Keith Donohue’s first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller hailed as “captivating” (USA Today), “luminous and thrilling” (Washington Post), and “wonderful...So spare and unsentimental that it’s impossible not to be moved (Newsweek. His new novel, Angels of Destruction, opens on a winter’s night, when a young girl appears at the home of Mrs. Margaret Quinn, a widow who lives alone. A decade earlier, she had lost her only child, Erica, who fled with her high school sweetheart to join a radical student group known as the Angels of Destruction. Before Margaret answers the knock in the dark hours, she whispers a prayer and then makes her visitor welcome at the door.
The girl, who claims to be nine years old and an orphan with no place to go, beguiles Margaret, offering some solace, some compensation, for the woman’s loss. Together, they hatch a plan to pass her off as her newly found granddaughter, Norah Quinn, and enlist Sean Fallon, a classmate and heartbroken boy, to guide her into the school and town.
Their conspiracy is vulnerable not only to those children and neighbors intrigued by Norah’s mysterious and magical qualities but by a lone figure shadowing the girl who threatens to reveal the child’s true identity and her purpose in Margaret’s life. Who are these strangers really? And what is their connection to the past, the Angels, and the long-missing daughter?
Angels of Destruction is an unforgettable story of hope and fear, heartache and redemption. The saga of the Quinn family unfolds against an America wracked by change. As it delicately dances on the line between the real and the imagined, this mesmerizing new novel confirms Keith Donohue’s standing as one of our most inspiring and inventive novelists.
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"The time machine first arrived during the summer. I was outside, mowing the lawn, when it insinuated itself into the shrubbery."So begins "But Always Meeting Ourselves", a darkly comic tale by Leo Hunt about gardening, memories and the terrible consequences of being able to go back."The time machine first arrived during the summer. I was outside, mowing the lawn, when it insinuated itself into the shrubbery. The time machine was a tall yellow cylinder, like a can of pop someone had stretched. I remember it smelt like the carpets at my grandmother’s house, which I had crawled across as a child. I turned off the lawn mower. A slot opened in the machine and my future self climbed out."So begins "But Always Meeting Ourselves", a darkly comic tale by Leo Hunt about gardening, memories and the terrible consequences of being able to go back. Originally published in issue thirty-six of Neon, this short story is now available as an individual eBook edition. Read more about it at www.neonmagazine.co.uk, or visit Leo at coldstarharbor.tumblr.com. Views: 533
"The best retelling of Cinderella I've read to date!" – Brandi, AmazonYears ago, Elle ― never call her Cinderella ― escaped her evil stepfamily in order to build a new life for herself in Manhattan. Today, Elle's awful past is a distant memory. In fact, Elle even attends West Lake Prep, an exclusive high school where regular humans mix with members of the Magicorum, such as fairies, shifters and witches. Although she still must live in hiding from her evil stepfamily, Elle always has found ways to get whatever her heart desires.That is, until Alec Le Charme. Sure, Alec is the heir to the Le Charme dynasty of high-end jewelers, but he's also kind, charismatic, and has a knee-melting smile. Long story short, Elle has fallen for Alec, hard. Unfortunately, thanks to Elle's evil stepfamily, the Le Charme heir is absolutely off limits. In fact, if Elle and Alec so much as kiss, it could start a magical chain reaction that... Views: 533
All Whitney wants is to go to dinner with his boyfriend and ask him to move in with him. Instead he winds up kidnapped, a mistake for which his family will harass him relentlessly—and which his kidnappers will swiftly come to regret. Author's Note: this book is the sequel to A Game Most Dangerous Views: 533
Some have called her Nemesis, some Aphrodite, others Invidia: but whatever her name, her wrath seems to increase with every recounting of the merciless vengeance she’s inflicted on what little remains of man’s civilisation.Humanity requires a saviour, someone who can stop Memesis while men still live.But all they have to save them is a girl: a girl so young, so small, she’s called Lil’.A call at the night of his birthday drags Rajan to a horrendous crime scene for an investigation. At first, everything seems like a normal murder case until the dead re-embroideries his most terrible fear. Rajan soon finds himself entangle in a web of strings pulled by the master puppeteer.Will Rajan be able to conquer his past and save the present? Will he able to crack the case ?Read this exciting psychological short thriller to find out. Views: 533
This collection contains fifteen short stories in a variety of genres, including science fiction, crime, and horror.Conflict: A woman becomes possessed by the ancestors of those murdered to obtain the diamond for her wedding ring.Marvin's Dead: A woman mourns the man she loves.Jahannam: A young man pays a ransom for his kidnapped father, and waits at the morgue for news.Font of Youth: A man discovers immortality, alone.Four Degrees Above Freezing: A detective questions a man who found a chilled corpse.Fallstaff: Sir John is the King's man.Check Out: A former killer-for-hire hides out after being unable to fulfill a contract.Fainting Game: A man becomes obsessed tracking the deaths of several young boys.Murder on Holiday: While on holiday, a serial-killer's activities lead to the birth of Jack The Ripper's myth.A Life In Porn: A man records and relives little moments with the women in his life.Betty Page Is Dead: A young GI falls in love with a pinup picture.DID Have: Four personalities in the same body reflect on the death of the fifth.Spirit: A NASA probe finds love. And note I didn't go for the obvious 'willing' joke.PWI: An astronaut fights with his ship's computer about his habit of getting drunk while piloting.Baby Back: A pregnancy re-kindles a failing relationship.Cockfight: A rooster, irresistible to hens and humans alike, upsets the pecking order. Views: 533
Four teenagers gain superhuman abilities in an abandoned laboratory in the woods. They think it's perfect, until they discover a dark entity named the Shadow. They have to defeat him before he defeats them, but can they defeat darkness?In the first book of the epic the Super 4 series, four teenagers, Harrison, Jake, Carly and Darryl, embark on an adventure of lifetime, when during a mountain walk, they find themselves lost and thirsty. That's when they stumble across a lab. It was a miracle. Vending machines lined up the wall. They drink as many sodas as they can.The left feeling powerful.Though they still faced life's natural problems; bullying, grades and fights, they felt confident and powerful.Then, havoc started wreaking in their lives. All hell broke loose. Family problems, personal problems, friend problems.They discover the person behind all this, one they nicknamed, the Shadow, and knew that problem had to be solved.With no knowledge of who the Shadow really was, the teenagers fight for their lives.But can they defeat darkness? Views: 533
The Cult of Rae have infiltrated the Tower of the Seven Stars and doom could follow them.Emma and her brother and friends have arrived at the Tower of the Seven Stars to begin their formal magical training. But their training is cut short when they uncover a plot by the nefarious Cult of Rae to bring the Tower crumbling down. Can Emma and her friends investigate the strange happenings at the Tower while keeping up with their schoolwork and nursing new rivalries? And do they have the magical prowess to stand against the cultists? If not, the entire Tower, and later the world, could come to a tragic end.Another installment in the Seven Stars Universe by Dayne Edmondson, this is a young adult fantasy novel set twenty years after "Shadows Fall" and featuring cameos from some famous characters. Read now to jump into the adventure. Views: 533
The first in a new range of novels of eldritch adventure from the wildly popular Arkham Horror; an international thief of esoteric artifacts stumbles onto a nightmarish cult in 1920s New England.Contessa Alessandra Zorzi, international adventurer and thief, arrives in Arkham pursuing an ancient body freshly exhumed from a mound in Oklahoma, of curious provenance and peculiar characteristics. But before she can steal it, another party beats her to it. During the resulting gunfight at the Arkham Historical Society, the Contessa makes eye contact with the petrified corpse and begins an adventure of discovery outside her wildest experiences. Now, caught between her mysterious client, the police, and a society of necrophagic connoisseurs, she finds herself on the trail of a resurrected mummy as well as the star-born terror gestating within it. Views: 533
An outstanding array—52 pieces in all—of selected fiction from the multiple-award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, curated by his readers around the world, and introduced with a foreword by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon JamesSpanning Gaiman's career to date, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is a captivating collection from one of the world's most beloved writers, chosen by those who know his work best: his devoted readers. A brilliant representation of Gaiman's groundbreaking, entrancing, endlessly imaginative fiction, this captivating volume includes excerpts from each of his five novels for adults —Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane—and nearly fifty of his short stories. Impressive in its depth and range, The Neil Gaiman Reader: Selected Fiction is both an entryway to Gaiman's oeuvre and... Views: 532
The Argoss III is derelict, abandoned; a ghost ship. A salvage team is sent aboard. But something is watching them with malice and hatred. Something that has no love for Humanity. Salvage is the terrifying reality of first contact a long way from Earth.After the fall, the diaspora began. Great arcs carrying the best of Humanity streaked towards new homes in the heavens. Distant stars with the potential for hosting life were the final destination of the many giant biospheres.Centuries later, two great arcs arrived at the Palsenz system, only to discover a third Arc, long believed to have been destroyed, waiting for them, derelict. A ghost ship. The crew of the shuttle Heimdall are tasked to deliver a group of engineers and technicians to the Argoss. Stephanie Chu, co-pilot on the shuttle ensures the salvage team gain access. Everything is by the book, no mistakes are made.But not everything is as it seems. There is no crew, the Argoss is indeed a ghost ship. Or is it? Views: 532
With a touch of her hand, Octavia Hollows can restore life. Yet, she couldn’t save the man she loved from the horrific accident that stole him from her. Octavia thought she could outrun the pain, but ghosts from the past refuse to be silenced. Out of options, she chooses to retrace her wayward journey across the country in search of answers. Surrounded by baffling mysteries of the undead, what she learns about herself along the way might become her greatest weapon.
Tallahassee, Florida: Where the love of her life died.
Octavia’s coven has gone missing, and a demented stalker is sending her body parts in the mail. Tired of playing along with his twisted games, the pink-haired necromancer and her swinekick are preparing for war. But this is one battle she won’t face alone. Friends, both living and deceased, will rise to stand beside her. Will it be enough to end the creeper’s murderous vendetta? Or, will death come for the one person Octavia can’t resurrect… herself? Views: 532
