The boy who would be King has gained the throne…
Prince Honorious Jorg Ancrath vowed when he was nine to avenge his slaughtered mother and brother—and punish his father for not doing so. When he was fifteen, he began to fulfill that vow. Now he is eighteen—and he must hold on by strength of arms to what he took by torture and treachery.
King Jorg is a man haunted: by the ghost of a young boy, by a mysterious copper box, by his desire for the woman who rides with his enemy. Plagued by nightmares of the atrocities he committed, and of the atrocities committed against him when he was a child, he is filled with rage. And even as his need for revenge continues to consume him, twenty thousand men march toward the gates of his castle. His enemy is far stronger than him. Jorg knows that he cannot win a fair fight.
But he has found, in a chamber hidden beneath the castle, ancient and long-lost artifacts. Some might call them magic. Jorg is not certain—all he knows is that the secrets they hold can be put to terrible use in the coming battle… Views: 304
Welcome to Twin Oaks--the new B and B in Cooper's Corner. Some come for pleasure, others for passion--and one to set things straight...Check-in: TV news reporter Laurel London has booked a room at the new Twin Oaks B and B, and so has noted travel writer William Byrd. Owners Clint and Maureen Cooper are hoping for a great review!Checkout: Then suddenly, William Byrd vanishes. Policeman Scott Hunter is on the case--and Laurel is determined to be in on the action. But Scott and Laurel share a painful history. His brother--her fiancé--died tragically. Can cop and reporter mend their heartbreak, join their hearts...and get to the bottom of Byrd's disappearance? Views: 304
Fifteen-year-old Alana Morgan never imagined using her father's "Wilderness Glamour" jewelry in a true emergency. But when her airplane is attacked by smugglers, Alana's hopes rest on her new fishing-lure earrings and a handsome stranger named Tony, whose secrets could get them both killed. If she doesn't discover the courage she's always dreamed of, she'll never make it out of the forest alive.When Alana Morgan’s father unveils his “Wilderness Glamour” jewelry set for her fifteenth birthday, Alana never imagines using it in an actual emergency. But when her airplane is shot out of the sky by smugglers, Alana’s only hopes for survival are pinned on her new fishing-lure earrings and a handsome stranger named Tony, whose secrets could get them both killed. From a renegade ranger and bloodied hands to her snapped ankle and dehydration, Alana is miserable. If she doesn’t find her courage, she’ll never make it out of the forest alive. Views: 304
Venice at the end of the 1500s is an unforgiving city. The Doge rules with an iron fist and the Holy Office harbors suspicions about everything and everyone. Even the walls have eyes. The Republic of Venice watches and listens, then passes judgment swiftly and definitively. In a city where everyone is assumed guilty of something, a young stonemason by the name of Michele has been accused of a crime he didn't commit. Afraid for his life, he flees the city aboard a galley carrying gold coin, leaving behind his young wife, Bianca. Banished from his home, Michele embarks on a series of extraordinary adventures as the ship he travels on stops in every port and on every island of the Mediterranean. In order to survive this once naïve and immature boy must fast become a man, one possessed of cunning, courage and fortitude.Bianca remains alone in the cruel and treacherous Venice. She faces challenges that are, if anything, even more difficult than those of Michele, and will... Views: 304
Jealous Dr. Roger Cochran discovers that his wife may be having an affair. Shackled by rage and assumption, the good doctor devises a plan to teach his wife a drastic lesson in the value of loyalty.This collection of novellas is about journeys. In The Last Long Walk of Noah Brown, a young man leaves his home in Annapolis in 1965. A complete innocent, he trusts the people he encounters along the roads who give him direction until he settles in New Orleans where he eventually rescues people and animals caught in the flood. The King and the Clockmaker examines questions about the genesis of evil, the role of art and the nature of time. In The Vast Darkness, a young woman student of anthropology reflects upon the influence of isolated mountain living upon her neighbors. Views: 304
Hope is dead. Zombies have infected the world and Jesse has to fight to stay alive. She is thrown into the zombie apocalypse without the skills needed to survive. Everyday is a matter of life and death. There is danger with the dead and the living. She joins other survivors as they band together. Will they live to see another day? Views: 304
"Utterly absorbing... unquestionably, this heralds the arrival or an extraordinary new voice-nuanced, sympathetic, compelling." -The Post (London)In the winter of 1881, John Stannard, a young architect, is in self-imposed exile in a remote English village, carrying out repairs to the parish church. Arrogant and insensitive to what he considers superstition and sentimental attachment to the past, he soon begins to inflict serious damage on the ancient building as well as on those with whom he comes into contact-most notably the beautiful, ambitious, local girl Ann Rosewell.This is the mesmerizing tale of a man who clings ferociously to his warped notion of civilized behavior, unwilling to admit his need for love. Set in a vividly evoked landscape and taut with foreboding, Jem Poster's striking first novel pits reason against emotion, progress against preservation, and explores our capacity for invention and self-delusion-the stories we tell each other and the stories... Views: 304
Here there be witches and werewolves.The moon illuminates magical things that could otherwise hide from view. Nightmares don’t go away just because we grow up. Several tales of the night from the author of DEMONS AND OTHER INCONVENIENCES.Our moon is something special. It illuminates the magical things that could otherwise hide from view. Our nightmares are born while we are young, and they don’t go away just because we grow up.Here there be witches and werewolves.From the author of:Demons and Other Inconveniences andHow To Eat A Human Being Views: 303
Once upon a time Janie Grimm thought she led a normal life, but within the first week of law school she's started losing her mind. Her father just died, her stepmother Evangeline is evil, her professors already hate her, and a frog named Bert keeps talking to her. Then there's her growing attraction to the accident-prone Aiden, who tries to explain magic murdered her father and it was trying to kill her, too.Janie learns her father's death was due to a fairy trying to restore the magic bound by Janie's ancestors, the Brothers Grimm. Now the target of this fairy's bid to regain power, Janie has only the protection of the mysterious Holder of the Legacy, the members of the F.A.B.L.E.S. organization, and the promises Evangeline made to Janie's father before his death... but will it be enough? Views: 303
Saffron Mills has lived all of her almost thirty years in Harrington, Maine—a small town where fishing is plenty, but available men are far too few. Yet it’s not just her dating dry spell that draws her to recent arrival Logan MacGowan. Tall, dark, and handsome, with emerald-green eyes and an impossibly hot body, Logan is a gorgeous enigma whose silence she takes for indifference… until one unforgettable chance meeting, when pent-up attraction ignites into the most intense encounter of her life.
In this quiet, quirky town, no one knows that Logan’s alter ego is famous sculptor and tabloid darling David Cambre. In New York, he had all the wrong kind of attention, but in Harrington, he’s found peace, privacy… and Saffron. She’s witty, forthright, and so much sexier and stronger than she knows. But how do you protect the love you’ve been waiting for when your own lifestyle could be destined to rip it apart? Views: 303
This light sci-fi short story is about a young boy who questions the status quo of his privileged life.This light sci-fi short story is about a young boy who questions the status quo of his privileged life, as he discusses it with others around him. This story explores morality in both absolute and relative fashion. Views: 303
Old pilots don't get that way by trusting machinery. Sometimes you've just got to get your hands dirty.Terrorists target an interplanetary freighter, aiming to create an atrocity large enough to reignite a bloody war between Mars and Earth. The only thing standing in their way: A token pilot pulled out of retirement simply to satisfy safety regulations. But old pilots didn't get that way by trusting machinery, particularly when they were trained during wartime. They have no idea how far this old pilot will go to prevent his children's lives from being shattered by the same war that consumed his own generation. (Short Story: 5000 Words) Views: 303
Okay, I admit it. I, Serena Beckett, am a huge One Direction fan! But, I'm writing this to tell you of my amazing summer with the most unlikely of people. My summer, that was so mind-blowing that no one but my best friends who came with me, actually believed me. My summer with One Direction.Serena Beckett is a huge One Direction super fan. One summer, she goes off to Hawaii with her 4 best friends, and bumps into the most unlikely of people. Views: 303
“Fact and fancy are intertwined cleverly and seamlessly in a top-notch, thoroughly American fantasy.” Publishers Weekly (starred review). Taking its inspiration from a real Georgia ghost town, Auraria is steeped in the folklore of the Southern Appalachians, where the tensions of natural, supernatural and artificial are still alive.“Fact and fancy are intertwined cleverly and seamlessly in a top-notch, thoroughly American fantasy.”Publishers Weekly (starred review)Water spirits, moon maidens, haunted pianos, headless revenants, and an invincible terrapin that lives under the mountains. None of these distract James Holtzclaw from his employer’s mission: to turn the fading gold-rush town of Auraria, GA, into a first-class resort and drown its fortunes below a man-made lake. But when Auraria’s peculiar people and problematic ghosts collide with his own rival ambitions, Holtzclaw must decide what he will save and what will be washed away.Taking its inspiration from a real Georgia ghost town, Auraria is steeped in the folklore of the Southern Appalachians, where the tensions of natural, supernatural and artificial are still alive. Views: 302
