Download or read book Fifth Moon s Tales First Trilogy written by Monica La Porta and published by Monica La Porta. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth Moon's Tales: A dash of space opera and plenty of steamy paranormal romance. The Fifth Moon's Wolf Humanity left Earth several hundreds of years ago. Shifters were among the first to board the space stations escaping from the dying planet. During the long voyage in deep space, mutations changed the paranormal passengers altering their lives forever. As a result, shifters lost their ability to reproduce and enrolled geneticists to ensure their survival. Valentine Lobo is the last werewolf left in all the Coral System. The undisputed leader of planet Lupine, he has been waiting for his genetically engineered bride for centuries. He has no time to court Mirella Canalis, the young woman whom he only sees as a means to an end. After all, her only reason to exist is to give the alpha werewolf an heir. Valentine is arrogant and domineering. He has the weight of House Lobo’s survival on his shoulders. What will happen when he finally meets sweet and naïve Mirella on his wedding night? The Fifth Moon's Wife Can love prevail over lust? Or is Valentine Lobo doomed to replay a tragedy written long ago by his ancestors? His marriage to Mirella Canalis isn’t just a means to an end any longer. After almost losing his bride, Valentine has realized his feelings for her run deep and he would do anything to keep her safe. Even if that means forfeiting his only chance to conceive an heir. But old and new enemies have other plans for Valentine and Mirella, and his sacrifice could be all for naught. The Fifth Moon's Lovers All his life, Valentine Lobo has done everything the Brotherhood of the Wolf has requested of him, including marrying Mirella Canalis, his genetically engineered bride. Now Mirella is expecting his child, and Valentine should be happy to have successfully ensured the continuity of his species. Instead, he is devastated because he has fallen in love with her, and he knows that she won’t survive her pregnancy. As he faces demons from his past and enemies from his present, he must fight his most difficult battle yet. Valentine will stop at nothing to save his beloved Mirella, but can love conquer all?
Download or read book Moon s Fury written by C. T. Adams and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as the premier authors of paranormal romance and true genre luminaries by "Romantic Times BOOKreviews," Adams and Clamp are back with another tale of shapeshifters, passion, and pack politics. Original.
Download or read book Conqueror s Moon written by Julian May and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-03-29 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Many-Colored Land comes the saga of a land beyond the horizon, where the quest for power is eternal, where magic and mystery are feared above all, and one man sought to reign. On a remote island, far in the Boreal Sea, four kingdoms have struggled against one another since time out of mind. Most mysterious is the marshland kingdom of Moss—feared by the others and ruled by the Sorcerers. Soon, all will be put in peril’s way. In recent years, three of the kingdoms have suffered fearsome volcanic eruptions that choke crops, famine among people, and an ailing leader on his deathbed. Only Moss, poverty-stricken and desolate at the best of times, seems untroubled. But Prince Conrig of Cathra, who waits patiently as his father, the king, wastes slowly away, is in league with his lover, the seductive sorceress Princess Ullanoth of Moss. And if their secret alliance succeeds in its goal, the warring kingdoms of High Blenholme will be united once and for all—under the iron hand of one supreme rule.
Download or read book The Fifth Moon s Tales The Second Trilogy Dragon and Jade written by Monica La Porta and published by Monica La Porta. This book was released on 2020-08-16 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth Moon’s Dragon Dragon Sol has recently returned to his planet to marry his two promised brides, but instead of celebrating his wedding night, he finds himself fighting an enigmatic assassin sent to kill him. Jade is a Master Assassin, the most lethal of mercenaries in all the Fifth Moon System. Dragon Sol is her target, nothing more than a number on her ledger. Only, plans don’t always go accordingly, and the enigmatic shifter becomes so much more to Jade than a simple job. All is fair in love and war… but what happens when the prey becomes the hunter, and hearts, not lives, are at stake? The Fifth Moon’s Assassin Hunted down by ruthless enemies, Dragon has committed the ultimate sacrifice letting his soulmate leave Solaria. He hopes to hide Jade from the mercenaries sent to kill her after she spared his life. It was the only choice available, but he has condemned both of them to a hopeless hell. Dragon can’t live without Jade, and Jade must forget about him if she wants to survive the heartbreak consuming her soul. Will they ever find each other again before their enemies find them first? The Fifth Moon’s Legacy After pursuing Jade across the universe, Dragon has found her, but even though they are finally on the same planet, they have never been more distant. Jade must fight her demons before she can accept Dragon’s love, and he must learn to be patient. Both have too much to lose now that the impossible has happened and they are about to become a family. As they embark on their final journey toward salvation, Dragon and Jade must escape their enemies and find a way to remain together despite all odds.
Download or read book Captive Moon written by C.T. Adams and published by Tor Paranormal Romance. This book was released on 2010-08-24 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-class entertainer and Sazi councilmember, Antoine Monier has taken his big cats all over the world without any trouble—until his latest trip to Stuttgart, where one of his tigers is stolen and killed. To Antoine's surprise, the German police have another tiger in custody—a tiger who is actually a lovely Turkish-American woman, Tahira Kuric. Like Antoine, Tahira is a shapeshifter, but of the Hayalet Kabile, the ghost tribe of shapeshifters. And despite their immediate attraction, Tahira wants nothing to do with Antoine—the Sazi are the enemy of the Hayalet Kabile. But Tahira doesn't have a choice, because she and Antoine have discovered that she is a fabled "power well," able to store magical energy from other shapeshifters—and something is hunting her, eager to use her powers for itself. Only if they can set aside their peoples' ancient rivalry and rely completely on each other—body and soul—can Tahira and Antoine save themselves and their people. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Science Fiction the Evolutionary Mythology of the Future written by Thomas Lombardo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth history of science fiction, covering the years 1895 to 1930, from H. G. Wells and his novel The Time Machine to Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. The book examines science fiction literature, art, cinema, and comics, and the impact of culture, philosophy, science, technology, and futures studies on the development of science fiction. Further, the book describes the influence of science fiction on human society and the evolution of future consciousness. Other key figures discussed include Méliès, Gernsback, Burroughs, Merritt, Huxley, and Hodgson.
Download or read book Sorcerer s Moon written by Julian May and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-07-31 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian May concludes her Boreal Moon Tale with the story of a weak king forsaken by his heir, a son who cannot condone his father’s ruthlessness, and a kingdom facing collapse by forces from without and within. The Salka are launching an audacious attack to seize the heart of High Blenholme, and King Conrig, his magical powers and sanity fading, is once again preparing to use the foulest Beaconfolk sorcery to counter the monsters’ massive invasion. As his kingdom faces collapse, King Conrig’s only chance for peace lies deep in the past. His former spy, Deveron Austrey, has secret magical powers—and no love for the Beaconfolk. But while the King’s first wife is largely unremembered, she has not forgotten that her son Orion is the true heir to the throne of High Blenholme.
Download or read book The Fifth Moon s Wolf written by Monica La Porta and published by Monica La Porta. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity left Earth several hundreds of years ago. Shifters were among the first to board the space stations escaping from the dying planet. During the long voyage in deep space, mutations changed the paranormal passengers altering their lives forever. As a result, shifters lost their ability to reproduce and enrolled geneticists to ensure their survival. Valentine Lobo is the last werewolf left in all the Coral System. The undisputed leader of planet Lupine, he has been waiting for his genetically engineered bride for centuries. He has no time to court Mirella Canalis, the young woman whom he only sees as a means to an end. After all, her only reason to exist is to give the alpha werewolf an heir. Valentine is arrogant and domineering. He must save House Lobo from oblivion. What will happen when he finally meets sweet and naïve Mirella on his wedding night? A dash of space opera and plenty of steamy paranormal romance.
Download or read book Once Upon A Moon written by Kayla Burge and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ailsa finds out that not only is she a shifter but a witch as well (Something that has been unheard of until now) her whole world gets turned upside down. Not only does she accidentally kill a few would be rapists and murderers but the local coven and shifter pack come sniffing around, demanding that she side with one of them. Ultimately she is forced to go on the run with her parents and best Friend Tiffany, looking for a safe place to hide until everything dies down. Unfortunately Destiny has other plans...
Download or read book The Fifth Moon s Wife written by Monica La Porta and published by Monica La Porta. This book was released on 2016-07-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can love prevail over lust? Or is Valentine Lobo doomed to replay a tragedy written long ago by his ancestors? His marriage to Mirella Canalis isn’t just a means to an end any longer. After almost losing his bride, Valentine has realized his feelings for her run deep and he would do anything to keep her safe. Even if that means forfeiting his only chance to conceive an heir. But old and new enemies have other plans for Valentine and Mirella, and his sacrifice could be all for naught. Space opera, steamy romance & shifters!
Download or read book Probability Moon written by Nancy Kress and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While expanding out into interstellar space using star gates left by an ancient, long-vanished race, humanity encounters the Fallers, an alien race bent on genocide. In this fragile situation, a new planet is discovered. A team of human scientists is sent to investigate the pre-industrial race living there. But what the scientists don't know is that their mission of first contact is actually a covert military operation.
Download or read book Crown of Renewal written by Elizabeth Moon and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight kingdoms in danger, an enemy that cannot die... Count Jeddrin has received a grisly message. His son, Filis, is dead, brutally killed by Alured the Black - the first move in his plan to take the eight kingdoms. But Filis managed to send his own message, telling of the dark forces that control Alured, warning of something more than human behind the man's eyes... Meanwhile, Dorrin Verrakai, last of a long line of magelords, must forever leave the home she loves in order to protect powerful magic relics created by her ancestors. For their power is desired both by Alured, and by the dark elves infesting the kingdoms. Searching for answers, her friend and King, Kieri, considers waking the magelords from their ancient slumber...
Download or read book Prime Time Authorship written by Douglas Heil and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to inspire the fledgling scriptwriter, this book combines analytical essays on the work of three successful television writers with interviews and complete scripts printed in correct professional format. The writers Marion Hargrove (Maverick, The Waltons), Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething), and Michael Kozoll (Hill Street Blues) are used as examples of professionals who developed a personal voice and a distinctive style while serving as staff writers for existing prime-time television programs. Douglas Heil theorizes that students of television scriptwriting need to engage in "close study of exemplary," and the three full scripts he offers a.re useful models of humane and entertaining drama. The book is of value not only to aspiring scriptwriters but also to those readers with a general interest in media history.
Download or read book The Book of Night with Moon written by Diane Duane and published by Aspect. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhiow seems a perfectly ordinary New York City cat. Or so her humans think--but she is much more than she appears. With her partners Saash and Urruah, she collaborates with human wizards, protecting the earth from dark forces and helping to maintain the network of magical gateways between different realities.
Download or read book The Snow Child written by Eowyn Ivey and published by Reagan Arthur Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart -- he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone -- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.
Download or read book The Night and Its Moon written by Piper CJ and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An addictive fantasy romance from TikTok sensation Piper CJ, now newly revised and edited. Two orphans grow into powerful young women as they face countless threats to find their way back to each other. Farleigh is just an orphanage. At least, that's what the church would have the people believe, but beautiful orphans Nox and fae-touched Amaris know better. They are commodities for sale, available for purchase by the highest bidder. So when the madame of a notorious brothel in a far-off city offers a king's ransom to purchase Amaris, Nox ends up taking her place — while Amaris is drawn away to the mountains, home of mysterious assassins. Even as they take up new lives and identities, Nox and Amaris never forget one thing: they will stop at nothing to reunite. But the threat of war looms overhead, and the two are inevitably swept into a conflict between human and fae, magic and mundane. With strange new alliances, untested powers, and a bond that neither time nor distance could possibly break, the fate of the realms lies in the hands of two orphans — and the love they hold for each other.
Download or read book The Year s Best Science Fiction Fifteenth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction's premier editor assembles the best stories of the year from veterans and newcomers alike, including Alan Brennert, Gwyneth Jones, James Patrick Kelly, Nancy Kress, Paul J. McAuley, Robert Silverberg, and many others.
