Osiris and his son Horus have been seeking the last pure-blooded descendant of Nuit, Queen of the Night Sky. It is written that she will have a pivotal role in the End of All Things, which is foretold in whispers throughout Egyptian prophecy. Horus' all-seeing eyes can't pierce her hiding place, so he'll Sky-walk until he reaches her hiding place: the Thirteen Colonies...Osiris and his son Horus have been seeking the last pure-blooded descendant of Nuit, Queen of the Night Sky. It is written that she will have a pivotal role in the End of All Things, which is foretold in whispers throughout Egyptian prophecy. Horus' all-seeing eyes can't pierce her hiding place, so he'll Sky-walk until he reaches her hiding place: the Thirteen Colonies. All they can do is speculate on the true nature and purpose of the Princess of the Underworld, but long ago, Nuit herself bid them protect her, for she would bear the child of Horus. Would prophecy bear out? The future is what it must be. Views: 644
Stoneybridge is a small town on the west coast of Ireland where all the families know one another. When Chicky Starr decides to take an old, decaying mansion set high on the cliffs overlooking the windswept Atlantic Ocean and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, everyone thinks she is crazy. Helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the house) and Orla, her niece (a whiz at business), Chicky is finally ready to welcome the first guests to Stone House’s big warm kitchen, log fires, and understated elegant bedrooms. John, the American movie star, thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian are forced into taking a holiday together; Nicola and Henry, husband and wife, have been shaken by seeing too much death practicing medicine; Anders hates his father’s business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired schoolteacher, criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyone’s relief; the Walls are disappointed to have won this second-prize holiday in a contest where first prize was Paris; and Freda, the librarian, is afraid of her own psychic visions.
Sharing a week with this unlikely cast of characters is pure joy, full of Maeve’s trademark warmth and humor. Once again, she embraces us with her grand storytelling. Views: 644
PLEASE NOTE: This book was previously titled The Davina Code. When disgraced cop Jack Miller inherited a house, he also inherited a tenant. She's sexy, mysterious and obviously up to no good. With the police department breathing down his neck, the only way Jack can get his job back is to prove he's squeaky clean. That means getting rid of his dodgy tenant.Davina Davenport desperately wants to be an actress. So desperate that she's trying to make a movie using 'borrowed' equipment and her rented house as a cheap location. Her plan is to post the film online, become an overnight sensation and move to Hollywood. Unfortunately things aren't going to plan. Her boss at the TV station keeps asking about the missing equipment, her cop landlord is nosing around (her and the house) and the creepy cameraman from work wants to trade sex for his film-making skills. If the movie gets made before Davina ends up fired, in jail or in... Views: 643
China has executed Ambaghai, the Mongols’ khan, on a hurdle with donkey ears and tail from the theatre, in mockery of the horse peoples of the steppe. It cries for hachi.China has executed Ambaghai, the Mongols’ khan, on a hurdle with donkey ears and tail from the theatre, in mockery of the horse peoples of the steppe. It cries for hachi. ‘Hachi means that which is owed, or felt due. It can mean an act of humanity. It can mean vengeance. It meant justice.’The Mongols go to war for Ambaghai’s hachi, in a century when no steppe people is fit to tackle China. They believe battles are won by the just, and the size differential doesn’t bother them. They are wrong, but the Mongol God comforts them with an omen. Temujin, the baby of that battle day, has in his hand his people’s future victory. The Chinese have crossbows, but the Mongols have belief.(Where Amgalant starts. Of Battles Past and the next, When I am King, can be found together in Amgalant One: The Old Ideal) Views: 643
It's 1381 and Beatrice Arrowner is on her way to Ravenscroft Castle on the outskirts of Maldon. Beatrice is meeting clerk Ralph Mortimer for a feast on the green. Nothing can dampen Beatrice's mood as she and Ralph gather with their friends. But the sinister events of the last few days soon cast a cloud over the festivities. Phoebe, a castle maid, has been horribly murdered. Soon there is another death and it seems that the evil spirits which haunt the Midnight Tower are doing their worst. Certain there is a connection between these events and his own search for the legendary Brythnoth's jewelled cross, Ralph knows that this own life is in danger and that the murderer must be one of his close friends. But he can only hunt down the killer with the help of Beatrice - who learns that death is not necessarily the end of existence... Views: 643
When TJ Dunn enlisted in the US Army, she knew the combat and emotional risks. Six years earlier her father, an army veteran, killed himself. But TJ is tough, determined to carry her own weight as a soldier, until one day when her team is ambushed during a mission in Iraq. As the only survivor, TJ is left both physically and psychologically traumatized. Yet even as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her friends, she receives another devastating blow: her fiancé, stationed in Afghanistan, has taken his own life. Discharged from the army and back in the States, TJ is unable to cope. She spirals into an emotional daze, spending her days working at a suicide hotline and her evenings moonlighting as an exotic dancer. Her only outlet for her anger is a punching bag at the local boxing ring where she works out with a handsome trainer, Duffy. Just when she thinks she's reached her limit, an anonymous phone call shocks her back to life and gives her a new... Views: 643
Caution: Story contains strong profanity and graphic violence.
When a mutilated corpse is found bound to a tree deep in the forest of remote Aubrey Island, Washington, residents learn that the murder mirrors, in every ritualistic detail, a series of revenge killings described in a century-old local ghost story. More abductions and killings soon follow.
Justin Riddley, recently transferred to the island’s small college, faces growing evidence that one of his new friends and fellow students may be the murderer. John Marshall, redemption-seeking captain of the local police force, leads the frantic murder investigation and struggles to figure out whether the killings are tied to the island's dark and violent past. Tormented by tragic wartime memories, and more convinced with each day that it is humanity’s fate to destroy itself, Marshall races against both the murderer and the specter of his own mental breakdown.
As blood continues to spill, Riddley and Marshall wonder whether there may be a dark, universal force that drives evil deeds great and small, and whether the nature of one’s childhood might sometimes, in the end, be all that separates the saint from the psychopath.
**About the Author
D.C. Alexander is a former federal agent. He was born and raised in the Seattle area, and now lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Views: 643
A terrifying nightmare, stranded by the side of the road, chased through the woods by demonic patchwork monsters.Three freinds travelling home from a concert in Seattle fall victim to a flat tire. But that's only the beginning of their trouble as one of them soon goes missing by the side of thr road and the other two reluctantly enter the woods to find him.But what they find will take them deep into their worst nightmares as they are chased by terrifying creatures bent on devouring them.Soon, the last one will have to enter a mysterious mansion set back in the forest. What Dark Secret will be discovered when he enters...A Doll's House. Views: 643
Two veterans from our recent wars catch up on mutual friends, their experiences, then ask the one question that seems the most important one of all.“Imagine things and make them real.”When Oliver Bell meets a beautiful young woman one night in his dreams, he literally can’t get her out of his mind. Unfortunately, he also can’t tell if she’s anything more than just a wonderful figment of his imagination. It’s only when she starts leaving him clues for how to find her in the real world that Oliver’s sense of fantasy and reality begin to blur into something strange and new. The journey that follows takes Oliver everywhere he can imagine and beyond; across the country to a city he doesn’t know, to things from his terrible past he would rather forget; over concrete and bluebells and snow and ice; all leading him to the truth that love can exist in dreams. Views: 643
Ancient rivals, worst of friends, best of enemies: dragonlord Janx and master vampire Eliseo Daisani are the threads upon which a tapestry of lives and loves are woven across the centuries. From the coldest Russian nights to the heat of Chicago's greatest fire, nothing brings the immortal adversaries together--or tears them apart--like a woman. Views: 643
What if your life depended on the attention span of a teenage boy?Paddy Lee, a mollycoddled sleepwalker, mopes about in a backwater town. But then the soul-gorging Blackgum lay siege and begin to pick off his schoolmates and loved ones. Only an irritable moth-mage and Platto - his attack-calculator and semi-smartphone - will stand with Paddy to oppose oblivion. And the Blackgum strikes aren’t random. To save his family and his town, the distracted daydreamer must concentrate long enough to unmask and confront the most fearsome monster of all: the Zealtor. For Paddy Lee is a Scattersmith. Though he’d rather wait for his life to come out on DVD. A plot-driven tale told with wit, the novel features an unstable world of Forgers (creators/discoverers), Ferine (wild beasts/plants), Passengers (couch potato-drones), Witches (priests of lapsed gods), Helpers (object-spirits), and an eccentric supporting cast, including a gluttonous French horn, a multi-headbanging Giant, a guard budgie, a lovesick pinball machine, a school of psychotic piranha-stamps, a poltergeist-puddle, a plesiosaur, Manticore twins and a bullmop. If you like Darren Shan, Derek Landy, Eoin Colfer and Daniel Handler, check out The Scattersmith. Views: 643
