From New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger comes a new novel in the world of the Parasol Protectorate starring Prudence, the daughter of Alexia Tarabotti.
When Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama (Rue to her friends) is given an unexpected dirigible, she does what any sensible female would under similar circumstances - names it the Spotted Custard and floats to India in pursuit of the perfect cup of tea. But India has more than just tea on offer. Rue stumbles upon a plot involving local dissidents, a kidnapped brigadier's wife, and some awfully familiar Scottish werewolves. Faced with a dire crisis and an embarrassing lack of bloomers, what else is a young lady of good breeding to do but turn metanatural and find out everyone's secrets, even thousand-year-old fuzzy ones? Views: 468
Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead. While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they're armed with pesto. BLAMELESS is the third book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. Views: 465
The story of an impoverished old woman who is paid a nighttime visit by the devil himself, who offers her a life of luxury in exchange for her soul.Old Tanya Gillock is a seventy-year-old woman from a small town. When her father died, he left her his farm, but shortly afterwards it became barren. So Tanya and her partner, Betty, turned to tailoring as a way to make a living. But still, they’re very poor.Then, one night – a mysterious man arrives with the promise to provide Tanya with a wealthy, easy life. There’s just one catch. He wants her soul in return. Views: 462
A compilation of many of the fairytales I've written over the years, gathered tidily in one place. This volume is compiled from free works on my website, stories written for various challenges and prompts, and other straggling tales. Some of these are my spins on familiar tales, like Cinderella and Ivan and the Wolf, others are simply based on well-known types of fairytales. Stories included in this volume: True Chivalry If the Shoe Fits Deeds Great & Small Challenge of Quests The Shining Knight The Prince's Champion The King's Challenges Knight of the Rose Three Questions The Witch in the Woods Ivan the Heartless Blood in the Water The Stable Boy Three Goats The Gardner The Good Son Play Me a Song 100 Words Views: 462
Bad dreams, that's all they are right? Just bad dreams, bad dreams can never be real can they? That's what Willow hopes but bad dreams and darkness has plagued her, her entire life.What Willow is about to discover is far beyond what she imagined her dreams to be, who is Willow and why does darkness follow her?Having lived in an orphanage her entire life, Willow dreams of the future and moving on to something better. Surrounded by children she dreams of helping those just like herself, those without a home or parents to go to.But Willow is not all she seems, with darkness constantly chasing her and the orphanage appearing to be falling into disrepair, Willow believes that the owner is to blame for her miserable life, her tatty clothes and the lack of food for all the children, but is the owner to blame?As Willow's life takes a turn into something more dark, twisted and evil, will she be able resist that which seems so tempting, or will she give into something so dark and desirable that may just be the end of light and humanity. Views: 461
Upon his return to Tournai, royal cousin Faelen wants nothing more than to build a quiet life surrounded by his family and his books. Maxen, second son of a wealthy merchant family, dreams of the day he can leave Tournai for travel and adventure. Neither of them expected to fall in love, but when magic goes awry and secrets are revealed, will their love remain? Views: 461
Marchant Radcliffe, owner of the exclusive Love Inc. brothel, is no stranger to darkness. He lost his parents in a plane crash and since college has harbored a secret almost too terrible to bear. He keeps his head above water by pouring his energy into his business—and he’s thrived, despite the dark blot on his soul.
Then, after ten years of good fortune, Marchant’s skeletons start to peek out of the closet, tossing him down a trail of ruin that begins with arson and could end with murder. Because he’s kept his struggles private, he has no one to pull him back from the brink.
After a breakup with her longtime fiancé, Suri Dalton, daughter of one of Silicon Valley’s tech tycoons, has nowhere to go except her BFF’s new penthouse in Las Vegas. The last thing Suri is looking for is a man, but after drowning her woes in wine on the flight over, she stumbles into a torrid make out session with a beautiful stranger—who just so happens to be Marchant Radcliffe, playboy and literal pimp.
Despite an immediate attraction, Suri writes Marchant off as exactly the sort of guy she should avoid. Until Love Inc. goes up in flames, Marchant winds up at the bottom of a swimming pool, and Suri is the only one around to pull him out.
What happens when what you see isn’t what you get? What do you do when destiny is too alluring to resist and too dangerous to survive? Views: 460
1. The Second Great War rages on, threatening to tear the world apart. Himmler’s SS Paranormal Division is scouring the globe in search of magikal artifacts and preternatural operatives to add to Hitler’s growing supernatural forces. If he isn’t stopped, he will soon have an army of vampires at his disposal, creatures that will stop at nothing to see the world bathed in blood and darkness.
It is in this terrifying world that Raven Storm finds herself after her fight with the Harlequin in present day Chicago. Cut off from her friends and family, Raven joins forces with Mack Mason to investigate the murder of an antiques dealer in Old Town, an innocent who left the words Black Eon behind in his own blood.
The mystery deepens when more bodies begin appearing around town, the burned and bloodless corpses stuck inside concrete and brick as if left there by the hand of God.
What is Black Eon? And how do they stop it before it kills again?
Stormfront.
Time is a Killer. Views: 459
When a young vampire picks up a first time prostitute, both get more than they were expecting.Alex knew it was wrong, something about the young man told him to stay away. But he couldn't. What was the harm in one sip?Ryan was at the end of his ropes. Homeless, starving, he was desperate to make enough for his next meal. When he climbed into Alex's car he never expected to be a meal himself.Enthralled is a story of romance, betrayal and sacrifice. Views: 458
