A man without a world, this 1,000,000 year old Daryesh! Once lord of a thousand suns, now condemned to rove the spaceways in alien form, searching for love, for life, for the great lost Ywyrdda. Views: 28
The story of the Trikkala is a strange one.Reported sunk in 1945, she sails into port one year later, barely afloat, her crew and valuable cargo missing. What happened during that year at sea? What secrets of betrayal and murderous greed played out on the desolate islet of Maddon's Rock? Views: 28
Prohibition Era New Orleans is a city of pleasure and vices for the wicked. But for Chloe Monroe it’s a prison. She’s grateful to Lucien Deveraux for giving her a job as his maid after her husband’s murder, but it’s his lover who fascinates her. It’s Antoine’s face she sees when Lucien is inside her and his name she wants to call out when she climaxes. Views: 28
Tessa has just months to live. Fighting back against hospital visits, endless tests, drugs with excruciating side-effects, Tessa compiles a list. It's her To Do Before I Die list. And number one is Sex. Released from the constraints of '-normal' life, Tessa tastes new experiences to make her feel alive while her failing body struggles to keep up. Tessa's feelings, her relationships with her father and brother, her estranged mother, her best friend, and her new boyfriend, all are painfully crystallised in the precious weeks before Tessa's time finally runs out. Views: 28
A mystical red crystal covered in ancient writing lies waiting for those making a wish. A quiet, peaceful wish to end an existence when society deemed a life over. Views: 28
A mesmerizing novel of love and nostalgia set in the vast spaces of contemporary East Africa.Romantic, often resonantly ironic, moving and wise, Rules of the Wild transports us to a landscape of unsurpassed beauty even as it gives us a sharp-eyed portrait of a closely knit tribe of cultural outsiders: the expatriates living in Kenya today. Challenged by race, by class, and by a longing for home, here are "safari boys" and samaritans, reporters bent on their own fame, travelers who care deeply about elephants but not at all about the people of Africa. They all know each other. They meet at dinner parties, they sleep with each other, they argue about politics and the best way to negotiate their existence in a place where they don't really belong. At the center is Esmé, a beautiful young woman of dazzling ironies and introspections, who tells us her story in a voice both passionate and self-deprecating. Against a paradoxical backdrop of limitless... Views: 28
Everyone in the broken-down town of Chelsea, Massachussetts, has a story too worn to repeatfrom the girls who play the pass-out game just to feel like they're somewhere else, to the packs of aimless teenage boys, to the old women from far away who left everything behind. But there’s one story they all still tell: the oldest and saddest but most hopeful story, the one about the girl who will be able to take their twisted world and straighten it out. The girl who will bring the magic.Could Sophie Swankowski be that girl? With her tangled hair and grubby clothes, her weird habits and her visions of a filthy, swearing mermaid who comes to her when she’s unconscious, Sophie could be the one to uncover the power flowing beneath Chelsea’s potholed streets and sludge-filled rivers, and the one to fight the evil that flows there, too. Sophie might discover her destiny, and maybe even in time to save them all. Views: 28
Quinn returns in THE GHOUL KING, another story of the Dreaming Cities by Guy Haley.The Knight, Quinn, is down on his luck, and he travels to the very edge of the civilized world – whatever that means, any more – to restock his small but essential inventory.After fighting a series of gladiatorial bouts against the dead, he finds himself in the employ of a woman on a quest to find the secret to repairing her semi-functional robot.But the technological secret it guards may be one truth too many... Views: 28
