I had learned a lot in the last couple of days. I'd figured out how to defeat a fairytale villain with a Toyota 4Runner, how to surf on furniture (à la Aladdin and his magic carpet), and how to confront my wicked step-grandmother. But these bizarre lessons were only just the beginning. If I was to overcome the obstacles in my path, I had plenty of learning left to do—about myself, and about my enemies. Between Nadia the queen of villains, and the leader of the Fairy Godmothers, I was in for a lot of trouble in this final phase of our quest to alter our fates. Separated from our friends, Daniel and I had to work together to traverse the kingdom of Alderon and evade the antagonists who were trying to destroy us. Moreover, we had to do it while figuring out whether or not we could truly be friends. Not an easy sell when I was prophesized to put an end to his girlfriend. Can you say awkward? With our mission drawing to a close, my significance to Nadia, my relationship with Natalie... Views: 10
A seventeen year-old girl has gone missing in Central America. Her father fears she has been abducted by human traffickers. Investigators William Chase and Hanna Beckett are his last hope to find her. They’ve spent the past two years working with anti-trafficking groups. Hanna tries to play by the book, but William has become frustrated, ready to take on crime without restraint. While working in Russia, William’s brazen attempt to rescue a victim gets him and Hanna into trouble, and they flee to Honduras. The new case of the missing girl will either bring them back together or tear them apart. Roatán, Honduras is a tourist paradise, though muggings, murders, and sex trafficking are an unfortunate reality. And by taking advantage of a corrupt police force, traffickers rule the streets and build their own security forces. Maybe it’s the perfect place for William to dole out his hard justice. Or maybe things aren’t at all what they seem... BLACK SOUL is a coda to the Titan trilogy books. It can be read as a standalone novel, though some references are made to the previous stories. It has been specially published direct from the author. ** Views: 10
Merrie adored Francis Adams when she was a child. But when she was thirteen, he scolded her and smacked her bottom for letting her puppy run out into the street and then running after it. She decided then that she never wanted to see him again. Ever.
Now, six years later, coming home from school, she is shocked to find that he wishes to see her again, and even more shocked when he asks to marry her. But as drawn as she finds herself to him, she does not like feeling his chastening hand on her bottom. Francis, on the other hand, seems determined to use it; whenever and wherever he thinks she needs it.
Merrie has been hoping for a marriage in which someone loves her desperately. She knows that she feels that way; but does Francis? The words 'I love you' seem as if they are destined never to reach her ears.
Or are they?
Publisher's Note: This is a historical romance containing sexually explicit scenes and spanking between adults. Views: 10
Amid the glittering fjords and majestic mountains of Norway, this stunning series delves into the loves, battles, and dreams of the Viking clans—powerful men and women who believed in the call of the flesh as well as the soul... It was said that the man who could look into Silvi Ivarsdottir's eyes would be meant for her. Powerful jarl Magnus Sigrundson knows he is that man, and that Silvi's dowry can give him the ships, swords, and silver he needs for his trading empire. Yet beautiful Silvi's dream is not to be a wife, but a Priestess of the gods for the great temple at Uppsala. Who dares interfere with such passion? The answer lies in Silvi herself, in the way her body awakens to Magnus' touch, in the way she inspires a reverence he didn't know he possessed—and in the battles she takes on when she journeys to his mountain home of Thorsfjell. But soon a dangerous, deceitful enemy threatens to shatter. Now they face another quest: can they... Views: 10
At the end of the first book the main character, Nick Sobolev, is the winner of the great “Ritual” Competition. This brings him to the attention of Princess Cleo who finds herself reacting to his bravery and skills. Feeling a very strong connection to Nick, she asks him to help her find her lost half-brother. He had disappeared in the Forest several years ago.
However, plans to rescue her brother are delayed when the local biological apocalypse known as the Exodus begins on the planet. Once every ten years the, the Forest spews out a horde of creatures. These mutant animals fall upon human settlements devouring everything in sight.
After the Exodus, a group of people travel through the devastated territory and across a mountain range to find the Old City. There they hope to find the answers to so many of their questions.
Their expedition is filled with danger and one adventure after another leading them to quickly understand that the Forest is not just a place that trees and plant grow and animals live. It is much more. It is affecting their minds, their thoughts and diverting their path away from the Old City. How can this happen? Who is controlling this? What secrets are being protected? Most importantly what is the destiny for the inhabitants of this planet? Is it because of the strange opposition of the Forest that the protagonists lose their remaining satellites?
As they try to survive alone in the Forest jungle, they unexpectedly find their first answers to some of the riddles of the hidden planet. Views: 10
YOU DIE WHEN YOU DIE . . .You can't change your fate - so throw yourself into battle, because you'll either win or wake up drinking mead in the halls of your ancestors. That's what Finn's tribe believe.But when their settlement is massacred by a hostile tribe and Finn and several friends, companions and rivals make their escape across a brutal, unfamiliar landscape, Finn will fight harder than he's ever fought in his life. He wants to live - even if he only lives long enough to tell Thyri Treelegs how he feels about her.The David Gemmell Award nominated author of Age of Iron returns with You Die When You Die - in which a mismatched group of refugees battle animals and monsters, determined assassins, depraved tribes, an unforgiving land and each other as they cross a continent to fulfil a prophecy. Views: 10
Grantville
Gazette 73's theme could be returning characters. First up are Blaise
Pascal and Logan Sebastian, in Tim Roesch's "Chaffing." Next,
the Elzevirs have plans in Anne Keener's "A Printer's Dream."
And Fast as Lightning in the Sky is back in "Blood Brothers," by Eric
S. Brown and Robert E. Waters. Philip Fröhlich
is still trying to get published in David Carrico's "Letters From Gronow,
Episode Four," and the consortium continues working on guns in "SMC,
Part Three," by Mike Watson. Next up are three
non-fiction articles: Iver P. Cooper's "Fair or Foul, Part 2,
Observing Pressure and Wind," Walter H. Hunt's "Freemasonry in the
World of 1632," and Jack Carroll's "1636: Land Radio Communication in
Europe." Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Notes From the Buffer Zone column
is "The Shifting World Order."
Ni-T'o, T'cumu, Gonzalo, Nate, and the Raven Priestess
are back, in Garrett W. Vance's Time Spike story "First Cavalry of the
Cretaceous, Part Five: Charge!" Finally, in the Universe annex,
Edward M. Lerner follows up his previous story "The Company Man,"
with "The Company Dick."
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A spell-binding, slyly political collection of stories from the award-winning author of War by Candlelight and At Night We Walk in Circles. Migration. Betrayal. Family secrets. Doomed love. Uncertain futures. In Daniel Alarcón's hands, these are transformed into deeply human stories with high stakes. In "The Thousands," people are on the move and forging new paths; hope and heartbreak abound. A man deals with the fallout of his blind relatives' mysterious deaths and his father's mental breakdown and incarceration in "The Bridge." A gang member discovers a way to forgiveness and redemption through the haze of violence and trauma in "The Ballad of Rocky Rontal." And in the tour de force novella, "The Auroras", a man severs himself from his old life and seeks to make a new one in a new city, only to find himself seduced and controlled by a powerful woman. Richly drawn, full of unforgettable characters, The King is Always Above the People... Views: 10
