Four extraordinary true stories ... Bobby and Micky, six and four, controlled from beyond the grave by their evil father ... Mina, seventeen, who has Downs Syndrome, desperate to be like everyone else, falling into the hands of men who abuse her trust ... Sylvie, a fourteen-year-old mother being pimped by her father ... Twins Larry and Francey, ten, scarcely human after an upbringing of savage and unimaginable cruelty ... One inspiring account of how one man got to know these wounded children and tried to give them hope - and a future.
A woman fleeing her past finds more than she bargains for in a new suspense series by New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author Denise Grover Swank. A woman on the run with no one to trust. With the ink barely dry on her new identity, Carly Moore just wants to disappear…but fate has other plans. Broken down car, next to nothing in her bank account, Carly is stuck in a Smoky Mountain town that time has forgotten. Drum is riddled with secrets and outsiders are eyed with distrust. Still, it isn’t until she witnesses a cold-blooded murder in a darkened parking lot, that she realizes she’s escaped one nightmare, only to land in another. As the clock ticks down and more bodies pile up, Carly doesn’t know who to trust. If she doesn’t stop the killers, they just might stop her…permanently. What readers are saying about A Cry in the Dark: “Wow! What an incredibly amazing start of new series!” BookBub review, 5 stars “Story line with so many twists and turns makes you not to trust anyone, and yes, there were moments I suspected almost everyone!” Goodreads review, 5 stars “This was hands down one of my favorite books by Denise Grover Swank. The mystery. The suspense. The romance. The open-ended ending leaving room for a whole slew of more books for this series.” Goodreads review, 5 stars
This celebrated first novel by the lecturer and bestselling author of The Maintenance Man gives readers an African-American man's perspective on relationships, fatherhood, and interracial dating through the eyes of four childhood friends looking for love in all the wrong places.
Depression is real and needs to be discussed and given more attention. It has no respect of person. Ron discuss his battle in the darkness of depression throughout his life and lets his readers know how to overcome by breaking the silence in the dark.
He is Yo Himomura, deadly assassin for the 108 Dragons, the Chinese Mafia. But to the criminal underworld who fear him, he is known as Crying Freeman, the killer who sheds tears at the fate of his victims. A young, handsome, sensitive artist, Yo has been hypnotically programmed by his Dragon masters to kill on command: he cannot resists his masters' commands to kill; his masters cannot stop his tears of remorse. Written by the legendary Kazuo Koike, creator of Lone Wolf and Cub, and illustrated by the incomparable Ryoichi Ikegami, Crying Freeman is adult manga at its most challenging: dark, violent, morally complex, erotically charged and regarded worldwide as one of the classics of adult graphic fiction. Dark Horse Manga is proud to present Crying Freeman, yet another of the jewels in the crown of manga classics, presented in its original right-to-left reading orientation.
What if the myths are true? That creatures of urban legends really do exist and are the cause of so many unexplainable human disappearances? In Dark Cry: Genesis, Noah Blackwell waits to propose to Mara Benton, the love of his life, but his world is turned upside down after a sudden attack by a strange-looking wolf. This fateful encounter and its consequences force him to consider the possibility of an alternate history with unbelievable creatures and occurrences. As the animal's emotions rage within him, Noah's human memories and emotions remain. He finds himself thrust into a new life he does not want and haunted by dreams of a centuries old battles he does not yet understand. Noah's journey will prove if he's a warrior worthy of defeating the evil sorcerer, Isatope, and his legion of time-forgotten creatures and capable of rectifying the past.The fate of our world may very well rest in his hands.
I played a game and didn't know the rules. Now, no one believes a vampire wants my soul. I'm going to have to pay the consequences, but I won't be alone. Lying pays my bills. If the masses are naive enough to believe my lies, what's the harm? They're all sheep to me anyway, ripe for the fleecing. All except him. Running from disgrace, I found my new neighbor was intense, captivating, and handsome...at first. I foolishly played with his fire, and now I'm burning. As he uses my body and destroys my barriers, it's impossible to remember who I am, or what I want. His seduction of pain and passion are almost too much to resist. But there's another there and he helps me hold on. Can I risk trusting anything or anyone in this maelstrom of pleasure, pain and memory? In the end, trust is betrayed. I'm the fool who's destined to pay for crying wolf, and have my blood and soul devoured by my captor. I'm starting to believe my tormentor may be right when he says I'll find my truth, my future, by giving in to his demands. But when the other offers me salvation, can I trust again? Between these two impossible beings, I'm caught, with no way to get free. One may be my death, while the other is my eternity. Consequences of Crying is a dark and modern m/m retelling of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. With an obsessive vampire, a vengeful incubus and a human stuck in the middle, there are intense situations and very dark desires. Relationships may be deemed unhealthy and include possible triggering content. 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 aref or adult readers and may contain morally ambiguous themes.
Peter Toombs never stopped loving Diana Ward. Not after they broke up; not after she married someone else; not after she died. Peter never got over how he failed Diana when she needed him most when they were in college. Even as he became a successful TV writer, his failure haunted him more than the monsters he created to scare others. His obsession prompts him to lease Diana's childhood home in the small Utah town of Bern. He's convinced that if he lives there, she will come back for him. When he sleeps, he dreams of ghosts: Diana's, the ghost he believes should be in the house, and the ghost of someone he never met. The townsfolk, however, don't like having a stranger in Bern. They have secrets they don't want Peter to learn. Secrets about Diana and her death. Secrets about Peter and the ghosts that follow him. Joined by his friend Connor and Diana's widower Aaron, Peter must survive Bern and discover the truth behind Diana's fate. Learning the truth could exorcise the ghosts from Peter's life or it could break his heart and bring him face to face with his worst fears.
This bestselling "lyrical, moving book: part essay, part memoir, part surprising cultural study" is an examination of why we cry, how we cry, and what it means to cry from a woman on the cusp of motherhood confronting her own depression (The New York Times Book Review). Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is and why people do it, even if they rarely talk about it. Along the way, she discovers an artist who designed a frozen–tear–shooting gun and a moth that feeds on the tears of other animals. She researches tear–collecting devices (lachrymatories) and explores the role white women’s tears play in racist violence. Honest, intelligent, rapturous, and surprising, Christle’s investigations look through a mosaic of science, history, and her own lived experience to find new ways of understanding life, loss, and mental illness. The Crying Book is a deeply personal tribute to the fascinating strangeness of tears and the unexpected resilience of joy.
