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"She has lost sixty pounds in just over six weeks! With no side effects."
Li Jing knows that her research, the weight-loss compound she's developed, will change millions and millions of lives. Any risk is worth it to succeed.
Unfortunately, the school board doesn't agree, and Li Jing has been expelled with a permanent black mark on her record that will keep her from ever getting a PhD... Apparently conducting unauthorized trials on human subjects is frowned upon-no matter how willing the subject was or how well the compound worked.
Author Emmy Laybourne shares the chilling story behind the miracle weight-loss drug, SOLU, in this prequel story to her new novel SWEET. Views: 224
Eine Geschichte aus der Welt der Schattenwandler - exklusiv als E-Book! Der Dämon Kane wird vom Verlangen nach der schönen Corrine verzehrt. Doch er weiß nur zu gut, dass es ihm verboten ist, sich mit einer Sterblichen einzulassen. Doch in der Nacht von Samhain kann sich kein Dämon seiner dunklen Begierden erwehren, und Kane ist fest entschlossen, Corrine zu der Seinen zu machen ...
Published in English in the Anthology *Supernatural.* Views: 224
At the center of the great forest of Avaris lies the sacred wood of Ystrac, god of the hunt and the wilderness—and the wild terror of hunted things. This fear emanates so powerfully from the godwood that most travelers who would pass along its winding road can barely step past the boundary marker. All that keeps the fear at bay are the lanterns, lit by mysterious, ever-burning flames and tended faithfully by the priests of Talesyn, the god of poets. Aneth is a dedicate of Ystrac, and as part of her service to him, she is charged to face the godwood's fear and open her heart to it, guiding travelers along the road and seeing them safe on their way on the other side. Corentin is a priest of Talesyn, and for his service, he has sworn to walk the lantern path and do what needs must to ensure the lanterns' flames burn bright for years to come—whatever the cost to himself, whatever oaths or sacrifices he must make. Neither of them... Views: 224
Fred Fuller is a poor but ambitious college student with dreams of a
future in politics. He sees himself as being an honest and moral person
but when confronted with the chance of a lifetime, not once . . . but
twice he discovers the shallowness of his morality. While on his job as a
messenger for Bank USA he goes into a deserted bank and is confronted
by an open vault filled with millions of dollars. The first time,
unprepared to take advantage of the situation, he calls his boss to
report it. But when it happens again Fred's moral values are shattered
as he takes the money and attempts to flee the country. Twice Tempted,
Bill Manchee's first novel, was inspired by actual events that occurred
to the author. Sex, greed, and moral ambiguities are the choice
ingredients in this thriller set in California in the sixties. A wild
ride of an adventure, for both Fred and the readers. Views: 224
Savannah Grant once had the reputation for being the wild sister-but no one, not even her twin, knew just how wild Savannah had once been. Now that past has come back to haunt her. Someone is murdering humans in Ripple Creek, and the murders are eerily similar to those she'd witnessed nearly ten years ago. Worse still, the man sent in to help with the investigation is the one man Savannah had hoped never to see again. The man who had taken her trust and her heart and smashed them both. Cade Jones is in Ripple Creek to catch the killer who'd escaped his noose ten years ago. What he doesn't expect to find is the woman who had very nearly caused his death. A woman who knew far more than she'd ever let on. A woman who'd slithered from his grasp as easily as the killer. This time, Cade has every intention of discovering what she knows-and every intention of holding her to the promises she'd made long ago. As the murders continue, it becomes evident that the killer isn't murdering at random, that it's all part of a larger plan-revenge. In order to survive, Savannah finds herself having to trust the one man she'd sworn never to trust again. But can Cade unravel the clues left from the past and the present in time to save them both, or will a killer's need for revenge snatch away their hopes of a future yet again? Views: 224
The It Girl meets The Exorcist in this chilling, haunted boarding school tale
New-girl Lindsay discovers all is not right at the prestigious Marlwood Academy for Girls. Ethereal, popular Mandy and her clique are plotting something dangerous. Lindsay overhears them performing strange rituals, and sees their eyes turn black. It doesn’t help that the school itself is totally eerie, with ancient, dilapidated buildings tucked into the Northern California woods, a thick white fog swirling through campus. There are hidden passageways, odd reflections in the windows at night, and scariest of all is the vast lake rumored to have captured the ghost of a girl who drowned many years ago.
What Lindsay doesn’t yet realize is that Mandy and her cohorts are becoming possessed by spirits who have haunted the school for two hundred years. Spirits who want someone dead...
And that someone is Lindsay. Views: 224
It's an urgent assignment for Vernay?get control of the totalitarian government of Ujvila. Hard enough, but Vernay's also got to do it before Galactic-Military solves the problem its own way: by slamming in an invasion force and destroying half the planet.The natives of Anthropol don't like aliens and they don't want Vernay. So it's going to be a tough assignment.One of the toughest of his career. Views: 224
Someone is stalking them. A murdered girl matches the MO of a serial killer already in jail. Missing pages form a message that the wolves need to decipher before Miranda Industries get their hands on it. Eleri and Donovan have one case but more problems than they can count. Too many links call them back to old cases and bring up new questions about their boss. Whose side is he on anyway when all his agents distrust him? Is he pulling threads only he can see? Or is something more sinister guiding his directives? Threats come from every direction... even in their dreams. Eleri and Donovan won't survive this one easily. If at all. This is the twelfth book in the NightShade Forensic FBI Files series. Views: 224
On the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming. He sat up convulsively and stared, not believing. This is the way this book starts out and only gets stranger. What you learn at the end of the book will BLOW your mind!!! Views: 224
(Suncoast Society series #74, MMF, BDSM)
Life’s never boring with Max and Sean, but Cali wouldn’t have them any other way. Still, it’d be nice if they both had two eyebrows and weren’t trying to set each other on fire. Except when a routine evening volunteering at the club turns into anything but, it’s just the start of a chain of events that will upend all their lives…and leave Cali fighting for hers. Views: 224
Hard science fiction’s grand master delivers the stunning conclusion to his Orthogonal trilogy.
In a universe where the laws of physics and the speed of light are completely alien to our own, the travelers on the ship Peerless have completed a generations-long struggle to develop advanced technology in a desperate attempt to save their home world. But as tensions mount over the risks of turning the ship around and starting the long voyage home, a new complication arises: the prospect of constructing a messaging system that will give the Peerless news of its own future.
While some see this as a guarantee of safety and a chance to learn of their mission’s ultimate success, others are convinced that the knowledge will be oppressive or worse—that the system could be abused. The conflict over this proposed communication system tears the travelers’ society apart, culminating in terrible violence. To save the Peerless and its mission, two rivals must travel to a world where time runs in reverse.
Continuing the epic multiple generation-spanning scope of The Clockwork Rocket and The Eternal Flame, Greg Egan’s Orthogonal series has continuously pushed the boundaries of scientific fiction without ever losing track of the lives of the individuals carrying out this grand mission. The Arrows of Time brings this fascinating space opera to a close. Views: 224
