Theron's Tale: A dark historical fantasy novella
Theron's Tale: A dark historical fantasy novella

Author: Thea Atkinson

Publisher: Thea Atkinson

Published:

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13:

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Dive into this back story fantasy novella from the Witches of Etlantium series and find a wounded hero doing his best to protect the ones he loves. From urban fantasy author Thea Atkinson, this dark tale has plenty of strong characters. He knows the spoils of war well...now he's one of them. Theron's days of peace are over when a legion of female warriors demand his village's best men as pillage. His good looks and keen intellect catch the eye of the commander. In return for his beloved witch's safety, he volunteers to be taken, and only discovers too late that the warriors have only one use for men. And now it's not just his life at stake, because if he can't give the women what they want, his entire village will suffer. Theron's Tale is a novella in the Witches of Etlantium series. It's not light and fluffy, but if you love dark lil ditties, you'll enjoy this expansion on a favorite character. ***WARNING*** Some scenes may prove a bit too dark for some readers.

One Great Year
One Great Year

Author: Tamara Veitch

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1626340234

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A bold, unforgettable tale of power, devotion, lust, and the timeless battle between good and evil

The Unwilling
The Unwilling

Author: John Hart

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2021-02-02

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1250167736

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THE INSTANT BESTSELLER “We the unwilling, led by the unqualified to kill the unfortunate, die for the ungrateful.” —Unknown Soldier Set in the South at the height of the Vietnam War, The Unwilling combines crime, suspense and searing glimpses into the human mind and soul in New York Times bestselling author John Hart's singular style. Gibby's older brothers have already been to war. One died there. The other came back misunderstood and hard, a decorated killer now freshly released from a three-year stint in prison. Jason won't speak of the war or of his time behind bars, but he wants a relationship with the younger brother he hasn't known for years. Determined to make that connection, he coaxes Gibby into a day at the lake: long hours of sunshine and whisky and older women. But the day turns ugly when the four encounter a prison transfer bus on a stretch of empty road. Beautiful but drunk, one of the women taunts the prisoners, leading to a riot on the bus. The woman finds it funny in the moment, but is savagely murdered soon after. Given his violent history, suspicion turns first to Jason; but when the second woman is kidnapped, the police suspect Gibby, too. Determined to prove Jason innocent, Gibby must avoid the cops and dive deep into his brother's hidden life, a dark world of heroin, guns and outlaw motorcycle gangs. What he discovers there is a truth more disturbing than he could have imagined: not just the identity of the killer and the reasons for Tyra's murder, but the forces that shaped his brother in Vietnam, the reason he was framed, and why the most dangerous man alive wants him back in prison. This is crime fiction at its most raw, an exploration of family and the past, of prison and war and the indelible marks they leave.

Children of Amarid
Children of Amarid

Author: David B Coe

Publisher: Lore Seekers Press

Published: 2016-06-22

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9781622680498

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For a millenium, the Children of Amarid have served the people of Tobyn-Ser. Drawing upon the Mage-Craft, which flows from the psychic bond they forge with their avian familiars, the Mages of the Order have fulfilled their oaths by healing the injured and ill, repelling invasions by the land's enemies, and caring for the people in times of crisis. They are governed by laws handed down by Amarid, the first of their kind, who committed the Mage-Craft to the people's protection. Only once in a thousand years has a mage defied those laws. Theron, a contemporary of Amarid, sought to use his powers to gain wealth and glory. For that he was punished, though not before he brought down a terrible curse on his fellow mages and all who would come after them. Recently, dark rumors have spread across Tobyn-Ser. Children of Amarid have been seen destroying crops, vandalizing homes, massacring men, women, and children. Have the mages forsaken their oaths? Has Theron returned from beyond death to take his vengeance? Or does Tobyn-Ser face a new threat, one it is ill-prepared and ill-equipped to face? With the land in turmoil and faith in the Mage-Craft badly shaken, it falls to Jaryd, a young mage with extraordinary potential, but little knowledge of the power he wields, to find and destroy Tobyn-Ser's enemies before they destroy all he holds dear. CHILDREN OF AMARID is the first volume of the LonTobyn Chronicle, David B. Coe's Crawford Award-winning debut series. This is the Author's Edit of the original book.

The Witch of Willow Hall
The Witch of Willow Hall

Author: Hester Fox

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2018-10-02

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1488096740

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"Steeped in Gothic eeriness."--Nicola Cornick, USA Today bestselling author In Salem, they burned. Now, they will rise. New Oldbury, 1821 The house holds its breath, trying to outlast me… Something has awakened in Willow Hall. Eighteen-year-old Lydia Montrose can feel it. But she has no idea what it is. Rocked by rumor and scandal, Lydia, her parents, and her sisters, Catherine and Emeline, fled their sparkling life in Boston for the sleepy country estate. But bone-chilling noises in the night have Lydia convinced their idyllic new home wasn’t exactly vacant when they arrived. The Salem witch trials cast a long shadow over the Montrose family as the cloying heat of summer in Massachusetts mingles with something sinister in the air. The sprawling history of Willow Hall is no stranger to secrets, and its dark past soon calls to Lydia, igniting ancient magic she never knew she possessed. But with menacing forces unwilling to rest, threatening to tear her family apart, Lydia must learn to harness her newly discovered power or risk losing everyone she holds dear. Don't miss Hester Fox's next novel, THE BOOK OF THORNS, where two sisters who never knew the other existed meet on opposite sides during the Napoleonic Wars and must use the magic of flowers to solve the mystery of their mother’s death—while surviving the war raging around them... Look for these other gothic mysteries from Hester Fox: The Last Heir to Blackwood Library The Widow of Pale Harbor The Orphan of Cemetery Hill A Lullaby for Witches

The Novels of Gillian Flynn
The Novels of Gillian Flynn

Author: Gillian Flynn

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2012-07-31

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 0307953688

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"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." —Stephen King This collection, available exclusively as an ebook, brings together the first two novels of Gillian Flynn, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl. In Sharp Objects, Flynn’s debut novel, a young journalist returns home to cover a dark assignment—and to face her own damaged family history. With its taut, crafted writing, Sharp Objects is addictive, haunting, and unforgettable. Flynn’s second novel, Dark Places, is an intricately orchestrated thriller that ravages a family's past to unearth the truth behind a horrifying crime. A New York Times bestseller and Weekend Today Top Summer Read, Dark Places solidified Flynn’s status as one of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time.

The Pull of the Stars
The Pull of the Stars

Author: Emma Donoghue

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2020-07-21

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0316499048

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In Dublin, 1918, a maternity ward at the height of the Great Flu is a small world of work, risk, death, and unlooked-for love, in "Donoghue's best novel since Room" (Kirkus Reviews). In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospital in the city center, where expectant mothers who have come down with the terrible new Flu are quarantined together. Into Julia's regimented world step two outsiders—Doctor Kathleen Lynn, a rumoured Rebel on the run from the police, and a young volunteer helper, Bridie Sweeney. In the darkness and intensity of this tiny ward, over three days, these women change each other's lives in unexpected ways. They lose patients to this baffling pandemic, but they also shepherd new life into a fearful world. With tireless tenderness and humanity, carers and mothers alike somehow do their impossible work. In The Pull of the Stars, Emma Donoghue once again finds the light in the darkness in this new classic of hope and survival against all odds.

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

Author: N. K. Jemisin

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 2010-02-25

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0316075973

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After her mother's mysterious death, a young woman is summoned to the floating city of Sky in order to claim a royal inheritance she never knew existed in the first book in this award-winning fantasy trilogy from the NYT bestselling author of The Fifth Season. Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had. As she fights for her life, she draws ever closer to the secrets of her mother's death and her family's bloody history. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Yeine will learn how perilous it can be when love and hate -- and gods and mortals -- are bound inseparably together.

Dream of Me
Dream of Me

Author: Lisa Cach

Publisher: Dorchester Publishing

Published: 2012-01-03

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9781428516373

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Theron, undying creature of the Night World, knows everything about making love. But though he's an incubus, a bringer of carnal dreams to sleeping maids, he has grander ambitions. He plots to step into the mortal world and rule as king. The beautiful Lucia is imprisoned in a fortress atop a mountain. Her betrothed, Prince Vlad of Wallachia, wants her purity intact; but when the prince breaks his vow, nothing can keep her safe. In the name of vengeance, Lucia will be subjected to Theron's seduction; she will learn all his lips might teach. A demon of lust and a sheltered princess: each dreams of what they've never had. They're about to get everything they wish ...and more.