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This one-hundred-page novella picks up where the international bestselling Die for Me trilogy ended and follows the eternally irresistible Jules Marchenoir as he leaves Paris behind for a fresh start in New York City.
Jules is a revenant—an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save human lives. He's spent the last century flirting his way through Paris and, most recently, falling in love with his best friend's girlfriend. Loyalty and heartbreak have led him to choose a new life in NYC.
Separated from his friends and his home, Jules is adrift in this dangerous new world, facing unknown enemies . . . until he meets a revenant named Ava. Though the battle for France has been won, an epic war between good and evil has just begun in the Big Apple, and Ava needs Jules's help to uncover the key to an American victory. Jules finds himself in the same position he crossed an ocean to escape: at risk of losing his immortal existence as well as his heart. Views: 799
In the vast dominion of Seven Cities, in the Holy Desert Raraku, the seer Sha’ik and her followers prepare for the long-prophesied uprising known as the Whirlwind. Unprecedented in size and savagery, this maelstrom of fanaticism and bloodlust will embroil the Malazan Empire in one of the bloodiest conflicts it has ever known, shaping destinies and giving birth to legends. Views: 799
True beauty lies within. A short fairytale written after reading The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton. The inspiration for this story.It's a story about a girl from Africa who was rudely taken from her own country to America to be a slave on cotton farm. She was abused by her master and had a really terrible times there. She somehow managed to have friends who helped her get through. By the end of this short novel she managed to rescue herself to a better life. Views: 799
A gang enforcer is sent to Sleaford to snatch back a mobster's woman - and take down his rival...McTeague's once trusted friend and associate, Wheelan, has broken off part of the older mobster's crime empire around the east Midlands. Far worse, Wheelan has also taken McTeague's much younger second wife, Claire, away with him.Knowing the rest of his empire will fall away or defect to Wheelan if he fails to act, McTeague sends his trusted and lethal enforcer, Hennessy, to Sleaford to show Wheelan who is chief and to take Claire back home. So Hennessy starts a campaign of violence until Wheelan has no choice but to return Claire. But that is only the start of both gang boss's problems... Views: 799
Years have gone by since the events surrounding the death of Anne Boleyn. But her missing hand and all that it represents to the dark world of 16th-century Europe still draws the powerful to seek it out. Jean Rombaud - the French executioner of the first novel - has grown old, both in age and spirit. Wearied by the betrayal of a son and the scorn of a wife, he fights in the seemingly never-ending siege of Siena. Meanwhile, Gianni Rombaud has forsaken everything his ageing father stands for and now kills heathen for the Inquisition in Rome. Then he is summoned by Cardinal Carafa himself. His masters no longer merely want his dagger in the hearts of Jews, they want the hand of the dead queen... But only three people know where it is buried, and one of them is Gianni's father... Views: 798
Presenting this year’s collection of fresh voices, fabulous worlds, and fantastic new characters. 24 Award-Winning Authors and Illustrators. Accompanied by Orson Scott Card, Brandon Sanderson, Jody Lynn Nye, Jerry Pournelle, Ciruelo and Echo Chernik and Edited by David Farland. Your search for something new and different in sci-fi and fantasy ends here.
Each year, the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests’ blue-ribbon judges search the world to discover and introduce to you the very best new talent in sci-fi and fantasy. Created by L. Ron Hubbard, whose commitment to help new writers and artists gave rise to the annual Writers of the Future anthologies...a launching pad for writers and artists who are sure to command our attention for decades to come.
Contents:
Introduction (L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Volume 34) • essay by Dave Wolverton [as by David Farland]
Illustration Gallery • 16-page color gallery of artwork
Illustrators of the Future • essay by Echo Chernik
Turnabout / short fiction by Erik Bundy • interior artwork by Adar Darnov
A Smokeless and Scorching Fire / short fiction by Erin Cairns • interior artwork by Kyna Tek
The Howler on the Sales Floor / short fiction by Jonathan Ficke • interior artwork by Sidney Lugo
The Minarets of An-Zabat / short fiction by Jeremy TeGrotenhuis • interior artwork by Brenda Rodriguez
Suspense (1937) • essay by L. Ron Hubbard
The Death Flyer • short fiction by L. Ron Hubbard • interior artwork by Ven Locklear
Odd and Ugly / short fiction by Vida Cruz • interior artwork by Reyna Rochin
Mara's Shadow / short fiction by Darci Stone • interior artwork by Quintin Gleim
Theme • essay by Orson Scott Card
The Lesson (excerpt from The Way of Kings) • short fiction by Brandon Sanderson • interior artwork by Bea Jackson
Paying It Forward • essay by Jerry Pournelle
What Lies Beneath / short fiction by Cole Hehr • interior artwork by Maksym Polishchuk
The Face in the Box / short fiction by Janey Bell • interior artwork by Bruce Brenneise
Flee, My Pretty One / short fiction by Eneasz Brodski • interior artwork by Alana Fletcher
Passion and Profession • essay by Ciruelo Cabral [as by Ciruelo]
Illusion • essay by Jody Lynn Nye; inspired by Ciruelo's Dragon Caller
A Bitter Thing / short fiction by N. R. M. Roshak • interior artwork by Jazmen Richardson
Miss Smokey / short fiction by Diana Hart • interior artwork by Anthony Moravian
All Light and Darkness / short fiction by Amy Henrie Gillett • interior artwork by Duncan Halleck
The Year in the Contests • essay by editor
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A powerful tale of revenge, betrayal, mystery, love and power that sweeps from the troubles of Northern Ireland in the 80's to the Middle East and the the UK today. A powerful Arab sheikh lands in the UK with an agenda that appeals to the UK elite. But those who are drawn to him soon find themselves ensnared in series of revelations and an agenda that sets the clock ticking towards Guy Fawkes Day.An explosive story of revenge, betrayal, return, mystery, love and power. When the millionaire Prince Omar Al Ajnabi from the tiny oil rich state of Ramliyya arrives in the UK to launch a programme of investment ventures, he is quickly welcomed to the bosom of British high society. Young British Oxford student Sophie Palmer is not the only individual to fall into the enigmatic sheikh’s maw who quickly finds herself ensnared in a web of political intrigue and painful revelations of the past that stretch back to the troubles of Northern Ireland and forward to a day of countdown and reckoning as the clocktower of Big Ben ticks towards midnight on the 5th of November: Guy Fawkes Day. Views: 798
Salvage in Space is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Jack Williamson is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Jack Williamson then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. Views: 798
The epic begins as Dreibrand Veta and the conquering Horde of the Atrophane Empire reach a mythic Wilderness that beckons with a magical call to glory. But Onja, Queen of the rys, a race far more powerful than the greatest human state, guards this land. She has the power to imprison souls and her genocidal rage is legendary. Everything is at risk for her desperate enemies, the union of renegades.Have you ever looked at the facts of your life and realized your dreams won't come true? Have you ever looked into the unknown and seen opportunity? For Dreibrand Veta, a young officer in the Horde of the Atrophane Empire, these questions explode from his spirit in a fit of rage and launch him into an epic struggle. After he encounters a rare super race, the rys, he is forced to choose sides between passionate rivals and navigate his way through a foreign culture all while plotting to seize his own wealth and glory. In this opening novel of The Rys Chronicles you'll meet a man scarred by bad deeds who answers the call of a heroic cause. An unconventional heroine will tug at your sympathies as she bravely faces adversity with all the strengths and vulnerabilities of her womanhood. And overarching it all are the rys. Their magic makes them superior to humans, but they are not above employing humans in their deadly schemes. Views: 798
12,000 B.C.
They were four trained scientists, each of them skilled in several disciplines - because this was an opportunity that would never occur again. There would never be another chance for men form the world of 2070 A.D. to examine in person the world of 12,000 B.C. What they learned and taped would be the only record ever made of this dim, enigmatic period of prehistory. But absolutely no one in the world of 2070 or in the borrowed time of 12,000 B.C. could have imagined what the tapes would reveal...
A superb novel of adventure and intrigue in a vanished era
Cover illustration: Geoff Cummings Views: 798
Daniel Sheridan is an engineer’s apprentice on a haunted Mississippi steamer known as the Sadie Queen. His best friend–the apprentice pilot, Cassidy Cochran–also happens to be the girl he’s pining for … and the captain’s daughter. But when it looks like the Sadie Queen might get taken off the river, Daniel and Cassidy have to do whatever they can to stop the ghosts that plague the ship.
Fortunately, there happens to be a Creole gentleman on board by the name of Joseph Boyer–and he just might be able to help them … Views: 798
Simon, Jane, and Barney, enlisted by their mysterious great-uncle, arrive in a small coastal town to recover a priceless golden grail stolen by the forces of evil -- Dark. They are not at first aware of the strange powers of another boy brought to help, Will Stanton -- nor of the sinister significance of the Greenwitch, an image of leaves and branches that for centuries has been cast into the sea for good luck in fishing and harvest. Their search for the grail sets into motion a series of distubing, sometimes dangerous events that, at their climax, bring forth a gift that, for a time at least, will keep the Dark from rising. Views: 798
His work was healing the sick-but this planet was already dead! Calhoun regarded the communicator with something like exasperation as his taped voice repeated a standard approach-call for the twentieth time. But no answer came, which had become irritating a long time ago. This was a new Med Service sector for Calhoun. He\'d been assigned to another man\'s tour of duty because the other man had been taken down with romance. He\'d gotten married, which ruled him out for Med Ship duty. So now Calhoun listened to his own voice endlessly repeating a call that should have been answered immediately. Views: 798
BEYOND THE REALM OF DREAMS IS A WORLD SHE NEVER IMAGINED
Masayi Sairu was raised to be dainty, delicate, demure . . . and deadly. She is one of the emperor’s Golden Daughters, as much a legend as she is a commodity. One day, Sairu will be contracted in marriage to a patron, whom she will secretly guard for the rest of her life.
But when she learns that a sacred Dream Walker of the temple seeks the protection of a Golden Daughter, Sairu forgoes marriage in favor of this role. Her skills are stretched to the limit, for assassins hunt in the shadows, and phantoms haunt in dreams. With only a mysterious Faerie cat and a handsome slave—possessed of his own strange abilities—to help her, can Sairu shield her new mistress from evils she can neither see nor touch?
For the Dragon is building an army of fire, and soon the heavens will burn. Views: 798