Detective Rick Frost washes up in the sleepy Los Angeles exurb of Santa Isidora after being cashiered by the LAPD. But beneath the cozy countryside that has made Santa Isidora a favorite of the Hollywood elite lie layers of deceit. An everyday murder investigation draws Frost into a web of corruption that stretches from the salons of Beverly Hills to the Green Zone of Baghdad and quickly pits him against powerful forces that even the Feds fear to disturb. Before it's over, Frost will face an agonizing decision: to bring the guilty to justice, he must risk the life of the woman he loves.
Eleanor has just come of age but struggles to leave her childhood fantasy dream world in the toy box with her other memories. Just engaged and about to leave home for the first time, she is troubled by the bleak events in her world of escapism. They cause her to doubt reality and force damaging wedges into the slightest cracks that appear in her relationships. Her religious upbringing is the strongest weapon she has to strengthen her weakness. Unfortunately, the evil that has crept into the widest crack has used her beliefs and her goodness as the target for its campaign of manipulation. From the moment she discovers the golden band in her secret kingdom and places it upon her finger, Eleanor's world is on a downward spiral to the darkest depths of a hell she knew existed but avoided, simply by being pure and chaste. Somewhere there is a long buried secret that is the only thing that can save her from the ultimate challenge to her faith.That secret holds the key to her survival.
Coralie spent her life dreaming about exploring beyond the wall and now, she is finally getting that chance. She discovers secrets about the world beyond and also the truth about the world below. She learns that a darkness has ascended and that he has made her his prime focus. He will have her stand by his side... even if it means threatening those closest to her. Her pure soul against his darkness. His seduction against her loathing. But where do tainted souls go when they die?
Action packed romantic thriller with all the works of an addicting, and highly exciting literary piece! Follow Khalil, a reformed killer, through life as a stubburn loner until he the girl that changes all of that for him...Mia. Unfortunately he has to resort back into a life of violence if there were to be any chance of them being together.
Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction—the Victorian "fallen woman" represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over the nature of selfhood, gender, and agency. In richly textured readings of works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others, she argues that depictions of fallen women express profound cultural anxieties about the very possibility of self-control and traditional moral responsibility.
Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction—the Victorian "fallen woman" represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over the nature of selfhood, gender, and agency. In richly textured readings of works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others, she argues that depictions of fallen women express profound cultural anxieties about the very possibility of self-control and traditional moral responsibility.
SYNOPSISThis volume is laced with notions of reincarnation and afterlife. For that same reason, WAR BETWEEN SOULS OVER FIRST UNIVERSE is a supernatural story about the pure, elder immortal souls,who want nothing more than to teach their young delinquent souls how to earn immortality and stop reincarnating their tainted demonic souls. Likewise, this book confirms that you cannot separate the soul from the notion of the afterlife. That afterlife consists of reincarnating demonic souls-Hellitheons. Hellish as they are, they refuse to obey the Creators. They have reincarnated themselves in bodies (human and otherwise) for billions and billions of years. In addition, they are lingering here on earth, pretending to be MOVING ON trying to take over what does not belong to them. Reincarnation is not a rarity. It is a daily occurrence. Remember, Plato as well as Christianity tells us-in essence- that the soul is the power that runs the body/machine and that souls are capable of reincarnating/recollecting. Tiffany is telling you that before that body is worn out its souls are tormented, manipulated and even ripped out forcing displaced souls to transfer their energy (power-essence) into another body-be that animal or human.
Gabriel Daylesford thought he had escaped a fate worse than death after the battle with Lucifer and his demons. He knew one day Samson would seek revenge for killing his father. But until then, Gabe has to navigate the halls of Michael Academy and learn what it means to be Nephilim. At least he has Eden and Asher for company. When he starts receiving frightening visions, and a warning from his human grandmother to stop using his trait, he realises he is in more danger than he thought. He has to decide who to trust if he wants to save the world from being overrun by demons once more. And with the sudden appearance of two mysterious girls added to mix, Gabriel knows this won’t be easy. He always knew he was fated for something much bigger than himself. He just doesn’t know what that is yet. Angel of Hope is the exciting first book in an all new spin off series set in the same universe as The Legend of the Archangel series and The Eden Chronicles.
Twenty-eight years ago, Detective Michael Flowers became entangled in the twisted, sadistic mind games of a killer in Cartersville, Georgia. Now, once again, the tranquility of his town is pulled back to unearth a psychotic darkness born in the shadows of upper middle-class luxury.When the body of a college student is found hanging from the roof of the university's main building, Detective Flowers knows it's the work of a devil.At the age of thirteen, Megan Thompson was thrown down a flight of stairs and stabbed seventeen times with a pencil that broke off in her back. Left for dead and partially paralyzed after this violent attack from her brother, she is taken in and cared for by a wealthy family. As she struggles to escape the memories of the cold and painful world she once lived, her hopes for a bright future shatter when her brother is released from the mental state facility.Rebekah Davenport is an ambitious reporter looking for a career making story. Nipping at Detective Flowers' heels at every opportunity, she points out evidence and gives opinions that are contrary to his experience and intuition. Left to her own devices, Davenport falls in over her head pursuing the truth in a life-threatening dance with the devil.When a second mutilated and terribly tortured body is found, Flowers teams up with Davenport to investigate possibilities he may be too biased to see. They follow the trail of the victims to Megan's group of friends and a tight-lipped business called Pleasure Island until an unexpected revelation brings the past colliding into the present.Tainted Souls is high-octane thriller mystery that will keep you rivetted to your seat until the last page.
Kat Bloodmayne is one of the first women to attend the a prestigious science academy but she has a secret. Kat can twist the natural laws of life, but every time she does it kills a part of her soul.
