Hope Richards has always kept to herself, and as a teenager suffered from an eating disorder. She no longer starves herself, but she still struggles with self-image issues. Now in her twenties, she's ready to start her life. But during her first night in Steel Corner, violence erupts all around her, and one very intense bear shifting MC member protects her. Dallas lost his son and ex-wife in a car accident months ago. He allows his anger to build inside of him until it consumes every inch of his soul. But then Hope comes into his life and she is the first real thing he has wanted in a long time. She eases him and his bear, but they can’t move forward until their pasts are put behind them, and sometimes that is easier said than done. Views: 39
This is a story of Sean Miller, a dom that will have your panties diving for cover with an eyebrow quirk. That will have even the strongest woman dropping to their knees in submission with a piercing stare, and Samantha Richards, a female cop who’s tough, seemingly impenetrable shell is strong enough to resist everyone except the one man it was build up to protect her against. Disclaimer – If you thought the first two Bliss books were hot, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Creative use of handcuffs, batons, a club scene you have to read to believe, and a tough as nails dominant who is blindsided when the one woman strong enough to disarm him threatens his resolve not to let his past dictate his future. Like the other books in the Bliss series, this book can be read as a stand alone. There are common characters in the books but it is not necessary to read the first two books in the series to read this one. Views: 39
Vampires. Shadow Priests. Buried Cities. An epic like you've never experienced....
"If you like Game of Thrones & vampires, you’re going to love the Vampyricon." ★★★★★ "I was enthralled!" ★★★★★ In this medieval dark fantasy epic, Aleric the Falconer, torn by war from his beloved, falls prey to Pythia, the savage mistress whose embrace means death. Get the trilogy: The Lady of Serpents (#2), and The Queen of Wolves (#3).
Set in a world of ancient sorceries and buried cities, The Priest of Blood is the first book in The Vampyricon trilogy from NY Times bestselling and award-winning author, Douglas Clegg.
“Astonishing...The Priest of Blood is a bloody gem.” – Christopher Rice, New York Times bestselling author with Anne Rice of Ramses the Damned.
“Richly layered, beautifully rendered foray into a past filled with sorcery and mystery — and a rousing good story.” – Kelley Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author.
“Stunning...gives the iconic vampire a massive makeover."– Publishers Weekly, Starred Review.
*"If you like Game of Thrones and vampires, you’ll love The Vampyricon.” – USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood.
**From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. The stunning first volume of a new dark fantasy epic from Stoker-winner Clegg (Nightmare House) gives the iconic vampire a massive makeover and draws fresh possibilities from its most familiar aspects. Aleric Atheffelde, a low-born medieval Breton boy with a strange knack for training birds, gets snared while serving as an unwilling soldier in the Holy Land by arch-vampiress Pythia, who through a kiss inadvertently sparks a vision in him of his regal vampire destiny. From the moment of Aleric's conversion, the tale detours sharply from the well-plowed terrain of conventional vampire costume dramas into an undiscovered country entirely the author's own. Aleric and his new vampire tribe travel to the legendary vampire necropolis of Alkemara, a marvel of gothic creepiness. There they encounter the legendary Priest of Blood, who supplies an intricate and mesmerizing view of vampire culture and projects a tragic future whose outcome hinges on Aleric. This rich and symbol-laden blend of myth and history makes intense reading while it lays a solid foundation for later books in the series.
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Horror writer Clegg sets his sights on historical fantasy in the first book of the Vampyricon series. Set in medieval Brittany, it is the tale of Aleric, a young peasant born to a mother who tried to abort him. Aleric seeks to better himself when a local baron's men come seeking a boy to train birds for the hunt. When Aleric's skills with birds lead to him being chosen, he begins a new life at the baron's castle that is fraught with difficulties and dangers. Aleric jeopardizes his standing in the household when he falls in love with the baron's daughter, Alienora. When the affair is discovered, Aleric is sent away as an enslaved infantryman on a Crusade to the Holy Land. He discovers a fate far more terrifying, however, when he frees Pythia, a female prisoner, only to have her turn him into a vampire. Clegg's evocative, vivid medieval setting is every bit as appealing as the vampire lore in this promising series starter. Kristine Huntley
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Banned for over 30 years — Frank Walford's classic work of horror is available again. "Twisted Clay is a gruesome study of progressive insanity, but the study is obviously subordinate to a desire to excite and horrify." —H.M. Green She loved ... and killed ... both men and women. She was utterly beautiful and utterly mad. This is a tale of passionate horror ... a breath-taking venture into abnormal psychology ... a story which cannot be forgotten. "A competently told horror story." —Bruce Catton, NEA SERVICE. "A prose nightmare, tinged with Poe and Baudelaire substance." —?N.Y. MIRROR. "This work will probably be regarded as one of the most notable books of the year. It merits numerous superlatives, such as most peculiar, most gruesome, most forceful." —?Dayton, O., DAILY NEWS "Sensational study of a doomed, abnormal girl in her fight to maintain a warped personality against a world in her torturing journey along the misty and terrifying by-ways of... Views: 39
A perfect small town read that will appeal to fans of Candis Terry's Sweet, Texas, Brenda Novak's Whiskey Creek, Jill Shalvis' Lucky Harbor, and Marie Force's Gansett Island.
Wishful, Mississippi. From the post Civil War fountain on the town green, to the gossip served along with grits and coffee at Dinner Belles Diner, it will always be Campbell Crawford's hometown--preferably just as it is. The way he sees it, the corporate big-box store that wants to unpack on the outskirts threatens everything he holds dear, but the town's economy demands some kind of change. He's not sure city girl Norah Burke can possibly understand Wishful enough help him turn things around--no matter how much his dog loves her. Norah falls for the charms of the town as hard as she falls for the charms of the man, and she's determined to help. But even if they can get the votes to send the suits packing and get the town on its feet again, can she really give up her corner office and power lunches for the corner booth at the local diner? What's a nice executive like her going to do in a place like this? Views: 39
"Diane Lawson's amazing insight into the mysteries and witchcraft of psychoanalysis . . . combined with her extraordinary writing skills makes this a one-of-a-kind novel that I found impossible to put down."—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for StoneSigmund Freud would have liked a mixed-up dish like Dr. Nora Goodman, a sexy forty-something psychoanalyst with whacko rich patients who can't seem to allow themselves happiness, love, or success. She's not exactly a steady customer herself, born to a ranting bipolar Talmud scholar and a mother with a heart as cold as a Chicago slaughterhouse. But now she has two kids and an overbearing psychiatrist husband. She hates him. She hates his Jewish old money world. Nora wants a new life sans husband but what she gets is something terribly different. It starts one Monday morning when her eight o'clock patient blows himself to smithereens. The police think it's an accident. Nora thinks it's murder. Another patient... Views: 39
Long before he became a billionaire and she an ambitious analyst, he was a beautiful boy in love with her--a girl from the wrong side of the tracks... Gabriel Gordon, playboy extraordinaire, has been fixated on winning Emma Adams's affections for over a month. She's resisted his charming advances, even going so far as turning down Gabriel's request to be his date for Senior Prom. Views: 39
From Galileo to today's amateur astronomers, scientists have been rebels, writes Freeman J. Dyson. Like artists and poets, they are free spirits who resist the restrictions their cultures impose on them. In their pursuit of nature's truths, they are guided as much by imagination as by reason, and their greatest theories have the uniqueness and beauty of great works of art.Dyson argues that the best way to understand science is by understanding those who practice it. He tells stories of scientists at work, ranging from Isaac Newton's absorption in physics, alchemy, theology, and politics, to Ernest Rutherford's discovery of the structure of the atom, to Albert Einstein's stubborn hostility to the idea of black holes. His descriptions of brilliant physicists like Edward Teller and Richard Feynman are enlivened by his own reminiscences of them. He looks with a skeptical eye at fashionable scientific fads and fantasies, and speculates on the future of climate prediction,... Views: 39
