The Alienist meets The Exorcist in Tallis' new novel of psychological suspense, as an ambitious young doctor explores the dangerous border between science and the supernatural.1873: When the ambitious Doctor Paul Clément takes a job on the island of Saint Sébastien, he has dreams of finding cures for tropical diseases. After witnessing the ritualistic murder of a young boy who was allegedly already dead, he is warned never to speak of what he has seen. Back in fin de siecle Paris, Paul's attentions turn to studying the nervous system and resuscitation through electricity. Paul is told of patients who have apparently died, been brought back to life, and, while they lay between life and death, witnessed what they believed to be Heaven itself. Using forbidden knowledge he swore never to use, he attempts to experience what everyone else has seen, but something goes horribly wrong. When Paul returns to the land of the living, can it be possible that he brings... Views: 12
Sometimes, I dream that I'm someone else. A girl with dark hair who doesn't worry about hunger or thirst or running from flesh-eaters. In her world, those sorts of things don't exist.... Since the spring of 2036, when the world changed forever, Claudia and a small clan of survivors have roamed the streets of a very altered Nashville--polluted and desolate, except for the ever-present threat of cannibals. Together they must undergo punishing tests of endurance and psychological challenge--sometimes with devastating consequences--all just to live another day. With food and water in dwindling supply, and with danger lurking around every corner, no one can be trusted. And as her world starts to make less and less sense, Claudia begins to realize something terrifying: she is just a pawn in some sort of game, and all of her actions are being controlled from afar by a mysterious gamer. So when she meets a maddening and fascinating outsider named Declan,... Views: 12
What’s your sexual fantasy?
The men of Fantasies Unleashed are here to fulfill your wildest, kinkiest and hottest desires.
Deana likes to be in control. In her job, as a stage manager of a Las Vegas cirque show, she has to be. On a dare, her friends sign her up for Fantasies Unleashed. Deana plans to give up sexual control during her fantasy, but she’s not expecting Rex, a powerful man who’s determined to dominate their sexual encounter and push her to levels of ecstasy beyond her wildest imagination. Views: 12
AGGRESSOR
The Atlantia
is all that remains of humanity: a former fleet frigate turned prison-ship now
hunted by a terrifying force and crewed by an alliance of murderous convicts,
exhausted soldiers and terrified civilians determined to confront the
technological horror that has consumed mankind.
Pursuing the infamous pirate Taron Forge, the
Atlantia encounters the aged wreck of a legendary vessel, Endeavour, the first human ship ever to leave the Core Systems to
explore the cosmos. Missing for almost a century, Atlantia’s Marines board the ship in the hope
of finding other survivors. But what they find aboard Endeavour is a legacy of
humanity’s hopes and dreams twisted into a nightmare, and a future held in the hands
of their greatest enemy: The Word and its Legion.
As the crew comes to terms with their discoveries,
so Evelyn is forced to confront her own personal demons as the truth behind her
immunity to the Legion’s Infectors is finally revealed, and the wider galaxy’s
plans for humanity laid bare.
Endeavour is the fourth volume of the Atlantia series from internationally best-selling author Dean
Crawford, is DRM free and is 103,000 words in length.
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Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and moonlights as a travel writer. On his way home after work one evening he witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman named Lisa Kim. But was it an accident? Could Pete have prevented it? And did it actually happen, or is this just an elaborate tale he concocts to impart the power of story to his teenage students? Why can't he stop thinking about Lisa Kim? And what might his obsession with her mean to his relationship with his girlfriend, Lydia? With humor, tenderness, and suspense, Travel Writing takes readers on fascinating journeys, both geographical and psychological, and delves into the notion that the line between fact and fiction is often negotiable. Views: 12
The Rhymer, an Heredyssey by Douglas Thompson defies classification in any one literary genre. A satire on contemporary society, particularly the art world, it is also a comic-poetic meditation on the nature of life, death and morality. A mysterious tramp wanders from town to town, taking a new name and identity from whoever he encounters first. Apparently amnesiac or even brain-damaged, Nadith Learmot nonetheless has other means to access the past and perhaps even the future: upon his chest a dial, down his sleeves wires that he can connect to the walls of old buildings from which he believes he can read their ghosts like imprints on tape. Haunting him constantly is the resemblance he apparently bears to his supposed brother, a successful artist called Zenir. Setting out to pursue Zenir and denounce or blackmail him out of spite, in his travels around the satellite towns and suburbs surrounding a city called Urbis, Nadith finds he is always two steps behind a figure as... Views: 12
Two years had passed since I was the Rowe Stanton from before, since tragedy stole my youth and my heart went along with it. When I left for college, I was going to cross back to the other side, to live with the living. I just didn’t know how. And then I met Nate Preeter. An All-American baseball player, Nate showed me everything I'd been missing. And then he showed me how to fall. Views: 12
Fantasy. 176174 words long. First published by Headline Book Publishing in 1989 Views: 12
