Wounded from devastation and grief of many childhood tragedies. Ultimately led to the opening of doors into another realm of tribulation and torment into Kristie’s early and adult years. She takes you into the journey of the stories of her life that transcend into a powerful testimony. Stories that caused and change the direction of divine freedom into dark bondage. Growing up in a crime infested neighborhood paved the way for a life of mental, sex, and drug abuse. The transparency into a dark world lets you enter firsthand into Kristie’s life. A life of gloom, anger, depression, panic and addiction, renewed and transformed into divine life.
“There’s hot, and then there’s Delilah Devlin. She’s in a class by herself.” —Sylvia Day In Darkness Captured, the extraordinary Delilah Devlin combines two blistering hot genres—women’s erotic fiction and paranormal romance—and the result is a masterwork of vampire erotica that’s almost too torrid to handle! The decidedly adult adventure of a passionate werewolf who’s willing to storm the gates of hell to rescue a princess from the clutches of vampire demon, Devlin’s Darkness Captured is dark, sexy, and absolutely sizzling. Shapeshifter love has never been hotter!
A mysterious traveler intervenes in an epic holy war in this “impressive, challenging debut” of the critically acclaimed fantasy epic (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The first book in R. Scott Bakker's Prince of Nothing series introduces readers to a strikingly original and engrossingly vivid new world. With its language and classes of people, its cities, religions, mysteries, taboos, and rituals, The Darkness That Comes Before has drawn comparison to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Frank Herbert’s Dune. Bakker’s Eärwa is a world scarred by an apocalyptic past, evoking a time both two thousand years past and two thousand years into the future. As untold thousands gather for a crusade, two men and two women are ensnared by a mysterious traveler, Anasûrimbor Kellhus—part warrior, part philosopher, part sorcerous, charismatic presence—from lands long thought dead. The Darkness That Comes Before is a history of this great holy war, and like all histories, the survivors write its conclusion.
Can light and darkness exist together? Darrian is sure the answer is no. What he isnaEUR(tm)t sure of is why. The simple answer is that they are both absolutes, and one must ultimately overtake and destroy the other. But according to his friend Spence, thereaEUR(tm)s more to it than that, something deeper and more complicated. Spence has spent years trying to pull Darrian out of the darkness and into the Light, while forces that can be heard, but not seen, wrestle to keep him where he is. Darrian struggles with the conflict, but finds it easier to remain in the shadows. There, shielded from society, he wrestles with the question: Why is there safety and comfort in the darkness, but anxiety and confusion in the light? On the surface, it seems easier to just let go, to not fight it, but somewhere inside, in a place he tries unsuccessfully to explore, there is a deep-seated longing to at least understand the light. The unrest creates a battle within as he seeks to reconcile what his eyes can see with what his heart can feel. Unfortunately, the answer Darrian is searching for lies in a place beyond his physical vision. There is a darkness that blinds him to the real battle, the one he will eventually have to fight. The one that will truly open his eyes. The one that will help him to finally see that darkness and light have little to do with sight and everything to do with insight. aEURoeThe lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.aEUR (Luke 11:34)
I've tasted her blood and I'm never letting her go. A captured witch with the sweetest blood. Trapped in a war between vampire clans. She made a deal with the devil to secure her freedom. She thought she could escape with her life and purity intact. I should have let her go once she fulfilled her end of the bargain. But I've tasted her sweetness. I want more. I'm claiming her and making her mine. Mine forever.
A battle of vampires and werewolves will be decided by one woman’s desire in this supernatural romance by the New York Times bestselling author. Darcy Smith never knew about the secret she possesses within her, one powerful enough to end an entire race of demons. But now, as an unwitting pawn in an epic battle of vampires and werewolves, she’s about to discover the truth—and enter a dangerous world of ecstasy and dark passions. Consumed with lust for Darcy, the vampire leader Styx will do anything to keep her out of the lair of Salvatore Giuliani, the deadly ruler of the weres. But Salvatore is every bit as desperate to make Darcy his ultimate conquest and queen. With his kind pushed to the brink of extinction, she alone holds the key to survival. Now Darcy will have to decide which of these two men she can truly trust. Because all it takes is one bite to plunge her into a lifetime of servitude—or a lifetime of pleasure.
Casey Callow, a prestigious member of the Protection Guild, has her sights set on understanding the rare power over darkness plaguing her country of Calgonia. In a land where everyone possesses an ability over either water, air, earth, or fire, darkness stands out as a dangerous and mysterious fifth element. But darkness is not the only thing plaguing the country. Rival to her own guild, the Assassin Guild poses threats to Calgonia with their less than moral undertakings. After the estate of the esteemed Onendilo family is ravaged by darkness, Casey soon discovers the Assassin Guild is more sinister than she once believed. She finds herself partnered with the enigmatic ex-Assassin, Noriko Ondendilo, as she works to uncover the truth of the Assassin Guild and its connection to darkness. Through trials of trust, love, and humanity, Casey and Noriko strive to save those closest to them from falling into the clutches of the Assassin Guild. Can the duo uncover the plot of the Assassins in time? Or will the Assassins' use of darkness consume all they know to be true?
The Darkness reclaimed Terra and Luna. Auron had no other choice other than to abandon their mission and return to Sonos, as ordered by the Protector. With the destruction of Terra and Luna, it seems the fate of the Omans is sealed. The pain upon Aurons mind of losing fifteen of his original twenty-four brave Omans was nearly unbearable. They spent hundreds of thousands cycles away from their home and finally returned to Sonos but came to understand something isnt adding up. Auron will not allow the existence of his people to come to an end and wishes to try and repeat the life cycle. Relix makes known particular information to Auron and with this he decides the only choice is to return to Terra in order to create new light. What will wait for Auron and others return?
“Ripe with humor, romance, and the thrill of the chase…exciting.” —Publishers Weekly The Guardians of Eternity think they’ve averted the disaster that could destroy them. But in New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Ivy’s world of temptation, lust, and secrets, one slip could change everything . . . Chaaya endured centuries as a sacrifice, protecting her people from an evil that could destabilize all magic. At long last, her servitude is over—and she’s raring to have some fun. The baddest ghost-girl in Las Vegas has a talent for causing mayhem. And for getting under the skin of her solid, silent bodyguard, the vampire Basq . . . Basq doesn’t let anyone close. He’s learned the costs of companionship. But reckless, disrespectful Chaaya, with her fiery temper and her fierce loneliness, isn’t like anyone else. Staying near her isn’t just a duty, it’s a hunger. When a prisoner of Chaaya’s last battle escapes, possibly seeking Chaaya’s nemesis, Basq isn’t letting her chase through a hellscape mirror London alone. But when the choice is between abandoning everything that’s kept them alive, or each other, survival will take not only desire—but trust . . .
Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jónasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir. The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed. Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir of the Reykjavík police is forced into early retirement at 64. She dreads the loneliness, and the memories of her dark past that threaten to come back to haunt her. But before she leaves she is given two weeks to solve a single cold case of her choice. She knows which one: the Russian woman whose hope for asylum ended on the dark, cold shore of an unfamiliar country. Soon Hulda discovers that another young woman vanished at the same time, and that no one is telling her the whole story. Even her colleagues in the police seem determined to put the brakes on her investigation. Meanwhile the clock is ticking. Hulda will find the killer, even if it means putting her own life in danger.
