Author: Michael Walters
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1623652995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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Set in a country struggling to come to terms with the legacy of its past and the promise of its future, The Shadow Walker is a gripping thriller that introduces Inspector Nergui of the Mongolian Serious Crime squad. As winter's first snow falls on Ulan Baatar, the mutilated body of a British geologist is found in the city's most expensive hotel, apparently the fourth victim of a serial killer. With political pressure to solve the crimes mounting, Negrui, ex-head of the Serious Crime Squad, is ordered back to his former role, building an uneasy working relationship with his successor and protege, Doripalam, and with Drew McLeish, a senior British CID officer sent out to support the investigation. But the murders continue--leading the officers through the disused factories of the decaying city, out on to the steppes among nomadic herdsmen and illegal gold prospectors, and down into the barren landscapes of the Gobi. And then McLeish himself is kidnapped. With political tensions mounting and time draining away, Nergui and Doripalam piece together a case that encompasses both personal tragedy and shadowy commercial interests in Mongolia's vast mineral and energy reserves. And, finally, in a long-abandoned warehouse amongst the decaying Soviet-era factories of Ulan Baatar, Nergui comes face to face with the only figure who can bring the story to its shattering conclusion.
Author: Brent Hartinger
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 0738730084
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Trying astral projection is just a joke. Zach never expects to leave his body and soar into a strange shadow place. On his first trip, he meets Emory, another astral traveler who’s intriguing (and cute). Then Zach’s little brother Gilbert disappears. Zach and Emory try to rescue Gilbert, but there’s a menacing creature in their way.
Author: Allyson James
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101515600
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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Stormwalker Janet Begay returns home only to have the ground collapse beneath her-literally. After tumbling two hundred feet underground, Janet is rescued by her dragon boyfriend, Mick. But something dark touches Mick while in the sinkhole, and Janet might lose him forever unless she recruites the most unlikely of allies to stop the growing shadow.
Author: L. A. Banks
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781456537432
Category : Appalachian Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Sarah Rivera has a lot going on in her life right now. It's bad enough that she's being shipped off to Temt Tchaas Academy also known as Neteru Academy, a high school for future Guardians of the Light who have special powers, but she has to go there with her cocky twin brother and the rest of her compound brothers and sisters. To make matters worse, everyone has ridiculous expectations of her all because her parents are like supernatural rock stars for saving the planet sixteen years ago. But what nobody, not even her best girlfriend Tami seems to be getting is the fact that, Sarah doesn't think she's special, doesn't want to be a demon-hunting hero, and is even afraid of the dark! So what that her mother was a Warrior Angel and her Dad used to be a Hell Council-level Vampire? Opposites attract. Go figure. As far as Sarah is concerned, all she got from the combination was a pair of fangs that lengthen at inappropriate times to embarrass her in front of her secret crush; whereas her brother, Alejandro, got the good looks and cool wings. However, what her parents' status has created is drama in her life by ensuring that the mean girls at school will make her life a living nightmare. Sarah knows her family's renowned slayer reputation will also ensure that everyone at school will assume she had it easy and should be able to do everything her famous rebel parents can do, when the heartbreaking truth is, she cant. Not by a long shot. Once at the hidden boarding school in the Appalachian Mountains, things go from bad to worse as Sarah tries to fit in. Her nightmares increase and it isn't just anxiety; her second sight is suddenly developing at a record pace. Layers of secrets are held in the building, held by her parents, and nothing is as it seems. There is something really bad going on at the school, worse than bad - deadly. Only, faculty and administrators don't know where to begin to look for the cause as students start to disappear. Sarah must then make a choice to stand on the sidelines or to help use her gifts to save someone dear. But to do that means facing all of her greatest fears, along with a demon or two.
Author: Dalin Moss
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781649695529
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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We are all connected. Our emotions, our memories, our minds are all linked by a thread power known as the Nexus. All life can access this connection, but there are few who realize its existence, and even fewer who can use it to control those around them. Jim Ash is about to become one of the fewer. After a contract goes wrong, Jim plummets through the world, shattering into the dark plains of the Below. He should be dead, should be swallowed by the afterlife told in religious stories and myth, but he is very much alive, and he has one more contract. A contract sold by Death. Destroy what links me to the world of life. Free me from this prison.
Author: Rabbi Yehuda Fine
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480833576
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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“... a stout entry in an underserved subgenre, .... Fine’s prose is vivid, .... And even longtime crime readers should be aware that the content is ... graphic, from blunt discussions of child abuse.... Still, memorable set pieces like an airport shootout and the final fight between Eitan and Solomon stand out. Moreover, Fine’s spiritual patina and good intentions lend this dark story: a silver lining readers will appreciate.” – Blue Ink “Yehuda Fine has been a mentor/friend for almost twenty years. The Shadow Walker is a gripping harrowing piece of fiction. It is an artful portrayal of Yehuda’s work and a rare entrée into a world that is little known and seldom spoken for.” – Alex Winter Filmmaker & Actor Deep Web, Downloaded, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, The Lost Boys The Shadow Walker: a spiritually charged thriller that illuminates how Eitan, a Chassidic Rabbi, battles a global sex trafficker across the Big Apple to the outskirts of the Magic Kingdom. As this sex trafficker arrives in Manhattan. Reb Eitan heads out to stop him. NYPD finds dismembered girls scattered around the city. The Chief Medical Examiner is taken aback at the unsub’s capacity for such hellacious crimes. They tag him The Dark Man. He slaughters in the deep vale of darkness. His father a former Green Beret beat him and his mother mercilessly. After Vietnam, they moved to the Golden Triangle dealing heroin. The boy escapes the horrific abuse into the jungles. There he encounters a sinister master of the dark martial arts. Eitan discovers that each victim is marked with an ancient yet antinomian hexagram reading of the Confucian I Ching. From these death marks, Rabbi Eitan speculates the killer believes he is a soul taker -- someone who inhales the life force of victims as they take their final breath Meanwhile, in a neighborhood in Orlando, Florida, Jennifer, the mother of identical twin daughters, is shattered when her girls are kidnapped. Eitan and his crew sprint to rescue them. They, at last, collide into the grim Dark Man. “Yehuda Fine grabs you by the throat and never let’s go because he lived the story he tells with such dark clarity. Combine his experience rescuing lost teenagers in Gotham’s netherworld with a rabbinical scholar’s knowledge of Judaism’s deepest mysteries, and you get a must-read blockbuster like The Shadow Walker.” – Chris Mercogliano Teaching the Restless and In Defense of Childhood
Author: Anya J Cosgrove
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781999390112
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Nothing stays black and white in a world full of shadows... I'm Alana Mitchell, and for my twentieth birthday, I got a brand-new magical destiny instead of the laptop I was saving for. I'm a witch. I have powers I can't control, enemies I know nothing about and a legacy I can't begin to grasp. There's a whole shadow-world out there waiting to swallow me whole, a world I didn't even know existed until I used my powers and unleashed hell upon my naïve self. I always figured that the first time I'd move in with a man, it'd be my boyfriend, not a bloodthirsty demon with a storm of secrets and his brother, but they're the only ones who can help me. My new roommates are driving me crazy with their I-know-better attitudes, beckoning stares and stupidly handsome faces. I want to hunt the bastards that destroyed my future, but the brothers' past is catching up to us in the form of a smart, bitter, and deadly enemy, one who will stop at nothing to possess me. To survive, I must embrace the darkness simmering inside me. And that darkness is terrifying. Shadow Walker is the first book in a slow-burn urban fantasy/paranormal series filled with action, suspense, angst, and smoking-hot men. Perfect for fans of Supernatural and Vampire Diaries.Demons, witches, forbidden love... Pick-up your copy now!
Author: T. A. Shippey
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Elves and dwarves, trolls and giants, talking dragons, valkyries and werewolves: all these are familiar in modern movies and commercial fantasy. But where did the concepts come from? Who invented them? Almost two centuries ago, Jacob Grimm assembled what was known about such creatures in his work on 'Teutonic Mythology', which brought together ancient texts such as Beowulf and the Elder Edda with the material found in Grimm's own famous collection of fairy-tales. This collection of essays now updates Grimm, adding much material not known in his time, and also challenges his monolithic interpretations, pointing out the diversity of cultural traditions as well as the continuity of ancient myth.
Author: Paul LeRoy Hacker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781420817980
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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This story pertains to the adventures of a young man named Paul, who felt compelled to enter the wilderness, due to the betrayal of the woman he is about to marry. He suddenly became introvert while seldom if every bothered with anyone except his blood brother Chief Black Hand of the Delaware Nation. Then Paul unexpectedly came across a lone survivor of a burnt out Colonial Village, that had been constructed on the Delaware's land inside the Ohio Territory. Together Em and Paul journeyed into a very usual adventure together and finally married in St. Louis. In the city of New Orleans, Louisiana their marriage seemed to waffle, but only until Morning Star came into the picture, then it began to crumbled like a house of cards. Morning Star proved to be an altogether different woman than Paul had ever run into, since she understood his love of the wilderness and what Em had always considered to be his peculiar habits. However, they too struggled to come to term with what he felt to be the loyalty that he should owe his wife.
Author: R. A. Pena
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1618627481
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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reflected the sunlight. 'Run ' shouted Wheeler as he started walking toward the man in the trench coat. 'Go ' Max Hunter had plans for his life. He knew what he wanted as soon as he graduated high school - the finest cars, beautiful women, a job at the top of whatever ladder he chose. What he found instead were the mysterious relics of a past he never guessed at, including a ring handed down from parents he never knew. Now immersed in a shadow world of espionage and danger, Max discovers that his is a legacy that makes him one of the most influential men in the world, and one of the most hated. He must learn the secrets of what it means to be a shadow walker, a child of angels, before he is found by the men who want him dead.
