Volume 2 of the outstanding speculative fantasy series, Enchantment's Reach.
Mysteries deepen.
Conflict abounds, and treachery lurks ever closer.
From her extraordinary encounter in Enchantment, deeply troubled,
Issul faces the countless perils of a long journey back to Enchantment's
Reach, seeking her husband, King Leth, and their two young children.
But her companions are virtual strangers, mostly unaware of her true identity. How far can they be counted on?
In Enchantment's Reach, King Leth is beset by mounting crises:
The savage Karai launch their first attacks.
The mystery of the Legendary Child grows, and Leth takes desperate
measures. Against the wishes of Enchantment's Reach's scheming spymaster
and Head of Security, the implacable Lord Fectur, he arranges to meet
alone with his would-be assassin, the crazed and deadly outlawed faction
leader, Grey Venger.
What he discovers fills Leth with ever greater foreboding.
Meanwhile, the enigmatic Orbelon, imprisoned denizen of his own
inexplicable world, reveals strange truths about the nature of
Enchantment, and of Enchantment's Reach itself.
But who, or what, in fact, is Orbelon?
Can he be trusted?
Can anyone?
Too late, Leth discovers the extent of the treachery that surrounds him...
Disaster strikes, and the mysteries deepen further... Views: 24
August, 1945. Japan has been defeated in the Second World War. The country lies in ruin. Satsuko Takara and her teenage brother Hiroshi have lost their parents, and each other, during the firestorm that devastated Tokyo. Hal Lynch, a haunted U.S. reconnaissance photographer, is now a photojournalist in Japan, where he stumbles upon a shocking story and is determined to bring it to light. And Osamu Maruki, a dissolute writer and Satsuko's former lover, has returned from the South Pacific a broken and changed man. As these people's stories converge and spin outward, the war-torn streets of Tokyo come alive in this dazzlingly observed novel. Cinematic, brutal, yet beautiful, Fire Flowers powerfully portrays the shock, the struggles, and the difficult choices that arise from the destruction of war. A vivid tale of loss, love, and the search for truth played out on the ravaged streets of post-World War II Tokyo. Views: 24
Jacob Harnon is playing hooky. His life is eaten up with college classes and work so he needs the down time.
As he wanders the woods near his rural New Hampshire town, he's lured in by the last remaining remnant of a long forgotten, shape-shifting race. When the shifter offers to fulfill all of Jacob's dreams, he frees it.
Women, money, women, all the sex he wants, women, power ... Jacob is offered all this and more and the price is cheap. All he needs to do is nothing and by his inaction betray the human race.
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The City of Lights sets the stage for romance, drama and intrigue in the latest Confessions novel from the world's bestselling mystery writer! After investigating multiple homicides and her family's decades-old skeletons in the closet, Tandy Angel is finally reunited with her lost love in Paris. But as he grows increasingly distant, Tandy is confronted with disturbing questions about him, as well as what really happened to her long-dead sister. With no way to tell anymore who in her life she can trust, how will Tandy ever get to the bottom of the countless secrets her parents kept from her? James Patterson leads this brilliant teenage detective through Paris on a trail of lies years in the making, with shocking revelations around every corner. ** Views: 24
