It had started out as a relatively normal day. Isabel woke up late, as she tended to do every day. After hiking to the compound for an early breakfast, she'd slipped into her trainers and gone for a run. After that, she'd checked on Hyacinthe's horse, which she still had to name, swung by the market, and even managed to get an hour or two of ( Read more... )

DG was on the Island and Cain was pretty pleased about that ( Read more... )

So there was an air hockey table in the compound ( Read more... )

Parties were always something Ellie enjoyed throwing, and this one was no different. While she hadn't gotten much sleep the night before for some very good personal reasons, she was up early and cooking up a storm for most of the morning to finish up what she hadn't made already, while Devon took over setting things up outside. With his help, as ( Read more... )

Vorenus had seen many foul things in his lifetime, most of them in Egypt, and a fair few committed by his own hand.

All of these together could not compare with what he stared at now, what he had been staring at for many days. It did not improve matters that the thing stared back ( Read more... )

As much as I hated to admit it, I needed a break from baking. I'd been spending hours at a time in the kitchen everyday since the bachelor auction, and was getting the feeling that if I didn't take some time away soon, I would start hating something I normally really enjoyed. So, I'd skipped my normal evening in front of the oven, had carried a ( Read more... )

There were only so many times a girl could watch Steel Magnolias. That was essentially what it came down to. The young woman known only as Rogue perused the bookshelf with annoyed resignation. No title called out to her, no cover caught her eye. There were things she'd read, things she'd heard of and had no desire to read, and a lot of text books ( Read more... )

Angela hated gardening. She hated dirt and bugs and getting hot and sweaty and everything about it. Except for the floppy hat she wore to protect herself from the sun; she kind of liked her floppy hat. Angela hated gardening, and farming was even worse.

She didn't even like beets ( Read more... )

This was worse than the time the island tried to kill her. At least, if it would have succeeded that time Isabel would have been out of her misery eventually. As it was, she was on her third day in this guy Zack's body and it didn't look as though she was going to have a reprieve anytime soon ( Read more... )

Days like today and there was only one thing that Tosh could think to do. Actually, two things, the first being thank whatever god was out there that she was in her own body, and that Jackson was safe. The second was to open up the Hub ( Read more... )