menciptakan Volt Hand—tangan bionik yang memancarkan listrik—serta Z-Pen, pena revolusioner yang menjanjikan harapan finansial bagi keluarganya. Di saat Zane bangkit, keluarganya, Orion, justru terancam. Tekanan ekonomi dari keluarga Azu dan Snow, yang kini bersekutu, mencekik pasokan vital. James, adik Zane yang cerdas, berjuang keras menstabilkan keuangan Orion, sementara kecurigaan tentang pengkhianatan di balik kekalahan Zane semakin menguat. Zane pun mulai menyadari bahwa duelnya mungkin hanyalah bagian dari intrik yang lebih besar, sebuah jebakan yang dirancang oleh orang-orang terdekatnya. Akankah Zane mampu menguasai kekuatan baru dari perpaduan sains dan sihir ini? Bisakah ia mengungkap konspirasi yang mengancam keluarganya? Dan apakah ia akan menjadi "Gear Master" yang baru, bukan dengan sihir murni, melainkan dengan kecerdasan dan inovasi yang melampaui batas dunia? Ikuti perjalanan Zane Orion dalam Gear Master, sebuah kisah epik tentang kehancuran, penemuan, pengkhianatan, dan kebangkitan yang akan mengubah takdir.

A novel that tells about the life of LGBT and BXB. If you feel disturbed by this story, don't stop by because the risk is in your hands who choose completely. This story is very mature, and contains fullgar words.

Frank Gibson, reconocido en el mundo del misterio como: "El detective perfecto". Con una efectividad del cien porciento en cada uno de sus casos, es contactado un día cualquiera por un número desconocido perteneciente a una voz añeja y cansada. Desde ese momento, un nombre curioso llegó a su mente para jamas irse... "Heisenbourg". Después de distintas llamadas que le mencionarian el mismo nombre, logra encontrar el tan susodicho lugar... Pero... ¿Será este, su caso fallido?

Your name is Y/N. In elementary school, you were always in your big sister Aphmau's shadow. It pained you that some people only wanted to be your friend because they knew your sister. What happens when Y/N finds someone in the same situation? And what happens when he doesn't want to open his heart? Can Y/N teach him how ro love or will his feelings be locked away forever? I don't own most of the plot I might make up chapters every once in a while though. Everyone except Y/N Isabella and other OC's I might make along the way belong to Jessica Bravura.

"Zane?" Lena hasn't spoken in seventy-six days. Everyone has an explanation for it. Trauma. Grief. Shock. None of them know who she's talking to. Because every night, Lena asks the same question. "Zane, can you hear me?” There is no answer. There shouldn't be. Zane is gone. So why does she keep listening for him? And why does the only recording she has of his voice end in the middle of a sentence? “Lena, if anything ever happens to me, I need you to—” Static. Nothing after it. Maybe the answer is buried somewhere in the seventy-six days she can't bring herself to speak about. Maybe it's buried in the memories that keep coming back. Or maybe the one thing Lena is desperate to remember is the one thing she got wrong. "Zane, can you hear me?" *** "Zane, Can You Hear Me?" is a psychological literary novel about love, grief, memory, and survival. It follows two souls who were completely oblivious about the plan fate had for them, how they would alter each other's lives forever, unknowingly so. At its core, it is a study of human resilience: the ways we carry the dead, protect the living sometimes too adamently, and continue searching for someone who may never answer. "Can you hear me?" But will she be able to find the answers as fast as the questions that keep emerging, keep chasing her, one after another?

I've been by Zane Thorne's side for 3 whole years. Everyone says I'm Zane Thorne's lapdog; if he tells me to go east, I never go west. Even when he parades his new girlfriend around town, I always swallow my pride and stay silent. But no one knows. The one I love isn't him. I'm just waiting for the other personality inside him to awaken.

Fu Xiaoxiao transmigrates into a book and immediately faces the crisis of being sent to the countryside. As the unloved middle child, her younger sister is the one meant to go — but her mother transfers her job to the sister instead. A disaster of a start. To avoid being sent away, she has to marry within seven days. She meets a few ordinary men and decides she'd rather go to the countryside. Then she runs into a neighbor who's also looking for a spouse — and his conditions are surprisingly good. A dowry of three hundred? Bicycles and a radio? Just take care of the kids, and separate rooms are fine? The others may pass, but she won't. Every day is a battle of wits with the two kids. Life is eventful, she gets a salary every month, and the boss is never home. Absolutely perfect. Except... wasn't this big shot supposed to be infertile? Then why does he keep strutting around naked in front of her? She has professional ethics. She won't be seduced by a good body. Hmph. Men only slow down her sword swing. Lu Feng grits his teeth at Fu Xiaoxiao, who remains completely unmoved by his countless attempts to seduce her, and traps her in his arms. "Boss, let's talk this through. I know forty a month is a bit much — how about... five less?" Trapped in his embrace, Fu Xiaoxiao thinks he's unhappy with her high salary and starts bargaining. "I'm giving myself to you for free." Lu Feng grinds out through clenched teeth. This woman has no heart. "...Can I say no?" Fu Xiaoxiao swallows, staring at the washboard abs so close. "Such a good deal — are you sure you don't want it?" Lu Feng squints, tempting her. "Fine." A fool turns down a bargain.

Before marrying Silas, Joyce had only met him three times. A marriage of convenience, a secret agreement, for a term of three years. She's fresh off a heartbreak — the man she chased for years told her they "weren't a good match." Silas has his own baggage: rumor says he's still hung up on a white moonlight who happens to look just like Joyce. So that's all she is. A substitute. ** In the second year of their marriage, on Joyce's birthday, she drank too much and, in front of everyone, tugged on his tie, pinning him underneath her: "You look... a lot like my husband." The Thorne family's second master, known for being rational and unfeeling, was flustered by her that night. He leaned in close to her ear and coaxed in a low voice, "Be good." The next day Joyce woke up to find her lips were swollen. This… Who did this! When she went to question him, she discovered Silas's lip was bitten. He stared at her and said slowly, "You crossed the line first." ** The scandal leaked. At a party, her ex-boyfriend stepped in: "She's mine. Who dares talk?" Then Silas walked in. The room went silent. "Yours? Since when?" "Joyce, tell me. Whose are you?" So much for the secret marriage. So much for being a substitute. This was supposed to be fake… wasn't it?