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Shadows All Around Her [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
eBook by Catherine Mulvany
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eBook Category: Romance
eBook Description:  One Mysterious Disappearance. One Mystical Clue. When Caitlin O'Shaughnessy's stepfather--world-renowned Medieval English professor Magnus Armstrong--is abducted in Scotland, she jets across the Atlantic to help find him. Her only clue: a teardrop-shaped charm on a broken chain left behind in the struggle. The authorities in Edinburgh are useless but Caitlin soon finds a partner in her desperate search--sexy playboy Dominic Fortune, who's funding genetics research at the university. Traveling to the Mediterranean island of Calix, where the charm originated, they share a journey full of danger, passion, and magical surprises. But Dominic carries with him more than a few secrets--about his identity, about the dynasty that has ruled Calix for more than 2,000 years, and about the charm's link to the quest for eternal life. Racing against time and surrounded by people she's not sure she can trust, Caitlin must use all her wits and an ancient magic to save her stepfather and herself and to uncover the many mysteries of the man by her side.
eBook Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc./Pocket Books
Fictionwise Release Date: September 2005
Available eBook Formats [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader - What's this?]: SECURE MOBIPOCKET FORMAT [455 KB], SECURE MICROSOFT READER FORMAT [337 KB] - Requires Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for PCs, or Microsoft Reader 2.2.2 on Pocket PC 2002 handheld devices. Some older Pocket PCs can be upgraded. Learn More., SECURE EREADER (RECOMMENDED) FORMAT [217 KB]
All formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
Microsoft Reader ISBN, eReader (recommended) ISBN: 9781416510451
MobiPocket Reader ISBN: 1416510451
 
1 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CAITLIN O'SHAUGHNESSY surveyed the semi-comatose freshmen who'd shown up for her nine o'clock calculus lecture, and seriously considered setting off the sprinklers. She loved mathematics; she loved teaching mathematics, even bonehead calculus. She'd prepared a kick-ass lecture on the mean value theorem, including a real-life economic interpretation designed to engage the business majors currently dozing in the back row. Spring had sprung, and hormones were running amok, which made for late nights and groggy mornings. She glanced down at her new pointy-toed, stiletto-heeled Ferragamos, the same lovely shade of butter yellow as her skinny, narrow-ribbed sweater. A cold shower might wake up her students, but it would almost certainly ruin her shoes. So forget the sprinklers. She'd go with Plan B. "Take out a piece of paper," she said, "and number from one to three." A collective groan went up at the promise of a pop quiz. "This totally sucks" seemed to be the consensus. Caitlin wanted to laugh at her students' outraged expressions, but she kept her facial muscles under rigid control. At least the whining proved that, contrary to appearances, the majority of them were still alive. "We're going to play a word association game. When I say a word, you write down the first thing that comes into your head." She paused. "Any questions?" The students exchanged bewildered looks as if wondering if they'd somehow been zapped out of Math 20 into Psych 101. "No questions. Excellent. First word, closed." She gave them a second or two to scribble their answers. "Second word, open." Again she waited for the pencils to stop moving. "Third word, mean." "Noun or verb?" a lanky blond kid asked. "Don't think. Just respond," she told him. He wrote something on his paper. Caitlin stifled the impulse to grin. "Okay. Responses? Closed circuits? Closed doors? Closed minds? Closed what?" "Closed windows?" a girl in the front row suggested. "What else?" "Closed bars!" yelled some bleary-eyed joker in the back row. Several people laughed. "Think math, people. Closed what?" "Closed interval?" the blond boy said. "Bingo! Okay, second word. Open." "Open sesame." "Open door." "Open-minded." "Open-and-shut." "Open up and say 'ah.' " Copyright © 2005 by Catherine Mulvany
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