When Erin Robin is forced to fly the nest by her four greedy sisters, she crashes into a window which leaves her unable to fly and trapped in a garden where a hungry tomcat lives. Erin must think quickly and get help from the other animals in the garden if she is to escape before the cat gets home.Poor Erin Robin is the youngest of five greedy sisters. There just isn't room for her in the nest. When she's forced to fly the nest, she crashes into a window which leaves her unable to fly and trapped in a garden where a hungry tomcat lives. Erin must think quickly and get help from the other animals in the garden if she is to escape before the cat gets home. Views: 525
Had he THE WILL TO KILL?
IT BEGAN WITH THIS:“I came out of the blackout standing in our bedroom . . . standing there in the moonlight with the scissors glinting in my hand . . . standing over the body of Marie and looking at the place where those same scissors had cut her throat . . .”
IT ENDED WITH:Women of the streets mutilated and slain, kids scared of their shadows, people staying off the streets and huddling behind doors and windows—a city gripped by fear!
AND ALWAYS THE QUESTION: “WAS I THE MANIAC KILLER?”
IT’S ROBERT BLOCH’S LATEST! An ACE BOOK Original Novel Never Before Published Views: 525
The Last Bastion of the Living: A Futuristic Zombie Novel As long as the undead hordes of the Inferi Scourge howl outside the dying city, the last remaining humans struggle to survive inside The Bastion. Vanguard Maria Martinez has lived her entire life within the towering walls. Her only refuge from the overcrowded streets, rolling blackouts, and food shortages is in the arms of Officer Dwayne Reichardt. Then Maria is summoned to meet with a mysterious representative from the Science Warfare Division and is offered the opportunity to finally destroy the Inferi Scourge and reclaim the land and resources in the valley beyond the wall. If she succeeds, the city may be saved. But if she fails, humanity faces extinction… Views: 525
There is always hope.Northern France is a frozen morass of mud and snow across which rampages a horde of the undead, a hundred million strong. That won't stop Chester Carson and his comrades. Seeking a way across the Channel, they make for the coast, unaware that Britain has been abandoned, Belfast is a ruin, and that radiation is seeping into the Irish Sea. If they knew, that wouldn't stop them either. They're on a quest to save their family, their friends, and humanity itself; failure is not an option.As they journey through war-ravaged ports and storm-wrecked beaches, a new truth becomes clear. The flotilla that found refuge on Anglesey wasn't the only group of sea-borne refugees to have survived the outbreak. There are other survivors. Some good, some evil, some just determined to do their duty no matter the cost.Danger lurks along the French and Belgian coasts. So do answers, and hope that humanity now has a future. Views: 525
Carmen Walker has spent the last three years of her life focusing on avenging the murder of her husband. Following leads to the man responsible, she finally has a chance to bring closure to the overwhelming pain and grief that is slowly eating away at her. Catching a ride on the business jet her sister is co-piloting, she heads to California to meet with her informant. Plans change when one of the women on board is kidnapped when they land and Carmen is mortally wounded. She wakes to find herself on board an alien warship heading to a distant world.
Creon Reykill's skills as a warrior are legendary among the Valdier. He is credited with ending the wars between the Valdier and the Cruizan and Sarafin worlds and building a strong alliance with their former enemies. But, that victory came at a cost. Creon has given up hope of ever finding his true mate, believing his soul is too dark to ever be gifted with one.
That all changes when a small, delicate female unlike anything he has ever seen before is brought to his world. The moment he sees her, he knows she belongs to him. His dragon will do anything to claim her, his symbiot will do anything to protect her, and he would do anything to chase the shadows from her eyes. For he knows he has found the light to his darkness.
Now, the challenge will be to corner her long enough for her to realize he is the only one in the universe who can heal her shattered heart. She will fight him at every turn to return home to finish what she has started. He will do everything in his power to keep her by his side. It will take every skill he possesses to stay one step ahead of her.
Can he convince her to give love a second chance before she risks everything - including her life - for revenge? Views: 525
The battle is over, and the prophecy has come to pass, but is Nicholas prepared for what is to follow?This book of short verse and haiku was inspired by nature. Many of the poems reference the river and were written after visits to the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. The book is dedicated to Columbia Bottoms Conservation Area in Spanish Lake, Missouri. Read, relax, enjoy! Views: 525
What would our world be like if superhuman heroes and villains had been real flesh-and-blood men and women who lived through the 20th century's most turbulent history? In Wild Cards 4: Aces Abroad, a fact-finding mission seeks the truth about how Wild Cards are treated in other nations. From the jungles of Haiti to the Great Wall of China and behind the Iron Curtain, the Wild Cards team investigates the fate of their fellow Aces and Jokers everywhere. Views: 524
When Shan was fifteen years old, dark soldiers came out of the west, like a cloud of evil boiling over the soft hills of his homeland. They commanded terrible beasts, which killed with hook claws like scythes and cold eyes that dripped icy fire. The soldiers wore helmets that looked like fiends, tusked and snarling and sneering.
The terrible consequences of war have left the boy Shan wounded in body and mind by the invading army of Magravandias. He's taken from his devastated village by the magus Taropat, chosen by the master's mysterious impulse to become the wizard's pupil, and a weapon against the invading empire. Views: 524
101 Odd, Goth stories, are the little poses I wrote, publishing every week a new one. From knowing fictional books, or my own creations, the book it is a collection of some fictional stories I heard, created, seen, loved. From the books, mythologies, oddest stories, dreams...The third part of the series „ 101 Goth Stories”, features Agarinion, a young prince god, born on the Flos Island, by her mother's tears, Dolor, the Goddess of Life and Beauty and from his father's flames, Sanguis, the God of Death and Destruction. All his life, every year he has three tasks to pass, in order to destroy his father's curse. But this time, he has to pass the last three task to become a full GOD. But his father knew the secret... Views: 524
If you love quirky and dark short stories but have become discouraged over the lack of originality these days then "Weirder Than Weird" will renew your faith! "Weirder Than Weird" is chock full of dark and creepy tales that will leave you wanting more and also wondering about the authors sanity."Weirder Than Weird" is chock full of the most unusual tales that you will ever read. Imagine if you will... a woman who holds the deepest and darkest of secrets. She seeks relief from her ignominious shame but her psychologist knows her secret all too well and she ends up paying for her indiscretions with her very soul. Or consider Keith Tuttle, a young man who unwittingly becomes entrenched in a horrifying tale that leads him into bondage but in the end someone close to him unexpectedly benefits from his damnation. Another story called "Arrival Time" will allow you to peer into the life of a solitary man traveling through space and what he has come to rely upon in order to keep his sanity. Will he lose it? Stand by....These are just a few of the weird tales that await you. Can you hear the whistle blowing? The train is about to leave the station. Next stop: Scares-ville, Terror-town and Humor-heights. The only question now is...will you be on board? Views: 524
