FICTION · DRAGONS
Bianca D'Arc
Also known as: Bianca D'arc, Bianca D' Arc
A good friend told me I was doing myself a disservice with my official bio, so I thought I'd take a moment to go a little further here, on my site, amongst friends. While I'm very proud of what I've accomplished in my life and prior career, for the most part, it's not what I'm about now, as a romance writer. Yet, because of my interest in science fiction, fantasy and the paranormal, I find myself bringing a lot of science into my writing. Of course, the fact that I ran a laboratory for a half-dozen years while I was in grad school probably has a lot to do with that. I've been a lab geek, climbed to the top of the corporate ladder in the shark-infested streets of lower Manhattan, and earned the right to put a whole bunch of letters after my name, but I've always enjoyed writing more. Even when I was concentrating on my previous career, I was always writing for my own enjoyment. Escaping to my own fantasy world at the end of a rotten day in the office was one of my favorite pastimes and a cheap form of "therapy." Creating new worlds and sharing them with the amazing folks who take the time to actually read my books, is way more fulfilling than anything I've done before. And now for the... Official Bio A life-long martial arts enthusiast, Bianca enjoys a number of hobbies and interests that keep her busy and entertained such as playing the guitar, shopping, painting, shopping, skiing, shopping, road trips, and did we say… um… shopping? A bargain hunter through and through, Bianca loves the thrill of the hunt for that excellent price on quality items, though she’s hardly a fashionista. She likes nothing better than curling up by the fire with a good book, or better yet, by the computer, writing a good book.
IN the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
— from Inferno, 2008
Most acclaimed
Talent for trouble
"Can true love restore a broken woman's faith in humanity? Darak has just been elevated in rank and given new responsibilities, but his devil-may-care style belies a gentle soul. He feels deeply and his empathic abilities sometimes make him care too much. How then, can he ignore the shattered soul that cries out to him from a woman who, until recently, was his enemy? Jana was kidnapped and forced to do many things she cannot remember, but feels deep shame for her actions, nonetheless. Reunited with her sister and taken to the dubious safety of the seat of Council power to heal, she has no idea what's in store for the future. She only knows she is free for the first time in years. Free to think on her own. Free to talk to her sister. Free to admire the maddening man who bothers her on every level. Raised on a planet with strict moral codes, Jana finds the permissiveness of life on a Council world shocking. Even though Darak appears to be a womanizer of the worst sort, Jana is drawn to the rogue. He is handsome, but there's something more to him...something deeper that she cannot resist. And when he begins to teach her about the many ways of pleasure, she finds not only her body willing to give him all he desires, but also her heart. Can Darak's healing touch break through the fragile facade Jana shows to the world? And when her help is needed to penetrate deep into enemy territory, will she aid them, or will she show her true colors? The fate of the galaxy might just be in their hands...as well as the fate of two hearts looking for their perfect match."--Provided by publisher.
Inferno
2008
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives -- an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire war. Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people -- of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments—Hitler's refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin's ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill's leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt's steady hand before and after the United States entered the war—and puts them in real human context. Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war's penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin's invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru's words, "the final epitaph of British rule" in India. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century. - Publisher.
Cat's cradle
Cat Beaudine Was Nobody's Baby And that's the way she liked it. She could take care of herself - and she knew that marriage and motherhood were for other women, not her. Until the stranger with the familiar face had her wondering if being alone was all it was cracked up to be.... Dillon McKenna Wanted a Family For the professional daredevil, living on the edge had lost its appeal. He knew Cat was the woman for him. Now all he had to do was convince her of that - with the help of the unexpected bundle of joy in the back of his van....