Download or read book Solstice of Blood written by A R McDermott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Solstice of Blood, a night that would change everything. Humanity was just on the path to normalcy from a pandemic that ravaged the world. It was December 21st, my family and so many others around the world were getting ready for Christmas when the world was attacked. When the vampires took over on the Solstice of Blood, I wasn't sure how I was going to survive. While on the run, myself and those around me had to make sacrifices in order to survive. After being captured by vampires, I find myself thrown into the middle of a political war. As I find myself in unfamiliar waters, new allies emerge. I question everything I thought I knew about vampires. Are they evil? Lines blur and secrets begin to unfold as time runs out. Can I save those I love or will it be too late? Author's Note: This is a dark romance novel with mature themes that might make some readers uncomfortable. For mature readers 18+

Download or read book Blood Solstice written by James Howard Kunstler and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grover Graff, a reporter who specializes in investigating religious cults, discovers a link between the scattered pieces of the body of his best friend and the Children of Abraham, one of the cults he has been investigating

Download or read book Blood Solstice written by Samantha Young and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the war between the Daylight and the Midnight Covens, Caia knows she must make a choice. In their bid for victory in war, both Midnight and Daylight have committed atrocities, and Caia needs to gain a foothold of power in the upper echelons of the fight if she is to stop the extremists.Not only does she have Marita, the Head of the Daylight Coven, to contend with, but a mysterious vampyre who has orchestrated battles from the shadows of the war for many years. He is old. He is powerful. He is nigh un-killable and there is only one thing he wants: for Caia to end the war his way. When tragedy strikes, Caia must decide whether to answer to him and become the extremist she was trying to destroy, or defy the vampyre And bring them all down on her own terms.

Download or read book Snow White Blood Red written by Ellen Datlow and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales retold—with a twist—from “some of our best storytellers” including Neil Gaiman, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and others (The Washington Post). In this “no holds barred . . . nightmarish . . . provocative” collection, bestselling and award-winning fantasy masters put a dark, disturbing, and erotic spin on your favorite bedtime stories—and give you something entirely new to trouble your dreams (The New York Times Book Review). A boy is haunted through adulthood by a soul-eating creature that lies forever in wait under Neil Gaiman’s “Troll Bridge”; a melancholy amphibian shares his most private fantasies with a therapist in Gahan Wilson’s “The Frog Prince”; in Tanith Lee’s “Snow-Drop,” a lonely artist invites seven circus performers into her home to satisfy an obsession; in Steve Rasnic Tem’s “Little Poucet,” a band of lost brothers find refuge and terror with a hungry family in the woods; and Wendy Wheeler delves into the deviant psyche of the predatory male in “Little Red.” Also featuring Nancy Kress, Charles de Lint, Melanie Tem, Patricia A. McKillip, Jack Dann, and others, all paying a revisit to our favorite fairy tales in ways you’ve never dared to imagine.

Download or read book Blood Heritage written by Amy Young and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first twenty years of her life, Ember thought she was just your average, everyday teenage girl. Now a young adult, she has decided that it's time to learn the secret of why her father abandoned her before she was even born. What she learns in the process shatters her world and even make her question her definition of reality. Spared from a brutal attack by an enigmatic vampire named Arystar, Ember sets out on a strange journey of self-discovery. On the night she could have lost her life, Arystar saved her for a very specific purpose. He believes ember is destined to be a great leader among vampires, one who will save the world for vampires and humans alike. In this new world, myth and legend are realities and Ember begins to learn that not all monsters are evil. Tasked with the seemingly impossible challenge of bringing together the fiercely independent vampires she meets, Ember must find a way to inspire this group to cooperate for the common good. Can she find the common thread to unite a London sewer rat, a Victorian duchess, a Civil War general, a 1920s Chicago mobster, an orphaned Catholic girl, and a headstrong twentieth-century doctor let alone the newest additions? If they have any hope of survival, they must put their past differences aside to save their future.

Download or read book Blood and Salt written by Kim Liggett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last words Ash hears her mother say are, “When you fall in love, you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. You will be all in—blood and salt.” Determined to find her mother when she disappears, Ash follows her to Quivara, Kansas, the spiritual commune she escaped long ago. But something sinister and ancient waits among the rustling cornstalks of this village lost to time. Her mother is nowhere to be found, but Ash is plagued by memories of her ancestor, Katia, which harken back to the town’s history of unrequited love, murder, alchemy, and immortality. Charming traditions give way to a string of deaths. And Ash feels herself drawn to Dane, a mysterious, forbidden boy with secrets of his own. As the community prepares for a ceremony five hundred years in the making, Ash fights to save her mother, her lover, and herself. She must discover the truth about Quivara before it’s too late. Before she’s all in—blood and salt.

Download or read book Children of Blood and Bone written by Tomi Adeyemi and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zľie Adebola remembers when the soil of Ors̐ha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zľie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls.

Download or read book Winter Solstice Winter written by E. J. Squires and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Ailia has vowed to find out if her recurring mare dreams, of what she thinks are glimpses into her previous life, are real. In her dreams, she is married to her soul mate, and an evil Empress named Eiess pursues and kills her. Lucia, the heir of the Northlandic Kingdom, will be crowned Sun Queen - the Queen responsible for shifting the seasons each solstice. The eve before Lucia's eighteenth birthday and coronation, Eiess storms the castle, taking Lucia and her Father prisoner. Eiess immediately instigates the prophesied three-year winter before the end of Midgard when she usurps the throne. One day, and unbeknownst to her - nearly two years later - Ailia wakes up in a glacier cave cold, beaten, and far away from home. She doesn't remember how she ended up there or even that she was abducted by the ruthless Vikings. When a healer named Soren rescues her, Ailia can't help but think that she knows him from somewhere, and that they were fated to meet - and destined to fall in love. And when Ailia, Lucia and Soren discover a shocking secret that intertwines their destinies, one of them betrays the other two - a betrayal that ultimately puts their lives, and the lives of humanity, in which they had sworn to protect, in grave danger.

Download or read book Blood of the Scarecrow written by Martin Wilsey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We discovered there were lies all around us. I would believe those lies again as long as our planet and our people survived." --Solstice 31 Incident Investigation Testimony Transcript: Captain James Worthington, senior surviving member of the Ventura deep space survey ship. Captain James Worthington, Roland Barcus and the crew of the deep space survey ship Ventura have been betrayed and blown out of the orbit of the planet Baytirus in a heinous ambush. As they struggle to survive, the crew discovered they were sacrificed to protect a dark agenda. Now that they've fought their way free of their planet-bound trap, the survivors are ready to go home. Whether Earth wants them back or not. Especially the Scarecrow.

Download or read book Winter Solstice Winter written by E. J. Squires and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the land of the midnight sun, where ruthless Vikings and shape-shifters roam free, an evil empress usurps the Northlandic Throne and suspends the seasons on Winter Solstice. Lucia and Soren were sent by the gods to defeat the empress, but deceits run deep, and they become torn between fate and reality... and between love and loyalty as the battle to end all battles begins. What readers are saying: Loved the Window into Norse mythology Riveting and movie-worthy I have just one problem with this book - I can't wait for the second one! A wonderful period romantic thriller that grabs your attention in the first few pages, and never lets up on its grip. Non-stop, fly by the seat of your pants suspense. I...found the book to be an impressive Viking tale, with two very real, very well-described main characters. This is one of those books that makes you say, "I'll read for twenty minutes." Then two hours later, you decide you need twenty minutes more. Welcome to a cold, wintery world where nothing is what it seems. Winter Solstice Winter has the perfect amount of intrigue, mystery, mythology, action, love and passion to make it a very good read. Usually, I have no patience for historical fiction unless it offers something fresh or truly engaging to the story. Winter Solstice Winter does that and then a lot more. My advice is straightforward...GET THIS BOOK -- YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT!

Download or read book Summer Solstice Summer written by E. Squires and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow this New Adult Viking Series that is taking the world by storm! Ailia and Soren have finally found each other, but their war against Eiess has barely begun. Eiess has sent six legions of Surtorians after them and in order to save their lives, Soren and Ailia plan to escape to the Southlandic Kingdom with the rest of their family. But before they leave, they discover that the Aesira Jewel-the key to returning the seasons back to normal-has been stolen by darkelves. Despite her reluctance to separate from Soren again, Ailia sails for the Southlandic Kingdom to safety while Soren chases after the thieves. What Ailia doesn't know is that he is taken prisoner by the darkelves in another realm. Lucia's alliance with Eiess is proving a powerful one, and her hunger for revenge and supremacy grows stronger every day. The darkelves hand off the Aesira Jewel to Eiess, and together, Eiess and Lucia plan to unsolder it, and spread its remains across the nine realms. Unexpectedly, Lucia meets and falls in love with a Viking who is determined to give her whatever she wants, no matter the cost. Having fulfilled his duty to Soren, the malicious, shape-shifting Nukkern purses Ailia at the command of Eiess. Posing as Soren, the Nukkern wields the most dangerous threat of all - making sure Ailia distrusts her abilities as the Great Sentinor, and making sure she learns that love can only mean one thing: immense suffering. Soren must find a way to escape the realm of the darkelves and find his way back to Midgard before it's too late. With deadly storms raging in the Southlandic Kingdom, and Ailia's family members imprisoned by Lucia, it seems impossible for Soren and Ailia to win the war against eternal darkness.

Download or read book Solstice Wood written by Patricia A. McKillip and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Fantasy Award-winning author's foray into the modern world-now in paperback. No stranger to the realms of myth and magic, World Fantasy Award-winning author Patricia A. McKillip presents her first contemporary fantasy in many years-a tale of the tangled lives mere mortals lead, when they turn their eyes from the beauty and mystery that lie just outside of the everyday... When bookstore owner Sylvia Lynn returns to her childhood home in upstate New York, she meets the Fiber Guild-a group of local women who meet to knit, embroider, and sew-and learns why her grandmother watches her so closely. A primitive power exists in the forest, a force the Fiber Guild seeks to bind in its stitches and weavings. And Sylvia is no stranger to the woods

Download or read book Winter Rose written by Patricia A. McKillip and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-06-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will hound you and yours and the children of yours… Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winter’s tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights. But when Corbet Lynn came to rebuild his family estate, memories of his grandfather’s curse were rekindled by young and old--and rumors filled the heavy air of summer. In the woods that border Lynn Hall, free-spirited Rois Melior roams wild and barefooted. And as autumn gold fades, she is consumed with Corbet Lynn, obsessed with his secret past…

Download or read book Death at Solstice A Gloria Damasco Mystery written by Lucha Corpi and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicana detective Gloria Damasco has a ñdark gift,î an extrasensory prescience that underscores her investigations and compels her to solve numerous cases. This time, the recurring vision haunting her dreams contains two pairs of dark eyes watching her in the night, a phantom horse and rider, and the voice of a woman pleading for help. But most disquieting of all is GloriaÍs sensation of being trapped underwater, unable to free herself, unable to breathe. When Gloria is asked to help the owners of the Oro Blanco winery in CaliforniaÍs Shenandoah Valley, she finds herself on the road to the legendary Gold Country. And she canÍt help but wonder if the ever-more persistent visions might foreshadow this new case that involves the theft of a family heirloom, a pair of antique diamond and emerald earrings rumored to have belonged to MexicoÍs Empress Carlota. Soon Gloria learns that thereÍs more to the case than stolen jewelry. Mysterious accidents, threatening anonymous notes, the disappearance of a woman believed to be a saint, and a ghost horse thought to have belonged to notorious bandit JoaquÕn Murrieta are some of the pieces Gloria struggles to fit together. A womanÍs gruesome murder and the discovery of a group of young women from Mexico being held against their will in an abandoned house send Gloria on a fateful journey to a WitchesÍ Sabbath to find the final pieces of the puzzle before someone else is killed. Corpi weaves the rich cultural history of CaliforniaÍs Gold Country with a suspenseful mystery in this latest installment in the Gloria Damasco Mystery series.

Download or read book Winter Solstice Winter written by E. Squires and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-26 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the land of the midnight sun, where ruthless Vikings and shape-shifters roam free, an evil empress usurps the Northlandic Throne and suspends the seasons on Winter Solstice. Lucia and Soren were sent by the gods to defeat the empress, but deceits run deep, and they become torn between fate and reality... and between love and loyalty as the battle to end all battles begins. What readers are saying: Loved the Window into Norse mythology Riveting and movie-worthy I have just one problem with this book - I can't wait for the second one! A wonderful period romantic thriller that grabs your attention in the first few pages, and never lets up on its grip. Non-stop, fly by the seat of your pants suspense. I...found the book to be an impressive Viking tale, with two very real, very well-described main characters. This is one of those books that makes you say, "I'll read for twenty minutes." Then two hours later, you decide you need twenty minutes more. Welcome to a cold, wintery world where nothing is what it seems. Winter Solstice Winter has the perfect amount of intrigue, mystery, mythology, action, love and passion to make it a very good read. Usually, I have no patience for historical fiction unless it offers something fresh or truly engaging to the story. Winter Solstice Winter does that and then a lot more. My advice is straightforward...GET THIS BOOK -- YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT!

Download or read book House of Earth and Blood written by Sarah J. Maas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A #1 New York Times bestseller! Sarah J. Maas's brand-new CRESCENT CITY series begins with House of Earth and Blood: the story of half-Fae and half-human Bryce Quinlan as she seeks revenge in a contemporary fantasy world of magic, danger, and searing romance. Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life-working hard all day and partying all night-until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She'll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths. Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose-to assassinate his boss's enemies, no questions asked. But with a demon wreaking havoc in the city, he's offered an irresistible deal: help Bryce find the murderer, and his freedom will be within reach. As Bryce and Hunt dig deep into Crescent City's underbelly, they discover a dark power that threatens everything and everyone they hold dear, and they find, in each other, a blazing passion-one that could set them both free, if they'd only let it. With unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and page-turning suspense, this richly inventive new fantasy series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas delves into the heartache of loss, the price of freedom-and the power of love.

Download or read book The Lightning Thief written by Rick Riordan and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2009-05-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse-Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him.