Author : James Patrick Krach
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 22,35 MB
Release : 2012-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1300073942
Through the Shadows of Forever is a supernaturally dark commentary on society, and the world in which we live. Follow one man's horrifying journey to survive in a world he chooses to live apart from. Follow another man's twisted journey through madness, as he searches for the answers to his own life forgotten. Watch as the two collide in an enlightenment of insanity. Welcome to the shadows.
Author : Charisse Spiers
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 34,98 MB
Release : 2015-08-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781515350873
Welcome to my fucking world. My name is Kaston Cox and I'm a criminal's worst nightmare. Most people run from darkness, but I live in it, require it, and thrive in the night. Some call me a monster, some a lover of evil, and others, the devil himself, but they're all wrong. I'm just a shadow in the dark. I speak for the innocent when no one else will. Once I have marked you, you better beg for forgiveness, because your time has run out... Revenge is the ultimate wage for evil. Some just can't stomach to do it themselves. That's where I come in. I am the ultimate judge when called upon for justice. I will decide who lives and who dies. Blood may be on my hands, but it's not the blood of the innocent. Remorse is nowhere to be found. I don't give a shit if you understand. I can live with the man I look at every day in the mirror. My soul was tainted the day I was conceived. You think you know me? You have no fucking idea. I am who I am because of what they did to her, and to him. They were my family. This was the only form of restitution he believed in. I owed him everything. I took over the empire he built. This is how I repay him. There was only one rule: never allow emotions to form. Numb and heartless are the only two ways to live. What I never included in the plan...was her. My name is Lux Larsen. My life is as perfect as it can get. I'm a partier, a seductress when it comes to something that I want, and the ultimate sexual con artist. I use my body to get what I want and I'm not ashamed. Designer tags are what I'm after. I love sex. I'm good at it. Fuck double standards. Guys can do it, well guess what, so can I. I will never be caught back on the other side of the tracks for as long as I live. I left that hellhole years ago. I'll do anything to stay away. You can call me a whore if you want, but I just look at it as I've decided to become a player in a man's game, and I'm a fucking pro at it. Love is for the weak minded. Weak is something I'll never be. I never anticipated the predator that would find me. I'm now his prey...but I'm not sure I can run. The world likes to think that love is only pure, only for those that do good, but what no one considers is when bad has to be done to formulate a different type of good. Two of the most random people can be a perfect match, being placed together like pieces to a puzzle. Being in the wrong place at the right time can be terrifying and it can also be exactly what is supposed to happen, because sometimes...love is born in the dark.
Author : Virginia C. Andrews
Publisher :
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786286140
After the death of her parents, April Taylor flees north to take a job looking after Mrs. Westington's deaf granddaughter, Echo, until the arrival of the girl's mother and her drug-dealing boyfriend puts both girls' lives in danger.
Author : Juan José Millás
Publisher : Bellevue Literary Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1942658672
Publishers Weekly “Top 10 Book of the Year” selection “Begins as entertaining slapstick, subtly metamorphoses into fable. . . . As [the narrator’s] vivid imaginary world fuses with reality this deceptively ethereal novel advances toward a dark and startling finale.” —Wall Street Journal Laid off from his job, Damián Lobo obsessively imagines himself as a celebrity being interviewed on TV. After committing an act of petty theft at an antiques market, he finds himself trapped inside a wardrobe and delivered to the seemingly idyllic home of a husband, wife, and their internet-addicted teenage daughter. There, he sneaks from the shadows to serve as an invisible butler, becoming deeply and disastrously involved with his unknowing host family. Every thread of the plot is ingeniously tied together, creating a potent admixture of parable, love story, and thriller. Millás masterfully reveals the everyday as innately surreal as he renders the unbelievable tangible and the trivial fantastical, and full of dark humor. Juan José Millás is the recipient of Spain’s most prestigious literary prizes: the Premio Nadal, Premio Planeta, and Premio Nacional de Narrativa. A regular contributor to El País, Millás has also won many awards for his journalism. He is the author of several short story collections and works of nonfiction as well as over a dozen novels, including From the Shadows, the first of his novels to be published in North America. He lives in Madrid.
Author : Robin Ive
Publisher : Robin Ive
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 23,99 MB
Release : 2022-11-14
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
Another Life. Another Passion. Another Death. Abby Hawthorne restores classic cars. It’s an unusual job for a woman, but she’s doing well – professionally, anyway. Things take a sinister turn for the worse, though, when Morton Stoner forces his way into her life. Just another client? No way. Stoner is bad news, and Abby knows it. But she can’t stay away. She’s ensnared, and she doesn’t know why – except it feels like destiny. Abby’s life unravels as Stoner’s increasingly dangerous and violent obsession with her grows. Desperate, she turns for help to Skye Willowmoon, white witch, healer and herbalist. But she isn’t prepared to accept the guidance Skye wants to give her – and that’s a big mistake. From rural Sussex to the snow-clad Scottish Highlands, Abby fights to break free from the eternal and deadly dance she’s part of. She comes to realise there’s only one thing she can do. It means making a monumental sacrifice. But to make it she’s going to have to empower herself with the courage, and unlock the resources, from another lifetime.
Author : Brent Weeks
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316040223
From NYT bestselling author Brent Weeks comes the first novel in his breakout fantasy trilogy in which a young boy trains under the city's most legendary and feared assassin, Durzo Blint. For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art -- and he is the city's most accomplished artist. For Azoth, survival is precarious. Something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly -- and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics -- and cultivate a flair for death.
Author : Christopher Murphy
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1426946015
Nick D'Arcy is missing, and at any cost, psychiatrist Emma Caldwell--his lover--must find him. Struggling to cope with specters of vampires, unfinished business from past lives, and encounters with strange immortal beings known as the Waking Ones, Emma is determined to follow every clue. The trail leads her and her friends halfway around the world and through a chain of bizarre murders and disappearances. Their hunt unearths sinister occult motives, triggering unexpected shifts in corporate and political intrigue, questionable involvement by secret societies, and calculated acts of espionage, possibly engineered by a master spy, known as Argus. As lines between good and evil begin to blur, Emma must make a fateful decision. The Children of Darkness and the Children of Light--are they real? Finding Nick D'Arcy might depend on the answer to that question. It is an answer that can only be found in the Shadows of Forever.
Author : Alex North
Publisher : Celadon Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250318025
"This is absorbing, headlong reading, a play on classic horror with an inventiveness of its own... As with all the best illusions, you are left feeling not tricked, but full of wonder." – The New York Times The haunting new thriller from Alex North, author of the New York Times bestseller The Whisper Man You knew a teenager like Charlie Crabtree. A dark imagination, a sinister smile--always on the outside of the group. Some part of you suspected he might be capable of doing something awful. Twenty-five years ago, Crabtree did just that, committing a murder so shocking that it’s attracted that strange kind of infamy that only exists on the darkest corners of the internet--and inspired more than one copycat. Paul Adams remembers the case all too well: Crabtree--and his victim--were Paul’s friends. Paul has slowly put his life back together. But now his mother, old and suffering from dementia, has taken a turn for the worse. Though every inch of him resists, it is time to come home. It's not long before things start to go wrong. Paul learns that Detective Amanda Beck is investigating another copycat that has struck in the nearby town of Featherbank. His mother is distressed, insistent that there's something in the house. And someone is following him. Which reminds him of the most unsettling thing about that awful day twenty-five years ago. It wasn't just the murder. It was the fact that afterward, Charlie Crabtree was never seen again...
Author : Troy Denning
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982143630
USA TODAY BESTSELLER A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! October 2559. It has been a year since the renegade artificial intelligence Cortana issued a galaxy-wide ultimatum, subjecting many worlds to martial law under the indomitable grip of her Forerunner weapons. Outside her view, the members of Blue Team—John-117, the Master Chief; Fred-104; Kelly-087; and Linda-058—are assigned from the UNSC Infinity to make a covert insertion onto the ravaged planet Reach. Their former home and training ground—and the site of humanity’s most cataclysmic military defeat near the end of the Covenant War—Reach still hides myriad secrets after all these years. Blue Team’s mission is to penetrate the rubble-filled depths of CASTLE Base and recover top-secret assets locked away in Dr. Catherine Halsey’s abandoned laboratory—assets which may prove to be humanity’s last hope against Cortana. But Reach has been invaded by a powerful and ruthless alien faction, who have their own reasons for being there. Establishing themselves as a vicious occupying force on the devastated planet, this enemy will soon transform Blue Team’s simple retrieval operation into a full-blown crisis. And with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, mission failure is not an option…
Author : Evelyn Skye
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0062643746
A thrilling new fantasy series full of magic and betrayal—from Evelyn Skye, New York Times bestselling author of the Crown’s Game series. Sora can move as silently as a ghost and hurl throwing stars with lethal accuracy. Her gemina, Daemon, can win any physical fight blindfolded and with an arm tied around his back. They are apprentice warriors of the Society of Taigas—marked by the gods to be trained in magic and the fighting arts to protect the kingdom of Kichona. As their graduation approaches, Sora and Daemon look forward to proving themselves worthy of belonging in the elite group—but in a kingdom free of violence since the Blood Rift Rebellion many years ago, it’s been difficult to make their mark. So when Sora and Daemon encounter a strange camp of mysterious soldiers while on a standard scouting mission, they decide the only thing to do to help their kingdom is to infiltrate the group. Taking this risk will change Sora’s life forever—and lead her on a mission of deception that may fool everyone she’s ever loved. Love, spies, and adventure abound as Sora and Daemon unravel a complex web of magic and secrets that might tear them—and the entire kingdom—apart forever.
