"Everyone should read Frances Hardinge. Everyone. Right now.' Patrick Ness
Fly By Night is the stunnning debut novel from Frances Hardinge, author of the Costa Award winning The Lie Tree.
As the realm struggles to maintain an uneasy peace after years of civil war and tyranny, a twelve-year-old orphan called Mosca Mye and her loyal companion, a cantankerous goose, are about to become the unlikely heroes of a radical revolution. Mosca is on the run, heading for the city of Mandelion. There she finds herself living by her wits among cut-throat highwaymen, spies and smugglers. With peril at every turn, Mosca uncovers a dark plot to terrorize the people of Mandelion, and soon merry mayhem leads to murder . . .
Fly By Night* by Frances Hardinge has an unforgettable cast of characters and an inspiring message at its heart - sometimes the power of words can change the world.
Fly By Night is followed by its thrilling sequel, Twilight Robbery." Views: 161
The first Capes Online superhero LitRPG novel.
In 2043, Capes Online is the biggest, most popular VRMMORPG in the world. With over one billion active players and counting, gamers can be brave Heroes or cunning Villains, their every choice determining their Alignment. Everyone wants to play this game and almost everyone does.
Except for 25-year-old police officer Nyle Maxwell, who can't log out. Killed in a car accident on his first day on the job, Nyle gets his mind uploaded to Capes
Online to save his life. But the one way mind-to-game upload process means Nyle can never return to his physical body in the real world. Nor is he allowed to contact his friends and family outside the game or else he risks deletion by the secretive government organization that put him in the game in the first place.
Things get even worse when a villain known as Dark Kosmos takes over Capes Online not long after Nyle's arrival. Trapping all of the players in the game and cutting off all contact with the real world, Dark Kosmos targets Nyle for death.
Now Nyle must become a true superhero and save his fellow players from Dark Kosmos while adjusting to his new digital life. All of which would be much easier if he
didn't have a hyperactive sidekick overly fond of puns or if he even wanted to be here in the first place. Views: 161
A broken vase wasn't all this maid owed her masters.Piper needed a job. Any job would do. However, when the temp agency assigned her to clean the house of a bunch of snobby rich boys, she wasn't sure it was worth.Stuck in a job she had no choice but to keep, Piper ends up even more indebted to her employers when she breaks a priceless vase. Breaking a vase was the least of Piper's troubles because her employers have a secret.One that they are willing to kill to keep. Now, she'll be lucky to keep her job let alone live through it. Views: 161
Betrayal, jealousy, and death have always been a part of my future. I'm the almost Queen. Betrothed to one man, and in love with another. Though there's no doubt in my mind who I'll choose. Lancelot has my heart, even if it'll lead me down the path to the pyre. No matter what it takes, I'll find a way to save us all from the prophecy which threatens to consume us. - The Almost Queen is book one in the Fate Of The Crown Duology and follows Gwen and Lancelot. This is a non-bully academy dulogy based on Arthurian legends and contains an m/f relationship. Views: 161
Blackmail Sparks Murder On a Planet of PsychicsA Science Fiction Cozy Mystery When Clemintine LaSalle steals her mother's Indenture Contract from a blackmailer's safe, she accidentally gets his blackmail list too, and someone wants that list badly enough to frame her for murder... Shangri-la was designed to be the next utopia. But it's flawed and someone is attempting to destroy it. A war is building between the Reformers who want to correct their flawed government and the Conservatives who want things to stay the same. Neither faction wants their schemes or their identities exposed. Unfortunately, a blackmailer knows the who the players are on both sides of the conflict. They have been paying him to keep their identities secret, but now he's dead and his blackmail information has gone missing... Views: 161
