5/24/2023 0 Comments Heart of Mist by Helen ScheuererWill Althea pass the perilous initiation test and take her place as a champion of Thezmarr – or will the invading evil snatch away her dream before it starts? The sparring and hazing of the new trainees border on deadly, but even more dangerous is her growing attraction to Wilder Hawthorne, her unwilling warrior chaperone.Īll around them, schemes are afoot and darkness looms. Now racing against the clock, she fights to secure her place in the elite guild charged with the protection of the five kingdoms. Women are forbidden to wield blades, so she has trained in secret her entire life. With her death foretold, Althea Zoltaire only has three years to become what she’s always dreamed of being: a warrior legend. Perfect for fans of The Bridge Kingdom, From Blood and Ash and The Witcher, BLOOD & STEEL is an epic romantic fantasy with enemies-to-lovers, slow-burn spice, found family, and a sprawling world of magic and monsters. Blood & Steel – The Legends of Thezmarr: Book #1 (Adult Romantic Fantasy)
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Sunburn novelThe High-Ho, the Valley View, Main Street - it's like this whole town was put together from some other town's leftovers. Polly is staying in a motel "named the Valley View, although there's no valley and no view. Why Adam is there is not immediately apparent. 'What kind of an a-h- are you?'?"įor Polly, Belleville is a way station to gather herself and make a plan for escaping her marriage for good. "?'I don't know,' she says, not looking at him. "He looks at his own drink and says out loud, as if to himself: 'What kind of an a-h- orders red wine in a tavern in Belleville, Delaware?' To see the complete list of this books read-alikes, you need to be a member. We have 4 read-alikes for Sunburn, but non-members are limited to two results. As it opens, a sexy redhead named Polly has left her husband, Gregg, and their 3-year-old daughter in the middle of a beach vacation and landed in a frayed little town inland.Īdam, "a Ken doll kind of guy, if Ken had a great year-round tan," spots her sitting on a barstool, the title's sunburn across her shoulders all but glowing in the dark. A novel of suspense that explores the complexities of marriage and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love. Sunburn is set in 1995, but it feels as if it has slipped halfway into the 1930s of Cain's books. It's an explicit salute to Cain - at one point one of its main characters takes certain inspiration from the classic film versions of Postman and Indemnity - and a more than worthy one. It's slimmer and quicker, pared down but equipped with more twists than a bag of snakes. 5/24/2023 0 Comments A thousand pieces of youIs she doomed to repeat the same betrayal?Īs Marguerite races through these wildly different lives - a grand duchess in a Tsarist Russia, a club-hopping orphan in a futuristic London, a refugee from worldwide flooding on a station in the heart of the ocean - she is swept into an epic love affair as dangerous as it is irresistible. In each new world Marguerite leaps to, she meets another version of Paul that has her doubting his guilt and questioning her heart. With the help of another physics student, Theo, Marguerite chases Paul through various dimensions. She doesn't know if she can kill a man, but she's going to find out. Before the law can touch him, Paul escapes into another dimension, having committed what seems like the perfect crime. When Marguerite's father is murdered, all the evidence points to one person - Paul, her parents' enigmatic star student. Yet nothing is more astounding than her mother's latest invention - a device called the Firebird, which allows people to leap into alternate dimensions. Marguerite Caine grew up surrounded by cutting-edge scientific theories, thanks to her brilliant physicist parents. 5/24/2023 0 Comments We hunt flameSet in a richly detailed world inspired by ancient Arabia, WE HUNT THE FLAME is a gripping story of discovery, conquering fear, and taking identity into your own hands. But an ancient evil stirs as their journey unfolds-and the prize they seek may pose a threat greater than either can imagine. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz, Nasir is sent by the sultan on a similar mission: retrieve the artifact and kill the Hunter. War is brewing, and the Arz sweeps closer with each passing day, engulfing the land in shadow. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways.īoth are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya-but neither wants to be. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. 5/24/2023 0 Comments The remnant chronicles ordersolid and absorbing high fantasy, with a sudden breathless hook to the next installment. While she struggles to reach Morrighan and warn them, she finds herself at cross-purposes with Rafe and suspicious of Kaden, who has hunted her down. With war on the horizon, Lia has no choice but to assume her role as First Daughter, as soldier-as leader. Lia has survived Venda-but so has a great evil bent on the destruction of Morrighan. Desperate to save her life, Lia's erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen. Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. Remnant Chronicles Books in Order 1 i The Kiss of Deception Remnant Chronicles, Book 1 Mary E Pearson 2014 View on Amazon 2 i The Heart of Betrayal Remnant Chronicles, Book 2 Mary E Pearson 2015 View on Amazon 3 i Morrighan Remnant Chronicles, Book 3 Mary E. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight-but she doesn't-and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom-to a prince she has never met. In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia's life follows a preordained course. The Remnant Chronicles, focuses on Lia, a princess who’s determined to change her preordained fate. Pearson, now in a beautiful paperback boxed set for the first time. The New York Times-bestselling Remnant Chronicles from YA fantasy author Mary E. At the age of some 2000, Lazarus is ready to commit suicide, but the Chairman of the genetically long-lived Howard families is determined to keep him alive to preserve his wisdom. But in style and world view it belongs not with the tightly plotted early adventures but with the later novels like Stranger in a Strange Land and I Will Fear No Evil, combining a great deal of unexplicit sex with very explicit philosophizing on everything from government to relations between men and women. In a sense, this massive chronicle of the life and interminable times of Lazarus Long, the oldest member of the human race (who first appeared in Methuselah's Children, 1958), is the conclusion of Heinlein's famous future history series of the '40's and '50's. 5/24/2023 0 Comments New York by Travis LuedkeAaron walks a tightrope of strictly controlled feeding regiments and intensely erotic sexual adventures while catering to the neurotic control-freak tendencies of his new master. First things first, he must learn to feed properly without creating bloodslaves (humans addicted to the powerful drug-like effect of their venomous bite).Īnd then she puts him to work-a male escort in the sex trade-same as Michelle. She orders him around like a puppet on a string, a dog on a very short leash. Forced to adapt to servitude, Aaron is subject to her authority of compulsion. Michelle drags Aaron through a hardcore learning curve of vampiric slavery. He awakes a changed man, living in a purgatory of eternal night, never to see the sunrise again. Is she a beautiful blond guardian angel as he imagined, or something else entirely? When Michelle saves Aaron’s life she shares the benefits of her blood (after getting him shot accidentally). Vampires, strippers, escorts, night clubs, gangs, pimps and corrupt cops, the Nightlife of New York is never boring. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Ashes to Ashes by Jenny HanWill she leave anything in her wake or will all that remain be ashes? Now their childish attempts at revenge are a thing of the past and Mary is out for blood. She also knows the truth about Lillia and Reeve falling in love, about Reeve being happy when all he deserves is misery, just like the misery he caused her. Only Mary knows the truth about that night. After Rennie's death, Kat and Lillia try to put the pieces together of what happened to her. New Year's Eve ended with a bang and Mary, Kat and Lillia may not be prepared for what is to come. Genre: Young Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Romance, Paranormal Publication: September 16, 2014, by Simon and Schuster Ashes to Ashes (Burn for Burn #3),by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian Hall’s dark facade and the family that guards its legacies. That she’s barely scratched the surface of what lies beneath Foxworth With a husbandĪlternately absent and possessively close, Corrine doesn’t yet realize Whisked away to a wet nurse, feels alien to her. Her son, Malcolm Foxworth, born in the luxe Swan Room and instantly Stern portraits glare at her from the walls, and the servants treat her strangely. Often alone in the mansion ofįoxworth Hall, she can practically feel the ancestors’ judgment of herĪs insufficient-as not a Foxworth. To the handsome, wealthy Garland Foxworth following a wildfire romance,Īnd an unexpected pregnancy, young Corrine Dixon finds her life veryĭifferent from how she imagined it. The second book in a new prequel story arc, Out of the Attic explores the Dollanganger family saga by traveling back decades to when the clan’s wicked destiny first took root. The twisted, beloved Dollanganger legend began two generations before Corrine Foxworth locked away her children in Flowers in the Attic. “I will probably be clutching Flowers in the Attic in my gnarled hands on my deathbed.” -GILLIAN FLYNN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sharp Objects 5/23/2023 0 Comments Destiny disrupted bookSometimes the chat is a little too casual, and he comes across as your uncle trying to prove he’s down with the kids by doing the frug, not the best choice: Telling you how, why, all about it, from the top to the bottom, with many glints of humour to get you through some very harrowing stuff. You’re out for a beer with this guy and you ask the fatal question – what’s up with these Muslims anyhow? What are they all about? Forty hours later, Tamim is still talking. Tamim Ansary writes in a chatty, slangy, motormouth style. Obscure to a Western reader, that is, but I’m going to hazard that Transoxiana, Khorasan, Ctesiphon, and the exact difference between Umayyads, Abbasids, Fatimids and Safavids might tax your regular Muslim on the street too. In this book a lot of obscure places and people go rushing by, like a speeded up film, like a boiling river. This is vast but fast history : you have to hang on to your hat, or whatever you hang on to, which might not be a hat, since the kind of hats which a strong wind might snatch from your head are rarely worn today. Right time, right place, right style, this is 100% recommended. |