Anna E. Charlton Boeken

This book puts the issue of eating animals squarely on the table. We all claim to care about animals and to regard them as having at least some moral value. We all claim to agree that it's wrong to inflict "unnecessary" suffering and death on animals and -- whatever disagreement we may have about when animal use is necessary, we all agree that the suffering and death of animals cannot be justified by human pleasure, amusement, or convenience. We condemn Michael Vick for dog fighting precisely because we feel strongly that any pleasure that Vick got from this activity could not possibly justify what he did. So how can we justify the fact that we kill many billions of land animals and fish every year for food?

Dru held on to what she loved At first, Dru didn't like Locke Matthews, the tenant at her cottage near Brisbane. Then she discovered the vulnerable and sensitive man beneath the film star's celluloid image, and Dru fell in love. She knew that Locke was haunted by his past and struggling to change his typecast image, but Locke declared he needed her. Dru dared hope for more. Left alone, without his brother's interference, she and Locke stood a rare chance for love.

Cara Matheson had traveled the globe as a free-spirited musician, playing on street corners, dressing like a Gypsy and living the carefree bohemian life she loved. Mitchell Kirby, a wealthy Australian widower, was her complete opposite. A hardworking lawyer, he was ruled by a watch, and his smile was as severe as his pin-striped suit. When they clashed over the way Cara was influencing Holly, Mitchell's daughter, there seemed to be no middle ground - except for the blinding passion that gripped them.

Her relationship with Luke Harrow was too good to be true, thought Lacey as she ran up the stairs to her bedroom. As a teenager she had fallen in love with the tennis champion; now, as a woman, she was in danger of doing the same thing - but with the man, this time, not the image. Only, who was the real Luke? The abrupt businessman she had first met, the charming sportsman who had beguiled the crowds all those years ago, or the rake his mother believed him to be? Even as her feelings were telling her one thing, her head was accepting his mother's judgement. As her normally sunny, unflappable temperament was sent haywire - especially when Luke kissed her...