Download or read book Dark Debts written by Karen Hall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dark Debts, Karen Hall masterfully combines southern gothic, romantic comedy, and mystery in a wildly original theological thriller that has become a cult favorite since being published twenty years ago. In this new anniversary edition, the author has reimagined her work. The result is a suspenseful, irreverent, and deeply spiritual novel that captivates from the very beginning and doesn’t let go. When Randa, a reporter for an alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, receives an urgent phone call from her estranged lover, Cam, she rushes to his apartment. She arrives to discover that he’s leapt from the building to his death. Police believe that before committing suicide, Cam also murdered someone in a convenience store, but Randa does not believe Cam is capable of such an act. She seeks out Cam’s brother, Jack, who is living off the grid, somewhere near Atlanta, in hope of figuring out what really happened. Meanwhile, a Jesuit priest named Michael Kinney has been exiled from New York City to the boondocks of Georgia after making controversial public statements. He has said things that educated people of faith are not supposed to express. Even more problematically, he has fallen in love with a woman, and the last surviving member of his family has kept a shocking family secret from him. How these characters converge is part of the thrilling mystery of Dark Debts, a cult favorite first published twenty years ago. In this new edition, author Karen Hall has reimaged her southern gothic tale and the result is a work of even greater power—a brilliantly realized and suspenseful evocation of the conflict between good and evil.

Download or read book Dark Debts written by Karen Hall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When Randa, a reporter for an alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, receives an urgent phone call from her estranged lover, Cam, she rushes to his apartment. She arrives to discover that he's leapt from the building to his death. Police believe that before committing suicide, Cam also murdered someone in a convenience store, but Randa does not believe Cam is capable of such an act. She seeks out Cam's brother, Jack, who is living off the grid, somewhere near Atlanta, in hope of figuring out what really happened. Meanwhile, a Jesuit priest named Michael Kinney has been exiled from New York City to the boondocks of Georgia after making controversial public statements. He has said things that educated people of faith are not supposed to express. Even more problematically, he has fallen in love with a woman, and the last surviving member of his family has kept a shocking family secret"--

Download or read book Payback written by Margaret Atwood and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores debt as a central historical component of religion, literature, and societal structure, while examining the idea of humanity's debt to the natural world.

Download or read book The Secrets of the Dark written by Arka Chakrabarti and published by Sristhi Publishers & Distributors. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is one born with his destiny or does he forge it? In the mystical land of Gaya, two prophecies bind the fate of men and empires alike. The Destroyer born from the royal seed on the Land of the Setting Sun shall bring the empires down, or so has been foretold. In between the Destroyer and the world stand the Seven Guardians of Gaya, guarding the realm of man. A king, a father, defies the Seven and fate itself to save the last drop of his blood and prince Agni grows in the Land of the Rising Sun, exiled from his own people, unaware of his past. Losing the woman he loved most to the shadows in the dark, Agni is thrown into a whirlpool of events that he neither knows, nor understands. His quest for vengeance brings him to the doorstep of a secret that will shatter the very foundation of beliefs of a world. Can Agni avert his destiny? Can he uncover the truth about the Seven and the prophecies, now hidden behind a veil of ignorance? The Secrets of the Dark are sometimes so terrible that they are better left unsaid.

Download or read book Dark Intentions written by Charlotte Byrd and published by Byrd Book Llc. This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Captivating! Dark! Impossible to put down!" (Goodreads review) Dangerous billionaire saves my mother's life. Now, he needs a favor... One debt. One secret. One night. I have a secret and I'll do everything in my power to keep it that way. I've been watching her for a long time. I've been following her. She's lost a brother. I lost a best friend, but no one could ever know. She's in pain, and so am I. She deserves so much better than me. I am rotten to the core and if I take this any further, I will pull her into my darkness. But I can't stay away. I can't stop. What happens when she starts to uncover my lies? What happens if love isn't enough? From bestselling author Charlotte Byrd comes an intense forbidden mafia romance about debts, lies and secrets and the extent to which people go for love. I'm not supposed to know his name and he's not supposed to know mine. But we break that rule. That's not the only one. He gives me chills and makes my body ache. He makes my pain go away. He's just a distraction, but I can't get enough of him. What I don't know yet is that he will help save my mother's life. What I don't know yet is that I'll owe him a debt. What I don't know yet is that he is a man of many secrets. Secrets dark enough to break us both. Dark Intentions is the first novel in the Dark Intentions series. It is a dark romance/romantic suspense about debt, lies, wealth, crime and family bonds. There is no cheating. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Captivating! Dark! Impossible to put down!" (Goodreads review) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Must read! Its a dark and intense book, I love it. Cant wait for the next book. Charlotte Byrd you are amazing and I'm so happy I discovered your books." (Goodreads review) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "On the edge of my seat! The rush of words making one's heartbeat faster with every word. Holding on to the edge wanting to see the out come. These words will make you hold your breath and wish you could keep reading. Amazing!!" (Goodreads review) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "The story was well developed and well written. I loved the characters and the way their stories unfolded. With the underlying drama, I had trouble putting the book down and I read it in a single sitting. I look forward to reading more by this author." (Goodreads review) From bestselling author Charlotte Byrd comes an intense romance about debts, lies and secrets and the extent to which people go for love. I’m not supposed to know his name and he’s not supposed to know mine. But we break that rule. That’s not the only one. He gives me chills and makes my body ache. He makes my pain go away. He’s just a distraction, but I can’t get enough of him. What I don’t know yet is that he will help save my mother’s life. What I don’t know yet is that I’ll owe him a debt. What I don’t know yet is that he is a man of many secrets. Secrets dark enough to break us both. Dark Intentions is the first novel in the Dark Intentions series. It is a dark romance/romantic suspense about debt, lies, wealth, crime and family bonds. There is no cheating.

Download or read book Debt Inheritance written by Pepper Winters and published by Pepper Winters. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance reviews: An incredible, unique journey down a rabbit hole of intrigue & history. Pepper's writing was captivating and thrilling, combined with her trademark for dark lyrical deliciousness, creating a perfectly braided work that screams...dark, sinful, forbidden, but also daring, alluring, and lustful. *** Please note, this is a Dark Romance. If you don't like darker topics, please don't read. It's ultimately a love story, but to find pleasure you must feel pain. You have been warned.*** "I own you. I have the piece of paper to prove it. It's undeniable and unbreakable. You belong to me until you've paid off your debts." Nila Weaver's family is indebted. Being the first born daughter, her life is forfeit to the first born son of the Hawks to pay for sins of ancestors past. The dark ages might have come and gone, but debts never leave. She has no choice in the matter. She is no longer free. Jethro Hawk receives Nila as an inheritance present on his twenty-ninth birthday. Her life is his until she's paid off a debt that's centuries old. He can do what he likes with her--nothing is out of bounds--she has to obey. There are no rules. Only payments. *Debt Inheritance is a full length book at 252 pages and ends on a cliffhanger. There are Six Books in the Series.

Download or read book Lovely Dark Deep written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the legendary literary master, winner of the National Book Award and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a collection of thirteen mesmerizing stories that maps the eerie darkness within us all. Insightful, disturbing, imaginative, and breathtaking in their lyrical precision, the stories in Lovely, Dark, Deep display Joyce Carol Oates’s magnificent ability to make visceral the terror, hurt, and uncertainty that lurks at the edges of ordinary lives. In “Mastiff,” a woman and a man are joined in an erotic bond forged out of terror and gratitude. “Sex with Camel” explores how a sixteen-year-old boy realizes the depth of his love for his grandmother—and how vulnerable those feelings make him. Fearful that that her husband is “disappearing” from their life, a woman becomes obsessed with keeping him in her sight in “The Disappearing.” “A Book of Martyrs” reveals how the end of a pregnancy brings with it the end of a relationship. And in the title story, the elderly Robert Frost is visited by an interviewer, an unsettling young woman, who seems to know a good deal more about his life than she should. A piercing and evocative collection, Lovely, Dark, Deep reveals an artist at the height of her creative power.

Download or read book Rebel Thunder written by Bill McCay and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in a new series based on the award-winning, bestselling collectible-miniature fantasy game--a spellbinding tale of intrigue, mystery, and betrayal among warlords, mages, and revolutionaries. Original.

Download or read book A Debt Owed written by Clarissa Wild and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My enemy's daughter ... offered to me as payment towards a debt. Now she'll become my wife ... My pet.I wasn't always cold-hearted and vindictive.She made me that way.Charlotte Davis ... the most beautiful and privileged princess there is.I'd kill for her to be mine.We met by chance at her father's wedding ... And then again years later.But she forgot about me. Ignored me. Enraged me.Then her father did the unforgivable, and I made it my lifelong goal to ruin him ...By taking her as payment towards a debt he owed.A debt she will repay by marrying me.Until death do us part.WARNING: This book includes scenes that may be disturbing to some readers. Full length Dark Billionaire Romance.

Download or read book Bad Debts written by Peter Temple and published by MacAdam/Cage Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Jack Irish--criminal lawyer, debt collector, sports lover, horse-racing man and trainee cabinetmaker, not to mention the best crime character in years. With hit men after him, shady ex-policemen at every turn, and the body count rising, Jack needs to find out what's going on and fast.

Download or read book Dark Debt written by Chloe Neill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] WONDERFULLY COMPELLING RELUCTANT VAMPIRE HEROINE.”— USA Today Bestselling Author Julie Kenner Between standing Sentinel of Cadogan house and making society appearances with House Master Ethan Sullivan, a new member of the American Association of Vampires, Merit has her hands full. The last thing she needs is trouble, especially of the deadly kind. But when an old friend shows up in need, Merit can’t refuse. Morgan Greer, Master of House Navarre, has gotten himself into serious debt with a dangerous Chicago crime syndicate known as the Triad. And they’re willing to exact more than a pound of flesh for payback—unless Merit can find a way to stop them. Only the Triad’s connections go deeper than Merit knows, and even one wrong move could be her last…

Download or read book The Dark Theatre written by Alan Read and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Theatre is an indispensable text for activist communities wondering what theatre might have to do with their futures, students and scholars across Theatre and Performance Studies, Urban Studies, Cultural Studies, Political Economy and Social Ecology. The Dark Theatre returns to the bankrupted warehouse in Hope (Sufferance) Wharf in London’s Docklands where Alan Read worked through the 1980s to identify a four-decade interregnum of ‘cultural cruelty’ wreaked by financialisation, austerity and communicative capitalism. Between the OPEC Oil Embargo and the first screening of The Family in 1974, to the United Nations report on UK poverty and the fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017, this volume becomes a book about loss. In the harsh light of such loss is there an alternative to the market that profits from peddling ‘well-being’ and pushes prescriptions for ‘self-help’, any role for the arts that is not an apologia for injustice? What if culture were not the solution but the problem when it comes to the mitigation of grief? Creativity not the remedy but the symptom of a structural malaise called inequality? Read suggests performance is no longer a political panacea for the precarious subject but a loss adjustor measuring damages suffered, compensations due, wrongs that demand to be put right. These field notes from a fire sale are a call for angry arts of advocacy representing those abandoned as the detritus of cultural authority, second-order victims whose crime is to have appealed for help from those looking on, audiences of sorts.

Download or read book Debt written by David Graeber and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.

Download or read book Dark Redemption written by Charlotte Byrd and published by Byrd Book Llc. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He saved my mother’s life. Now, I owe him a debt. But I don’t even know who he is. Dante Langston is man of extreme wealth and privilege and just as much darkness. Our time together was supposed to be a one night stand. No names. No phone numbers. No other way to get in touch. But I keep going back to look for him. What I don’t yet know is that he already knows me. He has been watching and waiting. He needs to stay away to protect his secrets but he can’t. Neither can I. I’m addicted to his lips and his touch. He’s addicted to our shared pain. What happens when I find out the debt I owe is to him? What happens when I find out the other secrets that he is much more desperate to keep? From bestselling author Charlotte Byrd comes an intense romance about debts, lies and secrets and the extent to which people go for love. Dark Redemption is the second novel in the Dark Intentions series. It is a dark romance/romantic suspense about debt, lies, wealth, crime and family bonds. There is no cheating.

Download or read book Dark Run written by Mike Brooks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Ichabod Drift attempts to make a dark run, delivering a special cargo to Earth aboard the Keiko, a ship full of smugglers, soldiers of fortune and adventurers, who are actually the good guys in a corrupt galaxy--

Download or read book Sweet Ruin written by Kresley Cole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next searing novel in Kresley Cole's bestselling Immortals After Dark series. Print run 75,000.

Download or read book Bad Paper written by Jake Halpern and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Trade Commission receives more complaints about rogue debt collecting than about any activity besides identity theft. Dramatically and entertainingly, Bad Paper reveals why. It tells the story of Aaron Siegel, a former banking executive, and Brandon Wilson, a former armed robber, who become partners and go in quest of "paper"—the uncollected debts that are sold off by banks for pennies on the dollar. As Aaron and Brandon learn, the world of consumer debt collection is an unregulated shadowland where operators often make unwarranted threats and even collect debts that are not theirs. Introducing an unforgettable cast of strivers and rogues, Jake Halpern chronicles their lives as they manage high-pressure call centers, hunt for paper in Las Vegas casinos, and meet in parked cars to sell the social security numbers and account information of unsuspecting consumers. He also tracks a "package" of debt that is stolen by unscrupulous collectors, leading to a dramatic showdown with guns in a Buffalo corner store. Along the way, he reveals the human cost of a system that compounds the troubles of hardworking Americans and permits banks to ignore their former customers. The result is a vital exposé that is also a bravura feat of storytelling.