Download or read book Calico Descending written by Keri Lake and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of suffering and brutality, she's the key to his humanity ...I was fourteen when I was sold to the men in black uniforms. Too young to understand I served a purpose beyond that of the other girls they'd taken.For the greater good.Now, after four years in Calico, I've seen more death and suffering than during my days of surviving out in the Deadlands against the threat of Ragers and famine. I didn't think this world could get any bleaker. Didn't think it could take any more from me than it already had.Not until I finally learned my purpose.That same day, I walked the dark halls in the bowels of this hell, where the suffering is in silence, and ghosts of the dead whisper through the walls. A place where nightmares are real.A place where I met my Champion-the most revered Alpha in S-Block-locked away in his dark cell.For the greater good.He's their weapon, their only line of defense against the mistakes of the past: the mutations that could wipe out all of what's left of us.Me, I'm his whipping girl. His reward for good behavior. And his punishment for acts of defiance.Calico Descending is the follow up book to Juniper Unraveling, a full-length dystopian post apocalyptic romance.SERIES READING ORDER: Juniper Unraveling (Book 1)Calico Descending (Book 2)Kings of Carrion (Book 3

Download or read book God of Monsters written by Keri Lake and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a dark apocalyptic romance and if you haven't read this genre yet, Keri will suck you into this world and keep you on the edge of your seat. Even if apocalyptic isn't your cuppa, trust me, this series will make a believer out of you." -Dirty Girl Romance Book BlogI've heard stories about the Alphas. Violent soldiers, bred to kill both humans and mutations, whose sole purpose was to balance our survival against the infected.Until they turned on their masters.Held as subjects of the Calico research facility, they were forced to endure the gruesome experiments that transformed them into callous savages with hearts as impenetrable as their defenses. More terrifying than the monsters that decimated our world with disease and famine.In the aftermath of Calico's collapse, many of the Alphas fled, only to be hunted by our own Legion army. And in their absence, the balance has shifted.I thought they no longer existed.Until I met him, the god of monsters.Now I don't believe in the stories anymore.To fall in love with the unyielding heart of an Alpha is said to be impossible.But to fall in love with a god would be a tragedy.SERIES ORDER: Juniper Unraveling (Book 1)Calico Descending (Book 2)Kings of Carrion (Book 3)God of Monsters (Book 4)

Download or read book Kings of Carrion written by Keri Lake and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades have passed since our world was decimated by the Dredge. Some say it was an act of God. Others believe the devil himself breached the gates of hell and turned the masses into the mindless infected with an appetite for carnage.Those of us who've survived the Calico experiments know the only thing more terrifying than the monsters that seek to ravage what's left of us, are the men who created them. Ones too capable of hiding their true form, and burying their darkest secrets.Somewhere beneath the facility lies the answers, a cure for our suffering. To reach it, we'll have to open the haunting tomb, where man's deadliest mistakes, the most violent mutations, lie trapped within its tunnels, waiting to be set free.Our only hope in surviving them are the very Alphas who were designed to hunt us down. The titans forged by cruelty and pain.Kings of carrion.We taught them to love, and in turn, they vow to protect us. To deliver the cure for humanity's sake. Except this world doesn't give without taking, and any chance of saving us will require the greatest sacrifice of all.SERIES ORDER: Juniper Unraveling (Book 1)Calico Descending (Book 2)Kings of Carrion (Book 3

Download or read book The Distant Hours written by Kate Morton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-lost letter arriving at its destination fifty years after it was sent lures Edie Burchill to crumbling Milderhurst Castle, home of the three elderly Blythe sisters, where Edie's mother was sent to stay as a teenager during World War II.

Download or read book Goodbye Flicker written by Carmen Giménez Smith and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distinctive collection introduces a new type of mythmaking, daring in its marriage of fairy tale tropes with American mundanities. Conspiratorial, Goodbye, Flicker describes the interior life of a girl whose prince is a deadbeat dad and whose escape into a fantasy world is also an escape into language, beauty, and the surreal.

Download or read book Nightshade A Dark Paranormal Gothic Romance written by Keri Lake and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A love so forbidden, it would shake the heavens ... My father called them messengers. He once told me they walked among us, and that somewhere in this dark and godless city, there shined a faint sliver of hope. I had only to look for the signs. Well, I've spent my whole life investigating the inexplicable, and all I've found are the unsettling vestiges of iniquity - the evidence of another world shrouded by the obscure. Purgatory to some, where depravity hides in shadows, and girls like me are little more than delicious bites of temptation. Others call it Nightshade. This peculiar place is where I first met the cold and callous recluse living in a decaying cliffside cathedral. Jericho Van Croix is the epitome of everything I've been told to fear. A raven-winged harbinger who wears intrigue like a warm black cloak. An enigma that I'm determined to unravel - even if it means getting closer than I should. One touch is forbidden. Even so much as a kiss would be my demise. But the sin on his lips burns me up like a wild flame, and his growing infatuation weakens my resolve. Giving him what he wants, though, will mean no chance for redemption, or escape. What's worse is, the signs I've followed yet failed to see all these years begin to unmask a terrifying reality: That falling may be my only saving grace.

Download or read book The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop Cafe written by Mary Simses and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high-powered Manhattan attorney finds love, purpose, and the promise of a simpler life in her grandmother's hometown. Ellen Branford is going to fulfill her grandmother's dying wish -- to find the hometown boy she once loved, and give him her last letter. Ellen leaves Manhattan and her Kennedy-esque fiance for Beacon, Maine. What should be a one-day trip is quickly complicated when she almost drowns in the chilly bay and is saved by a local carpenter. The rescue turns Ellen into something of a local celebrity, which may or may not help her unravel the past her grandmother labored to keep hidden. As she learns about her grandmother and herself, it becomes clear that a 24-hour visit to Beacon may never be enough. The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Café is a warm and delicious debut about the power of a simpler life. "You will devour The Irresistible Blueberry Bakeshop & Café. Mary Simses can write evocative detail that puts you right in the scene, with dialogue that always rings true." -- James Patterson

Download or read book The Once and Future Witches written by Alix E. Harrow and published by Redhook. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gorgeous and thrilling paean to the ferocious power of women. The characters live, bleed, and roar. "―Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR Books • Barnes and Noble • BookPage In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in this powerful novel of magic, family, and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters―James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna―join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote―and perhaps not even to live―the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as witches. But there will be. An homage to the indomitable power and persistence of women, The Once and Future Witches reimagines stories of revolution, motherhood, and women's suffrage—the lost ways are calling. Praise for The Once and Future Witches: "A glorious escape into a world where witchcraft has dwindled to a memory of women's magic, and three wild, sundered sisters hold the key to bring it back...A tale that will sweep you away."―Yangsze Choo, New York Times bestselling author "This book is an amazing bit of spellcraft and resistance so needed in our times, and a reminder that secret words and ways can never be truly and properly lost, as long as there are tongues to speak them and ears to listen."―P. Djèlí Clark, author The Black God's Drum For more from Alix E. Harrow, check out The Ten Thousand Doors of January.

Download or read book How Perfect Is That written by Sarah Bird and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-07 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Happily entering Austin high society after marrying into a family that made her sign a strict prenuptial agreement, Blythe Young is dumped ten years later for another woman and is forced to take refuge at a housing co-op, where she reunites with the college roommate she had abandoned. Reprint.

Download or read book Saint Juniper s Folly written by Alex Crespo and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cemetery Boys meets The Haunting of Bly Manor in this spellbinding queer paranormal romance! "A slow, ominous creep of a book." —New York Times bestselling author Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys and The Sunbearer Trials For Jaime, returning to Saint Juniper means returning to a past he’s spent eight years trying to forget. But every gossip in town already knows his business, so he seeks out solitude into the nearby woods—Saint Juniper’s Folly—and does not return. For Theo, Saint Juniper means being stuck. His senior year is going to be like all the rest, dull and claustrophobic. That is until he wanders into the Folly and stumbles on a haunted house with an acerbic yet handsome boy trapped—as in physically trapped—inside. For Taylor, Saint Juniper is a mystery. She struggles to practice the magic her dad banned from the house after her mom, an accomplished witch, suddenly died. Then a wide-eyed teenager barges into her life, rambling about a haunted house and a trapped boy. He needs a witch. The Folly and its ghosts will draw these three teenagers together. But can they each face their demons to forge a bond strong enough to escape the Folly's shadows? Alex Crespo’s queer haunted house mystery is equal parts spine-tingling thrills, a celebration of found family, and must-read for paranormal romance fans.

Download or read book What I Would Not Unravel written by Karen Lee Lewis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems by award-winning writer Karen Lee Lewis

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Download or read book Wanderlust written by Alice Hoffman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanderlust: A Book Club Sampler from Simon & Schuster is your boarding pass to the beautiful, the mysterious, and the unknown. This book club sampler was created to pay homage to a book’s unique ability to transport your imagination around the world, taking you on journeys across distance and time. Whether you’re in the mood for a historical love story set on a sheep station in rural Australia or an illuminating memoir of life in the war-torn Middle East, these are books you and your reading group won’t want to miss: Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia Ciezadlo, Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman, The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman, Amaryllis in Blueberry by Christina Meldrum, The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais, The Distant Hours by Kate Morton, This Burns My Heart by Samuel Park, An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy. Each excerpt in Wanderlust is accompanied by a collection of bonus materials intended to enrich your reading experience, including discussion questions, suggestions for enhancing your book club meeting, and author interviews. In the spirit of looking to the horizon, we also asked each author featured in this sampler one question: “What is your favorite travel memory?” Their answers are fittingly diverse—from Christina Meldrum’s summers spent at a family cottage in Lake Margrethe, Michigan, to Alice Hoffman’s inspirational first trip to Masada, the setting of her epic new novel The Dovekeepers. Anuradha Roy, the author of An Atlas of Impossible Longing, describes the lure of armchair travel best: “All readers…carry within themselves sediments of the places they have traveled to in books, the people they’ve met on the way. Therefore the strange déjà vu is when you land in a foreign country and wonder if you’ve been there before.” So, sit back, relax, and get ready for the trip of a lifetime. Bon Voyage!

Download or read book April May June July written by Alison B. Hart and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A triumphant family story and sharply observed exploration of privilege, identity, and love in all its forms, following four estranged siblings whose lives collide in the lead-up to a family wedding, when new clues surface about their long-missing father “Truly a great American novel that does the very best of what fiction can do: sink us into other people’s lives, show us new worlds, make our hearts pound and our breath catch. Superb.” —Julia Phillips April, May, June, and July Barber don’t have much in common anymore. An upcoming family wedding will place the four siblings in the same room for the first time in years. But shortly before, when April spots their father, who went missing while serving overseas a decade ago, their reunion becomes entirely more complicated. While the siblings’ search for the truth about their father forces them back into each other’s lives, it also intensifies their private dramas. April loves her husband, but seeks excitement outside their marriage. May had big dreams for the future, but she’s still stuck living at home. June is eager to marry her girlfriend, so why does she need a drink at every wedding-related event? And then there’s baby brother July, whose unrequited love for his straight roommate has him more confused than ever. Confronting the past together, April, May, June, and July will find not only answers about their father, but new romance, hope, and understanding as they learn to embrace the beauty of their shared history.

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Download or read book Calm Night written by K.D. Cross and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book What is the bright sun without the night sky? Perhaps at first it would appear pleasant. Constant sun filled days is ideal. Is it not? But in all actuality it would be a turning point of an unconceivable event with an unexpected aftermath. A new world government is birth out of calamity and the greatest devastation the entire earth has ever succumb. Lordia, the young queen with no crown decked with gems nor a palace on high is the promise for a simple way of life. Along with an orphan born to be a king a purpose if fulfilled. But in the mist is a secret that holds the power to destroy the government. With the purpose fulfilled, the promise becomes ensnared with the secret. The outcome is altered for both the promise and the secret. “The sun is neither friend nor foe.” per Jacob the father of the young queen and the visionary mind of the government known as The Thirteen. However, according to the knowledge of a gate keeper the sun has always been at odds with the earth. Lordia is not only the embodiment of the promise but the vessel as well. The Thirteen has become her allies of strength. Lordia in return will become their bravest protector. In despite of her snare with the secret Lordia will keep the promise. About the Author K.D. Cross known as Kim lives in Danville Virginia. She was born in the spring of April on the 8th day in 1976. Kim began creative writing in 2015. Calm Night was her stress reliever after a long work night and a quick workout at the gym. When Kim arrived home she would type. The initial writing of Calm Night was to be a short story. But with each new day Kim fell in love with Calm Night referring to the writing as her first born. Kim would stay awake inside her tiny studio apartment and type until her eyes became heavy with sleep. But that is when Kim’s eclectic imagination would explode. She dreamed of Calm Night when she slept. The dreams are now chapters in the book. Each character was brought to life with what Kim’s idea of wholeness, ability and concord is. Kim’s political views, opinions of society and her fondest passions were her muse to write Calm Night. The book cover is Kim’s work of art. She named the painting Sisters because both beings are identical but with different dedications toward the same objective. Kim finished the painting of Sisters in the winter of February on the 1st day of 2015. A few months after in the spring of May on the 15th day Kim began the writing of Calm Night. In the autumn of October on the 28th day in 2019 Kim completed Calm Night. She is happy to share Calm Night with you. From Kim’s imagination to your enjoyment.

Download or read book Thirty Six Steps Secrets and Searches written by Tracie Scheiding and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Juniper Kelly has grown up beneath an umbrella of secrets. Living in a rural South Carolina town with her single, hard-working mother, Juniper bears the brunt of her classmatesâ?? teasing for her second-hand clothes, her love of solitude and for the status of her elusive, mystery father. A father whose name she doesnâ??t even know. Driven by her mother's unwillingness to divulge her father's identity, Juniper sets out on her own to uncover the truth she's always sought. What she discovers will forever change her life and who she is. A dilapidated farm house, a single white feather and a story steeped in mythology set Juniper down a path towards fulfilling a destiny larger than she ever could have imagined.