Four talented girls
from vastly different pasts share a dream of stardom: Cinnamon, the edgy
actress; Ice, the phenomenal vocalist; Rose, the beautiful dancer; and
Honey, the first-rate violinist. The four meet at the prestigious
Senetsky School of the Performing Arts—housed in an ornate New York City
mansion—and become instant friends as they take off on a dazling
whirlwind of intense classes, theatre outings, and celebrity-studded
parties.But they soon realize this is no ordinary school. Madame
Senetsky pushes the girls studies beyond reason. She controls their
social lives. And they get the strange feeling someone is watching
them. But who...and why?Cinnamon, Ice, Rose, and Honey set out
to untangle a shadowy web of Senetsky family secrets. As they explore
dark corners and hidden rooms, every creak and moan of the old mansion
tells a story too frightening to repeat. A devastating story that can
destroy their dreams... Views: 26
On the eve of an extinction level event, Anna Jenner's survival is almost assured. All she has to do is travel with her son from Midland, Texas to the designated safe zone out east, picking up selected essential personnel on her journey. Her job is to lead and bring the chosen few to the sanctuary. A comet is on a direct collision course for earth. Its impact will bring global devastation. Anna and the others will be the ones to rise from the ashes when the dust settles. Everything is set. But along the way, chaos over the nearing event ensues, and while crossing a panic filled country, Anna makes decisions that impact the long term plan. She is human. Unable to refuse those who ask for help, Anna opens the door to strangers in her own small attempt to preserve humanity. The meticulously drawn out long term plan is out the window. Not only must Anna prove to everyone that her choices were the correct ones, she must try to maintain balance in an emotionally difficult situation. Unfortunately, it is not easy for her. In the days and weeks following the event, everything in the bunker must be rethought, recalculated and unfortunately, heartbreaking decisions made. Views: 26
Inspector Angel Cardenas has seen murdered corpses like George Anderson's, but never a case like this. The victim's ID doesn't match his DNA, Anderson's wife and preteen daughter, Katla, are missing, their home has been turned into a time bomb-and mobs from three continents are all hunting Katla. Relying on his training as a nearly telepathic intuit, Cardenas embarks on a search for clues that leads him from the Strip's sex parlors and stimstick clubs, where kids are deadly and music can kill, to an undersea hideout where computer crimes are committed by criminal computers. Yet the closer Cardenas gets to the girl, the closer assassins are getting to them both...From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Foster (The Dig; Interlopers; etc.) elevates this well-paced, hard-boiled SF police procedural through the use of a highly imaginative setting the sprawling Montezuma Strip, which stretches along the old U.S.-Mexican border and constitutes "the western hemisphere's largest concentration of industry, commerce, assemblage, cutting-edge technology, and trouble." When police inspector Angel Cardenas investigates the case of a male corpse found with most of its internal organs missing ("They'd left the heart. Not much of a demand for hearts these days. Not with good, cheap artificial models flooding the market"), the victim turns out to have had two identities one as a local executive, the other as a Texas businessman. The plot thickens when the victim's booby-trapped house nearly kills Cardenas and his partner. After a few more near escapes, they establish that the corpse's "wife and daughter" are actually Surtsey and Katla Mockerkin, the ex-wife and 12-year-old daughter of crime lord Cleator Mockerkin, who wants them back in (literally) the worst way. By now Cardenas is sufficiently determined to follow them to Central America, aided by his training as an almost telepathic intuit. The amazingly versatile author plays with a full deck of futuristic elements notably, sapient apes led by gorillas and intelligent rogue computers that commit computer crimes. An ambiguous but nonetheless satisfying ending leaves open the possibility of another story about Inspector Cardenas. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalProlific author of perennial best sellers (e.g., The Dig), Foster offers an entertaining cross between the police procedural and sf genres. Angel Cardenas of the Namerican States Federales is a police inspector whose beat is the Strip, a megalopolis that encompasses Mexico and part of what used to be the United States. A routine investigation of what appears to be a mugging death soon leads to something unlike anything Cardenas has ever encountered, and he needs all of his considerable skills to track down the body and penetrate the wake of death that surrounds the victim's wife, Surtsey, and her daughter, Katla. Several parties are criminally intent on harming the women; Cardenas wants to find out why and how to protect them. Cardenas is an appealing character, and his antagonists are as colorful as they are imaginatively deadly. The only stiff character is 12-year-old Katla, who, even accounting for her renowned precociousness, comes across flat. But Foster makes up for that with a richly envisioned future of high-tech urban sprawl that calls to mind a less dystopian Blade Runner. For general fiction and sf collections.- Devon Thomas, Hass MS&L, Ann Arbor, MI Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Views: 26
From the imagination behind Flowers in the Attic comes a sensational new novel that spins a seductive web between fantasies and lies — and uncovers the price for keepingSecrets in the AtticTwo Friends As Close As Sisters.One Killer Secret ThatWill Tear Their Small Town Apart.In
the dust and shadows of the attic, they shared everything — fanciful
stories, high school crushes, plans for the future, dreams to travel the
world. For Karen, the attic is her escape from the reality of her
stepfather's unwanted attention. Together in the eaves of a house with
its own murderous history, the best friends concoct a scheme that will
put Karen's stepfather in his place. It wasn't supposed to turn deadly.
But in the attic Karen shares one more secret with her best friend — a
secret to take to the grave.... Views: 26
In this pulse-pounding, mind-expanding conclusion to the Morpheus
Initiative trilogy, psychic Caleb Crowe must locate the ancient Spear of
Destiny – the one item with sufficient power to destroy the Emerald
Tablet – before those who stole it can unlock its power and use it
eradicate all life on the planet. It’s a quest that will lead Caleb and
his team through history, even viewing events beyond the Earth, where
ancient enemies started a war that has yet to end.From the
caverns under the Sphinx to ancient ruined cities in Pakistan, and then
on to a secret government project in Alaska, the Morpheus team will
ultimately track the Spear to the Statue of Liberty, along the way
encountering new psychics, deadly enemies with abilities to block their
visions, and mysterious ancient knowledge locked away in the most
unreachable of places… Views: 26
The Cthulhu Mythos is one of the 20th century's most singularly recognizable literary creations. Initially created by H. P. Lovecraft and a group of his amorphous contemporaries (the so-called "Lovecraft Circle"), The Cthulhu Mythos story cycle has taken on a convoluted, cyclopean life of its own. Some of the most prodigious writers of the 20th century, and some of the most astounding writers of the 21st century have planted their seeds in this fertile soil. The Book of Cthulhu harvests the weirdest and most corpulent crop of these modern mythos tales. From weird fiction masters to enigmatic rising stars, The Book of Cthulhu demonstrates how Mythos fiction has been a major cultural meme throughout the 20th century, and how this type of story is still salient, and terribly powerful today. Views: 26
