1st Edition Cover: Solomon Alexander is a tortured soul. Since being forced to drink from Avery Ferrand, a blood jewel, all he can do is think of her. He's addicted to this girl he helped rescue but not in a way anyone would anticipate. He lies to everyone around him-denying his desire for her-so he may prevent his family from learning the truth. He loves her. But the feeling isn't mutual. Avery fears and despises Sol so he makes the ultimate sacrifice-to walk away from everything. Including Avery. He wants to give her the peace she deserves after the horror she's experienced so he couldn't be more shocked by her proposal after he announces his departure. Will he do the right thing and proceed with his plan or will he give in to his desires and accept her offer?
Through this account of one girl's battle with depression and euphoria, she learns the key to not allowing the self to be wrapped up by the machine is to crush certain ideologies and conventions that say behavior needs to be labeled. Self indulgence creates an emotional life perpetually spent inside an isolated dark wave, but in this book she ultimately learns slowly, but gradually that every thing that nourishes you, also destroys you. These disturbingly pretty poems are about undergoing an emotional state of metamorphosis and the acceptance of them. Through a psyche fragmented by circumstances beyond control, traveling on an edgeless encompassing path eventually leads to a beautiful spiritual catharsis. The extremities of life succumb to a deep exploration of sex, love, separation, and death. Surrendering to intimacy and relationships serves as the band-aid to the wound that could not yield from bleeding. It is human nature for self-destruction to take hold of the world, nevertheless with it also follows the beginning of an age of paradisiacal happiness beyond belief. By crushing the machine causing unnecessary poignancy in the heart. It is how renouncing certain dangers in reality she transcends from one state to a more mysterious one. In the end, strength and courage are given birth to and it endures inside a woman who still feels her warm blood flowing through what appeared seemingly as a tailored cut out of a non-resonant paper doll inside an anechoic mental chamber. Orotund tones in grandiloquent rise espouse the stygian collapse of the bloody paper doll. The obstacle staircase of "liberal" poems mirrors society outside the walls.
Emma has always been part of a world she doesn't quite belong to-raised by two immortal vampires who walk in daylight, free from the hunger that drives their kind. As a mortal, she's served the vampire council as a blood doll, offering her blood in hopes of one day being granted the gift of immortality. But the path to becoming a vampire is fraught with trials, secrets, and a harsh reality she wasn't prepared for. When Emma is finally given the chance to join the ranks of the immortal, she must face the truth of what it means to live forever. The council's decision will change her life-but becoming one of them may not be the answer she seeks. With her adoptive parents' love and centuries of wisdom at her back, Emma will come to understand that immortality comes with sacrifices she never imagined. In a world where power, patience, and blood bind all, Emma's journey will test her strength, her loyalty, and her very soul. Will she rise to meet her fate, or will the weight of eternity be too much to bear?
Enter The Mausoleum...if you dare.Lana Roberts's sister Sarah is missing. After weeks of searching, the trail leads her to an underground club in Boston called The Mausoleum, where she finds that not everything is as she believes. When preternatural danger closes in, Lana finds herself in the company of a seductively frightening vampire-the only creature in the place who wants to help her save her sister. His eyes captured her gaze and held her rapt. Ice-blue orbs, flecked with amber and bits of red...Christian Sterling knows Sarah's location, how to get past the guards, how to play the game. He also knows that Lana faces an impossible choice: go back into The Mausoleum risking certain death or let her sister die. Christian, however, has a plan...if he can only convince Lana to go along with it. It's a long shot, but it's just crazy enough to work. But there's one major problem.Lana is still human. Redemption means sacrificing her humanity, even if it is in the arms of her mysterious and sexy protector. Her decision isn't hard. But what comes next... Will they make it back to The Mausoleum in time? And will Christian's plan shift the odds to their favor?
A fictionalized portrait of Golden Age–Hollywood’s original blonde bombshell, the ambitious star who battled real-life drama as she lit up the screen. It’s the Roaring Twenties and seventeen-year-old Harlean Carpenter McGrew has run off to Beverly Hills. She’s chasing a dream—to escape her small, Midwestern life and see her name in lights. In California, Harlean has everything a girl could want—a rich husband, glamorous parties, socialite friends—except an outlet for her talent. But everything changes when a dare pushes her to embrace her true ambition—to be an actress on the silver screen. With her timeless beauty and striking shade of platinum-blond hair, Harlean becomes Jean Harlow. And as she’s thrust into the limelight, Jean learns that this new world of opportunity comes with its own set of burdens. Torn between her family and her passion to perform, Jean is forced to confront the difficult truth—that fame comes at a price, if only she’s willing to pay it . . . Amid a glittering cast of ingenues and Hollywood titans—Clara Bow, Clark Gable, Laurel and Hardy, Howard Hughes—Platinum Doll introduces us to the star who would shine brighter than them all. Praise for Platinum Doll “A fascinating, page-turning, behind-the-scenes look at what it took to be a celebrity in early Hollywood.” —Lynn Cullen, bestselling author of Mrs. Poe and Twain’s End “[Girard] brings Harlow to life.” —The Globe and Mail “An engrossing look at a Hollywood icon. I couldn’t put it down.” —Karleen Koen, New York Times–bestselling author of Through a Glass Darkly “Jean’s is a moving story of love and hard choices, and she leaps off these pages shining as bright as her signature platinum hair.” —Marci Jefferson, author of Girl on the Golden Coin and Enchantress of Paris “Will entrance readers as Harlow entranced the world.” —Heather Webb, author of Rodin’s Lover “A gem of a book.” —The Historical Novel Society
In the gritty streets of Elizabethan London, a lady of the evening named Dorothy Tearsheet harbors an incredible secret – her tears possess the power to heal. When a mischievous fairy curses the city with an uncontrollable laughter plague, Doll must assemble a motley crew to save her friend and break the spell. Aided by a drunken knight, a sharp-tongued playwright, and an eccentric apothecary, their quest leads them to the one man who can rewrite reality itself – William Shakespeare. Armed with the Bard's magic quill, Doll must weave a tale of courage, friendship, and unlikely heroism to defeat the fairy's mischief and restore London to its former glory.
The vampires have taken her and she is a blood doll.Celia doesn't have a lot going for her. Her abusive stepfather blackmails her by day and terrifies her by night. She doesn't have a boyfriend, a social life, or anything to look forward to.Then she's captured.Bound.Stolen.She is taken far from home and deposited in the mansion of the Vampire Lord Samuel as blood doll. The mansion offers no hope for escape, yet once Celia begins to accept her fate, she wonders if what escape is what she truly longs for.
A mysterious plague is decimating the population of colonial Mexico. One of His MajestyÍs highest physicians is dispatched from Spain to bring the latest advances in medical science to the backward peoples of the New World capital. Here begins the cyclical tale of man battling the unknown, of science confronting the eternally indifferent forces of nature. Morales takes us on a trip through ancient and future civilizations, through exotic but all-too-familiar cultures, to a final confrontation with our own ethics and world views. In later chapters, the colonial physician finds his successors as they once again engage in life or death struggles, attempting to balance their own hopes, desires and loves with the good society and the state. Book II of the novel takes place in modern-day southern California, and Book III in a futuristic technocratic confederation known as Lamex. In the tradition of Latin American born novelist, Alejandro Morales is one of the finest representatives of magic realism in the English language. In The Rag Doll Plagues, Morales creates a many layered fictional world, taking us on an entertaining and thought-provoking safari thorough lands, times, peoples and ideas never before encountered or presented in this manner. But ultimately, this valuable trip leads to a reacquaintance with our own society and its moral vision.
Mas Arai's best friend Haruo is getting married, and he has grudgingly agreed to serve as best man. But when an ancient Japanese doll display of Haruo's fiancée goes missing, the wedding is called off with fingers pointed at Haruo. To solve the mystery to save Haruo's life, Mas must untangle a web of secrecy, heart-breaking memories, and murder.
Congratulations! Either one or both of your parents has vampire blood. Welcome to the vampire race! Please keep a few things in mind as you ease into the most difficult phase of your life: 1. Light sensitivity, humming teeth, and stomach pains are completely normal. You’ll also be faster, stronger, and sexy as hell (if you’re lucky). 2. You’ll bloodlust and go crazy if you deny your body’s urge for blood. Why fight it? 3. Do not pierce the skin of a mundane involuntarily. We’re not animals and will not behave as such. 4. Therians, our shapeshifting brethren, cannot be trusted. Their loyalties shift as often as their identities. And finally, 5. Lighten up—you’re not dead. Contact Dylan, owner of ReVamp, in Crimson Bay, California, for more information.
