Download or read book Shards of Ice written by R Phoenix and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when your rescuer becomes obsessed with you? Even worse, what happens when that rescuer isn't even human... Kai's life has never been easy, and bleeding to death in the snow seems the perfect fated ending to his miserable existence. A beautiful stranger drags him back from death's door with a touch that is pure magic. Kai soon discovers that such magic lingers when Avery persists in seducing him. He starts to fall for him, but with every sliver of affection he gives Avery, his appreciation for his best friend Tristan gets stripped away to loathing, destroying every chance at love they might have had.Tristan has been in love with Kai for years, but he's too afraid to admit it for fear of what Kai's reaction might be. When the ice prince enters their lives and binds Kai to him with fae magic, it seems like there's nothing anyone can do about it. But Tristan has his own powers, and he's determined to save Kai from Avery's deadly clutches. The only problem is...Kai might not want to be rescued.This is a loose M/M retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen." Please note that it contains emotional and physical abuse as well as knife/bloodplay.Grim and Sinister Delights is a dark romance series based on classic fairy tales and stories. You will find standalone tales of gay romance that range in darkness and kinks. If you dare to take the challenge, read them all to find yourself lost in a classic that you think you know. These stories are for adult readers and may contain morally ambiguous themes.

Download or read book Sword of Destiny written by Andrzej Sapkowski and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geralt the Witcher battles monsters, demons and prejudices alike in Sword of Destiny, the second collection of adventures in Andrzej Sapkowski’s groundbreaking epic fantasy series that inspired the Netflix show and the hit video games. Geralt is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless hunter. Yet he is no ordinary killer: his targets are the multifarious monsters and vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. Sword of Destiny is the follow up to The Last Wish, and together they are the perfect introduction to a one of a kind fantasy world. Witcher collections The Last Wish Sword of Destiny Witcher novels Blood of Elves The Time of Contempt Baptism of Fire The Tower of Swallows Lady of the Lake Season of Storms Hussite Trilogy The Tower of Fools Warriors of God Translated from original Polish by David French

Download or read book Shards of Ice written by Alison Sampson and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shards of Ice is the true story of a man who committed the ultimate act of violence. Was it drug induced or pre-meditated? Was it the drug or the person? You decide.

Download or read book Ice Shards written by Yasmine Galenorn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Yasmine Galenorn comes "Ice Shards," a passionate story of redemption long overdue, and "Shattered," an all-new, never before published short story. Finnish house sprite Iris Kuusi has fallen in love again. But she is carrying a dark secret. Now, she must journey to the frozen Northlands to confront the shadow of her former lover who haunts her dreams, and to discover, once and for all, whether she actually committed the horrible crime for which she was cast out. Only by breaking a curse she’s been under since her youth, can she free herself to embrace the love waiting for her at home. Includes a preview of Haunted Moon, the new Otherworld novel. "Ice Shards" previously appeared in the anthology Hexed.

Download or read book The Snow Queen written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by Scandinavia Publishing House. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty of Hans Christian Andersen's most cherished stories in single volumes Illustrator various artists. Known all over the world, these fairytales hold stories of great value and are a source of inspiration for both young and old.

Download or read book Ice Song written by Kirsten Imani Kasai and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2009-05-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Reminiscent of Ursula Le Guin’s paradigm-shattering The Left Hand of Darkness, this piercingly moving story belongs in most fantasy collections.”—Library Journal There are secrets beneath her skin. Sorykah Minuit is a scholar, an engineer, and the sole woman aboard an ice-drilling submarine in the frozen land of the Sigue. What no one knows is that she is also a Trader: one who can switch genders suddenly, a rare corporeal deviance universally met with fascination and superstition and all too often punished by harassment or death. Sorykah’s infant twins, Leander and Ayeda, have inherited their mother’s Trader genes. When a wealthy, reclusive madman known as the Collector abducts the babies to use in his dreadful experiments, Sorykah and her male alter-ego, Soryk, must cross icy wastes and a primeval forest to get them back. Complicating the dangerous journey is the fact that Sorykah and Soryk do not share memories: Each disorienting transformation is like awakening with a jolt from a deep and dreamless sleep. The world through which the alternating lives of Sorykah and Soryk travel is both familiar and surreal. Environmental degradation and genetic mutation run amok; humans have been distorted into animals and animal bodies cloak a wild humanity. But it is also a world of unexpected beauty and wonder, where kindness and love endure amid the ruins. Alluring, intense, and gorgeously rendered, Ice Song is a remarkable debut by a fiercely original new writer. Praise for Ice Song “A stunning debut fantasy about love and the ties of blood.”—Armchair Interviews “Kasai’s debut is a boldly adventurous tale depicting a richly detailed world. The aspect of Traders shifting gender brings Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Left Hand of Darkness to mind, while the activities on Chen’s island are more reminiscent of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Meredith Gentry novels.”—Booklist “Ice Song is definitely a compelling read, largely due to the fact that Sorykah is such a well-developed character. She has an equally intense and complex sense of love and resentment for her children. And the fact that she exists between the world of humans and the mutants is also a source of conflict for her character . . . Ice Song is a near-perfect combination of fantasy, great storytelling and social commentary.”—Philadelphia Gay News

Download or read book Ice Nation written by Jason Bray and published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the young and impressionable sons and daughters of rural Australia were promised power and riches beyond their wildest dreams by an older sadistic boss, they become a highly manipulated and dangerous group of drug dealers. Intent on distributing their own brand of ice and justice into regional communities, they were prepared to attack anyone or anything that stood in their way. As the syndicate spirals out of control, their wildest dreams become their worst nightmares. Victorian detectives tracked and pursued the syndicate around the state in an attempt to stop the violence, collect evidence and dismantle the group - a tightly controlled group of outlaws from whom no one is safe, not even woman and children. Ice Nation is an intimate blow-by-blow account by the lead investigating officer of police efforts to bring the syndicate to justice. It is a snapshot of the epidemic that is taking over our country and a horrifying picture of the destruction of family and friends.

Download or read book Shards from the Polar Ice written by Lydia Grigorieva and published by Glagoslav Publications. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It would be hard to imagine Russian poetry in the last half century without Lydia Grigorieva,” writes eminent Russian poet and critic Konstantin Kedrov. Grigorieva is a uniquely individual voice, bucking the trends of modernist poetry to create her own distinctive and beguiling body of poetry. Her work draws on her own remarkable life to create startlingly arresting images and metaphors, full of beauty and power, from her series that emerged from her Arctic childhood, to the troubles that beset Ukraine. Her range of influences is wide, and Beethoven, Freud, Sylvia Plath and Byron all appear in her poems as well as more familiar Russian images. At the heart of Grigorieva’s poetry is what she calls its ‘musicality’ – her firm belief in the power of rhyme and rhythm in creating a poetic experience. In this first major collection of her work in English, English poet John Farndon, working with Grigorieva and co-translator Olga Nakston, has recreated this musicality in English so that English readers might experience for the first time what makes her work so revered in her Russian homeland. Translated by John Farndon with Olga Nakston. Maxim Hodak - Максим Ходак (Publisher), Max Mendor - Макс Мендор (Director), Ksenia Papazova (Managing Editor).

Download or read book Shard written by Andreas Zimmermann and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the first day of summer vacation, Alex, Jared, and Madison find something more waiting for them at home than the normal freedom that comes with the end of school. Uncle Richard has come for a visit, bringing presents with him as always. This time, he gives the siblings their own miniature dragon figurines, each one a different color. But an even bigger surprise lies in store for them when, the next morning, Alex awakens to find that his green dragon has come alive! The children learn that the dragons are not simple statues as they had assumed, but are actually living, breathing dragons. And as the family settles into a new routine with three not-quite housebroken pets, Alex, Jared, and Madison learn that there is more to their story than they know. When an elder dragon from another realm appears and calls the young dragons back to his world, the siblings are accidentally pulled in too. They discover that the gateway of the magical realm and Earth has been magically sealed. To be sent home again requires the permission of the Dragon Council. But the journey is treacherous, and there are few who are happy with the childrens arrival. Protected only by an elder and their own young dragon friends, the children must find a way to reach the council and convince its leaders to send them homepreferably alive.

Download or read book The Shards of Heaven written by Michael Livingston and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Livingston's The Shards of Heaven reveals the hidden magic behind the history we know, and commences a war greater than any mere mortal battle Julius Caesar is dead, assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history. Juba, Numidian prince and adopted brother of Octavian, has embarked on a ruthless quest for the Shards of Heaven, lost treasures said to possess the very power of the gods-or the one God. Driven by vengeance, Juba has already attained the fabled Trident of Poseidon, which may also be the staff once wielded by Moses. Now he will stop at nothing to obtain the other Shards, even if it means burning the entire world to the ground. Caught up in these cataclysmic events, and the hunt for the Shards, are a pair of exiled Roman legionnaires, a Greek librarian of uncertain loyalties, assassins, spies, slaves . . . and the ten-year-old daughter of Cleopatra herself. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Defy the Heaven Slay the Gods written by Mu FengShiJie and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deities and gods viewed the weak as ants! Then I, Wu Shengxuan, will turn God into an ant in the eyes of mortals! So what if he was a deity? So what if he was a demon? As long as he could clearly see this world, what was wrong with being a free and unrestrained demon? Even if he didn't have a spirit vein, he would still find his own path to body refining! Even if he defied the Heavens, defied the Immortal, exterminated the Devil, and devoured the Demon, then he would take back what was his own! Even if he became a demon, it would be a little bit clear among all the devils. Even if he was betrayed by his best brother in the end, he would only smile and say, "Give me a reason, I will forgive you!"

Download or read book House of Shards written by Micol Ostow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These walls have watched the witches; the witches have watched the world. These walls now turn against them -- some evil's been unfurled. . . . The one thing any Halliwell witch has always been able to count on is Halliwell Manor, the ancestral home of the Charmed Ones and one of San Francisco's historical landmark homes. The grand old house has sheltered generations of women, and bits of Charmed history are practically built into the walls. So when the Manor seems to have turned against its inhabitants, needless to say, the Halliwell sisters start to worry. It begins simply: The hot water heater is broken. No big: Leo's great around the house. But this is no simple plumbing problem. Soon, the Manor seems to be messing with the girls, Leo, and Wyatt in increasingly malicious ways. Thankfully, the Book of Shadows has created a safe zone for itself in the attic. But the Charmed Ones can hardly live up there forever. . . . Can they find out what's turned their safe haven into an evil lair before it's too late -- for the Manor, and for them?

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Download or read book Marine Tephrochronology written by W.E.N. Austin and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Special Publication includes articles presenting recent advances in marine tephrochronological studies and outlines innovative techniques in geochemical fingerprinting, stratigraphy and the understanding of depositional processes. It represents a significant resource for the palaeoceanographic community at a time when marine tephrochronology is being more widely recognized. It will also serve as a valuable reference to a much wider community of Earth scientists, climate scientists and archaeologists, particularly in highlighting the role of tephra studies in stratigraphy and regional/extra-regional correlations, as well as in tracing the long-term history of regional and global volcanism in the deep-sea archive.

Download or read book CEO s Intern Taoist Mster written by Chu WenJiangHu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 2054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dugu Haoyan was the CEO of the Xin Sen Kai Group. As the eldest son of the Dugu Family, he had been extremely smart since he was young. He had a Ph.D. in business from a famous university, and he insisted on being an atheist. Dao Miao was a novice Heavenly Jewel Master who had just been abandoned by his Master. After descending the mountain, his first mission was to find his savior, but this savior's fate was so strange! Was the CEO asking the Little Heavenly Master to be an atheist, or was the Little Heavenly Master asking the CEO to be a savior?

Download or read book The Shards of Kestrius written by M.E. Wyatt and published by M.E. Wyatt. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The call of fire beckons Arden Ashwen towards an inevitable oblivion, one he wishes with his whole heart would soon come to end him. Despite his trepidations, he is tasked with a mission to calm the rising tension of the Kin, a species said to be descended from Dragons. Sailing to the South to fulfill his mission, can Arden survive against the rising of the tide which threatens to sweep him away? Or, in the end, will he be just another casualty to the flame?

Download or read book Trials of an Archmage written by Larry Miller, Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trials of an Archmage: Ascension returns us to the story of Pern. They have to escort Duke Ryad of the Orchard valley to the capital city in order for him to assume the throne. Many troubles lie in their way including a committee that has already assumed the power of the throne and are terrorizing the decent people of Lyssia. If they are strong enough for that, they still have to battle the dark forces that have been trailing them all the way. Circle of Darkness A happy trader finds that he is a long lost descendant of an ancient and powerful race. He is granted the memories of his ancestors from a magical pendant, but he soon finds it all overwhelming. Evil is stirring and he must get his own mind under control to help the world before all is lost. Mysterious links tie him to both the good and evil and if he can't understand them, they could easily kill him.