Download or read book Bright and Deadly Things written by Lexie Elliott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remote back-to-basics mountaintop retreat in the French Alps turns deadly as an Oxford fellow finds herself in the crosshairs of her late husband’s dangerous secrets. The Chalet des Anglais should be the ideal locale for recently widowed Oxford don Emily to begin cutting through the fog of her grief. With no electricity, running water, or access by car, the rustic chalet nestled at the foot of the snow-topped Alps should afford Emily space to heal. Joining her will be a collection of friends from the university, as well as other fellows, graduates, and undergraduates. Something feels off, though, and heightens Emily’s existing anxiety. Tension among the guests is palpable and as hostilities grow, Emily begins to wonder if the chalet’s dark history has cast a shadow over the retreat. When a student disappears after Emily’s room is ransacked and someone tries to hack into her computer, Emily realizes that she had better separate friend from foe and real from imagined—or the next disappearance may be her own. . .
Download or read book A Shadow Bright and Burning Kingdom on Fire Book One written by Jessica Cluess and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vivid characters, terrifying monsters, and world building as deep and dark as the ocean." --Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen I am Henrietta Howel. The first female sorcerer in hundreds of years. The prophesied one. Or am I? Henrietta Howel can burst into flames. Forced to reveal her power to save a friend, she's shocked when instead of being executed, she's invited to train as one of Her Majesty's royal sorcerers. Thrust into the glamour of Victorian London, Henrietta is declared the chosen one, the girl who will defeat the Ancients, bloodthirsty demons terrorizing humanity. She also meets her fellow sorcerer trainees, handsome young men eager to test her power and her heart. One will challenge her. One will fight for her. One will betray her. But Henrietta Howel is not the chosen one. As she plays a dangerous game of deception, she discovers that the sorcerers have their own secrets to protect. With battle looming, what does it mean to not be the one? And how much will she risk to save the city—and the one she loves? Exhilarating and gripping, Jessica Cluess's spellbinding fantasy introduces a powerful, unforgettably heroine, and a world filled with magic, romance, and betrayal. Hand to fans of Libba Bray, Sarah J. Maas, and Cassandra Clare. "The magic! The intrigue! The guys! We were sucked into this monster-ridden, alternative England from page one. Henrietta is literally a 'girl on fire' and this team of sorcerers training for battle had a pinch of Potter blended with a drop of [Cassandra Clare's] Infernal Devices." --Justine Magazine "Cluess gamely turns the chosen-one trope upside down in this smashing dark fantasy." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Unputdownable. I loved the monsters, the magic, and the teen warriors who are their world's best hope! Jessica Cluess is an awesome storyteller!" --Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A fun, inventive fantasy. I totally have a book crush on Rook." --Sarah Rees Brennan, New York Times bestselling author "Pure enchantment. I love how Cluess turned the 'chosen one' archetype on its head. With the emotional intensity of my favorite fantasy books, this is the kind of story that makes you forget yourself." --Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Star-Touched Queen "A glorious, fast-paced romp of an adventure. Jessica Cluess has built her story out of my favorite ingredients: sorcery, demons, romance, and danger." --Kelly Link, author of Pretty Monsters
Download or read book The French Girl written by Lexie Elliott and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She appears, lithe and tanned, by the swimming pool one afternoon. Severine - the girl next door. It was supposed to be a final celebration for six British graduates, the perfect French getaway, until she arrived. Severine's beauty captivates each of them in turn. Under the heat of a summer sky, simmering tensions begin to boil over - years of jealousy and longing rising dangerously to the surface. And then Severine disappears. A decade later, Severine's body is found at the farmhouse. For Kate Channing, the discovery brings up more than just unwelcome memories. As police suspicion mounts against the friends, Kate becomes desperate to resolve her own shifting understanding of that time. But as the layers of deception reveal themselves, Kate must ask herself - does she really want to know what happened to the French girl?
Download or read book Bright Shiny Things written by Barbara Nadel and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This series has brilliantly established itself and this latest is another masterpiece from Barbara Nadel' CRIMESQUADA friend from the past asks for private investigator Lee Arnold's help in tracing his son: Fayyad al'Barri was last thought to be in Syria having embraced radical Islam. But a cryptic message has prompted his family to believe Fayyad has had a change of heart and is searching for a way back home. With fellow investigator Mumtaz Hakim's help, they might be able to establish contact.From the bright lights of the Western world, to shady boxing clubs and murky online jihadist recruitment, and while violence erupts close to home, Mumtaz and Lee are on an unknown path into the mind of a terrorist, journeying closer to danger than they ever imagined.
Download or read book The Missing Years written by Lexie Elliott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman's unsolved family history comes back to haunt her in an eerie, old, isolated manor in the Scottish Highlands. Ailsa Calder has inherited half of a house. The other half belongs to a man who disappeared from her life without a trace twenty-seven years ago—her father. Leaving London behind to settle the inheritance, Ailsa returns to her childhood home, nestled amongst the craggy peaks of the Scottish Highlands, joined by the half-sister who's almost a stranger to her. Ailsa can't escape the claustrophobic feeling that the house itself is watching her—as if her past hungers to consume her. She also can't ignore how the neighborhood animals refuse to set one foot within the gates of the garden. When the first nighttime intruder shows up and the locals in the isolated community pry into her plans for the manor, Ailsa becomes terrified that the mysteries surrounding the beautiful old home will cost her everything.
Download or read book How to Kill Your Best Friend written by Lexie Elliott and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BREATHTAKINGLY TWISTY 2022 RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK _______________________________________ I'd do anything for my friends - even murder... Georgie, Lissa and Bronwyn have been best friends since they met on their college swimming team. Now Lissa is dead - drowned off the coast of the remote island where her second husband owns a luxury resort. But could a star open-water swimmer really have drowned? Or is something more sinister going on? Brought together for Lissa's memorial, Georgie, Bron, Lissa's grieving husband and their friends find themselves questioning the circumstances around Lissa's death - and each other. As the weather turns ominous, trapping the guests on the island, it slowly dawns on them that Lissa's death was only the beginning. Nobody knows who they can trust. Or if they'll make it off the island alive... _______________________________________ Five-Star Reader Reviews: 'You can almost smell the coconut sun lotion' 'Sinister, sneaky and full of devious, dirty secrets' 'A fantastic thriller that kept me guessing' 'Top notch escapism'
Download or read book Sharks Jellyfish and Other Deadly Things written by Nancy Tesler and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She has a relationship on the rocks, a friend in big trouble, and one foot in hot water . . . Biofeedback specialist Carrie Carlin helps her patients get things under control. It's her own life that's in chaos. She's feeling the pressure of an ex-husband who gives her heartburn--and a lover, homicide cop Ted Brodsky, who is giving her heartache. Faced with fight or flight, Carrie answers a plea for help from her friend Meg and chooses flight--on a jet plane to Key West and a new sea of troubles. A boat accident has left Meg's husband, Kevin, missing and presumed dead. But when his body never turns up, Carrie suspects something is terribly wrong. Then Meg is attacked. Suddenly Carrie needs more than deep-breathing exercises. She needs to troll the Florida Keys for Kevin. She needs Ted Brodsky's help. And, most of all, she needs to fish around for hard answers and chilling secrets . . . before a killer lures her in with a deep, deadly surprise.
Download or read book Bright Ruined Things written by Samantha Cohoe and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A deftly-plotted tale about ambition and belonging, Bright Ruined Things takes Shakespeare’s The Tempest and brilliantly reimagines its themes of family and love. Cohoe writes with a magic that dazzles and cuts right to the core." - Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights Forbidden magic, a family secret, and a night to reveal it all... The only life Mae has ever known is on the island, living on the charity of the wealthy Prosper family who control the island’s magic and its spirits. Mae longs for magic of her own and to have a place among the Prosper family, where her best friend, Coco, will see her as an equal, and her crush, Miles, will finally see her. But tonight is First Night, when the Prospers and their high-society friends celebrate the night Lord Prosper first harnessed the island’s magic and started producing aether – a magical fuel source that has revolutionized the world. With everyone returning to the island, Mae finally has the chance to go after what she’s always wanted. When the spirits start inexplicably dying, Mae realizes that things aren’t what they seem. And Ivo, the reclusive, mysterious heir to the Prosper magic, may hold all the answers – including a secret about Mae’s past. As Mae and her friends unravel the mysteries of the island, and the Prospers’ magic, Mae starts to question the truth of what her world was built on. In this YA fantasy, Samantha Cohoe wonderfully mixes magic and an atmospheric setting into a fantastically immersive world, with characters you won’t be able to forget.
Download or read book In the Forests of the Night written by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was born to the name of Rachel Weatere in the year 1684, more than three hundred years ago. The one who changed me named me Risika, and Risika I became, though I never asked what it meant. I continue to call myself Risika, even though I was transformed into what I am against my will. By day, Risika sleeps in a shaded room in Concord, Massachusetts. By night, she hunts the streets of New York City. She is used to being alone. But now someone is following Risika. Someone has left her a black rose, the same sort of rose that sealed her fate three hundred years ago. Three hundred years ago Risika had a family -- a brother and a sister who loved her. Three hundred years ago she was human. Now she is a vampire, a powerful one. And her past has come back to torment her. This atmospheric, haunting tale marks the stunning debut of a promising fourteen-year-old novelist.
Download or read book Deadly Things written by Darrell Schweitzer and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books, here is the second Wildside Mystery Double: DEADLY THINGS: A COLLECTION OF MYSTERIOUS TALES, by Darrell Schweitzer. Darrell Schweitzer's first mystery collection explores the murderous impulse in a variety of historical settings. Three mysteries are set in ancient Rome, two featuring Pliny the Younger as investigator. Two are Shakespearean mysteries, in one of which King Henry V plays detective, with the other based on The Two Noble Kinsmen. Three Sherlock Holmes tales involve the apparent misapplication of the Great Detective's methods to the supernatural, a revelation of one of Watson's unwritten cases, and a multi-genre record-breaker, an alternate history, vampire cat detective story. THE JUDGMENT OF THE GODS AND OTHER VERDICTS OF HISTORY, by Robert Reginald. Four scintillating tales of detection from ancient and medieval times. In "The Judgment of the Gods," a young Greek trader must solve the murder of Assyrian King Sennacherib. William of Occam, the medieval philosopher, is forced by Pope John XXII in "Occam's Razor" to solve the murders of French King Philip IV and Pope Clement V. Occam returns in "Occam's Treasure," this time unraveling the puzzle surrounding the killing of clergymen in Avigon. In "Occam's Measure," the great thinker must stop a vicious serial killer stalking the night-time streets of the papal city. Great mystery--and fantasy--reading!
Download or read book All Things for Good The Substance of Two Sermons written by David Smith (of Siddle Hall, near Halifax.) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Where Light Comes and Goes written by Sandra Cavallo Miller and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 in the Dr. Abby Wilmore Series Where Light Comes and Goes brings back Dr. Abby Wilmore, the young family physician who was the protagonist of Miller’s first novel, The Color of Rock. Abby has accepted the directorship of a summer clinic in Yellowstone National Park where she hopes to expand her medical skills. She arrives to find herself working above the increasingly restless Yellowstone supervolcano, treating visitors, staff, and locals, all while evading the advances of a lecherous concession manager and maintaining a long-distance relationship with her partner who stays at the Grand Canyon Clinic. As tremors in the park escalate and the lakes seethe with bubbling gases, Abby learns that some-one is mysteriously killing the bison. What follows is an engrossing mystery unfolding in a spectacular setting with rich, quirky, and endearing characters and unexpected plot turns. While an overworked Abby makes new friends among her clinic staff and patients, tension builds as the volcano seems to be moving closer to a major eruption and the bison killings become more frequent. Soon, Abby finds herself in mortal danger as the story races to a thrilling and unexpected conclusion. Sandra Cavallo Miller demonstrated in The Color of Rock that she is a gifted storyteller. Where Light Comes and Goes deftly combines a gripping mystery set in the accurately depicted routine of a busy medical practice amid the wonders of Yellowstone’s magnificent scenery and wildlife. This is entertaining reading at its best.
Download or read book Be the Light written by Jessica L. Maricle RN, Reiki Master Holy Fire and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be the Light By: Jessica L. Maricle RN, Reiki Master Holy Fire Every event can be seen as positive or negative. It’s all about perspective. And sure, from the depths of hell, it’s difficult to see any positive other than, “Well at least it’s warm!” But even in the depths of hell there is still hope. Be the Light encourages readers to find peace and happiness in being themselves, even in the darkest times. Amidst a world of well-meaning family, friends, and strangers telling you to, “Get over it,” or reminding you that, “You need to be positive,” it can be hard to figure out that first, critical step to recovery. By sharing her own story of trauma, Jessica L. Maricle inspires others to take that first step in a positive way that doesn’t discount their experiences because she understands. Follow her journey of recovery from a car accident, loss of income and career, to empowered Reiki Master. Within, she shares her battle with depression, anxiety, PTSD and suicidal thoughts, and through the darkness, she discovered herself and her purpose in life. She hopes the same for you, too.
Download or read book THE DAWNING LIGHT 45 Sci Fi Novels Stories in One Volume written by Randall Garrett and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 1923 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited SF Collection, jam-packed with thrilling intergalactic adventures, supernatural mysteries and lost world tales: Psi-Power Series: Brain Twister The Impossibles Supermind Novels: Pagan Passions Anything You Can Do... Quest of the Golden Ape Unwise Child Short Stories: The Highest Treason Despoilers of the Golden Empire But, I Don't Think A Spaceship Named McGuire The Eyes Have It Nor Iron Bars a Cage Damned If You Don't By Proxy The Foreign Hand-Tie The Penal Cluster Hail to the Chief His Master's Voice The Judas Valley Cum Grano Salis ...Or Your Money Back Anchorite The Bramble Bush The Unnecessary Man The Asses of Balaam With No Strings Attached A World by the Tale Dead Giveaway Psichopath Suite Mentale The Man Who Hated Mars Thin Edge Instant of Decision Heist Job on Thizar Fifty Per Cent Prophet The Destroyers Hanging by a Thread What the Left Hand Was Doing Belly Laugh In Case of Fire The Measure of a Man Time Fuze Viewpoint ...After a Few Words
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Download or read book The Barrier written by Rex Beach and published by New York : Harper. This book was released on 1908 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
