Resultados para "Dusk" en Literatura de género

Six months after traveling the trail to Washington Territory, the town of Larksong hasn't become the utopia the Lark Family imagined. Instead, it's falling apart, much like recently-widowed Coraline Shay's life. Due to a degenerative eye disease, her vision is quickly failing. Once she goes completely blind, rather than helping to build Larksong, she'll become a burden on her already disgruntled sister. To protect them both, Coraline swallows her guilt and devises a plan to trap an honorable man into marriage. Luckily, her chosen target doesn't believe in divorce.

Crew Lawless was just doing his job when he saved Aspen McKay from that fire. The call should've been routine: get the vic out, pass her off to the paramedics, and forget about her. But there's nothing routine about the feelings Aspen stirs in him, and there's definitely no forgetting her. Especially not when, down on her luck after her ordeal, he offers her a place to stay—with him. Private investigator Aspen McKay came to Dusk Valley looking into a serial killer, but she never anticipated becoming a victim herself.

Their home is lost to them and their way of life is on the line, the Caldwells are scattered to the endless ocean for a way to fix the world they treasured. The daughter, the father, and the grandfather have no choice but to fight for everything they once held dear. Kindle, the Captain of Driftwood, is forced to diligently fix the mess she made and finds the truth behind the Flame. Appetite, lost in his anger, trudges the darkness of his own hunger as a predator yearning for only his den. And Drifter, ever older, holds their family together, but for how long?

Mary Bloomfield has no illusions. Her chances for matrimony have long since passed. Still, her circumstances are pleasant enough, especially now that she has found purpose in assisting her father with his medical practice in England's beautiful Lake District. Even without love, it's a peaceful life. That is until Adam Edgerton returns to the sleepy district. This decorated war hero did not arrive home to acclaim and rest, but to a new battle against the repercussions of an insidious disease.

John Durban and Sam Winburn are soul mates. They happen upon each other by chance, under the Eiffel Tower when they are both 25. Reckless by nature, they inadvertently commit to a grave pact, giving each of them only four more years to live.

Montana Detective Trevor West is desperate to learn what happened to his sister, who went missing in Alaska over a year ago, leaving nothing but a few photographs as clues to her whereabouts. At the advice of Police Chief Autumn Long, Trevor enlists the help of an experienced bush pilot. If Carrie James can't help him find the places in the photographs, no one can. But Carrie has her own agenda. Grieving the death of her closest friend and the only person she could trust, Carrie will help Trevor find his sister on one condition—that he help her track down her friend's killer.

Thomas Burnett Swann was a brilliant fantasy writer who died in 1976. He wrote primarily about the ancient Greek and Roman world, blending myth with romance and adventure. A reviewer in the Village Voice sums his work up well: "Swann's neo-romantic fantasies of the past are unique. He uses the stuff of myth but with twists and inventions of his own."

Queens Walk in the Dusk is a retelling of the romance of Dido and Aeneas. It is a companion volume to Green Phoenix.

First published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital - each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace.

Those who play with prophecies will get burned… 23-year-old Undesirable Durvla Garrick has a dangerous secret. Being both deaf and having a chronic ailment, her very existence is treasonous. So, when the queen’s mercenaries accuse her of stealing a dress, she comes quietly—better to be arrested for her knitting skills than her illness. Under the watchful eye of the broody royal guard, Tiernan Kilkenny—the embodiment of the very people she’s spent her life hiding from—Durvla is appointed dressmaker to the princess. But castle life isn’t quite what she expected, and nor is its staff…

Upanyaas ‘sunaharee saanjh’ se saritaa shaukeen ne hindee lekhan jagat men qadam rakhaa hai. Har bachchaa apane maataa-pitaa kaa pyaar mahasoos karanaa chaahataa hai. Apanee maan kee god kee garmaahaṭ mahasoos karanaa chaahataa hai.

"This fresh, addictive mystery delivers thrills, compassion, and hope." --Publishers Weekly The first book in USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble's Annie Pederson Series returns to fan-favorite Rock Harbor with new characters, complex new mysteries, and a new chance to...

As a kid I watched movies like Alien, Independence Day, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and the series V. A familiar episode of the Twilight Zone comes to mind where the aliens have a book called “How to Serve Man…” which turned out to be a cookbook.

The Goddard family is in shock. One of their own is dead. How can they go on? Who will run the station? Frank and Maggie have been planning their retirement, but must they now put their plans on hold? Will Joshua rise to the challenge and get his girl, or will he allow grief to weigh him down? Change is everywhere at Goddard Downs. But change is when God can change hearts.

Long after leaving the trenches of combat, former soldier, Max Rossi, still did more before 5 AM than most people did all day. Only now as an elite operative for the military, his trenches are any part of the world his covert assignments take him. While as a fixer for his community his trenches are the many holes the dreads of society who prey on the innocent choose to dwell. No sooner had he returned from an assignment of the former had all hell broke loose in the latter. Now, fresh off the plane from a successful mission, Max finds himself needed on both sides of the Great Divide.

The world Luca knows to be true is no longer something Siena can deny, after her own so-called gifts reveal the unseen darkness that has been oppressing her family for generations. Her gifts confuse her, but she doesn’t fear them. Her new abilities terrify Luca — he understands them too well. Will Siena’s gifts destroy her, as Luca fears? Is he strong enough to stay by her side, or are the memories of the past too much, even for him? In Gifted, the sequel to Awakening, past darkness is discovered, present chains are released, future beauty glimpsed.