The Rocks Preparatory School for Boys lived in its own world. 140 odd boys and 16 teaching staff inhabited the school, mostly isolated from the outside world not just by the boundaries but also by the society they formed for themselves. Like all communities, most conformed, but some did not.A story of friendship and loss at a 1960s boarding school.The Rocks Preparatory School for Boys lived in its own world. 140 odd boys and 16 teaching staff inhabited the school, mostly isolated from the outside world not just by the boundaries but also by the society they formed for themselves. Like all communities, most conformed, but some did not.A story of friendship and loss at a 1960s boarding school.See Ian's Smashwords profile for a link to his blog.

Shadow Academy has many secrets… and I'm one of them.Plucked from foster care and offered a scholarship to an elite school, I figured I had it made.It didn't take me long to discover how this school worked. Scholarship kids at the bottom, and way at the top, Ren Worthington. With his breath-taking good looks and bottomless pit of family money, you'd think he'd have better things to do than bully us poor kids. Not so.Ren and the other human students live their lives unaware of the creatures lurking in the dark. I wasn't given that scholarship just for my academic skills. All of us scholarship students have other abilities, abilities we keep hidden. And, in return for our free ride, we keep the rich brats unaware of paranormal dangers.With one student missing and threats made on Ren's life, I get an offer. Become Ren's tutor/bodyguard and my future becomes assured. But if Ren dies or discovers what I am, I'm out of here.I don't want to get close to him, I don't want to get to know him, but I have no choice. And so many things aren't what they seem on the surface.Shadow Academy has many secrets… and maybe Ren is one of them.

In this anthology, which comprises some of Khushwant Singh's best writing, you can look forward to some talk of sex, a little of Scotch and much Scholarship. The collection attempts to mirror the author's concerns and passions-his love of nature, his anguish over the situation in Punjab, his interest in religions of the world and his scholarly research on the one into which he was born, Sikhism. The highlight of this book, however, is the expansive, autobiographical opening piece written in Khushwant's characteristically candid style and perhaps the most complete self-portrait he has yet painted.

Looking to find harmony, Ella Townes leaves a big Philadelphia college and returns to the mountains where she spent her youth. She quickly makes a friend—Cassidy Ryan, a woman with Down syndrome who is the neighborhood busybody and sister of a very attractive ER doctor whom Ella finds equally charming. Under the watchful eye of Cass, Ella and Reese begin a promising friendship. Then Ella writes a scholarship in memory of a childhood friend who was murdered, and things begin to unravel. The scholarship stirs interest in the cold case, and soon the murderer is maneuvering to protect his secret. After Cass is brutally attacked, Ella and Reese question her. The killer's identity becomes clear, but after twenty years, is there enough evidence to bring him to justice?