Book 4: The HauntingBook 5: The GuardianBook 6: The EncounterProduct DescriptionSome doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don't want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by bestselling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca 'Becka' Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world---a world fraught with deception and spiritual adversaries that promise goodness and enlightenment but will stop at nothing to destroy life, sanity, and human souls. Witchcraft. Reincarnation. Ouija Boards. UFOs. Shamanism. Counterfeit spiritualities are widespread and popular with spiritually searching young adults such as Becka's peers. What's the harm? Find out. Join Becka, Scott, and Ryan as they head for mind-bending clashes between the forces of darkness and the kingdom of God. Combining meticulous research, realistic settings, and masterful storytelling, the Forbidden Doors novels take you from the mountains of New Mexico to the inner workings of a secret society---and into the truth of God's Word, which exposes lies and reveals the reality of spiritual warfare. Each volume in the series contains three books that center around a particular kind of Forbidden Door. Book One: Dark Powers contains The Society, The Deceived, and The Spell; Book Two: Invisible Terror contains The Haunting, The Guardian, and The Encounter; Book Three: Deadly Loyalty contains The Curse, The Undead, and The Scream; Book Four: Ancient Forces contains The Ancients, The Wiccan, and The Cards From the Back CoverSome doors are better left unopened. Some doors, you don't want to find out what lies behind them. In the Forbidden Doors series by bestselling author Bill Myers, teenager Rebecca 'Becka' Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world---a world fraught with deception and spiritual adversaries that promise goodness and enlightenment but will stop at nothing to destroy life, sanity, and human souls. Witchcraft. Reincarnation. Ouija Boards. UFOs. Shamanism. Counterfeit spiritualities are widespread and popular with spiritually searching young adults such as Becka's peers. What's the harm? Find out. Join Becka, Scott, and Ryan as they head for mind-bending clashes between the forces of darkness and the kingdom of God. Combining meticulous research, realistic settings, and masterful storytelling, the Forbidden Doors novels take you from the mountains of New Mexico to the inner workings of a secret society---and into the truth of God's Word, which exposes lies and reveals the reality of spiritual warfare. Each volume in the series contains three books that center around a particular kind of Forbidden Door. Book One: Dark Powers contains The Society, The Deceived, and The Spell; Book Two: Invisible Terror contains The Haunting, The Guardian, and The Encounter; Book Three: Deadly Loyalty contains The Curse, The Undead, and The Scream; Book Four: Ancient Forces contains The Ancients, The Wiccan, and The Cards Views: 42
Horror legend Harry Tuttle is desperate for a hit. Enter Marcus Stegman, a young unknown with a horror picture of his own. A rivalry ensues — and it's about to become bloody. A suspicious film critic, beautiful young starlet, and deranged fan become entangled in the cut-throat competition where hungry hopefuls will go to any means necessary to break into the big-time...and no one is safe. Views: 42
Lady Catherine de Bourgh requires the Darcys help to persuade Colonel Fitzwilliam to marry her daughter. But Anne de Bourgh has other ideas. So too does the colonel. Views: 42
A dark and ominous tunnel stands before Wayne. Inside are phantom things he has been warned are imaginary only as long as he does not prove them otherwise. Does he have the courage to reach the other side? And if he does, can he possibly survive what awaits him? For at the far end of the tunnel lies the Wood, a desperately dark and hopeless place where death is eternal...but rarely final. Views: 42
When a wealthy Venetian woman is found brutally murdered, the prime suspect is her Romanian maid, who has fled the city. As she attempts to leave the country, carrying a considerable sum of money and forged papers, the maid runs into the path of an oncoming train and is killed. Case closed.But when the old woman's neighbour returns from abroad, it becomes clear that the maid could not have been the killer. Commissario Brunetti decides -- unofficially -- to take the case on himself.As Brunetti investigates, it becomes clear that the motive for the murder was unlikely to have been greed, rather that it had its roots in the temptations of lust. But perhaps Brunetti is thinking of the wrong deadly sin altogether... Views: 42
Lord Robert Forster hopes to meet his match—on the chessboard. He jumps at
the chance to cross rooks with the renowned Sicilian widow Contessa Electra Falzone.
However, the lovely foreigner’s bold opening gambit raises concerns about her politics
when she finds her way into his bedchamber, not with seduction in mind, but to steal
state secrets. Electra Falzone has always avoided scandalous liaisons, until blackmail
forces her to turn thief and risk her reputation in the arms of the handsome Lord
Robert. If her manipulators were threatening only her, she would confess all to her
fellow strategist. But given who will suffer if she fails, she can’t afford to take that
risk. Drawn to the exotic contessa, Rob won’t allow her to be used as a pawn by an
unscrupulous schemer. But if Electra is determined to play this dangerous game for
reasons of her own, nothing Rob can do will stop her. Meet Rob’s siblings in
Compromising the Marquess and Beguiling the Barrister. Views: 42
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Out of the fire... He'd saved her from the flames, but a was Sheriff Gabriel Blackhorse's own heat Lanie Matthews feared. The first time she looked into his night-dark eyes she felt a stirring of recognition, as though she'd come home. But Lanie was only passing through Four Winds .... Into the flame? People kept telling her that Four Winds had a way of changing one's mind. It had certainly changed her luck. First the fire, then it seemed a mysterious gift from a passing peddler had put Lanie's life in danger ...and her fate in the hands of the very man she was determined to avoid. Could Lanie really escape Gabriel ...or her destiny? Views: 42
In this superbly accomplished new Charlotte and Thomas Pitt adventure, Anne Perry takes us beneath the glittering surface of wealthy Victorian society into a nightmare world of fear and intimidation, where women are too often blamed for the violent attacks against them, and powerful men take what they want, leaving others to pay the price. The horrifying rape and apparent suicide of Catherine Quixwood, wife of a wealthy merchant banker, falls outside the new jurisdiction of Special Branch head Thomas Pitt, but so pervasively offensive are the rumors about the victim that Pitt quietly takes a hand in the investigation. Yet even with the help of his ingenious wife, Charlotte, and his former superior, Victor Narraway, Pitt is stumped. Why did high-minded, cultured Catherine choose not to accompany her husband to a grand party on the night of her demise? Why did she dismiss all her servants for the evening and leave the front door unlocked? What had been her... Views: 42
From the author of the Inspector Montalbano series comes the remarkable account of an exceptional woman who rises to power in 17th century Sicily and brings about sweeping changes that threaten the iron-fisted patriarchy, before being cast out in a coup after only 27 days. Sicily, April 16 1677. From his deathbed, Charles III's viceroy, Anielo de Guzmán y Carafa, marquis of Castle Rodrigo, names his wife, Doña Eleonora, as his successor. Eleonora de Moura is a highly intelligent and capable woman who immediately applies her political acumen to heal the scarred soul of Palermo, a city afflicted by poverty, misery, and the frequent uprisings they entail.The Marquise implements measures that include lowering the price of bread, reducing taxes for large families, re-opening women's care facilities, and establishing stipends for young couples wishing to marry—all measures that were considered seditious by the conservative city fathers and by the Church. The... Views: 42
