Download or read book Something Greedy This Way Comes written by Elizabeth Marx and published by Elizabeth Marx Books. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locke embraces the magical legacy he wields, but it didn’t help him save the girl he loved. Now he’ll have to use everything he’s learned since the Seer’s death to safeguard Keleigh and find a magical object hidden and only whispered about for centuries. By the light of the next blue moon, the ShiningOnes plan to infiltrate this realm and retrieve the mighty relic. The Elders are prepared to sacrifice anyone to acquire it. The Sisters will manipulate anyone to safeguard it. While every other witch in the Order whispers and warns about the artifact’s power, Locke and Keleigh follow clues from her mother’s message, hoping to retrieve it. But if Locke and Keleigh don’t locate the relic first, the battle brewing between sacred knowledge and modern communication will destroy everything—even their love. When fairy tales hold ancient secrets, many may have to be revealed because something greedy this way comes.

Download or read book Something Wicked this Way Comes written by Ray Bradbury and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The show crept into town late one dark October night to the eerie whine of a calliope. In the terrifying days that followed, everything changed... Two boys stumbled onto the first of the secrets - the nightmare merry-go-round that produced the grisly turnabout of human beings. But not until they actually became part of the dance of death did they discover the final mystery of all...

Download or read book ALL S FAIR IN VANITY S WAR written by Elizabeth Marx and published by Elizabeth Marx Books. This book was released on 2011-10-23 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful vate and the last in her line, Keleigh denies the potent magic singing through her blood because she wants to be Ordinary. Keleigh has the ability, but not the training, to save her parents from slaughter by beasts most only see in horror movies. But after they perish, her mother reaches out from the OtherWorld, freeing Keleigh from her oath never to practice magic and imploring her to find an ancient relic powerful enough to destroy this realm. Keleigh, no longer able to deny her true calling, begrudgingly turns to her sworn enemy for help. Locke is a damaged druid whose family is entrusted with keeping witches cloaked in the Ordinary world in Salem. But Locke has a mission of his own, one that might not align with Keleigh’s. Can the two come together to find the ancient artifact in time to save each other and the world from plunging into complete chaos? This fairy tale is about to become deadly because all’s fair in vanity’s war.

Download or read book Something Magic This Way Comes written by Martin H. Greenberg and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the earliest days of humankind, everything in the world seemed magical. Gods and demons, spirits and sprites were considered to be responsible for everything from life and death, to the turning of the seasons, to the abundance or failure of crops. Today, much that was once attributed to magic has been explained by science, and in our technologically driven world, the question is whether there is still a place for magic. For twenty of fantasy’s finest imaginers, the answer is obviously, “Yes.”So welcome to visionary, modern-day realms of magic where surprising things can still happen. From a Gypsy fortune-teller’s transforming prophecy…to a troubled teen seeking a haven from his family woes…to a mysterious gathering of cats at Cape Canavaral…and a kid out to spook his best friend into believing that werewolves are real…here are stories that will amuse you or send chills down your spine—or have you looking wistfully around the next corner, hoping to find a bit of magic all your own….

Download or read book DESCENT OF BLOOD written by Elizabeth Marx and published by Elizabeth Marx Books. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When times are darkest, one vampire desires more than blood. As mortal men battle for the English crown, vampire warriors’ move undetected among their ranks, savoring the flow of blood the battlefield provides. Vampire prince, Severian Pearce, fears a revelation of their existence to humankind should the king fall from power. While in pursuit of the king’s enemies, Severian comes to the aid of Meridian, a human woman he craves—and not for the scent of her blood—but for the dark desires written on the pages of her diary. Meridian is torn between honoring her father’s dying wish and her unexplainable yearning for Lord Pearce. But as Severian and Meridian work together to protect a holy relic hunted by mortals and immortals alike, the Red Veil descends over them. This all-consuming attraction can drive vampires to the brink of madness and most humans do not survive its bloodlust. Will the existence of this powerful bond between a human and a vampire be enough to unite the seven immortal clans and protect them from the human world or is the Red Veil a plague set on destroying any chance they might have of being together for eternity?

Download or read book JUST CLOSE ENOUGH written by Elizabeth Marx and published by Elizabeth Marx Books. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revenge. Betrayal. Retribution. That’s the Russian way. Seattle businessman Alexander Volkow arrives in Crossroads, Alabama and buys up half of Broad Street. Local residents think he’s there to buy low and sell high, but he’s really after information pointing to a hometown hero who’s MIA. Alex is determined to get his vengeance, leading him to the missing man’s fiancée. Although Polly Anna swears she doesn’t know where Billy is, she might offer Alex the payback he’s looking for with her sweet Southern charm and hot little body. The problem is her sexy snort might lure him back for more. He’ll do anything to get his revenge ... even pretend to fall in love. Polly Anna Coots is searching for a way out. Escaping Crossroads is the only way to survive Billy. Everyone thinks he’s MIA, and no one wishes it’s true more than Polly Anna’s battered body, but someone’s been stalking her. All she needs to make her getaway are the profits from her organic cotton crop, but Alexander Volkow is the only man who’ll buy it and he wants more than a business deal. She’s been with a possessive, domineering man before—there’s no way she’s getting in bed with a secretive Russian playboy ... especially one who’s after something more than another notch in his bed post. In a small Southern town filled with secrets that fuel the smoldering fire burning between them, can either one of them get Just Close Enough?

Download or read book ASCENT OF BLOOD written by Elizabeth Marx and published by Elizabeth Marx Books. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love is conceived in the mind of a vampire long before it is ever realized. Vampire prince, Sebastian Pearce, has waited six hundred years for the right human mate. While vampires no longer require live donors for sustenance, Mother Nature has played a cruel trick on them making breeders a rare commodity. As numbers in Sebastian’s imperial house continue to dwindle, his virgin bride eludes him. That is, until he happens upon a young woman searching for a secret vampire text, the Book of Descent. Sebastian’s need for her is more potent than anything he’s felt for another woman, but Everleigh Marbut isn’t innocent. Worst of all she’s an American with a mind of her own, and has no desire to carry an immortal being. But fate has forged connections between vampires and human mates in the form of the Red Veil for generations. As the Red Veil descends over Sebastian and Everleigh they fight their attraction to each other, but neither of them realize they’re being lured into a battle pitting ancient myth against the power of modern science to recreate life until it’s too late. The destiny of his lineage, and the bond forged between them, now rests in their acceptance of each other as they are. Can a modern woman endure an eternity of devotion from a sexy, old-world vampire?

Download or read book Something Wicked This Way Comes written by Ray Bradbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two boys' lives are changed forever when a sinister travelling carnival stops at their Illinois town.

Download or read book Berserk of Gluttony Light Novel Vol 1 written by Isshiki Ichika and published by Seven Seas Entertainment. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fate Graphite is one of the forsaken. Cursed with the skill "Gluttony," he is ever starving, never sated...until the day he kills a dying thief and devours the man's strength--and his soul. The true hunger of Fate's Gluttony has awakened, and if he can learn to control his power, he will at last be the master of his own destiny.

Download or read book Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins written by Julia Cresswell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly updated to incorporate recent additions to the English language, the Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins provides a fascinating exploration of the origins and development of over 3,000 words in the English language. Drawing on Oxford's unrivalled dictionary research programme and language monitoring it brings to light the intriguing and often unusual stories of some of our most used words and phrases. The A-Z entries include the first known use of the term along with examples, related lexes, and expressions which uncover the etymological composition of each word. Also featured are 22 special panels that give overviews of broad topic areas, 5 of which are completely new and that variously cover words from Oceania, word blends, eponyms, and acronyms. New findings in the OED since the previous edition have also been added, including emoji, mansplain, meeple, meme, and spam. An absorbing resource for language students and enthusiasts, but also an intriguing read for any person interested in the development of the English language, and of language development in general. It also includes an extended introduction on the history of the English language.

Download or read book CUTTERS VS JOCKS written by Elizabeth Marx and published by Elizabeth Marx Books. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love at first sight versus lust you can't fight. Libby Tucker is a cutter—a nobody waitress in a college town—at least that’s what everyone believes. But admission to law school is Libby’s ticket out of Indiana and her escape from small town life forever. During a night on the town, Libby beats the most competitive athlete on campus at pool and draws more attention from him than she’s prepared for. Aidan Palowski is one of those jocks your friends warned you about—the kind that never loose—the kind that put notches in their baseball bats. As the closing pitcher on the best baseball team in the Big Ten, he’s on his way to the major leagues. Aidan always gets what he wants and Libby is the final home run he wants to hit out of the park. The last thing Libby needs is to get sidetracked by a superstar jock. Afraid that she might be on a collision course with love at first sight Libby keeps her distance, but the longer she holds out the more Aidan realizes it’s a case of lust he can’t fight. What happens when worthy opponents refuse to play their hearts out? CUTTERS VS. JOCKS The story of two lovers who put their future goals ahead of each other’s love before they were brought to the table for BINDING ARBITRATION.

Download or read book SIGNING BONUS written by Elizabeth Marx and published by Elizabeth Marx Books. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man who always gets what he wants. Chicago sports agent, Cyrus Fletcher is giving the full court press to an NBA rookie to sign with his agency by gifting him a weekend jaunt in Las Vegas. But the rookie wants to make it a couple’s weekend and Fletch needs a date. Fletch has had his eye on a particular woman, but he hasn’t found the right way to approach her until she cold calls his office looking for work. Fletch devises a plan that will net him the rookie, a rewarding weekend with the sexiest redhead he’s ever seen, and a huge signing bonus. A woman who makes a splash in the boardroom or the bedroom. Tricia is the Master of Many Trades, but her public relations business is tanking. If Tricia doesn’t hook a big-time client soon, not only will she be evicted from her office building, she’s going to lose every penny she’s already invested. When Fletch makes her an offer to pose as his ‘date’ for the weekend, she can’t refuse the money. Tricia’s only problem is, Fletch doesn’t believe she’s in PR, he thinks she’s a master of the oldest profession, but Tricia is savvy enough to seize the opportunity to save her company without giving ‘it’ up. Sometimes what happens in Vegas doesn’t end in Vegas.

Download or read book JUST IN CASE written by Elizabeth Marx and published by Elizabeth Marx Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work hard. Play hard. Love hard. That’s the Southern way. Revell Marshall has built a life and career working with objects as fragile and damaged as Scarlett while reassembling the delicate stained glass windows that saved the small town of Crossroads, Alabama from ruin. He’s determined to do whatever it takes to lure the one girl he’s always loved back to Alabama, even if he has to rid the town of someone keeping her away. Once Scarlett returns, he’ll do anything to win her heart. Even if he has to help her piece together the facts of her mother’s past and expose old secrets he’d rather leave buried. Stay clear of the past to protect the future. That’s the survivor’s way. Scarlett Marbry a child prodigy, and an acclaimed Sacred Harp singer until the day her mother committed suicide knows she’s never been good enough for Revell. In the aftermath of tragedy, she refused to sing another note, running away from Crossroads and whatever pushed her mother over the edge. Seven years later family obligations and a long lost letter lure her back, but she’ll have to face the one she left behind and a horrible truth she never intended to encounter. What if the love you thought would always be yours turns out to be forbidden? You better hold tight to your heart… Just in case.

Download or read book THE SEER written by Elizabeth Marx and published by Elizabeth Marx Books. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales aren’t supposed to be deadly, but anything can happen on Halloween night in Salem … even a human sacrifice. When a supernatural beast murders a sixteen-year-old girl, her soul is reawakened as an OtherWorldly being. Now, as the Seer, she is destined to serve the Order, even as she craves retribution. Invisible, isolated, and confused, she rejects her calling and seeks solace in the one thing she believes is real: her connection to Locke … only he can’t see her, or feel her presence. Determined to find some way to warn Locke of the danger he’s in the Seer sets out to discover the truth behind the clandestine Order. Unfortunately, those who are like her fear her, and only one acknowledges her existence—Tristan, a Guardian sentenced to defend the Order at all costs. Soon Tristan discovers something sinister, something that cannot only destroy the Seer, but every witch in the Order. To protect the one she loves and regain the life she lost, the Seer must join forces with Tristan and save the thing responsible for taking her away from the world to which she desperately wants to return.

Download or read book Something Greedy This Way Comes written by Elizabeth Marx and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locke embraces the magical legacy he wields, but it didn't help him save the girl he loved. Now he'll have to use everything he's learned since the Seer's death to safeguard Keleigh and find a magical object hidden and only whispered about for centuries. By the light of the next blue moon, the ShiningOnes plan to infiltrate this realm and retrieve the mighty relic. The Elders are prepared to sacrifice anyone to acquire it. The Sisters will manipulate anyone to safeguard it. While every other witch in the Order whispers and warns about the artifact's power, Locke and Keleigh follow clues from her mother's message, hoping to retrieve it. But if Locke and Keleigh don't locate the relic first, the battle brewing between sacred knowledge and modern communication will destroy everything-even their love. When fairy tales hold ancient secrets, many may have to be revealed because something greedy this way comes.

Download or read book Greedy Pigs written by Matt Wallace and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sin du Jour crew caters to the Shadow Government in Greedy Pigs, Matt Wallace's fifth Sin du Jour Affair “I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.” Politics is a dirty game. When the team at Sin du Jour accidentally caters a meal for the President of the United States and his entourage, they discover a conspiracy that has been in place since before living memory. Meanwhile, the Shadow Government that oversees the co-existence of the natural and supernatural worlds is under threat from the most unlikely of sources. It’s up to one member of the Sin du Jour staff to prevent war on an unimaginable scale. Between courses, naturally. Sin du Jour Book 1: Envy of Angels Book 2: Lustlocked Book 3: Pride's Spell Book 4: Idle Ingredients Book 5: Greedy Pigs Book 6: Gluttony Bay Book 7: Taste of Wrath At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Emerald Greed written by Brian Ray Brewer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerald Greed is an adventure set in the Pantanal, vast, inhospitable wetlands in the center of South America at the headwaters of the Rio Paraguay. This book tells of the emerald trade, cocaine smuggling and of politics as practiced in Brazil. The story begins with Jack Tate in Rio de Janeiro, working to reestablish the industry contacts he had prior to leaving for Africa to trade in the “blood diamonds” that were fueling the Angolan Civil War. This African venture which ended in a Zairian prison left him destitute and therefore desperate enough to head off into the Brazilian hinterlands in search of the fabled Borba Mine, knowing that Joaquim Fontes, the geologist who re-discovered it, and another gem dealer sent to find him have both disappeared. As the story unfolds so does a romance between Jack and Joaquim’s daughter, Marisa, who eventually leads him to the mine where their quest begins.