The period from the 1890s to the mid-1950s is generally considered the "golden era" of passenger rail travel in America. It was a time of celebrated locomotives and luxurious passenger service, a time when rail technology saw its greatest advances and railroads became the nation's favored mode of transportation. These glory years come alive in American Passenger Trains and Locomotives Illustrated, 1889"971. For this volume, author and illustrator...

Jane's time aboard the ship grows short as questions and answers rush at her. The dark shadow that stalks the halls makes its demands, and Archer makes his vows to her. She is torn between her love for the man and her lust for the book, but a surprise awaits her as she finally learns the truth about her time as a passenger aboard this strange cruise. ** The Passenger's Pleasure series is an episodic serial with cliffhangers and sensual fun. **

Jane's relaxing vacation aboard ship turns into a test of patience and belief as criminal accusations are thrown in her direction. She weathers the storm by luck, and a little disappearing act by the book, but her troubles aren't over as a mysterious shadow envelopes those around her. Her greatest comfort comes from the pages of the book, but she wonders what lies at the bottom of the wonderful ecstasy of those loving arms. ** The Passenger's Pleasure...

A Sexy Contemporary Paranormal Mystery Suspense Romance. The entire Ensnare the Passenger series in one complete package! Jane Johnson won an all-expenses paid trip aboard a cruise-liner, but she finds herself an outcast at sea among the first-class passengers. Things change one night during a party below-deck when one of the rich, handsome passengers produces a book and offers it as a prize to the woman who would have his heart. Scuffles ensue...

Robbed of the powerful object she needed to save her mother, time traveler Etta Spencer is stranded far from home and the privateer she loves before resolving to destroy the astrolabe, a mission that is challenged by a shattering revelation.

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1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flightbag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring...