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"Blake Porter is riding high, until he's not. Fired abruptly from his job as a VP of marketing and unable to make his mortgage payments on his new brownstone, he's desperate to make ends meet for his fiancee, Krista. Enter: Whitney. Beautiful, charming, down-to-earth, and looking for a room to rent, she's exactly what Blake's looking for. Or is she? Because something isn't quite right. The neighbors start treating Blake differently. The smell of decay...

Prepare yourself for a captivating narrative filled with a web of emotions - love, desire, betrayal, and trickery. This enthralling story will take you on a rollercoaster ride of unexpected twists and turns, leaving you breathless and eager for more. In a world where Connor and Rebecca (Becks) Jones have successfully orchestrated their lives. A teacher and an accountant leading ordinary lives, professional, articulate, attentive parents. But then...

The Tenant - Grim Reaper Short Stories

Anne Bronte's second novel is a passionate and courageous challenge to the conventions supposedly upheld by Victorian society and reflected in circulating-library fiction. The heroine, Helen Huntingdon, after a short period of initial happiness, leaves her dissolute husband, and must earn her own living to rescue her son from his influence. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is compelling in its imaginative power, the realism and range of its dialogue, and...

The Tenant of Fire is about Queens, NY-its history, public and personal, real and imagined. Many of the people who populate this book-Irish Catholics, Italian-Americans-were once considered ethnic but now fall wholly under the banner of white. And from their anxieties a man like Donald Trump emerges. Born and raised in Queens, Trump is both the product and purveyor of a localized nativist politic. The young white speaker of these poems works to record...

He was checking on tenants. She was visiting family. Both were about to receive a second chance.When Fitzwilliam Darcy bought Willow Hall, he thought he was helping a friend escape an untenable situation. Little did he know he was purchasing a second chance for his own happiness. However, when he returns to Derbyshire to prepare for his friend's visit, that is exactly what he finds when he meets his tenant's guest.Elizabeth Bennet has long regretted...

The Tenant - the terrifying psychological thriller perfect for fans of K L Slater, Jane Renshaw, Teresa DriscollKate has always dreamed of a life in music. And now she's finally done something about it – giving up her steady job, moving to the city to enrol in a degree program at a prestigious college. Needing a place to live, she answers an ad and moves in with Amy who seems a nice lady – mothering and protective. At first Kate is glad to have...

With a new introduction by Aleksandar Hemon In The Tenants (1971), Bernard Malamud brought his unerring sense of modern urban life to bear on the conflict between blacks and Jews then inflaming his native Brooklyn. The sole tenant in a rundown tenement, Henry Lesser is struggling to finish a novel, but his solitary pursuit of the sublime grows complicated when Willie Spearmint, a black writer ambivalent toward Jews, moves into the building. Henry...

On a back alley in Toronto's Kensington Market, above the Heaven & Earth Bakery, there's an apartment with a room for rent. The rent is negotiable. The location varies. Humans need not apply.Clare is human. Definitely human. But she's got a job to do-staging fake vampire hunts for high-paying tourists with Stake, Inc.-and the young tenants of apartment 7C are weird enough that one of them might be a good candidate for the gig. Clare has already sourced...